{"id":20694,"date":"2010-07-04T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T05:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20694"},"modified":"2010-07-09T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T23:19:07","slug":"sunday-night-torah-talk-with-tikkun-torah-columnist-dr-mark-kirschbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20694","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night Torah Talk With Tikkun Torah Columnist Dr. Mark Kirschbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read Dr. Kirschbaum&#8217;s work <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.tikkun.org\/index.php?topic=torah_commentary\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Certain people used the work of a 19th Century Hasidic rebbe to hit on girls. We discuss using God to pick up chicks.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.tikkun.org\/article.php?story=20090717150114194\">Dr. Kirschbaum&#8217;s essay Biblical epic and personal narrative, as inspired by the Torah portions of Matot and Masei<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zm8ToH-8qMY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zm8ToH-8qMY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QuCu5u4ed-k&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" 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value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h6Ay0iv198U&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matot\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/Images\/photos\/matot.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nMoses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianites (1650 painting by Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During our discussion of this week&#8217;s two Torah portions (<A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matot\">Maatot<\/a> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masei\">Masei<\/a>), a sublime discussion dominated my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/yourmoralleader.camstreams.com\/\">live cam chat room<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>guest22:  this &#8216;moral leader&#8217; a reformed p*** king?<br \/>\nguest22:  what a bunch of bs<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:  hi<br \/>\nguest22:  why not celeb rate our countries freedom?<br \/>\nguest22:  yes you look SO TRANSFORMED!<br \/>\nguest22:  Jesus is alive and lives in each of us<br \/>\nguest19:  lol<br \/>\nguest22:  this is absolute nonsense<br \/>\nguest19:  Let&#8217;s celebrate slavery and native american genocide!<br \/>\nUser guest19 changed their name to SpaceMan.<br \/>\nUser guest22 changed their name to Chicago.<br \/>\nChicago:  Similar L.A. and Tel Aviv?  are you in your right mind?<br \/>\nChicago:  why don&#8217;t you talk about current relevant matters in the u.s.?<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Chicago, if your gonna troll then get out.  We&#8217;re trying to study Torah, we don&#8217;t heckle your idola worshipping cracker eating fests.<br \/>\nChicago:  you must have been looking for them then, never saw that in spain.<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  So please extend us the same courtesy.<br \/>\nChicago:  this is a free country still,<br \/>\nChicago:  freedom of speech right?<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Yeah, but your just making yourself look pathetic.<br \/>\nChicago:  then ban me!!<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Nothing else to do?  No fireworks to crackle?<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Get a life bro.<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:  i love u guys<br \/>\nChicago:  you my friend are the pathetic one if you believe in all of this babble<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Oh yes, I believe in the world&#8217;s first montheistic faith where yours and all the rest got their good ideas from.<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  You worship a zombie.<br \/>\nChicago:  What the heck are you talking about?  You are calling Christ a Zombie?  How have you been brainwashed?<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Dude dies, gets up three days later<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  I mean thats what happened in all those zombie movies<br \/>\nChicago:  My faith doesn&#8217;t call others negative tghings<br \/>\nChicago:  you believe in movies?<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  You just got done talking smack and calling this stuff drivel<br \/>\nChicago:  true faith you believe in what is not seen, but what you believe<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  So, uhm, your faith obviously does.<br \/>\nChicago:  why don&#8217;t you just be quiet and listen to this<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  You also ritually cannibalize ur zombie gods blood and body, just like zombies urself.<br \/>\nChicago:  what causes you to be so cruel?<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Also, you guys aren&#8217;t too big on thinking and independant thought.<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Zombianity<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Maybe Im tired of ignorant zombies breaking up what should a holy thing.<br \/>\nChicago:  if you&#8217;re tired, go to sleep, free country and we can do what we want and think what we want and say what we want<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Then I can call your false zombie god what he is.<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Wouldn&#8217;t u rather go in a chat with your fellow zombie worshippers?  Why mess with us?<br \/>\nChicago:  don&#8217;t you want to be educated about all?<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Isnt 2,000 years of pogroms, inquisitions, and holocausts enough?<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  I know your religion and so does everyone else.<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  Your religion is really not all that complex.  It&#8217;s for idiots.<br \/>\nChicago:  you&#8217;ve been alive for 2000 years?  dude you need to let it go already<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  I know your religion.  Quite well.<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  I know your religion.<br \/>\nChicago:  i don&#8217;t have a &#8216;religion&#8217; i have faith. i don&#8217;t pretend to know yours either.  why don&#8217;t you just listen and learn something and expand your horizons.<br \/>\nChicago:  jews are gods chosen people.  jesus was a jew<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  And we are discussing what G-d handed down to His people.<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  And you mock it.<br \/>\nChicago:  sir, you are so close minded, to think i am mocking it.  you have been nothing but rude<br \/>\nSpaceMan:  So, you worship a jewish zombie then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Dr. Kirschbaum&#8217;s work here. Certain people used the work of a 19th Century Hasidic rebbe to hit on girls. We discuss using God to pick up chicks. 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