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In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

Jonathan Sacks
Mean, Wrestling, Angel
"The Case for God?". BBC Documentary, September 06, 2010.

There are hard texts in each tradition which we must confront and ask ourselves, 'Can we reinterpret those texts to allow us to live peaceably, and respectfully, with people of other faiths?' That is a job only Jews can do for Judaism, only Christians can do for Christianity, and only Muslims can do for Islam. But sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith.

Jonathan Sacks
Christian, Wrestling, People
Source: sojo.net

Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me, it was reading about how the Catholic Church wrestled with itself in the 1960s. Pope John XXIII set Nostra Aetate - the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions - in motion. It changed the relationship between Jews and Catholics. Today, Jews and Catholics meet as friends. If you can do that, after the longest history of hatred the world has known, that empowers you as a Jew or a Muslim to wrestle with your faith.

Jonathan Sacks
Reading, Wrestling, Empowering
Source: sojo.net

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