Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sb1!mb2c!uofm-cv!don From: don@uofm-cv.UUCP (Donald C. Winsor) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Denominational differences? Message-ID: <516@uofm-cv.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 23:40:21 EST Article-I.D.: uofm-cv.516 Posted: Thu Mar 8 23:40:21 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 10:33:33 EST Lines: 27 +-------+ | GULP! | +-------+ >From Andy Tannenbaum: Realize that Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and the various sects of Chasidim practice the same Judaism 99 44/100 percent. When Ariel talks about "praying in Ashkenaz," it is true that there are slight differences in the order of the prayer (called the "nusach," should you ever run across the term), but all the important stuff is the same for all Jews. And the Torah is exactly the same for all Jews. There are no denominational differences as radical as the ones in Christianity. This puzzles me a little. While all Jews I have met (Conservative, Orthodox, Chasidim, Reform) certainly followed exactly the same Torah, the denominational differences stuck me as fairly radical. They seemed to be of the same general magnitude as the differences between members I have met of various Christian denominations all of which followed the same Christian Bible. Am I missing something, Andy, (or anyone else who can aid me in my confusion)? don