He attended and celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at Temple Beth Shalom. His family recalls that Landon "went through a lot of hassle studying for the big event, which included bicycling to a nearby town every day in order to learn how to read Hebrew and recite prayers.
Doesn't mean anything to you ?
Yes. In that "temple" like all other reform "temples"* they marry men with men and perform abominations, so it was a sin for him to step into that whorehouse like for any person. As for his "bar mitzvah" and "struggle", if I tell you take 10 years, make a giant weird structure for me, and at the end, you have to pay me for doing it, that's basically what happened there. I have family members that married non-Jewish women. Some decided to be Jews, converted, and are now religious and wonderful brilliant Jews.
You too, Italian Zionist, can go online right now to one of many reform websites, pay $500, read a book about why you should be athiest by some Rabbi Christina, who happens to be a lesbian, and they will call you as Jewish as him. They'll even make a fun bar mitzvah. They also make bark mitzvahs for your dogs, and they make the dog wear a much better tefillin than they make people wear.
The reform have a festival where they try to eat the most unkosher food possible, lobster with cheese, shrimp with snails, whatever they can. Even though they put a lot of effort into it and call it a Jewish event, the only thing it means to Jews is that they are spitting on Hashem and his law, we do not give them any credit for it. Nor does halacha.
*(Why call it that? They started saying Germany is our Israel and Berlin is our Jerusalem so our synagogues are just as good as the holy Temple, we don't need Israel. They realized that Germany didn't feel the same way a few million dead Jews later, but now they say the same for America)
I am not so sure about that.
What does it mean to Hashem when a non-Jew eats matzah on Pesach? Same thing Gemarra says if you put tefillin on him, it is considered to be sitting on the table accomplishing nothing. There might be an argument that there's a sin there, but the basic understanding of halacha is that Jewish women are not rewarded for doing things that are commanded to Jewish men and not to women (with the exception of shabbos candle lighting, because we have a halachic way to delegate that to them so they share the reward even if it's still our mitzvah). A slave of a Jew is not rewarded for keeping things that a woman must keep and not them, and a non-Jew is not rewarded for keeping things that apply to any of them only.
Perhaps in his heart he was acting out of love for Hashem, and love for Hashem is richly rewarded. Since the reform lied to him, the sins he makes go to the person that made him ignorant of the situation, he is making a sin in ignorance because the reform "put a stumbling block before the blind", and therefore can not be held liable in the court of heaven. So if it was a sin, it's not his, but in no way, shape or form is the action itself a mitzvah, though of course he is rewarded if there was righteousness in his heart while doing it.
It would be very, very bad for him if it was a mitzvah. The category of the sins that damage you the most in the world to come are "mizvot done through sin", because then your defense is your prosecutor. You can imagine how badly that would play out on Earth, and it's basically the same.
I don't know about halacha, my point was you can't say G-d doesn't give a damn about something.
Now you're getting into an ultimately nuanced zone. Technically, there are 7 traits Hashem said about himself, like slow to anger quick to forgive, and according to Rambam, we can positively say Hashem is those while admitting that we have very little understanding about those concepts, and can't push Hashem into whatever box we decided means one of those. If you say anything outside of those seven, according to Rambam, you must always communicate in a double negative, Hashem doesn't not want good for you. We know there are things about Hashem that aren't true, but any real understanding outside of the seven traits is not possible for human minds, as far as I am aware, at least until Moshiach comes, may it be right now G-d willing.
What do you mean I can't say it? We study the Torah in order to know what God wants and doesn't want. Since the discussion is about a person who is halachically Gentile, there is no question the ceremony was meaningless and sinful. To pretend otherwise is intellectually dishonest.
Is that the reason that gentiles study Torah according to your Rabbi? We do it for its own sake, but definitely we do come across things that Hashem "doesn't not like" and "doesn't not dislike" (to make the wonderful Zelhar all puckered up and satiated) all the time. The rest you said is correct, though there can be a debate to say it was just doing nothing and not sinful, there are points on both sides, I am undecided there, or rather, "kinda agree, kinda don't" with both.
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