teaching tomorrow February 23: Torah of the stranger vs. Torah of genocide
David Seidenberg
Abraham v. Joshua: The Torah of the stranger v. the Torah of genocide with Rabbi David Seidenberg
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The intra-Jewish culture wars of today go all the way back to the Bible, where the Torah of kindness to the stranger--Abraham's Torah--directly conflicts with the laws to wipe out the Canaanite nations--Joshua's Torah. But this is not a battle between two equal camps: there is evidence that the Torah of kindness to the stranger is the original Torah, and the Torah of ethnic cleansing is a revanchist effort to change or subvert the purpose of the covenant itself. We will wrestle with the conflict as it appears in Scripture and learn about evidence of its historicity.
Rabbi David Seidenberg is the creator of neohasid.org, the author of Kabbalah and Ecology: God's Image in the More-Than-Human World, and the organizer and facilitator of Torah Foragers weekly Torah study, and the Prayground Minyan.