28 October 2009

Letter from Lhasa, number 153. (Olitzky 2005): Jewish Ritual

Letter from Lhasa, number 153. (Olitzky 2005): Jewish Ritual

by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Rabbi Olitzky, K. M., and Rabbi D. Judson, Jewish Ritual. A Brief Introduction for Christians, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, USA, 2005.

(Olitzky 2005).

Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky

Rabbi Daniel Judson

“According to a familiar maxim, Christians can walk into a synagogue and affirm just about everything that is said, because the prayers primary praise and thank God, but Jews cannot walk into a Christian church and affirm any of what is said, because of the extent that Christian prayers invoke Jesus as Deity. While this may be substantially true, you can still find parallel themes in Jewish and Christian prayer services.” (Olitzky 2005, p. 74)

This booklet, of the dimension of the order of 100 pages, is a comparative exposition on Judaism and Christianity. From a religious point of view, Christianity is built on Judaism. For some mysterious reason, everybody (apparently, also this book’s authors) seems to prefer to insist in the fiction that Yeshua is not a tale of the post-70 Judaism, which became power’s tool and matter. Peculiarity of Judaism is that it remained for millennia, and perhaps it is continuing to be, religion and ideology of self-managed communities.

Rabbi Olitzky, K. M., and Rabbi D. Judson, Jewish Ritual. A Brief Introduction for Christians, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, USA, 2005.