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OT: Judaism and the Gender of G-d

taltman@noshpam.lbl.government

2004-06-03, 7:27 pm

"Anton van Straaten" <antonvs@acm.org> writes:

> it could help answer the all-important question of the gender of God. Both
> Judaism and Christianity have struggled with this question [1], [2]. Who

The mainstream Jewish belief is that G-d is above and beyond
homocentric description. The gender issue only arises when various
groups of Jews throughout history have attempted to address/describe
G-d, with respect, using human language. This always seems to fall
short of acceptable. That is why, in new times, the language used in
Jewish liturgy is being revisited.

~Tomer

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