[USMMA_83]

I just shake my head...Imal, you must read "Answer to Job" by CC Jung to understand my silence on this issue. Again, like a moth drawn to a flame, I can't stay away from these threads....

[Imal]

I just shake my head...Imal, you must read "Answer to Job" by CC Jung to understand my silence on this issue.

Actually, I think I already understand your silence quite well, if you know what I mean. I am a rather charred moth myself.

But in the chaotic and tumultuous wasteland that threads such as these inevitably become, your words are as clear and refreshing as cool spring water. Even in the driest desert, there can be an oasis.

And perhaps that's why, after so many nights of circling too close to the flame, when darkness falls again, we dust the soot off our wings, gather our strength and take flight toward the candle yet again.

Because in doing so, we draw closer to that which we seek: the light of truth.

[cookcounty]

" Again, like a moth drawn to a flame, I can't stay away from these threads...."

maybe we're sick!

Listen, I was wondering if I could get a comment from the Jewish side here about the Trinity deal and the schm'a.

I don't see "The LORD your God is One" as excluding concept of the trinity, because I (and others) don't see the Trinity as 3 Gods (which I see as putting words in my mouth), so if you could comment on 2 things:

The concept of 3 Persons (or "persons" if you prefer) in one indivisible essence.

Could you explain how you make the distinction between "Echad" and Yachid?" I see the arguments for "echad" being pointing toward, or at least allowing for "echad" as a collective unity. Obviously, the rabbis don't find these particularly compelling, and are quite absolute in rejecting them. Is there something I'm missing?