Jewish Friends: Re Homosexuality and the Tanakh:?

Question

When the nation of Israel were slaves in Egypt, they picked up some of the customs, specifically worshiping the Egyptian Goddess Qadesh, the goddess of love/sexual ecstacy (pleasure). The belief started in Syria but the Egyptians adopted this god.

Rabbi Caudill stated that there is no hebrew word for homosexuality. but the word "toeyvah" = rape which is an abomination, detestable.

Per the Rabbi: Do you agree that the Mosiac Law interpreted this to mean that when two males get together sexually, that one should not follow the cultic sexual practices where one male pretends or substitutes the other male for a preferred female body?

This is the abomination spoken about in Leviticus etc. and not homosexuallity with two men who love each other.?

Got this info off of Beliefnet

Answer 1

well your right in that their is no word in Hebrew for homosexuality.

But the act was clearly described. Sexual relations aka penetration was the action that was forbidden.

This fact is outlined clearly in latter Talmudic texts which spell out that is clearly forbidden according to Jewish law for two men to have sexual relations.

That being said their is nothing in Jewish law that says two men cannot love each other or that they cannot be affectionate.

What is clear is that their are particular actions that have been forbidden for thousands of years. Any amount of revisionism is not going to change that.

Answer 2

many human beings have asked why classic Judaism makes use of matrilineal descent to be certain Jewish prestige, whilst in all different issues (tribal association, priestly prestige, royalty, and so on.) patrilineal descent is used. The Torah does no longer especially state everywhere that matrilineal descent would want for use; besides the shown fact that, there are a number of passages interior the Torah the place that's understood that the new child of a Jewish woman and a non-Jewish guy is a Jew, and a variety of of different different passages the place that's understood that the new child of a non-Jewish woman and a Jewish guy isn't a Jew. In Deuteronomy 7:a million-5, in expressing the prohibition against intermarriage, G-d says "he [ie, the non-Jewish male significant different] will reason your new child to teach faraway from Me and that they're going to worship the gods of others." No such subject is expressed with regard to the new child of a non-Jewish woman significant different. From this, we infer that the new child of a non-Jewish male significant different is Jewish (and would hence be became faraway from Judaism), however the new child of a non-Jewish woman significant different isn't Jewish (and hence turning away isn't a controversy). Leviticus 24:10 speaks of the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian guy as being "between the community of Israel" (i.e., a Jew). on the different hand, in Ezra 10:2-3, the Jews returning to Israel vowed to place aside their non-Jewish better halves and the little ones born to those better halves. they won't have positioned aside those little ones if those little ones have been Jews. a number of human beings have asked how King David may well be a Jew on condition that one in all his woman ancestors, Ruth, became into no longer a Jew. This end is in accordance with 2 defective premises: at first, Ruth became right into a Jew, and whether she wasn't, that does no longer impact David's prestige as a Jew. Ruth converted to Judaism earlier marrying Boaz and bearing Obed. See Ruth a million:sixteen, the place Ruth states her objective to transform. After Ruth converted, she became right into a Jew, and all of her little ones born after the conversion have been Jewish besides. yet whether Ruth weren't Jewish on the time Obed became into born, that does no longer impact King David's prestige as a Jew, because of the fact Ruth is an ancestor of David's father, no longer of David's mom, and David's Jewish prestige is set by way of his mom.

Answer 3

It just dawned on me, why are people trying so hard to make homosexuality acceptable to different religions? For as many religions that say it is wrong there are an equal if not more religions that really care for the people and not the act. I really have never invited my religion into my bedroom, although mine doesn't care. So why do other religions get involved with their members sex lives? If people are afraid they will just hide it and do what they want

Answer 4

Have you ever heard the children's story about "The Sky is falling," That's my favorite.

DO you like stories about The Big Bad Wolfe and little Red Riding Hood.--I like those too.

Answer 5

EXACTLY!!! Thank you for putting this into cultural context for everyone.