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Why be Jewish?

One of the reasons why so many members of the tribes aka Jews, do not bother to observe anything Judaic whatsoever today is because the Judaism that Orthodox Jews keep today and insist that all Jews must live by is in fact mostly man-made, rabbinically decreed laws, traditions and customs enacted in the last two thousand years of exile, and not from the Tanach literally. Wearing a head covering is not a Biblical commandment and yet today it is integral to being a pious Jew,this is just one example of many. The Judaic Biblical holiness that we read about in the Tanach that may have been given to us by the Creator at Mt Sinai, it seems has been buried almost to death by rabbinical takanot and historical circumstances and replaced with the Talmud, the Shulchan Aruch and The Rebbe’s writings.

On the other side of the spectrum, the act of humans picking and choosing which parts of the Tanach that they like and throwing out the ones that they do not and then calling that Judaism, as is the case with Reform, Conservative, Egalitarian sects of the Jewish world, is so absurdly fraudulent that it is embarrassing and shameful. Many Jews have seen this fraud their entire lives and as a result of it’s repugnance, they fled and have assimilated to become media moguls and famous artists and actors. In fact, most of Reform Judaism’s clergy do not believe in a Creator and do not believe that most events in the Tanach actually really and truly transpired, however they have no problem taking your parents money and your money to teach you and your children about …Judaism.

The religion of science, rational thought and institutional cynicism is more appealing to many Jews than Torah is because science provides answers or a means to come to an answer, whereas the Torah is a book of fairy tales in comparison. Evolution is a indisputable paradigm and Creation is an unproven, theoretical fairy tale still, dinosaurs are found in all of the World’s museums, but only one archaeological piece of evidence, The Moabite Stone, exists confirming the existence of a Jewish king named David that built the first Temple.

However despite science’s value, every Jew knows that s/he has a soul, and that the soul is not a scientific or quantifiable thing. Our emotions and passion and compassion are special things outside of the realm of probes and sensors and experiments. The soul or our life force somehow interacts outside of the human realm. It is our Jewish soul which tells us that we are indeed a part of something bigger and greater than ourselves, that their is something more to life and to existence than than just science, Yahweh?

So how does one live like a Jew then?

The answer to that question is without a doubt found in the pages of the Tanach especially in the book of Leviticus (Vayikra). However one of the first things that you may discover to your complete surprise is that most of the customs and culture that truly define Judaism and what a Jew is supposed to do and when s/he is supposed to do it, are predicated on the existence of the Jewish Temple (Beit HaMiqdash) in Jerusalem, which has not existed for almost two thousand years as a matter of fact. It gets even more complicated by the fact that the place where the Temple (Beit HaMiqdash) is supposed to stand is occupied by a Muslim Mosque today. The Jewish Temple (Beit HaMiqdash) is integral to Judaism and being Jewish, and yet sadly today most Jews believe that the Western Wall is our holiest place, but have never heard of the (Beit HaMiqdash).

So once again the question is:, how does someone live like a Jew without the existence of the Temple?

Keep the Sabbath as a day of rest is a great place for everyone to start but also begin learning about the Temple (Beit HaMiqdash) and what it’s purpose is.

Here is a great video created by Rabbi Richman

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http://www.templeinstitute.org

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