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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=AnonymousThis is not true. While I'm no longer practicing, Islamic restrictions are very accommodating to health issues - if you need to take a medicine during the day, you are allowed to take it, and your fast is still valid. Or if you can't fast due to health concerns. If you need to use alcohol or pig-products (a gelatin coated pill, for example) those are also allowed.

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The Jewish law on fasting and medicine, and on dietary laws and medicine is IDENTICAL!  Only question is did the sharia influence the halacha, or vice versa? Not that it matters. Shalom/salaam![/quote]

pp here. Salaam/Shalom!

I've always thought that Judaism and Islam were extremely similar. In a way, Christianity seemed kind of like the black sheep middle child of the family  :P

Obviously Judaism is older, so a lot of Islamic thought was influenced by it, but in both of their development later on, cultural climates probably encouraged a lot of sibling sharing :)

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saalam.shalom, I am the jewish PP.

While Judaism is older and appears to have strongly influenced the Koran, the full post talmudic development of Jewish law dates to after the founding of Islam, and was largely done in the geonic period (600 to 900 CE or so) in the yeshivas in mesopotamia, in proximity to islamic civ - leading, IIUC many scholars to see much of Jewish halacha as influenced by sharia - both as to content and as to legal logic.   One example as to content - the ban on idolatry apparently did not orignally ban all images in synagogues - there are synagogues from the first few centuries CE that have images in mosaic - the stricter approach to images seems to follow the encounter with Islam.

Note the parallels are stronger when you look at more traditional halachic Judaism (orthodox and consevative) - its harder to see looking Reform[/quote]

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