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It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.
One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.
Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.
The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.
I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it's not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I started, I used to play lots of Jewish country clubs.
