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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Discussion Day

Since we have decided to devote the month of August to Book Club on AGOG, it allows us more time to discuss the many facets of this book.  I encourage you to check each day to see the questions posted.  You can join in the discussion by hitting the comments tab on the bottom of the post.  Some of the questions can be answered even if you aren't reading along this time.  Feel free to join us.  Also join us on Facebook (by clicking the blue f on the home page) as we keep the conversation going there.  Be sure to "like" our Facebook page so you will get the discussion prompts in your newsfeed.  Now let's talk about today's questions!



Mr. Berkowitz says that he enjoys doing what the rabbis tell him because it saves him a lot of thinking.  In your experience can this be said of all religion?  What are the pros and cons to that kind of attitude?

Jacobs says that a theme he is thinking about is freedom from choice.  What do you think he means by that?

2 comments:

  1. On the freedom FROM choice- I found myself thanking God I have been made free from all the crazy rules Jacob followed! I have found myself exhausted by all the things he has chosen to DO. In Matthew 23 Jesus said, 1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. ' Too much weight in religion but jesus gives GRACE and FREEDOM.

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  2. Yeah, Marion, those Pharisees were pains. Funny thing is...I know I few.

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