The Rabbi amazes everyone he just knows it all. About the Sabbath being the day we keep it, I think it’s worthy to quote Josephus in Contra Apion 1st century; “We have already demonstrated that our laws have been such as have always inspired admiration and imitation into all other men; nay, the earliest Grecian philosophers, though in appearance they observed the laws of their own countries, yet did they, in their actions, and their philosophic doctrines, follow our legislator, and instructed men to live sparingly, and to have friendly communication one with another. Nay, further, the multitude of mankind itself have had a great inclination of a long time to follow our religious observances; for there is not any city of the Grecians, nor any of the barbarians, nor any nation whatsoever, whither our custom of resting on the seventh day hath not come, and by which our fasts and lighting up lamps, and many of our prohibitions as to our food, are not observed; they also endeavor to imitate our mutual concord with one another, and the charitable distribution of our goods, and our diligence in our trades, and our fortitude in undergoing the distresses we are in, on account of our laws; and, what is here matter of the greatest admiration, our law hath no bait of pleasure to allure men to it, but it prevails by its own force; and as God himself pervades all the world, so hath our law passed through all the world also. So that if any one will but reflect on his own country, and his own family, he will have reason to give credit to what I say”. Contra Apion Book 2;39
How could you suggest that Esau shot an arrow and that killed the animal the same way as kosher slaughter would? Sounds too absurd to be true. Rather, a more realistic scenario is that he deceived his father the same way he did with the rest of his life - that everything was kosher and above board.
How can you say that dying in the context of a threat of death, is an actual choice - since no one in his right mind CHOOSES DEATH? REAL OPTION is one that is attractive and something you want - on the one hand versus the other.
