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Friday, December 18, 2015

Rabbis Issue Groundbreaking Declaration Affirming ‘Partnership’ With Christianity

A group of prominent Orthodox rabbis in Israel, the United States and Europe have issued a historic public statement affirming that Christianity is “the willed divine outcome and gift to the nations” and urging Jews and Christians to “work together as partners to address the moral challenges of our era.”

“Jesus brought a double goodness to the world,” the statement reads. “On the one hand he strengthened the Torah of Moses majestically” and on the other hand “he removed idols from the nations,” instilling them “firmly with moral traits.”

This year 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the declaration issued in 1965 by the Second Vatican Council, which marked a watershed in Jewish-Christian relations.

In language unusual for its day, Nostra Aetate stated that “God holds the Jews most dear,” stressed the great “spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews,” and condemned “hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.”

Now, a group of Jewish leaders has responded in kind, expressing their desire to accept “the hand offered to us by our Christian brothers and sisters.”

“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,” the text reads.

The statement bears the title, “To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven: Toward a Partnership between Jews and Christians,” and is signed by over 25 prominent Orthodox rabbis, who invite fellow Orthodox rabbis to join in signing the statement.

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6 comments:

  1. A partnership to battle the slimes!

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  2. I understand the hatred for Muslims. I never understood the hatred towards the jews. If it was relevant it was a very long time ago.

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  3. What's with the "G-d" thing? Yet you will print out Allah?

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  4. Orthodox Jews out of respect for God, do not write or speak His name aloud. It is an old tradition that continues today. Some may disagree with the tradition, but it certainly doesn't hurt anything.. they're following their conscience.

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  5. Obama wont be happy about this

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  6. The hyphen in the name I was also told was so that His name would not be on anything impermanent or that would get soiled. I think that is respectful and lovely. I have Jewish friends who are not Orthodox but who do it too.

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