Missionary Impossible
What religion should one choose? Does any other religion fit for the Jew? In this fascinating lecture Rabbi Schochet, a leader in responding to missionaries, disputes their claims.
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Yechiel Bahr
Los Angeles, CA/USA
January 17, 2010
Why are the Missionaries Successful? The Missionaries are successful because Jewish scholars are using the wrong approach to counter them. I would like to explain this to a rabbi or Jewish scholar who is also a psychologist or expert in the area of human behavior. I call this the "Nachmanides Syndrome". The great sage and scholar Nachmanides was forced into debates with the Church. He was limited by what he could say due to his fear of massive retribution and persecution of the Jewish Community. Now the rabbis engaging the Christian missionaries are limiting themselves... Reply
Strange use of the term If "Missionaries" are "successful", it is because people who don't know their Book have convinced people who don't know their Book, that their distortion of their book is better than their distortion of theirs.
Well said