Today Fox News Commentator Glenn Beck suggested that September 28th of this year, be a day of fasting and prayer for his supporters, the September 28th/Tea Baggers. He is free to do that, but that date is already scheduled for fast and prayer, it is called Yom Kippur. As a Jew, I know what I am going to be doing that day, but does this mean that all these people are going to convert????
>>Leave it to someone like him to try to co-opt one of the holiest days of the Jewish year.
In looking up his own faith background, it appears he was raised Roman Catholic, but became a Mormon years later with his second wife. I don't know if he's still active in the LDS now.<<
I found out that the Tweet was over the weekend, but he discussed it on his program today, I am told. I don’t watch Fox at all. Is Beck going to send his reporters into Shuls and claim that we are all supporters? He might have problems with this because 1) he would be asked to leave, and 2) 78% of Jews voted for Barack Obama in the last election. I am claiming that he is planning on converting to Judaism.
BTW, where is Irv when we need him?
>>My life has been a little busy with other things and my seeders seem to be fewer and fewer each month. <<
Oh, how did you know I am a sucker for the little ones. What a darling little one.(g)
I couldn’t resist the Beck thing. It was on Countdown and they showed a clip of Beck selling this. Am I wrong here, but is that weird, or weird?????
>>I blame ignorance, perhaps arrogance, as the reason for the date chosen by Beck.
What he does next, for example apologize, will be a sign of his character. <<
Mel,I thought he didn’t know what the date was too, but in his clip from his show, he mentioned Yom Kippur, he said something like the Founders of the Republic had a national day of fasting and prayer when we declared our Independence. Hmmm, the holiest day of the Jewish Religion, and he is trying to make a political football out of it. Doesn’t sit well with me, but I don’t like Beck anyway, he is too divisive.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.--P. J. O'Rourke
In looking up his own faith background, it appears he was raised Roman Catholic, but became a Mormon years later with his second wife. I don't know if he's still active in the LDS now.<
BTW, where is Irv when we need him?<
I don't watch Glenn Beck either though I do watch the news on FOX because they broacast the truth rather than the approved Riyadhian version. I don't trust guys like Beck.
Irv
>>I don't watch Glenn Beck either though I do watch the news on FOX because they broacast the truth rather than the approved Riyadhian version. I don't trust guys like Beck.<<
So, what should the Jewish attitude be towards this nonsense? If, as you say, non Jews can be killed for celebrating Shabbat, what happen with Yom Kippur?
>>I don't watch Glenn Beck either though I do watch the news on FOX because they broacast the truth rather than the approved Riyadhian version. I don't trust guys like Beck.<
So, what should the Jewish attitude be towards this nonsense? If, as you say, non Jews can be killed for celebrating Shabbat, what happen with Yom Kippur?<
The answer to your question really revolves around the ouropose of the Fast. If it is to observe Yom Kippur, the non-Jew is guilty of trying to follow the Torah. If it is for other purposes, then, he probably isn't guilty. In nay case such a snetence is not carried out against a non-Jew by Jews. It is carried out by Hashem himself who clearly made the distinction between Jews and non-Jews.
>>The answer to your question really revolves around the ouropose of the Fast. If it is to observe Yom Kippur, the non-Jew is guilty of trying to follow the Torah. If it is for other purposes, then, he probably isn't guilty. In nay case such a snetence is not carried out against a non-Jew by Jews. It is carried out by Hashem himself who clearly made the distinction between Jews and non-Jews.<<
Maybe if people fasted and prayed, the hatred in the world would disappear.
>>Maybe if people fasted and prayed, the hatred in the world would disappear.<<
Isn't it implicit within your comment that if people believed in a monotheistic religion where there is one true God, and practiced what is taught within that spiritual tradition, e.g., fasting and prayer, then hatred in the world would disappear?
Or am I misunderstanding your comment?
--John
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