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Rosenstock adds a remarkable contrast of Judaism and Christianity, and an equally remarkable calendrical description of Christian experience:<\/p>\n

\u201cover against the calm certainty of the Synagogue, we have the perilous adventurous character of our pattern of life, which tears apart the course of the year and of his own life, lays on the heart of each man his own Sabbath and his own \u2018Four,\u2019 his particular cross, absolves him from Cohen\u2019s and Kant\u2019s \u2018love for the remotest,\u2019 and leaves him only the love for his neighbor. It sets in the Church\u2019s year the reconciliation of this violent disruption of the calendar of the secular year and of one\u2019s own inner life, by pointing to the wandering of the Lord on earth as the far distant goal, and also by making the condition that we work out for ourselves through the vita imitative<\/em> this stormy masterful life of \u2018the\u2019 man of Christ, in that he himself then lives his year in us. Without this cultivation of the new man, Sunday is merely bourgeois, a mere Old Testament Sabbath for Christians \u2013 that is to say, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He returns at the end of the letter to the contrast of \u201ceternal Jew\u201d and the church as \u201ceternal community\u201d: \u201cin the program, viewed abstractly, there is identity; but, starting from the same point, the opposition between the two religious patterns is bound to become continually sharper as they go forward. The \u2018eternal Jew\u2019 as a horizontal two-dimensional interest in religion, and Time is bound up in him, and it is, as it were, always being fulfilled just because it is never fulfilled. The \u2018eternal community\u2019 has a vertically directed impulse. Because it strives in every moment to behave as if it were worldwide, because even the individual Christian is almost as the whole body, and the microcosm and the God-man is taken seriously, so its longing turned towards Time, towards the discerning and fulfilling of epochs\u201d (155-6).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"