Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!acf4!axm9839 From: axm9839@acf4.UUCP (Asher Meth) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Assertions of jewishness by reform and Conservative Jews (long) Message-ID: <160@acf4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 20:52:17 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.160 Posted: Mon Jun 4 20:52:17 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 05:47:17 EDT References: eosp1.890 <285@wxlvax.UUCP>, <312@masscomp.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 23 Yom sheini leparshas beha-alosecha, 4 SIVAN 5744, 48 days in the Omer. Andy Tannenbaum writes : >Well, let me be quite explicit. Judaism teaches that God gave >>>(taught) Moses the Torah when Moses went up Mount Sinai for 50 days.<<< >God dictated, Moses recorded. If that's what you meant by "written by >man," then you sure said it in a misleading way. Andy !! I'm surprised at you. You should NOT have made that mistake !!! That 50 should be 40 days and 40 nights. The number 50 is one off of 49, which is the number of days we count between Pesach and Shavous - the period of time between leaving Mitzrayim (Egypt) and its enslavement, and our receiving of the Torah at Har Sinai (Mount Sinai). A Gutten Yom-Tov to one and all. May we all be zocheh to the geulah sheleimah, bimheirah beyameinu amein. Asher Meth allegra!cmcl2!acf4!axm9839