Want More Proof That Torah Calls for Anarchism?

 

Four times in the Book of Judges we are told that "there was no king in Israel in those days" (Judges 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25).

Judges 17:6 is usually rendered in English:

"In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes."

But that is not what the Hebrew says. It says:

 

בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם אֵין מֶלֶךְ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל:  אִישׁ הַיָּשָׁר בְּעֵינָיו יַעֲשֶׂה

 

Which means:

In those days there was no king in Israel. The people were honest and as one, doing what is right in His eyes.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel

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