Today’s holidays: Wednesday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time (Roman Catholicism), Feast Day of Marcina (Greek Orthodox Christianity), Feast Day of St. Winnie Ruth Judd (Church of the SubGenius), Feast Day of Joan of Arc (Thelema)
Greetings.
I would like to note something before I forget about it. I have requested free books from missionaries before. (Why should I not take advantage of their generosity for my research?) Recently I requested a number of books from Christian missionaries again. And I received quite a lot:
This time most of what I requested was in Hebrew, though there is a copy of the American Standard Version (in English) and الكتَابُ الُمقَدّسُ, which is the Christian Bible (Hebrew Bible + New Testament) in Arabic. (I started working on Arabic again, and I am not looking forward to reading the Qur’an in the original.) Two of the books are copies of the entire Christian Bible in Hebrew (the New Testament part being a translation), and another two are just the New Testament. (Actually I got three, but one is a duplicate.) The other books include topics such as Christian theology, religion and science, history, and fiction. Interestingly, everything was sent to me in plain envelopes whose return addresses were post office boxes. In no case did any envelope give any indication that Christian missionaries were the senders. I am aware that Jews in Israel tend to hate missionaries, but this level of secrecy suggests extreme fear or paranoia. Also, I got a rather high rate of fulfillment of my requests, indicating that these cautious missionaries are also very serious about spreading their message.
If anyone knows where I can request a free Zohar, Tanya’, Arabic Qur’an, or Greek New Testament (the one I have is interlinear), please let me know. I have not been able to acquire any of these for free yet.
Peace.
’Aharon/Aaron
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