Posted on 03/21/2008 4:44:07 AM PDT by BlackVeil
The chairman of the Yesha rabbinical council and chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, Rabbi Dov Lior, on Wednesday issued a halakhic ruling stating that it is forbidden by Jewish law to employ Arabs or rent homes to them. In an interview published by "Eretz Israel Shelanu" (Our Land of Israel), to be distributed this Saturday in various synagogues, Lior said that "since this is a matter of endangering souls, it is clear that it is completely forbidden to employ them and rent houses to them in Israel. Their employment is forbidden not only at yeshivas, but at factories, hotels and everywhere." In the interview, Rabbi Lior backed the decision made by the administration of the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem to prevent Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from visiting the school after an Israeli Arab terrorist killed eight students there two weeks ago. "How can you welcome a man who acts against our holy Torah and continues to lead the people of Israel toward great danger?" Lior said. ...
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Interesting how this Rabbi came to the same conclusion that the Apostle Paul came to some 1,930 years earlier. In Second Corinthians chapter six.
The Rabbi is not a rodef as Ohlmert and the post survivalist party Kadima is.
St Paul tried to ban renting houses to Arabs?
I'm quite sure he has the same attitude towards Christians.
Read 2 corinthians 6:14-18 it is not just marriage, it is all relationships, work, living arrangements, even who you ahg around with. So, yes, since the god of the muslims is not the God of the Jews, they ahve nothing in common.
Maybe, but most like the money we send them, the political support we give them, and the fact that we don't send our kids into their neighborhoods to blow them up.
Paul rocked!
“St Paul tried to ban renting houses to Arabs?”
Interesting how some people interpret “be not equally yoked” to mean what they want it to mean. But this rabbi should know that Scripture never contradicts Scripture. Only people do, conveniently so.
Leviticus 19:34: The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
What conclusion was that?
From the article:
Recently, several rabbis led by Rabbi Lior have issued a precedent setting halakhic ruling that Israel must shoot civilian populations in areas from whence attacks on Jewish communities originate
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No doubt, it is a precedent setting ruling, shooting civilians.
Think hard and long on the writings of Paul and what he must have looked like after being beaten, ship wrecked, left for dead... How many churches today would even let him in the door? How many would look at the things Jesus said and yelled at him, "Do you agree with that...?"
You would be so kind as to tell us how you define 2 Cor 6:14-18 then?
Read 2 Corinthians chapter six verses 14-18.
Shooting may go a bit to far, but who am I to second guess the good Rabbi?
You can’t second guess him: he said that Jews must do it.
If these clowns get a taste of their own medicine, maybe they'll think twice about loosing homicide bombers on pregnant women and children in Israel.
What's that Pollyanna going to say? Euwww blood!
I wonder what his scriptural source is for that conclusion. Jews have employed and done business with gentiles since Jews came into existence.
Why don't you tell me what it means to you and why you think Paul would have refused to rent to an Arab or give a job to an Arab?
Good Rabbi?
And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? None is good except One, God. (Luke 18:18-19 MKJV)
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