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Jews and JudaismIn the Middle Ages Antisemitism in Europe was religious. Though not part of Roman Catholic dogma, many Christians, including members of the clergy, have held the Jewish people collectively responsible for killing Jesus, a practice originated by Melito of Sardis. As stated in the Boston College Guide to Passion Plays, "Over the course of time, Christians began to accept... that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for killing Jesus. According to this interpretation, both the Jews present at Jesus’ death and the Jewish people collectively and for all time, have committed the sin of deicide, or God-killing. For 1900 years of Christian-Jewish history, the charge of deicide has led to hatred, violence against and murder of Jews in Europe and America."[1] During the Middle Ages in Europe there was full-scale persecution in many places, with blood libels, expulsions, forced conversions and massacres. A main justification of prejudice against Jews in Europe was religious. Jews were frequently massacred and exiled from various European countries. The persecution hit its first peak during the Crusades. In the First Crusade (1096) flourishing communities on the Rhine and the Danube were utterly destroyed; see German Crusade, 1096. In the Second Crusade (1147) the Jews in France were subject to frequent massacres. The Jews were also subjected to attacks by the Shepherds' Crusades of 1251 and 1320. The Crusades were followed by expulsions, including in, 1290, the banishing of all English Jews; in 1396, 100,000 Jews were expelled from France; and, in 1421 thousands were expelled from Austria. Many of the expelled Jews fled to Poland.[2] As the Black Death epidemics devastated Europe in the mid-14th century, annihilating more than a half of the population, Jews were taken as scapegoats. Rumors spread that they caused the disease by deliberately poisoning wells. Hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed by violence. Although the Pope Clement VI tried to protect them by the July 6, 1348 papal bull and another 1348 bull, several months later, 900 Jews were burnt alive in Strasbourg, where the plague hadn't yet affected the city.[3]
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1. Menorah- A Festival of Eight Days
October 02, 2008
Chanukah is a festival with duration of eight days. It begins on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Kislev. It is celebrates to rejoice the victory of the Jews against religious oppression and Greek persecution.
In addition to being successful in battle, one more wonder happened. When the Maccabees arrive to rededicate the shrine, they discover only solitary container of oil with which to light the Menorah. This little container lasted for next eight days. One story of the motive for lighting the Chanukah Menorahs, every day for eight days, is in festivity for this wonder, but there ar... (read more)
Author: Francis Adam
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2. Daily Surrender Psalms 106:42
August 25, 2006
August 21, 2006
Psalms 106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
History stands as a witness. As a nation or as individuals, the evil that we allow and compromise with, the wrong that we fail to denounce, becomes our oppressor. Be it excess materialism, perversion of morality, distortion of faith, God uses, as a rod on His children’s backside, those with whom they perversely seek fellowship. Have they yoked together with unbelievers? Have they fellowshipped with the works of darkness? Have they attempted to serve God and mammon?... (read more)
Author: Patrick Lumbroso
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3. Daily Surrender Psalms 106:10
August 01, 2006
July 29, 2006
Psalms 106:10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
There is the kind of hate that we receive from people because of their vindictive spirit. We have wronged them and they are hurt, because they do not know how to suffer themselves to be defrauded, they do not know how to take wrong (1 Corinthians 6:7).
There is also the hate of people who are just plain hateful. They are self-righteous, contentious, and they do not like anything that does not project their personal views and opinions. This is close t... (read more)
Author: Patrick Lumbroso
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