Christians in Israel must be respected, clergy, pilgrims, churches, and monasteries, and every Christian holy site must be treated with the dignity that the Torah demands.
ed note–as always, a volcanic eruption of important info that every war-weary Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.
Firsto, ladies and Gentile-men, a necessary repetition/reiteration of something that appears often here on this humble little informational endeavor, which is that the Jews are as much liars as water is wet and fire is hot. For them to be anything contrary to that is to completely change their nature, every bit as much as one day, out of the blue, the crocodile morphing from a ruthless, remorseless hunter/killer into a vegetarian.
And now is no different ladies and Gentile-men…
What lies before you, no pun intended, is an endless buffet of deception, dishonesty, duplicity, and every other word associated with the business of dispensing deliberate falsehoods…
…or, as Israel’s assassination/misinformation agency Mossad declares it, loudly & proudly–
‘BY WAY OF DECEPTION, WE SHALL MAKE WAR…’
Now, having said all of that, nota bene the following–
As with all lies coming out of the mouths of the Jews, the ‘Devil is in the details’.
What this means is that the Jews, being as Jesus Christ Himself stated in the clearest of terms–
‘CHILDREN OF THEIR FATHER, THE DEVIL, WHO WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING AND THE FATHER OF LIES…’
–are by no means liars of the average, run-of-the-mill, variety, but rather, very clever, very crafty, and very skilled in their application of–
‘BY WAY OF DECEPTION, WE SHALL MAKE WAR…’
Which means that the average war-weary Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to read CAREFULLY between the lines in figuring out exactly where those deeply embedded lies are hiding, no different than micro-examining every planned step across a minefield before putting one’s foot down on something that might go BOOM.
Now, having said all of THAT, nota bene the following–
Again, the liar writing the incantation below is not some ordinary, run-of-the-mill Israelite of no consequence. Not only is he a rabbi, he is the SON of none other than Adin Steinsaltz–
–the infamous Chabad rabbi who compiled the enormous Babylonian Talmud that describes in the most diabolical terms how Jesus Christ was a sorcerer, a pervert, the son of a prostitute named Miriam, and who, at the very moment of this writing, is suffering in hell by being eternally boiled in a giant cauldron of semen and human feces…
Now, what are the chances that his son, the author of this piece, who goes to great lengths in protesting against the recent violent anti-Christian actions in Israel, is not aware of these factoids?
Not that good, ladies and Gentile-men…
Not only does he know it, he knows it better than anyone else, since he is–
1. A Jew…
2. An ‘ordained’ (by Satan) rebbe…
and–
3. The son of the very same rabbi who put pen to paper in describing Jesus Christ in the ignominious fashion listed above…
So, the bottom line, folks, as we say here often, is that once again, it is a case of–
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, THE JEWS AND THEIR LIES…
And finalmente, ladies in Gentile-men, in ‘sealing the deal’ on all of this and in underscoring just how magnanimous the lies are in the essay below, please note that when the rebbe states that–
‘Christians in Israel must be respected, clergy, pilgrims, churches, and monasteries, and every Christian holy site must be treated with the dignity that the Torah demands…’
–that the very same Torah he is citing herein already spoke on this very issue, thousands of years ago in fact, when it was commanded in the clearest of tones that once the ‘Children of Israel’ had conquered the land that was ‘promised’ to them, that they were to —
‘Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their idols in the fire, for you are a people holy to the Lord your God who has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession…’ Book of Deuteronomy
Rabbi Meni Even-Israel for Jpost
In recent weeks, two incidents have forced themselves upon our attention. An IDF soldier in Lebanon was filmed destroying a statue of Jesus. A nun was assaulted near the Cenacle on Mount Zion, beside the place that Christians hold as the site of the Last Supper.
I want to be clear about what these incidents are. They are not trivial matters that are to be noted and then forgotten. They are acts carried out in public, in places of profound significance, and they have been seen by the entire world.
There are moments when silence is not neutrality. It is complicity.
This is one of those moments.
‘Chillul Hashem’, i.e. the desecration of G-d’s name, rarely announces itself with fanfare. It begins with something smaller: a gesture of contempt, a word of mockery, a pilgrim spat upon in the street.
A nun was struck near a holy place. A church was defaced under the cover of night. A Christian made to feel unsafe in the very land that calls itself holy. Each act alone might seem containable. Together however, they are something else entirely. They are fractures in the moral fabric of a people entrusted with something far greater than themselves.
Jerusalem is not an ordinary city. My father, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz z’l, would often say that in Jerusalem, nothing remains private. Every act echoes. The city carries memory, weight, and consequence in a way that no other place on earth does.
What is done in the streets of Jerusalem does not stay in its streets. It rises. It becomes a reflection of us all, and when that reflection is one of contempt and violence, it is the Jewish people who bear the shame, and it is the name of our G-d that is diminished before the nations.
Shared spaces belong to all
My father taught something I have never forgotten: the public domain is never ownerless. A street is not empty space. Shared space belongs to all who walk within it. When one damages that space, he does not damage an abstraction. He damages his neighbour, his community, and ultimately himself.
But beyond the physical public domain lies something more, i.e. the honor of Israel, the dignity of Torah, the perception of the G-d of Israel in the world. These are the true public domain, and they too can be damaged, and they too belong to all of us.
When a Jew humiliates or harms a Christian in Israel, the act does not remain between aggressor and victim. It wounds that deeper domain. It distorts the purpose of the place itself.
The Torah is unambiguous about what is at stake. In the weekly torah portion of Emor, we read: ‘You shall not desecrate My holy name, and I shall be sanctified among the children of Israel’ (Leviticus 22:32).
This verse is not incidental. It is the very source of the concepts of chillul Hashem and kiddush Hashem – the sanctification of God’s name – it sits at the heart of a weekly Torah portion devoted to the holiness required of the priests, those designated to carry G-d’s name into the public world.
The verse does not speak of private piety. It commands sanctification among the children of Israel, in the open, in the seen, in the shared world. Holiness, in the Torah’s understanding, is either a public matter or it is nothing.
I know the counterarguments. Some will invoke history: centuries of Christian persecution of Jews, blood libels, forced conversions, expulsions.
The pain behind those arguments is real, and I do not dismiss it.
Others will reach for halachic categories, or speak of the imperative to protect the sanctity of the land.
I understand the impulse, but none of these arguments survives honest contact with the verse. The Torah does not permit desecration of G-d’s name as a response to historical grievance. It does not authorise the humiliation of the vulnerable in the name of the holy.
A soldier of Israel who shatters a sacred image, a man who strikes a nun beside a place of pilgrimage, he is not defending Torah, he is desecrating it.
This is not a misunderstanding of Torah. It is an inversion of it.
The prophet Isaiah’s vision is not a marginal footnote: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’ (Isaiah 56:7). This is the identity of Jerusalem. The city is not diminished when others come to pray within it. It is fulfilled. The Christian pilgrim who travels across the world to stand in the Old City, in awe and in faith, is not an inconvenience to be managed. That presence is part of what this city was always meant to hold.
At a time when Israel faces scrutiny from every direction, when every action is examined and judged, our failure to live up to that vision carries weight far beyond our borders. It becomes not a local failure but a desecration visible to the entire world.
So let me say this plainly, without qualification: Christians in Israel must be safe. They must be respected. Clergy and pilgrims, churches and monasteries, every Christian holy site, all must be treated with the dignity that Torah demands we extend to every human being created in the image of God.
And why, all of this?
Not only because the world is watching, but because G-d is watching too.
Kiddush Hashem is not merely the absence of violence. It is conduct that causes others to say: look at these people, look at what their Torah made of them. It is the lived argument that the God of Israel is the God of all dignity, all humanity, all nations.
Anything less is not strength. It is not faithfulness. It is shame.
The writer is the director of the Steinsaltz Center, dedicated to continuing the life’s work of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz z’l; creating accessibility to foundational Jewish texts and tradition for every Jew.