Showing posts with label Abraham Heschel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abraham Heschel. Show all posts
Monday, February 11, 2019
Francis like Rabbi Abraham Heschel ‘wants to attack Christians' souls’
Friday, January 12, 2018
Rabbi Abraham Skorka and his sin of omission
Rabbi Skorka has said publicly that he is Francis “roving ambassador” but it is more truthful to say that he’s Francis’ handler. The rabbi gave a lecture, Nostra Aetate, past and future, at the International Council of Christians and Jews’ (ICCJ) Rome Conference 2015: ‘The 50th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate: The Past, Present and Future of the Christian-Jewish Relationship’. In this speech Skorka explained that Christianity has play a key role in anti-semitism and that the Shoah demonstrates the futility of Christianity — its moral bankruptcy. During his talk Skorka trots out the old canard that all the evidence of Pius XII has never been seen and states that,
“the issue of the role played by perennial Christian antisemitism in providing a seedbed for twentieth-century Nazi racism still awaits full exploration. A clear and unambiguous reckoning by Christians of all denominations is still expected by Jews with regard to all the components of Christian anti-Semitism, not only those found in the Patristic literature, but also those contributory elements that can be found in the New Testament, such as...”
Skorka then concludes with the following:
“For Catholics, the new approach and dialogue with Jews based on Nostra Aetate's theological statements, opens a theological quest: Since the "Old Covenant" has never been revoked, what does the living faith and practice of the Jewish People today mean for Christian faith and self-understanding? For Jews, the new relationship means to take more to heart Maimonides’ statement in his authoritative Code :
It is beyond the human mind to fathom the designs of the Creator; for our ways are not His ways, neither are our thoughts His thoughts. All these matters relating to Jesus of Nazareth and the Ishmaelite (Mohammed) who came after him served to clear the way for King Messiah, to prepare the whole world to worship God with one accord, as it is written, “For then will I turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord to serve Him with one consent” (Zephaniah 3: 9) Thus the messianic hope, the Torah, and the commandments have become familiar topics –topics of conversation (among the inhabitants) of the far islands of many peoples . . .There is still a long way before us until Nostra Aetate in its body and spirit will be incorporated into the heart of all the churches and parishes throughout the world, and to become a deeper challenge for Jewish vision on Christianity.
But still, the next step must be to think and to analyze the present dramatic moment in humankind’s history in order to continue paving a way for a better future. We have been given an opportunity to be "a blessing to one another," as John Paul II put it. It is therefore our duty in the years ahead to make the most of this unprecedented moment.”
We will only concern ourselves with the quote from Maimonides. He uses the partial Maimonides quote taken entirely out of its context to sell the idea that Christianity is a branch of Judaism which will one day return to ‘true Temple worship’ in Jerusalem. Unsaid in his speech but footnoted for the statement from Maimonides is: “Hilkhot Melakhim 11: 4, according the uncensored editions of Soncino 5250 (1490), Constantinopolis 5269 (150 9) and Amsterdam 5462 (1702). The translation was taken from Herschel’s essay quoted in the footnote No. 28, p. 248.” The essay of Abraham Heschel referred to is “No Religion is an Island” published in “Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, edited by Susannah Heschel, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1996, p. 248”. Here we have Skorka admit that there are uncensored editions of Maimonides quote however he uses Heschel’s edited one. In 2012 Skorka published a paper titled, “Jewish Identity and Jewish-Christian Dialogue A View from Argentina”. This paper examines Heschel’s “No Religion is an Island” and the themes it contains. In it Skorka refers to the same quote, states that it only appears in uncensored editions of the Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, and then quotes it from the Chabad-Lubutavitcher website:
“Ultimately, all the deeds of Jesus of Nazareth and that Ishmaelite [Mohammed] who arose after him will only serve to prepare the way for Mashiach’s [the Messiah’s] coming and the improvement of the entire world, motivating the nations to serve God together as Tzephaniah 3:9 states: “I will transform the peoples to a purer language that they all will call upon the name of God and serve Him with one purpose [Lit.: shoulder to shoulder].””
Here is where Rabbis Skorka’s sin of omission come into play. The following is the quote in its context.
To which we add that the Chabad website referenced prefaces the above with,
Wow! Skorka blames the Shoah on the Christians, has the chutzpah to state that all Christian denominations need to have their New Testament and writings of the early church fathers reexamined in order to cleanse, “[their] soul[s] of its role in contributing to anti-Semitism.” Skora then has the audacity to be duplicitous towards his Christian audiences concerning what Talmudists truly believe about Jesus the Christ. One can see from this that Conservative Judaism (Masorti Judaism) which Skorka professes isn’t very different from its kissing cousin Hasidism — for they are both Talmudic, lying, and deny Our Lord and Savior. When will the ravings of the rabbis and their various Talmudic religions be reexamined by Catholics so they can be purged of their anti-Goyimism?
Don’t think for one instant that Francis is ignorant of any of this. Recall in September 2017, Francis sat approvingly as Rav Dr. Ratzon Arusi said, “that we may work together to fulfill the vision articulated by Maimonides.” Also, when he was but the cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires he attended a museum exhibit in 2004 on Maimonides and a few years later in 2008 accepted the Maimonides Award for Inter-religious Dialogue! Is it any wonder that Rabbi Skorka is Francis’ close personal friend?
Monday, September 18, 2017
Hillary Clinton is a fan of Francis especially when he parrots ideas from Heschel & Lévinas
The Hildabeast pointing at her brain.
The TED talk Francis gave which Hillary Clinton glowingly writes of (see the excerpt below) can be watched here and is nothing more than Hasidic detritus. It should come as no surprise to readers that Mrs. Clinton and Francis are big into Hasidic concepts. Not surprisingly, Clinton still sees herself as the center of the world. She has little “empathy” for the Christians she has worked her entire political career to legislate into serfdom if not out of existence because their beliefs are not “politically correct”. In the next breathe she writes that Christians need to have “empathy and understanding” for “the other” (i.e. politically correct classes which have special rights denied to Christians). Hillary’s solution to what ails society like Francis is Hasidism and its “No Religion Is an Island” not the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
source: What Happened? by Hillary Clinton, epub edition (2017), pp. 493-6.
Hillary stuck in the narcissistic loop of Hasidim.
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Monday, August 21, 2017
Talmudic Jewish Supremacism
I’m Not White, I’m Jewish ft. Rabbi AJ Heschel
The Talmudists are masters of deception. In this example, Matt Bar, culturally appropriates the black American style of music known as rap, to sell the idea that he isn’t ‘white’ instead he’s ‘jewish’. Dear reader, have you ever seen anyone with ‘jewish’ skin color? Or anything in the color of ‘jewish’? His rap-song is called, ‘I’m Not White, I’m Jewish’ and features the racial supremacist rabbi Abraham Heschel. This is the same rabbi who said:
“[Christians] correctly understood that I was comparing them to the Nazis. If I had made the statement in a straightforward fashion saying ‘you are Nazis,’ it would have sounded ridiculous. My style of writing is by hinting, because truth is in the depths. There are those who would like to attack their bodies. I want to attack their souls. Today, there is no longer any place for religious wars as such. Today there is occasion for conversation and discussion. Do you consider the desire to discuss a sign of weakness?”
source: Rabbi Abraham Heschel, interviewed by Geula Cohen for Ma'ariv, January 4, 1965 as translated by AJC/Paris
Matt like Heschel wants to destroy your soul. The reason Talmudic Jews have difficulties with being ‘white’ is because they have labored mightily to make the label ‘white’ an evil disgusting thing fit for destruction. The Talmudists gambit is simple, commit a crime or wrong-doing, then scapegoat ‘whites’ for the crime they committed. ‘Jewish’-supremacy grows and ‘Jew’-privilege climbs the social ladder of political correctness. A current example of this is the ‘alt-right’ movement which even though it is pro-Zionist is being scapegoated with its ‘white-supremacists’. Why doesn’t anyone mention that the ‘alt-right’ has its roots in the Frankfort School via Paul Gottfried?
“But as soon as the give-and-take was over, he profusely thanked me for my “valorous efforts” and, perhaps to underline his magnanimity, gave me the highest grade for the course. I was put in mind of this generous spirit many times afterwards, and am still embarrassed to admit that I learned the example of true liberal intellectual exchange from a declared Marxist-Leninist.”
source: Paul Gottfried on his teacher Herbert Marcuse, excerpt from - Great Teachers in Our Lives, The Marcuse Factor by Paul Gottfried (Spring 2005), pp.114-15
Or that the Frankfort School is Talmudic? (#1, #2) It’s rather easy to see this ruse being played out all over the world. Look for something culturally appropriated (stolen) then sold back to you with interest. As a ‘white’ you can never ever finish paying off the debt you owe to the ‘jew’. It’s straight from the Talmud, a Jewish projection of the pathological, biological-determinist hatred of ‘white Christians’.
The Talmudic Jews in their Talmud brag that they killed Jesus of Nazareth on Passover Eve because he practiced sorcery, practiced idol worship, and led the people of Israel to idol worship (BT Sanhedrin 43a - page 1 & page 2) but call anyone who points this out an anti-semite. In the next breathe they teach members of their criminal mind control cult, the old paranoid ‘Esau hates Jacob’ (Esav sonei es Yaakov) argument which states that Esau (also Amalek & Haman and their descendants Rome, Christendom, Gentiles) can’t be anything other than anti-semites. As the rabbis teach, “No matter what happens, the descendants of Esau are going to hate the Jews.” If this isn’t supremacism what is? We bring this up because Mr. Bar also has a song about Haman.
Recently there was a clash between the ‘alt-right’ and ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Don’t think that we at Call Me Jorge... condone either side’s behaviors. It was simply two sets of Bolsheviks fighting each other trying to bring down the country with the ultimate goal of communism.) The people scapegoated were ‘whites’, the people Matt Bar and his co-religionists hate so much. The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) is one of the loudest in the media decrying all manners of Christian groups and collecting millions of dollars in donations in order to fight the ‘whites’ who can’t help but be ‘supremacists’ due to being well, white. Conveniently ignored like the proverbial elephant in the room are several items: The ADL was founded to defend a serial rapist and murderer Leo Frank and the ADL attempted to scapegoat two innocent black men for one of Frank’s crimes; The ADL was originally called the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and was founded by B'nai B'rith. This is problematic because B'nai B'rith founders, Abraham E. Frankland and Abraham S. Levy were slave traders and slave auctioneers!; It’s never pointed out that the important roles Jews played in the Confederacy such as: Judah P. Benjamin the Confederate attorney general, secretary of war, and secretary of state; The design of the then politically correct but now politically incorrect Confederate flag -
“Charles Moise, a self-described “southerner of the Jewish persuasion,” who respectfully argued in 1860 at the flag’s inception that its cross design was too Christian. Confederate leadership, respecting the critique, then approved the “X” design, also a cross but considered less ecclesiastical.”
Rabbis both in the North and the South were pro-slavery (see #1, #2, #3, #4); Abraham E. Frankland, founder of B'nai B'rith, in addition to trading black slaves, believed blacks inferior as the descendants of Ham as Rabbinic literature teaches; we could go on but you should get the point. One never ever hears of Talmudic Jews paying reparations for their past sins but the same Talmudists scream from every rooftop about the evil ‘whites’ or Christians and the debt they need to pay off for their sins.
This leads us back to Matt Bar and the last song of his we will cover. It’s about the light of Hannukah and how this light is the collective Jewish people and their Talmud. Notice the shout out in the video to Rashi, a rabbi from 11th century France who is highly esteemed by Talmudists as being an elite practitioner of PaRDeS. The technique of PaRDeS “is a rabbinic literary invention, whereby each word of the Torah has four levels of interpretation: the literal meaning, peshat, a more subtle or hinting reading, remez, a creative commentary, drash, and a totally hidden or mysterious meaning, sod.” In other words Rashi was great at nullifying what the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) says and twisting it through PaRDeS to what the rabbi wanted it to say. Bar then practices Jewish fantasy as he imagines the burning bush being related to the false light of the Talmudic holiday of Hanukkah. Finally, he takes a dig at the Greeks — Jewish Supremacism anyone?
In conclusion, Matt Bar you are white and your religion is Talmudic Judaism. Stop scapegoating, badmouthing, and charging usury on Christians for the sins committed by you and your co-Talmudists. It’s time to start paying reparations that you owe to the world starting with asking forgiveness from your Savior, Jesus the Christ, whom you reject.
— Matt Bar’s songs —
full song — I’m Not White, I’m Jewish ft. Rabbi AJ Heschel
Haman, Amalek, Esau, Rome, Christendom,
Gentiles...it’s all the same.
The light of Hanukkah is the Jewish people & their Talmud
Brainwashing children with Talmudic Jewish Supremacism
I’m Not White, I’m Jewish
Breaking News — Matt & friend, you’re white!
Who pays for these two racists to tour and sing this garbage?
Matt uses the Midrash to nullify the Bible
talmud talk — the insanity Talmudic Judaism leads one to
Matt selling the man-made Talmudic Judaism as if its Biblical
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Francis the Kabbalistic Gnostic god-man
The cover page of the Book of the Zohar (Mantua-1558).
Is this where Francis gets his blasphemous ideas?
(underlines ours for emphasis)
Dear brothers and sisters, we are never alone. We can be far, hostile; we can even say we are “without God.” But Jesus Christ’s Gospel reveals to us that God cannot be without us: He will never be a God “without man”; it is He who cannot be without us, and this is a great mystery! God cannot be God without man: this is a great mystery! And this certainty is the source of our hope, which we find kept in all the invocations of the Our Father, When we are in need of help, Jesus does not tell us to be resigned and to shut ourselves in ourselves, but to turn to the Father and to ask Him with trust. All our needs, the most evident and daily as food, health, work to that of being forgiven and sustained in temptations, are not the mirror of our solitude: instead, there is a Father who always looks at us with love, and who certainly does not abandon us.
Now I propose something to you: every one of us has so many problems, so many needs. Let us think, a bit, in silence, of these problems and these needs. We also think of the Father, of our Father, who cannot be without us, and who is looking at us at this moment. And all together, with trust and hope, we pray: “Our Father, Who art in Heaven . . .”
Thank you!
source: Zenit, GENERAL AUDIENCE: On God’s Fatherhood, the Source of Our Hope
source: Vatican, Francesco Udienza Generale, Piazza San Pietro Mercoledì, 7 giugno 2017
Not only is this a blasphemous statement by Francis, it is total apostasy. It sounds as if it came directly from the minds of Kabbalists. The Zohar, the foundational work of the Kabbalah, is a commentary of the mystical aspects of the Tanakh (the five books of Moses in the Old Testament). In other words, its a bunch of made-up fantasies from the deprived minds of the rabbis. They’ll tell you that God gave the ‘secret teachings’ (Talmud & Kabbalah) to Abraham or Moses who then preserved them and they were passed down through the ages. The reality is that a rabbi named Moshe ben Shem-Tov (Moses de León) most likely wrote the diabolical trash called the Zohar sometime in the 12th century. Francis is having his weekly catechesis at his general audience with the topic ostensibly being to explain the Our Father (Pater Noster) prayer. Francis explicates it as only a gnostic, magician, talmudist, kabbalist, rabbi, or heretic could. “God can’t be God without man”, what blasphemy! So Francis, where was God before He created man or the world? This concept is prevalent in the writings of Francis’ favorite Hasidic philosophers, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber.
God is not only a power we depend on, He is a God who demands. Religion begins with the certainty that something is asked of us, that there are ends which are in need of us.
Unlike all other values, moral and religious ends evoke in us a sense of obligation. Thus religious living consists in serving ends that are in need of us. Man is a divine need, God is in need of man.
source: Heschel's Theology: Organized Excerpts; R. Hershel Matt, ed. taken from Abraham Heschel’s book, HUMAN BEING AND BEING HUMAN: Who pp. 106, 108, 111
You know always in your heart that you need God more than everything; but do you not know too that God needs you — in the fulness of His eternity needs you? How would man be, how would you be, if God did not need him, did not need you? You need God, in order to be — and God needs you, for the very meaning of your life.
source: I and Thou - Martin Buber (1957), p. 82
This is a total mockery of the Catholic Faith. It’s a pantheist system which ultimately divinizes the entire universe. In this system, god needs man in order to realize who he is and man through occult gnosis gradually comes to the realization that he is divine, a god-man. This is an extension of Talmudic Judaism’s “as above, so below” concept and the symbology of the menorah (The symbolism of the gifts Francis received and gave while at the Great Synagogue of Rome, see section - The kabbalistic painting of the menorah). Regardless, to demonstrate further how this satanic stream of consciousness depicts this blasphemous concept of god as needing us, we will quote from Does God need us? by Dr. Maurice M. Mizrahi.
God needs us because He loves us,
God needs us to increase His power,
God needs us for His very existence, and
God needs us to take over from Him.
Let us explore these ideas, all rooted in Jewish mysticism: The Zohar contends that God has ten parts (sephirot, or emanations), which became disjointed. Our task is to help God become One again. This will usher in the messianic age.
It is clear that God loves Israel. But love implies need. ...
[...]
-Talmud: After we had already accepted the Torah with the words “naaseh ve-nishma” – We will do and we will listen [Ex. 24:7] – God held the mountain above our heads and threatened to dump it on us if we didn’t accept the Torah! [Av. Z. 2b, Shabbat 88a, based on Ex. 19:17] But we had already accepted it! The Maharal [16th -century Prague] explains: The Torah says that when a man forces himself on an unmarried woman, he has to pay a fine, he has to marry her (if she and her father agree), and he may never divorce her [Deut. 22:29] . So God was applying his own law: By forcing Himself on us, he guaranteed that he could never divorce us, that the covenant between us would never be cancelled!
[...]
-Love implies jealousy. So: “No idolatry”!
In Ten Commandments [and 5 times in Torah]:
I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. [Ex. 20:5]
In Ezekiel 16, God depicts Himself as Israel's lover, who spurned Him and prostituted itself by worshipping other gods. In Hosea, God depicts Himself as a faithful husband who keeps his covenant with Israel in spite of her prostitution.
So love implies need.
[...]
Hassidism reinforced the notion of God and man being partners in creation. 18th-century Hassidic Rabbi Jacob Joseph of Polonne said that the performance of mitzvot is essential in the divine plan. His 19th-century follower Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk said: “Why was man created? To perfect his soul? No. To lift up the heavens!”
Sifre Devarim, early Midrash from Talmudic days, says clearly: God is in need of us human beings. When we keep our part of the covenant, we not only affirm God's existence, we *allow* God's existence.
Rabbi Shim’on bar Yochai [the Rashbi, 1st-century mystic, possible author of Zohar] taught:
-It is written [in Exodus]: “This is my God and I will glorify Him” [Ex. 15:2]. This means: “When I acknowledge Him, He is glorified, but when I do not acknowledge Him, He is glorified only in name.”
-It is written [in Deuteronomy]: “Because I proclaim the name of the Lord, [ascribe greatness to our God].” [Deut. 32:3] [This means,] when I call His name, He is great, but when I don’t… [it is as if He is not great].
-It is written [in Isaiah], “You are my witnesses, said the Lord… and I am God” [Isaiah 43:10]. This means: “When you are My witnesses, I am God, but when you are not My witnesses, it is as if I am not God.”
-It is written [in Psalms], “Unto You I lift up my eyes, O You, my enthroned One in the heavens” [Ps. 123:1]. This means: “If it weren’t for me, it is as if You would not be sitting in the heavens.” [Sifre Devarim 34:6; Pesikta de Rav Kahane 12:6]
Thus, Bar Yochai seems to be saying that, if we do not bear witness to God, God vanishes into unreality. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel calls that passage “one of the most powerful statements found in rabbinic literature”. Heschel championed the view that God is in need of man [God in Search of Man; Man is not Alone], along with Israeli rabbi Pinchas Peli.
When we say the Shema, we call on Israel to witness God:
Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokenu Hashem Echad.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
When we write the Shema, two letters must be larger than the rest: The ‘ayin of Shema and the dalet of Echad. Together they make up the word ‘Ed, meaning witness.
The Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein wrote:
Without Jews there is no Jewish God.
If we leave this world,
The light will go out in Your tent.
Since Abraham knew You in a cloud,
You have burned in every Jewish face,
You have glowed in every Jewish eye,
And we made You in our image.
[“Without Jews”; trans. Nathan Halper, A Treasury of Yiddish Poetry; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969]
[...]
Modern Hassidic Rabbi YY Jacobson writes:
The message here is too daring to be spoken clearly. Yet the Jewish mystics picked up on it and articulated it... We became, as it were, mentors to [God], showing Him how darkness can be transformed into light, how imperfection is the beginning of deeper perfection, and how destruction is the commencement of renovation. And this is the message of the third holiday, the festival of Sukkot, when we celebrate the renewed relationship between God and Israel forged on Yom Kippur following their estrangement. From sister we turn into mother. From partners with God, we became teachers to God... Yet here is the catch: To become a healthy mother, you first need to be a daughter and a sister. [http://theyeshiva.net/Article/View/12/Do-You-Know-How-To-Be-a-Mother]
Indeed, the Talmud declares that only living rabbis can interpret the Torah. In a famous episode where the rabbis disagree on a point of law, they hear God’s voice siding with one of the rabbis. But then they reject God’s point of view, saying that THEY, and not God, have the task of interpreting the Torah. The Talmud records that, at that time:
God laughed and declared, “My children have bested me! My children have bested me!” [Bava Metziah 59b]
Evidently, God approved of this “take-over” attitude!
Our tradition includes many hints that God needs us because He loves us, God needs us to increase His power, God needs us for His very existence, and God needs us to take over from Him.
Could it be more plain that Francis like the rabbis twists the Word of God until it is nullified?
In Eugenius IV’s bull, Cantate Domino (1442 A. D.), one reads: “Most strongly it believes, professes, and declares that the one true God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, is the creator of all things visible and invisible, who, when He wished, out of His goodness created all creatures, spiritual as well as corporal; good indeed, since they were made by the highest good, but changeable, since they were made from nothing, and it asserts that nature is not evil, since all nature, in so far as it is nature, is good.”
It should be evident by now, that Francis is “As a dog that returneth to his vomit” (Proverbs 26, 11) as he extols the contrivances of gnostic rabbis during his latest general audience catechesis. What is truly sad and disheartening is that those at the general audience, and those in the media, who cover the Vatican, swallowed the poison Francis gave them without even a whimper. After all, a spoon full of kissing infants helps the heresy goes does in the most delightful way!
Heresy, what heresy? That’s one ‘humble’ man kissing a baby!
Where’s the outcry from the conservative
bishops concerning Francis’ latest heresy?
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Abraham Heschel’s kabbalistic activism, uniting the light (white) and dark (blue) flames
source: Rabbi Abraham Heschel, interviewed by Geula Cohen for Ma'ariv, January 4, 1965 as translated by AJC/Paris quoted (p. 272) in Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 by Edward K. Kaplan
Edward K. Kaplan, The Blue Flame of Meditation: Contemplation and Activism in A. J. Heschel
Related:
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Abraham Heschel & Vatican II (in the French language)
Conference Abraham Heschel et le Concile Vatican II
- For information on Heschel's behind-the-scenes maneuverings (in English) at the Second Vatican Council see: Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 by Edward K. Kaplan
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
And so it begins...
Francis' "extraordinary year of mercy"
in which :
- God seeks out everyone to personally encounter them
- Mercy comes before Judgement
- Vatican II encountered the world
If Francis' words sound a lot like Abraham Heschel's...
...it's because Francis' core teachings
come straight out of Hasidism!
come straight out of Hasidism!
For more on this topic see:
Francis is going to save the world with his mercy!
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Skorka's speech at the unveiling of “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time”
(Skorka begins to speak at 20 min 50 seconds)
If the video above does not play try either this link or this alternative one.
The transcript of Skorka's speech is below.
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Skorka
Rector of the Latin-American Rabbinical Seminary ‘M. T. Meyer,'
Rabbi of the Benei Tikva Congregation, Buenos Aires
Nostra Aetate is the declaration approved by the Second Vatican Council on October 28, 1965. It discusses the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the non-Christian religions. It undoubtedly created a theological turning point for the Catholic Church that fostered a new vision of respect and dialogue with the Jewish people.
Two fundamental axioms are developed in chapter 4 of this declaration, which is dedicated to the relationship between Catholics and Jews.
On the one hand, it removed any reason to doubt that the covenant which God shares with the Jewish people, described in the Hebrew Bible, is still considered valid from a Christian perspective. Therefore the special relationship between Jews and God continues into the present. On the other hand, Nostra Aetate affirms that, although in the days of Jesus there were some Jews implicated in actions that ended in his crucifixion, one cannot impute guilt to all the members of the Jewish population of that time, let alone accuse Jews of later generations.
Once and for all, the ignominious vilification of a so-called deicide people, cursed by God, which was hung upon the Jews, and which justified their persecution, humiliation, and oppression, was abolished.
Nostra Aetate was the Catholic answer to the Shoah. Centuries of Christian theology in which Jews were denigrated contributed to European anti-Semitism. The Nazis tapped into this deep-seated prejudice to build the death camps in cooperation with the active and passive indifference of a great part of the European population. One third of the Jewish people, six million souls, were exterminated in the most atrocious form that human history records.
To recognize the Jewish People as fully loved by God after this abominable tragedy was an act of spiritual audacity which Saint John XXIII was able to introduce, something which had apparently been unattainable for Pius XII.
At the same time, this challenged Catholicism to construct a new theological vision based upon the rediscovered truth that the old covenant between the Creator and the Jews was not abolished. Thus both covenants, the new and the old, complement each other in seeking to elevate human beings spiritually and to guide them in building a reality of Justice and Love, of the redemption of the human being.
The Declaration Nostra Aetate, signed by Blessed Paul VI, served as a solid basis for a renewed encounter between Jews and Christians. On October 22, 1974, he created the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with Judaism, which redacted in 1974, 1985, and 1998 three very important and substantial documents developing the concepts that Nostra Aetate had referred to only in an embryonic way.
These documents – "Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate No. 4" (1974), "Notes on the Correct Way to Present Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Teaching in the Roman Catholic Church" (1985) and "We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah" (1998) – helped to establish the habit of dialogue that Christians and Jews are able to enjoy today.
Through symbolic acts of enormous significance, Saint John Paul II profoundly reshaped the Jewish-Catholic relationship. The Great Synagogue of Rome is very near the Vatican. It takes only a half an hour walking at normal speed to traverse the two places. Yet many centuries had to pass for a Pope to walk this short distance to greet his Jewish neighbors. John Paul did this in 1986, the first pope to do so in perhaps two millennia.
He also established full diplomatic relations between the Vatican, the Holy See and the State of Israel. He asked for God's forgiveness for Christian sins of the past towards Jews, whom he called “elder brothers” and "the people of the Covenant."
Beginning with Nostra Aetate, the official teaching of the Church considers the relationship with the Jews as unique and special. This fact is reflected in Pope Francis' 2014 Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium. He writes:
We hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has never been revoked, for “the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable” (Rom 11:29). ... Dialogue and friendship with the children of Israel are part of the life of Jesus’ disciples [§247-248].
I first came into contact with Jorge Bergoglio, today's Pope Francis, when he began serving as Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Being elder than me and holding such a high Church office, I initially left the initiative for interfaith activities between us in his hands. Over time, I came to understand that in the course of his spiritual journey he had developed deep theological respect for Jews, , and that we shared a common understanding of the importance of dialogue in general and the interfaith dialogue in particular. These were the reasons that bound us to one another. Each of us had recognized in the other the partner for the enactment of the commitment to interreligious dialogue that we both took as a central priority in our lives.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel´s “No religion is an island” was a guide and an imperative I incorporated into my soul. He was one of the most important Jewish contributors to the development of Nostra Aetate. Chapter 4 of the declaration echoes much of a statement the Rabbi sent to Cardinal Augustin Bea in the conversations they had while the Council was in preparation.
The founder of the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano, of which I am the rector today, Rabbi Marshall Meyer, was one of the beloved students of Heschel at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Meyer spread Heschel's ideas in Latin America, especially by translating his works into Spanish.
The spirit of Nostra Aetate and the ideas and challenges that developed in its aftermath impacted Cardinal Bergoglio and me and led us to write a book together, to record 31 television programs, and to do so many other things together.
Since Bergoglio became Pope Francis, his commitment to the Jewish Christian dialogue has been revealed through many deeds and statements.
The twentieth century witnessed, both before and after the Shoah, great Jewish thinkers and scholars who understood that the original dialogue between the first Christian community and its Jewish brothers needed to be started anew if Christians and Jews were to collaborate, each from their own perspective, in the construction of a better world. Mordechai Martin Buber, Joseph Klausner, and Abraham Joshua Heschel are some of the very many Jewish leaders who took it as a personal mission to renew this dialogue. Nostra Aetate, which was nurtured through the dialogue of Rabbi Heschel and Cardinal Augustin Bea, was the best answer to their dreams and ideals.
In the old city of Prague, at Number 1 of the Nový Svět (New World) Street, we find the house where the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe lived. The astronomical measurements of Brahe were the data with which Johannes Kepler was able to formulate mathematically his three laws concerning the movement of the planets around the sun.
A new world was discovered at that time. The heliocentric description of the solar system, the existence of new continents to explore, the conquering of new navigation routes, as well as so many other advances allowed human beings to contemplate a New World.
Today we have brought our perceptions to Pluto at the fringe of our solar system. We have taken pictures of its surface , and received much entirely new information. Mankind has begun deeply studying characteristics of a world that is no longer foreign to us.
The new challenge for humankind is not to discover a new world but to create a “new world”, a new reality with no more hunger or injustice, no hatred among peoples, no more wars. The world in which each individual enriches spiritually through the dialogue with neighbors in whom he or she sees a brother or a sister. The challenge facing us is to create a new world where each individual makes a place for God’s presence.
The ultimate aim of Nostra Aetate was to create a new reality for Jews and Catholics, a new world. A world in which they are not opposed but can actively study and learn together, and so enrich each other and assist each other in walking their covenantal lives with God. We are no longer "foreigners" to each other. This idea is represented by the very significant sculpture we are about to dedicate, which will remind all who will see and contemplate it in the future about the achievements of the past and the challenges for the future.
In the eighth century BCE, the prophet Isaiah (65, 17), said in the name of God, that God will create new heavens and a new world (earth), where no former tragedies will be recalled.
Among the Jewish sages there is a discussion about this that has been going on for centuries. They asked: Is humanity in its present psychic and spiritual condition able to fashion a reality of peace and concord at all levels, or does God have to substantially modify the originally created world in order for peace to come?
The masterly opinion of Maimonides is that the human being in his present condition is indeed able to construct a reality of dialogue and of peace.
Taking into account the human impulse and the individual struggle to pursue goodness in our lives, rejecting the wars and the cruel violence that afflict us daily, there are many who understand Isaiah’s hope for a new heaven and a new earth in covenantal terms: Humanity, the partner of God in the constant recreation of Creation, will co-create this hopeful New Cosmos -- a new Reality in which Nostra Aetate and those who were inspired by it, will have made a crucial contribution and helped pave the way.
(from Left) Dr. Adam Gregerman, assistant director, Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations; Dr. Philip Cunningham, director, Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations; Rabbi Abraham Skorka, keynote speaker; Naomi Adler, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia; Saint Joseph's University President Mark Reed; and the statue's sculptor Joshua Koffman with his child.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Did Rabbi Heschel Influence Pope Francis?
Yes he did. Francis' ideas are not Catholic!
Some of Heschel's ideas Francis has adopted as his own:
- God searchs for us,
- God's presence in all people and in diverse religions,
- The failure of religion,
- and the urgency of interreligious dialogue.
Read the expanded full article (pdf) here:
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Omar Abboud & Abraham Skorka
are interviewed by Rachel Kohn
about Francis & interreligious dialogue
Kohn, is a well known Jewess in Australia who writes books, articles, produces television specials and does radio interviews on Talmudic Judaism, Buddhism, spirituality, and interreligious dialogue. Some of her publications are: Saints and Saintliness in Judaism, Jewish Thought and the Theory of Evolution, Jews and Violence, Is Jewish Thought Unique, The New Believers: Re-imagining God, and Curious Obsessions in the History of Science and Spirituality. Her television programs include: The Dead Sea Scrolls and on Buddhism East and West.
Listen below to Omar & Abraham describe how they met Jorge Mario Bergolio, what interreligious dialogue is, who influenced them to take the path they have in life, and what Francis means for Christianity as well as the idolatry of Talmudic Judaism & of Mohammedanism.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
the 'Oral' Nostra Aetate
Pharisees Timothy Dolan & Noam Marans celebrate 50 years of their Noahide church
Celebration of Nostra Aetate
A three-day symposium at The Catholic University of America
May 19-21, 2015
Welcome Message from the Dean:
One of the most significant documents produced by the Second Vatican Council was Nostra Aetate, the Decree on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, which expressed the Catholic Church's positive regard for other faiths which often reflect a ray of that truth which enlightens all people, and in particular put Catholic-Jewish relations on a whole new footing, deploring anti-Semitism and emphasizing the 'common spiritual heritage' between Christians and Jews. 2015 sees the 50th anniversary of this great document, and The Catholic University of America and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops warmly invite you to an outstanding conference to mark the occasion. Three cardinals will deliver keynote addresses, Cardinal Dolan of New York and Cardinal Koch from the Vatican on Catholic-Jewish relations, and Cardinal Tauran from the Vatican on Catholic-Islamic relations; further distinguished speakers from CUA and elsewhere will consider the art of dialogue, the links between interreligious dialogue and ecumenism, what can be learnt from Asian religions, and prospects for the future; and Rev. Tom Stransky who was actually there, will reflect on the drafting of Nostra Aetate. Please join us for this landmark event!
Monsignor Paul McPartlan
Acting Dean
School of Theology and Religious Studies
The Catholic University of America
Note:
The 50th anniversary of the document Nostra Aetate, published by the Second Vatican Council, is an opportunity to bring together not only distinguished keynote speakers, but also local and national volunteers interested in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue with partners from Jewish, Muslim, and other religious traditions. Accordingly, as well as, offering a more general open program available to the public, the conference will include closed sessions in which Catholics and Muslims, and Catholics and Jews, respectively, will meet in official dialogue.
source: The Catholic University of America, Celebration of Nostra Aetate
More:
Pharisee Dolan & Rabbi Marans on their Noahide church
6 minutes Pharisee Dolan's speech begins
39 minutes Pharisee Marans' speech begins
52 minutes 58 seconds Rabbi Marans gives the audience a lesson on Oral Torah [the Talmud] and how Nostra Aetate is equivalent to Oral Torah [the Talmud]. The most explicit example of the Oral Nostra Aetate [or Talmudic Nostra Aetate] is the behavior of the recent pontiffs; visits to synagogues, trips to Israel, participation in Talmudic Jewish religious rituals, constant dialogue, and shoving Noahidism down the throats of their followers.
1 hour 8 minutes A woman in the crowd thanks Dolan & marans for their speeches and says it is, "really shaking our souls and our hearts." This brings to mind the words of Rabbi Arbraham Heschel, who helped draft Nostra Aetate, "I want to attack their [Christians'] souls."
We cover the following a second time as we at Call Me Jorge... cannot stress this point enough. Rabbi Marans at the 53 minute mark in above video talks of using the Talmudic tradition of the rabbis as a lens for understanding the impact of Nostra Aetate. This Talmudic tradition, we remind the reader, nullifies God's laws. Marans says that in today's Judaism the written Torah can only be understood by the Oral Torah. And that the same can be said about Nostra Aetate. He further states Nostra Aetate wouldn't exist without the 'Oral' or rabbinical Nostra Aetate. This is a candid admission from a rabbi that the faith practiced by the post-Vatican II church is no longer Catholic. Cardinal Dolan and company sit there and do not object. Is it any wonder Our Lord said,
"But yet the Son of man, when he cometh,
shall he find, think you, faith on earth?"
The enemies of Christ are in charge and the sheeple in the pews go along with them as they have for so many years. Did the sheeple forget to learn their catechism? Or do they worship the rabbinical gods too?
More on Dolan:
More on Marans:
Monday, June 1, 2015
A Litany mentioning Rabbi Abraham Heschel
and a bunch of other non-Catholics
BARF!!!!!!!!
Apparently the rabbi is now a saint!
Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB (aka 'the Old Monk')
O Cosmic Christ,
in you
and through you
and for you,
all things were created;
in you
all things hold together
and have their being.
Through Teilhard de Chardin,
scientist of the cosmos,
you imagined a new heaven and a new earth.
Through Teresa of Avila,
charismatic leader,
you inspired a church of courage and wisdom.
Through Mahatma Gandhi,
great soul,
you became nonviolent in the struggle for justice.
Through Catherine of Siena,
fearless visionary,
you forged a new path for women.
Through Meister Eckhart,
creative mystic,
you refused to abandon the inner light.
Through Hildegard of Bingen,
greenness of God,
you poured out juicy, rich grace on all creation.
Through Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
drum major of freedom,
you shattered racial barriers
and freed dreamers to dream.
Through Anne Frank,
writer and witness,
you preserved goodness in the midst of great evil.
Through Cesar Chavez,
noble farmworker,
you transformed the dignity of human labor.
Through Harriet Tubman,
prophet and pilgrim,
you led the captives into freedom.
Through Vincent Van Gogh,
artist of light,
you revealed the sacredness
in sunflowers
and in starry nights.
Through Thea Bowman,
healer songbird,
you danced the African-American culture
into the Church.
Through Pope John XXIII,
window to the world,
you awakened awareness to the signs of the times.
Through Mother Teresa of Calcutta,
guardian of the unwanted,
you enfleshed a reverence for all life.
Through Thomas Merton,
universal monk,
you explored the sanctity of every human search.
Through Mary Magdalene,
apostle to the apostles,
you ordained women to proclaim the good news.
Through Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
musician of Holy Mystery,
you bathed the world in beauty.
Through Julian of Norwich,
anchoress and seer,
you showed the Mother image of God.
Through Dom Bede Griffiths,
marriage of East and West,
you unveiled the divine face
at the heart of the world.
Through Joan of Arc,
defender and protector,
you remained true to personal conscience
over institutional law.
Through Rumi,
poet in ecstasy,
you illuminated friendship as mystical union.
Through Maura Clarke and Companions,
martyrs of El Salvador,
you rise again in the hopes of the dispossessed.
Through Rabbi Abraham Heschel,
Hasidic sage,
you answered our search for meaning
with wonder, pathos for the poor, and Sabbath rest.
Through Dorothy Day,
pillar of the poor,
you recognized holiness as bread for the hungry.
O Cosmic Christ,
in your heart
all history finds meaning and purpose.
In the new millennium,
in the celebration of jubilee
help us find that which we all seek:
a communion of love
with each other
and with you, the Alpha and Omega,
the first and last,
the yesterday, today, and tomorrow,
the beginning without end.
Amen.
Mohandas Gandhi is a saint too!
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