"Orlando Enrique Fiol" > wrote in message
. ..
Religious clergy don't want people
> thinking for themselves; that's why the Bible and Mass were kept in
> incomprehensible Latin until Vatican II, and orthodox Jews rarely read the
> Torah outside of schul or in translation. The idea is for worshipers not
> to
> think for themselves via direct access to God's word. Access is mediated
> by
> language, special scrolls, special churches or synagogue settings.

Thank you for demonstrating that you know nothing about normative Judaism.
One of the most important requirements is to study. And the study is done
in the original texts.

> That's why we have a
> situation today where people like Ellen are worried about not being able
> to say
> meaningful sabbath prayers without first consuming bread. She's only
> worried
> about this because her rabbis have told her what they take to be God's
> final
> pronouncement on this matter.

You again repeat these untrue statements despite my having previously
provided the correct description of your original misinterpretation.

Of course, there are plenty of Jews who find
> themselves miraculously able to worship meaningfully without eating bread
> before sabbath prayers. Either those conservative and reform Jews have got
> it
> all wrong or just maybe, it is in fact the orthodox Jews whose endless
> tomes of
> laws keep them imprisoned in anachronistic bubbles and ultimately separate
> from
> God.
>

It's true that there are Jews who choose not to practice the religion their
ancestors practiced. That doesn't invalidate the experience of those who
do.