November 3, 2007

  • Of interest

    I guess an author named A Coulter has really stuck her foot in her mouth.

     

    excerpted from ffozblog: 

    To me, it is a scary thought that Christians like Coulter still believe that Judaism is a religion of legalism by which people must earn their way into heaven where as Christianity is a religion with no requirements. It’s a scary thought that Christians like Coulter consider their greatest gifts to Jews to be freedom from keeping the Torah and practicing Judaism—a process she refers to as “perfecting” them. (I know what she thinks she means, but if she would like to be a perfected Christian, maybe she should consider starting to practice Judaism in imitation of Christ.) The really scary part is that Christians like Coulter are allowed to speak on national television as if they actually know what the New Testament says.

    Coulter says that Christians are on the fast track. They don’t have to obey. This is very different from what the Messiah says. Yeshua says, “Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter” (Matthew 7:21). Perhaps Coulter would be surprised that Jesus would say something so unchristian. But then again--He was Jew too--wasn’t He.

    What we will be discussing tonight at HavDalah (and yes I know it may not be the actual ending of Shabbat due to the lunar/solar thing but this is when these people have invited us into their home, let's not be rude)

    Chayei Sarah - חיי שרה : "Life of Sarah"
    Torah : Genesis 23:1-25:18
    Haftarah : I Kings 1:1-31
    Gospel : Matthew 11-12

    In our culture, we believe that a person should marry whoever he or she falls in love with. This is a bad plan. It is possible to fall in love with the wrong person. It is possible to fall in love with many wrong persons. Falling in love is a terrible criteria upon which to base a marriage.

    This teaches that God appoints each person’s a spouse. Some people call this appointed person a soul mate.

    So don’t waste time trying to find your soul mate. She/he does not exist and will not exist until you get married. Once you are married, you can be confident that your spouse is your true bashert.

    Everyone remembers the matchmaker from the movie Fiddler on the Roof. (I watched this just last night) A matchmaker is called a shadkan (שרכן). A person with a special talent for matchmaking is referred to as a shadkan,......The responsibility of making matches is so important and so difficult that the rabbis claimed that God Himself has been occupied with the matter ever since creation.