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  1. Harel13

    Are Non-Jews...

    Agreed, and while perhaps one of the most drastic steps, it's not the only one.
  2. Harel13

    Are Non-Jews...

    Not exactly. The Iranians wanted to retaliate for Israel killing one of their top generals, but they also wanted to make sure that their attack wouldn't bring an extreme reaction from the US. So they essentially asked the US (via a third party, Turkey), if they could go ahead with the attack...
  3. Harel13

    Are Non-Jews...

    I think that the US policy towards Iran just pushes off the inevitable, and will be harmful to the US (never mind the rest of the world) in the long run (which at this point is the fairly near future). IMO the US should put a stop to Iran's nuclearization ASAP. Bomb the oil factories, etc. On...
  4. Harel13

    Are Non-Jews...

    Both and more: Israelis themselves are divided on the topic of sovereignty, and if sovereignty, should the Arabs receive citizenship or just residency? As stated previously, it doesn't really matter as long as the Israeli government isn't willing to budge. Meanwhile, yes, and not just Arabs and...
  5. Harel13

    Are Non-Jews...

    Palestine ≠ Israel. The world has our hands tied on this. I'll try to summarize the topic. In 1947 the UN okayed the partition plan which gave some of Mandatory Palestine to the Jewish population and most of it to the Arab population. The Jews took the deal, the Arabs didn't and declared war...
  6. Harel13

    Are Non-Jews...

    Note my second paragraph. Know of a country that doesn't have grey areas? What do you mean by "necessary"?
  7. Harel13

    Are Non-Jews...

    As I've stated countless times on this site, non-Jewish citizens are treated equally in the eyes of the law. In fact, in some places you may find affirmative action in favor of minorities (e.g. Arabs have an easier time getting accepted into med school than Jews). Equality for non-Jews was put...
  8. Harel13

    Happy Birthday SalixIncendium!!

    Happy birthday!
  9. Harel13

    Breaking news! India and Egypt switched locations.

    This is cherry-picking. His next statement explains that this is ridiculous.
  10. Harel13

    You shall not boil a kid in its mother's ?????

    It's more about vowelization traditions than scribal error. Vowel points only appeared on the scene in the Islamic period, so scribal error is only relevant from the time of the Masoretes who created the first vowelized chumashim. Proving a certain pronunciation in Hebrew is difficult (perhaps...
  11. Harel13

    The issue of the Israelite riches

    Well, we all know which chag is coming up after Purim... Last night I came across a cool paper by Dr. Aton Holzer. Holzer is a medical doctor who's taken up writing scholarly-level, Torah-related papers in recent years. In this paper he discusses the question of the Israelite right to the...
  12. Harel13

    Purim

    Yes, that idea is well-known. No dancing, though.
  13. Harel13

    Goodness

    Well, technically he wrote the stone becomes a gem, not grows into it. That's what he wrote about the human. He didn't clarify how the stone becomes a gem.
  14. Harel13

    Evidence that Ivrim, Benei Yisrael, Yehudim, and Modern day Jews do not descend from Yadavas farmers

    I agree that that's the case on some levels. But I'm not sure it's true that "most scholars have to respect the earliest source material". The solution to a text a scholar doesn't like is to date it to a later time than a more preferable text.
  15. Harel13

    Evidence that Ivrim, Benei Yisrael, Yehudim, and Modern day Jews do not descend from Yadavas farmers

    Oh, if only that was true.
  16. Harel13

    A friendly debate regarding the merits of Christianity v that of Judaism in regards to salvation. (Anthony H Miller and Harel13).

    I wrote to you in private why I was unavailable. This post is kind of rude and unnecessary, considering you didn't message me to see what was going on with me. I didn't respond directly because it wasn't clear to me what was the thread's topic and what I was supposed to be agreeing to. Are you...
  17. Harel13

    Evidence that Ivrim, Benei Yisrael, Yehudim, and Modern day Jews do not descend from Yadavas farmers

    I don't understood. Mitzryaim ≠ Egypt? We do know that Egypt had different names in pre-Hellenistic antiquity, it wasn't just variants of MSR. For example, Kemet. That's a vastly different name. One could easily argue that in the Persian period Hodu was another name for Egypt. Note that I'm...
  18. Harel13

    Evidence that Ivrim, Benei Yisrael, Yehudim, and Modern day Jews do not descend from Yadavas farmers

    Arguably, that's not proof because you'd need a living, breathing, Persian period ancient Hebrew-speaker to tell you that Hodu = India. There's no evidence from the text itself that demonstrates that when ancient Hebrew-speakers from the Persian period said "הדו" they were referring to the...
  19. Harel13

    Purim

    Not entirely sure where you got the idea that she was called to dance (the text just says that she was called to appear before them) (also, she and her friends were likely drunk themselves, given that she also organized her own banquet). I have other thoughts on what you wrote, but I'll refrain...
  20. Harel13

    Ask the Staff Anything About RF

    We don't know. We don't earn enough working this job to buy shoes.
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