Thou Shalt Not Covet

 

The Nascent Sanhedrin lawyer Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander with Pope in 2014. 

“You broke the 10th Commandment,”

Yet he represented the Vatican in their case 

to claim the property of the Upper Room. 

The Second Vatican Council was initiated by Giovanni XXIII (‘the good pope’) who aided Jews during the Holocaust, he also presented Decretum de Iudaeis before the Council. He passed away before Vat II was finished and Paulo VI presented the council’s defining document called Lumen Gentium (Light to Nations), this quickly followed with Nostra Aetate in dealing with the major religions, especially Judaism.

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)