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Rabbi Segal unpacks the phrase 'an eye for an eye' in the Torah, emphasizing its role as a code and the importance of Jewish learning.
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This is the five-books of Moses. Do the Jews believe in this book? >> Yes. >> One would think so. I'm going to prove to you they don't. Exodus chapter 21, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. So, imagine the following scene, okay? Sharpening my index finger, I take cover [music] behind this box as I wait in pray [music] for my victim to come closer. I jump up behind the box. I thrust, insert, and extract his eye from his eye socket.
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- 0:00This is the five-books of Moses. Do the Jews believe in this book? >> Yes. >>…
- 0:36And I have it in my hand. This guy's a criminal. Let's try to figure out…
- 1:06my eye would remain tightly locked into socket. But, I would have to have paid the…
- 1:36They believe in the Torah. And the Bible and the Torah are two separate things. The…
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