ISM,

        I love your posts! You brighten heart and enlighten ignorant Goyas
like Kyle and myself on the finer aspects of Judaism. The way you speak of
Rabbis makes them much like other clergy re: job insurance. I don't like
people acting as "go between's" for me and my Creator. I like taling to the
Man or Woman him/herself. Come to think of it, the Creator is neither man
or woman, but a Supreme Being.
        As I understand it, most Judaic laws(forbidding eating of pork, for
example) had a sound rationale in the beginning.

Just showing my ignorance.

Bobby


>Kyle,
>
>If the Rabbis let the Goyas or the Jews really know what they were up to
>they might be out of a job.
>
>They copped a power grab a couple millennia back, convinced the majority
>they needed spiritual guidance, religious laws, and experts to mediate for
>the masses with God.  The majority found that an ok trade for their obvious
>tendency to lapse and reluctance to bear too much guilt.
>
>They make the laws too complicated for anyone to follow without their advice
>as their additional job insurance, much like lawyers.
>
>Its all smoke and mirrors.
>
>Steve Margolis
>
>
>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:59:25 -0400
>From: "Kyle E. Cleveland" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Kosher
>-----Original Message-----
>From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dina Dror
>Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 2:46 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Kosher
>
>Hi all,
>A Rabbi does NOT bless the food to make it Kosher. He checks out the
>ingredients and the sources when dealing with different companies. <SNIP>
>Dina,
>When I worked in this place (some 25 years ago), we'd have to let the rabbi
>in the warehouse to do something ceremonial with the dressing. I assumed he
>was approving it as Kosher. If not, what was he doing back in there? (No
>Goyas allowed to watch)
>-Kyle
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