[Vision2020] An admonishment to Ralph
Phil Nisbet
pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com
Sat Aug 27 14:46:09 PDT 2005
I have seldom read a response on V2020 in which the author is more in need
of sensitivity education and a dose of multicultural training than Ralphs.
Hey Ralph, we do not have a Hebrew Bible. I know that may come as news to
you, but the Old Testement is not Jewish, its a much translated group of
Jewish writings, but its not Torah.
And Ralph, yes, we Jews believe in Heaven and in Hell.
http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_heavenhell.htm
Your body may die, but the soul and spirit return to G-d from whence it
comes. We, that is to say our bodies on this earth, will all go to the same
place, to whit we shall return to the dust that He fashioned us from, but
the essence of who we really are does not die.
That concept is fundamental to Jewish belief Ralph.
Then your understanding of slavery in early Jewish society is
fundamentally flawed. There is no idea put forward that women be treated
differently than men in regards to indentured servitude. And further, it is
indentured servitude and not slavery. A slave who can be treated as a human
chattel is not allowable under the Law. Not only must he be freed and set
upon his way with payment for his services at the end of 7 years, but he
must also be freed from the contract for his services under numerous
circumstances of abuse of that contract by his employer. The term is bound
servant, not slave in the Roman definition.
Slavery in the Roman or Greek sense of a human chattel was anathema. If a
Jewish owner of a servants contract beat his servant, that servant
recovered damages. In the Roman model, the owner of a slave had free
ability to simply kill a slave just for the personal heck of it.
European slavery, as later practiced in the South was not based upon any
Torah concepts for slavery, it was a Roman institution.
If you want to comment on Christian institutions, feel free, but before you
comment on Jewish ones, you need to educate yourself beyond your fairly
anti-Semitic concepts of our history and beliefs.
Phil Nisbet
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