Rabbi Gershon Steinberg-Caudill THERE IS NO ONE TRUE RELIGIOUS PATH THE ONE RELIGION IS LIKE GODS PUZZLE OF THE RAINBOW. IT IS A ONENESS MADE UP OF ALL RELIGIOUS PATH TRADITIONS. IF EVEN ONE IS MISSING, THE PUZZLE IS NOT COMPLETE. EVERY RELIGION IS NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE. The Walking Stick Rebbe, the Holy Teacher of the Ecokosher Rebbe, Rabbi Gershon Winkler שליטה states: Judaism does not believe that Judaism is the only legitimate path to God. In fact, the Torahs concluding statement is that never again arose among the Israelites a prophet as great as Moses (Deuteronomy 34: 10), to which the ancient teachers add: Among the ISRAELITES there never arose one like Moses, but among the nations of the world it is possible that such a one could arise (Bamidbar Rabbah 14: 19). Judaism also does not see itself as the sole embodiment of wisdom (Eichah Rabbah 2: 13) or the only avenue to Paradise in the Hereafter. Rather, everyone - Jewish or not - can earn a portion of the World to Come (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 105a and Tosefta Sanhedrin 13: 1), because we are judged not by our religious affiliation, but by our actions in the world: I call heaven and earth as witnesses that anyone, Jew or gentile, man or woman, slave or maidservant, can bring the Divine Presence upon oneself, all in accordance with ones deeds (Tana DBei Eliyahu Rabbah 10: 1). Some sages even went so far as to extend the name YEHUDI (JEW) to ANYONE who denied belief in idolatrous worship (Babylonian Talmud, Megilah 13a). The fourth-century Rabbi Yirmiyahu held that a non-Jew who endeavored in the study and practice of Torah was equivalent to a KOHEIN GADOL, the Jewish High Priest (Sifra Acharei Mot 13: 12).
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:32:47 +0000