[Avodah] Hakheh ess shinnav

H Lampel via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Wed Apr 6 06:27:36 PDT 2016


I got a laugh from Larry's responses:

>From 
http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2016/04/05/weekly-digest-news-and-essays-in-and-out-of-orthodoxy-week-of-parshas-tazria-5776/

  ...Dr. Steven Bayme, who has emerged recently as the primary spokesman 
for PORAT...validates Biblical Criticism even when it negates parts of 
the Torah.... Snippet:

''Did Moses actually write that Abraham pursued his foes until 'Dan' in 
order to rescue Lot (Gen. 14:14), or was the place name a later 
editorial insert to indicate what by then had become a well-known 
locale?  Were there two “Yairs” who each happened to have conquered 30 
villages in the Bashan 200 years apart (Deut. 3:14; Judg. 10:3-4) or was 
this but one incident occurring later but inserted retrospectively into 
the Book of Numbers as a subsequent epilogue of the war with Bashan?''
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larry rothenberg

April 5, 2016 at 5:30 pm

Steve Bayme, 3000 years from now – ''Were there really two presidents 
named Bush, a father and son, who both went to war with an Iraqi 
dictator named Saddam Hussein? or was this but one incident occurring 
later but added retrospectively into American history textbooks as a 
subsequent epilogue of the war with Iraq?''
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Naftali

April 5, 2016 at 12:48 pm

In the offending ''snippet'' all Dr Bayme does is raise questions. Is 
the mere asking of questions now considered unOrthodox? in which case, 
what does an Orthodox Seder look like?

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larry

April 5, 2016 at 3:46 pm

The answer depends on whether you are a chacham or a rasha.
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