Comments on: Yes, but what sort of Jew? http://raphael.doxos.com/2007/10/22/yes-but-what-sort-of-jew/ Some place between 40 and Death Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2007/10/22/yes-but-what-sort-of-jew/#comment-1269 Huw Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:45:14 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2007/10/22/yes-but-what-sort-of-jew/#comment-1269 Hmm. I don't know, Fr E. The Chabad idea *seems* to be some sort of Reincarnation idea, or Origen's pre-existing souls. The idea has already come in in my own conversations where, reading my own journey, someone has opined that I "have a Jewish soul". Um... gack. Hmm. I don’t know, Fr E. The Chabad idea *seems* to be some sort of Reincarnation idea, or Origen’s pre-existing souls. The idea has already come in in my own conversations where, reading my own journey, someone has opined that I “have a Jewish soul”. Um… gack.

]]> By: Fr. Ernesto http://raphael.doxos.com/2007/10/22/yes-but-what-sort-of-jew/#comment-1263 Fr. Ernesto Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:11:17 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2007/10/22/yes-but-what-sort-of-jew/#comment-1263 I have heard it said that Orthodoxy is the most Jewish part of Christianity. St. Paul might have agreed somewhat with the "unique" soul part. This might, in part, explain his comments in Romans about we being "grafted in" to the Jewish vine. That is, in order to save us God had to make us Jews in more than just name alone. Ultimately, however, Jesus is the only true Jew, and St. John (writing later than St. Paul) quotes Jesus as saying that he himself is the vine and everyone else is a (grafted-in) branch, even his Jewish apostles. I have heard it said that Orthodoxy is the most Jewish part of Christianity.

St. Paul might have agreed somewhat with the “unique” soul part. This might, in part, explain his comments in Romans about we being “grafted in” to the Jewish vine. That is, in order to save us God had to make us Jews in more than just name alone. Ultimately, however, Jesus is the only true Jew, and St. John (writing later than St. Paul) quotes Jesus as saying that he himself is the vine and everyone else is a (grafted-in) branch, even his Jewish apostles.

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