Jeremy Rosen
Making Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Leviticus 19:11, Ethics
Summary
Study the text of the Bible weekly with Jeremy Rosen through a combination of traditional, critical, and personal perspectives. No knowledge of Hebrew or the Bible is necessary. You may use any Bible text you may have or you can go to sefaria.org. This week will begin with Leviticus 19:11, ethics.
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.
Well, you know, xenophobia is forbidden in the Torah. We’re going to come to it many times as even a special law which says, don’t hate the Egyptians despite what they all did to you. So you know, xenophobia is not a term that I think you can apply to the Torah. You can talk about distinctions between different groups of people. And mixed species obviously does not apply to humans who do and should intermarry not based on any racial consideration, but entirely on personal consideration. Who is this human being?