[HANASHIR:8330] Re: HANASHIR digest 1151

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You did a very unfair thing by changing the word 'halacha' to Torah when you 
answered the last message.  When one accepts or rejects an element of 
halacha, he/she is not necessarily rejecting the Torah, but what he/she 
considers to be an incorrect, invalid, or irrelevant interpretation of Torah. 
 I could give many examples, each of which would open its own can of worms, 
and none of which is relevant to this listserv.
 

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> Date: Thursday, 22-Feb-01 07:07 AM
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> From: BEBWH (at) aol(dot)com            \ America Online: (BEBWH)
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> Subject:  [HANASHIR:8321] Re: HANASHIR digest 1151
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> In a message dated 2/21/2001 4:57:45 PM Central Standard Time, 
> LSOLKOWITZ (at) aol(dot)com writes:
> 
> << 
>    I believe that I have an as much a right to accept this halacha as you 
> have 
>  to reject it.  I think the problem lies in the anger aimed at those who 
>  maintain a practice that you don't agree with.
>   >>
> Laura, Your comments are interesting. By stating that you have a RIGHT to 
> choose to accept and do what the Torah says insinuates something 
> uncomfortable for me about the opposite. We know Gd gave us free will to 
make 
> choices. Yes, we can choose not to follow the Torah.. but we need to 
> understand we believe when a Jew chooses not to follow the Torah he/she is 
is 
> going against His wishes. Check out February's Moment magizine on 
> Conservative Judaism.  Better yet, lets look at our grandparents...or great 
> grandparents. How many of them would find many of our modes of worship or 
our 
> Shabbos observance acceptable today?  I'm not talking about the influence 
of 
> secular music on our music and its use in shul, I'm talking about religious 
> practice. We may be liberal, we may be innovative, creative or even ahead 
of 
> our time..we may be alot of things but lets be careful and honest about how 
> "Jewish" it is, or how Jewish our product is and what kind of Judaism it 
> promotes by Torah  measurments. Laura should not have to apologize for 
doing 
> what we should all admit is right, because all she said was the Torah tells 
a 
> Jew  to do something - I'm a Jew -I do it. Don;t apologize for that..if one 
> mitzva can bring the Messiah then we should all be encouraging Laura 
because 
> maybe our redemption is in her hands...or her voice..or maybe even IN HER 
> SILENCE, in this mitzva that many choose NOT to follow. I think it would be 
a 
> nice healing excersise for us to maybe counteract all the harsh writing 
we've 
> seen is for each of us to quietly and privately pick a different mitzva 
from 
> the Torah, to work on or improve upon ourselves. No one has to know what 
you 
> pick...how you do it or why..just pick something you don't do well and make 
> it better, or pick a mitzva you've never done before and just do it...I 
> suggest it because then we'll all be joining forces with Laura and she;ll 
be 
> bringing us together through Torah and every Jew knows when we work 
together 
> the results are guarenteed. 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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