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Originally Posted by Xazy
And I am more and more impressed by some of them, by how kind, nice, how open, warm, and willing to give the shirt off their back for another Jew.
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is this love of fellow man exclusive only between jews?
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Originally Posted by levite
As I mentioned above, I recommend classes. Most synagogues and many Jewish Community Centers have all sorts of fundamentals-of-Judaism classes. I also recommend classes in Hebrew from a local college. Nothing will serve you better than starting to learn Hebrew. And start reading. There are a lot of books. I have a reading list I use for instructing individuals in similar situations to yourself, and for use in teaching converts to Judaism, which I am attaching below. It's a serious list, not a crash course, and it's long. But they are good books, well worth the time. I include substantial chunks of source text also, which I recommend reading carefully to give yourself a leg up on a life of Jewish study. And to live as an observant Jew is, in large part, to be in constant dialogue with texts, to be in some measure constantly studying and learning.
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levite, can a non-jew attend these classes? can a non-jew convert to judaism?
christianity and islam have groups within themselves that go out and preach in order to convert and bring 'into the fold'. i have never noticed this of judaism. is there such a thing? and if not, why not?