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05/15/2004: Thought for the Day:
Several years ago, I participated on a panel on WNBC in New York. When I read that passage from Numbers [Numbers, 31:17-18], a conservative Christian preacher responded, "you have to understand that the Midianites were a very wicked tribe, deserving annihilation. ("Including all those children?" I asked). The Reform Rabbi at the table had a very different take on it: "when we consider the context of the entire scripture, we 'interpret out' such passages as these." ("Interpret out"--what an elegant euphemism!)
--Ernest Partridge
Len on 05.15.04 @ 10:12 AM CST
