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idea lays the foundation upon which Judaism, Christianity and the United States of
America are built. It acts like the light of a lighthouse to keep individuals
and collectives from crashing into unseen dangers. That idea is recorded in
documents written by survivors of those crashes and their words are like maps they
passed down to their descendants to prevent them from sailing into the same dangerous
waters. The first map is in the Torah,
the second is in the Synoptic Gospels
and the third is in the Declaration of
Independence. Read the complete blog at --
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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