Jewish Holiday Shenanigans #80

[loosechanj]

I find it pretty damn hilarious that this website article censors the words "G-d" and "L-rd". It's like I found the jewish Landover Baptists.

Thus they accepted the Torah outright, with all its precepts, not even asking for a detailed enumeration of the obligations and duties it involved.

I guess that explains the legendary nit picky-ness stereotype. Once you get burned that bad on a contract you learn to read the fine print.

Comments

[eard-stapa.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the article, but I know a lot of Jews who aren't nearly as orthodox as Lubavitchers who also write those words in that way.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Lubavitcher? I hardly knew her! Hehe, sorry. I think it's going overboard, swimming to shore, then finding a bar and drinking several beers to take "don't use my name in vain" to mean "don't use my name at all". And it's just utter insanity to apply that to descriptive terms! You don't consider "girl" or "woman" to be a "name", at least I hope not.

It's an easy target for absurdly strict hyper interpretation I suppose, like the commandment against idols making "jewish sculpture" an oxymoron.

IMO, the whole point of the Mosaic law was to show people that having it all spelled out letter by letter didn't help one bit, and that all you really need is love.

[eard-stapa.livejournal.com]

then finding a bar and drinking several beers to take "don't use my name in vain" to mean "don't use my name at all".

that's not where it comes from.
http://www.jewfaq.org/name.htm#Writing
sometimes it's good to maybe learn a little about stuff before you start mocking it.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Ok, how does that translate into "don't ever use these words EVER"? It's the same sort of thought process that justifies the total prohibition of anything good because it's merely possible for it to be used wrongly. And that's dangerous.

[eard-stapa.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm a little frustrated because I wrote a really good response and my browser ate it. Let me try again.

It doesn't translate into "don't use those words ever." They still use the words, they just spell them differently. I don't even see how you get that it "justify the total prohibition of anything good." It's out of respect for God.

I recommend you read the rest of that page. It talks about why names are important, particularly the names of God.

One more thing: I don't know where you're coming from when looking at this, but just in case - you can't really examine anything Jewish while thinking about Christians. Judaism is totally different. Faith means something totally different, the learning is different, there's not really a heaven or hell, etc. It's a whole different paradigm.