Posted by Drealm on
URL: https://mikraite.arkian.net/proposed-changes-tp998p999.html

We can talk about this tomorrow but I want to post some thoughts so I don't forget.

I think the wording of the declaration should be changed, but not to what you say.

I've personally viewed the rules like commandments as opposed to regulations like you find enumerated in Deuteronomy. Every time the rules are changed it undermines them as a commandment. I'm fine with them being changed if they are only a regulation but not if they are anything resembling a commandment. So I would rather the declaration from now on explicitly states that it is a regulation.

The people who follow Mikraite regulations and who make this declaration and abide by it are my people.

The declaration as it stands now is a one time thing. By keeping it a one time thing this makes it a unique transition from non-Mikraite to Mikraite. I think by it being a one time thing it is closer to a tradition and it feels like it carries more weight. I would rather there be a new declaration made specifically for renewing. It could be something like:

I renew...

About being required to attend a good religious service I don't see the immediate practical value in this but I'm open to hearing your reasoning for it. Also for most people their only options will be Islam or Orthodox Judaism. Anabaptists are usually far away.