What Chumash/Torah based religion is the most authentic to you (reject, beliefs)

[AniHaGever]

Although this is a Rabbianite forum or forum mainly geared towards Rabbinic/Normative Judaism i was just wondering what chumash based religion you find the most authentic or appealing and if you had to choose which one you would adhere to

So is it

Rabbinic Judaism- the normative form of Judaism which primary belief is in the Oral Torah( Torah Shel Bal Peh the Oral Torah which was eventaully codified in the Mishnah/Shas and was the Judaism that eventually survived the fall of the Yerushalim(Jerusalem)
Karaism- Which was created by Anan Ben David in the tenth centuary which disagreed with Rabbinic Judaism and it''s belief in the Oral Torah and instead considers the[i] Mikra Tanach to be be the main source of authority
Samatarianism- According to the Samaritans they are desdecendents of the northern Shevetim (tribes) Mannaesh and Epharim and the split between the Jews and the Samaritans happened in the period of the shofetim judges at the time of Eli.Main beliefs is the importance of the Torah(Chumash) importance of Moshe and also belief in the Tahab- eschatological figure that will appear in the last days. Notably also for reverance of Har Gerzim (Mt Gerzim) for which they do the Pesach Karban there every 14th Nissan for which the Chumash prescribes
Refominism aka Reform Judaism- this faith was created as a result of the Haskala( Jewish enlightmennt) and rejects the divinity of the Torah at least the chuamsh for which the other chumash/Torah based faiths the idea of the divine Chumash/Written Torah is at the heart of it.

Me personally i would choose Rabbinic Judaism but if you had to pick a Torah based religion which one would you choose?

[Tikva]

Work on your grammar skills. Reading your description of Reform Judaism (Refominism?) made me almost have an aneurysm.

[Tzaphkiel]

Judaism is the religion. A chumash is a printed book. Those "descriptions" are very strange. They do not make any sense to me. Why are these types of divisions / labels important to you?

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by AniHaGever

Although this is a Rabbianite forum or forum mainly geared towards Rabbinic/Normative Judaism i was just wondering what chumash based religion you find the most authentic or appealing and if you had to choose which one you would adhere to

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Me personally i would choose Rabbinic Judaism but if you had to pick a Torah based religion which one would you choose?

Sorry, but your premise is wrong. The people here are everywhere between Reform and Ultra Orthodox and lean left/right within those categories.

I'm a former Chasid and am currently Secular, Masorti and leans to the right.

[Richard1965]

Originally Posted by Tikva

Work on your grammar skills. Reading your description of Reform Judaism (Refominism?) made me almost have an aneurysm.

That's the way they pronounce it down south...

[Pruzhany]

I want to know why and how a person who is not Jewish is here acting as if he were:

Originally Posted by AniHaGever

Now on a more serious note

I as a non-jew do read/study Nach quite a lot i have read Tehillim, Iyov, Mishleli with commentators such as Radak, Even Ezra, Metudzat David, and Meztudat Tzion-My favorite commentator as he gives explanations of the difficult Hebrew words and now reading Yechzkiel

[Richard1965]

Originally Posted by Pruzhany

I want to know why and how a person who is not Jewish is here acting as if he were:

I thought that he was Jewish...

[JB from NC]

Originally Posted by Richard1965

That's the way they pronounce it down south...

I've never heard of the term, and I'm from "down south". To the vast majority of people we're all Jews; they wouldn't know Reform from Orthodox if it walked up and slapped them.

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by Richard1965

That's the way they pronounce it down south...

Actually from doing some googling on the net, I found most of the misspellings of words to be coming from Christian websites rather than just simply typos or the use of a translator program.

[Richard1965]

Originally Posted by JB from NC

I've never heard of the term, and I'm from "down south". To the vast majority of people we're all Jews; they wouldn't know Reform from Orthodox if it walked up and slapped them.

So am I...However, I was being sardonic...