[Avodah] Righteous Gentile is Equal to the Kohein Godol

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:44:16 -0400
"Prof. Levine" <llevine at stevens.edu> wrote:

> The quote below is from pages 225 - 226 of Rav Hirsch's essay 
> Talmudic Judaism and Society.  Rabbi Hirsch wrote this essay in 1884 
> at the request of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor (1817-1896), founder 
> of the renowned Yeshiva of Kovno and acknowledged spiritual leader of 
> Russian-Lithuanian Jewry.
> 
> The Sages of the Talmud are the teachers of probably the only 
> religion that does not claim that it alone holds the key to 
> salvation. Instead, they teach that the righteous of all nations have 
> a portion in the world to come (Sanhedrin 105a). According to the 

Rav Hirsch didn't have the power of the internet.  Islam apparently
believes in the possibility of salvation for Jews, Christians and
others.  From the Quran (2:62, available at http://quran-online.net/):

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Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, and the Christians, and
those Sabaeans, whoso believes in God and the Last Day, and works
righteousness -- their wage awaits them with their Lord, and no fear
shall be on them; neither shall they sorrow.

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See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation#Islam

> Yitzchok Levine

Yitzhak
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