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Divinizing the Messiah

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:24 am
by _kaufmannphillips
Hi, everyone,

Posting a link here to a fascinating article from Israeli news on the Chabad Lubavitchers, a contemporary Hasidic sect with 200,000+ adherents. The article mentions a Lubavitcher from Portland, and there are Chabad centers both across the river and in Vancouver where I live.

Remarkable to see how devout Jews have turned their Messiah into something like God....

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShAr ... mNo=824393

Shalom,
Emmet

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:04 pm
by _Michelle
What an original idea!

Re: Divinizing the Messiah

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:03 pm
by _schoel
kaufmannphillips wrote:Remarkable to see how devout Jews have turned their Messiah into something like God....
I think this idea may have started with 11 or 12 Jews sometime after 30 A.D. They had followed a Rabbi who planted this idea in their heads. I think they were pretty convinced of it.

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