Posted on 06/29/2015 3:04:59 PM PDT by NetAddicted
From this Jewish perspective, I am astounded by this information, astounded by the fact that scholars in the Talmudic era would have even thought about the perverse idea of what currently would be called "gay marriage" and mention it. Does this mean that they knew that "gay marriage" was sanctioned in some (uncivilized) societies at the time? Also, why didn't the Talmud writers have an explicit position against a formal union of two lesbians?
Most “Jews” are flat-out atheists.
It says that this perversion was done in Ancient Egypt as well as right before the flood. Torah and rabbinic writings lay the groundwork for the permissibility or lack thereof of very modern inventions as well. G-d’s will is eternal and complete.
As to two women, it is considered a)immodest and improper b) part of the prohibition of the law against “going in the ways of Egypt,” etc. The Talmud does extol the virtue of morality, and specifically of modesty and of staying away from things that cause one to go astray, but it recognizes that there is a difference in the level of prohibition (or at the very least strong condemnation of the idea). In one case there’s no actual union and just bad behavior. Among men, the same can’t be said and any insertion anywhere is a sin that one is commanded to give their lives not to do.
Not most. But liberalism is sick. It sought to attach itself to well meaning Jewish values such as compassion, and used that as a fishing hook for the uninformed. And it’s sad and disgraceful that so many were hooked and know nothing of their heritage, a heritage that has served as the foundational basis for all monotheistic religions.
Despite Christian claims to the contrary, there is a sharp distinction made by Jewish traditional teaching between Biblical prohibitions such as a man with a man, which merits the death penalty, and Rabbinic prohibitions such as a woman with a woman, for which there is no Biblical penalty attached, but which nevertheless is a sin and prohibited.
The Ein Yaakov (compilation from the Talmud) mentions that a culture that recognizes marriage contracts between men does not merit to exist.
Cannibalism: It should be noted that the actual language indicates a prohibition of the sale of human flesh, touching on today’s medical ethics.
In urban areas, “Stockholm Syndrome”..
Turns out that among Americans in Israel, those who actually DID vote in the 2008 and 1012 presidential elections from abroad, something like 85% voted Republican, according to what I've heard.
Wouldn't Canadian Jewry be similar in those respects? Yet the majority of Canadian Jews voted for the pro-Israel "Conservative" PM Harper and his party in the last Canadian national election, after years of left leaning anti-Israel regimes in Ottawa.
Right on and that’s the truth! They know the score.
When you and other orthodox Jews stop calling secular Jews, "Jews" then you might have a case.
Jesus was Jewish, the 12 Apostles & Saul/Paul: Jewish. The writers of the 27 New Testament books, with one exception: Jewish. There were at least a dozen Jewish sects in the 1st Century, and what became called "Christianity" was one of them (originally called "the Way" or the "followers of the Nazarene"). It just happened to be far more successful in appealing to Gentiles than any other sect.
Despite the conflicts between ethnically Gentile Christians and ethnic Jews through the centuries, Christianity is a profoundly Jewish religion.
Leadership in modern Messianic Jewish congregations are ethnically Jewish, know Hebrew, and usually have many years of training--and are not "self-righteous chameleon Christians putting on a yarmuke...."
The ONLY group of Jews consistently singled out by Orthodox Jews as NOT Jewish, are not the atheists, or agnostic left-wing anti-Israel traitors to your faith--just those who think the claims of a Jewish carpenter 2000 years ago were true. THAT kind of prejudice should stop.
Look at how ashamed you are to call yourself a Christian... Says it all. Truly this is your least Jewish attribute - your shame. Alas surely you are more Jewish and Christian than I, and more of everything than anyone else, and that’s the way it stands, master of scripture and child of lonely interpretation.
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