Anti-Semitism

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que opinas aserca del antisemitismo

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  1. The Just Ask! - AskTheRabbi.org Team

    There are many different forms of Jew hatred and many different reasons behind them. However, I think that antisemitism is unique for a few reasons: it is Universal, i.e. it is found amongst Pagans, Christians, Muslims, Enlightenment, the Left and the Right. Because it is so intense, i.e. the various attempts at total annihilation, unspeakable torture, etc. The sheer fact of its Longevity, it was found in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Dark and Middle Ages, the Renaissance and up to and including modern times. There is no rationality to its claims, for example deicide, the blood libel, the exaggerated influence of the Jews, Protocols, the anti-Semitic attacks are often against best economic and scientific interests.

    One of the possible problems is that of an ideological clash – Judaism has never been secretive about its condemnation of any deviations from absolute, pure monotheism. Its condemnation of idolatry, deification of humans and deviation from the Bible in any form. This has incurred us a lot of hatred as well. Regarding Christian antisemitism, (see God’s First Love, Heyer. Faith and Fratricide by Rosemary Reuther) there are a number of other factors as well. The Christians claim to have the Jewish messiah, yet the Jews who originated the idea, believed in it and expected it – rejected Jesus as a candidate! The Christians claim that the Jews killed Jesus – even though crucifixion was not a Jewish method of execution and even though the Jewish courts had no power to judge capital matters at the time. They also claim that it is impossible to keep Jewish law, and that Jesus made it obsolete – the existence of Jews to this day, despite persecution etc. who still keep Jewish law is a contradiction to that belief.

    There is also a tremendous sense of self-righteous anger – the Jews have resisted every effort to convert them whether it was the Crusades, the Inquisition or missionaries. Jealousy – Jews have the original language of the Bible, the traditions of the Bible and the Land of the Bible – the Christians took their Bible from us, the Psalms from us, their Messiah from us -and therefore they resent us and are jealous.

    Unfortunately, the only way that we can expect anti-Semitism to end is with the Messianic Era, when all the nations of the world will finally accept and acknowledge the fact that the Jewish People are God’s Chosen People.

    I suggest an excellent book on the subject called “Why the Jews? by Joseph Telushkin and Dennis Prager.

    Best wishes from the AskTheRabbi.org Team