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From: olsen@wxlvax.UUCP (Neil Olsen)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Apostasy
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 09:41:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 30 09:41:12 1985
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> [ Only friendly golems are allowed to munch this line ]
> 
> The term "meshummad" means a deserter who has forsaken his people.
> The term has a much more unfavorable connotation than that of a
> convert.  I found this quote from the Besht ( Rabbi Israel Baal
> Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism ):
> 	"Every Jew is an organ of the Shekhinah ( the divine
> presence ).  As long as the organ is joined to the body, however
> tenuously, there is hope; once it is cut off, all hope is lost."
> 
> David HaMelech  ( David ben ben ben ... Dovid HaMelech [ Zayde told me ])
> 
> "It's Good to be King"  


Is there any link between the term "meshummad" and the arabic name
"Muhammad"? Muhammad is the prophet of the muslim religion; he
originated from an arabic tribe in the Middle East, and could have
had a jewish or semitic origin. By the way, could any one explain
the difference between jewishness and semitism? I read somewhere
that the Arabs are basically from a semitic origin.!!

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