Hakham Jose Faur Website
As one might expect most of my outlook on Judaism has been influenced by my father. Also nearly as obvious is that my father's outlook has been extensively influenced by his own teacher Hakham Jose (Yosef) Faur. I have just been informed of a new website for Hakham Faur which includes several articles available for download. Though not not fully comprehensive there are some excellent ones up there, including Anti-Maimonidean Demons (PDF) in which I happen to be footnoted.
The discerning reader will notice differences between Haham Faur's, my father's, and my own writings (aside from the drastic dropoff in scholarship and sophistication as found on this blog). What was transmitted to me at least was more of a system of thought which could then be applied elsewhere, but will differ based on individual experiences.
Enjoy!
Comments
Interesting. But I would strongly suggest they clean up or delete their forums, which have been taken over by porn.
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March 14, 2008 3:19 PM
Yeah, that's a problem. I didn't bother with the forums much like how I don't read most comments on blogs. Even without the porn I doubt the forums for Haham Faur would be productive. Given the nature of his normal audiences, discussions would be dominated either by rabid followers or rabid detractors.
I guess you could say I only look at the site for the articles. :-)
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March 17, 2008 10:30 AM
I read the article which you link to and call "excellent". The guy basically accuses all of the post-Rambam Rishonim of intentionally and surreptitiously replacing the Torah with imported Christian theology. I fail to see how a person who believes this can be considered Orthodox by any definition, nor how they can be honest about keeping halacha if it is indeed so heavily based on fraud motivated by paganism.
(In addition, the article seems to be riddled with mistakes from beginning to end, but that would take much more effort to demonstrate, and I don't have time for it now)
Posted by: Shlomo | April 9, 2008 8:02 AM
To Shlomo - I too had problems/issues with the article. However, these were based on idealogy rather than 'mistakes' I noticed in the article. Do you have an example of a 'mistake' and a way to prove it?
Posted by: Baruch | April 14, 2008 2:44 PM
To Shlomo,
Orthodox is a Christian term. I think that speaks for itself.
Posted by: Anon | April 22, 2008 5:43 PM