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The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)

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Re: The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)

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post #177

Since people seem to be completely misunderstanding what the point of this is, or why it's even a problem in the first place, let's start with two simple definitions of what's going on: 1. In Jewish law, the definition of "work that is prohibited on the Sabbath" includes "moving objects outside the private domain". 2. The definition of "domain" has three kinds: "public domain" (such as a house), "private domain" (suc…

I'm sorry but I fail to see how what you wrote makes it any different. The wire is nothing more than a hack, like a cheat in a game. The law prohibits work "outside" so let's redefine the meaning of "outside" so we can continue working there.

Perhaps what’s inside or outside is the intrinsic concept of private versus public, and cities without such a wire are incomplete?

Re: The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)

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post #132

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Has any rabbi ever put together the amount of calamities that befell the Jews with constantly trying to pull fast ones on God?

Have you read the Book of Daniel? The full Septuagint version? Bel & the Dragon, chapter 14? The Vindication of Susannah?

Pretty much half of the Tanakh’s narratives are focused on that theme.

“He who sits in the heavens laughs.”

“What is this baaaa-ing I hear...?” — Amalekite property and population not thoroughly destroyed

“Do you do well...?” — Yahweh to Job, to Jonah, to Moses, et. al.

The priests of Ba’al vs. Elijah at Mt. Carmel

“That man is you!” — Samuel to David, regarding his proto-Machiavelli seduction and murder maneuvers

“Let us [Elohim] go down [to Earth] and see what men are doing now.” Genesis 11

The idolatry of Jamnia — actually that one turned out OK

Re: The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)

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post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> God knows what He wants and wrote it down exactly like that. When the word of God has obvious contradictions and inconsistencies what does it mean? Are there little traps that He set up for us mortals? Is God mischievous?

> the word of God has obvious contradictions and inconsistencies Such as?

https://www.bartehrman.com/contradictions-in-the-bible/

Re: The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)

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post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does seem to me that an omniscient God would see all these attempts to outwit him via looking at the small print, but then it's not me that would end up in hell or purgatory or whatever the Jewish equivalent is.

An omniscient God can't be outwitted by stuff in the small print. If there's a loophole in the small print, God put it there on purpose. If anything, He would be delighted that some of his followers read the holy books closely enough to find some of the easter eggs that He put in there. The whole idea of "the spirit vs the letter of the law" is a secular one that came up as a result of imperfect human lawmakers. But…

I see. Thanks for the explanation. Does that mean the old testament is taken literally as well?
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