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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Meshuga (crazy)” You sound like a chassid.... we already have a tradition of being crazy for G-d. It dates back to the Tabernacle. (I believe this predates Jesus by about 800 years)

http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/basi-legani/08.htm

It’s a little “yeshivish” (ie, in a mix of English, Yiddish, and transliterated Hebrew) but you may find it interesting.


82 posted on 06/09/2014 10:31:04 AM PDT by Phinneous
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To: Phinneous

Well we crazy meshugah Christians (you’ll find that a lot among fundies) do believe in the “loyal love” of the Lord. Christians, too, have been accused of going mad for God. I’m thinking yesterday, Pentecost in a traditional Christian calendar. It commemorates how many believing Jews were together in a room and the Spirit came upon them and they worshiped in languages that weren’t native.

There’s a poetic form in the bible, the Shiggaion, which also I believe derives from a Hebrew root meaning to “go mad.” It is a highly emotional form. And there are other passages in the Psalms that go nearly that way. I really don’t understand cold Jews and cold Christians. God was and is not cold.


83 posted on 06/09/2014 10:39:05 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Phinneous

God maintains an echo of what He is about in traditional Jewish worship, there is no doubt about it to me.

God doesn’t take His marbles and go home in a snit just because some people are a little slow to get the point. God won’t tolerate a sinful creation literally forever, but when He said He was longsuffering He was not kidding.

Yes, I know there is a stark difference in belief about exactly what God did in “madness.” But I pays my money and I takes my choice. Christ has panned out wonderfully for me. I really am a sad sinner needing salvation and yet God has forgiven all of that already. In advance, in a view that no mortal can imagine. He let me choose to sin, and now He has let me choose to love Him unto salvation.


86 posted on 06/09/2014 10:48:16 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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