Miscellaneous

Dear Rabbi, According to the Jewish sages, G-d gave Noah and his sons seven commandments, which apply to Jews and Non-Jew. One of these laws is not to worship idols such as the sun or what have you. However, this seems to contradict earlier biblical texts, which seem to indicate that while Israel is to worship Hashem alone, the other nations have their own appropriate gods. For example, Deuteronomy 29:26 shows that Hashem allotted other gods to the nations (Deuteronomy 32:8 as well), and Deuteronomy 4:19 tells us that the sun, moon and stars were given to the nations, and this seems right and good. I could, of course, give more examples. This contradicts both the idea of the Noahide Laws as well as the idea that the mission of the Jewish people is to spread monotheism. This idea, though, makes sense to me that the God of Israel is just that, the God of Israel, for he seems to show little concern for other nations ( with the notable exception of Jonah) except in how they interact with Israel, which makes sense if he gave that Job to another god like Chemosh. I was hoping you could help me sort through this. Sincerely, Adam. A

So, as a DID system that was raised as a non-Jew, most of our alters are not Jewish, mostly pagan or atheist. However, we have some alters who were formed Jewish (ex: introjects whose sources are Jewish) and some alters who wish to convert. Can individual alters practice Judaism, or would the entire system/body need to convert?

Shalom, Following the October 7th attack in Israel I have become more active in my Jewish faith. I had fallen away for several years but after what happened there, I have been slowly recovering my Jewish identity and practices. I went to school to study the world’s religions with a stress on my own, but lately as I’ve gotten more into my religion, I’ve started to see some very antisemitic things found in the Christian Gospels and in the Muslim Surrahs that are flat out disturbing. My question is this, where the New Testament and the Quran written to bring hatred against us? I ask this because I’ve seen not just Muslim calls to destroy our people but to a lesser extent I’ve been seeing Christian groups calling for our extermination as well. Today rabah.