RS Quotes: Thematic studies, Judaism

Question 1

Tenakh: general revelation, design argument

Answer 1

You have made them all with wisdom; the earth is full of your creations

Question 2

Tenakh: justice x 2

Answer 2

• let justice well up like water, righteousness like an unfailing stream
• do justice and love goodness

Question 3

Tenakh: sanctity of life, murder

Answer 3

He who destroys one soul of a human being, the scripture considers him as if he should destroy a whole world

Question 4

Tenakh: pikuach nefesh, saving a life

Answer 4

Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world

Question 5

Tenakh: do not take revenge

Answer 5

you shall not take vengeance

Question 6

tenakh: forgiveness, atonement, Yom Kippur

Answer 6

though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow

Question 7

Tenakh: do not opress others

Answer 7

Do not oppress a foreigner… for you were foreigners in Egypt

Question 8

Rabbi David Saperstein: violence causes more violence

Answer 8

violence begets violence

Question 9

Bible: god will take vengeance, no need for humans to take vengeance

Answer 9

The Lord is the defence of my life