Posted on 07/15/2015 6:19:25 PM PDT by dontreadthis
Even in the matter of "slavery," the Torah works toward the natural and ideal condition of each and every individual person, which is freedom. In the Torah system, if a master strikes his slave and wounds him, the slave goes free. If a master has enough food for only one, he is obligated to give it to the slave. If he has only one blanket, the slave sleeps under it, not the master. This is precisely why the Western ruling classes have always persecuted the Jews and taught ordinary gentiles to hate them, lest ordinary people learn from the Jews that they have a right to live in freedom and equality. The notion of man being "endowed by his Creator with certain unalienable rights" comes from Jewish Scripture, certainly not from Greek or Roman political philosophy.
As long as Jews are around -- militating passionately for the ideals of freedom, equality and sanctity of human life -- tyrants will never be safe. In their view, both the Jews and their seditious Bible have to be done away with utterly. For tyrants, Islam is the perfect solution, whereas Christianity claims to be fulfillment of what is set forth in the Hebrew Bible, and therefore must proclaim its validity. To Islam, the Hebrew Bible is made by man and not by Allah; it has no validity and therefore there is nothing to confront. Islam is the perfect religion for making the world safe for tyranny.
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Today the Christians are the canaries in the coal mine. The marxist muslim homosexual is doing everything to get them out of government and force them to live against their beliefs.
May be in the Talmud, but that's certainly not in the written Torah.
See Exodus 21:26-27.
I'm not sure this statement would be relevant here in the U.S. Jewish voters are among the strongest supporters of Democrat Party policies that are aimed at undermining all of these. And they among the most rabidly pro-abortion people in the United States today, too.
However, I grant you one of the three.
What about the other two?
I notice your link states that female Hebrew slaves were to be released, like the male slaves, after six years’ service.
In flat contradiction to: “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.”
BTW, I agree that the decline and eventual destruction of slavery was the result of the principles embedded in the Bible, though it took a really long time.
No other society ever came close to, “All men are created equal.”
Not actually true. The Torah, Psalms and Gospels are held to be inspired by God, though corrupted over the centuries.
The exact Hebrew is frequently different from smooth English translations (such as the word ‘eved’/slave itself). I am not sure of the resolution to the statements here, other than a Jewish legal system will follow the rulings of traditional rabbis who are expert on the topic.
I’ve been saying this for years.
If Israel attacked Iran, Obama would would have the U.S. Military attack Israel...
IOW, the Torah is a living constitution. Got it.
That’s not a contradiction, but a clarifying exception. A man who willfully sells his own daughter sentences her to a life of slavery, presumably to discourage a practice that was very common in the ANE without expressly forbidding it. I suppose the realities of ANE existence meant that it was sometimes necessary for the survival of the family in difficult times, but not to be encouraged. But far be it from me to divine the intent of the almighty.
It would be more akin to a ‘living’ Constitution where the Federalist Papers and other writings of the Founding Fathers were binding as well. A bit akin to Catholicism and the Church Fathers.
I’m tired of being a sacrificial canary. I want to be the big F*cking Jewish American Eagle who eats our enemies for breakfast and expels them as the little Marxist turds that they are.
Auschwitz! Never again!
What a load.
Antichrist Jews are no more Torah observing today than they were 2000 years ago. Jesus said, if they’ believed Moses, they believe him. They don’t believe [in] him. They don’t believe Moses. Their Talmud blasphemes Jesus Christ. They’re under bondage. Blind guides.
Jesus took the kingdom of God from them and gave it to a nation producing the fruits thereof. (Matthew 21)
I’m not Jewish but to your sentiment ...Amen Brother Amen!
If you were G-d, and wanted to intonate in your book to your people, that they would have an everlasting covenant, exactly how would you write it? (and don’t play rabbinical tricks on me... Plain scripture please.)
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