Q&A: What did the Rabbi write in the deleted reply?
What did the Rabbi write in the deleted reply?
Question
I would be glad to know the reply the Rabbi wrote in the response that showed up for me as a notification, but when I open the link it simply doesn’t exist. Here is the title I managed to copy: “To Ariel, I think that in Judaism there are two great figures of our generation: Rabbi Berland, may he live long, and the Rabbi, may his saintly memory be blessed. I will copy a comment I wrote on another site…..”
Thank you — I’m really curious about the Rabbi’s full remarks.
Answer
I deleted several threads yesterday, and apparently that was one of them. This site is not the Bnei Brak mikveh gossip bulletin and is not meant for gossip about this rabbi or that one, who is more righteous, and what Rabbi So-and-so thinks about So-and-so — and certainly not for propaganda by the followers of one rabbi or another, and certainly not by the cult of the foolish followers of a pathetic, sick criminal like Berland. Anyone who wants to swap stories about “righteous men,” with or without quotation marks, not here.
Discussion on Answer
That is why I brought the followers’ stories (to show that they really believe this).
And I said that apparently they were sent from Heaven to push back against the claims of Christianity 🙂
That’s the part the Rabbi didn’t like…
Just as he denies an act done without awareness and does not address the fact that one can fulfill a commandment without intention, like the commandment of forgetting.
It was an empty and unnecessary discussion from beginning to end. It also turns out that the wording was very careless and unclear. We’ve exhausted it.
I wrote that response; the Rabbi simply didn’t understand it.
The questioner brought here a video by IGOD whose purpose was to prove historically that Jesus rose from the dead and that Christianity is true.
The Rabbi said he didn’t have time to watch all 40 minutes, and he didn’t really answer.
Toward the end of the response I briefly mentioned that they make a kind of witness argument for the truth of Jesus; they use several concepts that the Rabbi mentioned in the fifth notebook, as the questioner referred to in the question.
So their main claim, if I understood correctly, is that there is no reason not to believe that he rose from the tomb, because no one would lie about such a thing. (There is no interest in it, it is too strange a claim to invent and think up — in the style of Rabbi Cherki on the revelation at Mount Sinai — there are historians who acknowledge it, there are followers who paid heavy prices to believe in him, there are people who were skeptical beforehand but repented after seeing his emergence from the tomb, etc. etc.).
So I said that nowadays there are two rabbis who have most of the miracles of Jesus, with students who swear they saw it.
1. Rabbi Berland — I brought links showing that there are followers who claim he is God incarnated in flesh and blood in order to atone for the sins of the Jewish people, while enduring humiliations (which is why he was in prison).
There are even followers who claim he has no body.
As for miracles, on the Shuvu Banim website you can see a very impressive record of miracles, from reviving the dead to managing to make heavy things float (there is footage of him making a disabled person in a wheelchair float).
The Lubavitcher Rebbe — I brought much evidence that people met him after his death. Some also repented afterward even though they had not been religious before (exactly like their claim about that emissary who repented after meeting Jesus).
And I also brought additional claims about people who believe that other people are God incarnated in flesh and blood, for example from the world of art, etc. Not long ago there was a dancer who committed suicide and believed her master was God.