Posted: Apr 04, 2015 9:58 am
Zwaarddijk wrote:Agrippina wrote:
There are 612 other laws that they also cherry-pick to suit their particular bigotry.
I would suggest you stop using the number 613 for the number of laws in the Torah. Yes, Jewish tradition has it that there are 613 laws in the Torah. Yet different rabbis disagree on which to count twice and which to count as aspects of some single commandment, etc. There's probably "about 580-640" or somesuch. Anyways, go and count them, you won't find 613.
I'm working off Maimonides list. It contains 613 laws, and in the context I'm using it, i.e. taken from the Bible, it fits.