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Understanding Christianity

A Jewish theological and literary commentary to the Christian bible.

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Photo by: Avi Katz
We will eat on the seventh of Passover the ‘Messiah Feast,’ intended to infuse the faith in the messiah’s coming into our blood and flesh, like a meal that becomes our blood and flesh.”

This sentence got its author, Chabad spokesman Rabbi Menachem Brod, into trouble. According to a recent Haaretz story, he was criticized in Internet forums for importing the Christian symbolism of the Eucharist, where bread and wine are likened to the flesh and blood of Jesus, into a Jewish ceremony. Brod denied it: the accusations were “wild associations that say more about the forum’s participants, who are apparently immersed in Christian ideology. I, happily, don’t have such associations.”

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