Good Deeds on the Sabbath

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Good Deeds on the Sabbath

Text: Matthew 12:9-15 - This is about the man with a shrived hand in the Synagogue when Christians did not exist yet to testify that it ever happened.

The text says that the Pharisees put this question to Jesus, hoping to bring an accusation against him that he would be braking the Sabbath: "Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath?" Jesus said yes and cured the man with the shrived hand. Then the Pharisees began to plot against Jesus to find a way to destroy him.

Text: 2 Kings 4:8-24 - The author of the above joke simply showed complete ignorance of Judaism because Jesus' answer was a Jewish answer. I am referring to Elisha the Prophet and the Shunammite woman's son who had got a sun stroke and was taken as dead. As she was getting ready to ride to the Prophet to come to see her son, the husband of the woman let her know that it was neither new moon nor Sabbath to go to the Prophet for help. It means that the Sabbath was the best day for good deeds to be done. Elisha complied and resuscitated the boy.

The bottom line is that either Jesus was doing a double mitzvah by curing on the Sabbath or the text in Matthew 12:9-15 never happened and was only a NT act of anti-Jewish evidence. Now, any one else is welcome to the rescue of the NT.
 
A Cup Of Tea said:
Brian, maybe move this to the Judaic section?
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I don't think so because Shibolet must be the only Jew around who understands NT Literature. Other Jews don't even know what on earth has the NT to do with the Tanach.
 
Shibolet said:
I don't think so because Shibolet must be the only Jew around who understands NT Literature. Other Jews don't even know what on earth has the NT to do with the Tanach.
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You're reading a text through the Judaic tradition, not the Christian tradition, a tradition I don't think you know much about.
 
I don't think so because Shibolet must be the only Jew around who understands NT Literature. Other Jews don't even know what on earth has the NT to do with the Tanach. Shibolet.

You are the only Jew who understands NT literature? Seriously??? What are you doing wasting your time on this forum. Shouldn't you be teaching all the millions of other Jews how ignorant they are?
 
wil said:
I believe he is referring to your aim....as anti interfaith... but you knew that.
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Interfaith does not imply immediate agreement but a friendly discussion of our different views about religion.
 
Devils' Advocate said:
I don't think so because Shibolet must be the only Jew around who understands NT Literature. Other Jews don't even know what on earth has the NT to do with the Tanach. Shibolet.

You are the only Jew who understands NT literature? Seriously??? What are you doing wasting your time on this forum. Shouldn't you be teaching all the millions of other Jews how ignorant they are?
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Teaching what, NT? You must be kidding! Once I was invited for Passover by relatives of my Yemanite wife and I saw a copy of the NT on a little stand on the corner of the living room and I asked if they had invited a Christian for Passover. "Hass vahalilla!" the woman of the house said; which means "God forbid!" She got riddle of the book and had to purify the whole house before serving the Passover meal. As you can see, there are superstitious among the Jews also. It reminded me of the Jews at the time of Jesus who could not get into the Praetorian of Pilate because Passover was about to start lest they would be defiled. (John 18:28)
 
This is a story most strange.

This woman had a copy of the NT in a corner of her living room, but she did not know it was there until you pointed it out to her? Once pointed out to her she was so horrified, she chucked the book and then purified the entire house?

For how long was the NT in the house, do you suppose, before you noticed it was there?

Enjoyed the slip of the tongue "She got (the) riddle of the book..." Now what do you suppose came out of your psyche to post it that way?
 
Devils' Advocate said:
This is a story most strange.

This woman had a copy of the NT in a corner of her living room, but she did not know it was there until you pointed it out to her? Once pointed out to her she was so horrified, she chucked the book and then purified the entire house?

For how long was the NT in the house, do you suppose, before you noticed it was there?

Enjoyed the slip of the tongue "She got (the) riddle of the book..." Now what do you suppose came out of your psyche to post it that way?
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Oh! I did suspect of the Christian language of a lady from Chicago whom later I found out to be the wife of one of the children of the family. She asked me to say nothing for she was scared that her secret conversion could be revealed and a major scandal could erupt. I warned her that she had chosen the wrong time to witness and she apologized asking me not say any thing to any one. Of course, I had only to comply. It was Passover after all. In fact, she worked harder than the others, perhaps to hide her guilt.
 
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