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From: harwood@cvl.UUCP (David Harwood)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: rhetorical question
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 10:04:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 10:04:03 1986
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In article <388@mhuxi.UUCP> dsg@mhuxi.UUCP (David S. Green) writes:
>[]
>
>The last few postings about the location of the Temple Mount reminds me
>of two things:
>
>1. Old Joke - 
>  	 Question: Why do Jews always answer a question with a question?
>         Answer: We do?
>  
>2. Quote from Joseph Heller's book "God Knows" ( the REAL story of David the
>   King) -
>	"The Jews invented the rhetorical question when God asked 'Where is
>	 Abel? and Cain replied 'Am I my brothers keeper?'"

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	Every question by God is 'rhetorical', and the first is
the most important: "...they hid from **** God among the trees of
the garden, but **** God called to the man, 'Where are you?'..."
	Actually, ~Cain~ seeks to hide from God, answering a question
with a question. (Of course, Cain is not a Jew, and Moses overheard
this conversation from behind a tree :-)
	So what ~does~ Heller know? Not even "God knows".

					David Harwood