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wonderfulgoy:
--- Quote from: Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim on November 18, 2006, 10:59:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Get thee hence Satan on November 15, 2006, 06:23:07 PM ---Hi Joshman :)
I don't really know what 'deist' is or what beliefs deism entails. What do you consider Scripture: Koran, Tanakh, New Testament, gnostic, Zohar, or something else? Do you acknowledge the need for interpretation of Scripture? Do you believe in individual interpretation or following established interpretations?
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The Zohar is not scripture. It is part of The Oral Torah and is the Fourth Layer of The Divine Revelation on Mount Sinai. The Written Torah is the first, The Talmud (The Oral Law.) is the second, and Aggadah (Midrash: Oral History and Parables.) is this the third. The Kabbalah is The Hidden Torah. It remained hidden for over a thousands years until Rabbi Shimon PBauch Yochai revlaed it as The Zohar on Lag B'Omer.
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Dear Yacov Menashe,
Thank you for clearing that up for me. I was totally ignorant of the Zohar, and because I had heard that the singer Madonna was into it and that many rich gentiles go to Los Angeles to learn about it that it was somehow separate from Scripture and a kind of stand-alone scripture on its own. But I was wrong, obviously. I also once read that some religious Jews don't accept Kabbalah, and consider it to be a separate tradition. Is that true?
wonderfulgoy:
(Apologies but this is now officially a thread-jack, maybe this post could be moved if it is inappropriate.)
Here is a letter from a pastor (Christian?) in Africa who states that the Zohar itself is G-d. ???
I am Johaness Dingome-Biyick, a citizen of Cameroon in Central Africa and currently a Pastor in Gabon.
For a very long time I have tried to know about Kabbalah. Then I came across the Kabbalah Centre on the Internet. I wanted to buy the whole set of The Zohar, but I couldn't afford the price. I didn't think here in Gabon, as a simple Pastor, I could ever economize such an amount of money.
I was lost and desperate but continued onwards. Then came the blessed day when I read about the Scholarship Fund offered by The Kabbalah Centre.
I immediately filled out the form and sent it to the Customer Care Team. Then the miracle occurred. A very big, heavy carton arrived safely for me to pick up at the shipping companyfs office in Liberville, Gabon.
When I opened it, another miracle: there inside the whole set of the Holy Zohar. Now it is in my hands, the hands of a poor Pastor of the revival. And what I discovered inside, the Holy Zohar is G-d himself.
Let Light, Peace and Love Prevail!
Yours faithfully,
Pastor Johaness Dingome-Biyick
http://www.kabbalah.com/newsletters/2006_03sagittarius/english/studentstransform.php
Dean Edward:
I have learned from an Orthodox Rabbi teaching Kabbalah,a student of the late Rav Kaduri,(may he rest in peace) that a noachide can study Kabbalah.
Sarah:
Yacov, could you just list what the jewish scriptures are? I mean what you refer and believe in. Thank you :).
Joshman i would like to go my own way with God as well but i always feel "lazy" when i do so. There are no rules and slowly you become misguided and forget to remember God. Even if you believe in a religion you can accept others as well and believe that they have correct concepts as well. Religion is confusing when you doubt. Its not as simple to just say im a good person therefore im going to heaven. God determines your place in the afterlife, even if you are a "diest" reflecting and being observent of your status on earth is good.
I pity the hindus.
kahaneloyalist:
The Jewish "scriptures" are
Tanach, acronym for Torah Neveim and Cesuvim, these are all divine revelations of varying degrees. All the sefarim that Goyim refer to as the "Tanach" (really the only testament)
The Talmud, contains the Mishna and Gemara.
All post Talmudic works. These arent really scripture but are explanations of what has come before.
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