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If we perceive a godlikeness in a human (and we may) there is justice in seeing him (or her) as if we saw God. It is the beauty in the encounter of Jacob with Edom that he fears and honours his older (and betrayed) brother as he would fear the presence of God. The same we can appreciate with Paul when he reminds brothers of their love for him and how they ...
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The confusion comes in part from imperfect translation. The commandment, in both Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, reads as follows:
לֹא-תַעֲשֶׂה לְךָ פֶסֶל, וְכָל-תְּמוּנָה, אֲשֶׁר בַּשָּׁמַיִם מִמַּעַל, וַאֲשֶׁר בָּאָרֶץ מִתָּחַת--וַאֲשֶׁר בַּמַּיִם, מִתַּחַת לָאָרֶץ.
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any ...
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Blotting out the memory of Amalek can't mean completely eliminating any memory of same, because the torah itself tells us about Amalek and there is no indication that humans have permission to alter the text of the torah. So blotting out Amalek must mean something else.
The medieval commentator Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak) wrote on Deut 25:19:
you ...
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According to Jacob Milgrom:
Both ideas inhering in the kid prohibition—the reverence for life and Israel's separation from the nations—are also present in the dietary laws, the former in the blood prohibition and the latter in the animal prohibitions. Thus the kid prohibition was automatically locked into Israel's dietary system. Therefore, ...
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Jacob Milgrom considers four theories about how the command came about:
Maimonides suggested that it was a reaction to a specific Canaanite practice.
Philo suggested the practice was inhuman for the same reason killing a young animal and its mother on the same day or killing an animal before it's weaned.
Beginning with the work of Émile Durkheim, it has ...
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The commingling of life and death was sacrilegious in the Hebrew Bible.
For example, animals that are scavengers (lobster, shrimp, swine, dogs, vultures, lions and tigers, etc.) may thrive by habit on waste (garbage, refuse, scum, and/or other dead and decayed creatures), and thus they are unclean. Such animals could not be used for human consumption or ...
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The three festivals (Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkot) were times when everybody was commanded to assemble in Jerusalem. They were celebrated with festive meals, including some of the meat that had been offered on the altar. (These offerings are listed throughout Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers.) The rabbis of the talmud understood that Shabbat should also include ...
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