The Dallas
Morning News
has been running a series called Deadly
Affection. In a recent article, a woman, who was the member of a church, came
to a service one Sunday black and blue from her husband's beatings. The pastor
told her she needed to keep forgiving him, pray for him, just keep asking God
to change him -- and ask God to help her
be a better wife. He didn’t tell her to protect herself from that predator
or offer to go see her husband and tell him that the church wasn’t going to set
back and ignore what he was doing to her. Look folks; God is not our cosmic
bellboy/bellgirl and prayer isn’t a drive-thru window that we use to place our
orders. Read Rabbi Leynor’s latest blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2014/10/whose-god-wants-wives-to-submit-to.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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