Tuesday, March 4, 2008

No Saint, but yes tzaddik.

Trials of the Saints
By JAMES MARTIN
Published: March 3, 2008
LAST month, while Americans celebrated the feast days of two secular saints, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the Vatican issued a surprising new directive calling for greater rigor in its own saint-making process. Published by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the 45-page document called for “strict adherence” to existing rules, in response to some concerns that the canonization procedures had been watered down over the last two decades.

Jews don't have Saints. No one bestows titles on us as being superman, other than some Hasidim who claim their rebbes have superpowers and are Messianic, which make them borderline Jews in my opinion. But we do have terms of spiritual hierarchy that can be earned
Mentch, tzaddik-righteous person, hacham in sephardic tradition (wise man) gaon-great genius rabbi. Let's work on those. Even prophet some sources say can be acquired.

No comments: