Chaim Amalek writes:
\nWhat is the Torah’s position on diversity? It seems not to favor it, given all the prohibitions on mixing different crops in one field or cross-breeding cattle (Leviticus 19:19). And then there is this, from Joshua 10:
\nSouthern Cities Conquered
\n28 That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
\n29 Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked it.
\n30 The LORD also gave that city and its king into Israel\u2019s hand. The city and everyone in it Joshua put to the sword. He left no survivors there. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
\n31 Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Libnah to Lachish; he took up positions against it and attacked it.
\n32 The LORD gave Lachish into Israel\u2019s hands, and Joshua took it on the second day. The city and everyone in it he put to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.
\n33 Meanwhile, Horam king of Gezer had come up to help Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his army\u2014until no survivors were left.
\n34 Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Lachish to Eglon; they took up positions against it and attacked it.
\n35 They captured it that same day and put it to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it, just as they had done to Lachish.
\n36 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron and attacked it.
\n37 They took the city and put it to the sword, together with its king, its villages and everyone in it. They left no survivors. Just as at Eglon, they totally destroyed it and everyone in it.
\n38 Then Joshua and all Israel with him turned around and attacked Debir.
\n39 They took the city, its king and its villages, and put them to the sword. Everyone in it they totally destroyed. They left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king as they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.
\n40 So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
\n—————-So what we see here is that Joshua did not embrace diversity as a source of strength, but rather as something to be blotted out. Similarly, when one species of ant takes over territory from another species of ant, it wipes them out entirely. Is this God’s plan for humanity?<\/p>\n
* I still can’t reconcile the basic biblical commandment not to add or subtract from the Torah with the rabbi’s prohibition on eating chicken and cheese. I get the whole fence around the torah thing, but that is most exactly literally adding to the torah what it does not have
\nAlso, even in the wilderness, God explicitly tells the Jews to keep Passover for seven days. Not eight. Seven. Even in the wilderness. It must really anger God to see these rabbis ignoring His will and turning it into an eight day holiday.
\nNo wonder there is so much mixed dancing in the world
\nThe Quran has much criticism of the Jews for adding endlessly to what the Torah teaches. And I think some of that criticism is valid.<\/p>\n
* What happens to Yidden when they go Hollywood, and support the Hollywood agenda against God? Deuteronomy 28 spells it out:
\n15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
\n16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
\n17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
\n18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
\n19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
\n20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.
\n21 The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
\n22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
\n23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
\n24 The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
\n25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.
\n26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
\n27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
\n28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.
\n29 At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
\n30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.
\n31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.
\n32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.
\n33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.
\n34 The sights you see will drive you mad.
\n35 The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
\n36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.
\n37 You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you.
\n38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
\n39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
\n40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.
\n41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.
\n42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
\n43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.
\n44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.
\n45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.
\n46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
\n47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,
\n48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
\n49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,
\n50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.
\n51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.
\n52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.
\n53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.
\n54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,
\n55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.
\n56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you\u2014so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot\u2014will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter
\n57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.
\n58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name\u2014the LORD your God\u2014
\n59 the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.
\n60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.
\n61 The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
\n62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
\n63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
\n64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods\u2014gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
\n65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.
\n66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
\n67 In the morning you will say, \u201cIf only it were evening!\u201d and in the evening, \u201cIf only it were morning!\u201d\u2014because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.
\n68 The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.<\/p>\n
* Roman Catholic Goyim – BEHOLD YOUR POPE! Listen to his words! Gape with amazement at how such a man as this could be leading Christendom! Scroll down on the link for English language translation.<\/a><\/p>\n * Today’s Quranic verse comes from Surah 29: * Tons of interesting stuff in Deuteronomy, much of it antithetical to free market fetishists.<\/p>\n * Hot chicks won in battle. What to do with them. From Deuteronomy 21. Likely this was an improvement over prevailing practices of that time: * We need this rule. From Deuteronomy 19: * Deuteronomics. Most definitely not in accord with Reaganomics. * Torah Says: Do Not Worship Ayn Rand or the Free Market! * Today’s Quranic verses. From Surah 24: * What about the children? Won’t anyone think of the children? From Deuteronomy, chapter 3: * What should a Torah Jew do when learning Torah makes him increasingly skeptical that it is the word of God? Should he stop, and switch to more secular pursuits? Or should he explore other religions? Asking for a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chaim Amalek writes: What is the Torah’s position on diversity? It seems not to favor it, given all the prohibitions on mixing different crops in one field or cross-breeding cattle (Leviticus 19:19). And then there is this, from Joshua 10: … Continue reading
\n29:46 And dispute ye not with the People of the Book, except with means better (than mere disputation), unless it be with those of them who inflict wrong (and injury): but say, “We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you; Our Allah and your Allah is one; and it is to Him we bow (in Islam).”<\/p>\n
\nMarrying a Captive Woman
\n10 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,
\n11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.
\n12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails
\n13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.
\n14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.<\/p>\n
\nWitnesses
\n15 One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
\n16 If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a crime,
\n17 the two people involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time.
\n18 The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite,
\n19 then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge the evil from among you.
\n———————
\n[Thus, if, for example, a woman is found to have falsely accused a man of rape, she should be sentenced to serve a like amount of time in a similar setting.]
\n20 The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you.
\n21 Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.<\/p>\n
\nFrom Deuteronomy 15:
\nThe Year for Canceling Debts
\n1 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
\n2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the LORD\u2019s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed.
\n3 You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.<\/p>\n
\nDeuteronomy Chapter 13:
\n1 If a prophet [e.g., Ayn Rand], or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder,
\n2 and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, \u201cLet us follow other gods\u201d (gods you have not known) \u201cand let us worship them,\u201d [e.g., free markets and open borders]
\n3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. . . .
\n5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the LORD your God . . . . You must purge the evil from among you. [This is what Donald Trump is doing to the conservative establishment.]<\/p>\n
\n26. Women impure are for men impure, and men impure for women impure and women of purity are for men of purity, and men of purity are for women of purity: these are not affected by what people say: for them there is forgiveness, and a provision honourable.
\nAnd here is a very different translation of the same verse (Sahih International version):
\nEvil words are for evil men, and evil men are [subjected] to evil words. And good words are for good men, and good men are [an object] of good words. Those [good people] are declared innocent of what the slanderers say. For them is forgiveness and noble provision.<\/p>\n
\n3 So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.
\n4 At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them\u2014the whole region of Argob, Og\u2019s kingdom in Bashan.
\n5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.
\n6 We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city\u2014men, women and children.
\n7 But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.<\/p>\n