Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

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Home Decorator 28 4, 2:48pm

'@v0ider' "A heathen who studies the Torah deserves death, for it is written, Moses commanded us a law for an inheritance; it is our inheritance, not theirs"
Hm, let's google search that.

R. Johanan said: A heathen who studies the Torah deserves death, for it is written, Moses commanded us a law for an inheritance; it is our inheritance, not theirs. Then why is this not included in the Noachian laws? — On the reading morasha [an inheritance] he steals it; on the reading me'orasah [betrothed], he is guilty as one who violates a betrothed maiden, who is stoned. An objection is raised:

R. Meir used to say. Whence do we know that even a heathen who studies the Torah is as a High Priest? From the verse, [Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments:] which, if man do, he shall live in them. Priests, Levites, and Israelites are not mentioned, but men: hence thou mayest learn that even a heathen who studies the Torah is as a High Priest! — That refers to their own seven laws.

Oops. Looks like you not only quote rabbinical commentaries to a written law as law itself, but also remove Meir's counter to Johanan's argument. Let's see if enough time has passed for newer analysis. Let's take a look at wikipedia:

"The Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) consists of documents compiled over the period of Late Antiquity (3rd to 5th centuries).
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The Babylonian Talmud comprises the Mishnah and the Babylonian Gemara, the latter representing the culmination of more than 300 years of analysis of the Mishnah in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia."

Oy vey. I don't want to even think about volume of newer comments written since then.

Are you sure that rest of your quotes are as well researched and given as much context as the first?

edit: this looks a bit less confusing

http://dafyomi.co.il/sanhedrin/points/sn-ps-059.htm