Safe in the Arms of Jesus
Text: Fanny Crosby, 1868
Safe in the arms of Jesus,
safe on His gentle breast,
there by His love o’ershaded,
sweetly my soul shall rest.
Hark! ’tis the voice of angels
borne in a song to me.
Over the fields of glory,
over the jasper sea.
Why the fixation with one tanna? There were many great tannaim, many great neviim, amoraim etc.
ReplyDeleteSome were always known to be greater than others.
ReplyDeleteCoincidental superficial similarities in a description to a foreign religious song or poetry hardly qualifies as a valid comparison.
ReplyDeleteare you claiming it as a Jewish expression?
ReplyDeleteNever have heard anything remotely similar amongst Jews - have you?
No, it isn't a Jewish expression. Then again, not every thought expressed by religious Jews necessarily comes directly from a Jewish text.
ReplyDeleteBut using some random expression that someone later finds a similarity to some remote thought from another religion isn't an indication that the one expressing it now intended it as a recycling from another religion.
Yup, golden calf again and again. The Rebbe, z"l, Rebbe Nachman, z"l, Rebbe Elimelech, z"l and now Rashbi.
ReplyDeleteit's an interesting phenomenon. Too many people use "kabbalah" as an excuse to practice irrational religion that doesn't require much thinking to get a faux spiritual high. Their textbook is the Zohar and guess who supposedly wrote that?
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