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- From: friedenb@fir.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg)
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: Bar Kochba And Moshiach
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:47:11 GMT
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- Reply-To: friedenb@fir.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg)
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- In article <142035.2B5F54C8@paranet.FIDONET.ORG>, Bill.Carlson@p0.f18.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bill Carlson) writes:
- |> To: friedenb@boswell.egr.msu.edu
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- |> GF> Date: 20 Jan 93 02:52:47 GMT
- |> GF> Organization: College of Engineering, Michigan State University
- |> GF> Message-ID: <1jiepvINNosh@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- |> GF> Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- |> GF>
- |> GF> It is true that Rabbi Akiva felt that Bar Kochba was the Moshiach.
- |> GF> But you have to understand more than this sentence before jumping
- |> GF> to a conclusion.
- |>
- |> Well..., Bar-Star took the Rebbe Akiva seriously enough, that he
- |> required his "brethern" to chop off a finger to show alliance!
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- Thank you for proving my point. These people were not observant Jews.
- Chopping off a finger is a serious averah. In order to discourage such a
- thing (including via ma'aris ayin) anyone who serves in the Bais HaMikdosh
- must be physically complete (except foreskin). If one chops off his finger,
- he is no longer able to serve in the Temple, and he has mutilated the body
- lent to him by HaShem.
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- Therefore these people were not *really* observant Jews, and if they were so
- far away from Judaism that they cut off a finger, then certainly they
- could have followed anyone (including fFrank, Tzvi, Mickey Mouse, etc.)
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- Give us a mainstream learned Jew who follows the mitzvos and halacha as
- examples to prove your points, instead of a heretics.
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- Gedaliah Friedenberg
- -=-Department of Mechanical Engineering
- -=-Department of Metallurgy, Mechanics and Materials Science
- -=-Michigan State University
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