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If you unscrew it and turn it over there should be a little scroll inside too with I think blessings written on it.
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LogisticEarth posted:I'm from New Jersey so I always assumed there were strong Jewish influences everywhere when I was younger. Yea I'm Jewish and grew up in Maryland, so it took me quite a while to realize that there were other areas of the country where there wasn't two synagogues in every town and the graduating high school class wasn't like a third Jewish. I'm very lucky as a Jew that I grew up in a place and time where I didn't even feel like a minority. For all intents and purposes I wasn't. I certainly never experienced any overt anti-Semitism, and I still haven't really at age 30.
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Sheep-Goats posted:In inexact and possibly offensive terms: Nah, not really. Not at all actually. A Mitzvah is really just a good deed that you do, and Judaism emphasizes doing as many as you can on general principle. Its possible extremely religious Hasidim view doing a Mitzvah in the way that you describe, but 99 out of 100 Jews you will meet on the street don't think about it that way at all. Also "getting a gentile to wear a yarmulke" isn't a mitzvah at all as far as I know, and Judaism does not involve any sort of active recruitment whatsoever. I've never heard of any sort of tactic where you try to get gentiles to wear yarmulkes, I'm pretty certain that's just nonsense. Doing good deeds in Judaism isn't based on meeting god after you die and getting some sort of special treatment, its about doing good for others because that's the best way to live your life. I'm sure there are some passages in the Old Testament you can find about god judging a person for how many mitzvoth they did, but that's another thing about (the vast majority of)Judaism. Its been interpreted and re-interpreted over the centuries by various respected rabbis, so for the most part the Torah isn't treated as a literal text. That leads to less bullshit like what you described. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 20:32
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Sheep-Goats posted:I technically know all of that but that post is for goyim. Well I've never heard of that or experienced it, but I have had very little interaction with Hasidic Jews. Are you certain they weren't Hasidim? I live very near an almost entirely Jewish area outside Baltimore called Pikesville, and I spent my entire childhood in Jewish day school, so I think I'd have heard about it before now. But yea, fanatically religious Jews are just as weird and out-there as any other religion. I'm really not a fan of any organized religion, Judaism included.
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