The Mechoquek or the Guardians of the Torah
Destination Yisrael – “The Song of Turtle Dove is now beginning sing across the land of Israel. Bright visions of hopes and dreams of a quick redemption are now being revealed. As the chaos and destruction surrounding Israel spreads across Planet Earth, so the hopes and dreams of the prophetic spiritual transformation of our lives and the sanctification of G-d’s Holy Name will spread around the world, the eyes of the wonderment in the people in the nations of the world will cry out; make me, shape me and transform me so that I can become one of your chosen people.
As we thought that our lives would devolve back into the medieval days of the infamy of the Inquisition so also we are also shocked to realize that the paganization of the Vatican is also reversing itself for there also G-d’s chosen people are participating in their roles for the final redemption of mankind.
So it should not shock us to realize that the Vatican is opening the gates of acceptance to the Jewish people and relinquishing the anti-Semitism that is spreading across our planet. We pray that it is not a ruse and may the light of the Shekinah dwell upon us to keep our pathways straight and our minds pure to understand, participate and fulfill HaShem’s plan of redemption.
OvadYah Avrahami with Kol Ha Tor – “Although the following development of the “Partnership between Jews and Christians” is on a broader and much more risky base (for Judah), it is a necessary step to bring ultimate reconciliation between Judah and Yosef. Whereas KHT foresees Reconciliation on a Torah base only, wider Christianity will likely never accept it.
However, HaShem works in marvelous although paradoxical ways, - and if the Catholic Church could make a turn-around on anti-Semitism and proselytizing, who can say what will ultimately come out of it. One thing ONLY is vital - and that is that there must come a TOTAL change of approaching and accepting each other.
On December 3, 2015, a group of Orthodox rabbis published a statement on Christianity in the light of the deepening dialogue between Jews and Christians: “To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven”:
After nearly two millennia of mutual hostility and alienation, we Orthodox Rabbis who lead communities, institutions and seminaries in Israel, the United States and Europe recognize the historic opportunity now before us. We seek to do the will of our Father in Heaven by accepting the hand offered to us by our Christian brothers and sisters. Jews and Christians must work together as partners to address the moral challenges of our era.
- The Shoah ended 70 years ago. It was the warped climax to centuries of disrespect, oppression and rejection of Jews and the consequent enmity that developed between Jews and Christians. In retrospect it is clear that the failure to break through this contempt and engage in constructive dialogue for the good of humankind weakened resistance to evil forces of anti-Semitism that engulfed the world in murder and genocide.
- We recognize that since the Second Vatican Council the official teachings of the Catholic Church about Judaism have changed fundamentally and irrevocably. The promulgation of Nostra Aetate fifty years ago started the process of reconciliation between our two communities. Nostra Aetate and the later official Church documents it inspired unequivocally reject any form of anti-Semitism, affirm the eternal Covenant between G-d and the Jewish people, reject deicide and stress the unique relationship between Christians and Jews, who were called “our elder brothers” by Pope John Paul II and “our fathers in faith” by Pope Benedict XVI.
- On this basis, Catholics and other Christian officials started an honest dialogue with Jews that has grown during the last five decades. We appreciate the Church’s affirmation of Israel’s unique place in sacred history and the ultimate world redemption. Today Jews have experienced sincere love and respect from many Christians that have been expressed in many dialogue initiatives, meetings and conferences around the world.
As did Maimonides and Yehudah Halevi, [1] we acknowledge that Christianity is neither an accident nor an error, but the willed divine outcome and gift to the nations. In separating Judaism and Christianity, G-d willed a separation between partners with significant theological differences, not a separation between enemies.
Rabbi Jacob Emden wrote that “Jesus brought a double goodness to the world. On the one hand he strengthened the Torah of Moses majestically… and not one of our Sages spoke out more emphatically concerning the immutability of the Torah.
On the other hand he removed idols from the nations and obligated them in the seven commandments of Noah so that they would not behave like animals of the field, and instilled them firmly with moral traits…..Christians are congregations that work for the sake of heaven who are destined to endure, whose intent is for the sake of heaven and whose reward will not denied.”[2]
Rabbi Jacob Emden (Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi (1656, Moravia May 2, 1718) wrote that “Jesus brought a double goodness to the world. On the one hand he strengthened the Torah of Moses majestically… and not one of our Sages spoke out more emphatically concerning the immutability of the Torah.
On the other hand he removed idols from the nations and obligated them in the seven commandments of Noah so that they would not behave like animals of the field, and instilled them firmly with moral traits…..Christians are congregations that work for the sake of heaven who are destined to endure, whose intent is for the sake of heaven and whose reward will not denied.”[2]
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888)
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch taught us that Christians “have accepted the Jewish Bible of the Old Testament as a book of Divine revelation. They profess their belief in the G-d of Heaven and Earth as proclaimed in the Bible and they acknowledge the sovereignty of Divine Providence.”[3]
Now that the Catholic Church has acknowledged the eternal Covenant between G-d and Israel, we Jews can acknowledge the ongoing constructive validity of Christianity as our partner in world redemption, without any fear that this will be exploited for missionary purposes.
As stated by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel’s Bilateral Commission with the Holy See under the leadership of Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen, “We are no longer enemies, but unequivocal partners in articulating the essential moral values for the survival and welfare of humanity”.[4] Neither of us can achieve G-d’s mission in this world alone.
Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa
- Both Jews and Christians have a common covenantal mission to perfect the world under the sovereignty of the Almighty, so that all humanity will call on His name and abominations will be removed from the earth. We understand the hesitation of both sides to affirm this truth and we call on our communities to overcome these fears in order to establish a relationship of trust and respect. Rabbi Hirsch also taught that the Talmud puts Christians “with regard to the duties between man and man on exactly the same level as Jews. They have a claim to the benefit of all the duties not only of justice but also of active human brotherly love.
- In the past relations between Christians and Jews were often seen through the adversarial relationship of Esau and Jacob, yet Rabbi Naftali Zvi Berliner (Netziv) already understood at the end of the 19th century that Jews and Christians are destined by G-d to be loving partners: “In the future when the children of Esau are moved by pure spirit to recognize the people of Israel and their virtues, then we will also be moved to recognize that Esau is our brother.”[5]
We Jews and Christians have more in common than what divides us: the ethical monotheism of Abraham; the relationship with the One Creator of Heaven and Earth, Who loves and cares for all of us; Jewish Sacred Scriptures; a belief in a binding tradition; and the values of life, family, compassionate righteousness, justice, inalienable freedom, universal love and ultimate world peace.
Rabbi Moses Rivkis (Be’er Hagoleh) confirms this and wrote that “the Sages made reference only to the idolater of their day who did not believe in the creation of the world, the Exodus, G-d’s miraculous deeds and the divinely given law. In contrast, the people among whom we are scattered believe in all these essentials of religion.”[6]
- Our partnership in no way minimizes the ongoing differences between the two communities and two religions. We believe that G-d employs many messengers to reveal His truth, while we affirm the fundamental ethical obligations that all people have before G-d that Judaism has always taught through the universal Noahide covenant.
- In imitating G-d, Jews and Christians must offer models of service, unconditional love and holiness. We are all created in G-d’s Holy Image, and Jews and Christians will remain dedicated to the Covenant by playing an active role together in redeeming the world.”
Initial signatories (in alphabetical order):
Rabbi Natan Lopez Cardozo (Israel)
Rabbi Kotel Dadon (Chief Rabbi of Croatia)
Rav Yehudah Gilad (Israel)
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein (Israel)
Rabbi Irving Greenberg (United States)
Rabbi Marc Raphael Guedj (Switzerland)
Rabbi Eugene Korn (Israel)
Rabbi Daniel Landes (Israel)
Rabbi Steven Langnas (Germany)
Rabbi Benjamin Lau (Israel)
Rabbi Simon Livson (Chief Rabbi of Finland)
Rabbi Asher Lopatin (United States)
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (Israel)
Rabbi David Rosen (Israel)
Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg (Israel)
Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger (Israel)
Rabbi Shmuel Sirat (France)
Rabbi Daniel Sperber (Israel)
Rabbi Jeremiah Wohlberg (United States)
Rabbi Alan Yuter (Israel)
In the modern day era, Rabbi Dov has stated that most rabbis are bribed…and then of course, Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen is a big interfaith fan, runs to Rome and interfaith meetings all the time… so why on earth would they do anything to endanger the NWO and their salaries?
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Destination Yisrael Index for Rabbi Jacob Emden in enlightening us concerning Jesus the Pharisee from the School of Hillel
Go to Part One - “Jesus the Pharisee from the School of (Beit) Hillel” in the Eyes of Talmudic Scholar Rabbi Jacob Emden”
Go to Part Two - “Rabbi Harvey Falk studies a Talmudic scholar’s opinion on “Jesus the Nazarene the defender of Beit Hillel (School of Hillel)”
Go to Part Three - “The Essenes, the Hasidim and the Righteous Gentiles of the Nations”
Go to Part Four - “Jesus the Nazarene and the Pharisees of Beit Shammai”
The Last Two Jewish Popes herald the Final Age of the Vatican in Rome.
Part One – “The Jewish Moravian Ancestry of Pope Benedict XVI linked to the Maharal of Prague”
Go to Part Two – “Pope John Paul II was of Jewish Descent”
Go to Part Three – “Popes accepted by the Roman Catholic Apostolic Succession that were of Jewish Descent”
At the time of the end the G-d of Israel will use all of His Chosen Ones of Israel to complete His divine destiny for Planet Earth. Most of these chosen ones will have no idea of their chosen destiny. They will become the prime actors in the final act of the “Drama of the Ages”. In that day when the Messiah of Israel does reveal himself, also will be revealed all those whose destiny were linked to that august moment in human history.
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