Why we read the Bible

Ultimately, we are not orthodox or reform or any other faction of being jewish. We are either Jewish or we are not jewish. Even if you like to keep all of the ways of the gentiles, you are still a jew.

That means that there is one way to work and one way only. By the law.

So therefore, we are a people who follow a conscripted pathway set out before us.

If we chose not to follow the laws, we have corrupted our ways and we will ultimately be corrected in some way or another.

More likely, we do not fully understand for all how to keep our ways. For those there is forbearance.

But ultimately, Jews have a purpose. We serve our G-d and Creator.

By keeping the laws in all aspects of human existance as a Jewish soul, we are on the pathway of service to our G-d.

Matrimony never lies

Yads speak freely

Danger bites its own foot

Feelings from the terrorists are never fond memories.

Shomer Negiah is wellness.

I realize that I am unpopular in many circles, but I have an issue with shaking the opposite gender's hand in a handshake on a usual basis. 

G-d is true to Jewish life and we do not keep the words of the wicked in our midst.

Israel keeps purity laws.

I hope that I can proceed in my civics life without the necessity to shake the hands of the women in my life. 
I will shake those who are in a position such as my own physician or perhaps my congresswoman.

I have long wondered if I could keep this presence in my life, and I think it is perfect.

So diligence teaches us to be dignified.

I will try to remain Shomer Negiah.

Reform Thinking but Accurate Assessment

I must remark that G-d is not a G-d of uncompassion and clearly he loves Israel.
So why make Israel walk around the desert for 40 years?

The reason given is that Israel has forsaken G-d and that he wanted to wait a generation before the Israelites could live in The Holy Land.

I suggest to you that this is a face painting for the reality that Israel had to for human interest reasons wait 40 years before inhabiting a new land.

Here is the gist of this.

Israel has a holy mission. Israel is a light to the nations and the future of all human ethical and spiritual purity in terms of Torah and G-ds covenant.

This is a big deal.

Had Israel been able to move immediately into The Holy Land, it would have set up a paradigm by which Egypt would have been conquered.

Here is the way this works.

If Israel was able to recolonize a new land, Egypt would have been a stepping stone for the future of the Jewish nation. Israel would have been united and functioning in its holier roles at the end of the Exodus and thus the future of faith and liberty would be in the hands of the Israelites. Thus the idea that Egypt played a role in Israels immediate transcendance, Israel exists only because it left Egypt to get its new land and thus to be higher than the future's gentile nations.

So thus, if Israel continues its mission by a 40 year wandering experience, the idea that Israel left Egypt simply to be a new nation in a new land is not exactly the direct contribution of Egypt's parlay on Israel's variablity.

Thus Israel is a new nation, but it has its own future and its future was not because of the Egyptian godlessness and paganism.

Even though Israel has of course taken its place among the nations as a harbor for dignity and honor and humility, Israel must not have been able to immediately open the door to the Holy Land.

So G-d has his reasons for all that he does. It does present a scary image of our G-d and perhaps that is a good way to manage that our lives are to be lived in fear of Hashem. But really to think that 40 years of suffering were evident as a result of a bad way of life, we are really being taken for a token appreciation of what G-ds real mission is for our people.

Shooting the rider

Why cry when you can torment?

Dear tattooed jew

I hear heaven keeps a snack for you