What is up with the little curlie q's that orthodox jewish men have?
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The Bible specifically says, Do not cut the corners of your beard.\n\n        Leviticus 21:5  .....neither shall they shave off \n        the corner of their beard....\n\nand so the very Orthodox let that part of the beard grow out...
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L-O-L!!!\nI am Muslim and I fell off the chair laughing my head off at that one.\nI know what you mean.But that doesn't happen.\nSorry,give me a min,I'm still laughing.\nNo,they remove something from the baby boys when they are born.\nWe just discussed that in Biology and I only know the name of the part they remove from the Penis in German.\nIt's a bit of extra skin that's there.They do it,because that part usually keeps bacteria and viruses underneath it.\nIt's a health precaution.
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There are plenty of roads that all lead to the airport.  Churches can maintain theirs was is the only way, but most thinking people quickly realize that it makes no logical sense that a devout practioner of another faith who has lead a good, pious life is any less worthy than someone in their own congregation who did the same - even if there are slight variations in their beliefs.  Religions are man made and therefore are prone to mistake.\n\nThe example you provide are very different.  One is a commandment - and frankly those seem very clear.  The other is an interpreted excerpt from one of the books of the Bible.  I haven't looked up that particular issue, but I did do a thorough search for premarital sex.  I looked very hard in several different versions and the best that I could find is you should not behave immorally in regard to pre-marital sex.  Well I think different people would interpret that differently.  (King James seems much more conservative, NIV I understand was a very scholarly undertaking going back to the original old Hebrew)\n\nInterestingly there were more passages than I could count about not committing adultry.  Also interesting was the from version to version the interpretation of the old Hebrew was mildly different, but they were important differences.  \n\nMy final conclusion is that if you find a single one or two references it may not be a very important point.  If you find multiple references and/or its in the commandments, it is much clearer.
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Yes, Jewish women cut their hair.  Some like it short, some long, it's a personal choice.  Some observant Orthodox Jewish women, cover some or all of their hair after they get married.\nSome Orthodox Jewish women wear slacks, but many only wear skirts.  Most Jewish women, however, are not Orthodox, and wear slacks - if they like wearing slacks.\nAccording to Jewish Law men, and maybe women, have to pray three times a day.  Orthodox men are supposed to  pray with a minyan - a quorum of ten men, and so go to synagogue three times a day. \nI don't know whether Jews sing the way Christians do.  Jewish prayer services on Shabbat - the Sabbath - generally involve a lot of singing, especially on Friday night.  There's also a lot of singing on holidays, and there are a lot of Jewish holidays.  There's isn't really that much singing during weekday prayer services, but when you pray a fixed prayer three times a day, that would probably be a bit much.
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It is an age-old Jewish custom to refrain from cutting a boy’s hair until he is three years old. On the boy’s third Jewish birthday it is customary for the parents to invite friends and relatives to participate in an “Upsherin” ceremony, where each of the assembled guests is given a scissor and is invited to participate in the haircut by cutting off a hair lock. The Upsherin marks the commencement of the child’s formal education. Care is taken to leave the child’s payot intact, thus initiating him in the ways of G-d’s commandments. After the Upsherin, the child is taught to wear a kipah and tzitzit, and is slowly trained to recite blessings and the Shema.\n\nAfter the Upsherin, the child is taught to wear a kipah and tzitzit, and is slowly trained to recite blessings and the Shema\n\nThe Torah says that “a person is [compared to] the tree of the field” (Deuteronomy 20:19). Just as it is forbidden to benefit from the produce of a tree for the first three years after it is planted, so too we do not cut a boy’s hair until he is three years old. From the fourth year and onwards we begin to enjoy the fruit of the tree; and from this point onwards the world begins to benefit from the Torah and mitzvot of a young child.
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I hope no-one takes offence to your question. It is a valid one and you clearly state this as a generalisation and obviously understand that there is a huge variation in jewish appearance, but yes, there is some characturistics that are considered 'jewish'.\n\nI think it is as someone has already said, there is a geographical orrigination and historically jews have not married out of religion, although this is of course a generalisation in its self. So the gene pool has largely remained intact. Obviousy the genes for those characturistics have been carried through the generations and not been widely circulated among other religious backgrounds. Although again I stress those characturistics are not exclusively jewish and intermarriage has scattered them about into other cultures too.\n\nPerhaps even, many of those characturistic genes are recessive, and therefore generally appear in the more pure jewish families than the ones of more mixed race. \n\nBut I do dissagree with about the 'christian' look. I'm sure out of a line up of jews, christians, muslims, hindus, buddists and many other religions, that someone could pick out a christian. Generally speaking of course. I'm sure we could also find many traditianaly jewish or traditionally muslim looking people and actually find that thay are infact christian or buddist.
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It is a Christian legend. The Wandering Jew, also known as Ahasverus or Buttadaeus, was given the curse of immortality. Ahasverus, was either a porter in Pilate's service, or an officer of the Sanhedrim (an order of Jewish priests); in other versions, he is merely a shoemaker with a quick temper. \n\nWhatever his origins, all version of his tale agree that the Wandering Jew soon repented of his sins and was baptized Catholic. He grows old in the normal fashion until reaching one hundred whereupon he sheds his skin and rejuvenates to the age of thirty. The Middle Ages abound with sightings of the Wandering Jew, generally telling his story in turn for meager food and lodging, sometimes even undergoing tests of authenticity by local professors and academic figures. Encounters with the Wandering Jew occurred all throughout Europe - during the Middle Ages, there were sightings in Armenia, Poland, Moscow, and virtually every Western European city including London. \n\nBy the 19th century, sightings of the Wandering Jew were largely attributed to imposters and madmen. In the 1840's, he reappeared in New England, although this time only in literary form, in Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Virtuoso's Collection and A Select Party (both stories originally published in magazines but later collected in Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846). In both stories, Hawthorne departs from the traditional depiction of the Wandering Jew as a world-weary penitent and instead outlines more of a cynical, earthy figure. At the same time, Gustave Dore created a series of elegent woodcuts, The Legend of the Wandering Jew (1856), probably the finest portrayal of the traditional myth. \n\nI doubt if there is any truth to it. Read the FAQ below:
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the sites posted by the first person, those have always seemed rather conservative to me, Conservative Judaism that is, which is an offshoot of Reformism.  I could be wrong about that though.  And i might even be getting it confused with another webpage that looks similar.\n\nhttp://www.torah.org/\n\nI have a couple friends on paltalk i can ask for some good sites, sadly to say, since my computer got fried, i have not had a chance to get all the web pages back.
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http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm
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It's the Jews that rock while reading the Torah. Haven't noticed Muslims doing it, happy to be corrected.
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I am an Orthodox Jew and did a quick check on a few of my books.  The one thing I cannot find is any link between that kind of symbol and Judaism.  It was not used by any of the 12 tribes or any of the various Kings of Israel.\n\nIt doesn't meant here isn't any (I am no authority on this matter), but I cannot find one.  Maybe something more local to you and the area though.  Another option is that it is merely decorative- especially if it is an oriental dragon, orientalism has come and gone in fashion.  (A sudden thought- he wasn't originally Welsh was he?  It is a slim chance, I know)
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Meshuggah has been done.\nWhat about the Kosher Kids?  Kosher Killers?  Yeshivah Yah-Yah?  the Dreidel Spinners?  Bar Mitzvah Boys?  Bar Mitzvah Badasses?  Rabbi Rangers?  Rabbinical Radicals?  Rabbis Rock?  The Schmoikels?  Oy Vey!
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I think they are all rolling in the hay with their animals. One person claims to be a "Jew" the next is a "Muslim" the next is a "Christian" \nThe only thing that makes them different is whether they cut their beards or not.
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The ones you mentioned all fall under the umbrella term of "Orthodox" or religious.  And they are the only ones who cover their hair when married. There are some "Modern Orthodox" women who don't cover their hair.  \nthe covering can be a hat or kerchief too, not necessarily a wig and some only cover their hair when they are out in public or are in the presence of a man other than their husband.
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It's a religious custom; a "good Jew" like Jesus would be circ'd.  It's a health issue in countries where there are tons of other health issues; circucisionis the least of their worries.  It's not commonly done in western Europe, and in the US recently the rate is only about 50% of newborn boys.\n\nInsurance won't cover it any more.  It's unnecessary.
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B"H\nFrom what I've learned of the Jewish concept of angles, they do not have free will.  They work like a vacuume cleaner or a toaster.  They have a job; they do it.\n\nThey also aren't considered to have any flexibility when it comes to performing anything outside of their given task.\n\nFor example, 3 angles came to Avraham: 1 to heal him from his circumcision, 1 to destroy Soddom, and 1 to tell him about the birth of Yitzchak (the angel sent to destroy Soddom did not have the ability to talk to Avraham about Yitzchak any more than a toaster can suck the dirt out of your carpet).\n\nFinally, minor deities are subject to worship, while angels are not to be worshipped at all; and demig-ds are above mankind while angels fall below mankind in status.\n\nAs for "Why does GD need angels?" He doesn't, but SOME method had to be chosen, and that's what He chose.  I would guess that it has to do with modesty/privacy.  According to what I've learned in my studies of Judaism, GD is said to keep all the commandments, and in fact, some of the Jewish commandments (hospitality for example) are derived from the commandment to "walk in the way of GD".  So, just as we are to be modest, GD is modest.  Gd obviously can't wear clothing, so modesty as it relates to Gd is in executing miracles through nature (etc.).
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It's pretty lame. I hope some of them just don't realize they're doing it. If they think it's okay, they need an attitude check.\n\nSome of the Church has been changing, but for a long time, that mentality seemed entrenched in the culture -- "Good people," they thought, "do this, and dress like this, and go to church on Sundays rather than work for money," and so on. If you didn't conform to their standard, you were someone who was either looked down on or considered to not be "quite as good" or "religious" as them.\n\nWhat's funny is that Jesus habitually hung with tax collectors (who were basically Jewish turncoats, helping the Romans collect tax so they could skim money off their own countrymen), and prostitutes, and people normally considered "unclean" by the Jews (skin diseases, etc.) -- so much so that he was put down by his own people for doing it. He was associating with people they thought were "bad."\n\nThe thing is, Jesus actually seemed to enjoy hanging out with these so-called "non-religious folk" and wasn't doing it just out of lip service. He actually seemed to get a kick out of it and love being with them, despite the fact they might not have been living the way he thought they should live. He actually loved them and enjoyed them as people.\n\nThat's the big lesson much of the Church is still trying to learn.\n\nSorry that my brothers and sisters are acting in such a way that leaves you all feeling left out in the cold...