With New Leaders and New Challenges, the U.S. and Israel Need to Renew Their Sense of Common Purpose
The Jewish state can defend American interests, even when America is unwilling or unable to do so.
September 9, 2021
Precisely as prohibited in the Torah.
The Torah states on four occasions that the shekel, a standard weight or coin of silver, is equivalent to twenty gerah, the latter being a smaller measurement. Elsewhere, in the book Deuteronomy, it states, “Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small,” that could be used for deceiving customers. A recent discovery brings together these two edicts, as Aryeh Savir writes:
The Jewish state can defend American interests, even when America is unwilling or unable to do so.
A controlled form of extortion.
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And why he believed religion was a prerequisite for democracy.
Precisely as prohibited in the Torah.
The Torah states on four occasions that the shekel, a standard weight or coin of silver, is equivalent to twenty gerah, the latter being a smaller measurement. Elsewhere, in the book Deuteronomy, it states, “Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small,” that could be used for deceiving customers. A recent discovery brings together these two edicts, as Aryeh Savir writes:
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