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Shalom Aleicham! I have a
few favorite Rabbi's. One of them, many of you know already,
Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto זצ"ל.
He is called the "RaMCHaL".
It is an acrostic like so many great Rabbi's, its an acrostic of his initials.
The "R" for Rabbi, "M" for Moshe, the "CH" for Chaim, and the "L" for Luzzatto.
We put them altogether and we have "RaMCHaL". This how he is called and the way
he is known. He was such a special person. He was a child prodigy, there has
been a few of them in Judaism. Every child prodigy, most of them turn out to be
a Tzaddik Gamur, a complete Tzaddik, and many of them died young, very
young. Someone is going to become offended when they figure out what I am about
to say. that the RaMCHaL was a teacher like Yeshua. He is the same kind of
person Yeshua was, and he believed the exact same things as Yeshua and some
people will become offended. You are comparing Yeshua to a human being. Excuse
me! Let me be a Jew. Jews are not going to compare Yeshua to HaShem. It doesn't
mean any bad thing; it doesn't mean any of those things at all. The Jews are not
going to do that. And I have a feeling this is what I am in trouble for!
And so what I have always try to do is not make any kind of issue on this. Any
shape form or fashion. That's ok! If we are going to study Jewish sources we
have to recognize, but Jewish sources do not believe this. They don't understand
it for one thing and they don't believe it. In fact the very first thing we are
going to see the RaMCHaL talks about is the Unity of HaShem, the Oneness of G-d.
But truly there were other great Rabbi's. I am not saying they were as great as
Yeshua, I'm not saying such thing at all. But they were like Yeshua in many many
ways. They were similar in many many ways.
And how could they not be!
