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hv Jewish legal principle. TTie
>aramount responsibility of
rovernment is after all to
safeguard the individual rights
,,f its citizens. The Torah
states:
-Thou shalt not hate thy
brother in the heart; thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself.”
This doctrine was elaborated
upon by the rabbis for twenty
centuries and more. For they
defined the corollary of the
law, “Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God” as being “Thou shalt
love thy felldur as thyself.”
This Biblical injunction was
mandatory, not only for indi
viduals, but for government.
The Jewish people, for most
of their history without worl
dly power, have retained their
vitality throughout grueling
hardships and vissicitudes. For
a while the Jewish people had
no worldly power, they always
have been conscious of a
higher power from whom
flowed their vital strength. It
is written:
“Some trust in horses and
some in chariots. We will trust
in the Lord our God.”
What is the significance,
then, o f the survival of the
Jewish people? It is simply
that the Jewish people recog
nized the Kingship of God as
the supreme law and that God
was the sovereign to whom the
nation bends its will. The tra-
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ditional historical aspiration of
the Jewish people has been
ever to obey His will and to
cultivate His justice. Divine
Justice being eternal, under
Jewish law the nation dedicat
ed to this justice is eternal,
and the requirement that
government safeguard justice
to the individual is derived
directly from God’s law, the
Torah.
The suggestion, therefore,
that the immunity against
being forced to give self-in
criminating testimony be abol
ished is not only a perversion
of the American dream, but is
a rejection of the most funda
mental standard of Jewish law.
As Rabbi Silverman pointed
out in a recent article in
“The Southern Israelite,” the
Plymouth Colony Code in 1636,
the Massachusetts Code in
1647 and the Connecticut Code
of 1650, were all based on the
laws of Moses. Not only were
their civil and criminal laws
based on Jewish statutes, but
their political constitution as
well. In the New Haven Code
adopted in 1639, over one-half
of the statutes were straight
out of the Bible. When Roger
Williams was expelled from
Massachusetts in 1635, because
of his democratic views, and
the conviction that this new
land must afford freedom of
worship and the right to dis
sent. he established the colony
of Rhode Island. He proudly
asserted that the basis of his
new theory of freedom was in
the Old Testament of the Jews.
Roger Williams ignored the
abuse of his enemies and con
centrated upon" the principle
of freedom enunciated by the
voice of Jacob.
A voice that was to be heard
ringing through the liberty
bell.
“Proclaim liberty through
out the land to all the in
habitants thereof.”
A voice that was to be heard
in the deliberations of Frank
lin, Jefferson and John Adams
when they proposed a seal of
the United States showing
Israel crossing the Red Sea.
A voice that echoed through
the organization of the Repub
lican form of government with
its threefold divisions into the
executive, legislative and judi-
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