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 | Nov 24, 2010 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
I’ve noticed an interesting disonnect between proofs some fundamentalist believers use for their religion and their beliefs about science (especially evolution). For an example, let’s take Judaism, which has a proof that the Torah is divine. This is called the Kuzari...
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...
by Carl Howard | Oct 13, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Blogging the Bible
In Monday’s post I talked about a few of the basic issues concerning with the Catholic Church restricting public access to the complete Bible. Today it’s time to look at the same in Judaism, which has some very interesting parallels. Of course in general there was not...
by Carl Howard | Oct 11, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Blogging the Bible
I’ve recently decided to take a break from blogging the Bible in favour of a bigger focus on Judaism itself. And the first book to warrant a look-see is the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. However, before I delve into it, it was worth making an introductory post about the book...
