/lit/ - Literature

I read it in high school for class and I thought Hesse was a good writer. I still think Hesse is a good writer but liked Demian better.

>>15636416
>Brainlet questions here
Hillel says that there is no such thing as a bad question, and that nobody should ever be ridiculed for asking about what they do not know. 4chan is filled with pseuds who need to make you feel bad to make themselves feel smart, I'm happy to answer any questions.
1. We dpn't know, but prevailing theory is the further from revelation at Sinai we are, the further from direct godly interaction we are.
2. I met someone who was raised christian but had the same question after they realized the core of christianity, Judaism, doesn't validate christianity. The talmud says goyim who believe in our god should live by the Noahide laws and literally just vibe the rest of the time-- learn philosophy, math, whatever you want, Judaism included, though you have no obligation to learn more about it. If you want to, it's open to you learning without converting (though you can convert).
3. Destroying the Dome of the Rock would start World War 3, and the Third Temple is supposed to come with the Messiah. We are not permitted to rebuild it until he comes, nor even to set foot on the temple mount.

>>15636740
I hear where you're coming from. It should be said first that most Jews couldn't care less about what those rabbis say about anything and aren't Jewish supremacists. In my life, yes, I have met Jews who talk about gentile souls being inferior, and they get it from sources like that and their communities. However, the only ones who say it are generally Black Hat Orthodox who talk to as many non-jews as you do goyim. It'd be like justifying hatred of white people because /pol/ is filled with nazis and white supremacists. I don't believe it, all mainstream sects of Judaism don't believe it, and those who do are as insufferable as all other kinds of racial supremacists. Of the rabbis you mentioned, I can only speak to Kook and Maimonides, and with both of them, the idea of gentile souls being lower than Jewish souls is held in conjunction with teachings about how having a "lower soul" or "higher soul" means pretty much nothing, since we're all dirty humans with both being and form. That's not even getting into what the Jewish concept of what a soul is, which heavily changes the meaning of "higher or lower soul".
I mentioned it earlier, but an often repeated talmudic teaching about the virtue of goyim is that
1. A gentile who learns torah is as holy as the high priest on yom kippur
2. All gentiles who are good decent people have a place in the world to come.

>>15636636
shukran habibi, we have much more in common than our leaders want us to believe. Cyrus is the most based leader in history and is still unmatched. It's nice to see such interest in Judaism when the status quo discourse about it is so hateful
>>15636680
I'm more familiar with the Jubilee year in agriculture than the book of Jubilees, which isn't canon for us. Go for it, do your best