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1. Idolatry.
2. Prohibited sexual intercourse.
3. Murder of an innocent person.
In defining idolatry, the Rabbis delineated certain
philosophical commandments that fell under this category. The
Rabbis did not regard Christians, for example, as idolaters, for
it has been well articulated in Judaism that the concept of the
Trinity is not idolatrous for a non-Jew, since non-Jews were
never given any specific commandments prohibiting belief in a
multi-faceted deity. 42 However, with regard to the Jews, the
Torah proclaims (Deut. 6:4) "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God.
the Lord is One." Judaism regarded the commandment to unify
God as a commandment to be binding exclusively on Jews.
Therefore, Jews throughout the Middle Ages chose death
rather than forced conversion to Christianity. Judaism officially
regarded Christians as not being idolatrous, but Jews who
convert to Christianity are considered as idolaters.
The Muslim philosophers declared that the Torah was not
an authentic revelation, but their religion spoke of one God—
Allah. Again, Judaism regarded the denial of the authentic
revelation of the Torah by Islam as non-idolatrous, for non-
Jews were not included in the commandments concerning the
blasphemy of the Torah. For the Jews this would be idolatry.
Therefore, they chose death rather than conversion to Islam.
Judaism is a non-proselytizing faith and, therefore, has no
missionaries, for intrinsic in the belief in Judaism was that non-
Jews could achieve salvation if they led moral lives. In
Talmudic verbiage, "the righteous of the world have a share in
the hereafter." And it was conceived that the Jew was to be a
priesthood to serve the nations of the world, to achieve a
moral life based on universal morality as conceived in the
Noahide laws.
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