NOTE: To continue, translated by my original text English to English, in which Jewish rabbis give their educated opinions on the alleged anti-homosexual passages in Leviticus in the original Hebrew so vaunted by ignorant homophobic Christian fundamentalists of the court, who barely know English and Hebrew, much less blatantly insist on pontificating to the four winds on which they do not know jack.
The opinions of the Jewish rabbis who received education from children to read, write and speak their ancestral mother tongue, the ancient Hebrew Bible, have credibility while the opinions of those who have no academic credentials as evidence possess expertise in biblical linguist and develop their opinions depending on foreign Bible translations are not credibility whatsoever except in his peer group who share the same ignornancia REALLY mean what the original scriptures from the Bible.
XI.
Within the Hebrew Torah readings Achare Mot (Leviticus 16: 1-18: 30) and Kedosheem (Leviticus 19: 1-20, 27) are the Bible passages that have been used by 1.600 years past, for Teachers fundamentalist Jews and Christians to wrongly prosecute and punish a small portion of the human population.
This specific texts are
Leviticus 18:22, which reads: and remembered not make love bed a woman is abomination - V-et zachar lo tishkav miskevery eeshah toeyvah hee . No te acuestes (sexualmente) con varón como lo harías con mujer, dado que esto es una abominación (TOEYVAH).
Y, Levítico 20:13, que dice: and which lie the male bed dirty woman did both be put to death their blood in them - V-eesh yishkav et asher zakar eeshah mishkevey toeyvah. Not yumatu dameyhem shenayhem Asu bam. If a man has sex with a male person in the same way as with a woman, both have committed a toeyvah (disgusting perversion.) Both will die by blood be upon them.
was at least a millennium after these verses were written in Leviticus, durantre a historical period when the Jews were in contact with a Syrian-Greek Hellenic culture that had an open hedonistic sexual promiscuous mode, the first references to Talmudic public display of homosexual activity as a perversion of Jewish religious practice are registered. (Sanhedrin 54A)
According to Rabbi Jacob Milgrom, translator and translation of the prestigious comentarisita Book of Leviticus Anchor Bible Series and Commentary on the Book of Numbers Jewish Publication Society, these texts refer to religious practices and sexual abuse sexual non-Israelites that the Israelites were not to imitate in the land of Israel. It has nothing to do with what we call today as being homosexuality.
This, then, presents us with several questions:
1. Did the Hebrew people who wrote the original text of Leviticus, saw it as referring to homosexuality as a sexual orientation or saw them to homosexuality as something of little or no real concern to normal operation of the group?
Y, Levítico 20:13, que dice: and which lie the male bed dirty woman did both be put to death their blood in them - V-eesh yishkav et asher zakar eeshah mishkevey toeyvah. Not yumatu dameyhem shenayhem Asu bam. If a man has sex with a male person in the same way as with a woman, both have committed a toeyvah (disgusting perversion.) Both will die by blood be upon them.
was at least a millennium after these verses were written in Leviticus, durantre a historical period when the Jews were in contact with a Syrian-Greek Hellenic culture that had an open hedonistic sexual promiscuous mode, the first references to Talmudic public display of homosexual activity as a perversion of Jewish religious practice are registered. (Sanhedrin 54A)
According to Rabbi Jacob Milgrom, translator and translation of the prestigious comentarisita Book of Leviticus Anchor Bible Series and Commentary on the Book of Numbers Jewish Publication Society, these texts refer to religious practices and sexual abuse sexual non-Israelites that the Israelites were not to imitate in the land of Israel. It has nothing to do with what we call today as being homosexuality.
This, then, presents us with several questions:
1. Did the Hebrew people who wrote the original text of Leviticus, saw it as referring to homosexuality as a sexual orientation or saw them to homosexuality as something of little or no real concern to normal operation of the group?
2. Did the Jewish people a thousand years later, during the time period that coincides with the beginning of Christianity, saw the homosexulidad as a problem or issue of major concern? They saw homosexuality in the same way we view homosexuality today?
3. Or is that our texts refer to prohibitions PRIESTLY only and not to sexual practices ordinary Israelis?
4. Or are the texts refer to the inability of a person within the community to control their inclinations telling sexual control their emotions, control their bodily functions? And so it does not refer to sexual orientation?
If the Torah is referring to homosexuality in general, why only way to male homosexuality and not too feminine homosexual activity?
The ancient rabbis must have had some sense of this problem when two thousand years ago any less homosexual activity anal sex was not included in the biblical prohibition (Babylonian Talmud, Yevamont 54th-56th, Sotah 26b, Niddah 13a; Maimonides, L'Perush Mishnayot on Sanhedrin 54a).
Why bother The ancient rabbis must have had some sense of this problem when two thousand years ago any less homosexual activity anal sex was not included in the biblical prohibition (Babylonian Talmud, Yevamont 54th-56th, Sotah 26b, Niddah 13a; Maimonides, L'Perush Mishnayot on Sanhedrin 54a).
to offer this qualification if they were so clear that homosexuality was forbidden? Similarly, lesbianism, according to Jewish law, was never banned, Maimonides, who personally hated such behavior, decreed that (homosexuality) is neither biblical or rabbinic prohibition. (Perush L'Mishnayot on Sanhedrin 54a).
The truth is that the rabbis in the Gemara (Tract Yevamot) specifically say that the passage in Leviticus refers to an androgynous and not male-male sex. As interpretations of the rabbis are the basis of halakhah, someone claiming that Judaism is against homosexual orientation based on the biblical passage is simply incorrect. (End of article by Rabbi Winkler. See SACRED SECRETS by Rabbi Gershon Winkler)
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