Posted on 06/14/2020 3:04:54 PM PDT by Twotone
Ten days after my father, Rabbi Chaim Grosz, of blessed memory, passed away, I received a large manila envelope with a beautiful card inside from a Catholic church in New Jersey. The front of the card had a woman named “Mary Queen of the Missions”. The inside had a preprinted form in which the church was going to say a Perpetual Mass for the soul of Chaim Grosz, his name carefully handwritten.
How could a Perpetual Mass be said for him? My father, a prominent Chasidic rabbi, was born in January 1944 in Hungary. Miraculously, he survived being deported to Bergen Belsen, and when it was liberated 18 months later in April 1945, my father still weighed little more than a newborn. His mother, father, and siblings survived the camps, but they were physically and emotionally broken. Like most of the survivors of the Holocaust, they were unable to return to their homes, and while waiting for legal permission to emigrate, were sent en masse to DP camps (Displaced Persons camps.)
My father and his family sojourned briefly to a DP camp in Italy just before they came to the United States. My father’s father was a well-known Rabbi. Like most Chasidic Hungarian Rabbis, my grandfather wore a long black caftan and a round short hat made of beaver, and as was the custom for a "man of God," he walked with his hands clasped behind his back. And so, confusing my grandfather for a priest, the old Italian women would rush at him and attempt to kiss him in their religious fervor.
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Anyone who beats Re No in court...or anywhere...is OK in my book!
What an interesting and inspiring story.
“Jittery’’ Janet was one evil bitch.
Thanks for posting.
The American in me says “Yeah, Catholics and Christians love Jews now”. What’s the big deal ?
The New Yorker in me says “DAMMIT ANOTHER WAY TO SPELL HESSITIC ?! “
I’ve got Hessidic and Hassids, Hassidic, Hassidim or Hessidim, what else ?
God listens to everyone. It doesn't matter if the Mass is for a Jew, Muslim, Hindu or animist...it's the best prayer that a Catholic can offer.
If a Rabbi wants to pray for a Catholic that would be the same thing: God listens to everyone.
She had a reputation for being a predatory lesbian. Her gender, orientation and left-wing bona fides of course confer upon her immunity from any #MeToo condemnation.
It may help you to remember that this is a word
coined in a language other than English,
written in an alphabet other than Latin,
spoken by people of varying accents,
and written in the Latin alphabet by English speakers who heard the word spoken differently.
My father then turned to the judge and said, “Your Excellency, there is no way that this could be an expert on Jewish synagogues. He cannot read Hebrew, the original language of the Jewish people.”
He continued, “Even the Founding Fathers spoke Hebrew! They even spoke Hebrew at Harvard! How could a Jewish expert on Jewish law not know the language in the original?”
Perhaps the judge was charmed by the “Your Excellency,” but despite vigorous objections from the State Attorney, he removed the expert. My father explained how a synagogue operates versus a prayer group meeting: There were no dues; he made no money; it occurred only on the weekend. Furthermore, no one drove, as it was the holy Sabbath, and so no cars were clogging up the swales. Finally, there were never more than 15 men. It was a religious meeting, pure and simple, protected under both the first and fourteenth amendments.
He won the appeal and was featured on all the major news channels.
He not only won the appeal, he was featured in the Miami Herald, and on the three news channels (ABC, NBC, and CBS) that existed then. It was a tremendous victory. He went up against City Hall, the State of Florida, the State Attorney who became the Attorney General of the United States and the Supreme Court of Florida.
His case set a precedent. And this Catholic church in New Jersey, a Korean temple in Hawaii, a Santeria church in Hialeah, and hundreds of others used his case as precedence to fight their own religious and zoning battles.
Later.
Is she still on two feet and breathing?
She has long ago passed on to her eternal reward
Love it, passed on to a good friend of that faith.
I believe Janet Reno said that Donald Trump would “never be president in my lifetime”.
She died about 3AM in the morning of Election Day 2016. So, she was right about that!;)
“She died about 3AM in the morning of Election Day 2016..’’ The Lord moves in mysterious ways. Praise his holy name.
Muslim women pray to Mary. They ask her to send them a son. After all, Mary had a SON and what a SON.
Muslims don't worship Mohammad. They worship God. Allah is God to them. He's different that the Christian God in that he is alone. The Christian God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
However, if your hatred of all things Muslim and their Allah, then never mind, especially if you REALLY believe that Muslims worship Mohammad.
May our good Lord wash away your hatred. I don't believe that Jesus would approve of your hatred. After all He said that we are to love our enemies.
How's THAT working out for you?
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