Thursday, February 22, 2007

Bnei noach

Okay, so for now I've given up on converting to Judaism. Why? Well, even the liberal movements won't convert into an intermarriage, particularly when there's a kid involved (and while I'm bringing him up with exposure to jewish/noachide beliefs, events, etc., we won't force our son to be any particular religion). So, I get to default to being a Noachide. I started reading up on this awhile back, it's just taken me this long to give in. So, I'll try to learn as much as I can about those areas I can do something in, and maybe someday when is older and grown up, I'll be able to convert then (as I'd be too old to have kids of either kind, jewish or gentile). But then I sometimes see things that I see as anti-Gentile (as opposed to antisemetic), like this snippet from about half way down the page of http://www.noahide.com/rebbe.htm:

The Seven Laws must be explained in away that the nations can relate to and, because non-Jews do not possessgenuine free will, they will be willing to change more quickly and easily than a Jew.

--Hisvaduyos 5748 3:183, cited in "The Deed is the Main Thing," Kol Boi Ha'olam, p. 385-386.

Now, I'm pretty darned surprised that I didn't have "genuine free will". Pretty darned surprised. I'm going to chalk this one up to some guy having a bad day years ago - everyone has them. But boy does that quote burn in my gut right now.

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