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Religion, and strict adherence to these laws by the general population, is a relatively late phenomenon. It only became as strict as it is now during the middle
by intellectronica 2y ago
Religion, and strict adherence to these laws by the general population, is a relatively late phenomenon. It only became as strict as it is now during the middle ages and more so in early modernity. Your Jewish friends are, to a large extent, a product of 18th-century Eastern European Jewish culture and Western / American homogenised understanding of religion.
- edgyquant 2y agoThis is entirely incorrect
- paride5745 2y agoIf this was the case, why Jewish practices from Eastern Europe and the Middle East/North Africa are so aligned? And even communities that are even further away like Ethiopia, Yemen, and India, are mostly following the same pattern? Modern Judaism is very much connected to the state of affairs of ancient Israel/Judah from 24 centuries ago.
- intellectronica 2y agoThey were not so aligned until the 20th-century when Jews from all communities mixed again. I am not disputing that Jewish practices today and for the last two millennia are connected to practices in Judea at the turn of the first millennium and to texts that had been written even earlier. What I'm saying is that strict and regulated adherence by large parts of the population came relatively late. That, as far as I can tell from the research, is not at all controversial.
- fortran77 2y agoWhat a racist comment. Jewish culture is not "european" culture.
- intellectronica 2y agoHow is it "racist"?! It's merely factual. Just before the holocaust, ~85% of Jews in the world were Ashkenazi Jews. The percentage among Jewish immigrants to America is even higher. That doesn't make the culture of Jews from other communities less valuable or worthy of appreciation, but it makes it less relevant for this particular sub-discussion.