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We light these lights for the miracles and the wonders, for the redemption and the battles that you made for our forefathers, in those days at this season, through your holy priests. During all eight days of Hanukkah these lights are sacred, and we are not permitted to make ordinary use of them except for [...]

HE NEXT Section of the JRF’s essay, Is Reconstructionist Judaism For You? is the most important. (This is part three in our short exploration.) Those of you who are more-mature in your practice (this usually means Ethnic Orthodox or culturally Catholic instead of the hyper-maximalism common in the convert community) may find here a very [...]

HE FOLLOWING Paragraph is copied from Is Reconstructionist Judaism For You?, written by the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. It’s the second in the discussion. Christians coming from traditions using liturgical worship will, perhaps, find this paragraph making sense. I think this will be true for very conservative as well as very liberal communities: While deeply connected [...]

HE FOLLOWING Paragraph is copied from Is Reconstructionist Judaism For You?, written by the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. How does it speak to Christians who seek to find a way to fellowship despite our doctrinal differences (big and small)? “For Reconstructionists, Judaism is more than Jewish religion; Judaism is the entire cultural legacy of the Jewish [...]

ANY OF MY Readers and friends will be aware of my attachment and love for Judaism and my sense that Christianity is supposed to be Judaism for Gentiles. Laying aside, for a moment, questions of Trinity or Incarnation or our tradition of anti-semitism, I think our clearest sense of who we are is to be [...]

EWLICIOUS Writer, Sarke, has an email conversation with her buddy, Earl, about living inside structures. I’m sorry to say she parallels religion with suburbia, but other than that, it works. She well points out from an Orthodox (Jewish) point of view why it is that the traditions and community of her chosen path offer her [...]

hanukkah5.jpg Originally uploaded by w.wabbit. Happy 5th night, y’all!

A little sarcastic. But a little truthful. May we all forgive. (May the New Year be sweet!)

EXTBOOK has a two part discussion on the Red Stuff the Jacob used to swindle his brother. Part 1 and Part 2 are up, part of their Eating the Bible blog. I’m waiting for Part 3 with the actual recipes. Swindle… So: if we (Christians) are commanded to freely feed the hungry. If Jews are [...]

s you will, no doubt, have heard, they have recently discovered a stone that indicates someone – a generation or so before Jesus – thought Messiah should die and rise again after three days. Some scholars – liberal, Christian and otherwise are having the damnedest time deciding what to make of this. My comment, posted [...]