Jan. 6, 2018 - Brother Nathanael
03:19
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| I've never asked myself, who am I? Jews don't do this. | |
| They know who they are, especially when confronted with a challenge to their identity. | |
| I once took a walk through Times Square, and when tempted to feel lost in the crowd, a young fellow with his pals shouted at me,''Hey Rabbi, doing some sightseeing?''''I'm not a rabbi,'' I answered. | |
| ''Rabbis don't wear crosses.'' But you look so Jewish, he answered back. | |
| What does a Jew do with this? | |
| Does he blush? Get nervous? | |
| Get hostile? I simply smiled and continued my walk that was soon interrupted by another encounter. | |
| After giving me the evil eye, a Jewish guy gets in my face and said, We don't want you here in New York, you anti-Semite. | |
| I've seen your videos and I'm going to shut you down. | |
| I made the sign of the cross over him, tried to stay calm, and went back to the hotel. | |
| There I did a little self-examination. | |
| I'm still a Jew, I said to myself, even though I believe in Christ. | |
| It's inescapable, since I do look Jewish. | |
| How could it be otherwise? My mother once traced our family tree back eight generations, all Jews. | |
| Hers from Russia, my father's from Austria, Hungary. | |
| Am I then an anti-Semite, I thought? | |
| How could I be? | |
| I'm not against myself nor anyone because of their race. | |
| For racially, I'm a Jew. | |
| But religiously, I'm a baptized Orthodox Christian. | |
| Once baptized, a Jew crosses the line. | |
| He's now on the other side. | |
| Do I think like a Jew? | |
| I then ask myself. | |
| Well, how do Jews think? | |
| Basically, everything is filtered through the lens of us and them. | |
| Woody Allen shows this in Annie Hall. | |
| Sitting at a Thanksgiving meal with Annie Hall's Gentile parents, he's suddenly transformed into a Hasidic rabbi. | |
| It's funny, but brings out the us-and-them Jewish think, especially when Goyish culture throws one's Yiddishkeit into stark relief. | |
| Do I think like this? | |
| Sometimes in church, I'm in the Russian Orthodox Church, I get the feeling that some Ruski is looking at me and saying, what's this Yid doing here? | |
| Maybe I'm paranoid, but this is a Jewish thing. | |
| Now, in my self-examination, a kind of light bulb came on. | |
| The essence of Orthodoxy, I thought, is otherworldliness. | |
| If anything smacks of this world, then the Orthodox Christian instinctively combats it. | |
| Deceit, bribery, blackmail, manipulation, censorship, underhandedness, influence peddling, hypocrisy, pushing sexual perversion. | |
| These are marks of worldliness. | |
| I'm not against Jews. | |
| I'm against evil actions. | |
| This is the mind of the Church. |
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