[yshavurah] Interesting

From: "Cheryl Levine" <clevineys@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Havurah Listserv" <yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:10:01 -0800
I found this really interesting:
        The spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Mowafak 
Tarif, this weekend signed a declaration calling on non-Jews in Israel to 
observe the Seven Noahide (Bnei Noach) Commandments. Several weeks ago, the 
mayor of the primarily Druze city of Shfaram, in the Galilee, also signed the 
document. The declaration includes the commitment to make a better "humane 
world based on the Seven Noachide Commandments and the values they represent ..

        Behind the efforts to spread awareness of the Torah's Seven Universal 
Laws is Rabbi Boaz Kelly,. the chairman of the Worldwide Committee for the 
Seven Noahide Commandments. The recent signature by Sheikh Tarif is part of 
Rabbi Kelly's ongoing efforts among Israel's non-Jewish community. In the past 
few years, Rabbi Kelly's organization has placed roadside ads in Arabic calling 
for observance of the Noahide Laws, as well as distributing Arabic-language 
pamphlets on the subject among Arabs in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. 

        According to the Torah, all humankind (the offspring of Noah, or Bnei 
Noach) is subject to seven Divine commandments. They are: to refrain from 
idolatry; to refrain from sexual immorality; to refrain from blasphemy; to 
refrain from murder; to refrain from theft; to refrain from eating t! he limb 
of a living animal; and to establish courts of law. Support for the spread of 
the Seven Noahide Commandments by the Druze spiritual leader contains within it 
echoes of the Biblical narrative itself. The Druze community reveres as a 
prophet the non-Jewish father-in-law of Moses, Jethro (Yitro), whom they call 
Shu'eib. According to the Biblical narrative, Jethro joined and assisted the 
Jewish people in the desert during the Exodus, accepted monotheism, but 
ultimately rejoined his own people. The Tiberias tomb of Jethro is the most 
important religious site for the Druze community. 

Cheryl B. Levine, Psy.D.
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[yshavurah] Interesting

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