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<p><i>Question :</i></p>
<p>N’est-ce pas raciste de croire que l’on est spécial parce que l’on est juif ? En quoi est-ce différent de la croyance nazie dans la « supériorité » de la race aryenne, par exemple ?</p>
<p><i>Réponse :</i></p>
<p>Je pense que tout le monde est d’accord qu’il n’y a rien de mal à se sentir fier de qui l’on est. Il n’y a rien de mal à la diversité. D.ieu a créé un monde magnifique, un panorama merveilleux de couleurs, de formes et de personnalités. Aujourd’hui, nous reconnaissons que cette diversité est si essentielle à la nature des choses que quiconque tente de la combattre se bat contre la pérennité de la vie elle-même.</p>
<p>Lisez le <i><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="36770">Ohr</span> ha’Hayim</i> (Rabbi ‘Haïm <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="36764">ben</span> Attar, Maroc/Israël, 1696-1743) sur la Genèse et vous serez enchanté par ses commentaires sur cette diversité. D’autres commentaires classiques montrent comment le monde contient toutes sortes d’opposés, tout comme une sphère est constituée de pôles opposés, de sorte qu’il reflète l’infini de son Créateur. Le <i>Perek Shira</i>, l’un des plus anciens midraches, fait ressortir quelque chose d’encore plus exquis : que chaque créature, telle que D.ieu l’a créée, est persuadée qu’elle est la plus belle et la plus sublime de toutes les créatures de la planète. Pas seulement le cheval et le lion, mais même le gluant crapaud verruqueux ne peut pas imaginer de créature plus belle que lui-même, qui pourrait chanter une chanson plus mélodieuse que celle qu’il coasse chaque jour. Il en est de même du chacal, du vautour et même de l’agaçant petit moustique, persuadé que toutes les créatures ont été créées par un D.ieu aimant juste pour lui procurer du sang à boire.</p>
<p>Tout comme pour les espèces vivantes, il en va de chaque individu, car chaque personne, écrit le Maharal de Prague, est une espèce à elle toute seule. Nous éduquons chaque enfant de sorte qu’il sache qu’il détient quelque chose de spécial, quelque chose d’unique que personne qui ait jamais vécu ou qui vivra jamais ne possèdera jamais. Cela n’exige pas un grand talent de persuasion : c’est dans la nature de l’être humain de le croire intuitivement, avant même que ce soit dit. Nous encourageons l’enfant, de sorte qu’il grandira et sera en mesure d’affronter le monde. Lui enlever cela revient à détruire la personne à l’intérieur ; l’encourager, c’est lui donner vie, courage et force.</p>
<p>Il en est de même s’agissant de toutes les entités sociales par lesquelles nous autres humains nous organisons : l’ethnocentrisme n’est pas quelque chose qui doit être combattu et écrasé. L’humanité n’a pas besoin d’homogénéisation. Imposer cela, c’est combattre et écraser la nature intrinsèque des êtres humains. Si les membres d’un peuple ne sont pas fiers d’eux-mêmes en tant que peuple et ne croient pas qu’ils ont quelque chose qu’aucun autre peuple ne peut fournir, alors ils n’ont aucun espoir de survivre en tant que cellule distincte de l’humanité. Dans ce cas, nous perdrions leur art, leur sagesse, leur patrimoine – tout ce qu’ils ont à contribuer au reste de l’humanité, par la volonté de D.ieu.</p>
<p>Croyez-vous vraiment que l’humanité doive se fondre en une bouillie homogène ? Tel était l’idéal de l’Amérique au tournant du 20<sup>ème</sup> siècle. J’ai grandi au Canada, avec l’idéal de Lester Pearson et Pierre Elliott Trudeau d’un patchwork coloré. La bouillie, dans mon esprit, est une pitance un peu pâle et monotone, l’antithèse de la vie.</p>
<p>Quand la fierté est-elle dangereuse ? Lorsqu’elle est une fierté maladive. C’est quand on est fier de mauvaises choses. C’est quand la fierté ne laisse aucune place aux autres. Quand elle empêche de voir ses propres défauts. Et – et je crois que là est le cœur de la question – quand on est si fier qu’on ne peut pas reconnaître quoi que ce soit de plus grand que soi.</p>
<p>La nation allemande après la Première Guerre mondiale était maladive de cette manière. Et non sans raison. Une génération entière était absente. Les jeunes étaient en colère contre l’échec de leurs pères qui les avait dépossédés de la fierté allemande, leur laissant un héritage de honte. C’était une culture de rejectionnisme, où ce qui était vieux devait être mis au rebut tout simplement parce que c’était vieux et toute chose choquante et radicale devait être adoptée du simple fait qu’elle était choquante et radicale. La non-musique atonale, le non-art dada, la pornographie endémique et une violence dans les rues d’une intensité inconnue en Allemagne depuis des siècles, tout ceci étaient les symptômes d’une société souffrant d’une grave pathologie systémique. De cela, il n’est pas difficile de voir découler une sorte de fierté létale, une fierté qui n’était pas seulement vouée à détruire le monde, mais semi-consciemment à s’anéantir elle-même aussi, tel le phénix plongeant dans son bûcher.</p>
<p>Quand je regarde la fierté du peuple juif, je ne vois rien de tout cela. De quoi sommes-nous fiers ? Regardez à nouveau le <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="33943">Talmud</span> : « Quelles sont les trois traits de cette nation ? Ils ont de la compassion, ils ont une conscience et ils aiment les actes de bonté. » Les Juifs sont également fiers de leurs facultés intellectuelles, ce qui n’a rien de déraisonnable au regard de leur histoire.</p>
<p>Certes, nous ne sommes pas sans défauts. Les Juifs d’Europe ont porté les cicatrices de l’antisémitisme hideux de ces terres. Il est difficile d’aimer ceux qui vous haïssent et vous assassinent. De la rancune est née de cette expérience, mais cela ne fait que rendre plus étonnant encore que la bonté et la compassion aient malgré tout survécu dans le cœur juif.</p>
<p>Nous avons une longue tradition d’introspection et d’autocritique, dans la <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="35052">Torah</span>, dans les Prophètes, chez les sages du <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/2537389/jewish/Talmud.htm" title="Talmud">Talmud</a>, et ce, jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Nous avons ri de nous-mêmes, nous nous sommes lamentés de nous-mêmes et nous nous sommes châtiés sans cesse tout au long de notre longue et douloureuse histoire. Nous nous reprochons d’être têtus et de renoncer <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="35834">trop</span> facilement, d’être <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/817346/jewish/Who-Made-Up-the-Way-We-Sing-the-Torah.htm" title="Who Made Up the Way We Sing the Torah?">trop</a> hautains et de manquer de fierté. Trop souvent, l’autocritique échappe à notre contrôle, et nous nous blâmons pour cela également.</p>
<p>Accordons-nous une place aux autres ? Je ne connais aucune autre tradition qui affirme ouvertement « les justes des nations ont une part dans le Monde Futur ». Inutile de devenir l’un d’entre nous. Bien sûr, il y a quelques règles de base, mais celles-ci laissent une large marge de manœuvre et sont pour la plupart les règles de base nécessaire à la stabilité d’une société saine. Respectez ces règles, qui que vous soyez, et vous êtes inclus.</p>
<p>Nous ne nous contentons pas de laisser la place aux autres, nous sommes ouverts à apprendre des autres lorsque cela n’entre pas en conflit avec nos croyances fondamentales, comme Maïmonide écrit dans son code de loi : « Prenez la vérité d’où elle vient. » Le grand « pilier de la loi juive » cite Aristote, Galien et de nombreux philosophes arabes avec un profond respect. Pour citer le Talmud à nouveau : « S’ils vous disent qu’il y a la <a href="/library/article_cdo/aid/1426382/jewish/Torah.htm" title="What Is the Torah?">Torah</a> parmi les nations, ne les croyez pas. Mais s’ils vous disent qu’il y a la sagesse parmi les nations, croyez-les. »</p>
<p>Comme je l’ai dit, le cœur de la question est de reconnaître qu’il existe quelque chose de plus grand que soi. Sans cela, la fierté devient orgueil, une maladie que l’on nous prescrit de fuir à l’extrême. En fait, sans la Torah, ont enseigné nos sages, le Juif est « la plus effrontée et éhontée des nations ». Même avec la Torah, le libre arbitre d’une personne ne lui est jamais enlevé. Il y a ceux qui utilisent la Torah comme un marteau pour se construire un trône de fierté mal placée, pour que tous se prosternent devant leur érudition. Même la Torah peut être détournée.</p>
<p>Mais quand un Juif laisse la Torah le guider (plutôt que de s’employer à guider la Torah), lorsqu’il accepte qu’il n’est pas ici pour son propre plaisir ou sa fierté ou sa gloire, mais avec un but, une mission que lui a confiée le Créateur de toutes choses, alors le Juif est en mesure de conjuguer la fierté et la plus extrême humilité. Comme vous l’avez vous-même écrit, en reconnaissant qu’il est un Juif, il se considère d’autant plus un membre de l’humanité. Car quelle est sa mission ? De conquérir ? De dominer ? Non, elle est d’éclairer, de porter le flambeau allumé par notre père <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="33331">Abraham</span> il y a près de 4000 ans, jusqu’à ce que le monde entier soit pénétré de la lumière de cette sagesse, jusqu’à ce que « l’humanité entière œuvrera de concert comme s’ils avaient une seule épaule » dans la paix et la fraternité.</p>
<p>Devrais-je avoir honte de vouloir que ma fille se marie avec un Juif et seulement un Juif ? Suis-je un nazi pour ma fierté et ma conviction ? Devrais-je être condamné pour avoir voulu maintenir cette flamme d’Abraham ?</p>
<p>Au contraire, je crois que ce sont ceux qui exigent que nous nous assimilions, qui ne peuvent supporter qu’il y ait un peuple qui ose se démarquer, qui ose préserver son patrimoine et sa mission malgré toutes les tentatives de l’écraser et de le jeter à terre, que ce sont eux qui sont les vrais fanatiques. Ce sont eux qui cherchent à détruire la beauté que D.ieu a mise dans Sa création, à détruire l’essence même de la vie.</p>
<p>Nous sommes fiers d’être juifs, et nous sommes fiers d’être fiers. Nous ne voulons pas être quoi que ce soit d’autre et nous ne voulons pas que nos petits-enfants soient autre chose. Pour nous, il n’est rien de plus magnifique que d’être un Juif et il n’est rien de plus désastreux que d’en perdre un. Parce que chaque Juif est une flamme précieuse, un buisson ardent qui ne sera pas consumé, une torche éternelle que nul n’a le droit d’éteindre, pas même ce Juif lui-même.</p>
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Je ne suis pas juive mais j'admire profondément ce peuple. J'envie leur abandon à Dieu; Ils sont mes modèles.
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Merci, tout cela est tellement vrai ! En particulier : Si les membres d’un peuple ne sont pas fiers d’eux-m&#234;mes en tant que peuple et ne croient pas qu’ils ont quelque chose qu’aucun autre peuple ne peut fournir, alors ils n’ont aucun espoir de survivre en tant que cellule distincte de l’humanit&#233;. Dans ce cas, nous perdrions leur art, leur sagesse, leur patrimoine – tout ce qu’ils ont &#224; contribuer au reste de l’humanit&#233;, par la volont&#233; de D.ieu. <br />Je suis personnellement fier d&#39;&#234;tre chr&#233;tien tout en reconnaissant tout ce que ma religion doit au juda&#239;sme, et je suis triste de voir encore aujourd&#39;hui le sort r&#233;serv&#233; dans le monde aux juifs et aux chr&#233;tiens &#224; cause de leur foi.
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Ben faut bien s'affirmer d'une manière ou d'une autre pour exister, sinon on disparaît. Il faut bien c'est une réalité, affirmer sa spécificité si on veut qu'elle soit reconnue par d'autres comme spécifique. Quand on est une minorité opprimée depuis des millénaires pour cette spécificité, il faut bien l'affirmer d'une manière ou d'une autre pour que la spécificité se poursuive et que l'oppression cesse. En fait si les gens ne se comparaient pas les uns aux autres sans arrêt, la question ne se poserait pas. En fait si les peuples naturellement restaient enfermés dans leur pré carré, la question ne se poserait pas .Sauf que ce n'est plus possible, on se croise tous un jour ou l'autre et on s'intéresse à l'autre. Il y a peut être des façons de s'exprimer qui éluderait la question raciste consistant à dire qu'on pose le doigt sur une sélection, une forme de condition de la transmission, une intangibilité structurelle que personne ne peut remettre en cause sans faire exploser la structure.
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moi je ne connais aucune culture qui impose des lois aux autres nations et disent que cela vient de D.ieu. Le sort des nations ne vous regardent pas dans la mesure ou le votre, vous n&#39;en est pas certain... ce qui se passera dans un monde &#224; venir personne ne le sait et aucun proph&#232;te en a caus&#233; dans la tanakh.
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Je crois que les gens oublient Dieu tout simplement. Dieu existe et nous a créés tous. Notre héritage est plus spirituel que génétique. C'est le sens même l'Histoire de l'Humanité. La seule Flamme à transmettre c'est la Parole de Dieu. Pas les babillages des rabbins. Est-ce clair? La Torah est la Parole de Dieu. Certains juifs se regardent trop le nombril et oublient totalement d'évoquer le rapport à Dieu dans le fait d'être Juif. La Mission c'est de croire en Lui et Sa Parole envers et contre tout, pas de se distinguer à toute force de manière arrogante et ostentatoire. Saisissez-vous la nuance? La Mission du Juif est de transmettre fidèlement la Torah, la Parole de Dieu. Le Talmud n'a pas la même importance que la Torah et mérite peut-être le respect pour les notes et réflexions des Anciens mais pas la Vénération due uniquement à Dieu et à Sa Parole.
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Le problème pour toutes les religions et le judaïsme n'y fait pas exception. la forme l'emporte sur le fond. je ne doute pas de toutes les belles paroles d'humanisme, de fraternité, d'entraide qu'il peut y avoir dans la torah, le talmud mais toutes ces valeurs ne s’acquièrent à mon sens qu'avec la vie, les épreuves, l'ouverture vers les autres, etc, et ces valeurs là il ne faut pas forcement donc être juif pour les avoir. c'est ce qui caractérise le fond de la religion qui est pour moi le plus important et qui n'est pas selon moi une affaire de croyant ou non. et il y a ensuite la forme : les rituels, la conversion, les signes religieux visibles etc. cela je vous le reconnais vous seuls juifs les avez... mais n'est ce pas cela qui dans le fond vous fait penser qu'un non juif puisse être différent de vous ? Même s'il adhère avec ce que j'ai appelé le fond de votre religion, c'est-à-dire les valeurs... 
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B r a v o !!
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Bravo pour ce texte magnifique. 
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j'aime
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Je ne suis pas juive, ou probablement avec de lointaines racines (comme beaucoup de Marocains berb&#232;res), mais, engag&#233;e dans la pr&#233;servation et la perp&#233;tuation du patrimoine jud&#233;o-marocain, j&#39;ai beaucoup d&#39;amis juifs et je lis beaucoup sur la religion, la culture, la pens&#233;e et tout ce qui fait l&#39;identit&#233; juive. Tout &#231;a pour vous bravo, kol akavod, votre texte m&#39;a beaucoup plu, il est clair et tr&#232;s bien argument&#233;. 
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pas d'accord
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Ne vous en faites pas les non juifs savent lire aussi, et certains comme moi sont &#224; mille lieux de penser la m&#234;me chose! Le communautarisme apporte plus de bonheur que de malheur, il divise, cr&#233;&#233; des craintes envers les autres et nous voile notre r&#233;alit&#233;.<br /><br />Pour moi, un homme qui s'en remet &#224; la religion, c'est un homme faible, qui n'est pas capable d'imaginer autre chose que ce qu'un vieux bouquin ancestral raconte.<br /><br />Honnetement, jamais je n'aurais cru qu'en 2012, les hommes se permettent d'interdire leur fils/fille de se marier avec un homme/femme sain d'esprit (sans &quot;croyance poulaire&quot;) ou se tuent encore au nom de leurs Dieux...<br /><br />Cultiver la difference d'accord, mais l'ethnocentrisme est tr&#232;s tr&#232;s &#233;nervant.<br /><br />Moi je suis un homme, &#233;gal &#224; mon voisin, ma croyance je la garde pour moi, sauf si on me le demande!
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Vous dites sans savoir des choses fausses, sûr de vous. Étudiez le judaïsme sérieusement et vous comprendrez ce qui vous échappe. Quoique je doute quand vous osez écrire qu'un croyant est faible... alors qu'il est plus fort que les nihilistes, matérialistes de notre pauvre temps. Sans la foi vous ne pouvez ni sentir ni entrer dans le monde juif et ses codes. Lesquels lui ont permis de survivre depuis près de 6 millénaires quand même dans un monde hostile !!! Un vieux livre ancestral est un trésor. Personne d autre qu'eux ont la chance infinie de l'avoir et de savoir le décoder. S'il vous plait cessez de mépriser ce qui vous dépasse. Soyez curieux et positif au lieu de faire des reproches infondés. Allez au delà de vos préjugés. Si vous voulez... 
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Fière d'être juive, fière de la lignée de ma mère
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Sur un plan purement biblique, je voudrai simplement &#233;voquer des passages de la parole de D. afin que l'on comprenne cette v&#233;rit&#233;. Depuis la fondation du monde, avait pr&#233;vu de cr&#233;er un monde parfait mais il savait aussi que le p&#233;ch&#233; viendrait entacher sa cr&#233;ation donc avait d&#233;j&#224; vu son plan de r&#233;demption, c'est l&#224; que la lecture et l'&#233;tude de ce qu'on l'appelle l'ancien testament sont imp&#233;ratifs. Il y a eu une lign&#233;e fid&#232;le &#224; D. du d&#233;but &#224; aujourd'hui. (...) Dans ce magnifique texte ci-dessus tout est dis. MERCI....Bcp n'aiment pas les juifs (on n'aime pas ce que l'on ne ma&#238;trise pas) mais bcp les aiment et heureusement qu'il existe encore des &#234;tres de c&#339;ur. (le mot &quot;juif&quot; est librement employ&#233; aujourd'hui, mais il ne repr&#233;sente en r&#233;alit&#233; qu'une seule des 12 tribus de Jacob-Isra&#235;l). Une joie int&#233;rieure intense et inexplicable d'&#234;tre juive.
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Magnifique message qui devrait &#234;tre lu, on peut r&#234;ver, par TOUS les Juifs et par TOUS les autres, car beaucoup ignorent toujours ce qu'est &#234;tre v&#233;ritablement (un) JUIF! Tzvi Freeman, comme d'habitude, d&#233;montre clairement ce que les Juifs repr&#233;sentent: l'Espoir total, la Foi totale en D' et cela pour le b&#233;n&#233;fice de l'humanit&#233; enti&#232;re. Texte &#224; envoyer &#224; nos relations, juives et NON juives. Quel texte magnifique!
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Ou ca , race?
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&#199;a n'est pas un probl&#232;me de race.<br />Les juifs n'ont pas un sang plus vert, plus bleu ou plus brun que les autres.<br />Les Juifs pensent autrement! Totalement autrement.<br />Je suis un goy.<br />Si je me convertissais au juda&#239;sme, &#231;a ne changerais rien a la couleur de ma peau.<br />Maintenant, il existe peut-&#234;tre des Juifs qui pensent &#234;tre &quot;g&#233;n&#233;tiquement&quot; diff&#233;rent du reste de l&#8217;humanit&#233;.<br />Mais la, c'est peut-&#234;tre du pur masochisme.
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