[Avodah] eisav

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From: harveybenton at yahoo.com

1. eisav soneh es yaakov: i have  oftern heard that this is a >> halacha??? 
q: what does that mean?? that  they must hate us??? they have "no choice" 
in the matter??? [are they allowed to  go agianst the halacha? and Not hate 
us???]

 
 
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In this case, "halacha" means something like "a  law of nature."  There are 
non-Jews who are philo-Semitic -- some of them  amazingly so -- but the 
vast majority either mildly dislike Jews or hate us  intensely.  Sadly, this 
"halacha" has never been repealed, and genteel  anti-Semitism is on daily 
display in the pages of the NY Times, in the faculty  club at Harvard and all 
over the world.  In re the opposite extreme --  philo-Semitism -- I will say 
that the phenomenon of the  scholarly  non-Jew who writes movingly and 
sympathetically about the sufferings of the Jews  has always intrigued me, and I 
wonder where in Jewish tradition we find a source  for /them/?  I am thinking 
of people like Malcolm Hays, Conor Cruise  O'Brien, Paul Johnson, George 
Eliot, Lord Balfour.
 
 
 
--Toby  Katz
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