That they bow down to vanity and emptiness
To Rabbi Shalom,
I sometimes pray in a Conservative synagogue and they omit our husbands from the praise “that they pray in vain and empty.”
I wonder, is it not an insult to Heaven to say that the Gentiles worship vanity and emptiness while they worship our God?
After all, both among us and among them, Neoplatonic and Neo-Aristotelian philosophers are fulfilling, and among us and among them.
I was thinking of Falful saying that even our fulfillmentists rely on the opinion of Moses, about whom it is said, “And I knew you by name,” meaning that he knew by name alone. All of God’s titles are in complete communion, and we only have His personal name, as is the opinion of Maimonides, which is the interpretation of the Bible. But at the time of the founding of their religion, the Christians and Muslims only considered the fulfillment. That Muhammad was ignorant, and the Nika’a Committee held to the Trinity. And the fact that there are philosophers among us and them does not matter, but the foundation of the religion determines the direction of prayer.
And this is in the sense of “This is my God, and I will give him glory, my God, and I will give him glory” as the essence of the uniqueness and belief of the duty of the hearts, that even those who do not know the name follow their ancestors.
But that sounds too much to me. Because in the end, even the “heavens” of the “Torah from Heaven” of the masses of the Jewish people are so clumsy, and the idea of knowing the name and “the One True” is so far from the intuition of the masses. Why do I have an ancestral tradition when my consciousness is so weak?
I would love to hear your opinion,
Many thanks,
Ofir
It depends on which Gentiles. There are Gentiles who do not worship our God, and when the prayer was corrected they were the majority (by the way, they are still the majority today).
This sentence is not directed at the Gentiles but defines us as those who do not belong to them. The “they” are the idolaters. I see no reason to touch on this sentence.
There is no such thing as idolaters. Most people want to thank and be close to their Creator, each in their own way. The statue symbolizes the Creator for them - it is certainly not the Creator - they are not as stupid as Judaism would like to show.
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