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To extend on parent comment: What you call "circumvent your religion's practices", ie building complicated logical arguments or creating new categories and dist
by Shalomm 12y ago
To extend on parent comment: What you call "circumvent your religion's practices", ie building complicated logical arguments or creating new categories and distinctions to re-interpret existing law is considered as a significant part of Jewish religion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud#Pilpul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud#Pilpul
In that aspect, Judaism is very different from, say, Christianity.
- ZanyProgrammer 12y agoExcept for Karaites who don't believe in the Talmud or Oral Torah.
- ZanyProgrammer 12y agoOr quite a few Jews who lived prior to the invention of Rabbinic Judaism.
- ZanyProgrammer 12y agoWell (and I hate reply spamming here but I keep thinking of new things) The Talmud and Mishnah were written hundreds of years after the birth of Jesus. And in the first century, the Pharisees (or proto-Rabbinics, or whatever) were only one sect amongst many. So yes, Christianity followed on a different path than Judaism.
- _pius 12y agoI hate reply spamming here but I keep thinking of new things Just as a heads up, you can edit your comments within a certain window of time.
- maaku 12y agoThe Jerusalem church, maybe, which didn't survive 70 CE. Modern Christianity descends from Paul and was pretty much made up in a very significant break from Jewish tradition.
- ZanyProgrammer 12y agoTrue, that makes (most forms) of Christianity today cousins to Rabbinic Judaism, as opposed to siblings (like early Judeo-Christianity and its extinct descendants-Ebionites, Nazarenes, etc).