The Jewish Fallacy
Are you Jewish? That question is one I often get asked upon someone learning that I don't eat pork, that I celebrate the Biblical Festivals instead of the pagan ones, or that I keep a Saturday Sabbath. It seems common knowledge that all the things the Bible commands in the Old Testament, were for the Jews, and that we modern people (after 30 AD.) are not required to observe such rites, and especially if we are not Jewish. Before we delve into that though, we need to define some terms: A “Jew” is someone that is ancestrally descended from the tribe of Judah. Judah was one of the twelve sons of Jacob (later named “Israel”) The line-up went like this: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, and Benjamin. Joseph's two sons; Manaseh and Ephraim each became a tribe and replaced the tribe of Joseph. Thus there were thirteen “tribes of Israel” that were enslaved in Egypt, and released at Passo...