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Can the Sandak be a non-Jew?
Shu"t Divrei Malkiel (וע"ד שמושיבים נוצרי לסנדק) writes very strongly against it. He says the sandek plays a crucial role in the bris, and it's completely inappropriate to appoint someone ...
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Connection of Gog and Yavan/Greece
This is a topic I am right now studying, as far as I know, Yavan son of Japhet is the precursor of Rome, just as in secular history the greeks is from where Italy came. Thus, is not associated with ...
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Non-Jewish philosophical defense of religion
According to Rambam's Introduction to the Eight Chapters, it states:
Know, however, that the ideas presented in these chapters and in the following commentary are not of my own invention; neither did ...
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How does one reconcile the fact that Avraham Avinu proselytized to non-Jews and yet Judaism is not a proselytizing religion?
The conversion that it is written that Abraham converted is not the same conversion that we are talking about today.
Abraham our father according to the book of the Khazari he belongs to a holy seed ...
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How does one reconcile the fact that Avraham Avinu proselytized to non-Jews and yet Judaism is not a proselytizing religion?
Maimonides wrote that we should imitate Abraham. And, what did Abraham do? Abraham proselytized. He made converts. He sat in the front of his tent, waiting to teach about God to anvone willing to ...
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How does one reconcile the fact that Avraham Avinu proselytized to non-Jews and yet Judaism is not a proselytizing religion?
I think there is a subtle difference.
To proselyte is to ask/convince someone to convert to a religion. In the case of Avraham there was no Jewish religion, it was just an acknowledgment of G-d's ...
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What is the source of hatred perceived by Jews in different parts of the world?
This is a great thread; I say that as a Jew.
This is more of an answer than a comment, but a few thoughts regarding, what I feel are, distinctly Jewish traits.
Jews tend to question things and don’t ...
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Why does Rambam say "gentiles marriages' are not recognized" in Melachim uMilchamot, Chapter 8, verse 3?
The Lechem Mishneh explains that although it is generally forbidden to have relations with the wife of a gentile, nevertheless being that regarding a “Yefat To’ar” the Torah refers to her as a “...
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Yom tov and non-Jews
The Mizrachi on that Rashi says it was on the 17th of Nissan:
א"נ מה שפי' גבי כעת חיה פסח היה הוא בעד י"ז בניסן שהוא בפסח ומה שאמר ובפסח הבא נולד יצחק הוא בט"ו
The Maharal says that ...
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Can a non-Jew give tzedakah?
You will get some reward for giving charity. I'm not sure that you will find a definitive answer on whether that will necessarily be a reward in this world (as opposed to the afterlife) or more ...
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