From: "Yohanan Shalom b. David" <ybd_talmidtorah AT hotmail.com>
To: gathas AT hotkey.net.au, b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: RE: SV: The daughter of Jeftah died?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:37:59 -0500
George, and all:
Whether Jepthah's daughter had been sacrificed is of little value to me,
because if she was, then Jepthah made a great error in the vow that he had
made to YHWH. Why? Because, YHWH does not desire human sacrifice, but a
vow made to YHWH cannot be broken.
This would have cause Jepthah a great dilema, and is a lesson, that we
should not make vows that we do not intend to keep. And this is the lesson
that I think that YHWH would intend for us to learn in such a reading of the
T"NK.
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But, my interest in this lies in the fact that here we see a human being
sacrificed unto YHWH as a burnt-offering to keep a vow to YHWH. A sacrifice
unto YHWH.... oh what Christianity could do with this. A sacrificed made in
error though, and one that should not be used to further claim the
sacrificing of a man for our sins, which YHWH in His T"NK, especially the
Torah, has made known cannot happen, since each of us is guilty for our own
sins, and not man can take our place.