The Baha'i Studies Listserv Judaism is not a proseltyzing religion due to its tolerance of other faiths, in my view. To be a Jew is to not only adopt a religion, but also a culture associated with a specific ethnic group of people - the Hebrews. For that reason, Jews do not seek out converts because they don't believe a person of another ethnicity with their own culture, should have to discard their own traditions for Jewish culture. That is why being a "righteous gentile" is good enough in the view of Judaism.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Susan Maneck <[email protected]> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > Also, the rabbis (e.g. Maimonides) have come up with an itemized list > > of 613 commandments in the Torah. The 10 commandments are only > > "special" because they were described as miraculously written in > > stone. What is kind of funny to me is that the text pretty clearly > > directs the commandments to the Jews specifically "I am the Lord your > > God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of > > slavery; " so they aren't really for Gentiles anyway. According to > > Judaism, the Universal commandments intended for everyone are the 7 > > commandments of Noah. (no blasphemy, no idolatry, no murder, no theft, > > no sexual immorality, no tearing the limb from a live animal and/or no > > eating blood, and then setting up a system of courts to enforce the > > first sex commandments) > > That's correct. > > > > (so i guess gentiles get to lie and dishonor their parents) > > Lying is not mentioned in the Ten Commandments anyhow. What is > prohibited is bearing false witness, i.e. perjury, something much more > limited than lying. > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto: > leave-537088-953325.e9a9b042dd227e4657deb0ff0d384...@list.jccc.edu > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to > [email protected] > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:[email protected] > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-537097-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
