I'm still not sure I understand you. Do you think it was about the "stock" or about the commandments, during exodus? What about the health...
The Mixed Multitudes were there at the very beginning, they followed Moses along with the Children of Israel, according to Exodus. I find this...
I knew there was a rational explanation :D
Numbers 335-345 from the list I posted above, prohibit various forms of sorcery and magic. I think something is lost here in translation, in...
But then what about the mixed multitudes? I get it that you like your idea about a tighly organized endogamous confederation of tribes, described...
You might want to read back a bit in a thread you're responding to. You know, for context. Also, since you encourage readers to read your blog &...
My context is this thread, which is about the Two Truths, abd Maro also popped up. And you brought up Spirit with an S, and non-dual poetry. If I...
I'm referring to this: In what way is that not a duality? I'm not trying to trick you, this paradox is at the heart of the thing. Expressed...
So spirits are worldly in your usage. I'll keep that in mind when reading your verses. Next question, how isn't the difference between worldly...
I get it, but let me stick to it a little bit longer. If Māro is not Spirit but a spirit, he's still not physical, not "flesh", right? So are...
Nice one! Tell you a secret, I think adherents of all faiths continually fail to live up to their ideals and precepts. But then, I'm a strange...
The flesh? Mārā appears as a spirit, in the Sutras. As does Satan, in the Gospels.
Thanks, to both of you, @Ella S. and @Geoffrey. I like the verses. The Dhammapada seems to be in the ancestry mix there :) Is renunciation an...
Me too. Do you still think these laws were about some form of genetic purity?
Goes without saying, I was not implying that. By the way, I think Exodus mentions that a number of people who were not Children of Israel left...
The Truth may be hard or as good as impossible to put into words, but what can be expressed perfectly well are "how to" instructions: practices,...
I agree that the story of Ruth and the accound of the Exodus are about very different communities. But, as portrayed in the Bible, in both cases...
So you see it as a decline from a "golden age" ideal state of affairs?
The text says she was Moabite, I think. The Moabite kingdom was frequently at war with the Israelite kingdom(s), according to the historical texts...
Agreed!
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