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  • From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Common Sense
  • Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:40:09 -0400

Not at all.

There are many of the 613 positive and negative commandments that make NO SENSE (red heifer is the classic example). They are called "chukim" - ie; we are not supposed to understand the reasoning behind them.

Shoshanna


Ethel Jean (Kowan) Saltz wrote:

For me, I've decided that Judaism historically is a documentation of Common
Sense and that's what Y'H'W'H means.




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