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1How I Got Here-Part 5: Judaism and College- Hillel, Chabad, and all the Other Players 1 Citation My Jewish youth group high school experience was absolutely amazing. Despite all the many changes I?ve made in my life, this is something I wil never deny, nor forget. I have a tremendous amount a gratitude toward Judaism?s Reform Movement for an endless list of wonderful things: Helping me survive the pains and difficulties of the high school years, giving me confidence to be the unique person I am, infusing within me a love of the Jewish people, and more. So when I say I felt angry about, technorati.com
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How I Got Here- Part 7: How History Showed Me I Would Disappear 1 Citation I took a class my freshman year at SUNY Alabny called ?Survey of Jewish Civilization?. Like many classes I took in college, I took it because I was interested in learning the subject, and sat amongst dozens of students who were alreay familiar with the subject and took it for the easy ?A?. But I digress? I made a discovery during this class, and I really have no idea how to interpret it any other way. Something magical becomes beyond apparent when you see all of Jewish history laid out, technorati.com
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How I Got Here-Part 9: Black Sabbath 1 Citation At this stage I was started to become philosophically inclined with living an observant Jewish lifestyle? but in practice I was still doing just about everything the same. I was essentially a reform Jew fascinated by ?orthodoxy?, who was surrounded all the time by orthodox kids who did curious and interesting rituals. The most curious of all their practices was their Sabbath/Shabbat observance. As far as I had understood everything from my summer camp days, Jews observed Shabbat weekly by, technorati.com
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How I Got Here- Part 11: What does God have to do with anything? 1 Citation It truly is amazing that in ten chapters so far of my explaining how I took on a completely orthodox Jewish lifestyle, there has been one word very oddly left out so far: God. After all, you cannot have a religion without God, can you? On one hand, this makes no real logical sense, but on the other hand, it?s blatantly obvious. God seemed to have very little to do with my experience up to this point, and to some extent continues to be just a background player in my life, so to speak. You c, technorati.com
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How I got here-Part 1: Sometimes it?s good to get beaten up 1 Citation So I?ve been writing about Mormons for a bit now. Someone asked me the question: So what do YOU believe in? First of all, it?s a great question. But most certainly not something I can answer in just one post. So, I?ve dedicated my blog indefinitely to explaining the piece-by-piece process of how I got from where I was way back when to where I am now. You see, I?m what?s called a baal teshuva. A baal teshuva is a Jewish person with a secular background, who at some point makes a very consci, technorati.com
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1 Citation Go here for a link and code to download all the Torah you want for free from Torah In Motion. I?ve been downloading Marc Shapiro all morning. Dr. Shapiro tells a story of a secular Sephardic girl in Israel who got pregnant outside of marriage. She was scared to tell her father, who was a baal teshuva (returnee to Orthodox Judaism). So R. Ovadia Yosef has his secretary call the father just before Rosh Hashanah and tell him that R. Yosef wants to see him When the man gets there, there ar, technorati.com
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What, Judaism can actually be fun? 1 Citation I got speaking to a mother who had reluctantly just sent her daughter to seminary. She wasn?t religious herself but was angry that her daughter had become religious and couldn?t understand what she saw in Judaism. I got to the root of the problem - she then told me that Judaism was forced down her throat, ?Do this! Why? Because that?s how it must be done!? She said she rebelled the opposite way, she wasn?t going to listen to that. She couldn?t understand why anyone would want to be religious,, technorati.com
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Judging BT?s by their body maneuvers during shul 1 Citation As I watched the poor unknowing guy standing with his feet apart trying to bounce correctly for kedusha while holding his siddur awkwardly I realized that Jews have a lot of different body maneuvers. In my crazy mind I came up with a whole slew of maneuvers that you have to know in order to fit into frumkeit. Kind of like like wearing brand new tzitzis and having your tefilin boxes flip over due to the non tightness of your tying job - we can all judge people based on their faulty Jewish maneuve, technorati.com
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Modern day dilemmas that come while wearing Tzitzit 1 Citation Mitzvot Dilemma: Tzitzit In The Modern AgeGuest post by Ken LaneMost of you will agree that tzitziyot are ALWAYS meant to be worn OUT. Yes, dangling, seen, exposed, and not restricted?for the most part. They are a sign of the mitzvot and of the G-d you serve. You are a child of Israel. Now, don?t you forget it!Still, in this modern age, I think the wearing of tzitzit needs its own handbook of the tzitzit protocol for certain situations. I think when Moshe Rabbenu, bless him, came off Sinai with, technorati.com
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How I Got Here-Part 12: Shavuot, Jewish Education, and the Mighty Yeshiva 1 Citation Tonight is a very special night on the Jewish calendar. Tonight is Shavuot. There is a Jewish tradition to spend the whole night studying Torah, engrossed in educating oneself all night long in all the many aspects of Jewish knowledge. Who do you think spends this night studying Torah? The elite scholars of the Jewish people? A select few institutions of higher learning in places like Israel and New York? Yeah, them too. But this holiday is for EVERY JEW. Tonight tens, maybe hundr, technorati.com
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