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Please excuse me while I reheat some 🍕.

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it isn't all that clear. Might as well try to get a clear answer about the afterlife.

Most sources say that the first breath is the key, but some say the quickening. A few Orthodox even say conception.

Most do say birth is the key, and all say if the mother's life is in danger the child must be sacrificed. Not so clear about rape or incest, although I think most rabbis would agree to abort them too.

Overall, I wish Judaism would add more to the argument that it is essential to religious freedom to say the 1st Amendment applies to all religions, not just versions of Christianity. Jews wete here during the Revolution, and are as American as the rest of us.

it has to be discussed, and pondered.

IMAGINE the way Talmud was written, a bunch of old (not too white) men sitting around, not quite kibbitzing,



and someone trying to write it down! OYE!