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Daniel Eytan (Israel)
Comment to Daniel is living in
Haifa, Israel.
“Christian identity. A Married to Lorena
look from behind the iron and happy father
of Haleli, Elishay
curtain..“ and Liel.
M.A Clinical Psy-
chology, UBA
(University of Bu-
When I read “Christian identity. A look from enos Aires), wor-
behind the iron curtain” (Krzysztof A. Wojcies- king at Rambam Healthcare Campus and
zek), I start to think also in my personal expe- Acco Municipality, and in a private clinic
riences, background, and until today how is for Languages: Hebrew, English, Spanish and
us the jews believers in Israel, also I remember Italian.
the testimonies from Holocaust survivors, who- Member of The Israel Psychological Associa-
se who was also believers into the Holocaust tion.
and before that, also into the guetto’s, and jews
from Arab countries who come to Israel with
the fulfill faith in the Messiah. Most of the time
we are considered „betray the people, and even and know for himself - and if he has read and
our family bury us in a symbolic funeral cere- understood, each person must live faithfully ac-
mony“ and impose a boycott on us, and even cording to what he understands: in the life of
more, sometimes even harass us, family mem- the individual, the family, the society, the state
bers or orthodox people. My people. We are and the world.
Jews and Israelis like all other Jews and Israelis:
we pay taxes until the top of our heads, serve This is the essence of the mission of the Jew and
in the IDF in all kinds of units, members of all this is the meaning of the title „light unto the
kinds of ethnic groups and people of all kinds nations.“ According to our understanding of
who live in cities, towns and settlements in the the Bible, the world today is not what it was at
Land of Israel. first: people do not really want to understand
what God wants and certainly do not want to
Some of us are young and old, nice and less do as he pleases.
nice, in short, at least some of us must be like
you, reading these lines. As the Jews deserve, we Sin invaded the world and spoiled it. Among
believe in God and see it as the main tenets of the things that went wrong included man. Now
this world and therefore of our lives as well. he has a bad instinct, a desire to do against the
will of God.
Everything that is good and beautiful and nice
comes from Him and is destined for His glory So God created a nation for himself, to explain
- we too, all of Israel as well. „Living to His glo- these things to the world and to bring everyone
ry“ means living according to His will, which is to know how to change this situation so that we
revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures. would be what we were really meant to be and
that this world would be a better place to live.
Another thing that characterizes us is that we The Torah, the Prophets, and the Scriptures
believe in the Bible and the New Testament, and teach us what holiness is, what it means to be
we do not think that any person should depend with God and to the extent that we are not holy.
on another person to know the will of God, not They also point to the solution to this problem:
even a great rabbi or a pope. the grace of God which heals, corrects the fault,
cleans the dirt and recreates us in His image.
Anyone can read the Bible, learn, understand Thus Jeremiah, for example, said: „I have given
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