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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>RET wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>The Mechilta quotes R Issi ben Akiba that if killing a nonJew
was<BR>prohibited before Sinai then certainly Sinai can not permit
something<BR>that was forbidden. Again assumes there are basics which the
Torah<BR>could not permit and we know it is basic since it was
prohibited<BR>befroe the Torah was given.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>CM responds:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>You fail to note the conclusion of that Mechilta:
"bemes amru, patur midinai basar vedam, udino masur lashomayim."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Even Issi ben Akiba doesn't prove your point as this was
not self taught from man's sense of morality (though perhaps it could have
been found that way), but GIVEN to man as the commands of the sheva mitzvoz
benai Noach.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Kol Tuv</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Chaim Manaster</FONT></DIV>
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