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THE DAY IS COMING: a book of Faith
Many books have been written about the three years of Jesus’s ministry in the land of Israel, but few stand in comparison with this account.Spiritual thinker and Nobel Prize candidate Shlomo Kalo presents a moving, Gospel-based look at that fateful time and events, telling of the experiences of Jesus from a unique, profound, and painful Jewish point of view.
The Day is Coming stands out
• A vivid, captivating writing style that unfolds the events and their meaning with great clarity and interest.
• The author’s Jewish perspective is the same that was shared at the time by Jesus and the people around him.
• The unique interpretation to events such as Jesus crucifixion and mainly to the verse that has prompted confusion for centuries among “Eli, Eli, why have you forsaken me?”
Seldom does the Christian publishing world take notice and embrace a book about Jesus that was written by an unconverted Jew. The Day is Coming was published by Christian publishers in ten countries, moving people deeply, at times to tears, and adding to their understanding and their faith.
".[This book] opens for the reader who seeks God a path to mature thoughts and meditation. May this book open this way before many!" Msgr. Dr. Richard Mathes, Rector, Colegio Teutonico, Rome.
"All in all reading of this portrait of God made human in Jesus has moved me very deeply, and I think will move very deeply many other readers. Prof. J Martin-Moreno, SJ, Pontifical Biblical Institiute, Jerusalem.
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The Day is Coming stands out
• A vivid, captivating writing style that unfolds the events and their meaning with great clarity and interest.
• The author’s Jewish perspective is the same that was shared at the time by Jesus and the people around him.
• The unique interpretation to events such as Jesus crucifixion and mainly to the verse that has prompted confusion for centuries among “Eli, Eli, why have you forsaken me?”
Seldom does the Christian publishing world take notice and embrace a book about Jesus that was written by an unconverted Jew. The Day is Coming was published by Christian publishers in ten countries, moving people deeply, at times to tears, and adding to their understanding and their faith.
".[This book] opens for the reader who seeks God a path to mature thoughts and meditation. May this book open this way before many!" Msgr. Dr. Richard Mathes, Rector, Colegio Teutonico, Rome.
"All in all reading of this portrait of God made human in Jesus has moved me very deeply, and I think will move very deeply many other readers. Prof. J Martin-Moreno, SJ, Pontifical Biblical Institiute, Jerusalem.
Scroll up and download your copy of THE DAY IS COMING today!
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Published June 21, 2018
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January 3, 2019
As the first reports appeared of the death of Amos Oz, I had begun to read Shlomo Kalo’s **The Day Is Coming: a book of Faith.
This was an ironic and unsettling personal coincidence: Although both men were hugely popular Israeli writers and each were viewed as potential Nobel laureates, their respective work and philosophy could not have been more different. Further, while the title of Oz’s final novel, Judas is based on the figure of the traitorous apostle, Kalo’s story purportedly traces the final three years of Jesus’s life from a Jewish perspective.
I’m openly hostile to Messianic Judaism and those who practise it. So although I understand that this novelettish version of the New Testament story is widely admired, those reading this short review will appreciate that I can never share that enthusiasm. Indeed, I refrain from using more astringent language here to avoid offending devout born Christians or those from other traditions who view Jesus as an important prophet.
Kalo, a Bulgarian-born Jew who survived a Nazi labour camp, emigrated to Israel in 1949 and enjoyed successful twin careers as a microbiologist and writer. A turning point came in 1969 when (my words) he felt he received some sort of revelation or calling.
The result, among other things, was the formation of a spiritual self-awareness organisation named “DAAT" (Hebrew acronym, meaning knowledge, standing for “know yourself always”) that also publishes his work.
There are several aspects of The Day is Coming I find especially troubling from a Jewish viewpoint: First is seeing the word ‘God’ used as a regular alternative to Jesus’s most frequently used name.
Second is the portrayal of Pontius Pilate as being weak and easily manipulated by the Jewish authorities.
Then last and worst in my opinion, is the nature of a quasi-fictional Holocaust story that is inserted into the thread of the biblical narrative:
Between Judas’s betrayal of Jesus and subsequent suicide and Jesus’s trial comes a story of a teenaged Jewish camp inmate meeting, loathing and ultimately betraying a Jewish-born Catholic monk who goes serenely to his death at the hands of their Nazi captors. ‘Brother Anastasius’s name means ‘resurrection’. The dead man is then metaphorically ‘resurrected’ by the youth as he later becomes a Christian monk and renames himself as ‘Anastasius’.
Kalo’s book has been reprinted in many languages since it was first published in Hebrew and this review is of the third English edition published in June 2018. I cannot find the date of the original DAAT Hebrew edition but it was surely many years after the Catholic Church’s historic ruling of Vatican 11 in November 1963.
So the Church, whose aeons of extreme Jew hate climaxed in the Shoah, has for a near half-century agreed that it was “unjust to call this people deicide or to consider it cursed by God".
This renders the words of Kalo’s fictional characters all the more incomprehensible.
“For the past nineteen hundred years”, says the first Ánastasius’, “there has existed a narrow strand, like an unbroken chain, of people who seek to atone for the deeds of our forefathers by changing their religion out of faith. By this means, as by others, they bring closer the salvation of our people and of the world”.
Today I am without further words.
This was an ironic and unsettling personal coincidence: Although both men were hugely popular Israeli writers and each were viewed as potential Nobel laureates, their respective work and philosophy could not have been more different. Further, while the title of Oz’s final novel, Judas is based on the figure of the traitorous apostle, Kalo’s story purportedly traces the final three years of Jesus’s life from a Jewish perspective.
I’m openly hostile to Messianic Judaism and those who practise it. So although I understand that this novelettish version of the New Testament story is widely admired, those reading this short review will appreciate that I can never share that enthusiasm. Indeed, I refrain from using more astringent language here to avoid offending devout born Christians or those from other traditions who view Jesus as an important prophet.
Kalo, a Bulgarian-born Jew who survived a Nazi labour camp, emigrated to Israel in 1949 and enjoyed successful twin careers as a microbiologist and writer. A turning point came in 1969 when (my words) he felt he received some sort of revelation or calling.
The result, among other things, was the formation of a spiritual self-awareness organisation named “DAAT" (Hebrew acronym, meaning knowledge, standing for “know yourself always”) that also publishes his work.
There are several aspects of The Day is Coming I find especially troubling from a Jewish viewpoint: First is seeing the word ‘God’ used as a regular alternative to Jesus’s most frequently used name.
Second is the portrayal of Pontius Pilate as being weak and easily manipulated by the Jewish authorities.
Then last and worst in my opinion, is the nature of a quasi-fictional Holocaust story that is inserted into the thread of the biblical narrative:
Between Judas’s betrayal of Jesus and subsequent suicide and Jesus’s trial comes a story of a teenaged Jewish camp inmate meeting, loathing and ultimately betraying a Jewish-born Catholic monk who goes serenely to his death at the hands of their Nazi captors. ‘Brother Anastasius’s name means ‘resurrection’. The dead man is then metaphorically ‘resurrected’ by the youth as he later becomes a Christian monk and renames himself as ‘Anastasius’.
Kalo’s book has been reprinted in many languages since it was first published in Hebrew and this review is of the third English edition published in June 2018. I cannot find the date of the original DAAT Hebrew edition but it was surely many years after the Catholic Church’s historic ruling of Vatican 11 in November 1963.
So the Church, whose aeons of extreme Jew hate climaxed in the Shoah, has for a near half-century agreed that it was “unjust to call this people deicide or to consider it cursed by God".
This renders the words of Kalo’s fictional characters all the more incomprehensible.
“For the past nineteen hundred years”, says the first Ánastasius’, “there has existed a narrow strand, like an unbroken chain, of people who seek to atone for the deeds of our forefathers by changing their religion out of faith. By this means, as by others, they bring closer the salvation of our people and of the world”.
Today I am without further words.
May 7, 2019
An excellent book!
Mr. Kalo has written a wonderful account of Jesus's mission to save us. It is a simple account that surpasses many deeper works. I highly recommend this work to all.
Mr. Kalo has written a wonderful account of Jesus's mission to save us. It is a simple account that surpasses many deeper works. I highly recommend this work to all.
October 19, 2018
Moving and insightful
It is said that we cannot be good Christians if we are not first good Jews. Mr. Kalo has helped me.
It is said that we cannot be good Christians if we are not first good Jews. Mr. Kalo has helped me.
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