stillsmallvoice
August 17th 2003, 06:07 AM
Hi all!
Yesterday, we (Jews all over the world) will read the weekly Torah portion of Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25. Deuteronomy 10:12-13 summarizes the essence of Judaism & our/my relation to God.
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul; to keep for your good the precepts of the Lord and His statutes, which I command you this day?
As a(n orthodox) Jew, God, to me, means love, an overwhelming love, that He loved/s us so much that He has given us His precept-filled, eternal Torah as the guide on how He wants us to lead our lives. Everything stems from this. He sent us judges & prophets, whose books, along with the Torah, make up the Tanakh (what we call what Christians call the "Old Testament"), as a further expression of that love.
Be well!
ssv :hi:
Yesterday, we (Jews all over the world) will read the weekly Torah portion of Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25. Deuteronomy 10:12-13 summarizes the essence of Judaism & our/my relation to God.
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul; to keep for your good the precepts of the Lord and His statutes, which I command you this day?
As a(n orthodox) Jew, God, to me, means love, an overwhelming love, that He loved/s us so much that He has given us His precept-filled, eternal Torah as the guide on how He wants us to lead our lives. Everything stems from this. He sent us judges & prophets, whose books, along with the Torah, make up the Tanakh (what we call what Christians call the "Old Testament"), as a further expression of that love.
Be well!
ssv :hi: