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muman613:
Regarding 'Amulets'... Im not sure if you are familiar with the command to place Muzzuzot on the door of the house. The Mezzuzah is believed to provide protection for the home. The Torah commands a Jew to place a muzzuzah on the doorpost of every door in a Jewish home.
Some people consider the mezzuzah to be an amulet and place them on chains which are worn around the neck. Some also hang them in the car....
Of course the Sages were consulted whether this was permissible or was forbidden.
Here is the Halacha according to www.dailyhalacha.com :
http://www.dailyhalacha.com/m/halacha.aspx?id=630
--- Quote ---Mezuzah- Is It Permissible To Wear A Mezuzah or Put A Mezuzah In A Car
Is it permissible to put a Mezuzah on a chain and wear it? Some people want to wear a Mezuzah for protection like an amulet, or to protect from Ayin Hara (evil eye.) Is this permissible?
Chacham Ovadia Yoseph asks this question in Halichot Olam, Helek 8, page 216, and Rav Moshe Feinstein also asked this question in Igrot Moshe, Y"D, Helek Bet, Siman 141. They both came out saying that it is permissible to put a Mezuzah on a chain and wear it. Of course it should be contained within a case. Again, they rule it is permissible.
The question was also asked if you can put a Mezuzah in your car. There are some people who put a Mezuzah hanging from the mirror in their car. According to the Halacha, it is NOT proper to hang a Mezuzah in a car. However, it is permissible and OK if you want to put a Mezuzah on a dashboard laying flat. There is a difference between hanging a Mezuzah on your body and hanging one on a car mirror or something like that. The Gemara talks about the sin of hanging Tefllin, Chas VeShalom, on a wall. Hanging Tefilin on a body would be different though as the practice of a King was accepted when he used to walk around with a Sefer Torah on his arm like an amulet. So wearing a Mezuzah for protection is permissible but hanging a Mezuzah in the car is not permissible. Chacham Ovadia Yoseph is lenient though on putting a Mezuzah in a car as long as you put it flat on the dash board, or glove compartment, but not dangling from the mirror.
http://www.dailyhalacha.com/HalachaClips/630.mp3
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muman613:
--- Quote from: Dan Ben Noah on May 16, 2012, 01:14:05 AM ---I have already answered these claims. Kabbala does not come from the Tanach any more than the messiahship of Yushke or the advent of Muhammad come from the Tanach. It is read into the Tanach by taking verses out of context. I showed from the context how these verses that kabbalists claim are referring to reincarnation are actually talking about repentance.
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In your mind... I listen to the Rabbis and sages of the generation before a Noachide.
Dan, do you consider yourself a Chacham already? How long have you studied the Jewish sources?
You know nothing, and attempt to act like you do know... I just hope that an impressionable Jew is not fooled into believing you know what you are talking about.
muman613:
Dan,
As an expert on the Jewish understanding of Tanakh... Would you kindly tell us where in the Torah the laws concerning forbidden work is? I would like to test your understanding of Halacha...
muman613:
--- Quote from: Dan Ben Noah on May 16, 2012, 01:30:33 AM ---Do you mean where it forbids doing work itself (malacha) or where the 39 categories of work are individually forbidden?
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Yes, where in the Tanakh does it discuss the Melachot? How do we know there are 39 categories of forbidden labor?
muman613:
Yes, the law comes from the proximity of the command to abstain from work on the Sabbath and the description of the work required to build the Mishkan.
My point of asking you this is because often the Rabbis of the Talmud, where the actual 39 Melachot are enumerated in the Talmud {Mesechet Shabbos 49b}, used a technique known as Talmudic Exegesis which derived the actual prohibitions from the text of the Chumash, specifically from Parashat Vayakhel.
This is explained from the site torahtots.com @ http://www.torahtots.com/torah/39melachot.htm
--- Quote ---Melacha (plural "melachot").
1. Melacha refers to the 39 categories of activity that are forbidden on Shabbat. Melacha, is not "work." At least not the English definition of the word "work." You may not carry a needle out into the street on Shabbat, yet you may drag a heavy sofa across the room. So what Melacha is forbidden on Shabbat?
The 39 categories of activity that are forbidden on Shabbat, are all labors that have something in common - they are creative activities that exercise control over one's environment.
Specifically, the Talmud derives these 39 categories from the fact that the Torah juxtaposes the commandment to cease work on Shabbat in Shmot Parshat Vayakheil, with its detailed instructions on how to build the Mishkan*, and the preparation of its components, as described in Shmot / Exodus 31 and 35.
*[Mishkan - Tabernacle; the portable, temporary version of the Holy Temple that the Jews carried throughout the forty years in the desert into Eretz Yisroel (the land of Israel), until they built the Beit HaMikdash]
This is to teach us, explains the Talmud (Shabbat 49b), which activities constitute melacha: any creative act that was part of the mishkan's construction represents a category of work forbidden on Shabbat. These categories are forbidden by the Torah.
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So my overall point is thus. Just because something is not explicitly spelled out in the Chumash, or even in the Tanach, doesn't mean that there are things which can be learned from the placement of certain words and phrases in proximity to others. As a matter of fact several Halachot are determined using this method.
A brief mention of several 'commandments' of the Torah which are not expressly spelled out in the Torah and are clearly explained in the Talmud include the commandments of TzitTzits, Mezzuzahs, Tefillin, and Shabbat rituals.
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