Jewish Scene  Rivkah Lubitch
Good idea, lousy law
Rivkah Lubitch
Published: 31.08.10, 07:46
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1. finally said what's in her heart
observer   (08.31.10)
That the Rabbis should be powerless within their own sphere of jurisdiction. However, if the Law of Return is the sole problem, it could easily be solved by separating Religion and State. The state could set its criteria for the Law of Return according to political expediencies (which would likely keep changing by the year and by the flavour of the government) whilst the religious requirements could remain in the hands of he rabbinate. everyone would be satisfied. The problem of intermarriage need not be an obstacle, just as today with foreign volunteers that work on kibbutzim, or foreign workers.
2. But will Datim Leumim / Modern Orthodox wake up?
Paqid Yirmeyahu ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (08.31.10)
Or continue to be lemmings?
3. Paqid your conversion is not recognised
Sabra ,   Jerusalem   (08.31.10)
Heaven only knows how a so called convert such as your self slipped through the net and then went on to preach Jews about Jesus !
4. 3-Everyone who's read my website knows you're lying about me
Paqid Yirmeyahu ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (09.01.10)
that I teach the Yesh"u (Jzeus) is an elil (feckless false deity idol). Though ynet has refused to post my response twice already because my messages are a serious threat to ynet's secular agenda. Ynet would much rather make it appear that I have no response, that the liars speak truth; making good appear bad and bad appear good as they wish. Your attack, like the attacks of Charles the "atheist Jew" and "homosexual Jews", has nothing to do with the topic or the content of my message. Your lie about me is gratuitous as well as baseless, the epitomy of sinat khinam (gratuitous hate-mongering). Indeed, you didn't contradict my message in the slightest. None of you ever do. You shoot at the messenger--me--hoping no one will notice that the content of my messages are true and incontestable. When a message is true, it wouldn't become untrue if it was communicated by Hitler. True is true and false is false irrespective of the messenger. Develop an intellect and deal with the message. Heaven, indeed, knows why my request to convert was granted by Orthodox rabbis. That you don't--and think your opinion trumps that of the Orthodox rabbis who converted me--is arrogantly anti-rabbinic, anti-Halakhah and misojudaic. Halakhah prohibits you from even referring to my conversion. But you trample Halakhah and rabbinic authority. Logic trumps rabbis. You, Charles, homosexuals and Christians do not. When Jews bellyache that "the world hates us no matter what we do" they need look no further than anti-Torah "Jews" to see why much of the world loathes "Jews." Your tiny minority are anti-Torah hate-mongers spraying sinat khinam (gratuitous hate-mongering). Like me, the first-century Pharisee Ribi taught AGAINST Hellenist teachings that, centuries after the death of Ribi Yehoshua and the annihilation of the Netzarim (in 135 C.E.), the goyim later attributed to "Jesus" when they syncretized their Zeus-worship into Jzeus-worship. You hate a Pharisee Ribi for the lies about fabricated by goyim Hellenist Church while you make nice-nice to that same Church. I renounced Yesh"u and Christianity before I converted and have spent my life teaching against that false idol, opening the door--for the first time in history--to succeed where you've failed for millennia: marshaling the historical documentation that proves that the Church falsified and diametrically misrepresented the teachings of Ribi Yehoshua; that, in historical fact, Ribi Yehoshua's teaching is that the goyim must come to Torah to have a portion in olam-ha-ba, NOT that Jews have to accept their idol to be "saved"!!! But some of you are too blinded by sinat khinam to see, and what you don't recognize matters only in your own arrogant estimation. So the next time that you hear "the world hates us" know this: the tiny minority of anti-Torah, debaucher, "chosen-of-God TRUE Jews (sic)," your sinat khinam, compounded by the willingness of other Jews to stand idly by the blood of their brother, is why they hate us. They think all Jews must be like you. Paqid Yirmeyahu Paqid 16, The Netzarim, Ra'anana, Israel Israeli Torah-reverer: Teimani, Baladi, Dor Dai Jew Advocate for Logic as Hermeneutic Halakhic Authority www.netzarim.co.il Welcoming All Torah-reverers (Jews & non-Jew geirim)
5. 4 - everyone knows you'be never proved what you claim
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (09.03.10)
you can't get any credible rabbi to endorse your un-orthodox teachings. you can't get any current verification that your conversion was kosher (in light of what you say you believe). you yourself said that it doesn't matter what a few rabbis say if it goes against the traditional rabbinic teaching (therefore putting what you teach/believe outside of judaism). this everyone knows is long-standing fact that has never been refuted by you or anyone else.
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