Judaism is a religion of exile.
On 1/9/2018 10:27 AM, \0xDynamite wrote:
Not at all.
No temple, don't actually want the temple back, because of the disturbing theological implications of actually having the temple, because actually having the temple immediately re-activates a pile of ancient Jewish law that today's pharisees do not want to touch with a ten foot pole. If you don't genuinely want the temple back, then modern Judaism is a religion of exile and not a religion of Israel. The Maccabees wanted the temple back. Do you think Jonathan Maccabee would be wailing at the western wall? Israel was founded by secular socialist Jews, because religious Jews were frightened of getting the temple back, and still are frightened of getting the temple back. If you get the temple back, sixteen hundred years of excuses and rationalizations for phariseeism vanish, and the pharisees are back to being the guys who lost the war and caused the exile, while the Kohens are the guys who won the war with the Greeks. The Kohens defeated a mighty formidable enemy, which victory looked astonishingly like a divine miracle, so the Pharisees thought that they would Jew God by provoking an even bigger war with an even more formidable enemy. And then destroying their own food supplies while under siege to force a miracle. Did not work out as well for them as it worked out for the Kohens.
Judaism needs to give a lot more attention to the final commandment,
Orthodox Jews do not really covet
Yet they devote a thousand times as much energy, effort, and thought to that line about the boiling a kid in its mother's milk, than they devote to the final commandment. When Jews try to wreck Christmas, is that not coveting? When Jews demanded that they be allowed to join the golf club, was that not coveting?
The [Jewish] religion has a permanent chip on its shoulder.
They were the only ones who remained loyal, Christians erected an alternative God.
If you had remained loyal, you would have taken the temple mount back, rebuilt the temple, staffed it with Kohens, and put a Kohen in the line of Jonathan Maccabee in charge of it. If you had remained loyal, you would have given effect to the law of Deuteronomy and Proverbs, the law of Moses and Solomon, on marriage and the family. If you had remained loyal, you would be entirely untroubled by other people celebrating Christmas.