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Why Jews Don't Accept Jesus as the Messiah--Interview with David Klinghoffer Judaism Christian Isaia
My favorite bit: Jews were assured that we had been "saved"--to use Christian language--at Mount Sinai [where the Jews received the Torah]. The 613 mitzvot--commandments--are our response to being saved. They're the grammar in which we conduct our relationship with God. The relationship has already been given to us as an unmerited gift at Mount ( Read more... ) -
Email to Fundies
No, it's not an open letter. (Although I guess it is now!) And it's not mean-spirited and nasty. (At least, I HOPE it isn't!) It's to my friend. She's a fundamentalist born-again Christian, and it's just ironic. I mean, in so many ways she and her husband are like me in ways that none of my other friends are - I believe in G-d, I'm a deeply ( Read more... ) -
Cute Quotes
This morning I said to Poppyseed, "How can it smell like rain but rain is not in the forecast?" and she said, "Maybe the weather is not thirsty." Tonight she said "Sababa Mama!" I'm forgetting something else from tonight, too. But that's true every day. The girl keeps me in stitches; I can't possibly keep up with recording it all!
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Lometa
This weekend I attended a relative's 80th birthday party in Lometa, Texas. Lometa is a town of fewer than 800 people and 10 churches. It was established around 1886, when the nearby town of Senterfitt was relocated, buildings and all! The founders hoped to keep the new town from becoming as wild as Senterfitt, so it was (and remains?) "dry" (no ( Read more... ) -
Update, and A Meme I Just Invented
Oh, wow! So I have lots of LJ Friends who may not even remember I exist, because I've not posted much since Poppyseed's been born (2 1/2 years ago!), and I haven't kept up with Friends AT ALL! Sorry. Life. Fibro. Divorce? Not much of an update, I know, but I MAY or may not be saving it for an interesting project yet to come ( Read more... ) -
Tallit
For this past Rosh HaShanah, the rabbi asked us to think about one mitzvah we would like to take on in the coming year. I decided I would start wearing a tallit. I just realized it's been almost a year and I still haven't! I don't know if it's really time for me, actually, as I'm going most frequently to a shul to which I'm new, and in which ( Read more... ) -
In a nutshell:
"Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power." --Stephen Covey
"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another." --Salman Rushdie
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Height Predictor
She's already growing up so fast. According to an online Height Predictor, our girl will likely be 5 ft. 7 in. at age 18.
This prediction is a "best guess" but it's still just that -- a guess. Based on the formula we used* there is a 50 percent chance that her full-grown height will be within 0.7 inches (above or below) of this prediction, and a 90 ( Read more... )