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    cathyyg reacted to Aish HaTorah in Shabbat Shalom   
    Shabbat Shalom!
     
    May the L-RD bless thee, and keep thee;
    The L-RD make His face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee.
    The L-RD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee shalom.
    -Numbers 6: 24-26
     
    May HaShem bless you and your families during the new and glorious week.
     
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    cathyyg reacted to Midwest LDS in Churches and Synagogues--Same Role?   
    I believe it was moved to Sunday to honor the Ressurrction of Jesus Christ. Christ was killed on the cross on Friday and rose from the tomb on Sunday, and I believe most early and modern Christians celebrate the Sabbath on Sunday for that reason. There are exceptions however, such as the Seventh Day Adventists, who still honor the Sabbath on Saturday.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in Manner of Prophesying Among the Jews   
    In Judaism, prophets are not seen as predicting the future. Their role is speaking truth to power, particularly the ruler. They are the check and balance against corruption and sin, by making it public and holding them accountable to HaShem for their actions. Sin has consequences, as we see going back to the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy, and continuing on. But those are potentialities, not predictions, for teshuva by the ruler and the people can alter those consequences.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from askandanswer in Should L.D.S. support rebuilding of Jerusalem Third Temple?   
    This will happen when God wants it to happen, and support or opposition from any group of people whatsoever is irrelevant.
    In a more practical vein, Jews do not practice biblical Judaism. They practice Rabbinic Judaism. The Levitical laws pertaining to to ritual purity for priests and sacrifices in the Temple have, as much as is practical, been converted to Oral Law commandments for the masses or reinterpreted as applying to all Jews, not just the kohanim, the high priests. The home has replaced the Temple as the holy place for those commandments. There is no actual need or purpose for a Temple. Prayer and repentance has replaced animal sacrifice as a means of atonement, and Judaism ever going back to animal sacrifice is very improbable. 
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in Should L.D.S. support rebuilding of Jerusalem Third Temple?   
    This will happen when God wants it to happen, and support or opposition from any group of people whatsoever is irrelevant.
    In a more practical vein, Jews do not practice biblical Judaism. They practice Rabbinic Judaism. The Levitical laws pertaining to to ritual purity for priests and sacrifices in the Temple have, as much as is practical, been converted to Oral Law commandments for the masses or reinterpreted as applying to all Jews, not just the kohanim, the high priests. The home has replaced the Temple as the holy place for those commandments. There is no actual need or purpose for a Temple. Prayer and repentance has replaced animal sacrifice as a means of atonement, and Judaism ever going back to animal sacrifice is very improbable. 
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    cathyyg reacted to Just_A_Guy in Please help: I found out today that my 13-year-old son has been sexually abusing his 7-year-old sister   
    Timothy, first off—if I could give you a bear hug, I would.  You’re in a unique form of hell that not many parents ever have to go through. 
    Second—I am a state attorney representing DCFS in my jurisdiction.  I don’t know the law in your jurisdiction and won’t presume to give you legal advice about whatever mandatory reporting may or may not apply.  (Also:  yay for anonymous internet forums, amirite?  Keeps things much less complicated for both of us if I don’t know where you live.)  I will say, though, having sat in on numerous team meetings with perpetrators, survivors, therapists, psychologists, and judges; that neither you nor your wife are in ANY WAY prepared to help either your son or your daughter get through this on your own.  You guys are 100% out of your depth, no matter what experiences your wife remembers having gone through.  Also, statistically speaking, sex offenders almost never stop at one victim.  I hate to be so blunt, but the chances are well over 80% that your son either has already molested others in addition to your daughter—or he’s going to.  (That doesn’t make him an irredeemably bad kid or mean that you’ve failed as a parent; it’s just the nature of his psychosis.). The state needs to be involved here.    You should also be aware that if the state eventually does find out about this, they’re going to be asking some hard questions about why you didn’t make a report sooner; and that may jeopardize your custody over *all* of your children.
    Third—do NOT talk to your daughter about this.  She needs to be interviewed by a trained investigator/therapist; and unskilled interviewers can do more harm than good from both a psychological and forensic standpoint.  Once the report has been made, law enforcement will probably want to take her to a Children’s Justice Center for her interview.  It will be a comfortable, home-like environment  with toys and soft chairs; and she will probably be allowed to have a support person with her during the interview so long as the support person doesn’t interfere with the interview.  
    Fourth—your son will probably have to leave the home almost immediately once the report has been made.  They won’t put him in detention if they can avoid it; so start thinking of extended family members he can stay with who don’t have small children in the home.  Odds are that at some point your son will wind up in a group home-type environment for a lengthy period of time, once the full set of psychological evaluations has been completed.  He’s got a long road ahead.  It’s going to be natural to want to recoil in horror from him because of what he’s done to your little girl; but you need to know that if you do that, you’ll lose him, emotionally.  There’s a way for him to come back and be a fully productive, contributing, safe member of society—but without the support of you and your wife, that way gets a lot harder.   Similarly, your little girl needs to know that the changes your family is about to go through aren’t her fault; and you need to avoid the trap of having her needs being overshadowed by her brother’s needs.  The children’s justice center/law enforcement/DCFS can get you in touch with some folks who can coach you about how to strike the right balance.  
    There will probably be a “delinquency” juvenile court case involving your son that addresses the criminal aspects of what has happened.  (Those records are usually confidential, so your son probably won’t have a “criminal record” once he turns 21).  DCFS might also ask the juvenile court to open a “protective services” case involving the rest of your family, simply so the court can supervise and make sure that the family follows through on any therapeutic treatment that may be indicated for any of the children.  Things are going to start happening really fast for the next couple of weeks, and it will be hard and scary and confusing.  But you will get through it.  
    As for your bishop—if this interview just happened this afternoon, then maybe he’s still trying to figure out how to break the news.  Who knows?  But don’t waste time making him out to be either a crutch or a bad guy—he may well be as flat-footed and bewildered by this as you are; and right now you’ve got bigger fish to fry.  The simple fact is that you’re the dad:  now that you know the situation, the buck stops with you.  
    Best of luck—
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    cathyyg reacted to anatess2 in Is the Pope in trouble   
    I'm not a fan of Pope Francis.  I was very disappointed when Pope Benedict ceded to the globalists pressure and resigned.  Benedict was the Pope when McCarrick went through his Canon Law process.  Nobody is saying about what happened to that process when Benedict stepped down and Francis took over.  But, of course, Francis would know about all investigations and the reconciliatory process for the Priesthood, so Vigano is correct about that.  The questionable claim is that Francis "covered up" the crime.  As I have explained in previous threads, Canon Law process is not about "covering up the crime".  Especially after Pope John Paul II modified the law to balance with secular law.
    In my estimation, Vigano - who was a supporter of the traditionalist Benedict, and not a fan of the progressive Francis - is making some political maneuver to restore traditionalism in the Catholic Church.   If I am correct on this estimation, Vigano will have a difficult time gaining support as there was a reason Benedict was compelled to resign in the first place.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from Blackmarch in What is the Talmud?   
    Warning, liberal Jewish thought to follow!
    The Talmud is the work of rabbis, not prophets nor HaShem. (The Name, meaning the name of God) As such, it suffers from all the errors of men elevating their personal prejudices to religious dogma. That does not make it worthless. You have to interpret it in the light of the time when it was written, and the socio-cultural norms of the time. Yes, there are some horribly offensive things in there. Usually, those are hypothetical situations presented to help clarify what the law is, and how to apply that law.
    Assuming the few mentions of Yeshua in the Talmud refer to Jesus is problematic, because the time frame the rabbis place that person in is over a century off from the time of the Christian Jesus, if he existed.
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    cathyyg reacted to Just_A_Guy in Question about the Jewish image of the Messiah   
    1.  It’s not a matter of caricatures; it’s a matter of Trump not meeting specific, scripturally-denoted criteria.  
    2.  “Right now, dude, all of your past kings of my living memory have eroded your covenant-protected individual liberties.  Josiah, the poster boy, actually lost a battle.  And that’s not even counting the drain of sovereignty of other nations that your kings have put their hands in.  Zedekiah is about the only one so far that is stemming the drain.”
    It doesn’t take air conditioning, or money, to know that killing people without due process (or better yet, actually inciting mobs against them) is wrong.  This is the crux of yours, and general Trumpian, perverted thinking.  You think social virtue arises from social prosperity; when in truth, it’s just the opposite.  
    There is one way in which America has been extraordinarily lucky; and that is that at certain pivotal moments in our history our forbears got (and had the good wisdom to follow) a Washington or a Lincoln, rather than a Caesar or a Marcos.  You bewail the  chaos that envelops your homeland and take an ends-justifies-the-means approach to ending the chaos (an approach you also seek to export to the USA), never stopping to ask where your country would be now if your forebears hadn’t settled for corrupt leadership fifty years ago.
    In the cases of Reaganesque abortion and immigration legislation, the lion’s share of the damage to the social fabric came from progressives of their era who bold-faced lied about what they were planning and what their long-term goals were.  But in your parlance, Anatess, they weren’t immoral.  They were “smart”, for exploiting—not Reagan's idealism—but his pragmatism.  
    Ironically, you started in this thread ragging on Shapiro for being too ideological; and now you're ragging on Reagan for having been too pragmatic.  There seems to be no fixed guiding star in your politics except that “strength” (in the most brutal, violent, exploitive, machismo sense of the word) is worthy of adulation.
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    cathyyg reacted to Just_A_Guy in Question about the Jewish image of the Messiah   
    FIFY.   And let God also judge us, if we allow ourselves to become like Trump or justify ourselves in doing some of the things Trump does.


    If America, with its current geographical boundaries, still exists at all a hundred years from now; it won’t be as a democratic republic with constitutionally-protected individual liberties.  And that will be due to social cleavages and divine judgments that Trump (among many, many others) helped to unleash.  
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    cathyyg reacted to Lost Boy in No really, vaccines good things, anti-vac is growing more and more deadly.   
    My old GF from college is an antivaxer...  She blames her kids autism on vaccines. I am glad she married someone else.  
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    cathyyg got a reaction from Just_A_Guy in Manner of Prophesying Among the Jews   
    In Judaism, prophets are not seen as predicting the future. Their role is speaking truth to power, particularly the ruler. They are the check and balance against corruption and sin, by making it public and holding them accountable to HaShem for their actions. Sin has consequences, as we see going back to the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy, and continuing on. But those are potentialities, not predictions, for teshuva by the ruler and the people can alter those consequences.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in Yetzer Tov and Yetzer Hara   
    Love the link you provided! Thank you for that. Yes, the Yetzer Hara is not evil in itself. Only when it dominates. And since our task as we await the World to Come is tikkun olam, to repair the world, we need strong Yetzer Tov and committment to tzedekah (charity/righteousness) to accomplish that.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in High Holy Days   
    The Days of Awe is the literal translation of the Hebrew term for the 10 days starting with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur. Better known as the High Holy Days. On Rosh Hashanah the Book of Life for the next year is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. The second most famous prayer segment from the special service:
    ”On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed – how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die after a long life[29] and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword and who by beast, who by famine and who by thirst, who by upheaval [30] and who by plague, who by strangling and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquility and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted. But Repentance, Prayer, and Charity annul the severe Decree."
    The holiday greeting is “May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.” 
    We are commanded to hear the shofar blown (the ram's horn) as a call for repentance on Rosh Hashanah. The shofar is blown 100 times in the Rosh Hashanah service. It is a very long service, several hours.
    It is traditional to eat apple slices dipped in honey, symbolizing a sweet year. The challah is made in a round or ring shape, rather than oval or oblong loaves, because Rosh Hashanah is also the Jewish calendar New Year, symbolizing the continuation of life and time from one year to the next. Apple cake is traditional, too.
    On erev Rosh Hashanah, 18 minutes before the holiday begins at sunset, I will light candles and recite the blessings, particularly the Shehecheyanu. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shehecheyanu
    I will be making a brisket, obviously, and challah. I make a honey-apple bundt cake. I'll do a salad of chopped cucumbers and tomatoes. Oh, potatoes and carrots cooked with the brisket, and quarts of gravy. I keep it much, much simpler than most, usually opting out of the traditional tzimmes, matzoh ball soup, kugel, and gefilte fish.
    On the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah I will do tashlich, putting bread crumbs into the local river to be washed away, eventually reaching the sea, representing the washing away of my sins.  https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tashlikh/
    During those 10 days I will be asking forgiveness from those I have wronged, and giving forgiveness to those who may have wronged me. We are as obliged to give forgiveness as we are obliged to ask for it. I will be considering if my efforts to improve myself are adequate, and if I have been remiss in my observance of the commandments. (I have been; I am a very liberal, rather than traditional, Jew)
    September is a long, long month for Jewish people. Right after Yom Kippur comes Sukkot, which is a week long, then Shemini Atzerat, followed by Simcha Torah. I will talk about those after Yom Kippur.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in High Holy Days   
    My September calendar of religious holidays only! 

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    cathyyg got a reaction from pam in High Holy Days   
    The Days of Awe is the literal translation of the Hebrew term for the 10 days starting with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur. Better known as the High Holy Days. On Rosh Hashanah the Book of Life for the next year is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. The second most famous prayer segment from the special service:
    ”On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed – how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die after a long life[29] and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword and who by beast, who by famine and who by thirst, who by upheaval [30] and who by plague, who by strangling and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquility and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted. But Repentance, Prayer, and Charity annul the severe Decree."
    The holiday greeting is “May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.” 
    We are commanded to hear the shofar blown (the ram's horn) as a call for repentance on Rosh Hashanah. The shofar is blown 100 times in the Rosh Hashanah service. It is a very long service, several hours.
    It is traditional to eat apple slices dipped in honey, symbolizing a sweet year. The challah is made in a round or ring shape, rather than oval or oblong loaves, because Rosh Hashanah is also the Jewish calendar New Year, symbolizing the continuation of life and time from one year to the next. Apple cake is traditional, too.
    On erev Rosh Hashanah, 18 minutes before the holiday begins at sunset, I will light candles and recite the blessings, particularly the Shehecheyanu. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shehecheyanu
    I will be making a brisket, obviously, and challah. I make a honey-apple bundt cake. I'll do a salad of chopped cucumbers and tomatoes. Oh, potatoes and carrots cooked with the brisket, and quarts of gravy. I keep it much, much simpler than most, usually opting out of the traditional tzimmes, matzoh ball soup, kugel, and gefilte fish.
    On the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah I will do tashlich, putting bread crumbs into the local river to be washed away, eventually reaching the sea, representing the washing away of my sins.  https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tashlikh/
    During those 10 days I will be asking forgiveness from those I have wronged, and giving forgiveness to those who may have wronged me. We are as obliged to give forgiveness as we are obliged to ask for it. I will be considering if my efforts to improve myself are adequate, and if I have been remiss in my observance of the commandments. (I have been; I am a very liberal, rather than traditional, Jew)
    September is a long, long month for Jewish people. Right after Yom Kippur comes Sukkot, which is a week long, then Shemini Atzerat, followed by Simcha Torah. I will talk about those after Yom Kippur.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from Sunday21 in Yetzer Tov and Yetzer Hara   
    Love the link you provided! Thank you for that. Yes, the Yetzer Hara is not evil in itself. Only when it dominates. And since our task as we await the World to Come is tikkun olam, to repair the world, we need strong Yetzer Tov and committment to tzedekah (charity/righteousness) to accomplish that.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in What is the Talmud?   
    Warning, liberal Jewish thought to follow!
    The Talmud is the work of rabbis, not prophets nor HaShem. (The Name, meaning the name of God) As such, it suffers from all the errors of men elevating their personal prejudices to religious dogma. That does not make it worthless. You have to interpret it in the light of the time when it was written, and the socio-cultural norms of the time. Yes, there are some horribly offensive things in there. Usually, those are hypothetical situations presented to help clarify what the law is, and how to apply that law.
    Assuming the few mentions of Yeshua in the Talmud refer to Jesus is problematic, because the time frame the rabbis place that person in is over a century off from the time of the Christian Jesus, if he existed.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in What is the Talmud?   
    Oh, and as for it being the religion of Jesus, certainly not. The Talmud is a foundational document of rabbinic Judaism, not biblical Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism is the ultimate success of Pharisaic Judaism, which filled the political-religious vacuum left after the destruction of the Temple. The Talmud was not even begun to be written until 90AD, at Yavneh.
    My rabbi told me that Jesus preached standard Pharisaic thought, which is only mostly true. He did follow the Law then prevalent, but not all the Pharisaic stringencies. For example, Pharisees would only share meals with other Pharisees.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in Yetzer Tov and Yetzer Hara   
    It is the time of year to repent, to seriously consider whether we are following our Yetzer Tov or allowing our Yetzer Hara to sway our actions. Who have we wronged? Make a list, because you need to ask forgiveness from them, not HaShem, and make restitution. 
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in High Holy Days   
    Why would you think that quoting the Christian scriptures in the Jewish forum lent any credibility to what you are saying? PLEASE stop with your offensive spouting of your Christianity in here. Take it to the Christianity forum.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in High Holy Days   
    For ATTENDING SERVICES. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur only. Bear in mind there is no plate passing, no collection, at any Jewish services.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in High Holy Days   
    The High Holy Days are nearly here. Now is the time to complain about ticket prices, for those whose tickets are not included in synagogue membership, or who lack synagogue membership. I am ready to hear the shofar! I am planning my big dinner already. 
    Anybody got any suggested reading as we head into the Days of Awe?
    The Central Synogogue in New York livestreams their services - they are Reform, after all - but it is a great option for attending services if you can't make it to a service in person.
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in Who is more like the historical Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus?   
    Interesting poll. Why no option for a non-Christian leader to be most like Yeshua? Say, like the Dalai Lama? It shows that your default belief is Christianity, that's why. Non-Christian isn't even an option in your subconscious.
    And WHY are you posting this obviously Christian poll in the Jewish section? Why would any genuinely Jewish person care who is more like Yeshua? Yeshua, if he actually existed, was an observant Jew, an itinerant preacher like many others of his time, and nothing more. 
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    cathyyg got a reaction from DennisTate in A catchy tune that will brighten your day!   
    Kol Hamispalel by the Yeshiva Boys
     
    Translation: 
    "Whoever prays in this place, in Jerusalem, it is as if he has prayed before the heavenly throne [literally "throne of (the)Glory" -- 'the Glory' meaning 'God']. For the gate of heaven is there, and the doorway is open for prayers to be heard."