FistyTheBadger
King of the Badgers
- Dec 12, 2008
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1. Where did our spirits originate?
With and part of God.
2. What will the Messiah be like when he comes?
The Messiah will be a mortal human who has extraordinary natural gifts and skills that will allow him through perfectly logical and nondivine means join all persons in common cause. This could happen through any social means necessary, including war. I also want to answer another question about the Messiah, but you haven't asked it yet.
3. When will the Levites begin practicing the Law of God again?
I am not entirely familiar with the term "Law of God," but it sounds like something that happened before the Second Temple was destroyed.
4. What qualifies a man to be a prophet?
His perception of the world and his relationship with God.
5. Are there prophets today?
I don't know. God has given us no present-setted literature identifying them like he did for the guys in the Bible. However, I do believe that there are.
6. If not, then why?
If not, then there aren't people with the correct level of perception of the world and the correct relationship with God.
7. What happens to those who die without accepting Judaism?
The afterlife is a fuzzy subject in Judaism, allowing for many interpretations. The simplest answer is "Their souls return to God." However, there are other interpretations that can be as close to the Christian belief, however no Jew, and I mean no Jew, believes that your afterlife relies on faith. Jews believe that action and deed, and how you affected the world on Earth determines everything, as long as there is an afterlife.
8. What happens to innocents who die?
Like I said in answer 7, I don't know.
9. Why do Muslims hate you?
Abraham liked Isaac and didn't like Ishmael. Isaac was loved and cared for and cherished. Ishmael was cast into the desert. The rest is history and hyperemotion and insanity.
10. Why is Jerusalem coveted by the Muslims and why shouldn't they have it?Jerusalem is the third holiest city in Islam because Abraham and Muhammed did something there with God and such. They shouldn't have it because they are not lead by very nice people. It's not like they are denied access in any way to their holy sites. In fact, we make it easier for them and safer for them to visit their holy sites, but everything we do (which is not just good in intention but good in fact) is propagandized by the Islamic leaders.
11. What does the skull cap mean?
It symbolizes our separation and subordination to God. I have always thought of it as the skull cap (called a "yarmulkah" [pronounced like "yammakah"] in Yiddish and a "kippah" [pronounced "keep-pah"] in Hebrew) as the physical symbol of the barrier between us and God.
12. What is the purpose of the Wailing wall?
The Wailing Wall (more accurately known as the Western Wall) is the first, and for a long time, the only, wall that has been found of the Second Temple, the original place that God commanded us to build to worship him at. Therefore, it is our holiest site. Since the Western Wall, called such because it is the wall on the physical western side of the Second Temple, was found, the Southern Wall has also been found. The Southern Wall, it has been discovered (not a big revelation) was the place of entrance into the Temple, and has a stairway coming up to it. The Western Wall was called the "Wailing Wall" for a long time because when it was found and people understood what it was, the intense emotions of the experience caused fully trained, experienced Israeli Soldiers to cry onto it. When I was a kid, I also thought that it was called that because it seemed to me to be leaning and all alone.
Because at the time, congregations weren't what they are today, and the Temple's purpose was different, and God told us to.13. Why would Judaism only build one temple?