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Jewish Impact on the World
Simple to Remember / Aish haTorah ^ | circa 2000 | Rabbi Ken Spiro

Posted on 12/06/2014 7:49:48 PM PST by Phinneous

A light unto nations. In the spirit of the recent Dennis Prager posts on the Ten Commandments, an audio class on Jewish impact on the World. A fascinating anthropological-like contrasting of world history against Jewish History. It's long-ish but highly informative on how the good old (ancient) days weren't so good without the Ten Commandments. Hate the civil society? Blame the Joooooooooossssss!


TOPICS: History; Judaism; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: morality; tencommandments
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To: Reeses

Interesting... (though particularly over-focused on ‘modern’ Jewish [scientific, civic] history) but not the thrust of the post. Point taken. Let me reword the title:

G-d’s Torah’s Impact on a Savage World.


21 posted on 12/07/2014 4:36:16 AM PST by Phinneous
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To: Phinneous; All

Both the OT and Our Savior!


22 posted on 12/07/2014 5:08:34 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: dfwgator

The Jews brought redemption to a corrupt world through JESUS CHRIST WHO WAS A JEW!

Israel is the nation God gave to the JEWS forever, not to the Palestinians, who are descendants of ISHMAEL born of Hagar, the son of sin to Abraham.

ISACC was the child of promise to Sarah and Abraham. The Father of the Twelve Tribes of Israel through his descendants. THE JEWS ARE GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE AND ALL CHRISTIANS ARE JEWISH BY ADOPTION ‘WHEREBY WE CRY ABBA FATHER’ noted in the New Testament as GRAFTED IN’ to the Vine of his chosen people.

So if you claim to be Christian then you may want to rethink that question. If not, well, I feel sorry for you.


23 posted on 12/07/2014 5:17:18 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat; Biggirl

My son started singing spontaneously as I was reading your post:

Amongst majestic mountains, a nation stands alone
An ending to their exile, the promise of a home
Pondering their destiny, gazing at the setting sun
Moshe stands alone, Bnei Yisroels’ Ro’eh Ne’eman.

He sees Eretz Yisroel, a splendid golden view
Listening intensely to Ha’Kadosh Baruch Hu
My dear servant, Moshe, for you to enter this great land
The Dor Hamidbar from redemption forever will be banned.

Hashem, please take my life from me
My people they must live to see
The coming of Moshiach and the Mikdosh HaShlishi.

Please pass them down through the Doros
And give a Nossi my Koichos
To lead them towards Geulah in Nifla’os HaGeulah.

Standing at the Ohel so faithful and so strong
Pleading for a nation that has waited much to long
Filling them with courage, caring for them day by day
The Rebbe, our Moshe stands and proudly leads the way.

Benei Yisroel, hear our cry
Thundering voices Ad Mosai
And join a million forces as we’re marching side by side

The Rebbe lighting up the way
The Geulah we will have today
The promise of redemption in Nifla’os HaGeulah.


24 posted on 12/07/2014 5:33:49 AM PST by Phinneous
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To: edpc

I had always understood that modern finance was an invention of Italian Catholics in the 14th century.

But the moral foundation that is the basis for honest dealings is, of course, Biblical.


25 posted on 12/07/2014 5:51:28 AM PST by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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To: edpc

Marx borrowed most of his ideas from Frenchmen like Fourier and even a Scot like Robert Owen, neither of whom was Jewish (and neither was Marx, in any educational or cultural sense).


26 posted on 12/07/2014 5:59:14 AM PST by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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To: edpc
Communism is an expression of an ideal, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need", that we experience as children as grow and are cared for by our parents. But because of human nature that simplistic ideal does not work for adults.

Communism embodies a parent - child relationship. Capitalism in contrast assumes a relaltionship of equals with voluntary association.

27 posted on 12/07/2014 6:34:40 AM PST by captain_dave
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To: Phinneous

Jewish song of praise?


28 posted on 12/07/2014 6:57:00 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

A children’s song. The ‘geula’ is the Redemption.


29 posted on 12/07/2014 7:03:43 AM PST by Phinneous
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To: edpc

Two individuals did, not the whole Jewish people.


30 posted on 12/07/2014 7:05:54 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Yehuda
Marx wasn’t Jewish, and he hated Jews and Judaism.

Karl's father came from a rabbinical line. Although he converted to Lutheranism for business reasons, he remained secular.

Karl's mother, Henrietta Pressburg, was Jewish and did NOT convert, so Israel's "Law of Return" would have considered Karl to be Jewish, despite Karl being secular.

31 posted on 12/07/2014 7:12:13 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: tbw2
Most of the New Testament as well, by the way.
32 posted on 12/07/2014 7:17:11 AM PST by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: PapaBear3625

His mother’s conversion would be irrelevant. Her children are Jewish if she is, born or converted, even if she became a Christian (again).


33 posted on 12/07/2014 7:18:49 AM PST by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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To: hlmencken3

It doesn’t matter since he was, ethnically. That’s all that matters to the anti-Semites of Europe. Don’t think for a moment that was not a factor in the clash between Reds and National Socialists in the 30s.


34 posted on 12/07/2014 7:35:32 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: edpc

Yes, but you mean “racially” I think.

Marx wrote a LOT, including lots of private letters. I’ve never seen any evidence of ethnic Jewish self-awareness on his part, except as would have been taught in his Lutheran upbringing.


35 posted on 12/07/2014 7:50:33 AM PST by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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To: hlmencken3

No, I meant ethnically, since I was speaking specifically to ancestry and not genetics.


36 posted on 12/07/2014 7:59:33 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Phinneous
Unfortunately, when most people these days call the Jews a "light unto the nations" they mean by creating vaccines and winning Nobel Prizes, with no mention of G-d.

Thanks for balancing that out.

37 posted on 12/07/2014 8:14:34 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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