They're useful as a textual representation of several thousand years of conversations between the Divine and the Jewish people, but they should be the beginning of discussion, not the end of it.
I completely agree. It doesn't make sense for us, in a different time and place, to try to blindly apply what was unique to one culture and time in history to our own culture and time in history.
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Date: 2008-10-20 09:19 pm (UTC)I completely agree. It doesn't make sense for us, in a different time and place, to try to blindly apply what was unique to one culture and time in history to our own culture and time in history.