Israel, Land of Asylum?


	Israel, Land of Asylum?

jklugman

3-30-2008 8:21 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e84a203e-ccb0-4a65-9f42-9924e9e52226/6BD62F73-9F2E-4FEA-B989-EDF0042761CE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/30/the-land-of-asylum/" href="http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/30/the-land-of-asylum/" style="font-size: 11px;">southjerusalem.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/30/the-land-of-asylum/"><P>This idea that Israel should offer asylum to non-Jewish refugees - how new is that? Some crazy concept thought up by secular Tel Aviv liberals with no concern for Israel’s Jewish character?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/30/the-land-of-asylum/"><P>Actually, no.  Just a bit older than that.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/30/the-land-of-asylum/">text from <A target="_blank" href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=63&letter=A#153">Sefer Hahinukh</A>, an anonymous 13th century religious text<SPAN id="more-74"></SPAN> popular in Orthodox study.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/30/the-land-of-asylum/">Commandment No. 565: “Not to return a slave who escaped to the Land of Israel from his master outside the Land of Israel.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/30/the-land-of-asylum/">…even if his master is a Jew, we do not return him to him, but rather free him…</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/30/the-land-of-asylum/">
The root of the commandment is… that God wanted for the sake of the Land’s honor that one fleeing there should be saved from slavery…</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/30/the-land-of-asylum/">in Jewish thinking, the Land of Israel represents the place where there should be a Jewish polity - even if for most of history that wasn’t the case. That polity is supposed to offer refuge to anyone, Jew or non-Jew, who faces enslavement if sent back to where he or she came from. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6BD62F73-9F2E-4FEA-B989-EDF0042761CE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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