<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 11, 2008 11:06 AM, <<a href="mailto:JoshHoff@aol.com">JoshHoff@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Rabbi Belsky has been very outspoken about these kinds of
practices,viewing them, at best,as dishonest money-making
schemes,and,at worse, as close to avodah zarah, IIRC. He expressed these views
at his end-of-the -summer sessions in which he answered
questions on all 4 sections of Shulchan Aruch at the
Bostonner Beis Medrash in Flatbush.They can be heard
on tapes of these shiurim marketed by Irgun Shiurei Torah . I do
not recall that he discussed it this past year,but I think he did each of the
two previous years.</div></font></div></blockquote><div><br>A guest poster Reform jew on Avodah about 10+ years ago stated that while Reform is certainly challengd by Shemiras Shabbos etc. that AZ mamash is MORE likley in the Orthodox community
<br></div></div><br>I used to debate people about this;<br>Reform accept kabals Ol Malchus Shamayim but reject Ol Mitzvos<br>Orthodox accept both<br>But nowadays there seem to be many types of Jews who accept ol Mitzvos but have chas vshalom rejected Monotheism...
<br><br>Examples: Praying to avos at kever Avos<br>Praying to malachim<br>etc.<br><br>I take no joy in saying this stuff [tof'sei Torah lo yeda'uni] <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">
RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>