Yesterday my wife and I went to the funeral of a great lady in her 90s, one of my Christian in-laws. In the eulogy, the minister said that he had visited her when she was dying and told her that when people who live such long full lives come to the gates of heaven, St. Peter says, "You go to the front of the line!"
It’s a rare minister that my wife likes (one reason she married a Jew, I guess; though rabbis would surely disappoint her too), and this guy was no exception. Two or three times after the ceremony I heard her muttering about what a cornball he was. She said, "If there’s a line up there, the people who lived into their 90s should go to the back. It’s the little children and young people who should go to the front." Amen.
Your wife married you/a Jew (partly) because she disliked Christian ministers? Okay.
Anyway, as one rabbi said: 'The Gentiles used to chase the Jews in order to kill them – now in order to marry them.'
Klaus
Cornball or not, the guy was just trying to honor the long life of the individual, not to establish some imprinted new dogma.
We like it best when you stick to bashing Israel. Lay off the old ministers.
Well, you have a smart wife.
After all, she married you.
What will those awful Christians think of next? Mohel, anyone?