{"id":46115,"date":"2012-09-02T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46115"},"modified":"2012-09-02T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:16:14","slug":"orthodox-rabbi-attacks-belief-in-divine-nature-of-the-zohar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46115","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Rabbi Attacks Belief In Divine Nature Of The Zohar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video is a trip:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VbLuOM8F7Ps\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/seforim.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/concerning-zohar-and-other-matters.html\">Historian Marc B. Shapiro writes<\/a>: &#8220;I have no idea who the speaker is, and if he has ever even read a page of the Zohar, but he does seem very sure of himself. I have no objection to discussing the authorship of the Zohar and the ideas found there, or Kabbalah as a whole. However, I would think that a little humility is called for when discussing a discipline that was a basic part of the religious worldview of so many central figures. Do the names Nahmanides, R. Joseph Karo, or the Vilna Gaon mean anything to this speaker?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more information on the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>From his organization <A HREF=\"http:\/\/bejewish.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=137&#038;Itemid=57\">BeJewish.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Torah Judaism International was founded in 2011 by Rabbi Asher Meza of BeJewish.org as a one stop portal for everything educationally Jewish on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Torah Judaism International:<\/p>\n<p>is currently the only Orthodox organization in the world that actively encourages Jewish Conversion among the masses.<\/p>\n<p>Is currently the only Orthodox organization that teaches Judaism according to the rationalistic school of Jewish thought in contrary to the Neo Kabalistic ideologies in place today.<\/p>\n<p>Is an active counter Missionary organization eager to seek out new adherents from any religious group or secular movement.<\/p>\n<p>Is the only Orthodox organization with an international Halachic Conversion program.<\/p>\n<p>What works do we consider doctrinally relevant:<\/p>\n<p>The Tanach (The Torah, Prophets and the writings) (Completely Online)<\/p>\n<p>The Rambam\u2019s Sefer of Mitzvot (the Enumeration of the 613 commandments found in the Torah)  (Completely Online)<\/p>\n<p>The Rambam\u2019s Mishneh Torah (the Codification of the Decrees of the Sanhedrin and the Oral Law as found in the Talmud) (Completely Online)<\/p>\n<p>Recommended reading apart from the texts mentioned above:<\/p>\n<p>The nine questions people ask about Judaism<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Wisdom (Rabbi Joseph Telushkin)<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Liturgy (Rabbi Joseph Telushkin)<\/p>\n<p>Duties of the Heart<\/p>\n<p>Guide for the perplexed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is a trip: Historian Marc B. Shapiro writes: &#8220;I have no idea who the speaker is, and if he has ever even read a page of the Zohar, but he does seem very sure of himself. I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401,69,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabbalah","category-marc-b-shapiro","category-orthodoxy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46116,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46115\/revisions\/46116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}