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Why the prohibition of idolatry doesn't stem from the Mitzvah of loving God?
Trying to answer With the help of Torah Temimah.
The mitzvah of loving G-d is derived from the verse Devarim 6:5.
In connection with this verse several different definitions of what loving G-d can be ...
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Were the idolatrous kings of Yisrael no longer Jewish?
I returned and found a resolution based on Rambam's responsa (Blau ed., no. 264, as cited here) wherein the contradiction between the halacha cited in the OP and Laws of Repentance 3:14 is resolved by ...
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Were the idolatrous kings of Yisrael no longer Jewish?
The Rambam writes in Iggeres Teiman:
אבל ירבעם בן נבט שחיק עצמות יענש על העגלים שחטא בהם והחטיא את ישראל וכמו כן יענש על שבטל מצות סוכה בסוכות
But Yeravam ben Nevat, may his bones be ground up, will ...
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Why the prohibition of idolatry doesn't stem from the Mitzvah of loving God?
It is very important to keep in mind that G-d is entirely above the concept of emotions. Use of emotional terms in reference to G-d are no different than use of physical terms in reference to G-d; ...
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Does Judaism care if jesus performed the miracles as reported in the christian testament?
Highly related: Why don’t Jews think Jesus is the messiah?
Being the Mashiach has very little, if anything at all, to do with what miracles a person can perform. Assuming the man named Jesus of ...
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Did the Rambam believe in magic?
Rambam potentially differentiates between hard-core עשה מעשה) כישוף, translated as magic below) and לאט (rendered as sorcery below) on the one hand, and כישוף light (אחיזת עינים) and all the other ...
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Does Judaism care if jesus performed the miracles as reported in the christian testament?
Nah.
Jesus lived in the time of תנאים. Lots of תנאים and אמוראים were practitioners of practical Kabbalah. Recorded in various parts of the Talmud (and some concurrent texts) are stories of Rabbis ...
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Does Judaism care if jesus performed the miracles as reported in the christian testament?
The discussion in the Talmud does not deal with the actual Jesus and his actual acts, as has been established even by christian scholars like Johann Maier. The Talmud, written many years after the ...
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Does Judaism care if jesus performed the miracles as reported in the christian testament?
I don't think Judaism cares. Let's give Joshua son of Joseph (aka Jesus) the benefit of the doubt and say he did perform miracles of healing. Okay great, so he's a prophet. We've got dozens of those, ...
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