VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Stonyground|DATE|1361562787|CONTENT|I think that these Jewish rituals are interesting because they were a way for these people to maintain their identity over more than a thousand years of being stateless. The thing that Rabbi Sacks doesn&#039;t seem to understand is that these things maybe central to the lives of many Jewish people, but they are of only minor interest to the rest of us. For that reason I would say that it would have been OK for him to have raised the subject once and shared his thoughts on it. The problem is that he has been repeating himself now for years.

I would be interested to know how many Jewish people notice that there are rather a lot of holes in the plot of the passover story. Since they read through it every year they must surely be aware of the already dead livestock being brought undercover to escape the hail, being inflicted with boils and then killed again just to make sure. When Pharoah&#039;s army persued the Israelites into the desert, what was he using to pull the chariots, husky dogs? |EMAIL|elizabeth@iww1967.wanadoo.co.uk|IP-ADDRESS|95.150.29.96|MODERATIONFLAG|