The Kabalah of Sin

yeah, I too don't eat or at least try not to eat pork. you know what, dear Jewish sages? if you could establish such order of things where kosher food would be the prevalent part of assortment broadly available and affordable, then it'd not be a problem for millions more people to keep kosher. but for that, we'd need to be much more numerous that we actually are and perhaps than the rest of population we live next to; essentially we'd have to be the majority. a chance of that existed a couple grand years ago and actually exists even today, but you always have to instead choose 'fewer but better' option, so you'll have to put up with the fact that so many of us don't keep 'real' kosher and satisfy with kind of 'playing' it. Reply

That was interesting. I like Rabbi Kaplan's teaching style. Lots of good food for thought. Reply

The ateists motivation I think you neglected the importance of the question concerning moral motivation for a atheists. In fact I think its quite unselfish and admirable of people to act moraly (sometimes against there own best) without any expections of rewards or without fear of punishment. The just do it just because a deed is good. In fact this might support a an idae of universal values in moral acts that is beyond human conventions. That said, im not an atheist myself but im interetsted in philosophical core questions and I appreciate and admire judaism for its openness in discourse and for its emphasisi of spiritual matter in a word were rationality has shown to have its limits. Reply

Todah Ravah I did not realize I am having a one on one personal relationship with G-d. I was offen trying to do Mitzvot because of fear of punishment, or because of reward I may get. But as you said those actions are self-serving. I did not realize the fact... I will try to focus on this one on one personal relationship with G-d. Reply