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Dear Elsa,

I am your friend and I am Jewish of a traditional strain, not a fake Jew but a true blue practicing religious Jew who has some grounding in religious Jewish traditions. Your quest is a common one. The quest to understand what the hell is going on in this world. The problem of good and evil has bedevilled mankind throughout history. We jews believe that, if you want to understand what the hell is going on, study Torah and and Jewish commentaries on Torah, that go back five thousand years. The Talmud is a composite of commentaries predating the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. The Jerusalem Temple is first mentioned in the Torah as the Tabernacle to be constructed in the dessert. The Tabernacle was replaced by the Temple in Jerusalem and the Temple in Jerusalem has been replaced in our own time by the simple synagogue, any synagogue quorum of ten men who study Torah and its multiple messages. Every single time we take out the Torah in every synagogue around the world, we chant "She is a "tree of life" to all who hold her dear."

When a Roman soldier approached our sage Hillel in the 1st century BC as to whether Hillel could teach him the whole of the Torah while standing on one leg, he replied, "Yes! Don't do unto others what you would not have others do unto you! - The rest is commentary - Now go and study (Torah)!

The jewish way is to believe that as G-d creates peace in the Heavens so he teaches us to create Peace in this world: And peace, wholeness, shalom is the ultimate good, the ultimate emblem of the Jewish God and the goal is to bring Peace with a capital "P" to the whole world. That is the Jewish task and mission. The Devil is in the details! And the details as to how it is to be done are in the Torah itself. That is why the most implant mitzvah, commandment is not to pray but to study Torah!

The Torah is an open book to all who wish to study it.

Sefaria is a site that has published all of the major Jewish works and commentaries to the Web:

Chabad.org is another reliable site to explore any questions about Jews or Judaism, beliefs, holidays etc.

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Jean-Sebastien Savard's avatar

Some of the name and crew i will mention cover almost evrything from reiner to lassange. But the echo chamber in quebec french locality is thicken by their unability to understand english. Exemple: i am here and they arent. Cause they dont understand english! Such a shame cause its not true you lose your culture while learning new culture. Many francophone feel this way trought decades of brainwashing as: le petit quebec. Ici ont prend un petit cafe, des petite marche dans nos petit quartier. L’humilité de petite personnalité, evrything is small thinking/view here so our knowledge follow this pattern. But rest assured, just this week 3 different franco source talk in depth about reiner, 1 today bout assange 👍 ( maybe more. I cant cover all of them)

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