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To: juzcuz
Sorry, meant to get back to you further on this.

You asked about the 'penalties'. The bit about 'beheading' comes, if I'm not mistaken, from the Talmud, in which it's said somewhere that this is the only civil penalty available for punishing non-Jews who violate the Noahide Laws. I don't have a source at hand for that information but as far as I know it is not strictly part of the Noahide Laws themselves. (Nor, of course, did the resolution that mentioned the Noahide Laws have it in mind.)

'Renewed every year': The resolution in question doesn't enact the Noahide Laws themselves; it just declares Rabbi Schneerson's birthday a holiday. What I think is 'renewed' every year (or at least every so often) is the holiday; the resolution seems to require that it get voted on every now and again so that the day continues to be a holiday every year.

I agree, of course, that it would be altogether inappropriate for the Noahide Laws to be posted in schools, but the resolution in question (however inappropriate it may be on other grounds) isn't calling for that. I'm not at all sure why the Lubavitcher Rebbe's birthday gets to be a national holiday, but it's not the thin entering wedge of a secret plot to submit everyone to the threat of decapitation.

590 posted on 04/22/2005 10:50:08 AM PDT by OhioAttorney
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To: OhioAttorney

that it would be altogether inappropriate for the Noahide Laws to be posted in schools...

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Funny, It's being promoted as an educational Law...


606 posted on 04/22/2005 4:29:43 PM PDT by juzcuz
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To: OhioAttorney
Excuse me...

not promoted... BUT entitled to...
607 posted on 04/22/2005 4:36:48 PM PDT by juzcuz
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is the holiday; the resolution seems to require that it get voted on every now and again so that the day continues to be a holiday every year.

---This Seems BS to me....


IT was enacted as a Law... Forever until.. It's on the BOOKS.... Forever... I don't get it. President's day, etc.. were enacted (not re-voted every year) and established as a National Holidays, people regard it. What's Next.. National Jewish 7 Noehide Commandment's Holiday? Could Be...


609 posted on 04/22/2005 4:56:17 PM PDT by juzcuz
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