Talk:Christian–Jewish reconciliation

message: Whose idea was it to insert the statement [Note, Bertrand Russell was a self-described philosophical agnostic and a practical atheist. Of concern to Christians is the Jewish definition of "neighbor" in the context of the "Golden Rule."] into the excerpt from R' Gordis' essay?  The only way I can fathom such an insertion is that whoever made it is a covert antisemite or else someone who made this "enlightened observation" without bothering to spend the time learning what the Jewish definition of "neighbor" is in that context.  (Leviticus 19:18)  First, the word is mistranslated as "neighbor", it actually means "companion" or more loosely, "fellow traveller", and is parallelled 16 verses later, in Leviticus 19:34, with respect to Converts to Judaism.  It has, in verse 18, always been understood as "fellow human", and therefore, as an admonition to love everyone, in the words of the Alter of Slobodka:  The commandment is to love others kamokha as you love yourself.  Just as you love yourself instinctively, without looking for reasons, so you should love others, even without reasons (Quoted from the Stone Edition Chumash, p. 662-3)  R' Avraham Yehoshua Heschel of Kopitchinitz is said there to have made essentially the same observation.  This is not, however, a unique-to-the-Litvaks, nor "newfangled" interpretation.  To quote further back, (from the same source)  Nachmanides explains that it is impossible for all but the saintliest people to feel literally the same love for others that they feel for themselves.  ...  It is human nature to say that we wish others well, but we want less for them than for ourselves.  The Torah says no.  A Jew can and should condition himself to want others to have the fullest degree of success he wants for himself.  Rashi and Sifra record that R' Akiva said that this commandment is the fundamental rule of the Torah, (note:  Jesus accords it second rank, and a fundamental philosophical difference between Christianity and Judaism is obviated by that fact...).  Further back, this same concept is found in the Talmud, its application being attributed to a variety of rules concerning things from capital punishment to marital relations, and Hillel paraphrased it as "What is hateful to you, do not do to others."  
In light of this, I vote that this callous and unstudied "comment" be removed from the article.  Thoughts?  Flames?
:This is a valid point.  I will make this edit. RK 23:13, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
::In review, the reply did not recognise that the complaint was that the definition of 'neighbour' (in Bertrand Russell's quote)is a concern to Christians, and the reply offered a Jewish explanation of how Jews see the argument.  Where's the Christian side of the discussion? 16:54, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Love Your Neighbor as Yourself 

message: This is just to inform people that I want Wikipedia to accept a general policy that BC and AD represent a Christian Point of View and should be used only when they are appropriate, that is, in the context of expressing or providing an account of a Christian point of view.  In other contexts, I argue that they violate our NPOV policy and we should use BCE and CE instead. See Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate for the detailed proposal. Slrubenstein   |  Talk  22:55, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  announcing policy proposal 

message: I removed the obviously biased & innacurate statement that the "Reflections on Covenant and Mission" issued jointly by the USCCB & NCS "contract[s] Catholic doctrine." Makrina 01:12, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reflections on Covenant and Mission 

message: The article mentions some of the issues in relation with traditionalist Christians, but doesn't mention the serious problems of Arab Christians, many of which in Palestine have criticized various elements of dialogue which ignore the plight of surrounding peoples of the Middle East, such as controversy over christian zionism and anti-zionism. ADM (talk) 09:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Arab Christians

message: Need to look into the U.S. Catholic-Jewish Consultation Committee, what ist does, what it is. ADM (talk) 09:35, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: U.S. Catholic-Jewish Consultation Committee

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