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Can you give me the jist of what he is singing about?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GrkzUYuTf7E

I read it on a religious website.

During a leap year another month of Adar is added in and Purim is observed in the second month of Adar. Why the second and not the first one? The second one is the one that is tacked on and why is Adar added instead of another month? If you are born during Adar, do you celebrate your birthday twice in a leap year?

Does their Hebrew name include their father's last name or will it be Abraham and Sarah?

Do they just say No I won't do it and wait until the person leaves and that is considered one time?

I am interested in converting to Judaism and I know Orthodox Judaism considers itself the only authentic branch of Judaism.

I have even had Reform Jews tell me only Orthodox conversions are legal but they are practicing Reform Judaism rather than being Orthodox. So why do you do it if you believe that it is true? Were you born a Jew and then decided it was not for you? Is it because you believe Orthodox takes things too far? If you are Orthodox currently, did you used to be Reform or Conservative, and what made you change your mind?

Isn't this idolatry? Where is the chair kept? Are families required to have one? Are there more traditions like this?

"While the circumcision is performed, the child is held by a person called a sandak. In English, this is often referred to as a godfather. It is an honor to be a sandak for a brit. The sandak is usually a grandparent or the family rabbi. Traditionally, a chair (often an ornate one) is set aside for Elijah, who is said to preside over all circumcisions. " http://www.mechon-mamre.org/jewfaq/birth.htm

I read this http://www.asknoah.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=3... Post #2

I was wondering if this is a widely accepted view?

"In a similar way, we find cases in Jewish Torah Law where an animal dedicated for sacrifice becomes unfit for the Temple alter, but yet we are not allowed to redeem it or benefit from it in any way, so it is put out in a field and not fed, and it is left there to die on its own.

Aside from the uncommon issue of unfit unredeemable sacrificial animals, if one was to actively kill an animal not for the use of its hide or flesh, etc., but just for the sake of killing it to put it out of its misery with no material benefit to a human, then one has transgressed on being wasteful by destroying one of G-d's creations wantonly."

I have read that they get an equal reward and have read that Jews get more for all the more laws they observe. So which one do you believe?

"The Jew and the non-Jew who observe their respective commandments have both equally fulfilled their mission in life, and are both equally deserving of their reward. However, it is certain that the observance of the additional Mitzvot makes the mission more difficult, and as the adage goes "the greater the difficulty the greater the reward"." http://www.askmoses.com/article.html?h=541&o=387

I just read this on Ask Moses http://www.askmoses.com/article.html?h=541&o=387 and wondered if it was widely accepted in Judaism. So to be a good Noahide you don't even need to believe in God, pray, or do good works? Just refrain from doing bad? And establish laws and courts, isn't that what the Jewish court the Sanhedrin is for?

"In fact, a non-Jew who studies and observes the Noahide Commandments is equal to the High Priest who enters the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur.

These are the Seven Laws:

1. Not to worship idols.

2. Not to blaspheme.

3. Not to murder.

4. Not to steal.

5. Not to be involved in illicit sexual behavior (adultery, incest, homosexuality, etc.).

6. Not to eat the limb of a living creature [not to be cruel to animals].

7. To establish courts of justice to enforce these laws."

Christians believe Jesus annulled all of the Jewish laws so why do you guys follow them, being Christians?

Are you from a real Jewish background that half converted to Christianity?

When are you supposed to use א (aleph) as opposed to ע (ayin)? They are both silent?

Also when are you supposed to use ב (vet) as opposed to ו(vav)? They are both for the letter V?

And ס (samech) as opposed to ש (sin)?

And ט (tet) as opposed to ת (tav)?

What is the difference? Will it form a completely different word if I use the wrong hebrew letter when spelling even though they are the same sound?

For example, if a Jewish baby was adopted by a family that ate pork everyday and never prayed? I know once you're Jewish you're in it forever?

I don't understand how they can be different.

What if they were in a different country and didn't know how their kashrut laws operated?

Do you just eat fruit and vegetables?

They have to take Fridays and Saturdays off, they also have to take off for Holidays. Have you found your job to be accommodating?

Do you go to Israel every year and for how long?

Why did Satan try to stop Abraham by turning into a river if God told Abraham to? Isn't that going against God? Is this even a Jewish teaching? :)

"The first direct reference to tashlikh is by Rabbi Jacob Mölin in Sefer Maharil where he explains the minhag ("custom") as a reminder of the binding of Isaac. He recounts a rabbinic midrash about the binding in which Satan, by throwing himself across Abraham's path in the form of a deep stream, endeavored to prevent him from sacrificing Isaac on Mount Moriah. Abraham and Isaac nevertheless plunged into the river up to their necks and prayed for divine aid, whereupon the river disappeared." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashlikh#Maharil

I have read that he both said that they do not exist literally and that they do exist but he banished them to the desert and abandoned places. Which is true?

Also did Rambam or Maimonedes have supernatural powers?

I was looking at Youtube and there are Christian, Catholic, Buddhist, and even Muslim exorcisms. But no Jewish. Why not? There are demons in the bible and evil spirits too.