The Hebrew form of the name Jesus -- Yeshu -- was interpreted as an acronym for the curse may his name and memory be wiped out', which is used as an extreme form of abuse. In fact, anti-zionist Orthodox Jews (such as Neturey Qarta) sometimes refer to Herzl as 'Herzl Jesus' and I have found in religious zionist writings expressions such as 'Nasser Jesus' and more recently 'Arafat Jesus.'
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jewhis7.htm#Yeshu
Rami Rozen expressed the Jewish tradition in a long feature in a major Israeli newspaper Haaretz[i]: “Jews feel towards Jesus today what they felt in 4 c or in the Middle Ages… It is not fear, it is hatred and despise”. “For centuries, Jews concealed from Christians their hate to Jesus, and this tradition continues even now”. “He is revolting and repulsive”, said an important modern religious Jewish thinker. Rozen writes that this “repulsion passed from the observant Jews to the general Israeli public”.
http://www.mediamonitors.net/shamir8.html
2007-01-14 05:53:36 · 11 answers · asked by jewish n proud 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They are not. Media always report the weird events and then tell us they are common.
2007-01-17 18:53:31 · answer #1 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think you (well, the author of what you wrote) are confusing an acronym with a name. The acronym used in reference to Herzl (by anti Zionists) and the one used in reference to Arafat is "Yemach Shemo V'Zichro" which, as you mentioned, means "may his name and memory be wiped out". But that has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus nor what it even intended, even in a roundabout way. Saying that someone "found" the words "Arafat Jesus" is stupid.
As is the case, we do not know what the original Hebrew form of Jesus name is. Some missionaries claim it is "Yeshuah" but that alone is not proof. There is a character in the Talmud called "Yeshu" that was identified with Jesus but even then there is no absolute proof that this is the case. Some might argue that the application of the insult was actually a "backronym".
As for this Rami Rozen... he appears to be just one man with an opinion.
The truth of the matter is that Jesus, for Jews in modern times, is actually irrelevant. He just doesn't matter. Now, if for some anti semites this is a problem, then the neurosis lies with them.
2007-01-15 18:48:52 · answer #2 · answered by BMCR 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This poster doesn't know hebrew, therefore he is making a grave, grave error.
When he sees something that looks like Yeshu, it's a hebrew contraction for the two words "Yemach Shemo".
Those words mean "His Name should be erased".
This is what many Hebrew speakers say when speaking about or writing about an evil person, i.e. Hitler, Y'SH
The fact that Yeshu (short for Yeshua) happens to resemble the contraction for two other completely unrelated words in the Hebrew language should not be the cause of a controversy here.
2007-01-15 04:43:15 · answer #3 · answered by Sunhouse 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the jewish opinion of jesus has already been split. remeber jews have been persecuted by christians in the name of jesus for hundreds of years ehich isnt his fault but it has happened. also remeber muslims regard jesus as one of there prophets and theres obviously been some bad relations between those two groups in the region.
2007-01-14 14:05:01 · answer #4 · answered by vibrance0404 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are they anti-Jesus?
Supposing this were true, i suspect it may have something to do with centuries of Christians in Europe persecuting Jews, with crusades, pogroms, ghettos, anti-Jewish laws, forced conversions to Christianity, and lastly the Nazi holaucaust, which was aided by Christian anti-Jewish culture.
2007-01-14 16:00:42 · answer #5 · answered by Beng T 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
sorry I lost you at some point in that paragraph. Lots of people are anti-jesus, and lots of people are pro-jesus, isn't it more important what you think and not what others think? Wink Wink.
2007-01-14 14:00:11 · answer #6 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think perhaps the Jews are angry (with good reason) for being persecuted for 2000 years as "the killers of Christ". Why are they so open about it? Why not?
2007-01-14 15:39:03 · answer #7 · answered by Becca 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know but my guess is that they don't believe he was the messiah and they are upset that he claimed to be since that would be blasphemous in their book.
2007-01-14 13:57:30 · answer #8 · answered by Rat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fanatics behave in strange ways!
2007-01-14 13:57:04 · answer #9 · answered by markos m 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
go study the council of trent, or the council of nicea; ancient Catholic/Church history.
Blantly anti-semitic.
2007-01-14 13:58:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋