Dr. Allan Richter, Doctor of Laws (JD)
INFLUENCE OF JEWISH LAW IN SOME AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
“The word “halakhah” is usually translated as “Jewish Law”, although a more literal (and more appropriate) translation might be “the path that one walks.” The word is derived from Hebrew root Hei-Lamed-Kaf, meaning to go, to walk or to travel.”
The word “Torah” is a tricky one, because it can mean different things in different contexts. In its most limited sense, “Torah” refers to the Five Books of Moses…But the word “Torah” can also be used to refer to the entire Jewish bible (the body of scripture known to non-Jews as the Old Testament and to Jews as the “Tanach” or written Torah), or in its broadest sense, to the body of Jewish law and teachings.
In Jewish mysticism the world, is founded upon the primordial Holy Torah which is composed of black fire written on white fire. This primordial Torah shines within and before the Holy One at the beginning of creation. It is infinite and eternal, without beginning or end. This primordial Torah is identified with the Word. It is the source of the earthly Torah and Halakhah. It has never been fully revealed. Christian and Jewish understanding of the nature of the Word are similar but differ.
Roberto Aron in INFLUENCE OF JEWISH LAW IN SOME AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS traces the influence of Torah and Halakah in the United States, particularly our constitution.
“Through the windows of the Puritan Churches of New England the New West looked back to the Old East.” (The Origin of Republican Form of Government in the United States of America by Oscar S. Straus)
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Dr. Allan Richter, Doctor of Laws (JD)
Saudi Arabia produces and distributes textbooks that disparage Christians, label Jews “pigs” and teach that execution is the Islamic response to gay sex. The State Department made a report in 2012 but refuses to make it public saying that every country reforms at its own pace.
Rhetorical question: Why is there no Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Saudi Arabia and countless countries that actually abuse human rights while many in Europe and the United States invent slanderous lies about the Jewish State and organize boycotts and demand sanctions designed to destroy it? On many American campuses characterizing Jews as demons is protected as Academic Freedom while politically incorrect speech is banned.
Nazi boycotting of Jews in academia and business initiated the "final solution".
Saudi Arabia produces and distributes textbooks that disparage Christians, label Jews “pigs” and teach that execution is the Islamic response to gay sex. The State Department made a report in 2012 but refuses to make it public saying that every country reforms at its own pace.
Rhetorical question: Why is there no Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Saudi Arabia and countless countries that actually abuse human rights while many in Europe and the United States invent slanderous lies about the Jewish State and organize boycotts and demand sanctions designed to destroy it? On many American campuses characterizing Jews as demons is protected as Academic Freedom while politically incorrect speech is banned.
Nazi boycotting of Jews in academia and business initiated the "final solution".
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