Leviticus 19 is an expansion of the Decalogue with punishment for breaking the commandments added to the original commandments. The Decalogue is wholly on the amity side of the amity-enmity complex (Herbert Spencer). It is indeed for solidifying a group's internal bonds. It doesn't refer to the group's enemies. The Covenant identifies Judaism's enemies and how to destroy them.
"Be careful not to make a covenant with the natives of the land against which you are going, or they will prove a snare in your midst.
No: you shall demolish their altars, smash their sacred pillars and cut down their sacred poles."
Aniconism and iconoclasm are not easily identified when they are in their priestly form. Aniconism and iconoclasm are generally manifest as an attack on native institutions when wielded by priests.
The Decalogue is for binding your own community together. Trying to glean an attitude toward outsiders from it misinterprets its purpose.
The covenant is for identifying the enemy host and destroying the enemy host.
Lev. 19:18
You shall not seek revenge, or cherish anger towards your KINFOLK; you shall love your NEIGHBOR as a man like yourself.
The Decalogue is for internal use only.
This (Jewish mysticism) is for internal consumption and external use:
In Gershom Scholem’s treatment of the messianic idea in Kabbalism he describes what will happen at redemption.
He writes: “The Zohar follows Talmudic Aggadah” in seeing redemption as “the gradual illumination of the world by the light of the
Messiah.”
“At the time when the Holy One, blessed be He, shall set Israel upright and bring them up out of Galut He will open to them a small and scant window of light, and then he will open another that is larger, until he will open to them the portals on high to the four directions of the universe. So shall it be with all that the Holy One, blessed be he, does for Israel and for the righteous among them, so shall it be and not at a single instant, for neither does healing come to a sick man at a single instant, but gradually until he is made strong.”
“The Gentiles (who are designated Esau or Edom), however, will suffer the opposite fate. They received their light in this world at a single stroke, but it will depart from them gradually until Israel shall grow strong and destroy them.
See Elliott Horowitz, Elisheva Carlebach or John Murray Cuddihy or my "The Fundamental Structure and Systematic Theology of the Torah"
Leviticus 19 is an expansion of the Decalogue with punishment for breaking the commandments added to the original commandments. The Decalogue is wholly on the amity side of the amity-enmity complex (Herbert Spencer). It is indeed for solidifying a group's internal bonds. It doesn't refer to the group's enemies. The Covenant identifies Judaism's enemies and how to destroy them.
"Be careful not to make a covenant with the natives of the land against which you are going, or they will prove a snare in your midst.
No: you shall demolish their altars, smash their sacred pillars and cut down their sacred poles."
Aniconism and iconoclasm are not easily identified when they are in their priestly form. Aniconism and iconoclasm are generally manifest as an attack on native institutions when wielded by priests.
The Decalogue is for binding your own community together. Trying to glean an attitude toward outsiders from it misinterprets its purpose.
The covenant is for identifying the enemy host and destroying the enemy host.
Lev. 19:18
You shall not seek revenge, or cherish anger towards your KINFOLK; you shall love your NEIGHBOR as a man like yourself.
The Decalogue is for internal use only.
This (Jewish mysticism) is for internal consumption and external use:
In Gershom Scholem’s treatment of the messianic idea in Kabbalism he describes what will happen at redemption.
He writes: “The Zohar follows Talmudic Aggadah” in seeing redemption as “the gradual illumination of the world by the light of the
Messiah.”
“At the time when the Holy One, blessed be He, shall set Israel upright and bring them up out of Galut He will open to them a small and scant window of light, and then he will open another that is larger, until he will open to them the portals on high to the four directions of the universe. So shall it be with all that the Holy One, blessed be he, does for Israel and for the righteous among them, so shall it be and not at a single instant, for neither does healing come to a sick man at a single instant, but gradually until he is made strong.”
“The Gentiles (who are designated Esau or Edom), however, will suffer the opposite fate. They received their light in this world at a single stroke, but it will depart from them gradually until Israel shall grow strong and destroy them.
See Elliott Horowitz, Elisheva Carlebach or John Murray Cuddihy or my "The Fundamental Structure and Systematic Theology of the Torah"