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Why Is Judaism Obsessed With Details?

Posted by evedyahu on February 4, 2009

Here is a good point by Rabbi Aron Moss on the importance of details in Judaism:

Why is Judaism Obsessed With Details?

by Rabbi Aron Moss

Question:

Why does the Jewish religion seem to obsess over insignificant details? How much matzah do we have to

eat; which spoon did I use for milk and which for meat; what is the right way to tie my shoelaces…. It

seems to me that this misses the bigger picture by focusing on minutiae. Is this nitpicking what Jews call

spirituality? No wonder most Jews are turned off from our weird religion.

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