Post by Herman RubinPost by j***@yahoo.co.ukPost by galsabaAnyone can help me finding the article written Harav David Golinkin
that he wrote in March 2005 ? He wrote an article about the Natzim and
the connection to Amalek.
careful. He is not a rabbi.
He is of "conservative judaism"
He may have a few interesting things to say, just as a christian
website may have something interesting to say about a story from the
bible. wouldn't call the christian "Rav" or "HaRav".
He doesn't believe the Torah is from sinai. (which makes him less
serious than a religious christian)
He seems to be some kind of Leading Conservative minister.
Other than some Christian fundamentalists and Orthodox Jews,
few who have studied the evidence believe that the Torah
could possibly be from Sinai.
You refer to external evidence - archaeology.
Most jews have enough on their plate with the internal material. I
once sat up all night trying to figure out what Jacob did with some
sheep. Some with large dots, some with small dots, some with stripes.
And then there were the goats. Translations spoke of spots speckles
patches stripes rings. And there was a tricky bit about who was doing
what - between Jacob and Lavan.
Other than Christian fundamentalists and Orthodox jews, few have
studied the jewish bible. And regarding the external evidence that you
have in mind, archaeology for example - as it relates to the bible.
Few Orthodox or Non orthodox have studied it. And regarding those that
have, whether orthodox or non orthodox, they would usually have no
gounding in the subject and would just study it to refute an alleged
allegation , or to make an allegation against the jewish bible. Even
those that are neutral, and studying biblical arhcaeology, are not
studying archaeology for the sake of the archaeology, but only those
areas related to the bible. So their understanding of archaeology is
narrow.
Most rabbis don't know the archaeology. Those few people that few that
thave some understanding are quite unusual.. You are a professor with
a broad knowledge outside your area of expertise of statistics and
maths. You knwo archaeology, history, you use unix, no doubt you
program too. Micha Berger is a rabbi who also knows formal logic and
probably other forms of it, and other subjects. Lisa is a female whose
level of knowledge is perhaps similar to a rabbi, and she seems to
know her linguistics. And i'm sure both are very good programmers.
e.t.c. These are not joe shmoes.
Only a relative few have studied the evidence that you speak of.
I have enough on my plate with the internal stuff, (is diber
pronounced diber or deeber!!) but others that have studied the
external would disagree with you.
I suppose I have studied some external stuff a little bit. A little
astronomy(e.g. it's good to know that the moon goes clockwise and the
plane on which it orbits is at a 5 degree tilt to the ecliptic), and a
synodic month is more than 360 degrees. It helps to understand
judaism. And a little bit of hebrew grammar - just for the sake of
pronounciation, which may mean reading a little on phonetics - I'll
see. So I don't limit myself to just the internal.. But it's just a
lot of stuff to know!! Teaching myself. Like what Micha and Lisa
have done but on a minute scale.
Very few people do any of that at all.
Post by Herman RubinEither that or God deliberately provided errors and misreadings
to convince us of this position.
Of the few that have looked into archaeological evidence, the O ones
would disagree with you, as has happened on this newsgroup many times.
If you were really basing your statements purely on evidence then
you'd at least include some references to your claims about
archaeology, but in discussion you haven't, not even when it counts -
e.g. with Lisa, who knows her archaeology