Shalom brother Chaim,
what are your thoughts on this anti-Christian quote which was taken from Canadian website Israpundit's archives and was made by somebody calling themselves "Yoram Hadad" who describes himself as an "Orthodox Jew who studied in a Yeshiva in Jerusalem and I can give you converging Jewish sources for every single [one] of my statements..."
"It is strictly forbidden for a Jew to enter a chruch (Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 149:1), during a mass or not, a church transformed into a museum is also strictly forbidden, and Rabbi Yosef Karo (the author of Shulhan Arukh) is uncertain if a person can be allowed to enter a curch in order to save his life, many Jewish authorities decided that even in order to save one's life it is forbidden to enter a church, a Jew has to chose death rather than to enter a church."Contrary to this, it is even allowed [for a Torah believing Jew] to pray in a mosque, since Islam - although a lie - is not idolatry.
"ALL Hahamim are in complete agreement that x-tianity is idolatry and that it is strictly forbidden to enter a church as it is, of course, forbidden even to have a meal in a x-tians house."Christians are idolaters, i.e. the kind of man who are opposed to us, the Jews."And Christians are not our friends, they only do what seems good for them."There is not only no possibility of collaboration with the Christians, but there is simply NO NEED.
"We have to believe to our G-d and to have faith to Him and to be solidary between us."Christians are first of all IDOLATERS !!!"And THIS is the WORST from our JEWISH point of view."It is FORBIDDEN to collaborate with idolaters and it is even more forbidden to hope that those idolaters will help us.ONLY the G-d of ISRAEL will help us, nobody else. "For this event, the State of Israel, we have to thank ONLY our G-d - and certainly no one of the x-tian kings, and so I think that x-tian support for Israel is a good thing for the x-tians (since it can help them - may be - to get a place in the Word to Come), but for us Jews it is simply irrelevant."
Why do you think he hates Christians so much and makes the claim that all of his views are supported by the teachings of Judaism? Do you think many Orthodox Yeshivas in Israel teach these anti-Christian beliefs or is he just full of you know what? Incidentally, looking over Israpundit's archives, I just discovered he has a pathological hatred especially for the Heroic Serbian Christians for some inexplicable reason. Perhaps this has an important bearing on his statement referred to above?
Topic: Ask JTF for Sunday March 29, 2009 (Read 12655 times)