The Nascent Sanhedrin lawyer Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander with Pope in 2014.
Yet he represented the Vatican in their case
to claim the property of the Upper Room.
Rav Yeshayahu Hollander, as a legal mind and English-language spokesman for the nascent Sanhedrin, brings a sharp, pragmatic edge to the Upper Room dispute and broader Jewish-Christian tensions. With his background in theoretical physics and patent law, plus decades of Talmudic scholarship, he blends rigorous logic with halachic conviction. In his view, the Upper Room—revered by Christians as the Last Supper site and by Jews as King David’s Tomb vicinity—belongs under Jewish sovereignty, no compromise. Yet, he’s not blind to diplomacy: in 2014, he acknowledged the Church’s spiritual tie to the site while bluntly rejecting Pope Francis’s push for control during his Jerusalem visit, a stance rooted in the Sanhedrin’s mission to reassert Jewish authority over sacred spaces. His angle is less about theology than jurisdiction: the Sanhedrin’s lawyer saying, “This is ours, but we get why you care—still, hands off.”
The apologies toward other religions began, and emphasized from John Paul II to Francis. Still Rome’s motives are unclear while gestures toward the other religions shifted. Its view of itself as ‘the mother church’ continued by absorbing and with a new language and compassion, all with the Virgin Mary at the center which implies its own centrality and here Rome has doubled down on its Marian devotion beyond the Theotokos. Thus, Judaism as the ‘cultivated olive tree’ and the centrality of Jesus Christ points to a revelatory religion system based not on relativism but on Scripture.
The Vatican ‘Scudo’ and the 10 Sefirot tree (look familiar?)
Da’at has been shattered; The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
absorbed without true knowedge and blatent supersessionism.
“Those who speak don’t know.
Those who know don’t speak”
(the Oracle Keepers)
