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To: jttmab who wrote (201033)	9/3/2006 12:42:13 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

First I would have to be Jewish, which I am not.....

To: jttmab who wrote (201033)	9/3/2006 1:09:58 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There is one school of thought that the prohibition extends only to writing it fully in Hebrew, so that any other language is OK. I have no ideer what Spanish Jews do..Di-s? It depends on your level of religiosity. I write it. But I tell God "no" every once in a while, too. Then, there is the question of whether or not something in cyberspace could be destroyed. Cuz, somewhere, there is still a copy of the original floating around, and, even if I turn off my box, I can go back and retrieve it again. So maybe it is immortal until the net dies. I don't know rules about copying a quote. Another consequence of this is that there are very few Jewish artists. Early artists did a lot of religious work, but for Jews and Moslems, it is forbidden to depict God. == There have been movements and disciplines in art that stressed the how and often these have been tied to a religious or philosophical tradition. In strict Muslim tradition and orthodox Jewish tradition it is forbidden to make an image of anything that could possibly be an idol or interpreted as such. In an attempt to keep representation from appearing too real, the early Jewish people developed the art of mosaics, named after Moses, who brought the commandment: “thou shalt make no graven image…” ungravenimage.com ========== Jews in the Islamic world almost totally shunned the figurative arts, drawing their authority from a strict reading of the Second Commandment [prohibiting "graven images"]. Those sections of Jewry that came under the sway of Kabbalah [Jewish mysticism], as it spread eastward from Western Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries, did not make forms and images in the spirit of Kabbalah, apart from the magical amulets of practical Kabbalah. These sometimes bore an eye or hand composed of letters, biblical verses, or magical formulae. Both in prohibiting and permitting the figurative arts, Diaspora Jews displayed their receptiveness to the host culture. From Iran to the United States, and in every genre and medium from poetry to silver myjewishlearning.com