Wednesday, December 5, 2007

How Wisconsin Bishop Listecki and His Flock Observe Advent



Local Catholics, Jews unite at opening Hanukkah service

By JOE ORSO | La Crosse Tribune
Wednesday, December 05, 2007



















John Zebedee said...


Excuse me, but the name of our God is Jesus Christ, who is Alpha & Omega...who is this Adonai? this an Israeli weightlifter or a 'security' agent?

Rabbi Ariel Sokolovsky said...


Maurice Pinay said...

I've always told people to avoid Wikipedia, the bendable, fluid "encyclopedia" shaped by pilpul between cronies who shut out cowans that don't toe the line.

Now I can also say that it's rabbi approved, for goy use, of course.

Telemaque said...

You could also take the time to learn that some languages also have a word for "LORD," not just Latin, and that among them is Hebrew, the language of some writings in your religion's cannon.

But it seems so much more important to you to bash our faith and ourselves than it is to look at your own. Try not to let the plank in your eye wreck the furniture, bub.

Maurice Pinay said...

You could also take the time to learn that some languages also have a word for "LORD," ...

Oh, I am well aware of the many Judaic names for Yahweh, the silliest being "Hashem" a name which translates as "The Name."

I suspect that John Zebedee is also aware of this and that his question was a rhetorical one, a bit of sarcasm which was apparently lost on a few readers.

Anonymous said...

My question is, and always will, when confronted with an ecumenical Jewish/Christian touchy-feely kind of event like this: What does Bishop Jerome Listecki, or any other similar-minded bishop or priest, think he may have in common with rabbinical Ashkenazis? They deny our Christ totally. Their holy book makes fun of Him, heaps torrents of abuse upon His Divine Person, and calls His Mother a whore.

Anonymous said...

One of the earliest canons in the Rudder, the [Orthodox] compilation of the decisions of the Apostles and the Ecuemical Councils, states that for a Bishop to even ENTER a Jewish synagogue, was to strip him of Episcopal rank and reduce him to the status of a layman!

Canon 65 "If any clergyman or layman, enter a synagogue of the Jews or of heretics, to pray, let him be both depssed and excommunicated."

Caonon 70 " IF any Bishop, or presybter, or Deacon or anyone at all who is on the list of clergymen..celebrates a holiday togther with them...let him be deposed from office."

Anathema sit.
- Fr John. Orthodox Priest

John Zebedee said...


I would agree that there are different translations/transliterations of the word 'Lord', 'God', even 'Jesus
Christ'...but, since I have a good deal of irony in my worldview, let me point out something
is probably my ignorance of Hebrew
that informs my sense of irony in this case...I believe that the founding rabbi of the Chassidic movement in Russia was referred to as the 'Baal Shem Tov', which I understand is translated as 'master of the name of God', Baal meaning master and Ha'shem being the 'name of God'...ironically, in the Old Testament, Baal is identified with the devil (or specifically a Caananite fertility god)...can this be transliterated as meaning that the 'devil is the master of the name of God', opr 'the devil is God's master'?...just a thought.