Torah Talk With Stro: Exodus of Pro Wrestling NOAH
New pharaoh took over, wasn't down with Jacob and his family. Made the Israelites slaves. Told the midwives to kill all the Israelite baby boys. They feared God more than the Pharaoh and let them live. So the Pharaoh decreed that ALL baby boys would be thrown into the Nile upon birth, while baby girls would live.
Well, a certain woman thought her baby boy was just so beautiful that she couldn't kill it, and instead put him in a basket and then sent him down the river. The Pharaoh's daughter found him while taking a bath and decided she'd raise this kid. His name? Moses.
When Moses was an adult, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew and since there was no one around, killed that mother fucker and buried him in the sand. Mo ran away when people found out.
Sometime later, Mo was out in the desert and a bush was on fire. And that mother fucking bush started talking. Dude was clearly tripping balls. Turns out it is God himself. He's heard the cries of his people and he's sending Mo into liberate them. He gets Mo all hyped up and then says that not only will he liberate his people, but also gets to steal a bunch of shit from the Egyptians. Mo is a little leery of the plan, but God convinces him with the classic rod to snake to rod illusion.
After convincing Moses to go, he says to perform all the master illusions, yet also says he's going to make the Pharaoh's heart hardened, so he won't let his people go. What the fuck? Why would you intentionally make the job even HARDER? Here is why: God decided that he wanted to test out his plague skills out, at the expense of his Jews. And he made the justification that he had to do that because people really needed to FEAR him. That's right, God was doing something so shitty he had to justify it to himself before he did it. Even though he's God and can literally do anything. And HE thinks what he is so shitty that he has to try to make excuses for it.
Once Moses and the Hebrews were wandering around looking for a place to go, they came across Egyptians, who wanted to fight. So God told Mo to hold up his big rod and he'd separate the sea. And the sea did separate. He also made sure the Egyptian chariots wheels locked up and that everyone was frozen in fear. When the Egyptians ran away, God flung them into the sea anyway.
ALL of this Moses shit was specifically so people would fear God. FEAR. That word that came up a lot in Koran Korner has suddenly begun popping up a lot in Torah Talk. Who would have thought?
A lot of, frankly, stupid ass Passover rules.
God made it rain bread on the Jews in the desert.
The Jews bitched A LOT, enough so that Moses was sick of them after 40 years.
Moses' father in law convinced him to basically be the first pope.
God hands out the commandments. Of course the first one is YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BESIDES ME. Because this dude clearly has an ego problem. He also says he will be mean as shit up to great great great great grandchild of people who wrong him.
Apparently cool for Hebrews to have Hebrew slaves, even though he sent Moses on this whole fucking saga to to stop the Hebrews from being slaves. You can only have them for 6 years. If they came in single, they leave single. Come in married, leave married. But if the master gives them a wife and kids, the master keeps them. When a parent sells their daughter into slavery, she isn't allowed to be set free like male slaves. UNLESS her master is mean to her and doesn't fuck her or something. If you hit your slave with a rod or rock, and that slave dies within 2 days, the death must be avenged. But if they don't die in those 2 days, it is totally cool, since you own them anyway. If they beat the slave so hard that the slave loses an eye or teeth, they have to let the slave go.
A bunch of stuff on what to do if your ox gores someone, if it is a regular habit of said ox, if it is done to a minor or slave, if an ox falls into a hole you dug and didn't cover.
God supports Stand Your Ground laws.
"You shall not tolerate sorceresses."
Don't fuck animals. You'll be killed for it.
Don't you dare be mean to widows or orphans, because God's "anger shall blaze forth and I will put you to the sword, and your own wives shall become widows and your children orphans."
When you see the ass of your enemy lying under its burden and would refrain from raising it, you must nevertheless help raise it.
You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
"I will send forth My terror before you, and I will throw into panic all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn tail before you."
Instructions on how to build the Ark of the Covenant that would make Ikea shit its pants. I'm talking 4 full verses on just how to build it. The another 3 on how to build the tent and altars, and how to behave around all this shit. SO MANY RULES.
THE VERY NEXT DAY, God was ready to kill all of the Jews because some of them didn't follow one of the billion rules he made the day before. Moses had to talk him down from injecting a lethal dose of poison to his creation. But then Moses himself got pissed at the Jews, broke the tablets, burned the golden calf the Jews made, and then pounded into a powder before throwing it in the water and making the Jews drink it. Then he took the people that would follow him exactly and had them kill everyone who didn't. Some 3000 people died. THE VERY NEXT DAY, Moses told them they all sinned greatly and he'd have to go ask for their forgiveness. And God sent down a plague on the remaining group. What the fuck? Buncha cunts in this book.
Get put to death for just about anything. Eye for an eye shit a plenty.
The God fellow is a real son of a bitch. Although now I understand a little more why the Koran talks about Moses ALL THE GOD DAMN TIME: He was also a crazy dude who was quick to violence and murder.