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Hello! I am new here and I need some help:)

We have built a home in a sustainable community on a lake in Oklahoma. There are five families here. They are all Torah observant.

Where can I post to see if there are any others here on this forum site that are looking to be a part of community by buying their own homestead?

The homestead up for grabs is 5.5 acres with a passive solar designed home. It does not have solar power, it has city power, but the design itself is passive solar;). It has well water, 3 beds, two bath, large open floor plan. Huge kitchen, with tons of cabinets. AC that cools home with fans, but duct work is ready to be run if wanted. Wood stove heat, but the AC unit has the ability to host a heating element. The pasture is fenced for rotational grazing. Two ponds. Two barns. One large well house/barn. 2 inch line with spigots run all over property for eventual gravity fed water. Fed by well water now. Large gravel turn around. Gravel road in. No septic in, but it is plumbed in slab if that is wanted. Propane tank with propane cooking and propane hot water heater.

This is an AMAZING community. These people here are salt of the earth. We all help each other any time we need a "barn raising" which can also be translated as "chasing heifers" or "chasing sheep" lol. We all help each other whenever it is needed.

This is a community based on keeping the commandments of God as well. So anyone wanting to purchase the homestead/land & home will want to be doing so.

As I said I am new here and am happy to go put this post somewhere else, but I could not find a way to make a new thread.
 
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#55 ·
cr, The Torah, if Im right is the first 5 books in the Bible, writ supposedly by Moses which with the rest of the books before Jesus comprises the OT.
As to the OP. I fear weve run her off. Course, its Sat, so she might have been spending the day with her neighbors reading and studying the Bible, and having all other kinds of fun today. Nice hot day here. Supposed to feel like 102
 
#59 ·
I know it's kinda odd, a combination of real estate and religion. The real estate part of it sounds fairly standard. The religion part is the confusing part because it has been stated that the place in in the midst of a religious community that, so far, hasn't been defined well enough for at least one of us (me) to get a handle on just what religion that is. If someone said, Amish, or Mennonite, or Catholic, or Presbyterian, I think most of us would have a pretty good handle on that without much further mention of it. I still don't know quite what this community is though it seems to have Jewish leanings but with maybe some differences? It makes people a little more comfortable when they can define things a little better. And I was thinking that was the gist of the religious discussion, not so much arguing the fine points as much as figuring out if whatever these people believe would be compatible with what another person might think is a good neighbor or a neighbor they'd be out to avoid at all cost.
 
#64 ·
To be honest, I'm not sure. We really plan on sitting down with our people out here and asking if they are serious about having a problem with selling to someone that does not keep Torah. If they do have a problem with that, anyone keeping Torah would not raise these animals, because God says they are abomination to touch. Science has proven these animals do not excrete their toxins, rather they hold on to them. I will include a verse if that is wanted. But there are many ways to find out more about this topic. I HATE to come off like I am judging anyone. Definitely not the case. It's just the fact that if we aren't even allowed to touch their dead bodies, I don't think they'd want them being raised for food within this land we have. I would have to ask them.

I think that is AMAZING that you have that large of a garden! I'm sure it is beautiful!!! I can ask my husband if he would like to have you out to have a look!
 
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