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Inline Citations
editThis article could use them - I'll hopefully look in to it... TheFireTones 00:39, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Objectivity
editGood details, but the way the last paragraphs are expressed lacks objectivity. Shouldn't "The Creator is telling us everyday, even if you are so far away, even if you are overwhelmed by death, please come join me." be written in the third person, or within quotes so as the article does not become evangelistic propaganda? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.162.92.17 (talk) 03:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
- User 24.148.87.197 did a nice job of rewording that material, IMO, retaining the information while eliminating the exhortation. Peter Chastain (talk) 13:52, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Jargon
editI disagree that religious terminology as such is necessarily jargon, or no more so than the words "Pope" or "Bishop" are in reference to the Roman Catholic Church. Most seem to be properly linked to a more extensive explanation, and it would be tedious to explain or paraphrase the word "mitzvah," for example, in every article related to Judaism.
I agree that direct quotations or paraphrases from Torah without identifying them as quotes or paraphrases are inappropriate, just as it would be to identify the Pope in Rome as "G-d's Vicar on Earth" in articles related to Roman Catholicism. Lee-Anne (talk) 20:46, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
I've made a fairly minor change to move the paraphrase into a clearly identified block of text, although there are still a few viewpoint problems that may assume a particular minhag (tradition) as normative. Please let me know if there might be a better way to do this, or a standard treatment. Lee-Anne (talk) 21:12, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Glad to see this has shaped up some; I didn't want to just get rid of the "The creator tells us every day" stuff, because there was some good info buried in that. Riffraffselbow (talk) 04:11, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
I'll go ahead and ask this question in the Jargon section (it seems appropriate): why does the article give this erroneous explanation? Korban Pesach ("Paschal lamb")??? Korban doesn't mean "lamb", it means "offering" or "gift". This should say Korban Pesach ("Paschal offering" i.e. the Passover lamb). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.80.221.42 (talk) 06:55, 20 April 2015 (UTC)