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Biographical Sculptures
Christian&Jewish - Israeli&German
2002_05_30 ; last update: 2005_06_27
NOT COMPLETED!
but see more about my biography in
The 2004-1010
Introductory Page to my 2 websites,
[esp. the text next to my image in front of the mirror, and the last sculpture]
"The Story of Ya'acov"
my letter to Princess Basma of Jordan in 1998, inserted in "RedSeaPartner-SHIP"
"A Time of Fruition"
in "Bio-Testimony"
in "Noah's
Shore History" and in "Breakthrough
2004"
and on the 2009 entry-page to Healing-K.is.s.
also in "My Ordeal" and in "Biographical
Background to my Thesis and my Book "
and
"Rachel's Modifications of Immanuel's Memories during Masterchef Israel
2011"
On April 15, 1964, I - formerly Eva Maria
Christa Guth, now Rachel Rosenzweig,
immigrated to Israel together with Immanuel, born 23/1/63,
since 13/1/64 the legitimized son of Rafael Rosenzweig.
after mother and son had both become Jewish.
So often have I been asked, why I became
Jewish and Israeli.
I wonder, if I'll be able to sculpt the answer here.
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"After
Auschwitz
This sentence, |
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I was a student of Protestant Theology at Tuebingen University.
The teacher of the "New Testament Seminary" was Reinhold
Mayer.
Each student had to write a paper on a sentence,
written by "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ" [1.Cor.1,1]
to the "church of the Thessalonians"
[1.Thess.1,1; 2, 14-16]:
... you have suffered .. of your own countrymen,
... the Jews:
Who killed the Lord Jesus
as well as their own prophets,
and have persecuted us;
and they don't please God
and are contrary to all men
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to fill up their sins always:
for the wrath [hae-orgae]
is come upon them
to the uttermost [eis telos].
It is jarring to use the sound-button of the Greek "Amen"
and the red color
as I use to do on this site for text from the "Holy" Books
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It was an outbreak of pain and rage on Paul's part,
and from the perspective of his experiences understandable. He could not know, that his rage would become Holy Writ and that people would act on it and make themselves the instrument of divine WRATH against the people of Jesus. But on that level of reality on which we are responsible for our actions, we are responsible for what people might do with what we teach~~~~ |
2003_05_31 See an application of this in my own present life |
When Reinhold Mayer gave us this theme for our paper,
I was totally unaware of anything jarring.
Though I had had the rare opportunity of meeting Jews
- a very good English teacher and a pupil in Latin,
8 years younger than me, but much more aware -
I just never questioned the Christian hatred against Jews.
Until, yes until Mayer wrote those words.
Mayer, born in 1925 and scarred
by his experiences toward the end of the war,
was shattered, when in a Dutch conference , in 1946, Jews refused to shake
his hand.
He has been dedicating his life and work to uprooting Christian Antijudaism
ever since.
What had I written?
It sounds quite harmless:
"Bis hierher kam der Jude auch."
"This far came also the Jew."
What I meant in that context, was:
their understanding stopped at this point.
We, the Christians, have a much higher and deeper understanding.
This was not just arrogance against other humans.
This was a pitiable misunderstanding of Paul himself,
who later - in his letter to the Romans -
tried to undo the damage he had caused.
[Romans chapter 9 to 11, especially 11]
But it was too late and too little.
People so badly needed a scapegoat,
and so they created THE Jew,
a mythological figure,
which swallowed up the concrete, real, living JEWS.
And I had used this myth: THE Jew, like any Nazi.
The dialog with Mayer, that started in January 1959,
opened my eyes to what I - fortunately - did not see before.
If I had become aware of what happened
while I was already alive on this planet,
I would have either become crazy or left this life.
Anyway I was on the brink of both from early on.
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2009_12_30 |
2005_06_27:
It was Reinhold Mayer , who said - at the end of that
fateful first meeting in January 1959:
"Do you know Franz Rosenzweig? This is the best world literature I know".
It's then that I acquired Rosenzweig's Letters in an Old Books Shop
(how they survived there, I do not know,
because the great burning of Jewish books, I think in 1935,
included also Rosenzweig's books).
Rosenzweig's Living - as conveyed to me through those letters - was the beginning
of a path,
that finally made me Rafael
Rosenzweig's wife
and the
mother and grandmother of Franz Rosenzweig's grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.
As to Rosenzweig's decisive influence
on my Bible work,
and on my perception of YHWH, see
bundle
13 of the German and Hebrew pages of my book: All Israel vouchsafe for each
other:
I now searched the Internet for Reinhold Mayer and came up with the following
info:
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/upers/catalogue/book_detail.php?Id=1165
Learning about the edition of the "Gritli-Letters",
taboo during the life time of my mother-in-law, Edith Scheinmann-Rosenzweig,
brings up many feelings.....
1981, after the lekh-lekhâ from the security of my marriage and my husband's house
Addition on 2003_09_04: |
