Comments on: Catholics Praying in Hebrew in the Holy Land http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/catholics-praying-in-hebrew-in-the-holy-land/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=catholics-praying-in-hebrew-in-the-holy-land Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: stevenjklein http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/catholics-praying-in-hebrew-in-the-holy-land/comment-page-1/#comment-27018 stevenjklein Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:33:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=153436#comment-27018 I don't mean any insult, but your message seems self-contradictory. If your wife underwent a halachic conversion, then she's Jewish, not Catholic. If she didn't convert, then I don't see how you can describe yourself as an Orthodox Jew. Orthodox Jews don't marry gentiles.  Am I wrong? I don’t mean any insult, but your message seems self-contradictory. If your wife underwent a halachic conversion, then she’s Jewish, not Catholic. If she didn’t convert, then I don’t see how you can describe yourself as an Orthodox Jew. Orthodox Jews don’t marry gentiles. 

Am I wrong?

]]> By: Risa Simon http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/catholics-praying-in-hebrew-in-the-holy-land/comment-page-1/#comment-26987 Risa Simon Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:55:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=153436#comment-26987 Yeshu or Yeshua is simply Jesus in Hebrew, just as Yehoshua is Joshua.   The curse/acronym that Father Neuhaus attributes to the name Yeshu was a much later historical invention and applied retroactively to the name.   My sister Pat always told me that her name stood for "Pretty and Talented" ... but really, Pat is just a name.   No one today uses the name Yeshu as a curse.  Most don't even know that some medieval Torah scholars even came up with such a device! Yeshu or Yeshua is simply Jesus in Hebrew, just as Yehoshua is Joshua.  

The curse/acronym that Father Neuhaus attributes to the name Yeshu was a much later historical invention and applied retroactively to the name.  

My sister Pat always told me that her name stood for “Pretty and Talented” … but really, Pat is just a name.  

No one today uses the name Yeshu as a curse.  Most don’t even know that some medieval Torah scholars even came up with such a device!

]]> By: Alphonse Pecounce http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/catholics-praying-in-hebrew-in-the-holy-land/comment-page-1/#comment-26984 Alphonse Pecounce Mon, 24 Dec 2012 23:51:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=153436#comment-26984 As an orthodox Jew married to a Catholic whose father was Jewish, I found this story both fascinating and quite uplifting.  As an orthodox Jew married to a Catholic whose father was Jewish, I found this story both fascinating and quite uplifting. 

]]> By: Michael M. Ross http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/catholics-praying-in-hebrew-in-the-holy-land/comment-page-1/#comment-26980 Michael M. Ross Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:40:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=153436#comment-26980 Unfortunately, the loaded statement made by the Catholic priest about the meaning of Yeshu should not have been broadcast the day before Christmas or any other day on The World. If it is an acronym, it can also mean "may his name and memory be praised". More likely, though, Yeshu is just one of the numerous Hebrew forms of Joshua and was never reserved for Jesus in particular. Unfortunately, the loaded statement made by the Catholic priest about the meaning of Yeshu should not have been broadcast the day before Christmas or any other day on The World. If it is an acronym, it can also mean “may his name and memory be praised”. More likely, though, Yeshu is just one of the numerous Hebrew forms of Joshua and was never reserved for Jesus in particular.

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