Kishkumen wrote:While I can sympathize with his boredom and disbelief, I have to say that this fellow lacks imagination. Boys are separated from girls in the endowment ritual for a number of reasons that are fairly easy to grasp. Chief among them is the fact that in LDS theology men and women are only truly joined for eternity when they are both exalted in the Celestial Kingdom as symbolized by the Celestial Room which stands on the other side of the veil. In the Celestial Room, men and women reverently mingle together.
Duh.
Sometimes some ex-Mormons really do live down to the accusation that they had no freaking clue what they were participating in.
In the Los Angeles Temple, men and women were separated only by a rope line, like you'd see at an old theater. So, I would just sit next to my wife and hold her hand under the rope. But, yes, I understood the symbolism. I wish I could say I enjoyed the endowment more than I did.
Men and women are only together in the top floor of the CK? So all the other kingdoms are subdivided into boys and girls sections? I never knew that.
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DarkHelmet wrote:Men and women are only together in the top floor of the CK? So all the other kingdoms are subdivided into boys and girls sections? I never knew that.
Yep, in most temples, there are two sections of rows divided by an aisle. Men sit on the right, women on the left, facing the altar and the movie screen (and later the veil).
DarkHelmet wrote:Men and women are only together in the top floor of the CK? So all the other kingdoms are subdivided into boys and girls sections? I never knew that.
LOL! Way to be overly literal for comic effect.
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Thank you for the screenshot. It is beautiful to behold.
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DarkHelmet wrote:Men and women are only together in the top floor of the CK? So all the other kingdoms are subdivided into boys and girls sections? I never knew that.
Yep, in most temples, there are two sections of rows divided by an aisle. Men sit on the right, women on the left, facing the altar and the movie screen (and later the veil).
In a restored church, the mechitza should be restored, too.
by the way the jews have their own jepologists
There are different views on the proper height of a mechitzah separating men and women in a synagogue. Differences about minimum mechitza height represent a source of disagreement between more liberal or Modern and more Ḥaredi Orthodox Jews. According to the Shulchan Aruch HaRav, used by Chabad-Lubavitch, a mechitza needs to prevent men from seeing a woman who might be immodestly dressed, and hence a mechitza needs to be as tall as a man, or 6 feet. However, according to Modern Orthodox Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik, a mechitzah need only serve as a halakhic partition, and hence need only be the minimum height for such a partition. Rabbi Soloveichik holds that this height is 10 tefachim, (each "tefach" 3.2 inches) about 32 inches is acceptable.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
A Jewish synagogue a visited a few times in Sugar House, was in an old home … the men and women were also separated, with the men on the left and the women on the right.