tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post5536351069387132455..comments2024-03-28T08:58:27.412-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: Does this represent Judaism?Victor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-90965672575706367292008-11-21T22:56:00.000-07:002008-11-21T22:56:00.000-07:00Did not Maimonides *also* say that it is forbidden...Did not Maimonides *also* say that it is forbidden to teach Moslems, but that it is permissible to teach Christians?<BR/><BR/>As I understand it, he partly meant what we might now call "inter-religious dialogue" -- that is, teaching Gentiles-as-gentiles the content of Torah and the Talmud -- but that mostly he meant the teaching of Torah and Talmud to prospective converts to Judaism.<BR/><BR/>And, as I understand it, his reason for this prohibition of teaching Moslems but allowance for teaching Christians was that the Moslems will kill you and perhaps conduct a pogrom of your fellow Jews, whereas the Christians would not.<BR/><BR/>Which is to say, it seems to me that Maimonides himself gives the lie to the 19th century mythology (invented by, it seems, by certain French socialists/secularists of Jewish extraction) of "tolerant" Araby in contradistinction to "intolerant" Christendom.Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-15296345626778149112008-11-21T22:47:00.000-07:002008-11-21T22:47:00.000-07:00Yes, I'm aware that "liberal" Rabbis will selectiv...Yes, I'm aware that "liberal" Rabbis will selectively reference Maimonides when he reasons on bad/incomplete information and comes to a conclusion which can be spun to support abortion.<BR/><BR/>Maimonides adamantly did not support abortion-on-demand, but that is what these immoral people are trying use him to support.<BR/><BR/>Moreover, Maimonides *also* said that barrier contraception is forbidden, did he not? Where is the reference to *that* by this sort?Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-43768047807011882722008-11-20T18:54:00.000-07:002008-11-20T18:54:00.000-07:00"bagel-Jews" that's actually funny, Il Dogg!"bagel-Jews" that's actually funny, Il Dogg!normajeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06612628618334389249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-86409618227232018182008-11-20T18:43:00.000-07:002008-11-20T18:43:00.000-07:00But these guys quoted people like Maimonides, for ...But these guys quoted people like Maimonides, for crying out loud. Was Maimonides a bagel Jew? <BR/><BR/>I do suspect, however, that Medved or Prager would have something on the other side.Victor Repperthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-61786449331147448872008-11-20T17:35:00.000-07:002008-11-20T17:35:00.000-07:00Much as "liberals" claiming to be Christians will ...Much as "liberals" claiming to be Christians will assert that Christianity has no implicit opposition to abortion, so too with what I call bagel-Jews -- "liberals" who are Jews only in the sense that their ancestors were Jews.<BR/><BR/>The Orthodox Jews -- you know, the Jews who actually live Judaism -- you know, the sort of Jews who actually have enough children to have a cultural future -- are not so sanguine about abortion.Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com