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Response #1 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