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'Toldot': Isaac's destructive loves
Ruchama Weiss
Published: 04.11.13, 08:00
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1. Profound and enlightening. Thank you.
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (11.04.13)
2. Torah is Egyptian Myth.
JMK ,   NYC   (11.04.13)
3. Profoundly disturbing
Gary ,   London, UK   (11.04.13)
I found myself shaking my head in despair at almost every line of this writer's perverted and twisted take on our holy Avot and Imot. To present the giants and founding fathers of our religion - whose whole beings were utterly given over to the promoting of goodness and - G-dliness as vindictive, betraying and dysfunctional personalities is staggering in the extreme. The author clearly suffers from such problems herself (she surely knows the Talmudic dictum (Kiddushin 70a) - "kol haposel bemumo posel" .-" whoever attempts to disqualifies others does so by the very disqualification in themselves". that YNET chooses to publish such high sounding pusinamillous drivel is quite astounding and a blemish on your own good reputation
4. Kama Sutra spoke about love thousand years before Tanah.
Michael ,   California, USA   (11.04.13)
This is another essay to tell you Jews invented something new in religion. Meaningful essay, but misguided as many other of this kind. Hindus knew about love many, many years before the Tanah and wrote about it in Kama Sutra. Only after re-establishing the state of Israel have there been down-to-earth innoventions worth mentioning made to the Jewish religion. The most important of it was the rescue and modernization of the Hebrew language. Through loving their language, Jewish religious people acquired love to most everything else, but many hateful concepts still remain in Judaism.
5. #4, Totally off.
Jake   (11.04.13)
Historians attribute Kamasutra to be composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE. Even according to the most liberal estimates, that is well after the composition of the Tanakh.
6. #5, Totally ON. Kama Sutra was PRACTICED 1000 years earlier.
Michael ,   California, USA   (11.04.13)
While you are correct about the period of the manual's composition, as stated by Wikipedia, it is necessary to take into account the 1000 years (and much more actually) of PRACTICE before writing it. As to composition of the Tanah, did you check when the Yerushalmi version was done? For a very long time the Tanah existed in oral versions only, put on "paper" much later.
7. Torah is not a history book
jul   (11.05.13)
Your mistake, Sir, is that you consider our Torah a history book, but is isnt
8. according to the article Isaac was getting
ghostq   (11.05.13)
alot of love, in a way he was spoiled very tipical for only child. his parents loved him and only him, and I bet they gave him more than plenty. lol I reckon when he had the twins he had quite a head ache. he didn't know what to make out of his children relationship with one another since he has never had a sibling himself.
9. to #4 the Kama Sutra is not monotehistic
ghostq   (11.05.13)
book. and it connect to maharaja royal marriage as symbol of connecting with the divine. it also claim that when a man dies, his wives(in plural) must throw themselves to open fire, and be burn alive as a token of loyalty to their husband. the Kama Sutra also indicate the gloried battles the Hindue had.
10. Vulgar misinterpretation of the text !
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (11.05.13)
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