DEUT643 [Continued from [[DEUT1210]] Deuteronomy 23:4 admitted AMEMEI 222]. It is prejudice only if one prejudices another individual before all the facts are known. After the facts are clear, it is not prejudiced to hate a person if it is warranted. For example, it would not be prejudice to refuse to sell a house to a convicted rapist or an ax murder out of fear he may endanger the neighborhood. In a similar manner, the Torah explains why these groups may not enter the Jewish community or the Jewish neighborhoods. The Torah amplifies why Amonite men may not convert or enter the Jewish community structure (Deuteronomy 23:5-7), clearly stating that there is something endemic to the Amonite personality that runs counter to Jewish values. God has determined that because the Amonites lack any measure of kindness and mercy, demonstrated by their refusal to provide the Jewish people with bread and water in the desert when they were requested to do so, they can never be part of the Jewish community. While other groups may be able to unlearn these values, these negative traits are inherent within the Amonites and Moabites and are internalized in their personalities. Therefore, the Torah does discriminate but is not prejudiced. God wants to ensure that the Jewish community with its values survives intact. Thus, one may not introduce into that community anyone who thinks, acts, and behaves in a manner in opposition to these values. That would be detrimental to the community, to its Jewish inhabitants, and to Judaism itself. In a similar manner, we can understand the prohibition against selling your home to an idol worshiper. Idol worship is located at the opposite end of the Jewish spectrum from prejudice. The positive mitzvah of loving this stranger is mentioned thirty-six times in the Torah and the sin against idol-worship is also mentioned thirty-six times (Bava Metzia 59b+J637y city of idol worshipers, including all the people and the contents within (Deuteronomy 13:13–19). Therefore, no idol worshiper with these anti-Jewish values can ever enter the Jewish community. It would attack the very foundation of Judaism to tolerate someone so anti-Jewish right in the midst of the Jewish community (like a neo-Nazi today). Is only for this reason that one cannot sell an idol worship or a home in the community. Therefore, it is not the person that Judaism is against, but the dangerous values he or she represents. Thus, a non-Jew who accepts the basic Seven Laws of Noah is certainly welcome to as a righteous Gentile because, although not Jewish and quite different and lifestyle from his Jewish neighbors, this person is no threat to community values and is not antagonistic to Judaism. This is proven by the continuation of that law stated by Maimonides (Hilchot Melachim 10:4). One indeed may sell a home to an idol worshiper if it will be used for storage and not as a domicile. A storage house does not threaten the Jewish community. In addition, one may sell one or two homes in the community to an idol worshiper, but three or more are forbidden. This demonstrates that Maimonides is afraid of anti-Jewish values that will become pervasive. Therefore, one or two such people are not a threat to the fabric of the community, but three homes, according to Maimonides, are already a neighborhood. Finally, we have clear–cut evidence that this law cannot be based on prejudice against non-Jewish people. We learned that once idol worshipers do somehow move-in, they are indeed treated equally before the law, both legally and socially, as are all other non-Jews. It is now clear that prejudice is contrary to Judaism and one may never discriminate against any individual, Jewish or non-Jewish, in advance. However, Judaism does permit one to "discriminate" against individuals whose known values are alien to Judaism or who pose either a spiritual or physical threat to the Jewish community.