Donald Trump's favorite Bible verse

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@Brainspore

If Bernie Sanders said stuff like “I’M A FANTASTIC, SUPER-DEVOUT JEW” and “THE TORAH IS MY FAVORITE BOOK” then you’d better believe people would make fun him if he couldn’t answer basic questions about Passover or keeping Kosher.

Yet Sanders, like Trump here, has completely avoided any discussion of religion or the Torah/Bible.

@kupfernigk

My own suggestion to politicians asked for favourite Biblical quotes is "Tempus tacendi et tempus loquendi "(Ecc 3.7) - there is a time to be silent and a time to speak.

Actually it is זעֵת לִקְרוֹעַ וְעֵת לִתְפּוֹר עֵת לַחֲשׁוֹת וְעֵת לְדַבֵּר: in the original. King Solomon did not write in Latin.

@kupfernigk

I can’t be bothered to go away and research it now

(and @jsroberts)

Eye of a needle - Wikipedia and follow through also on footnote 2. There is a vast difference between the meaning Jesus implied and the aphorism as used rabinically.

@Aloisius

The idea that any part of the Torah can or should be taken at face value is a completely foreign idea in Judaism.

Pardon?

@frauenfelder

“And some people — look, an eye for an eye, you can almost say that," he said.

Trump may have been inadvertently correct here since the Jewish understanding of the phrase is that damages require appropriate compensation judgements by the court system. IIRC Trump has a bit of a litigious past.