Annelise

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Feb 19	revised	What is the traditional old interpretation of this prophecy added 4 characters in body
Feb 19	answered	What is the traditional old interpretation of this prophecy
Jan 23	comment	Do our sources address “strategic loan defaults”? Thanks. I think that makes sense.
Jan 23	comment	Do our sources address “strategic loan defaults”? I'm curious about the last paragraph. Can you have a meaningful discussion of Torah by looking at sources while putting your ethical intuition aside? Just wondering what you meant, since I've appreciated your other comments and their approach around the site.
Jan 23	comment	Reading foreign literature: perspectives and experiences And I still would wonder whether sometimes, even with the benefit of reading certain things, there is potentially greater benefit by not reading. In times where you feel you have something good in front of you but it's mixed in with things you refuse to take in. I guess that's the heart of the question.
Jan 23	comment	Reading foreign literature: perspectives and experiences Though I really liked the quote: “'It must never be forgotten,' Whitehead declared, 'that education is not a process of packing articles in a trunk… Its nearest analogue is the assimilation of food by a living organism.' … If nothing else, the success of modern propaganda has taught us how naive was Mill’s notion that the free clash of ideas must result in the triumph of truth. Falsehood does not always stick to the rules. We must be on our guard, and we must not venture out of our depth. Objectivity is fine, but one should beware of indifference."
Jan 23	comment	Reading foreign literature: perspectives and experiences I've just read Chapters 4 and 5, apart from the last four pages, which weren't on Google Books. It was a great suggestion, thanks! A lot to think about in terms of the value of humanities, which he well described, and how it fits with other real issues. I'm curious about his caveat that all secular study needs to be approached from the perspective of firm devotion to the truth of Torah... when the presumptions and methodology of secular truth-seeking would not allow an unchallengeable bias like that. How can loyalty to Torah, and loyalty to seeking truth wherever it leads, be one and the same?
Jan 23	comment	Reading foreign literature: perspectives and experiences so the question I'm asking our God is... does He even mind if we read that kind of thing, or take it in and appreciate it freely? And if it does affect or desensitise us in some way away from what is genuinely good, then in what circumstances would we need to compromise that? How to live amongst these things in the best, most life filled way?
Jan 23	comment	Reading foreign literature: perspectives and experiences I read the quotation, that's why I felt it was relevant... and thanks for it. I guess that for some reason I feel a lot more sensitive towards reading Catholic devotional literature or Celtic faery tales than I would towards reading secular news etc... maybe because aesthetically and even spiritually there are some areas of great value in the literature, mixed in with things that I don't want to take in. On a sub-rational level it's hard to separate them. This may be a personal thing, though.
Jan 23	comment	Reading foreign literature: perspectives and experiences Similar in some ways, definitely. But you don't tend to constantly immerse yourself with 'in your face' idolatrous writings (even if the writers were sincere and not deliberately false), or constant imagery of relying on other powers or magical spiritual terrains, when reading a newspaper.
Jan 23	comment	Reading foreign literature: perspectives and experiences I read the first three pages of the YUTorah.org article, which you were pointing to. It's interesting, and comes back around to what I asked. For Rabbi Lichtenstein, which of his writings do you have in mind? If studying other literature can be positive for Judaism as a whole, for individuals, and/or for the ability to communicate with other people about what you each see to be good and important... then the question remains about what lines need to be drawn (if at all). What level of discomfort or separation with certain literature is actually a good thing, biblically speaking?
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Jan 13	comment	Can a Jew own a business that employs or pays atheist Jews on Shabbat? I'm sorry I misunderstood, though maybe what you say here is kind of close to what I was trying to say as well. I could have been clearer. I'm not Jewish so I don't really know what to say, and I already said too much... but I really hope that you can find more understanding with the religious people you encounter, and ways to share the elements of kindness, respect, and goodness that both you and they are valuing and living in.
Jan 13	comment	Eating treif under hashgacha Though I wouldn't suggest that those questions all can be answered with more than speculation. They're important in a sense of understanding, and maybe that understanding is important in the halachic process. But on another level they're not so practical.
Jan 13	comment	Eating treif under hashgacha It might help to separate the spiritual and legal aspects of the question. Both draw on the question of whether such a person is guilty of an unintentional sin. If so, legally, what do they need to do if it's found out? But spiritually there's the question of whether unintentional sins affect a person's spiritual wellbeing, or holiness in the context of the Temple and relationship with God, regardless of whether they're discovered. A separate question would consider the 'spiritual ramifications' of non-kosher food, regardless of whether a person is held responsible for accidentally taking it.
Jan 13	comment	Can a Jew own a business that employs or pays atheist Jews on Shabbat? I guess there are two different frustrations. There's the fact that someone else's attitudes towards God cause them to live their life in a certain way, which has affected you. Those choices are costly for them too, but felt to be important, and in a more neutral situation it might be easier to respect. But there's also a feeling of discrimination against you personally, in the form of someone judging your beliefs in a way that attacks your heritage, or of imposing what you can and can't do with unwanted aspects of that heritage. Keeping the two frustrations separate may help at least a bit.
Jan 9	answered	Did Moshe Rabbeinu See God?
Jan 7	comment	If my kavanah is towards the Islamic idea of God, am I yotzei? by the two points I mean the ones I wrote a) and b) next to. sorry if the comments around it were too convoluted to keep the main thought.