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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HalWhitewyrm" data-source="post: 571676" data-attributes="member: 4046">Changing poster ID cause I finally remembered the password to my main EN World ID, which is this one.Okay, replying to a bunch of posts below...Well, I know there are many of us. It's just that it's usually only Orthodox Jews who wear a kippah all the time. Then again a hat also counts, so who knows. I am Sephardic, so I don't wear my tzitzit outside; if I just wear a hat no one would know the difference. Still, the thought of a d20 kippah is pretty cool.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Oh, and there is kosher sushi; there is a kosher sushi restaurant not far from my synagogue that I just love!Kinda. Not to mention getting too legalistic instead of going for the spirit of the rules (now who said that RPGs don't teach valuable lessons?).My group is slowly learning that I am Jewish (I used to be less Orthodox up until this year), so they need to digest that first. I usually just take my own food, and most munchies are kosher, so it's no biggie. It's eating at GenCon, for example, that will be a challenge.Cool. That's 2 on order. I wonder if there is someone who could make them...Thanks a lot. I will definitely keep this present and in mind for the near future.Indeed. Many of the Sephardic Jews of Spain, following the expulsion of 1492, settled in the Netherlands. Many great sages and thinkers came from the Sephardim of Holland. I was in Amsterdam in 01 and got to see a part of the rich Jewish heritage of that city. Quite incredible.It is never offensive to ask questions.The Talmud is a large collection of tomes written in the 5th and 6th century by the Jews of Babylon (there is a Talmud of Jerusalem, but those classes are next year and I won't tell you of what I don't know yet). The Talmud is a strange type of book in that it shows various layers of argument and discussion between various rabbis and sages. So you don't get the final, agreed decision; you get the biblical passage or mishnah (a kind of traditional tale that gives further info on biblical events), plus various layers of commentary, either on the original passage, or on earlier commentary. It is like listening in on a 1500 year-old classroom where sages are arguing back and forth. From these comments and teachings (and from many other sources some I do, and some I don't know yet about), the rabbis have interpreted the law for the times in which they lived. So the Talmud says nothing about miniatures (dice may be mentioned, I don't know yet), but interpretations have been made for modern times covering topics such as board games, and you can infer certain things from that.It is incredibly fascinating to figure out if you like to study. If not, you can just ask the rabbi and follow his teachings.Sorry for the highjack. More replies in the next post.</blockquote>

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