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osmoticdespair
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When I was 9 I wanted so SO badly to be Jewish. In RE at school they brought in a little (tiny) Torah scroll and I was OBSESSED with it.
I pretended to read it even though I couldn't with one of those little silver hand on a stick pointer things.
I daydreamed in the evenings about one day my parents admitting they were secretly Jews so I could be a Jew (my mother told me that I could never really be Jewish if I was not born that way, that I'd never really be accepted whatever the more 'tolerant' Jews claim). This secret longing went on for a very long time, I only really finally shook it off one or two years ago.
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Lob sei Gott dem Vater g'tan,
Lob sei Gott sein'm ein'gen Sohn,
Lob sei Gott dem Heil'gen Geist
Immer und in Ewigkeit.
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King kong
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just real the old testament. it the same thing
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Quote: from osmoticdespair at 6:09 pm on July 20, 2008
 When I was 9 I wanted so SO badly to be Jewish. In RE at school they brought in a little (tiny) Torah scroll and I was OBSESSED with it.
I pretended to read it even though I couldn't with one of those little silver hand on a stick pointer things.
I daydreamed in the evenings about one day my parents admitting they were secretly Jews so I could be a Jew (my mother told me that I could never really be Jewish if I was not born that way, that I'd never really be accepted whatever the more 'tolerant' Jews claim). This secret longing went on for a very long time, I only really finally shook it off one or two years ago. 
I still want to be a jew. I like cholla bread. and the silver hand is called a yad 
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Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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10:31 am on July 20, 2008 | Joined Jan. 2007 | 516 Days Active
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osmoticdespair
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Are you, Fauna, going to convert?
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Lob sei Gott dem Vater g'tan,
Lob sei Gott sein'm ein'gen Sohn,
Lob sei Gott dem Heil'gen Geist
Immer und in Ewigkeit.
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Fauna
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no, I don't believe in God. it's an obstacle on the path to my judaism, I'll admit.
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Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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10:40 am on July 20, 2008 | Joined Jan. 2007 | 516 Days Active
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xshaix
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Yeah there's an Artscroll English translated bible with English on one side and Hebrew on the other.
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tigard
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The Torah contains several sections including The (old)Testament, the Haftorah and other writings. You can start by reading the five books of the Old Tastament. The Haftorah is also available in English. Any Conservative of Reform synagouge will have it; it's used in Sabbath services.
But if you're considering converting, you may want to take courses for people considering conversion, as it's a much better way of learning about what Judasim is. Figuring it out from reading on your own is more than a lifelong effort. Plus the Torah, while containing the most important Jewish writings, does not contain the details of Judaism. The specific rules and such are burried in the Talmud, an interesting thing to study, but a difficult way to understand what Judaism is.
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