Hi! We hope you like our latest newsletter. You'll
see that we've got a new format - and also a new name! We mean to be
getting newsletters off to you more often and more regularly. How often?
We can't say yet. Please be patient. Remember that it took us this long
to get just to this point.
You may not be aware of the new look of our website. If you are aware
of the changes we made in the format, you may not be familiar with
the added content. We've added a lot of content. If you haven't been
checking in regularly please take a look at the new offerings. Click
on the link here: www.rainbowcovenant.org.
We invite you to send in your own material, comments, letters and
suggestions. Your complaints too - but please, let them be constructive
and polite. Both politics and religion tend to trigger people's "righteous
wrath" - a phrase which, in most cases, is oxymoronic. And here
our cause is both political - in the sense that we want to make the
world better and have certain ideas about how to go about that - and
religious.
Now about the name change. We speak of the Universal Covenant, the
Noahide Covenant, as the Rainbow Covenant. That was our name since
we started. We sponsored the book - The Rainbow Covenant: Torah and
the Seven Universal Laws - in that name. We are trying to take the
rainbow back for G'd and holiness. But, as you know, groups and causes
that have nothing to do with the rainbow covenant have claimed the
rainbow for themselves, since at least the second half of the twentieth
century. "New Age" or neo-pagan faiths have tried to bring
themselves under the cover of the rainbow. So have various homosexual
activist "gay rights" groups. So did the Reverend Jesse
Jackson, a less than completely honest black nationalist political
figure, with his Rainbow Coalition.
Enough. The eternal symbol of G'd's covenant with all the world has
come to be confused with too many other things. Of course we will
always recognize the rainbow as G'd's symbol, a sign of faithful holiness,
rather than as their symbol. But the Rainbow Covenant is also G'd's
first covenant with all the world and we have legally changed the
name of this foundation to reflect that. This foundation is now the
First Covenant Foundation. We have already reserved the appropriate
website domain names.
Don't worry, you will still be able to reach us as the Rainbow Covenant
Foundation on the Internet. Address a letter to the Rainbow Covenant
Foundation, by traditional postal service or through the Internet,
and it will still come to us. We will remain who we are and our mission
will remain the same, we will simply be referring to the Rainbow Covenant
by another of its names: as the First Covenant, and that will be our
name as well.
A point of Torah: some people will argue that G'd first entered into
a covenant with Adam and Eve, before the Noahide Covenant. That argument
has some merit. Regardless, if that's true the Noahide Covenant is
merely its renewal and extension. If the First Covenant was with Adam
and Eve, the Maker of all things just extended it to Noah and his
family and it remains the First Covenant.
Check out the new material on our website! One new article you probably
haven't seen yet is very interesting: "Staring
at Rainbows" by Rabbi Moshe Ben-Chaim. But we have a lot
of new material up - check it out!
We call on God for help. As the prayer that Israel says every morning just before reciting the Hebrew statement of faith known as the shema asks (please understand that this is much richer in Hebrew than in English): Our Father, the merciful Father, Who acts mercifully, have mercy on us, instill in our hearts to understand and elucidate, to listen, learn, teach, safeguard, perform and fulfill all the words of Your Torah's teachings with love. Enlighten our eyes in Your Torah, attach our hearts to Your commandments, and unify our hearts to love and fear Your Name. Amen
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