Joseph,
Here is the latesst AHC Havurah Newsletter.
Shalom,Ken
On Feb 21, 2022, at 8:03 AM, Aromando, Joseph <aromand4@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear AHC-. My name is Joseph Aromando I feel very happy when you all lead discussions about Catholicism from the perspective of Israel. Many people think that Torah is a scroll etc. but Torah really means the set of principles which posits the religion of Israel. Torah means religion. I think that Christ coming and the institution of the Eucharist and the apostolic church (magisterium) are the fulfillment of the promise of the bestowal of the "New Torah" which many descendants of Abraham are still awaiting today.
I strongly believe like Pope John the XXIII that the mystical fulfillment of the conversion of all the redeemed of Israel will come about through a miracle which will happen at the revelation of Christ, just as in the story of Genesis when Joseph reveals himself. Then all our blessed friends will be one with us and we will have great joy. It is hard to have this separation because I feel a predestined connection with all the Jewish people which I think most Catholic people share, although it is despicable to know the lies which the leaders maintain about Jesus through the Talmud. It is a very horrible lie, but even at that it is just as it was written in Genesis 37:31 "Then they got Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood". It is the same hardened act which Judah and Shimon and all brothers did. To me the garments of Jesus are The gospel and the parables which chronicle His Life. This corresponds with the belief that one's spiritual garments consist of the thoughts words and deeds of the man. They invalidate the truth by proposing a lie to the people about Jesus just as Judah lies to Israel. Once Judah shows the coat dipped in blood to Jacob his imagination runs away with him. But Jesus will forgive them through grace they will have a change of heart. Only God can do this. Just as only God can raise from the dead. To have a hardened heart is like being dead because you cannot receive God spiritually into your heart in truth (which is our greatest need and desire) so you seek through the flesh some simulacra of meaning, serving the flesh as a foreign master which is painful.
Some people interpret the behavior of Joseph in Genesis as unjust (during the time he had been manipulating his brothers) or as deceitful but this is incorrect. He understood his position in Egypt to be a savior for the world and he understood these events to be a fulfillment of the prophecy which he received by a dream from God, i.e. to have become a ruler over his brothers. As a ruler he acted with wisdom to discern if his family Israel had undergone Teshuvah.
Jesus from his heavenly kingdom, who was raised from the dead into Glory seated at the right hand of God, is judging the world as it was written "the King will suddenly come to his Temple"- this is the mystical prophecy of the incarnation! Because we understand that Christ Himself referred to his body as the Temple.
God Bless שלוםJoseph
