The text, R. Joseph Colon No. 110, discuss the importance of a Jew’s relationship with God by examining the oath that a person takes when they embrace Judaism. In it a questioned is posed; what should be punished more harshly, deliberately committing a crime or, withholding information about missing property (i.e. a crime, or alleged crime). The question is answered simply; a person withholding information about missing property should be punished more harshly. In this paper I will explain the reasoning behind this answer, prove this document to be a credible historic source and briefly explain how this affected the loyalty of most Jews to their religion in the face of medieval Christian persecution. Judaism has always been a religion of loyalty and this text uses loyalty to prove all these things.
“…Indeed (certainly!) one is to deal with a deceiver more (severely) then with a wonton perpetrator.” The rabbini
This text addresses a specific topic of Jewish tradition, but similar to everything else in Judaism at the time, the message that is to be learned from this text transcends all aspect of Jewish life. It is a message of a Jews loyalty to the Jewish religion, the words of the Rabbi’s and most of all to God.
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