Talk:Righteous Priest

This is irrelevent text I removed from the article, per WP:COATRACK.:

He set out on a messianic mission to Rome to convert the Pope to Judaism. The Pope ordered him burned at the stake. However the day before he entered Rome, the Pope died of an apoplectic stroke. Abulafia claimed to have killed the Pope by invoking the name of God.^{[1]: 94–96, 371, 59–61, 82–83, 97–98}

In one of his later works Abulafia claimed to have been driven mad by Satan but that God had protected him. He claimed that Elijah brought him to Messina where he completed the Otzar Eden HaGanuz. He wrote that but for accidents and fantasies his seven disciples would not have been driven away from him. He hoped that one in particular Rabbi Saadia ben Yitzchak Sanalmapi who he dedicated the work to would forgive him.^[2]

Abulafia’s writings were condemned by his local Jewish congregation and were not used in Spanish schools. His meditation techniques would influence many later writings and are still studied today. Later writers would marginalize Abulafia's messianic elements.^[1]: 361 In Ecstatic Kabbalah Metatron is a messianic figure.^[3] This tradition predates Abulafia going back to the Book of Parables and 3 Enoch and other writings.^{[1]: 46, 48, 72, 86, 88} The earlier Merkabah mysticism also references Metatron.^[4]

Baffle gab1978 (talk) 00:12, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

The sentance "Many Christian sources have said Shem was associated with Melchizedek for anti-Christian reasons", is almost certianly false; it might be more accurate to say "some christian sources" and then link to them. However this still would paint an inacurate view- simply googling Shem and Melchizadek reveals Christian articles that either support the association or show arguments for and against http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/faq/ShemMelchizedek.html http://globalchristiancenter.com/christian-living/lesser-known-bible-people/31416-who-was-melchizedek https://amazingbibletimeline.com/blog/melchizedek-and-shem/ and none on the first page that argue conclusively against. Discussing the interplay between christian sources that agree or disagree with the proposition is beyond the scope of the article, so I suggest either deleting the sentance and restructuring the paragraph, or researching which christian sources say this, and then writing something like "Some early Lutheran sources argue shem was associated..." depending on the time period, and the group of Christians that held these views.2.103.28.133 (talk) 11:00, 26 September 2017 (UTC)HaMoshe

"In 1280, following the Disputation of Barcelona, the Roman Catholic Church forced Jews to censor parts of the Talmud that were theologically problematic. The Talmud was censored again in 1564 following the invention of the printing press. Numerous times between 1239 and 1775, all copies of the Talmud were ordered destroyed; few survived."

Given that many - if not the majority - of the Jews lived in Islamic regions during that time, how could such censorship by the Catholic church have been effective? This seems quite illogical. -- 89.182.217.13 (talk) 10:30, 17 August 2015 (UTC)