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Subject: Response to Eliyahu Teitz - Chicken Sacrifices
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 20:08:47 EST
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You ask where I got my information about orthodox jews making a symbolic
blood sacrifice with a chicken - because both the Talmud and the Torah say
'without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin' and about their
identifying the priestly line through family records.

I spoke to a Jew who claims to have seen the papers being used to establish
the Levitical line from the family records.  He also told me of the sacrifices.
Afterward, the chicken is given to charity.

So that's where I got it.  He said it was in Brooklyn.  And that young men have
been sent to Israel to visit the site (you know where) of the future temple.

Does anyone have any close friends in the Jewish Orthodox community in Brooklyn?
(such a question?)  I'd like to hear about it some more myself.

By the way, I am grateful for your response to my posting on the Torah and
Tradition.  I'm reading it carefully and doing some library work as I get the
time.  I don't entirely agree - so I hope to learn from you, since you seem to
have a handle on the topic, and discuss in a friendly atmosphere.  (Picture me
bobbing back and forth in front of my terminal.)  Satan, I'd like to sit in on
a Yeshiva course!

You stole my Rabbi story!  Only mine went:  after G-d (out of respect to your
sensibilities) stated who was right there was a hushed silence and the head 
rabbi said, "We'll vote on it!"

By the by, from time to time there have been comments on the nets about my sign
off 'keep chargin''.  I use it as a way to keep score on the men and the yuppie
people.  The 'men' interprete it as it is meant - in a military context.  The
'yuppies', as usual, always think of their charge cards!  Sorry.

Very few things are sacred to me.  You, if you have been following the Rosen
Rubber Chicken Slap Out, will have noticed (some few missed it I know, but we
know they could find no good thing in anything I did) that I often lampoon
myself - and recently even held up the dear mother of my children to the rude
yuks of the common public school mob who seem to be in the majority here on the
nets.  I am not a reader of Net.rel.jewish.  I do not want to cause an uproar
in net.religion.jewish.  I realize that I do have a sometimes bumptious manner
of expression.  (We all have our cross to bear.)  Agh!  I think I did it again!
I never know how to approach jews and white people.  Without being patronizing,
I mean.  Should I comment on . . . or just let it go.  Sigh.

Anyway, I'm not trying to 'prove' anything, just understand why you believe what
you do using the same scriptures I do.

Watermellon anyone?

Keep chargin'

Ken Arndt