Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: sex Message-ID: <1713@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 22:55:19 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1713 Posted: Sun Sep 15 22:55:19 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:25:21 EDT References: <1160@ihlpg.UUCP> <3780091@csd2.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 19 > Unfortunately somewhere along the last couple of centuries the vast > majority of Ashkenazim dropped out from the Jewish world and adopted > western ways. I think the corruption began when Ashkenazim adopted > some very explicit Christian practices many centuries ago. Then > Ashkenazim took the attitude that Yahudut was foremost a religion (as > David Sherman posted not so long ago). This attitude would have been > an anathema to all the great sages of the Sefardi world. What happens > when we come to an age like now when religion is not so important? > Most of the Jews become either Rosens or Harazduks. Go ahead, Yakky, tear your clothes. Mourn for us that we're no longer Jews. They're your clothes. Or is this a vusvusish Ashkenazi custom? For the last time, Yakky, tell us all why it is not YOU who has "dropped out of the Jewish world". Please. If all you can say is "that is not true because MY perspective is the only right one", after the laughter dies down, we'll begin talking about something else, perhaps. -- "Meanwhile, I was still thinking..." Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr