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To: tejek who wrote (227188)	3/31/2005 2:04:07 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576826

Hate to say this, but what's a Talmud? Why do I think I am opening a can of worms here.....? Its kind of like a Jewish Sharia. Is it written down somewhere, or just an agreed upon set of traditions. One of the things with Sharia is that its implementation differs from Muslim country to Muslim country.

To: tejek who wrote (227188)	3/31/2005 1:53:34 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576826

> I think that's where you find that Jews have to keep kosher; that Jewish kids need to go thru bar mitzvah; how a wife and husband are to treat each other etc. Actually, a lot of that stuff comes from the Old Testament, and the Talmud just "interprets" it. It's a really, really huge document -- 63 books of oversized pages with really small text with information and arguments from thousands of people -- it's in debate form. Emile's probably right -- there probably is a rabbi out of the thousands in there that said really negative stuff about how Jews should treat non-Jews. However, what he doesn't say is that in most of those cases, there probably are a dozen other rabbis in the same context that refute the statement. I've only seen (or had interpreted for me, I'm not much with Aramaic) a page or two of it, but it's really minute stuff, like (I'm not kidding): Q: If you find a fig on the ground, should you try to return it to its rightful owner? A: Yes A: No A: Well, depends how large it is. A: No, but if it were a date, you'd have to return it. Then again, Rabbi so-and-so says... and so on. Crazy stuff. -Z