Quote "Portrait of the Anti-Semite" #1

Portrait of the Anti-Semite
Jean-Paul Sartre
translated by Erik de Mauny
London 1948

Page 13-14
"I said earlier that anti-semitism emerges as a passion. Everyone can see that at the root of the ailment lies hatred or anger. But in the ordinary way, hatred or anger are provoked by something: I may, for example hate someone who causes me suffering,, insults me, or wounds my pride. WE have just seen that the passion felt by the anti-semite must be of a quite different order; it not only anticipates those facts which might be expected to give rise to it, but seeks them out in order to feed upon them, and even then must interpret them in arbitrary fashion in order to find them really offensive. And yet, if you merely mention a Jew to an anti-semite, he shows all the symptoms of the liveliest irritation. If, at this point, we remember that in order to show anger over something, we must always first allow that anger to arise in us (we speak, for instance, of a person "working himself up" into a rage), it must be agreed that the anti-semite has chosen to let his life be dominated by his particular passion. A good many people, it is true, prefer to let their lives be ruled by passion rather than by reason. But in this case, their passion is inspired by certain objects; women, fame, power, or money. Since the anti-semite has chosen hatred, we are forced to conclude that it is the state of being in a passion that he cherishes."

Jewish Salvation

Just a thought for Christians who appreciate Israel but despair over their eternal salvation. The Bible is clear that Jews are saved as a people, that includes those that make up the nation. In the Bible the goal of the Law Covenant was the salvation of the nation as a whole. End time redemption will dawn upon the whole people by the hand of Messiah. That's Paul's thought in Romans 11, the Lord will come from Zion and redeem Jacob. So when Messiah is manifested to save Israel in the coming tribulation all of Israel will be saved, not just a small remnant of Christianized Jews.

This is a basic conceptual difference from inividualist salvation usually held by Christians. In the Jewish aspect Individual sin and unrighteousness are encompassed by the whole arrangement of Torah which includes repentance and restoration. Gentile Christians have had to approach God in a different way since there is no equivalent for them as in the Jewish arrangement. That's what Jesus Christ provides for gentiles, an individual way to approach the G_d of Israel. Attempts at Jewish evangelism heaken back to established patterns of Christian forced conversion. Do not worry, G_d will provide for the redemption of all of his people. That's in the coming times of restoration and refreshing Peter describes in Acts 3.