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Yosef Menachem Ben Avraham
posted by Menachem @ 1:09 PM
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When I look at the promise of the everlasting covenents in Ezekiel and Jerimiah, I see the following.
1) G-d attones for sin in Ezekiel
2) G-d is the one who gives believers a heart to fear Himself in Jeremiah
3) G-d gives his own Spirit and a heart of flesh instead of stone to accomplish it
Clearly in the Tenach, salvation is of the Lord and it is said that the believer will explain the The Lord is Our Righteousness
Putting the emphasis on the right syll-a'-ble, we have G-d at the blazing center of salvation not man. I can see how this might be fullfilled in Yeshua work on the cross, but how is it fullfilled in your view.
Through G-d and his Torah. The rest is foreign and unacceptable. Besides the Psalmist said: "Do not put your trust in princes nor in a human being for he holds no salvation psalm 146:3
We should also point out here that, contrary to many Christians'thinking, the Talmudic literature does not contain criticism of Jesus. Some have sought to link him with a Yeshua Hanotzri, who is said to have practiced magic and sought to lead Israel astray (Sotah 47A and Sanhedrin 107B, but censored in contemporary texts). But a foremost historian of the rabbinate, the twelfth century Abraham ibn Daud, wrote (Sefer Ha-Kabbalah, Jewish Publication Society Edition, p. 15) that we possess a true tradition (Kabalat Emet) that this Yeshua Hanotzri lived during the reign of Alexander Yannai (died 76 B.C.E.), and had been a disciple of Joshua ben Perachiah,thus making it impossible for him to have been the founder of Christianity. This tradition is also given by Nahmanides (Vikuakh Ha-Ramban, Mossad edition, p. 306). R. Jehiel Heilprin, the seventeenth century rabbinic historian, lists two Yeshua Hanotzris, the first being the earlier controversial disciple of Joshua ben Perachiah who lived during Yannai's reign, and the second as the founder of Christianity (Seder Hadorot, pp. 147, 148 and 15 1).
Some have tried to linkjesus with a magician named Ben Stada, but R. Jacob Tam-the eminent Tosafist and grandson of Rashi-dismissed this (Shabbat 104B), as he had lived during the second century.
This same R. Jacob Tam recorded (Sanhedrin 63B and Bekhorot 2B) that Trinitarianism is permitted to Gentiles, even though it is considered an idolatrous act if practiced by a Jew.
Unfortunately, many people-and especially those possessing an anti-semitic frame of mind-have had a field-day with Jesus' attack on the Pharisees. One can only guess at how many pogroms and persecutions were instigated against Jews because of this misinterpretation. Such actions have not only caused terrible harm to innocent men, women and children.
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