Since
the terrorist attacks in France last week, I keep waiting for" the other
shoe to drop." I'm waiting for the backlash against Muslims. In fact, last
Sunday the Dallas Morning News had an
article called, "Muslims Wait and
Worry." Mosques across France have been hit by bullets or small
explosive devices. Many have been defaced by racist graffiti. Fire bombings and
marches against the Islamization of Europe. Muslim individuals report daily
insults and attacks in the streets. The news is also filled with stories
of all the violence which Muslims are perpetrating upon one another. Read
Rabbi Leynor’s complete blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-are-values-of-your-god.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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