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Since 1994 B'nai B'rith organizes this commemoration in different Catholics churches in order to keep alive the memory and remember what at the time was silenced, leading to the Shoah.But the great idea to do it in the Buenos Aires Cathedral was of the Cardinal Bergoglio.[...]Boris Kalnicki, president of the Argentina B'nai B’rith, was commissioned to guide the ceremony
Lecture about the relations of the Catholic Church and Judaism in Buenos Aires, 'the city of the pope Francis by Fr. Daniel Alejandro Cutri, The Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Israel, 26 February 2015
“Rabbi Alejandro Avruj from the conservative synagogue Congregation Emanu-El joined the ceremonies, lighting the menorah with Bergoglio and presenting him with a siddur.”
B’nai B’rith Commemorates 74th Anniversary Of Kristallnacht Throughout Latin America, B’nai B’rith International, 28 November 2012
“One of the highlights of the ceremony was the delivery to the Cardinal Bergoglio of a new edition of Siddur (book of daily prayers), as a symbol of those texts that were destroyed on Kristallnacht.”
Lecture about the relations of the Catholic Church and Judaism in Buenos Aires, 'the city of the pope Francis by Fr. Daniel Alejandro Cutri, The Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Israel, 26 February 2015
In this sense, Avruj commented that only two months ago, the Judaica Foundation and the NCI-Emanu El congregation, which has as its origin the German Jews who escaped that night, from Kristallnacht, have just published "a new Sidur, with prayers that have to do with our Shabbat and with what we seek for our children. Precisely, one of the highlights of last night's ceremony was the delivery to Cardinal Bergoglio of a new edition of the Sidur (book of daily prayers), as a symbol of those texts that were destroyed on Kristallnacht.
B’nai B’rith/Kristallnacht. Bergoglio: Este acto es un paso más en la vida ecuménica de la Argentina, Agencia Judia de Noticias/Jewish News Agency, 13 Novermber 2012, (translation is ours)
Rabbi Sergio Bergman, “It is an invitation to form and multiply vocations to serve the Jewish community by creating spaces of meaning with a projection as human as it is universal. It is an expression in text of the dialogical experience of expanding the notion of our spiritual power. ”
Sidur Et Bazman, NCI-Emanuel Commundad - Fundacion Judaica, (1 April 2016), translation is ours.
Abraham J. Heschel looks at the sight of Jewish people going for centuries on a pilgrimage to the Western Wall and finds this to be a beautiful image of the meaning of prayer.
“A wall stands between man and God, and at the wall we must pray, searching for a cleft, for a crevice, through which our words can enter and reach God behind the wall.(...) The tragedy is that many of us do not even know how to find the way leading to the wall.”Prayers at a Wall. Hoping to pass our own sighs through the small crevices.
[...]
The Siddur, Israel’s ancient book of prayers, seeks to guide us so that we can discover again the road leading to the Wall.
I am overcome with emotion at this year’s fulfillment of one of our most dear projects –the publication of the first Siddur of our congregation, Siddur Et baZman, a Time within Time.
The compilation, edition and translation of the Siddur texts took several years of work. I was able to find a new approach to all of them, so as to respond to our need for tools and guidance that may help us speak through our walls.Et baZman, a Time within Time tries to be a friendly and easy-to-read Siddur when it comes to dealing with the ancient texts. When trying to pray with a Siddur, many people find they have to face something distant and alien. Just when all they need is closeness and the beauty of the essential. That is why the Spanish version of Et baZman has been written in a familiar, harmonious, modern and spiritual language. All the prayers appear with the corresponding phonetics for those who find Hebrew an additional barrier. And its design will help follow the religious service.
Its name --Et baZman, a Time within Time, is intended to help us open a door. The door that will help us understand that in order to hold a transparent and intimate conversation faced to the walls that stand between the Mystery and ourselves, we need to set aside some time. And that time must become sacred, within the inevitable passing of time.
ET BAZMAN, A TIME WITHIN TIME THE SIDDUR OF AMIJA BY RABBI ALE AVRUJ, THE RABBI’S COLUMN (pp. 17-18), AMIJAI, LA REVISTA DE LA COMUNIDAD, Ano 24 - No. 27 - Octubre 2016 - Tishrei 5777, Shana tova 5777
p. 195, Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis by Mark Kennedy Shriver, (29 November 2016)
“In 2004, the eighth centenary of his death, we held an International Symposium on the Sage with CIDICSEF [Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefardí], wrote with the University a modest book called MAIMONIDES, UNIVERSAL SEFARDÍ and elaborated it with the exhibition called MAIMONIDES 800: FAITH AND REASON. It was exhibited in the Larreta Museum to great public success. One of the attendees was then Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis. He was at the exhibition for more than an hour and was very interested. After listening to the highest level of the Tzedaká of Maimonides (giving work to the needy, associating with him, granting him a loan until he can sustain himself without other support, etc.) he expressed a phrase that has stayed with me: "GIVING IS GIVING".”
Presentación del libro «Maimónides. Pensamientos para el Siglo XXI», eSefarad.com, 1 December 2017, English translation is ours.
p. 229, Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian - Charles L. Griswold, David Konstan, Cambridge University Press, (2012).
Twenty years after Zeilocovich’s meeting with Bergoglio, the churchman, then a cardinal, hosted a formal meeting between the Catholic Church and the alliance of global Jewish organizations known as the International Jewish Committee for Inter-religious Consultations.
“The theme was tzedek” – justice – “and tzedakah” – charity – “and just as important as the meetings, the pope-to-be made everyone deliver food within the very poor barrios, the absolutely dirty disgusting slums,” Brill said.
“You have to imagine these very formal Jews doing this, and how uncomfortable they looked in the photographs,” he said.
The encounter was criticized by some non-participating Jewish organizations, which asked why the Jews were wasting their time talking about charity, rather than about fighting anti-Semitism.
“This is the answer,” Brill said. “Look how it paid off. There’s a whole contingent of world Jewish community people who know him, who worked with him, and were invited to the inauguration.
“Sometimes you have to take a long view of these things.”
Local leaders laud Latin lord: New pope pleases pundits, Jewish Standard, 22 March 2013
Israel Singer, the former head of the World Jewish Congress, said he spent time working with Bergoglio when the two were distributing aid to the poor in Buenos Aires in the early 2000s, part of a joint Jewish-Catholic program called Tzedaka.
“We went out to the barrios where Jews and Catholics were suffering together,” Singer told JTA. “If everyone sat in chairs with handles, he would sit in the one without. He was always looking to be more modest. He’s going to find it hard to wear all these uniforms.”
Bergoglio also wrote the foreward of a book by Rabbi Sergio Bergman and referred to him as “one of my teachers.”
New pope has history of good relations with Jewish community, The Times of Israel, 13 March 2013
p. 55, The Soul of a Jew and the Soul of a Non-Jew An Inconvenient Truth and the Search for an Alternative, Ḥakirah, the Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought, Vol. 16, Winter 2013.
p. 73, The Soul of a Jew and the Soul of a Non-Jew An Inconvenient Truth and the Search for an Alternative, Ḥakirah, the Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought, Vol. 16, Winter 2013, p. 73
p. 50, The Soul of a Jew and the Soul of a Non-Jew An Inconvenient Truth and the Search for an Alternative, Ḥakirah, the Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought, Vol. 16, Winter 2013.
p. 10, Rabinical Literature: Or, The Traditions Of The Jews, Contained in Their Talmud and Other Mystical Writings, Volume 2.
In the video below, we can see the chameleon, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks shift back and forth between his smooth, Oxford persona and his inner Chabad Yid. The setting is a talk on 'Tzedakah and Social Justice' at an IFLA (Israel Free Loan Association) event. The 'Israel' Free Loan Association gives 0% interest loans to 'Jews' only (interest on loans is only to be charged to non-Jews according to rabbinic law). Beginning at approximately 18:50 in the video Rabbi Sacks starts speaking of Judaism's 'social justice' (Tzadakah, i.e. compulsory giving of charity to fellow 'Jews' of wealth gained from the non-Judaic community). He interestingly points out that he knows of no similar concept in other cultures, aside from the mafia.
Rabbi Sacks:
There is a unique law in Judaism; kofin al tzadakah [charitable giving to fellow 'Jews' is to be coerced]. Can you imagine another country in which, if you don't give charity, they force you to? The mafia say, you know, 'either you give or you sleep with the fishes,' you know. It doesn't exist in any other culture. They don't understand it when I say to them, 'If you don't give tzadakah, you could be forced to by a Beit Din [rabbinic court].' [Did] you ever go to a Jewish fund raising event and get out without giving? That's kofin al tzadakah. And it's beautiful.
This is not just Rabbi Sacks' opinion. It is the law of Orthodox Judaism as codified by the codifier of Orthodox Judaism, Moses Maimonides:He who does not want to give charity, or gives less than is proper, will be forced to do so by the rabbinical court, even to the point of striking him, until he gives his due, and the court will examine and assess his property in his presence, and take what is proper for him to give. And they may take collateral for charity, even on the eve of the Sabbath. (Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot matanot aniyim [Laws of Giving to the Poor] 7:10).
Rabbi Sacks' full address to the 'Israel' Free Loan Association is below. The relevant content starts at around 18 minutes:
Now, returning to a Rabbi Sacks interview that we cited in 2011 HERE:
"For a Jew like [Nathan] Rothschild, as the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explained to me, what for a Christian is charity, was rather stricter. Philanthropy is duty. You have to do it. It's ten per cent [of your earnings] and we're not saying it would be a nice idea; we're saying you do that - and if you don't, we ostracise you."
Contemplate that for a moment, reader. The rabbis could ostracize Nathan Rothschild? That's exactly what he's saying.
The Bankers and their Rabbis: What are you talking about?, Maurice Pinay Blog, 14 July 2015
In ADL’s first private audience with Pope Francis, Mr. Greenblatt thanked the pontiff for his steadfast support of the Jewish State of Israel and for the Holy See’s commitment to carrying out the ideals of Nostra Aetate, the seminal Vatican II Council document that declared anti-Semitism a sin and reversed 2,000-years of church teachings about Jews. He presented the pope with a gift of a traditional Jewish tzedakah, or charity, box and a photographic portrait of the pope with his good friend and associate, Rabbi Avraham Skorka of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ADL Leaders and Pope Francis Join to Reaffirm Jewish-Catholic Relations and Denounce Anti-Semitism, ADL, 9 February 2017, bold is our for emphasis.
The rise of Judeomasonic B’nai B’rith in Russia via its youth wing ‘Hillel’ parallels the rise of Putin. In Russia, B’nai Brith’s Hillel is run jointly w/ EAJC (the Eurasian branch of Rothschild & Lauder’s World Jewish Congress) among othershttps://t.co/h3E9sdQ5Ph— Maurice Pinay (@MauricePinay) June 22, 2019
B’nai B’rith’s ‘Hillel’ wing in Russia has centers in 9 cities. It’s run jointly with the EAJC branch of Rothschild & Lauder’s WJC, Mikhail Fridman‘s Genesis Philanthropy Group, Bronfman’s UJA & Jacob Schiff’s American Jewish Joint Distrobution Committee https://t.co/RyKEqu7iw3 pic.twitter.com/aTCtpFE1Qf— Maurice Pinay (@MauricePinay) June 22, 2019
Rabbi Goldman simultaneously founded Hillel Centers in the Former Soviet Union, and ten years later fostered the establishment and growth of 27 Hillel Centers in seven countries of the FSU. Rabbi Goldman founded Hillel Israel ... pic.twitter.com/VHqE31Sf9E— Maurice Pinay (@MauricePinay) June 23, 2019
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Rapping ain’t hard to do.
It’s enough to say ‘Jesus, I trust you!’
And right now we don’t want masks.
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