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I acknowledge yoga has hindu roots.  health concerns are not selfish, as it is in the interest of all to improve health.  There is no robbing - when one faith tradition (or even a corporate entity) uses something from another faith tradition, the  other faith tradition still has it. Do you want royalties? There is no intellectual property law for these things.  Jews cannot sue Christianity for "robbing" the Hebrew scriptures, Christianity cannot sue Islam for "robbing" Christ, etc.   No one owns these things.

I do not disdain Hinduism. It is one of mankind's great faith traditions and a key part of one of its great civilizations1.  I do acknowledge that in Judaism (I cannot speak to Christianity or Islam) there are certain aspects of ther faith traditions it is forbidden to incorporate.  That is not an insult, just a fact about Jewish law. [/quote]

So are you okay if I practice the Kabbalah even though I'm not Jewish? I might say that Binah is the Divine Mother Shakti and Chokmah is Shiva, because that's a connection that non-Jewish Kabbalists have explored. I also might say that attaining Kether is the equivalent of attaining sahaja samadhi in Hinduism. How do you feel about me calling myself a Kabbalist when I'm Hindu and I've superimposed my idolatrous deities onto a Jewish mystical tradition?[/quote]

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