Noahide book hypocritically defames Native Americans as medically superstitious: Book Review, The Rainbow Covenant

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The book The Rainbow Covenant by Michael Dallen is very critical of paganism. In the featured image we see Native Americans made to look superstitious and crazy. The reader is warned about using magic cures. This is hypocrisy since the Talmud also has many bogus medical cures (here). Imagine if Jews were depicted as superstitious and crazy for their Talmud cures?

Israel's Law, and the Revolutionary Law generally, opposes every kind of idolatry, witchcraft and superstition. Unfortunately, physicians and other so-called healers can be superstitious. Still, God permits a sick person to use "whatever is used as medicine" — but only so long as the drug or other therapy "is recommended by reason." Other so-called "cures" are forbidden.

If one hopes that some therapy or potion will heal the body by means of magic, as by an attempt to compel supposed external spiritual forces, the Torah generally will condemn its use: that manner of thinking is idolatrous. If, on the other hand, one hopes that a cure will work in the normal way — that is, through normal psychological or bodily processes — it doesn't matter whether or not anyone can rationally explain how that cure works: the Torah generally will approve of its use. Even therapies that have been associated with idolatry, such as Chinese acupuncture, or some of the "native medicines" of sorcerers or witch doctors, may be permitted. So long as one understands that such cures work, when they work, on a natural level, medicine may use "everything which has been verified by experiment." (Dallen, 2003, pp. 114-115)

SOURCE: Dallen, Michael E. (2003). The Rainbow Covenant. Light Catcher Books & The Rainbow Covenant Foundation.  

Canadian Town asserts the role of Noahide Law in education and in ushering in the Messianic Era

 

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In its 2022 Education and Sharing Day, the town of Barrie, Ontario asserted the role of Noahide Law in public education and in ushering in the Messianic Era with the following statement: “Education be reinforced by the inculcation of strong moral values, thus ushering in the Messianic era,” the proclamation reads. “Emphasizing the cultivation of universal moral and ethical values that have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, including the values known as the Seven Noahide Laws.”

https://www.barrietoday.com/local-news/city-proclaims-april-12-as-education-and-sharing-day-5237468?fbclid=IwAR09K5IasoiipROQh_Ql-inws7FVTzqrHQRPQMfD73n240qIfp8hI763-6E

City proclaims April 12 as Education and Sharing Day

Chabad Jewish Centre of Barrie says Education and Sharing Day will bring to the forefront the importance of morality in education

BarrieToday StaffApr 10, 2022 4:00 PM

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The City of Barrie has proclaimed April 12, 2022 to be “Education and Sharing Day" in recognition of the crucial importance of ethical and moral education.

The day will be a time to focus on education after a year in which the pandemic took a tremendous toll on education, with in-person schooling widely curtailed for months.

Against this background, the Education Day proclamation seeks to highlight the emphasis that must be placed on education for each of Barrie’s young people.

Education and Sharing Day will bring to the forefront the importance of morality in education, a cause championed by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. For more than 40 years, presidents, prime ministers, houses of congress, and local governments have recognized the date corresponding to the Rebbe’s birthday on the Jewish calendar as Education and Sharing Day, honouring an individual who brought education to the forefront of public discourse.

The Rebbe emphasized the importance of paying more attention to the building of character and emphasizing moral and ethical values, accentuating the values of personal rights and responsibilities and principled, just behavior.

“Education cannot be limited to the mere acquisition of knowledge—it must also focus on building virtuous character. By teaching the youth moral and ethical values they are given the solid foundation upon which their knowledge can stand, motivating them to use their amassed knowledge for the betterment of society,” says the Rebbe.

In commemoration of the anniversary, the city has proclaimed April 12, 2022, as “Education and Sharing Day” and called on residents of Barrie to “add in acts of goodness and kindness in tribute to the Rebbe's vision, guidance and leadership." 

“Education be reinforced by the inculcation of strong moral values, thus ushering in the Messianic era,” the proclamation reads. “Emphasizing the cultivation of universal moral and ethical values that have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, including the values known as the Seven Noahide Laws.”

In keeping with the Rebbe’s lifetime goals and teachings, local, provincial, and federal governments are issuing proclamations recognizing the need to teach moral and ethical values to our youth.

For more about the Rebbe visit: www.therebbe.org.

The City of Barrie's Education and Sharing day proclamation can be found on the City of Barrie's website here. 

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Jew sets straight when the beheadings begin: Book Review, The Rainbow Covenant

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One of the biggest debates in Noahidism is when do the beheadings begin. Some Jews believe you need a Sanhedrin for the Noahide beheadings to begin, but Rabbi Schneerson, who is lauded as the spiritual leader of world Jewry (here) believed there was no need for a Sanhedrin (here). Here, another Jew does admit that there are Jews who believe that the penalty for breaking any of the Noahide Laws in any way, in this age, not the messianic age, is beheading. But the author does not agree with this and believes that there not be need to behead in every instance and that beheading in every instance starts in the Messianic age and only for Noahides living in Israel. However, Michael Dallen makes it clear that in this age, in every age, not just the Messianic age, non-Jews are to be punished for breaking the Noahide Laws. Non-Jewish Noahide courts have the option of beheading offenders of the Noahide Laws if they choose, but they need not bring the punishment to that degree if they don't want to. 

"Several writers have said, in effect, that the notoriously harsh and unjust laws of benighted countries like ancient Syria, Rome and Persia provide humanity with examples for enlightened Noahide courts to follow. Solemnly, they argue that Gentiles may properly enforce their own laws with horrible severity, and that the regular, statutory punishment administered by Noahide courts must always be capital punishment, die death penalty.

This sort of ghastly misconception does little credit to the logic of the Law. Analysis reveals the error. The key teaching is Maimonides', in his seminal work, the Yad HaChazaka or Mishneh Torah ("Repetition of the Torah"), Hilchot Melachim ("Laws of Kings"): "A Ben Noah who transgresses one of these Seven Commandment laws shall be executed by the sword."

Let's take a close look at this:

Execution by the sword: this means, as the Torah teaches, that society shll effect the death penalty only by the quickest and least painful method possible, decapitation in one stroke. The grotesque final penalties so often imposed in humanity's bloody history — flaying, drawing and quartering, keelhauling, burning at the stake, and other mutilating tortures to kill men really, really dead — are forbidden.

Must every convicted criminal be executed? Must every teenaged shoplifter be punished just as murderers are punished? The context of this passage, setting out the duties of Israel's kings once the line of (King David has been restored to sovereignty and the Messianic era has begun, explains  everything. Plainly, it directly pertains only to B'nai Noah who have elected to live alongside the people of Israel, within the land of Israel, in the future — that is, in Messianic times, when "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."

Recently, many scholars have taken us deeper into this supposed harsh rule of Maimonides. Love and mercy make up the bare bones of the Law and here we have another instance where the exemptions, exacting safeguards and loopholes of divine jurisprudence make a harsh penalty — capital punishment — mostly important only as a symbolic legal benchmark. God wants us to know just how seriously He takes our every failure to live up to our humanity, to His minimal moral expectations for us. Every time we fail to act fully human we die at least a little anyway; the symbolism of the harsh general penalty — the technical penalty — ought to bring that moral value home. As for the practical working details of Noahide jurisprudence, actual penalties are for each nation to determine for itself, based on the facts and circumstances of every case and over time.

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God doesn't act as a tyrant to His creatures. The fact is, persuasive ancient as well as modern scholarship insists, that God has established the substance of His Law while He grants B 'nai Noah freedom to legislate its details.

Such details include minimal amounts or threshold quantities and the mechanisms for the Law's  enforcement, to be determined in accordance with their — the nations' — own communal needs. So the nations may devise whatever structure or hierarchy of penalties they think appropriate to secure compliance with their laws.

Looking at this system logically, we see that it must be so. Which means that we can say plainly: B'nai Noah legislators have the right to enact the death penalty to punish any crimes committed under the Noahide Law. After all, these aren't just crimes committed against other men, offensive to the good order of society. They are crimes of idolatry, committed against God and His sovereignty, which are direcdy offensive to Him. But a legal right is not an obligation: a right need not be exercised.

God's Universal laws are also laws of sublime justice. They aren't merely ideal or far off, designed for application only in some spiritual or Messianic future: it is another Revolutionary principle that God's laws are practical laws, meant to govern man's practices now? We see that He has designed them accordingly, to commend themselves to the enlightened conscience and sense of justice of every nation. The nations can adjust the details to suit themselves." (Dallen, 2003, p. 82-85)

SOURCE: Dallen, Michael E. (2003). The Rainbow Covenant. Light Catcher Books & The Rainbow Covenant Foundation.  

Lawrence, Kansas proclaims Noahide Law the "bedrock of society" and should be taught in schools

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 In their 2022 Education and Sharing Day proclamation, the city of Lawrence, Kansas made the following statement: "The educational system must also focus on building character by emphasizing the cultivation of universal moral and ethical values that have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, including the values known as the Seven Noahide Laws"

https://lawrenceks.civicweb.net/document/94628/Education%20and%20Sharing%20Day%20Proclamation.pdf?handle=1C068DD9EFD3453A98312C0F90C0ABFD&fbclid=IwAR1zfVk20kheFcF-0CkpRNYpW_VQCmm6dUWkYT4qdQ_UXSBVoyq3Sl7Yz84

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Proclamation 

Lawrence, Kansas

WHEREAS: A quality education is one of the significant foundations for the continuing success of our state, our country, and our society at large; and in the city of Lawrence we strive for the betterment of all of our citizens through an increased focus on education and sharing; and

WHEREAS: The educational system must also focus on building character by emphasizing the cultivation of universal moral and ethical values that have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, including the values known as the Seven Noahide Laws; and

WHEREAS: One of the leading global advocates for the advancement of education, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, of righteous memory, stressed the importance of moral and ethical education as the bedrock of humanity and the hallmark of a healthy society, and strongly urged that education be reinforced by the inculcation of strong moral values; and

WHEREAS: In recognition of the Rebbe's outstanding and lasting contributions toward improvements in world education, morality, and acts of charity, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, and for more than forty years the President of the United States has recognized and honored the Rebbe's vision each year by proclaiming it "Education & Sharing Day USA"; and

WHEREAS: April 12, 2022, will mark 120 years since the Rebbe’s birth, the date will be celebrated across these United States and around the globe in tribute to the Rebbe’s vision, guidance and leadership; and

WHEREAS: The Chabad Center has been at the vanguard of outreach and support in the city of Lawrence, Kansas, bettering the lives of countless citizens, uniting a variety of faiths and religions for the common purpose of making the world a better place.

NOW THEREFORE, I, Courtney Shipley, Mayor of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, do hereby proclaim April 12, 2022 to be 

“Education and Sharing Day”

and call upon government officials, educators, volunteers, and citizens to reach out to those within your communities and work to create a better, brighter, and more hopeful future for all.

Courtney Shipley, Mayor 

April 5, 2022