Torah-observant Christian?

[Prober]

Many thanks, Dauer!

I'm starting to get the flavour of the different denominations and I suppose the reading material a person chooses in coloured by the denomination in which he's interested.

[dauer]

Prober,

I'm starting to get the flavour of the different denominations and I suppose the reading material a person chooses in coloured by the denomination in which he's interested.

Absolutely. The place where you see this the most is the difference between the liberal denominations and orthodoxy, primarily because the liberal denominations are open to all of the modern approaches to text. But it also depends on what you're reading. For example A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice by Isaac Klein is essentially a Conservative code, describing how to carry out different daily, annual, as well as occasional mitzvot and with some exception where conservative judaism diverges, it could have come from orthodoxy.

Or to take another example, you could take a Conservative commentary and a Reform commentary, and they'd both probably be very hard to tell apart. As a siddur goes, there's almost no difference from denomination to denomination. A liberal siddur will have some omissions, and maybe a couple words changed to reflect that there is no longer a desire to return to temple sacrifices, but unless it's a Reconstructionist siddur you won't see any major differences, and even there the really big differences are only in translation, and not in the Hebrew. For example they'll translate the Tetragrammaton differently depending on context in their siddur.

Dauer

[Prober]

Well, this should be fun...I guess I'll get started reading.

I think I'm interested in Orthodox and/or Conservative so maybe I'll start there.

Thanks, again!