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AddReply(345008,"xtians who want to be like the J-man?","Dr. Schlub","","09/21/08","Interesting thesis put forth by Professor Chaim Witz in the form of a missive (that\'s a letter btw). Scroll down to the icon of the aforementioned:\nhttp://www.genesimmons.com/fanstories/letters11/index1083.html");
AddReply(344724,"#32 Dan: Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac and Obama","Hilltop Savta","Israel","09/19/08","I have a feeling you don\'t know this about B.O., Dan.\n\n\"You look at Obama\'s economic advisers, the guys he has counted on from day one and who have raised him a ton -- and I mean a ton -- of money: Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, both of them are waist to neck deep in the mortgage debacle.\"\n\nBoth Raines and Johnson have served as CEO of Fannie Mae, with Raines taking over from Johnson. Both are key political and economic advisers to Obama. \n\n\"How can Obama go out with a straight face and say it was Republicans who made this mess, when it is his key advisers who ran the agencies that made the big mess what it is?\" says a Democrat House member who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. \"It\'s his people who are responsible for what may well be the single largest government bailout in history. And every single one of them made millions off the collapse that are lining Obama\'s campaign coffers. If the McCain campaign lets this one go, they deserve to lose.\"\n\nAnd there\'s more at:\n\nhttp://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13841\n");
AddReply(344703,"#7 Tom re: 613 Commandments for Jews","Hilltop Savta","Israel","09/19/08","You asked, \"How many do the Orthodox really keep?\" We keep or try to keep every one that applies to us.  Tamar is right that the Jewish PEOPLE have 613 commandments, but not one Jew has all 613.  That is, there are commandments based on time; Shabbat laws are different than weekday laws, etc.; on place: laws only for Jews living in Israel,etc.  Laws for when there is a Temple.  Laws for Levites. Laws only for Kohanim (Priests).  Laws only for the Kohan HaGadol (High Priest).  Laws only for females of a certain age.  Laws only for males.  Laws only for adults. Laws for every Jew.  Laws forbidding one thing for most Jews and requiring that same thing for Priests. There is even a commandment to break commandments to save lives.\nSee.  It\'s really not so overwhelming.  In fact, I find it\'s usually pretty easy to keep the commandments that apply to me.  Everyone has a routine, a way of living and this is mine.  If I don\'t feel like doing a commandment, I do it anyway and think, \"This one\'s for You, God.\" And \"naner naner, evil inclination.  I am victorious once again.\" ; )\n\nWe bow down to no man, but we do serve God and we follow His laws because He said to.  We don\'t need to know the reason for them and often don\'t (But we want to and many spend their lives trying to find out). Those who are required to follow a certain commandment are no better than those who are not.  The laws give us self control; we try to think of the laws that may apply to our situation before we act.  In doing so, we bring HaShem into every moment of our lives. (Paper cut...finger in mouth? NO.  No blood eating.  Besides humans are not kosher :)  \n\nThere is no need to be jealous of other people\'s commandments.  Am I jealous because I can\'t be a Kohen?  Am I jealous because I don\'t have as many commandments as the men do?  (Heck) no.  \n\nEverybody on this earth has at least 7 commandments, each containing many sub-sections.   But do non-Jews have to deal with them all the time?  Do you  wake up and think, \"Today, I\'m not going to commit incest and I\'m not going to swallow any live goldfish\"?  \" Have courts of justice been established or do I have to do that today?\"  Well, I don\'t wake up and think \"I must not have squid for breakfast.\"  About 300 commandments apply to me as a Jewish woman in Israel, but on an average day I actively deal with about 4  and I heard for men, about 6.  Other ones are dealt with as the situation arises.  So, it\'s really not difficult to be a Torah observant person.  It\'s pretty exhilarating, really.");
AddReply(344578,"613 commandments?","Avigdor","Kedumim","09/19/08","Garner Iowa is right. Jews today are prevented by the athiest government from observing many of the 613 commandments  such as rebuilding the Temple and observing shabbat and kashrut without hindrance. Jews can\'t even pray on the Temple Mount and \"rabbis\" make rules to prevent going there altho non-Jews go there every day and desecrate the holy site playing soccer and doing shameful things. Converts still need to know that we don\'t give up on doing as much as we can and shabbat and kashrut are a good start.");
AddReply(343997,"Are the Japanese a lost tribe?","ilana","jerusalem","09/17/08","http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=n-8y96LVlsc");
AddReply(343572,"Let us not forget...","Schvach","","09/16/08","... that toward the conclusion of Megillat Esther were are told that following the triumph of Esther and Mordechai, many Persians joined\nthe Jewish People.");
AddReply(343503,"Very funny","Fun","Earth","09/15/08","Rabbi Funny\'s shul seems like a lot of fun. Not at all boring. What are the membership dues?");
AddReply(343455,"So what about me?","Cristina Irizarry","North Carolina,US","09/15/08","I agree with part of what you wrote Tamar, but as someone who does believe to be a decendent from jews, I think that love you talk about does count for something. Yes convert, yes commit yourself to Torah, but don`t be phony (I agree with that part). But your post seemed a little cold towards those who G-d might be bringing into the nation. Being a jew should be a conviction not a trend.");
AddReply(343315,"Am Yisroel","Heisler","Bnei Brak","09/15/08","Am Yisroel, have emunah and bitachon. The Torah is our constant guide.  The  negative commments are of no importance to us, at all. ");
AddReply(343093,"To Joanna","Chavie","NYC","09/14/08","It is not the Jews who will burn in hell. G-d promised those that bless the Jewish people will be blessed and those that curse the Jewish people will be cursed.  And so has it been throughout history. Those countries that treated the Jews well prospered. Those countries that treated the Jews badly have been relegated to the ash heap of history or have become small insignificant countries. Look at Egypt, Spain, England, the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire, the Persian Empire,  and even Europe & Germany, that sanctioned/murdered 6,000,000 contributing members of society only to replace them 13 million impoverished, unfettered, unemployed, radical  moslems bent on their host country\'s destruction.. What poetic justice. If someone voices support for Jews, Israel, democracy or any other ideaoligy but Islam, or someone dares paint Islam in its true light they are slated for servitude or death. Look at the girls who were murdered because they did not want to marry old men, but men of their own chosing. They were shot and buried alive because of their \"crime\" with the full support of Moslem Ministers of State. Look at the women who were killed by their familiies for \"speaking\" to a man. Look at their threats, at their totalian religion. Look at their persecution and desicration of shrines holy to other religions when the terrirory is in their hands. Nothing is sacred to them. There is no freedom in Islam.. America should take heed. It is in the USA\'s best interests to support Israel not sell it down the drain by creating another terrorist state, that has no historical validity,  that hates America as much as it hates Israel, that will be used as a base from which to launch attacks on  American citizens.Hamas took over Gaza when the Jews were forcibly expelled. They used the tubing from greenhouses to make bombs instead of growing vegetables that would have fed and supported their people. The world has tried to rid itself of the Jewish people, their greatest blessing, from \"time immemorial\" yet we continue to exist defying all logic. G-d promised that we would never be destroyed. G-d always keeps his promise. Tamar is right. Saying you are a Jew does not make you one. One can be a righteous gentile and does not have to become a Jew. If one really wants to be a Jew one has to know what it entails and promise to keep all the 613 commandments incumbant on a Jew. If a gentile finds that too difficult he can be a righteous gentile by keeping the 7 noahide laws and will be rewarded with a good life and paradise as well. Unlike other religions we believe G-d rewards good and punishes evil no matter what your persuasion. ");
AddReply(342990,"Dirty Hebrews","Joanna","Detroit","09/14/08","You people disgust me.. Jews are nothing more than the seed of satan. I hope all of you burn in hell");
AddReply(342819,"Dave, try to do 1 mitzvah without the Talmud","Dan","Jerusalem","09/14/08","Try to observe one commandment without the Gemarra (Talmud).\n\nYou can\'t.\n\ne.g. how do you blow the shofar, there are different verbs used in the written Torah such as Teruah, Tekiah, but what do they mean ?  We only know that from the oral Torah, written down in Tractate Rosh Ha-Shanah of the Talmud.\n\nAs for the sage\'s ability to legislate, the Torah itself says (Deut. 17:11) \"al pi ha torah asher yorucha ...\" that we should observe that which the judges in our day command us.\n\nAs for the oral torah, Exodus 25:40 regarding  the objects in the Tabernacle, and many other passages, \"see that you make them after their pattern which is shown you in the mountain.\"  Hashem showed Moshe an image of  the objects in the Tabernacle.\n\nThis shows that Hashem gave Moshe instructions which were not included in the written Torah.  These instructions are the oral law.\n");
AddReply(342779,"Sacred Ground or abomination","","Canada","09/14/08","Before anyone judges another be careful! Who can swear before G-d that they are above reproach? Who can name places in the world which are sacred ground where no human blood has been spilled? In truth when the land is Holy people living there are Holy by a Heavenly decree. Until then nothing is sacred. ");
AddReply(342731,"your latest blog","Yaacov","Phila, PA","09/13/08","Shalom Tamar.\n\nIt\'s a beautiful message and in terms of the Torah, particularly the inner parts of Torah, it is no surprise that there will be in microcosm within the Jewish people elements of every racial group. G-d\'s blessings to the nations flow out from us as was promised to Avraham avinu.\n\nYour concern is over how to merge all these seemingly divergent elements into one cohesive and homogeneous people again. For now, the primary responsibility for this task falls, as it should, to the nascent Sanhedrin.\n\nAs is indicated in the Amidah prayer we say three times a day, the Sanhedrin is the sole body of \"judges and advisers\" who is empowered by our Creator to direct the Jewish people as a whole.\n\nB\'ezrat HaShem, in the near future we will merit to see the coming of our righteous Moshiach who will truly bring us all together along with every nation on earth to serve the one G-d like it states explicitly in Rambam\'s Mishnah Torah in the laws of Kings.\n\n");
AddReply(342726,"Love the real convert, not the insincere Jew-hating \'christian\' phony","Velvel","silver spring","09/13/08","These black hebros are some of the most racist anti-Jew anti-white bigots in the world.   They hate Israel with a passion and they don\'t study talmud because lo and behold, they are christians parading as Jews......  while at the same time disparaging \"white\" Jews as \"not actually Jewish.\"    So, for the racist Europe we weren\'t white enough, and for the racist black Jew-haters, we\'re not black enough.   What else is new.   These clowns can keep their nonsense out of the Land of Israel.");
AddReply(342694,"TO #27, and a reply to my original post","Dave","BV CO","09/13/08","RIGHT ON!!!    If the Mother is the Jewish blood line, then why the emphisis on the \"Fathers\"?  Why isn\'t it the sons of \"Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel\", instead of Sons of Avrahm Yitzach and Ya\'acov?  And why even mention the sons at all?  Why isn\'t it the daughters instead (I\'m aware of Bat Tzion)?\n\n#27, your comments clearly point out that the \"Traditions\" contradict the Written Torah.  \n\nTamar, You corrected my post, with your \"opinion\" of the Talmud, not from written Torah, but simply from the Talmud itself.  Take \"Lo Bashamayim He\" (it is not in heaven)and the story of Rabbi Eliezar in the B Talmud into consideration.  These state that the Earth is under rule of the Rabbis and Even HaShem must obey THEM (Pesikta Rabbati 3).  How can these be true when Psalms 24:1 says this, \"The Earth is Hashem\'s and it\'s fullness, the inhabitated land and those who dwell in it.\"?  Clearly these two do not harmonize.  \n\nHashem gave 7 commandments concerning Shabbat.  The rabbis have added over a thousand to the original 7?!?!?  So when you say 613, you are really saying thousands.  \n\nThere are Two great commands in Torah, To Love HaShem, and to love your neighbor.  \n\nThe 10 Commandments are further detail into those first two.  \n\nThe rest of the 603 are even more detail.  They are clear.  They don\'t need more explanation.  \n\nI am told to rest on Shabbat.  I am told to Remember that Elohym created the heavens and the Earth, and rested from His creative work on the Shabbat day.  I am told to not make others work on that day.  I am told to not work on that day.  I am told to not kindle a fire (which an electrical spark is not a fire), probobly meaning that I am to not gossip, slander, start arguments, those kinds of fires on that day.  He tells me to keep that day holy.  However, He doesn\'t tell me that I am to light specific candles, of which there are pages and pages of regulations in Talmud devoted only to them.  He doesn\'t tell me that I can make a gentile work for me, even if he is in my home.  That is a contradiction to the 4th commandment spoken by the voice of G-d.\n\nIt seems that one would be SOOO burdened by the thousand plus commands added to Shabbat, that they would forget why they are keeping it in the first place.  To give glory, and honor to HaShem for His creative work, and love for us.  To spend that day in His rest, and focus on Him. \n\nIt becomes a VERY dangerous thing when the children think that the Father must obey them, instead of them obeying the Father.");
AddReply(342430,"Love is not enough","Gordon","","09/12/08","Elul is true to the essence of Judaism. \"I am my beloved\'s and my beloved is mine.\" \n\nI searched and asked what is the essence of Judaism? \n\"I am my beloved\'s and my beloved is mine\".\nThis love is either everything or it is nothing. Love is the essence of the law, and the law cannot be fulfilled without it.\n\nLove searches the heart, tries the reigns and in wisdom discerns the utterance of an empty vow.\n\nTo pray without love is not prayer.\nTo give without love is not charity.\nTo fast without love is not fasting.\nTo obey without love is not obedience.\nTo be redeemed without love is not redemption.\nTo forgive without love is not forgiveness.\nLove is not enough-it is everything, and comes only from G-d.\n\nA parable of Shakespeare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3BfBIzz6vQ\n");
AddReply(342425,"Man VS. The All Mighty","Dave","BV CO","09/12/08","    I understand that in Judaism there is the \"Written\" and \"Oral Laws\".  But these contradict.  The \"Oral\" Laws are placed, by man, as superior to the very Words of the All Mighty Himself.  This is a very arrogant and haughty approach to The All Mighty.  HE said \"DO NOT ADD TO OR SUBRTACT FROM THIS WORD\".  What is the Talmud?  Is it not an addition?  \n    Devarim 6 and Shimot 20 say that we are to LOVE HaShem.  Where in the Written Torah are His people commanded to follow another set of rules?  Specifically, man made rules that contradict the Written Torah of HaShem?  Is there no fear of Him?  It seems there is more fear of the Rabbis, and that is most definately NOT the beginning of wisdom.  \n    I keep the Written Torah to the best of my abiblity \"not being in the Land\".  And I long for the day that Messiah places His feet on the Mount of Olives, when He holds the two sticks togehter in His hand!  Blessed be the Name of The All Mighty!!\n\nEd. Note: The Talmud, Oral Torah,  was given to Moses along with the written Torah,  Moshe passed this knowledge and instruction to the next generation, who passed it on from father to son until this day.  The Torah\'s laws cannot be observed without the Oral part to explain how to do the Mitzvoth.  Obviously anyone who denies the instructions that G-d gave Moses on Har Sinai has not studied well and is making up their own religion with picking and choosing what they like and discarding what they don\'t.  There is a very good explanation of the divinity of the oral Torah in Yair Davidiy\'s introduction to  \"JOSEPH: The Israelite Destiny of America\" 2nd edition.");
AddReply(342358,"12 year old girl escaes killing georgians","moses","bev hills","09/12/08","12 Yr Girl Tell Of Georgians killing Civilians in Ossetia, gets censored by Fox!!\n\n\nhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H8XI2Chc6uQ\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(342333,"#45 Les","Gary","Monterey, CA","09/12/08","In Scripture, the Northern Kingdom called Israel in 1 & 2 Kings consisted of nine tribes plus those Levites living in the North.  The tribe of Joseph actually consisted of his two sons.  The Southern Kingdom consisted of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin with the remaining Levites living in the South.");
AddReply(342322,"Jewish","","","09/12/08","Why does everyone want to be Jewish except the Jews themselves?!!!");
AddReply(342283,"Either love is everything, or it is nothing.","BaMidbar","","09/11/08","http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3BfBIzz6vQ&feature=related");
AddReply(342139," #40  Tamar you are doing a great","les","Ayr","09/11/08","job and service and we certainly appreciate all the time and effort in teaching us what we lack. You are very patient And sensative but you said 10 lost tribes--Could you have possibly ment 12 lost tribes?  I don\'t mean to sound as a repremand or maybe I don\'t understand where 144,000 from the names of the tribes of Israel in Rev. 7:4 mention all of the 12  tribes by name.  Have two tribes been ommited by the Jews for some reason I\'m not aware?  I will patiently await a comment, thanks");
AddReply(342135,"Tamar\'s analogy was spot-on","MAOZ","Yerushalayim","09/11/08","A non-native-born-American can identify with the US and adopt American ways to his heart\'s content.  But UNLESS and UNTIL he undergoes the proper, valid -- AS DETERMINED BY U.S. LAW -- naturalization process, he\'s NOT an American.\n\nA very apropos analogy vis-a-vis non-Jews needing to undergo HALACHICALLY VALID conversion in order to become Jews.");
AddReply(342010,"Great!!","Naomi","","09/11/08","Great!! I want to join Rabbi Funnye\'s shul!");
AddReply(341959,"They are from the Other Side","Halachic Convert","Jerusalem","09/11/08","Tamar you have nothing to apologize for. If you look at the sources and give it some deep consideration, I think you will come to the same conclusion that I have---that these who want to be connected to us while still clinging to their idolatry and rejecting the authority of the rabbis are not descendants of the \"lost tribes\" per se, but of those of the Erev Rav who were mixed among them and were exiled with them.  We are living in a period of time which requires the UNmixing of Bnei Yisrael and so we see it happening.  A spiritual call went out and a representative number (Jeremiah says \"one from a city and two from a clan\") returned according to the Laws of Moses (both Written and Oral).  The \"attached\" ones (klipot) received it, too, but because of their perverse nature, they did not receive it in truth or purity, so their response is corrupt and perverse.  The best way for Jews to assist in this process is not to try to bring EVERYone, without distinction, closer, but to simply cling to Torah and mitzvot and insist upon adherence to it in every detail and maintain our separateness.  This will hasten the complete redemption, may we see it materialize before our very eyes in these days!");
AddReply(341918,"F&F bailout was a punt at 4th&10","ak","dc","09/11/08","The F&F bailout was demanded by foreign investors, including the Bank of China, that keep the utterly bankrupt US govt functioning.  The BoC sent a warning to the Fed in late Aug when it dumped 25% of its F&F debt.  A very big stick.  The threat is immediate financial collapse.  The bailout punts the ball at 4th&10 with the US deep in its own territory.  It just wants to get the ball back in the air.  But as Paul Craig Roberts says, the guarantee is more than the Treasury can realistically assume.  It just buys time.  ");
AddReply(341873,"Gosh, and I thought I was being sensitive.","tamaryonah","","09/10/08","Naughty me.  I really must try harder to convey my openness and optimism when it comes to the resurgence of the Lost Ten Tribes, and I do plan to write more about them at a later date.  I really am (cautiously) excited by this phenomenon, but people need to be aware that there are laws that must be honored and respected.   If I sounded haughty or arrogant, ...well, shame on me!");
AddReply(341844,"Hey Driving Bear,  #32","Miss Daisey","","09/10/08","Your right, the Christians have both the monopoly of receiving persecution AND persecuting!\n\nHowever, it is the Jews who have the monopoly on Scripture. No one else, including Christians, has that!");
AddReply(341841,"Taffy Kimberly here","Taffy Kimberly","Atlanta","09/10/08","my whole point is....\n\n\nTHEY ARE JEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OY\n\nthere are two ways to be a JEW!! \n\nWAKE UP!!!!!");
AddReply(341830,"Taffy and Kimberly are the same person.","sk","USA","09/10/08","You know, I do not think Tamar is particularly tactful or sensitive as a rule, but hasn\'t she been both this time around?  There are certain rules and procedures for converting, and I don\'t see Tamar as attacking those who feel connected to Jews but are not Jewish. ");
AddReply(341764,"There, there Dan, It\'ll be alright...","Rob","usa","09/10/08","At this point I do not care what the federal government of the United States does to get things moving again. I have customers who are down fifty percent, or more in sales. Do I think the people at lending institutions should find themselves at the end of  rope? of course I do! I have close ties to the building/housing industry. Joe will never figure out he cannot afford the mortgage on that four bedroom house, that fifty thousand dollar dodge ram pickup, that big screen plasma TV, all that cheap plastic crap from china,,,,,.\n\nSometimes big brother needs to step in. realtors, mortgage brokers, and certain types of lending institutions were out of control, correction is sometimes an ugly thing, ");
AddReply(341759,"\"Lift up your heads\"","Mamma J","Hillsboro,OR","09/10/08","For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, AND THEY SHALL CLEAVE TO THE HOUSE OF JACOB.  And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids...\"   thus the LORD will bless us all.  Lovingly, a gentile mamma.");
AddReply(341751,"Maybe a bit too controlling","Pichas","New York","09/10/08","I understand that the Jewish Orthodox Community believes it can via the rabbis hand pick each individual who is granted entry into the holy nation. That idea is ludicrous and impossible considering all the holy souls being called to convert to torah judaism. You can\'t control this movement on an individual basis. There is not enough orthodox rabbis in this world to work one on one with each potential holy soul wanting to serve Hashem thru the mitzvot. It is going to have to be done in the group mode.");
AddReply(341748,"reply to Dan","Shoshana","Portland, Oregon","09/10/08","Dan: I appreciate your comments everytime you call. Am losing patience for Tovia\'s thoughtless responses to your calls. I need to educate myself as to what exactly Freddie and Fannie are: I understand that they are mortgage companies, but run by the government???? So how are they baled out? OK, by US tax payers--are mortgages paid off? Are Fannie/Freddie employee paychecks paid by US tax dollars? ");
AddReply(341706,"Only G-D can say who is Jewish","Driving Bear","Tennessee","09/10/08","The problem is that the jews like Tamar think that unless you belong to orthodox sect you are not a true jew.   Tamar should remember that only G-d can say who is a true jew not a rabbinical court. Or has Tamar forgotten that 3 years ago that so called jews kicked other Jews out of their homes in Gaza and gave part of the land of Israel to the sworn enemies of Ha Shem .\n\nSo I would like to give a heartfelt  Amen to Sam from Kansas\n\nAlso FYI in the history of the Church, 69 million have been killed for their faith. So the jews don\'t have a monopoly on persecution.");
AddReply(341662,"Sarah Palin phony conservative, will sell out Israel","Dan","Jerusalem","09/10/08","Sarah Palin supported the bailout of Fannie Mae,  an act \"more communist than China\" according to investor Jim Rogers.\n\nFannie Mae is not a joke as Tovia claims (\"Fannie Mae, Schmannie Mae\" -- wow, really intelligent comment).  \n\nMany small investors lost a lot of money.  Don\'t worry about the plutocrats though,  they will be reimbursed by your tax dollars.\n \nHow can you have a free country, when the gov\'t controls the private sector, for the benefit of the super-rich ?\n\nIf Palin sold out on conservative principles so quickly, she will sell out on Israel too.");
AddReply(341659,"But this doesn\'t even seem to be a kosher convert in the first place","Tehilla","","09/10/08","");
AddReply(341658,"Longing for our Homeland","Elizabeh","Southern Pines","09/10/08","Well, it may well take some miracles to get us HOME someday, but meanwhile we pray, study Torah, and long for that day!!  Prophecy still is being accomplished...and in the right timing. Whether we can see it or not.");
AddReply(341647,"I almost forgot...","Levi","tha bak40","09/10/08","to mention, that according to Torah, only when a Jew or Levite\'s (Nehimia/Ezra) wife refuses to convert to Judaism, but instead, remains firm in her resolve to remain a disobedient pagan, is the wive of different origen to be sent away. The resolve to remain pagan is what deems a wife \"foreign\" and unacceptable to live with Jewish men who are obedient to the Mighty ONE of Yaacov. \n\nTorah observant women and their children, of any nationality, are NEVER sent away.");
AddReply(341645,"Good show girl (Tamar)","Levi","inthabak40","09/10/08","Seems you sparked a good discussion. I agree with most of what you said, however, for the sake of a little clarity, as far as the 613 commandments, I am all for them, except that I can only keep the ones that apply to me, while hoping others keep the ones that apply to them. It is the responsibility of each person to discover which laws are applicable (example men cannot do the women\'s and women cannot keep all of the ones applied to men).\n\nWhich means, for the sake of your readers, NO ONE is required to keep ALL 613 laws, just the ones that are applicable to one\'s status.\n\nAnother thing that needs to be addressed is that being born of a jewish mother makes one a Jew ia actually not correct. If it were then Boaz and Ruth\'s son would be a Moabite. Joseph\'s sons would be Egyptian, etc. \n\nWhat\'s good for the goose, is good for the gander.\n\nThose who would be \"true Jews\" according to HaShem, must first have the heart - then with that, as evidence of that Torah obedient heart, they would do well to make Aliyah, pledge their alligance to HaShem, and live in agreement with their brethren. \nIn reality, there is too much diversity to please everyone, so one must do as he thinks best - according to Torah, of course.\n\nCould I be granted the proper paperwork, I would come. And if I could, I\'d bring Johnathan Pollard with me!");
AddReply(341630,"those Japanese are tourists","ak","dc","09/10/08","After checking on that last video online, I think those Japanese are part of a Christian cult (Makuya) who make pilgrimages to Israel.  They are tourists seeking only to spend their (probably substantial) hard currency savings in Israel while on vacation (and just wait for the carry trade to reverse because the yen is going to soar).   Yes, they are very enthusiastic, but after all they are a cult.  http://www.makuya.or.jp/eng/  ");
AddReply(341619,"you funny lady","Li Li Wong","Tokyo","09/10/08","you are nutty woman");
AddReply(341617,"Kimberly #16","Steve","Fla.","09/10/08","Kimberly, you say these are all converts.  I watched the video: Barack Obama\'s wife’s cousin, \'Rabbi\' Capers Funnye.  \n\nIf loyalty is to Africa before loyalty is to Israel, how can they be converts?  If Black Hebrews consider themselves to be the only authentic Jews; if they consider Tamar, myself and millions of other Jews imposters, who are we to believe?");
AddReply(341613," First: my appology to Tovia Singer","satch","UK","09/10/08","for my blantant remark last blog. I guess I can be compared to a muslim when someone denounces my G-d. [but only in that way] As Tamar has stated so well, Only a Jew is born of Jewish blood--no matter how much we try to be Jewish\'--we are not!  I will say tho--I am kosher- when it comes to my Lord, saviour and absolutely Nothing will desolve that.  All other religions other than Hebrew/Jews are man given terms, each giving or adding to or differently approaching G-d in the manner of Men\'   Religion is man doing what he thinks is what G-d needs from him[man]--which is absolutely opposite of the One G-d of the Jew. 613 Commandments [not suggestions] 248 positive and 365 negative ones to be Obeyed!   I personally am not of any man made religion, not being a Jew, I have faith in G-d but am convienced that like some -who won\'t have a \'bloody\' religion\' but the Blood is where it\'s At!.  Blood atones, covers sin and eventually removes sin.  Have all the animals slain and sacrificed on altars been in vain? certainly not!  But they were looking to the only name in heaven or earth whereby we must place our final being to the glory of G-d for complete removal of our sin to stand purified before our creator G-d.  When a Jew accepts this fact and this person it doesn\'t make him any less a Jew--but opposite, he is a \'complete\' Jew and then is part of the soon coming kingdom of the Messiah.  You can be in your own conviction and still be wrong. Rabbi\'s differ in opinion, as preachers do.   My faith and trust is in the G-d of the Jewish people who has promised they will never be removed nor destroyed but only judged for their unbelief--which we All stand accountable!  I look to their teaching of the Torah but even the \'rest of the story\' in the testaments of Luke Peter and John, --Jews who instruct me to my righteousness.  We are accountable for idle words, but also let your yea be yea, and your nay be nay!   Thanks Tamar for allowing my words of appology.  Might Truth prevail\'  my only regret is I can\'t be a complete Jew, haha.");
AddReply(341589,"Beautiful!","Rachel","LA","09/10/08","these videos are the most beautiful images of people whose hearts are circumcised and who are intimately attached to Hashem..HE is big enough for everyone!");
AddReply(341572,"10 tribes","john","","09/10/08","Tamar is not arrogant at all, i do not understand how one can even say such a thing. Tamar is the only one i know that even covers and gives us exposure to such subjects and people like BritAm.org and Steven Collins. Mosiach will be here soon and straighten everything out. We all need to start somewhere.  Thanks Tamar, for letting us see and know about this resurgence.");
AddReply(341567,"are some of you commentors","terry","vv","09/09/08","antisemites or something? good article. noone keeps all the commandments due to no 3rd temple yet. people keep those they can, if you can\'t fast 24hrs of yom kipper do 12 or 8-your best, no kosher meat in town,your best. G-d knows & sees, & is loving. He knows that names are written in the book of life, the people of all12 tribes of israel & all else. everybody eventually ill know. do your best- G-d bless you israel.");
AddReply(341563,"To Kimberly from Jackson & Taffy from Atlanta","avee chaim","Jerusalem","09/09/08","You two guys GIVE ME A BREAK. Before you guys criticize what Tamar is saying you should first learn something about Judaism. And the best way to learn about Judaism is to study and be aware what Judaism is all about.\nListen to what OUR prophet Jeremiah had said  \"...SO SAYS THE LORD: LET A MAN NOT BRAG ABOUT HIS WISDOM - NOR SHOULD A HERO BRAG ABOUT HIS HEROISM - NOR SHOULD A RICH MAN  BRAG ABOUT HIS WEALTH - BUT LET A MAN BOAST ONLY WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF ME - FOR I AM THE LORD OF JUSTICE, MERCY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE LAND\"\nNow, do you guys know Godliness? For that is what is required to be Jewish. Love is not enough. And so : More power to you Tamar !!!");
AddReply(341551,"Oh, come on now!","Dan","Atlanta","09/09/08","In my years in Tel Aviv, you have to look hard to find any large group striving to \"obey\" \'613\' commandments.  Most everyone around was Jewish and had very little drive to prove it in any way.\nIF that level of relgiosity was actually observed, Israel would be a very different country.\nAnd by the way, IF you have not noticed, the US has approximately 50% of our population that DO think communisim Is a good idea.\nGet back to your usually level headed self.  Or if you are sick and with fever, I will pray for your healing and recovery.");
AddReply(341502,"OH POOR TAMAR","Taffy","Atlanta","09/09/08","ohhhhhh poooooor tamar... she has such a hard life being a religious jew...oh boo hooooo....it must be so hard to live a great neighborhood where all your neighbors love you and want to socialize and it must be so hard to have a great husband who you love and have been married to since your youth and boo hoo hooo how hard it must be to have such a wonderful large family with all that love surrounding you...I just feel so bad for you tamar with how \"HARD\" it is to be a jewess living in the blessed land with all the blessings flowing down onto your head....poor poor tamar..such a rough life you lead...give me a break");
AddReply(341499,"Please give me a break","Kimberly","Jackson MS","09/09/08","that attitude that you have about the convert is what is going to get all of you thrown out of judea and samaria...you are commanded to LOVE the convert tamar ..not criticize him or patronize him or act haughty and superior over him...G-d gave the TORAH to the Jewish people for the sake of fixing this world.... you are obviously not fulfilling this mission and it is because you have no LOVE...LOVE may not be enough but there has to be SOME LOVE there in order for the TORAH to function as it was designed and the tone of this piece only proves my point that you are an uptight, covetous, haughty woman who thinks she keeps ALL the Law when nothing could be further from the truth...seek G-d about this before it is too late for you and your neighbors in yesha");
AddReply(341492,"Gary #10","Sam","Tupelo, Kansas","09/09/08"," I don\'t understand why you are all the time so protective and covetous and greedy about the faith of the Torah....is true the jewish people have suffered horrendously as a nation of people and as a race and culture but there is more to the Torah that the suffering of the group...there are millions of people alive in the world today and in the ages past who as individuals suffered horrendously all thier lives trusting and believing that Hashem knows the purposes and the reasons who cling to their love of Him and faith in Him and KNOW HIM INTIMATELY...this is the circumcision of the heart and is just as real a circumcision as the physical one and these people are part of the \"clan\" just as much as any person born to a jewish mother..no conversion by a rabbi necessary unless you want the \"double portion\" and these are the people prophesied about in the tanakh in hosea...you really need to loosen your grip on how much you suffered as people are suffering everywhere and for the purposes of the CREATOR");
AddReply(341486,"then git her done taymar","Jimmy JOE JOhns","Butkus Texas","09/09/08","taymar,\n\nyou say it is a :\"tremendous responsbility\" to be the \"priestly nation\" why is it taking you \"priests\" so long to bring tikkun olam? hurry up already and get \'er done ... you are really failing miserably and maybe the influx of some \'new jews\" would dampen some of your arrogance and superior attitude so you can work on your mission to fix this hellhole!");
AddReply(341483,"You are 100% correct.","Libby K","Jerusalem","09/09/08","Very well put!");
AddReply(341473,"This thing should be settled once and for all.","Steve","Fla.","09/09/08","It is my understanding there are two things that determine one\'s Jewishness.  One born of a Jewish mother is a Jew.  One converted is a Jew.\n\nFrom my perspective, the standard for conversion should be a good Orthodox rabbi.  Liberal rabbis will not do.\n\nAn Orthodox rabbi who is worth his salt will explain what the convert ultimately will be expected to observe and give up.  Things like Christmas and Easter will have to go, as will pork, lobster, etc.  The Sabbath will be observed.  \n\nThe rabbi will remind the potential convert, he or she can be a good human being by obeying certain fundamental moral laws, while at the same time, celebrating Christmas, Easter and eating pork.  \n\nHe or she does not have to join an historically despised and persecuted people to be a good human being.\n\nSome say this serves only to discourage the potential convert, but didn\'t Ruth\'s mother-in-law discourage Ruth and her sister?  \n\n\'And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.  “May the LORD grant that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.  And they said to her, “No, but we will surely return with you to your people.” But Naomi said, “Return, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?....And they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. \n\nThen she said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”   But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.  “Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.” When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her.\'\n\nRuth was a convert.   \n\nI know for a fact, if this route is taken -- with a good Orthodox rabbi -- more than likely the candidate will convert for the right reasons and not for wrong reasons like love and romance.");
AddReply(341472,"yes, it must be kosher and legal..","yvonne","cary","09/09/08","but no one is perfect. We are all striving to improve. Many jews, who are legal, as their mothers are jews, are not particularly kosher, or keeping kosher. My kosher jewish father ate pork chops and smoked eel, but not, G-d forbid, crab and lobster!! I think this is exciting. People from all over the world turning to G-d and judaism. People from all over desiring to be a light to this world! It should be encouraged, not discouraged. We can not keep G-d in a small box under the bed all to ourselves. Go forth and multiply! Love may not be enough, but it carries us much further than hatred. It is not the body. It is not matter. It is spirit. Love and light. Not hatred and darkness.");
AddReply(341464,"Concerning the Northern Kingdom of Israel","Gary","Monterey, CA","09/09/08","in the last days, \"...for ye are not my people, and I will not be your G-d.  Yet the number of the children of Israel (Northern Kingdom) shall be (during the centuries of exile) as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place (the place where for centuries they have ended up) where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there (the place of the finally exile locations) it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living G-d.  Then shall the children of Judah (Southern Kingdom) and the children of Israel (Northern Kingdom from their lost exile place) be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head (the Mashiach), and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.  Hosea Ch1 9-11.");
AddReply(341463,"What kind of conversion?","Tehilla","","09/09/08","\"Funnye converted to Judaism and was ordained as a rabbi under the supervision of black Israelite rabbis. He then went through another conversion, supervised by Orthodox and Conservative rabbis.\"\n\nThis is really such a bizarre group.  \"We, the black israelites, are the true Jews.\"  HUH????\n\nAnd this story was promoted even here at INN as if this guy was even truly Jewish and as if this was an Orthodox rabbi with the article \"Barack Obama\'s Wife\'s Cousin an Orthodox Black Rabbi\".  Neither seem to be the case.");
AddReply(341451,"All well and good, except....","Mike","Vienna, VA","09/09/08","\"But what if Hu Yang wanted to live in America legally, but remain a communist, as he believed in his heart that capitalism was evil and that the communism was the truthful, fair, humanistic way that all people should live and share the wealth of the planet?  What if he wanted to live in America, enjoy the culture, but turn it one day into a communist country?  Would there be a problem here?\"\n\nActually, no!  As long as he limited himself to so believing and peacefully advocating, there WOULD NOT be a problem.  Frankly, it is the utter inability to comprehend what a representative republic is and is not that causes the Jews of the Holy Land to fail time and again.  There will never be a civilized Jewish State in Eretz Yisrael as long as this level of utter ignorance continues.");
AddReply(341450,"613 Laws, How many do the Orthodox really keep?","Tom Duregger","Garner, Iowa","09/09/08","One must keep in mind that much of Law is upkept by all. I think of the Laws regarding the Temple Sacrafices, Governmental, and Criminal Law.  Is there a listing somewhere of all the Laws that one does keep in order to consider themselves Orthodox or Torah Observant enough? Please help me out with this. ");
AddReply(341444,"Does this mean...?..","Rob","usa","09/09/08","Fred Sanford was Not jewish?");
AddReply(341425,"Yes and no","Sue","Cgo","09/09/08","Many years ago, when I moved from California to Illinois, I remember stopping at a red light and then continuing to make a right turn.\n\nOf couse, my luck, a policeman stopped me and gave me a ticket!\n\nWhy?  This was okay in California.  Why can\'t I do it here?\n\nI learned from that that if I wanted to be part of the Illini I had to follow the rules of the state of Illinois.\n\nFurniture, dress, etc. was also subtly different, but it was different and so I eventually \"converted\" and became a \"real\" Illinoisan.\n\nSo goes with those who want to become a Jew.  What went with you b.c. (before conversion) does not go after.  One converts (or moves from one state to another) and follows the laws of his/her new abode.\n\nHowever, it is hard for me to understand how a Jew (by virtue of being born to a Jewish mother) can be an anti-Semite, not only not believe in G-d but go out of his/her way to show disregard (such as davka bar b queing on Yom Kippur) can be considered Jewish, whereas a Gentile who converts to Conservative Judaism, following all its precepts, cannot.\n\nPerhaps you out there can explain.");
AddReply(341399,"One could think of it another way...","CDG","Yerushalayim","09/09/08","I loved seeing these people reading and singing in Hebrew, Jews or not. Like you, Tamar, I am not theatened by this. Could it be a harbinger of the redemption, when Hebrew will become the \"lingua franca\" of the world?\n\nAs far as whether the Black Israelites or the rest of us are the \"true Jews\" (first video) - I think, speaking as a true Jew but neither a rav nor other kind of leader of Jews, that I will leave this to haShem, Who tests us all. It could easily be \"âí æä åâí æä\". I\'m not so sure it\'s such a \"black or white\" issue (forgive me, I couldn\'t resist.). \n\nAll of us have been influenced to one degree or another by the galut. Could a divide between \"white Jews\" and \"black Jews\" (or fill in the quotation marks with putative Jews from other parts) be part of the result?\n\nShavua tov v\'chodesh tov. I hope you are feeling better.");
AddReply(341381,"Blog","T.","East Coast","09/09/08","I have been reading your [blog] and at times when I have a chance I try to hear your radio show. \n\nI am a baalat teshuva of some years living in the States. My husband and I are Aliyah minded though we know our time to make Aliyah has not arrived yet for various reasons. I just want to tell you that your blogs are so inspiring and I give you a kol h\'kavod for being brave enough to stand up and say what you say in defense of the Torah, Hashem and the Jewish people. \n\nToday\'s article about everyone wanting to proclaim themself Jewish in parts of the world was particularly praiseworthy on your part. The clip I watched on Obama\'s cousin in Chicago was particularly disturbing. I had thought he had converted and became an orthodox rabbi but now I see that isn\'t close to the case.\n\n Forget the lack of a mechitza [separation wall between men and women], women dressed completely immodest according to Jewish law, no kol isha observance (hearing a woman sing LIVE), and a myriad of other chillul Hashems [desecrations of G-d\'s name] to the practice of Torah Judaism replete in that sham of a setting I witnessed on the clip; I am disturbed by the fact that there is such a group and plenty others professing to be Jewish and practicing what they consider to be Yiddishkeite with what appears to be a great deal of zest and vigor, while there are unfortunately still so many Jews who don\'t know about Torah living in this country and around the world.\n\nMay Hashem speedily send moshiach and educate these people to do teshuva and reveal fraudulent Jewish wannabes for who they truly are--may true Torah Judaism envelop the world in its light. \n\nYou have helped Hashem on the course of the world leaning towards the eventual End of Days and the light of Judaism envelping the world. Kol Hakavod! Keep up the good work!     \n\n");
AddReply(341375,"Honoring the memory of Holocaust Jews","secret","secret","09/09/08","My grandparents were Holocaust survivors from Poland. Z\'l they are no longer with us, and out of respect for them and the ashes of all the family they lost in Poland during the war and their tumultuous experiences surviving the concentration camps, somehow finding each other, getting married, and coming to America after the war to build a new family and somehow try to preserve their Jewishness, I am highly offended by any remarks that European Jewry are not \"true Jews.\" The tradition is that Judaism is passed down through the mother, and generations of women in my family have claimed they are Jewish and there have been no recorded intermarriages on either my mom or dad\'s side. I am a baalat teshuva of four years and the only frum person in my family here in the States. I do have BH\" one baalat teshuva cousin in Israel.I am all for people wanting to practice Judaism, but it has to be genuine through the observance of the Torah.The Jewish nation has experienced intense suffering for centuries for our existence as Jews. To desecrate the memory of those who fought bravely or cruelly lost their lives in the Holocaust by saying they\'re not the true Jews is truly sad in  my eyes. The true Judge watches us all, and one day the truth will come out as to what each of us was responsible for doing in this world and what our true identities, Jewish or not, were in this world. ");
AddReply(341374,"AGENDA","","","09/09/08","There really is an Agenda here, promoted by certain powers that be whether through the erev rav, now ruling Israel, or christian (Vatican or Evangelical), all united for ONE main reason - to dejudaize Israel & to rid the world of the reall Jews; this is what is meant by the final war, where Amalek is battling G-D.  This has been the goal of Amalek from the beginning (the forces of evil).  What is mind boggling is that there are  rabbis in Israel who go along with this.  Rabbis DO NOT convert whole ommunities  Conversion is done on a  one to one  basis; meaning that a \"righteous convert\" is one that wants to, feels he needs to become a Jew & will not take NO for an answer.  Missionaries MUST be thrown out of Israel & all the non-Jews that were brought in from the former USSR (who are perpetrating anti-semitic acts in Israel). Otherwise, the situation will only get worse.  But this is really part of the last gasps of the galus, leading us to the ultimate geulah!  MAY IT BE IMMEDIATELY!");

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