OK, I am not a moderator but just a poster. I did not feel anyone was being preached to in this thread. This thread was created out of curiosity regarding Jewish customs and quit frankly a curiosity regarding the differences between Judaism and Christianity. If we can not have this discussion from a friendly, comparing and curios standpoint then there are problems.

Yael, thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. thank you for letting us invade your thread with curious questions. To all the other posters, I feel you have kept this thread what it should be and I thank you and encourage you to continue to do so. It has been very enjoyable for me to read and post in this thread and I hope it will remain so. Yael, I hope you too have enjoyed this discussion.