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I read this in a book, "Learned Jews have given us the several forms of prayer which Adam addressed to God for pardon." What does this mean? Does the Talmud give "forms of prayer" to pray, first prayed by Adam?

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Today I saw a sticker on a lamppost that said “Free Palestine.” I was tempted to remove it. To do so would be legal. The law where I live is that anyone is allowed to remove anything someone else puts on a public lamppost, whether it be advertising or something political. Then I was thinking of all the “kidnapped” signs for the hostages that all the anti-Israel people ripped down out of hate. I also thought of the saying from Hillel that the Torah can be summarized by in one line by saying not to do to another what you would not want someone to do to you. As awful as it sounds to me, the “Free Palestine” slogan is someone exercising their freedom of speech. And I would not want someone ripping off my sign that I pinned up, especially one in support of Israel. What is the proper thing to do?

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I came out of Christianity several years ago and have been listening to online Jewish teachings to find truth. Because of what I have learned from rabbis, I am seeing a lot of patterns in the Tanach that I can't unsee and I cannot quit thinking about it. I am looking for someone to consider these patterns and help me know if there is validity to it or if I'm just jumping to wild conclusions. There is so much! But I will just present the main idea of it and await your response before sending other verses that I think support my conclusion. Here goes: Elements of Genesis 38 mirror Jeremiah 3. Basically Tamar, who represents the Northern Kingdom (in the reflection), plays the prostitute and when Judah (Southern Kingdom) sees it, then he does worse. But when confronted with it, he recognizes his sin and repents. The same thing seems to happen with David and Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 11 & 12. There are two children born from both Judah/Tamar and David/Bathsheba (One from adultery and one for Yibbum?) Tamar: 1) Zerah, whose line leads to the "Troubler of Israel" 1 Chron 2:7, and 2)Perez, whose line leads to the Messiah. Bathsheba: 1) Dead baby 2) Live baby - Solomon, whose line leads to Messiah. Since both the Northern and Southern kingdoms were likened to prostitutes (Jer 3, Eze 23), then it seems valid that the two prostitutes standing before King Solomon were a representation of the Northern & Southern Kingdom. They both have a baby. So two babies, one dead and one alive. The live baby, the true messiah, comes from the Southern Kingdom, Judah, the rightful mother. And the Northern Kingdom has been trying to push off a dead baby into the arms of Judah and claiming it is theirs. This is what Christianity has done, and Judah has examined this 'dead messiah' through the light of the Torah and know that it is not their baby. I believe the Northern Kingdom is actually lost in Christianity. Thank you for your time, I anxiously await your feedback.