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<blockquote data-quote="Classicalfan626" data-source="post: 159834" data-attributes="member: 6594"><p>[USER=3077]@TnWatchdog[/USER] - The commandments Simon eliminated are in three-digit figures, and they include a lot of unnecessary stuff like kosher "laws" (no pork, shellfish, and mixing meat with dairy), as well as other old rules such as one not to shave your beard with a razor. Somewhere along the line, it became dogma in ancient times to be hundreds of commandments rather than the initial ten that Moses came down with on Mount Sinai.</p><p></p><p>Essentially, the point I was trying to convey was, Simon reformed Judaism to a point where Jews would only be distinguished from other religious groups such as Christians in religious traditions and rituals, and not cultural ones. In other words, Jews ceased to be an ethnicity at that point, and they only differ from Christians in terms of religion, but not in terms of the more vast aspects of culture.</p><p></p><p>As for shaving the facial hair with a razor, eastern Slavic Jews initially don't shave with razors, because long beards were still popular with eastern Slavic gentiles at that time. But all this changed when Ivan Petrov brought the Renaissance to Russia in 1395. Soon after that happened, all Russian aristocratic men got haircuts and had their facial hair shaved off. This group of men included Grand Prince Basil I of Moscow, who was born in 1371 and reigned from 1389 to 1435. To top that off, Grand Prince Basil decreed a heavy tax of facial hair to all men who refused to shave and could afford it. Peasant men were encouraged to shave, but were exempt from the tax. So if you wanted to be exempt from the tax while you could afford it, you were required to shave your beard.</p><p></p><p>As for the Simon Says part, I'm going to roll the dice on that one, but I figure it might lead to that game coming out sooner than it originally did, come to think of it.</p><p></p><p>Does all that answer your questions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Classicalfan626, post: 159834, member: 6594"] [USER=3077]@TnWatchdog[/USER] - The commandments Simon eliminated are in three-digit figures, and they include a lot of unnecessary stuff like kosher "laws" (no pork, shellfish, and mixing meat with dairy), as well as other old rules such as one not to shave your beard with a razor. Somewhere along the line, it became dogma in ancient times to be hundreds of commandments rather than the initial ten that Moses came down with on Mount Sinai. Essentially, the point I was trying to convey was, Simon reformed Judaism to a point where Jews would only be distinguished from other religious groups such as Christians in religious traditions and rituals, and not cultural ones. In other words, Jews ceased to be an ethnicity at that point, and they only differ from Christians in terms of religion, but not in terms of the more vast aspects of culture. As for shaving the facial hair with a razor, eastern Slavic Jews initially don't shave with razors, because long beards were still popular with eastern Slavic gentiles at that time. But all this changed when Ivan Petrov brought the Renaissance to Russia in 1395. Soon after that happened, all Russian aristocratic men got haircuts and had their facial hair shaved off. This group of men included Grand Prince Basil I of Moscow, who was born in 1371 and reigned from 1389 to 1435. To top that off, Grand Prince Basil decreed a heavy tax of facial hair to all men who refused to shave and could afford it. Peasant men were encouraged to shave, but were exempt from the tax. So if you wanted to be exempt from the tax while you could afford it, you were required to shave your beard. As for the Simon Says part, I'm going to roll the dice on that one, but I figure it might lead to that game coming out sooner than it originally did, come to think of it. Does all that answer your questions? [/QUOTE]
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