Next Year in Jerusalem

We're going to the Holy Land!! We've found the funding we needed for a traveling confrence organized by the Council of Christians and Jews. We'll be gone from the 28th of Dec. until the 5th of January.
"Baruck ata Adonai Elohienu melek ha olam..." Blessed be the Lord God, king of the world...

As I prepared today my thoughts on Incarnation and the contemporary Jewish theological response for a meeting with my dissertation suppervisors, I remebered the redemptive power of suffering.

Surely he has borne our griefs / and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, / smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our / transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement / that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. ... and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Is.53.4-6

"The White crucifixion" by Chagall visually creates the dual interpretations of Isaiah's proclimation: Jesus the 'tsadik' (righteous man) and the suffering servant of God, Israel.