tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post5677976363382578894..comments2024-01-30T02:37:28.387-06:00Comments on Notes from a Jewish Thoreau: On Jewish Theology and Abortion Yonassan Gershomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-67306004104701551592020-02-12T06:52:28.889-06:002020-02-12T06:52:28.889-06:00You can start with this essay, which goes into the...You can start with this essay, which goes into the meaning of the Hebrew word mistranslated "dominion."<br /><br /><a href="https://www.chaimbentorah.com/2015/06/hebrew-word-study-dominion/" rel="nofollow"> https://www.chaimbentorah.com/2015/06/hebrew-word-study-dominion/</a><br /><br />And then read my essays on animals on this blog before accusing "The Jews" of gaslighting (whatever you meant that).<br /><br />Peace.Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-29939709840795159812020-02-12T06:16:11.712-06:002020-02-12T06:16:11.712-06:00We do not need to re-write Genesis, just translate...We do not need to re-write Genesis, just translate it properly. "Dominion" is from the KJV and is not how Jews read it. Suggest you study some authentic Jewish commentaries and not view us through Protestant eyes. "Judeo-Christian" is not a thing. Judaism and Christianity are separate religions with very different worldviews. Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-79032827539357689302020-01-10T20:41:32.215-06:002020-01-10T20:41:32.215-06:00I agreed with the 1st breath analysis of when it l...I agreed with the 1st breath analysis of when it life begins in my mind for choice should always be up to the mother as she decides what is in her best interest (safety and sanity). However, a local politician in the area I lived in used his candidacy as a bully-pulpit for his pro-life, very Catholic stance and made people feel horrible for living in his district for the decisions they made before he ever entered office. He caused night mares. Thirty two years later his hate-crime culturally destructive energy culminated in the Tree of Life shootings even though he was booted out of town. It is clear to me that in his role as a Christian bully, he did not value life unless it replicated his thought processes. Never-the-less, I always remember the day our Summer Camp owners asked my father, the Nature Director, to kill a copperhead snake by the lower lake where we did our Red Cross swimming lessons and free swim, for fear that the copper head might one day, bite a camper. I was with my father when he brought the snake he was asked to kill back to the Nature Hut and we discovered that "she" was pregnant with several baby copper heads. Obviously her still-blue baby snakes, died before birth from the absence of their protective mother and I never forgot this in my heart or mind. My take on Genesis, as an advocate for the autonomy and freedom of each creature in it's own habitat, or such as habitat as I am my fellow animal lovers are able to create, is that Genesis needs revision. Moses wrote what he thought was best to create and thought process of optimism in the face of danger, where humans might believe they could or should have "DOMINION" over the land, seas and skies and all life that exist in these "biomes. The unfortunate consequence of this sentence in Genesis is cruel, barbaric, unneccesary animal torture and sacrifice and encroachment on their domains without social benefit (the delusional gas-lighting used by Jews, Christians, Islams alike). I think God talks directly too me. I think he also put Greta Thunberg on this planet to amplify my message. Green eyes are rare on earth. Steven Spielberg's ET has the blue, wizened eyes of Einstein. ET got "healing" not "affordable health care with third party decision making cruel, torturous decisions like NAZI medical concentration camp doctors." There is no such things as Animal Enterprise - and the most recent architects of this law deserve the benefit of being treated like the animals they terminate in production animal farming for they are less-than human having no empathy for life outside themselves Yes, God told me to rewrite Genesis as see it. My cat's name is Aryeh as she is King of the Lions in her mind, with tanzenite violet-blue eyes and the independent spirit which says we will do this together. God sent ET's sister to write you, I have wizened eyes too. They are Green. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-80948607430106119752019-09-23T21:45:12.926-05:002019-09-23T21:45:12.926-05:00tpersinger20@gmail.com tpersinger20@gmail.com P Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07331869230517145232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-43206405962618003022019-09-23T21:43:03.370-05:002019-09-23T21:43:03.370-05:00Love your blog. This is Persy. I can't really ...Love your blog. This is Persy. I can't really find another way to reach you. This is my email. Hope this finds you well!P Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07331869230517145232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-22586915612758964402019-06-02T07:51:09.740-05:002019-06-02T07:51:09.740-05:00Every country has problems, every person has probl...Every country has problems, every person has problems. Rather than people looking at themselves they always try to blame it on someone else. Like you said how if you were to open a bakery and make cakes for gay weddings, people would call you a money grabbing jew rather than doing the same thing. Donald Trump trying to blame all the economic problems in america on Mexican immigrants. Or all the worlds problems on Muslims. I wish that religion an politics stayed separate and that people would work on themselves rather than blaming other people. but unfortunately that is the problem with people. They feel that everything wrong in their lives is someone else fault.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-10567587680521636882019-05-28T07:26:18.395-05:002019-05-28T07:26:18.395-05:00AJH: In the USA the First Amendment is supposed to...AJH: In the USA the First Amendment is supposed to maintain the separation of religion and government. Right now that is being seriously tested, not only on the abortion issue, but also on issues of discrimination, such as a bakery refusing to bake a cake fora gay wedding. Some of these cases are still in court.<br /><br />And yes, it is mostly the fundamentalist Christians leading the charge. They have the belief that it violates their own faith to allow others to practice their faiths differently. It is turning into a political Inquisition.<br /><br />Part of the problem is that Christians here are new to being a minority. We Jews have dealt with this long ago. We do not try to outlaw pork just because we don't eat it, or forbid people to work on Saturday because it is our Sabbath. In the marketplace, everybody's money is the same color green. <br /><br />Frankly, if I had a bakery, I would advertise that I cater to LGBTQ people. They say about 10% of any population is gay and that's a big chunk of the market. Whatever they want on their cake, they would get. Of course, this attitude gets Jews called "moneygrubbers" and worse, but it is the right attitude when serving the public.<br /><br />What happens in the abortion issue is that it sometimes spills over into antisemitism with the Christians a calling us "baby killers." An accusation dangerously similar to the blood libels of the Middle Ages. At the same time, they don't seem to much care for those babies once they are born. The same people who want to outlaw abortion also want to cut funding to healthcare and social services to the poir and elderly. They aren't really pro-life, just pro-birth. Go figure.<br /><br />Thank you for reading my blog. I don't write very often, but when I do, I try to make it meaningful. <br /><br /><br />Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-14105514455397868832019-05-27T11:51:03.813-05:002019-05-27T11:51:03.813-05:00I come from Australia where the majority of people...I come from Australia where the majority of people I know usually have no religion, and if people are religious nobody really cares, regardless of what religion they are. I am astounded how in this day and age a state like Alabama can possibly make a backwards decision such as banning abortion on religious grounds. As far as I understand the far majority of the people who voted in favour of the bill were men which bring into question why they believe they have the right to tell a woman what she can do with her body. I agree that religion has no place in politics and so many evil and horrific things have happened because of this. In Australia at the moment the biggest issue in politics in regards to religion is voluntary euthanasia. The vast majority of Australian politicians are from a christian or catholic background and therefore continue to block this based on religious grounds rather than ethical or medical grounds. As a registered nurse I see the unnecessary suffering that so many people go through from a prolonged death.<br /><br />I feel that people who enter politics should make decisions not based on religion but rather on moral and ethical grounds that, are in the best interest of their electorate. <br /><br />I discovered your blog today and have enjoyed reading your posts, Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com