Subj : Re: Extent of the Torah
To   : JOSHUA LEE
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Thu Oct 26 2000 09:44 pm

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> -=> Frank Masingill wrote to Joshua Lee <=-
> 
>  FM> I got stuck on the idenity of the "for 'all men.' "  Refresh
>  FM> my memory. What IS it that is banned for "all men."  If you
> 
>  JL> It is seriously not for all people. In fact, there's even a
>  JL> statement in the Talmud that a non-Jew who observes the
>  JL> Sabbath in full is chayiv misa. (*Liable* for the death
>  JL> penalty; keeping in mind of course, that Jewish courts have
>  JL> such strict rules for the death penalties that it is
>  JL> effectively impossible to carry out according to the laws
> 
>  FM>         Well, Joshua, keep the guillotine or the hangman's noose
>  FM> stored as far as I'm concerned.  I doubt seriously that I've EVER
>  FM> committed your chayiv misa.
> 
> I agree; and if you did you wouldn't have to worry. The death penalty
> in Jewish law is effectively a dead letter, so to speak. It's been
> that way for thousands of years. (Which is why the story of the Sanhedrin's
> secret execution of god in the NT rubs us the wrong way; it, like much of
> the stories of Pharasees there, is completely the opposite of how
> we understand them to have been.)


You've also had 2000 years to build up all kinds of cultural attitudes in
opposition to Christianity 
to the point of denying that such corruption is even possible by Jews.


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