Posted on 03/30/2008 5:55:14 PM PDT by LSUfan
Whe nevertheless is teaching a generation of America's most influential lawyers. In a decade we'll see the Barack Obamas of that era speaking fondly in interviews of how Professor Feldman opened their eyes to "new perspectives in jurisprudence."
A disgrace.
What chunks of the Torah are you referring to? I am not aware of any chunks of the Torah being discarded by Orthodox Jews.
I was unaware that Orthodox jews still sacrificed spotless lambs to atone for sin.
honestly, I had no idea. I won’t claim to be a scholar of the Torah but if you can point me to a section specifically I’ll certainly get brushed up on that. Not that I plan to endorse slavery as a Jew just because its in the Torah...but I would be pretty hypocritical to condemn the active slavery of muslims if my own religion agrees.
See above where I quote Lev 25:44-46
If you believe Leviticus is the word of G-d, then why would you suggest that even a single word of it is objectionable? If you don’t, then what do you believe in?
What! I don’t believe in Aliens normally, but I think they have been here, and stole every bit of common sense from our college educators. These people have been drinking something like the Jim Jones KOOLAID. Sheesh!
Sacrifices can only be brought in the Temple, which no longer exists. In the meantime, our prayers take the place of offerings until the Temple will be rebuilt.
jews were performing sacrifices for 500 years before there was a temple. Have you even read the torah? The instructions for building a tabernacle are right there and nothing in the torah prohibits building one and following the law if there was any real desire to.
Because the law was replaced by the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The law was valid for its time, but it has been superceded.
So you are saying that slavery was OK back then, but not now?
After the Temple was built in Jerusalem, sacrifices could not be brought anywhere else. The laws of building the Tabernacle applied to the generations before the Temple was built.
In fact we honor the building of the Tabernacle through the laws of Sabbath, which are modeled to refrain from the 39 types of labor that were required to construct the Tabernacle.
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This guy Feldman completely freaked out and threw a public tantrum in the New York Times, cursing out his old school because they forgot to include a picture of him and his non-Jewish wife in their alumni newsletter.
That completely turns Feldman's article on its head.
If you bother to read it, Feldman is clearly not proposing or defending the superiority of Islamic law.
In fact his point was the opposite: after attempting to explain why at this point in time the concept of a Sharia-based society is attractive to many Muslims, he goes on to list the many philosophical, religious, legal and social difficulties of attempting to evolve Sharia law into a form that can work in modern society.
Considering our GOVT is satisfied with creating ISLAMIC constitutions (in Iraq & Afghanistan), after ISLAMIC terrorists tried to behead said govt, should this be surprising?
No, God says that.
If Feldman thinks sharia is so hot, then he should go live under it.
How do you know that He says that? Do you believe everything you read, or just the things that you like? Every extant text of the Torah was copied, ultimately, from earlier versions penned by Jewish scholars.
If Jewish scholars are fatally deficient and erring in their faith, how can you trust them to faithfully transmit His Word? Why do you trust each and every word of their written tradition, but absolutely none of their oral one? Were they a very peculiar type of liar that always wrote truly but always spoke falsely? Except when they started writing down their oral tradition, and then started writing falsely as well? That picture doesn’t make sense to me.
Sharia is a cancer. The only way I’ll ever wear the abaya is if someone puts one on my cold dead body.
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