Am I Reading This Wrong? So Offensive.

Jun 21, 2011 03:50

No time to write much, studying for the bar and packing for the move is taking up all of my time.

But just recently I was trying to find something about bechira on chabad.org and came across this speech that the Rebbe apparently gave to a group of college students in the 60s. It's all pretty standard except for this appalling part:

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gentiles, chabad, rebbe

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It's the other way around - WE serve THEM anonymous June 22 2011, 05:33:31 UTC
I agree that it's human nature to want to be special and privileged, so it's natural to want to yourself as higher and imagine others serving you ( ... )

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Re: It's the other way around - WE serve THEM onionsoupmix June 22 2011, 05:47:40 UTC
I wonder how your chabad rabbi would square these conflicting together. How would he understand the quote from his Rebbe?

I am guessing he would just say that gentiles are here to serve Jews physically and that Jews, serve the world spiritually. But that's a cop out, it all comes down to the same thing- the idea that their purpose is to serve us and that this is in fact good for them because we can then enrich their pathetic lives with our light and morality.

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Re: It's the other way around - WE serve THEM mes_sha June 22 2011, 06:11:24 UTC
The non-jews have 7 noahide laws to make the world a civilized place. The jews have 613 commandments to make the world a spiritual place.

See here http://www.kcakosher.com/uncategorized/the-ultimate-purpose-of-creation/

Not to serve the jews physically, but to serve the world physically.

This was the Rebbe's view, very similar to the Rebbe's view on women and men's roles. Each have a different role.

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Re: It's the other way around - WE serve THEM onionsoupmix June 22 2011, 14:08:44 UTC
Not to serve the jews physically, but to serve the world physically

First of all, that's not what the quote from the rebbe above states. Here he says that once the farmer helps the Jew eat, his purpose is all done.

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Re: It's the other way around - WE serve THEM anonymous June 23 2011, 18:23:30 UTC
I've often heard the line about everyone having a unique mission ( ... )

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