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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (37109)	4/30/2004 10:53:45 PM
From: hal jordan	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 39621

>>But it is purely as a symbolic jesture, but never to be read, studied and believed.<< You are a complete liar. The Torah is read from every single Saturday at every Jewish synagogue in the world. In order to attain entrance as a Jewish adult, a boy has a Bar Mitzvah, a girl has a Bas Mitzvah. They read and study their part to sing from the Torah for nearly a year. At no time is the Talmud studied to prepare for this. Jewish synagogue's do not read from a Talmud at worship services. As a matter of fact, I attended an orthodox Hebrew school when I was a kid, after regular school. In all the time I went to Hebrew school, I never once studied or learned from a Talmud. Never cracked one open. We were taught how to read and speak Hebrew. We learned about various holidays. We learned about history, and we studied some things from the bible, that is the Torah. At no time in all the years I went to Hebrew school was a Talmud studied from. And this was from an Orthodox school, not conservative or reformed. So all this crap you bring up about Jews being perverted from some mystical book that they worship called the Talmud is basically full of it, as my own experience as a child can attest to. The Torah was the ultimate symbol of study, and is the only book read from in any Jewish service (outside of a prayer book, which is very similar in many ways to Christian prayer books I've seen when I have gone to churches). You can quote ancient tomes all you want. This has no relationship to modern Jews and what they really believe in. So here is a question for you. If Jews believe in God, and Muslims believe in God, and Christians believe in God, is not this one ultimate being that people refer to as God one and the same? How people choose to worship a supreme being is a personal choice, whether they believe in one or not.