by Carl Howard | Feb 23, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
A continuation from Monday’s post. Area: The Sotah (woman suspected of adultery, Num 5:11-31) Torah Problem: I’ve posted on this here and here), but basically the ritual is particularly misogynistic, allowing husbands free reign to bully and humiliate their wives in...
by Carl Howard | Feb 21, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
As I’ve posted before, I see a large part of Jewish law (at least when it was formed) as reconciling the Torah, with its barbaric and tribal mentality, with a more modern and (mostly) more humane outlook. When I was looking at the Torah for abridgement, I noticed this...
by Carl Howard | Dec 27, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
We may be very obsessed today with diet, exercise and health tips. But by no means is this new — we’ve been obsessed with it for tens of thousands of years, ever since we’ve had the language to wax poetic about the brealdown of our bodies. Religious texts are often...
by Carl Howard | Nov 30, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
Est Reading Time: 3 min The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (the quick and dirty handbook to Jewish law — see previous post) begins by outlining the order of the day for an Orthodox Jew. There aren’t too many overarching themes so I’ll just list the hodge-podge of points that...
by Carl Howard | Oct 26, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
Now that I’ve done the pre-pre-intro, the pre-intro and the intro, time to actually start blogging some Jewish law! There are a number of cases of exceptionalism that run across different religions. One that I looked at a year ago is the idea that “my religion’s not a...
by Carl Howard | Oct 18, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
Now that I’ve done the pre-pre intro to my discussions of Jewish law, along with the pre-intro, it’s time for the intro, which will place the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (the book I’ll be using next) in context. So, Christianity has had a problem bringing the Bible to the...
