After Giving It Much Thought, New 'Findings' To Report:

1) What is spirituality?

Wikipedia says it best:

- ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality;
- an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the
- deepest values and meanings by which people live.


2) Is there an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality?

It would seem to me that the universe has to exist inside something of an ultimate nature aka God; more specifically the mind of God.

3) Is there an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being?

The inner path that judaism describes is kosher and shabbat.

      * I already ceded in earlier thread that shabbat can be useful IIIIIIIIIIIIIF one is a 9-5er.

     * Despite the fact that the rational for banning electronics can be questioned, if electronics are allowed on Shabbat then employers will start to think that sabbath observance is nonsense when one attempts to leave work early for Friday sundown. Just forget about leaving for Yom Tovs.

     * kosher may have some health benefits but kasharut is a metaphysical law that can only be understood metaphysically by acquiring favor from God I guess by consuming foods that the Torah says will energize the soul.

4) questions of deepest values and meanings are for a whole different thread.

More On Why Judaism Is Not Spiritual

It seems to me that spirituality is divided between spiritual questions and spiritual emotions.


Orthodox Judaism is too scared of rigorous questioning, can't get answers from them. Forget about the spiritual questions.

All Orthodox Judaism can offer is mindless repetition of strict rules and rituals. And of course, no spiritual emotions from following this crap.


There you have it folks.

The emperor has no clothes.

The REAL Reason why there's a shidduch crisis

it's not because the religious girls are too materialistic

it's not because the religious guys are not marriable

although both can be factors.


the truth of the matter as it seems to me is that there is just nowhere near enough (desireable) religious girls to go around!

lol the orthodox should settle their shidduch crisis with death matches in the UFC to even things out.

Why don't jews ever talk about Satan?

Satan is a very real character in the Old Testament (book of Job) and in all my time involved in Judaism I heard Satan mentioned .0000001 percent of time.

I've seen stuff where people use Satan and God's test to Job as an explanation for why bad things happen in the world and it makes sense.

If you don't talk about Satan once, I have trouble understanding how you are a biblically based religion.