Exhibit "A" --last year he gave $100,000 to Jewish charities nd schools...HE eats pork.is not shomer shabbos =a very seculr jew...thinks God is a myth,but loves his people --the Jews.
Exhibit "B" - he doesn`t eat pork or shellfish
(they disgust him) but he loves cheesburgers (100% beef only) at resturants ,is not shommer shabbos but keeps a kosher home goes to synagogue on the 3 Festival Holidays +High Holidays and for his Father`s Yahrzheit obligation.He reads voraciously on jewish history and archeloogy and current affais of Israel and Jewish issues.
Exhibit "C" Extremely Frun Haredi -observes all the rules in strictest orthodoxy ...believes in a Messiah,a Judgement Day and Heaven (with God) and a form of Hell (without God for eternity) --all these arguably NOT promised by God in the Tanakh ...
Jews are of all types --good,bad,or in the middle,secular to half-way to fully observant,knowledgeble or delusional,compliant to rabbinical "authority` OR challenging it... |
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