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I have made no jibes at you, your faith or your religion, or the G-d that created you. You have misread my post and you have misinterpreted what you did not understand. My quote was taken directly from the long article cited above, and my question was directed to another person. Asking for help in undrstanding that quote. That person directed me in a kindly fashion to the web site where you found the same quoted material you posted.

I promise never to ask you for any information. Bye.

This is what you posted.

Thought that it was a personal affront to the Lord to ask or beg for money, gold, nicer housing, bigger cars, more stereos, valuable stocks, high dividends, and more time to enjoy all the booty. Frankly, I would find it boorish to seek such things, or such help, when really GOOD people (people who are better, stronger, and have more faith than I) are suffering, in severe pain, and are dying.
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Frankly, I would find it boorish as well. I was trying to explain that *lots of silver* was a metaphor.
We pray three times a day, morning, noon, and evening. Every evening we say a silent prayer called Amidah. It is the most important part of our daily prayers because we ask
for blessings for ourselves, our loved ones, and for Israel which still waits for the Messiah. We ask blessings for this country that is our country as well and remember the blessings we are/were given, and remember and give thanks for what we have.
I apologized for the rant, but someone has got to understand that we, above all, are the prey in this death dance. It is people like the aforementioned in this article and those I named who cause us to be more despised because there ARE so few people who know us or understand us.
Do you truly believe we do not have a right to own our anger when every single day of our lives is now beseiged by the kind of hatred I have never seen in my lifetime? When much of this hatred is generated and egged on by people claiming Judaism who wouldn't know a Hebrew prayer if it jumped up and smacked them in the face? Who ignore our Laws and try to destroy us from within AND without? Who openly call those who cling steadfastly to their faith the *enemy*?
And then those who are NOT Jewish take their words and aim them at us like bullets which might soon become actual?
I am angry. Not at you personally. But angry, nonetheless, because a lie has overtaken history, and it is the most heinous lie ever told on the face of the earth.
We are not the enemy, but we have more enemies BECAUSE of our faith, and while I haven't been exactly silent on the subject, I have rarely been this angry.
So if your post was in jest, it was a bad time for me to see it. And I DO apologize if the reflexive response was not appropriate.