{"id":40821,"date":"2012-02-22T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40821"},"modified":"2012-02-22T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:08:45","slug":"the-jewish-view-of-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40821","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish View Of Hinduism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc B. Shapiro writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I think readers will find this document interesting: link<\/A> (pdf).<\/p>\n

It contains the Chief Rabbinate of Israel\u2019s acknowledgment that Hinduism is monotheistic. In fact\u2014and I know that people will find this hard to accept\u2014from a Jewish religious standpoint Hinduism is far superior than Christianity, as there is no notion of an Incarnation. I don\u2019t even think that one can speak of shituf when it comes to Hinduism. What you have in Hinduism are manifestations of the one God, and this does not appear to violate any Noahide commandment. This is significant since in the Jewish imagination Hinduism has often been seen as a classic example of real idolatry. Thus, right at the beginning of many seforim it states that passages dealing with Gentiles are only referring to idolators in places like India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marc B. Shapiro writes: I think readers will find this document interesting: link (pdf). It contains the Chief Rabbinate of Israel\u2019s acknowledgment that Hinduism is monotheistic. In fact\u2014and I know that people will find this hard to accept\u2014from a Jewish … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-b-shapiro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t