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Moral Justice: Noahide Code 3 of 4

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Rabbi Aaron L Raskin

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[Music] many of us are familiar with the story in the Bible in the Torah of the speaking or the talking donkey Bam Bam who is a prophet of the nations of the world was hired to curse God forbid the Jewish people and even though God was Jewish people and even though God was not happy with his choice to go and curse the Jewish people bam went anyway and on his way an angel tried to stop him and the Torah says that bam was riding on his she donkey and the donkey took Bam off the road into into the S into the field and into the S into the field and so bam began to hit and strike his donkey and then he goes on to say that they continued into a Vineyard and the donkey began to Ram the foot of bam against the wall and then again bam struck his donkey and a third time it says that the they were in an Alleyway and there was no place to go to Alleyway and there was no place to go to the right or to the left and the donkey again sees the angel of God with a sword in his hand and he crouches down beneath bam and Bam again strikes him mercilessly and beats him up and all of a sudden God opens up the mouth of the Donkey what does the donkey say to him why did you hit me three you hit me three times and soon after that the angel appears and what does the angel say to the donkey or to billum rather the angel says to Bam why did you hit your donkey three times and Bam responds I have sinned come the commentaries and they explain from here we see the prohibition of hurting one's animal which is

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  1. 0:02[Music] many of us are familiar with the story in the Bible in the Torah of
  2. 2:37animal which is called and this is part of the general prohibition of a and aai
  3. 5:44eat the limb of that animal that is the prohibition of a a limb of a
  4. 8:50bull um you can she the bull and use the meat for barbecuing and having uh
  5. 11:57[Applause] because in the image of God has God made man so man is made in
  6. 15:03then there is the the renter if you rent someone's house you are obligated to watch
  7. 17:36laws of noahide you only need three judges or even if one judge is a specialist
  8. 20:45sin of s s and and that is she did not support and strengthen the hand
  9. 23:50God did for the Jewish people he says now now I know the God is greater
  10. 26:56mean perhaps the the explanation is as follows the AL writes in t R Al of

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