Jeremy Rosen
Judges Who Did Not Judge
Summary
Jeremy Rosen talks about the Old Testament Period of the Judges, and argues that it was a period that in many respects mirrors the state of Jewish life today, even though it goes back thousands of years.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.
Abraham didn’t kill his son. On the contrary, he was told this was not what God wants. Apart from the fact that by the time you come to the 10 Commandments, it says clearly you may not kill. And it specifies what the sacrifices are to be, they are or animal, bird, vegetable. And you have these options. Nowhere is it mentioned that you can kill a human being. That’s what the Greeks did in the way to go to Troy. And that was much later. And that was still part of their tradition.