Day: 30. January 2015

History

From history perspective. These days we have had classes with Mark David Walsh an associate of Sion´s Sisters. Our topic is Christian-Jewish relations. In our first class we talked about the various expressions of the golden rule in the different religions; all are connected to love and respect of others. Specifically, in Christianity, Mt. 7:12 says: in everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. In Judaism‘s rule from Hillel, the Talmud says: what is hateful to you do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. As Christians, we acknowlege our historical heritage from the Judaism, and especially that, Jesus who, for us, is the Christ (the Messiah) and our Saviour, was born, lived and died as a Jew, observing Jewish Tradition, as is written in Luke 4:16-20: when he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, as he was his custom, and he …