Comments on: Mocking the destruction of the Temple

By: Esti

Esti — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:43:27 +0000

Personally, I do not want the Temple to be rebuilt. I imagine the toll of the daily slaughter. The smoke, blood, mooing, bleating, the stench, the deafening sounds, the filth. Who needs that? Prophets, thousands of years ago, already excoriated Jews, telling them the worship and sacrifice are not inextricably linked. Sacrifice is barbaric and primitive. It is voodoo. It replaces thoughtful piety with external actions and rituals. We HAVE come a long way, baby. We no longer have to kill in order to affirm our faith. The rabbis turned the yearning for the Temple into the pivot of Jewish life after the destruction. It was a genius revolutionary move. It preserved Judaism, made it mobile and recombinant, made it adaptive and assured its longevity. It worked. But it creates a dilemma for us. We yearned therefore we survived. Now that we have a State, now that our survival is assured by our own sovereign ability to ensure it, do we still have to yearn?
I skip those prayers every single day.

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By: Loretta Nelson

Loretta Nelson — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 16:44:34 +0000

Liberal American Jews are an anathema to the future of world-wide Jewry — they are more loyal to liberalism and than to Judaism. They act just like Kapos during World War II, by aiding and abetting those who would destroy Israel.

All Jews in israel should fulfill their military obligations, whether they are Orthodox or not. Step up to the plate and do the right thing… don’t just sit and pray about it.

By: Heather Gordon

Heather Gordon — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 02:54:36 +0000

Very good points!