Rockland Jewish Family Service

… and that there is a hidden message or meaning?

Jews can study the text of the Torah on four levels:

* Peshat, the plain (simple) or literal reading;
* Remez, the allegorical reading through text’s hint or allusion
* Derash, the metaphorical reading through a (rabbinic sermon’s) comparison/illustration (midrash)
* Sod, the hidden meaning reading through text’s secret or mystery

One level of meaning doesn’t negate any other.
The "stories" matter, however you choose to interpret them.

Adam and Eve at most represent mankind in the astrological age of Gemini The Twins… and that’s probably stretching it…. but Christians misrepresent the whole myth… the myth is about becoming a God, achieving enlightenment, not worshipping the authoritarian God that wants to keep you ignorant. The Serpent represents wisdom, knowledge, and freedom, Gnosis, achieved by inducing a shamanic out of body spiritual experience by eating an enlightening fruit. The bible is a bunch of astrological and shamanic myths… I can’t believe how gullible these people are… we’re definitely still in the dark ages.

jewish History – The Story of The Jewish People in The 20th Century. History of judaism.
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For example Christian Creation story,jewish creation story,Hindu creation story.

muslims and christians believe in adam and eve muslims call it adham and hawa. and they believe the same story except some differences.

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I don’t know the specifics of the Sumerian great flood but just because it was written first doesn’t mean the jewish story copied from it. The Sumerian story was probably the first widely know recorded version. I guess you could basically say that the Sumerian story was copyright infringement.

Rebbe Nachman Breslov jewish Torah Story of the Diamond

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I’ve heard stories that he was jewish as a child himself, I just want to know if this is true or not, and in no way is this meant to be racial or religious hate towards anyone.
To Hatikvah JPA,

My question in no way was ment to be, in any way again, offensive. I was clearing wondering the very possibility of him being Jewish. Why do I care? I love my fellow Jewish brothers and sisters, I however am a Christian, I may not be Jewish but I do however consider each person to be an equal of myself. I simply wanted to know the true religion of a man who should be and is damned a thousand times and casted into the deepest, darkest, most void, abyssal parts of hell. And, I’m only 15.

Why would you possibly care? Do you think it was Hitler himself that loaded the trains heading to the gas chambers? Do you think it was Hitler himself that went from house to house ordering Jews to clean their sidewalks — with their tongues? Do you think it was Hitler himself who did those medical experiments on twins?

Hitler may have been the leader in charge, but it wasn’t Hitler who committed the vast majority of atrocities. It was the common, mainstream German, Austrian, Pole, etc. and those who stood by in silence while those atrocities were being committed. Why does no one ever asks about *their* religion. What religion were the perpetrators? How can it be possible that so many people of *any* religion would commit those atrocities and/or stand by in silence while they were committed?
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DVD for sale at www.hineinithefilm.org

HINEINI (Hebrew for ‘Here I am’) chronicles the story of one student’s courageous fight to establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area and the transformative impact of her campaign on her entire community.

Longing to connect more deeply with her jewish identity, Shulamit Izen enters 9th grade at The New Jewish High School (now Gann Academy) in Waltham, Massachusetts. She also starts school as an out lesbian.

Using interviews with Shulamit, her family, teachers, and other students – both those who support her campaign and those who oppose it – the film allows the members of this community to tell their own stories. What emerges is a potent and inspiring story of Jewish pluralism and a community navigating the cross-currents of jewish tradition and social change.

Beyond the struggle to create a supportive environment for gay and lesbian students and teachers at the school, this is the story of a community wrestling with the very definition of pluralism and diversity in a Jewish context.

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Yes, I mean nagging or always seeing the negative in things and commenting on it.

Many jewish tales stand independent from the TANAK (Genesis – Deuteronomy, Prophets/History, Writings from Psalms to Chronicles) — by hypercritical do you mean "nagging"? Please re-post