Anyone care to speculate what would happen in New York if the police started burning Torahs? Orthodox Jews have exactly the same reverence for scriptures as Muslims do.
"They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness" (Ps. lxxxii. 5). Truth, in spite of all its powerful manifestations, is completely withheld from them, and the following words of Scripture may be applied to them, "And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies" (Job xxxvii. 21). They are the multitude of ordinary men: there is no need to notice them in this treatise.
:- Maimonides.
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