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Tag-MehirTzedek:

Israel Chai:
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pew-on-you/

Tag-MehirTzedek:

--- Quote from: LKZ on November 08, 2013, 04:02:46 PM ---http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pew-on-you/

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 Great article (didn't finish it though maybe later) but not relevant to the thread.

muman613:
Jews don't believe in Santa Claus (it is a Christian invention).

But it is essential for a religious Jew to believe in the coming of Moshiach. This is one of the 13 principles of Rambam, and every sage and commentator of the Torah agrees that the belief in Moshiach is a basic principles of Jewish faith.

I cannot see how Santa Claus can be compared to Moshiach though. That is a stretch of the imagination.

Tag-MehirTzedek:

--- Quote from: muman613 on November 08, 2013, 06:04:54 PM ---Jews don't believe in Santa Claus (it is a Christian invention).

But it is essential for a religious Jew to believe in the coming of Moshiach. This is one of the 13 principles of Rambam, and every sage and commentator of the Torah agrees that the belief in Moshiach is a basic principles of Jewish faith.

I cannot see how Santa Claus can be compared to Moshiach though. That is a stretch of the imagination.

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 1) Did you watch the video before commenting?
 2) In truth they are completely different, in  the minds of some similar, perhaps instead of Santa Clause the title could have been yeshu, but anyway the point is the same- its belief in fairy tales instead of a reality with a real life King with power and struggle and working through the physical world instead of one supposedly performing supernatural type of things and actions- "miracles".

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