Word: leviticus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost a third of the workers on 47th Street are Hasidic Jews, a Yiddish-speaking, fundamentalist sect. The men let their beards and forelocks grow, as admonished by the Old Testament book of Leviticus. Deeply religious, the Hasidim from Brooklyn travel in a bus that is divided down the aisle by a curtain, segregating men and women for prayer sessions on the way to work...
...aspect of Sabbath observance, so far as he is concerned, is the proscription on the holy day of "creative work." Among other things, creative work can include writing (even signing a hotel bill), turning on a light, and using a telephone. Basing his interpretation of the halakah on Leviticus 19:14 ("Thou shalt not curse the deaf nor put a stumbling block before the blind"), Zolty declared that "a Jew shouldn't sleep a sweet sleep in his hotel room while he is causing Jewish clerks to work on the Sabbath and make up his bill...
...book, Magic, Myth and Medicine, Dr. Donald Atkinson describes how Balavignus, a Jewish doctor in the Strasbourg area, "following the sanitary laws set down by Leviticus . . . had all refuse burned. Naturally the rats left the ghettos and gravitated to gentile quarters in search of food. The Jews consequently suffered less from the disease than did their Christian neighbors . . . This was so noticeable that the Jews at once fell under suspicion." So the Christians murdered nearly all of the Jewish population...
Presbyterian liberals dismiss the hostile view of Leviticus and St. Paul toward homosexuality as "conditioned by time and place." But that is exactly why any sane man should dismiss the Presbyterian liberals. Their view is one conditioned by and limited to the last half of the 20th century and held by only a handful of ecclesiastical bureaucrats...
...from heredity. The liberal side relied heavily on psychological theory, while conservatives pointed out that scientific findings are fluid and conflicting. Finally, however, both the majority and minority sides staked their case on the Bible. The two passages that drew most attention were the condemnation of homosexual relations in Leviticus 18:22 (repeated in 20:13) and St. Paul's teaching in Romans 1:18-32 that homosexual acts are sinful. Disagreement about how to interpret them was the logical outcome of two general views of the Scripture that exist in the theologically divided church...