Speaker Shabbat: Dr. Joshua Garroway, HUC-JIR (Rabbi Kipnes/Cantor Cotler)
December 14, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Jews typically hold the Christian Apostle Paul in low esteem as one who left Judaism to create another religion. His critical comments about the Torah and his conferring of the Abrahamic convenant on Gentiles have earned him the reputation as a perfidious huckster. Is it possible we have been too hard on Paul? Might modern Jews learn to see him as a loyal Jew. Indeed, a Jew much like ourselves? If so, what might this mean for the way we live as Jews.
Jews typically hold the Christian Apostle Paul in low esteem as one who left Judaism to create another religion. His critical comments about the Torah and his conferring of the Abrahamic convenant on Gentiles have earned him the reputation as a perfidious huckster. Is it possible we have been too hard on Paul? Might modern Jews learn to see him as a loyal Jew. Indeed, a Jew much like ourselves? If so, what might this mean for the way we live as Jews.
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