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Thank you so very very much
beloved friend
Pastor Mario
Eric Stillman
all of those responsible for this magnificent gathering
Brother Malcom
Who is a very very good friend
for many years
my beloved brothers and sisters all
just one small note
The Talmud teaches
that ultimately
in the days of the Messiah
all of the Jewish sanctuaries
and houses of study
are going to be recycled
into Jerusalem
and they will all make their way to Israel
I would like to ask Rabbi Har
I'm putting in my dibs right now
In Efrat I would love this sanctuary to be recycled
I took that
as an ascent
I'm very humbled
by so many of the things that I've been hearing just these last few minutes
Pastor Carlos speaks so strongly about it
feeling that he is an Israeli
and... I truly am an Israeli
despite my brooklyn accent, you'll hear a little more about that soon...
But I speak Hebrew
with an accent as well
and "estudio espanol en los quelos para dos anos" I speak a little bit
Spanish
because I grew up in Hispanic
Bedford Stuyvesant
I was the only Jew surrounded by Hispanics so I'm ready for the
Spanish language in heaven
Please G-d
but I want to just take one slight issue;
This is truly an historic gathering
but hear me very well
it is not
only
for Israel
it is for the sake of the entire
free world!
We must
unite
for the world
and this is really the subject
of my talk with you this afternoon
Jews
and Christians
walking together
a new hope for the future
we started about five years ago
a Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Efrat, Israel
This past year alone, seven thousand
seven hundred
Christians
have come through our portals
to study about the Jewish roots
of Christianity, the root and the branch
the root and the fruit
both in God
and both in Abraham
Why did I start it?
What made me believe so strongly and so profoundly
in the importance
of our meeting together
in cooperation and in love?
My initial... intial forase
into interfaith relations began
very very positively
when I was thirteen years-old
Bar Mitzvah
My parents used to give me a dollar a week allowance
and my father told me quite seriously: "Now you're a man, you're a Bar Mitzvah, you're thirteen...
no more allowance...
you'll have to find a way to make the dollar yourself"
and so I became a salesman
and deliverer
of a newspaper. I'm not even sure it still exists called "The Brooklyn Eagle"
For ten cents a week
an individual would get a paper delivered
to his door everyday
and I was the deliverer
For the deliveries I wore
a baseball cap
The neighborhood was rough
and sometimes jews were treated so well. By the Hispanics and the African-Americans
they were treated very well I must say
there were other minorities that didn't quite treat us so well but
you'll see in a moment
they also came through for me
At any rate...
I delivered "The Brooklyn Eagle"
and every week there was a woman who would come out
and usually I would get a two-cent tip or a three-cent tip
and she would always look at me
and give me a pinch on my cheeks
and said "For a nice Italian Catholic boy"
Now, I'll tell you the truth
she put up a quarter in my hand, a quarter tip for a dime a week
for the newspaper. I took a deep breath
swallowed my conscience
and smiled. I didn't say a word.
For a full year...
I felt guilty about it
and at the end of the year
she came out again
and of course with a quarter;
"For a nice Italian Catholic boy"
and I said "Ma'am, I'm sorry
to tell you and I don't want to disappoint you
but I'm a Jewish boy"
and she stopped for a minute
and she looked me
and she said "That's all right,
our Lord Jesus was also
a nice Jewish boy"
and she put
a quarter in my hand
That was
truly my
introduction, a very positive introduction
to interfaith relations
and it continued
very profoundly
really for me
when I went to Israel for the first time in 1960, I was just after
college
before Rabbinical school
and Rabbinical school I knew was going to be in New York with
Rabbi Soloveitchik
my teacher
a great
Rabbi
and great educator and
great legalist
and great philosopher theologian
but one year I wanted to study in Israel I studied at the Hebrew University
it was a panoply of stars
I caught
the last seminar given by
Martin Buber, Gershon Sholem
I took two courses with him
it was an amazing experience
and I also studied with Professor David Flusser
and professor Flusser was
and even after his passing still remains
the expert
on early christianity
what is called "the inter-testamental period" in scholarship
and this was a class
then we were not
in the campus of the Hebrew University... There was no Mount Scopus
this was before the Six Day War
we were out of the Old City of Jerusalem
but there was a campus
in Givat Ram
in Jerusalem
and he had a very large lecture hall
when he gave public lectures there were hundreds and hundreds of people who came
but this particular class
that you had to take an exam to get into the class
there were only four students
the class
was "The Gospel
of Matthew"..
the story of Jesus,
in Greek
and in order to take the class
you had to translate and interpret two texts
one a Greek text
of one of the gospels
and the other a Talmud
Aramaic text
so not many people even bothered to take the test
and four people
were in the class
there was an Israeli bus driver
Only in Israel
a redneck bus driver
who knew greek
knew Talmud
was interested in Jesus
and totally a-religious
but he was in the class
the other
was
a young woman, a seminarian, a seminar student
a nun from Bonn Germany
in Protestant
gray habbit
third was really going on
and your mom
from terra santa
he was twenty one i was twenty we became fast friends who went to the movies to
get the represented at night
those with a four people
i told you what became really
almost replied
with optional
he wanted to give his life to church
highways
have inventor and becoming
unorthodox without buying
we had much much in common
on spoke about it
and didn't you
that might find a screen at that time
was to be able to give the priestly benediction because i'm a copy
actor called him
at the wall the westin
of the whole weekend
and a few weeks before a passover and a before use
sharma he said to me
thank you
the westin
for your past
you'll be able to give the priestly benediction
have opinions from
he said the saturday night
before we go to the movies
come to the garden of tennis center
bring me a passport
fill out the proof
i promise
analyst didn't sleep for the rest of the week
i met him on saturday night
i came with my passport
and very excited to be began to
nobody's made made you know the birth dates
all the usual nonsense
and then the final
i hereby declare
that buying and able believing
i began to crumble
clinic hectic i can't
two we will continue
will become a political
numerical citizen
just signed
esteem tobacco basis
just
ureport alec
format now
very strong
and cues from
i cried to explain what two thousand years of
persecution
in the name of the founder of christianity
meant do you wish
icici you know
no hot here
serious to come
in the study of his tomra and his book
but this one right away
when jews are not allowed to stand trial
and that's christmas eve
because that's when
all the programs against kitchen
took place in
when we walk in the not the priests
would call us
christ came
and people were sent out two regions
and jews didn't have a home libraries no one had long haul my birthday
they went to the study guide
and every evening usually
every thought that would come home
difficult day
work and have a little bit of a piece of carrying it
i would go to the starting out
and prayed evening pre
and study the olympics
if everyone will be made
stay heads of the house so
worry in this study house
match
could just bhuli
families intact
so we will put it into stack
i can't signed
news what's up
and we can't be friends in
i said but would love it
and he said but you hate my god
i said i thank you
we're sitting together in the same classrooms professor from us
i see
no guy
as a wonderful jewish teacher
within the company produced
i hate
but two thousand years
of christian leadership main of your car
that's what i
he said no
if you ate my god
and from that moment dot never spoken to
as i read toad
it's chromatic
because
i can't say anymore school only broke my heart
use would work
theke acharya
unical degree to israel
my beloved teacher before the end of my son of age
wrote a very important work
qual confrontation
theologically
in which he spoke about
the importance
of the june
printing the world
and in confronting the
also confronting
and he spoke specifically about the catholic faith community
because
the catholic post
the catholic community specifically pope john the point of
had reached out to rub my son of a chick and had to reach al
to professor headshot
as part of
and u_n_ demand to go
a restructuring in reordering even if the outage
within the catholic
and my teacher
was not ready to cooperate
and hugo qua
very scooter
he said that you mentioned you can
the faith commute
we confront the other part faith community
knowing where to chain
works
full understanding that religious crew
disc and never be debated more aren't you
because they print
precious to each of
with a full understanding that
we certainly sharing coming
many critical
and left
ethical principles
and arlington
at the world means
however you see
the other community to christian community upon want more numerous than
we are
date for the last two thousand
had not respected house
as an equal faith community
replacement theology
teaches
succession isn't
they have
didn't use
and that there is no longer warming gods heart for us
and in search of that
there's nothing to dialogue
it was very strong piece
and he's a very forthright and bold peeps
and the way so they cheat cruelly sedih
as it once
but there is a fascinating in
porting
versus in the book
zone holding you will to love
the and uh...
the book of cuba
remember the days of all
beings shield taller but dole
undestand
the years of
from generation to generation
this very interesting commended
is understood by many of the greatest teachers
liquid inside the calm
he's out commending
just ugly history
to assembly allison very well
if we don't spend history we will be doing
jaw repeat its mistakes
and at work
is in its
command
two studies
but rabbi sends me a full year's add something very interesting
being lucien ought to do if i told
understand
nears from generation to generation
with these people were shall not still
came in here
handycam
she knew
every year
brings change
that's the hope
adding new year
so if i sent to replenish magnificently interprets
extended changes appropriate generation
understand them
respond
to win but
and you see
what came out
and your name
what is the famous people in sick leave
in cyclical
no-strike pack
in nineteen sixty five
the year and a half
rabbi celebrating gripping the scud
anderson cyclical
to very critical and important
crystal ball
ka doesn't matter
apiece cut
when god made a copy
including israel
that's an internal company
indeed that's what
company
chernobyl hon
cracked that
canned food
theory quarrel
gone isn't too
he's covered
and therefore
we are he's
eternal
that's
the first
part of the ***
and what this new
moves as well
and so
that encyclical
orbs of state
anti-semitism
and charges of decide
are reprehensible
and not i'd
fort any
this was the sea change
catholic spokespeople
most notably
pope john paul the second
forgiveness if the jewish people
full walnut
cracks against against us for two thousand
leading protestant theologians although the protestants are still
large measure
sometimes a bit slow
to recognize
approves of that in cyclical
but there are many leading protestant theologian
who stand at the
but especially evangelical
behind
decency co
occurrence
which
opened the eyes etc
to leaving church
the first how
i think it was clear
greed and some church
that the holocaust never could have taken place in europe to the extent
of the psi
genocide
six-man
had it not
beamed for the seeds of anti-semitism
at the church itself
for those two thousand
the very existence of the state of israel
ordinance
christian theology
that the jews would be
to wonder because they'd
recognize
sanctity
massages
but we stopped wondering
the state of israel became a reality
pianist
heads of the church understood
that this man
that they had to reorganize at u_n_ amento
if you're not too closely
at least
in so far as israel was cancer
any negative teachings
that heretofore
and that's the situation
made me understand
we had to respond
as jews to this chain
all hartsfield so hard
christian hart
winds reaching al
two jewish so
the branch
was returned to him
giving in on anything to do a theological principle
without asking us to give up on antietam out with him about prit
withstand this thing
ments s
what's significant
impact which defines
that's what
and that's what maybe so crewmen beastly import
for us
and to go
or move the next steps
to walk together
for you hope for the future
what one minute
and i want to return to my earliest date
will be
in very special
in very miraculous
in very good morning sky
we've seen the confirmation of god's comp
and a great historians
harvard university professor content
in a magnificent thing crucially important buchwald class of simple easy
the clash
of civilization
puts it
perhaps
he doesn't seem so proved that it could be creek some people would like it did
but professor huntington
is agree scholar
political expert
world fair
and one of the leading expert
so he puts it exactly
equaled space the erupt
a fourth world war
inferior world war
what is this something
that was waged between communism
this he said it's the war which is now going on in the middle east
but you know all parts of the world
because new york indonesian monday
and mounting
i will affect
because this
before that we will
between those who love peace
and those who worked for cheap
now we some doesn't past
tubing and she had to just
you're trying to the middle ages
when it was not
yusuf the interpretation the coloured interpretation of this
would you please certainly in the middle east that's not been duplication
it's the one hundred interpretation
it's because you had to speak
i want everyone to understand this poem believes you can understand
moto thing is it was not there
god sis in genesis eighteen
verses eighteen and nine
flu you the children of abraham
all the families of the earth so p plans
but on what basis
why did god chose
white and black chick stever
you know the similarities
how r god
to choose the jews anti-semites wrote
if i don't know semi answered it was matador line
because the jews chose got
god says i'll tell you why i chose a prayer
decade
i have not only in i'd love to in i've chill simeon
because he's teaching these children is how was sold after him
to wat in the way he is a billboard which is to local sit back operation
actually it might just be spent borrowed justice
most museum is not
initial dowell trophies in his speech
if you want to leave the net died intimate allow words is suicide bombers
against innocent human beings
that's out there is little more often you simply it's not even more also use
it makes and models is that
and that's not quite correct
it's the antithesis of what god
and this is the work going on
under one name
used on the clinton interests
spread pierre hehe
and your knocks you slice
throughout the world
and sixty
king in
spring back
he cream
indeed under how little walls of the disunited and dysfunctional mainstays
but you used the compliance and fields instead
are returning to religion
very large no
many people
are returning to the bike
in very much
and the two of us
are beginning to march forward
in a god of love
and morality
and peace
now to go out of power
and not a cottage
we both believe that theory such as
boiled absent you
now shall
not *** an innocent human being
that's acts in
no destiny in liberation east the outage
can't change that absolute
and we believe in this together
we both believe in the right of everyone to be free
and that's why we have always since the beginning about conflict
been willing to compromise you've been on the landing fees
but the other side
but we both believe that everyone has a right to be
and everyone has a right to be here
g_ harding's ***
they only films will bring the blvd
green
but to be alive
i was young
are used to read a lot of science fiction
it's amazing how much science fiction i dread
is now signs
but i'll never forget
the short story by
i believe it was robert heinlein
the third world war was about that
it was one last-ditch ten
two major powers green
mac to bear arms
they would give
boom here of time
major thing against human beings
priorities turnouts into which i
computer
that was set up
the horn of the united nations
and all of the wisdom would be a jesus and the wisdom of our p
would feel that computer
and then the question would be put to the computer
widens the room to world
is there an answer
and only after he got sick and four
but we're not satisfactory
with a third world began
which meant the destruction of human
and he pitches you could imagine it was just the beginnings of television at
that time
everyone was grouting televisions
the whole world is waiting
what is the answer for
okies juga chut chut chut
people goes
migrants
this is the answer
i am the word of god two p out of
line g
the child had no other gods
sharp knife
and shop
and command
ecm should
we cannot stand
if we are to fight
we are united
not only woodwind sify
probaly we must
for the sake of the free world
and for the sake of god god's orchestra
we must
together
for the sake
of the meaning
for the world
thank you