Parsha catch-up: Parshat Yitro
Start here, and read through chapter 20, verse 22.
Here are some of my thoughts:
Here are some of my thoughts:
- Having been born and raised in the 20th century, I can't help but be irked by the fact that the text depicts Moshe/Moses apparently spending hours yacking with his father-in-law, but doesn't say a single word about his reunion with his wife and kids.
- Nowadays, we certainly wouldn't let a non-Jew lead a Jewish service, but it seems to have been common for a person of one religion to make sacrifices to the god(s) of another.
- Funny, G-d never said anything about "not coming near a woman" while await the giving of the law. Moshe's a sexist.
posted by Shira Salamone at 12:34 PM
4 Comments:
"Nowadays, we certainly wouldn't let a non-Jew lead a Jewish service, but it seems to have been common for a person of one religion to make sacrifices to the god(s) of another."
In a Pantheon of gods, why limit yourself to one. I mean, after leaving Egypt, word of the God of Israel must have spread pretty fast, why not hedge your best and throw a sacrifice his way as well
Miami Al, I guess that would make sense for a polytheist.
If you are an Israelite and worship Hashem, you aren't allowed to also worship Ba'al or Ra. But I don't see any reason that a Priest of Ba'al couldn't offer sacrifices to Ra, Hashem, or Zeus for that matter (not sure of the Cult of Ba'al lasted long enough for the spread of Greece to the region).
We worship an angry and jealous God. The rest of the middle east worshipped sacrifice loving free-love gods.
"free-love gods."
:)
Not exactly kosher.
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