Nadene Goldfoot
The Torah or Old Testament Bible tells us of the Commandments or Laws that Moses taught to his people, the Ivrim or Hebrews. These were ideas possibly new to the people. The first 10 makes me wonder what went on before Moses brought the 10 Commandments. Number 7 was thou shalt not commit adultery. Therefore it is understood that the man married a woman. We know that Jacob had taken 4 wives in order to have more children. This led him to have 12 sons and one daughter that were written about. King Solomon had a harem, a very large one and his father, David had about 10 wives.
People create laws in their country to make life easier for all. Moses was born and raised in Egypt where he received the education given to the children of the pharaoh, being his adopted mother was the daughter of the pharaoh. Homosexuality in ancient Egypt is a disputed subject within Egyptology. Historians and egyptologists alike debate what kinds of views the ancient Egyptians' society fostered about homosexuality. Only a handful of direct clues survive, and many possible indications are vague and subject to speculation.
The best known case of possible homosexuality in ancient Egypt is that of the two high officials Nyankh-Khnum and Khnum-hotep. Both men lived and served under pharaoh Niuserre during the 5th Dynasty (c. 2494–2345 BC). This was way before Moses (1391- 1271 BCE)over 1,103 years later. Nyankh-Khnum and Khnum-hotep each had families of their own with children and wives, but when they died their families apparently decided to bury them together in the same mastaba tomb. In this mastaba, several paintings depict both men embracing each other and touching their faces nose-on-nose. These depictions leave plenty of room for speculation, because in ancient Egypt the nose-on-nose touching normally represented a kiss.
Egyptologists and historians disagree about how to interpret the paintings of Nyankh-khnum and Khnum-hotep. Some scholars believe that the paintings reflect an example of homosexuality between two married men and prove that the ancient Egyptians accepted same-sex relationships. Other scholars disagree and interpret the scenes as an evidence that Nyankh-khnum and Khnum-hotep were twins, or even possibly conjoined twins. No matter what interpretation is correct, the paintings show at the very least that Nyankh-khnum and Khnum-hotep must have been very close to each other in life as in death.
1. I am Hashem, your G-d,who has taken you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
2. You shall not recognize the gods of others in My Presence.
3. You shall not make yourself a carved image of any likeness of that which is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the water beneath the earth.
4. You shall not prostate yourself to them nor worship them, for I am Hashem, your G-d--a jealous G-d, who visits the sin of fathers upon children to the 3rd and 4th generations, for my enemies, but who shows kindness for thousands of generations, to those who love me and observe my commandments.
5. You shall not take the NAME of Hashem, your G-d, in vain, for Hashem will not absolve anyone who takes his name in vain.
6. Safeguard the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as Hashem, your G-d, has commanded you. . Six days shall your labor and accomplish all your work. . On the 7th day is Sabbath to Hashem, your G0d; you shall not do any work--you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your ox, your donkey, and your every animal, and your convert within your gates, in order that your slave and your maidservant may rest like you. And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and Hashem, your G-d, has taken you out from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm; therefore Hashem, your G-d, has commanded you to make the Sabbath day.
7. Honor your father and your mother, as Hashem , your G-d, commanded you, so that your days will be lengthened and so that it will be good for you, upon the land that Hashem, your G-d, gives you.
8. You shall not kill:
9. And you shall not commit adultery: and you shall not steal; and you shall not bear vain witness against your fellow. (Adultery (from Latin adulterium) is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. Although the sexual activities that constitute adultery vary, as well as the social, religious, and legal consequences, the concept exists in many cultures and is similar in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Adultery is viewed by many jurisdictions as offensive to public morals, undermining the marriage relationship.)
10. And you shall not covet your fellow's wife, you shall not desire your fellow's house, his field, his slave, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your fellow.
These words Hashem spoke to your entire congregation on the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick cloud---a great voice, never to be repeated---and he inscribed them on 2 stone Tablets and gave them to me. It happened that when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness and the mountain was burning in fire that you----all the heads of your tribes and your elders----approached me. (Moses was speaking.)
In today's era, with the possibility that many people have seen UFO's in the sky and that this is a real possibility that we are being monitored by some other planet or planets, especially with our atom bomb capabilities, we can read our history with a different slant, that this is not fiction but may well be the truth. Jews have always accepted the Torah as our truth, of which Judaism as evolved.
As of January 18th of this year, there have been 350 new sightings added to the US government records, or UAP. “Unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP)—since March 2021, according to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released last week.
Uri was somewhat of a magician appearing on many shows. Uri Geller (/ˈʊəri ˈɡɛlər/ OOR-ee GHEL-ər; Hebrew: אורי גלר; born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-British illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic. He is known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other illusions. Geller uses conjuring tricks to simulate the effects of psychokinesis and telepathy. Geller's career as an entertainer has spanned more than four decades, with television shows and appearances in many countries. Magicians have called Geller a fraud due to his claims of possessing psychic powers.
His mother and father were of Austrian-Jewish and Hungarian-Jewish background respectively. Geller is the son of Itzhaak Geller (Gellér Izsák), a retired army sergeant major, and Margaret "Manzy" Freud (Freud Manci). Geller claims that he is a distant relative of Sigmund Freud on his mother's side. Listen, he made a good living. It was exciting to see him perform on TV.
Whether he was a magician or not, it was an amazing production.
A study was commissioned by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency as part of the Stargate Project and conducted during August 1973 at Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International) by parapsychologists Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ. Geller was isolated and asked to reproduce simple drawings prepared in another room. Writing about the same study in a 1974 article published in the journal Nature, they concluded that he had performed successfully enough to warrant further serious study.
Of the 366 new UAP records, more than half were listed as having “unremarkable characteristics,” with 163 characterized as “balloon or balloon-like entities.” The other “unremarkable” sightings were characterized as drones or drone-like objects or attributed to clutter like airborne plastic bags, weather events or birds.
The event focused on research into UFOs, or unexplained aerial phenomena, and related technology, and Luis explained that he once worked on a project that investigated the threat of alien spacecraft. He then went on to say how he had seen genuine evidence of alien vessel -OYALS
When Moses climbed Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, his brother Aaron helped the Israelites build a Canaanite idol to worship. This painting from 1633 of Aaron and the Israelites by Nicolas Poussin is housed in The National Gallery in London.
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To this day, there are scholars from other religions who disagree about when the Ten Commandments were written and by whom, with some modern scholars suggesting that they were likely modeled on Hittite and Mesopotamian laws and treaties..Yet Judaism has survived over 3,000 years, and seems to me to be the gold standard of human beings. No other religion or teaching's goal is that of human behavior like Judaism is. The principal of Judaism is behavior while we are on earth, alive.
The Ten Commandments form the basis of Jewish law, stating God's universal and timeless standard of right and wrong – unlike the rest of the 613 commandments in the Torah, which include, for example, various duties and ceremonies such as the kashrut dietary laws, and the rituals to be performed by priests in the Holy Temple.
An early Christian writer, did a treatise on circumcision
Jewish tradition considers the Ten Commandments the theological basis for the rest of the commandments. Philo, in his four-book work The Special Laws, treated the Ten Commandments as headings under which he discussed other related commandments. Similarly, in The Decalogue he stated that "under [the "commandment… against adulterers"] many other commands are conveyed by implication, such as that against seducers, that against practisers of unnatural crimes, that against all who live in debauchery, that against all men who indulge in illicit and incontinent connections." Others, such as Rabbi Saadia Gaon, have also made groupings of the commandments according to their links with the Ten Commandments.
According to Conservative Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, Ten Commandments are virtually entwined, in that the breaking of one leads to the breaking of another.
The traditional Rabbinical Jewish belief is that the observance of these commandments and the other mitzvot are required solely of the Jewish people and that the laws incumbent on humanity in general are outlined in the seven Noahide laws, several of which overlap with the Ten Commandments. In the era of the Sanhedrin transgressing any one of six of the Ten Commandments theoretically carried the death penalty, the exceptions being the First Commandment, honouring your father and mother, saying God's name in vain, and coveting, though this was rarely enforced due to a large number of stringent evidentiary requirements imposed by the oral law.
Resource;
Tanakh, The Stone Edition (Old Testament)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Geller
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book27.html
