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Judgement Day and We Can Know: What the hell?
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This is pretty much how I was raised, only replace Bar/Bat mitzvah with Confirmation, Hebrew school with CCD, and Jew with Catholic, as a note.
small towns, sheesh
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Or was it always like that? I wouldn't mind reading a quick reference.
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That's a Reform thing. It's also not a requirement for being Jewish. Heck, neither is the bar/bat mitzvah ceremony; I mean you *are* a bar/bat mitzvah (Jewish adult) when you hit the right age, you don't have to go through a Torah reading and a party. It's not confirmation or communion in the Christian sense.
jothki, "dogmatic as any other priesthood at the time" doesn't say much.
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Even in the days of the priesthood, the Jews were fairly divided. There was a lot of fighting between groups. The 'Macabees', for example, fought not just against the Selucids, but against Jews that were too closely allied to the Selucids. And the Zealots fought against the Essenes, I believe, during the period leading up to the Jewish revolt of 70 AD.
Not to mention the civil war that lead to the division of the earliest Jewish state into "Judea" and "Israel".
True, all of those groups had slipped my mind.
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There was. But that was pretty much destroyed along with the second temple in 70 CE. Without the Temple to hold the rituals and the more central ceremonies in, the religion became more community focused. When the second Diaspora happened (somebody else will have to give a time for that, i think it was sometime around 100 or so CE), and the Jews were forced from Palestine and out into the world, than it became even more reinforced with the community feeling. There was no central temple to go to, there was no central priesthood.
Technically, today, there is still a priesthood. Know anybody that's Jewish with the name of Cohen? Or some variation of that? They're probably descendents of long lines of Cohens (pronounced Co-hane), or Priests. Everytime the Torah is read to the congregation, the first blessing goes to the Cohen of the congregation or family. Blessings are said 7 times, before the reading of each passage (this is true for the haftorah as well) And the first is always a Cohen, a descendent of the Priests (And Aaron). The second is a Levite, a descendent of the shepherds (and Moses if you want a tie-in) that used to lead the people. After those two, anybody who is Jewish can be called. for a bat/bar mitzvah the last prayer is usually said by the child performing the service.
As far as a reference, I honestly don't know. Most of this I know simply from years at hebrew school. There used to be these books that were published back in the 70s... Jewish catalogues hmm.... Here we go That's the first one, there are 2 more. they go into decent detail.
But honestly, the best books I've read so far have been the Idiots Guides. Jewish History and Culture and Understanding Judaism are fascinating reads and the author is just fantastic. He has a sense of humor that reminds me of my rabbi. I would start there, if you're really curious and have more questions than I have answers to.
edit:: plus all that other stuff the other guys said.
mythago:: is it really reform? Huh. They were just starting to offer it at my conservative synagogue when i was going away for uni. but then, my synagogue was.. well, i'll be nice and just say that there are reasons i shy away from synagogues and temples and organization now....
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CNN.
I hope he'll be alright.
Wait wait wait. So people actually get smited for being giant douchebags that trick other douches into giving away all their money for nothing? Guys... god is real!
Oh wait, he's just really old and wants 15 minutes of fame before a lonely death? Ok, sorry. Carry on.
That's a little harsh. You have a disagreement with the dude, that's all it should be.
Hell I have a disagreement with the dude, but a stroke is a stroke and it sucks.
American politics isn't 4D chess, it's just if you give a shit about other people or not.
I hope.
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So yeah, sucks to be him, but hey- God's will, right?
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Its Germany. People don't take religion very serious there. Go forth and share all you got with the poor? Measured by this, who IS taking religion serious?
Anthony Weiner.