You said you were done with me. Now crawl back under your rock.
The first Bible I read was the New English Bible. Reading the Old Testament and the Apocrypha enhanced my appreciation of Jews. When I read the New Testament, I saw Jesus and his disciples as Jews in a Jewish setting.
A book by a Jew about the New Testament that I read described Jesus as "Yiddish mensch."
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Mensch (
Yiddish: ×ž×¢× ×˜×©,
mentsh, from
Middle High German Mensch, from
Old High German mennisco; akin to
Old English human being,
man) means "a person of integrity and honor".
[1]
According to
Leo Rosten, a
mensch is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being 'a real mensch' is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous."
[2] The term is used as a high compliment, implying the rarity and value of that individual's qualities.
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