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To: hal jordan who wrote (37106)	4/30/2004 10:19:29 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

"what object is carried around and has people touch it to kiss it and placed in an Ark at Jewish worship services" That's true Hal, the Hebrew scrolls representing the Torah are kept in the "Ark" and paraded as idolatrous relic around the Synagogue. But it is purely as a symbolic jesture, but never to be read, studied and believed. The Babylonian Talmud--particularly the writings in the Gemara-is the defining book for modern Talmudic Judaism. According to the rabbis in the Talmud, studying the Torah is of no value, studying the Mishnah (the codification of the laws) is of little value, but studying the Gemarar (the commentaries of the rabbis) is of supreme value. It is the Babylonian Talmud that defines modern Judaism today.

To: hal jordan who wrote (37106)	4/30/2004 10:26:24 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 39621

The Talmud is the supreme book of modern Judaism "The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith," was the heading of a November, 1959, installment of a bestselling book by the Jewish author, Herman Wouk, which ran serially in the New York Herald-Tribune. To quote: "The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe — whether we are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists — we follow the Talmud. It is our common law."