ruveyn wrote:
JakobVirgil wrote:
Judaism survived millenia without enFORCEment.
how?
Tradition. But that is just habit and custom. Important laws are enFORCEd.
When Jews had a sovereign state in the Holy Land (way back when) laws were enforced the old fashioned way -- knives, clubs, whips and dungeons. And look what happened to the man who was gathering wood on the Sabbath. He was stoned to death.
ruveyn
but for the last 2000 it has been "enforced" by dirty looks.
the Forces that be only tried to destroy it.
There are thing more powerful than Violence.
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?We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots??
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