Douglas Kaplan

Quest for Judaic Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Judaism is a religion.Jews are people.While the two are closely associated, they are, nevertheless, distinct entities. The Old Testament identifies a Jew as an individual who is a direct lineal descendant of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and, if male, they must be circumcised.The Jew acquires Jewish genetic identity at the moment of conception. That identity is not lost by conversion to another faith or adoption of atheism. A converted Jew who returns to Judaism is not obliged to convert back since that person never stopped being a Jew. Jewish genetic identity cannot be created or altered by conversion which simply involves religious instruction, blessings by a cleric, and immersion into a ritual bath.In the third century A.D., the rabbis altered the biblical source of Jewish identity from the Jewish male to the Jewish female causing abject retrospective and prospective confusion. Today, As a result of that change, a Jewish husband married to a gentle wife must procure a token, but ineffectual conversion for his wife, before childbirth, in order to maintain that his child was born Jewish.Without a verifiable identity, a person does not exist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781649797049
• ISBN-10: 1649797044
• Artikelnr.: 63466209

Autorenporträt

Douglas Kaplan was reared in a traditional (Orthodox) Jewish home. The accommodation to the tenets of his faith was simple. Like many religions, the rules comprised of a well-established array of dos and donts. At age 7, he was placed in a yeshiva (a Jewish Parochial School) where he was instructed on the sacred texts of Judaism. All of that material was presented to his class as if it were a dinner prepared by a divine chef whose menu was not subject to question. It was presented to be learned, often memorized, but rarely questioned. He was occupied with the practice of law for more than 60 years. Upon retirement, he set out to academically examine and digest the religious meal that was served to him in my early youth.