
423 pages HQ Digital publisher Pub Date Oct 05 2021
ABOUT THE BOOK
Munich: Smoke filled the air.
Lilli Sternberg’s quickening heart sounded an alarm as she rounded the street corner. Lifting her gaze to the rooftops, a roaring blaze of thick flames engulfed the side of the building and joined the stars to fill the black sky. Her father’s shop was no more.
Lilli Sternberg longs to be a ballet dancer. But outside the sanctuary of the theatre, Munich is no longer a place for dreams.
The Nazi party are gaining power and the threats to Jewish families increasing. Even Lilli’s family shop was torched because of their faith.
When Lilli meets Captain Marco Zeiller during a chance encounter, her heart soars. He is the perfect gentleman and her love for him feels like a bright hope under a bleak sky.
But battle lines are being drawn, and Marco has been spotted by the Reich as an officer with potential. Lilli means more to him than anything and he knows he must find a way out.
With their lives on the line, will Marco and Lilli survive the growing Nazi threat, or do they risk losing everything in the fight to be free?
An absolutely gripping and emotional historical fiction novel about love, courage and betrayal for fans of My Name is Eva and A Woman of War
MY THOUGHTS
Incredible fiction detailing decades of time covering war, love, surprises resilience and sacrifices like no others. Loosely based on real events and actual people I learned a lot and was very impressed with what I read. Highly recommended.
I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.
MEET THE AUTHOR

When I was five years old, I visited the dungeons of an old castle with my parents. The guide was telling us about the oubliette, the place where they threw prisoners and literally forgot about them. Without warning he turned the light off, plunging the space into darkness. We were blind for a few moments. But instead of terrifying me, the experience had the opposite effect. I wanted to know more about people, lives, events from the past. So,from a very early age, I loved history: buildings, books, stories.
I went on to read History at Oxford University and qualified as a journalist and editor, contributing to several national publications such as The Times and The Telegraph. I also acted as a literary publicist for the English TV presenter and novelist Pam Rhodes.
Winning a European-wide screenplay writing competition led to the optioning of a screenplay. (Here’s where the history comes in.) Set in 18th century England, it highlighted what has to be one of the most fascinating periods of England’s past. The screenplay languished in what’s known as development hell, but I was determined to tell some of the stories I’d discovered during my researches into the period. The result is “The Anatomist’s Apprentice,” the first of a series of Dr Thomas Silkstone Mysteries – stories from late 18th century England that are based on true events.
Until December 2010 I was editor of a regional glossy magazine and was regularly heard on BBC local radio. As well interviewing dozens of celebrities, I interviewed writers at literary events in front of audiences. My most recent interviews were with Oscar winner Julian Fellowes (who wrote the screenplay for Downton Abbey), Barbara Taylor Bradford and Hollywood legend Leslie Caron.

“Every setback is a setup for a comeback.”

33 replies on “Beneath a Starless Sky: A gripping and utterly heartbreaking WW2 historical fiction novel ”
I read this author’s The Anatomist’s Apprentice a few years ago. I went back and looked at the review I wrote at the time, because I was surprised that I hadn’t read more of her books. I had some issues with that book, such as too many plot lines and poor editing. But this sounds intriguing, so I may give this one a try.
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This one is from 2021. I have another in my tbr list to catch up on as well. This one didn’t have poor editing, but it was a slow story and could have done with about 100 less pages to keep the story more interesting, but I did learn a lot from it as well.
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Happy St, Patrick’s Day!
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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! I have my green on. My ancestors are from Galway, but no traditions have really been followed in our family.
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We’re in Utah, visiting family and forgot to bring green. Hubs is definitely Irish, while I’m, a little Scottish.
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The cover is gorgeous!
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💰 The pot of gold is at the end of the 🌈 rainbow!
Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
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The inherited contradictions contained within Romanticism
Romanticism today? Dominant models? Absolute wisdom? Disappearance of Vice and Folly? Rational Order which attempts to avoid an incomprehensible world. The incapable differences between Greek and ancient Hebrew civilizations. Mythical giants of bearded Gods that control Man. Vast changes have occurred, a Pacific Ocean that separates Ancient civilizations from Modern society.
Romanticism a permanent state of Mind? Utterly absurd. Human development dynamic not static. Catastrophic events and the explosion of genius forces Mankind throughout the Ages to improvise and change. Rousseau, the father of Romanticism – his ‘Social Contract’ sparked the French Revolution, and the human barbarity which ensued. No such thing as Universal knowledge. Great upheavals pit knowledge vs. irrational emotions.
1760 – 1830 a great break in humanity occurred – the rise of Democracy and citizenship overthrew classic feudalism, with its agriculturally village based economies. Later replaced by the Industrial revolution and the mass population transfer from rural farms to urban cities. Prior to this human landslide, the 30 Year War where Europeans slaughtered one another – only matched by the human debauchery of WWI.
Muhammad, another example of genius producing a human earthquake. Hegel and Marx more modern human Earthquakes that shattered society. These political philosophers introduced Socialism and class warfare. .Human consciousness continually shifts and changes. Human progress: one step forward and two steps in retreat.
The noun ‘peace’ does not correctly translate to the verb ‘shalom’. The latter stands upon ‘trust’. The former by contrast simple political and religious rhetoric propaganda by which tyrants herd direct and control the narratives which sheeple populations fervently believe. Like Obama’s political slogan of “change” which enticed Americans between 2008 – 2016. Another example of political rhetoric, Bush’s ‘New World Order’, which justified the Patriot Act and the illegal, US imperialism where the US conquered Iraq – based upon lies of nuclear weapons. All revolutions produce there equal and opposite counter-revolutions. An example: the political dispute between corrupt Clinton vs. Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential elections.
Why do DemoCRAP perverts, Jeffrey Epstein’s Island of child prostitution, stands as a flagrant example, DemoCRAPs to this very day, with their TDS disease, they slander and libel Mr. Musk? Why do these public criminals denounce Musk’s efforts to stop Washington Bureaucratic fraud to the American people? Many public officials in Congress implicated for insider trading. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi’s corruption – blatantly obvious.
Elon Musk exposes why Democrats don’t want ‘waste and fraud’ to be turned off – YouTube
Social Security payments to 150 year old dead Americans. The vast Big Brother Federal bureaucracies, they continually ignore politically appointed representatives of people through the Democratic political process. Today, bureaucracies fight to not implement President Trump’s policies. 92% of bureaucratic employees voted for Kamala Harris. Mr. Musk’s tech support tech employs about 100 people. A 2 Trillion dollar deficit. Mr. Musk declares he does not want the Federal Government going bankrupt. His goal seeks to save 1 Trillion dollars to the US treasury. 20 million dead people on the Social Security books. That’s a lot of fraudulent money. Entitlement spending represents a huge Federal fraud. Democraps don’t want the waste and fraud cut off because its a huge magnet which attracts illegal immigrant importation of voters. California does not require voter ID.
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The struggle to engage the wisdom how to interpret the k’vanna of postive and negative commandments and halachic mitzvot.
No such thing as “Jewish Values” divorced from T’NaCH and Talmudic Primary sources. Israel Salanter’s late 19th Century mussar movement lost most of the wind in its sails due to its failure to link Mussar scholarship back to T’NaCH and Talmudic Common law. For example: I bet dollars to donuts that you do not know what separates Judicial Courtroom Common Law from Legislative decrees: Statute Law.
Judicial Court Room legal rulings do not compare in any way to religious halachic rulings based upon cults of personality statute law halachic codes. A mortal dispute which erupted into a Civil War that clearly divides Reshonim and Achronim Talmudic scholarship to this very day!
The modern day struggle of restoring the cultural heritage, as exemplified in the T’NaCH and Talmudic literature, has the focus, not limiting Zionism based upon the Balfour Declaration of 1917. But rather, Jewish self-determination to rebuild a Torah Constitutional Republic of 12 Tribes; together with employing the T’NaCH and Talmud as models to re-establish lateral common law Small and Great Sanhedrin Courtrooms and re-ignite the Torah faith to pursue righteous judicial justice which sanctifies, like a korban upon the altar, make a fair restitution of damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B, among the Jewish People within the borders of the Republic of Israel.
The modern pilpul method, which emerged primarily in the 16th and 17th centuries, heavily focused on highly analytical and abstract Talmudic reasoning. Pilpulists sought to reconcile seemingly contradictory interpretations from various Rishonim (early commentators) and often relied on complex distinctions to clarify Talmudic discussions.
The Baali Tosafot, by stark contrast, sought through comparison of outside halachic Primary source precedents from different mesechtot of the Talmud, in order to force a change of perspective. Not just to the sugya of Gemara but more importantly to the language of the Mishna, which the Gemara comments upon in the first place.
The critical distinction between common law (as seen in the Ba’alei Tosafot) and statutory law (as embodied by Maimonides and later Yosef Karo) absolutely vital. Common law, based on case law and precedents, a more flexible and contextual sh’itta. Whereas statutory law is codified, systematic, and focuses on creating clear, universal rules. The Ba’alei Tosafot deep rooted case-based, dialectical approach, whose logic drew analogies and comparisons across different tractates of the Talmud. This sh’itta\method driven by the fluidity of legal reasoning and the premise that law simply derived from the text in a way that accommodates a multiplicity of interpretations. As opposed to Maimonides’ goal of codifying Jewish law into a Goy systematic code that seeks to provide clearer guidance for Jewish life. Hence the Czar of Russia wanted to replace the study of the Talmud with the study of the Rambam code.
The intellectual conflict between the Tosafists and Maimonides——reflects a fundamental tension in Jewish legal scholarship. The ban (cherem) placed on Maimonides’ writings by both the Court of Rabbeinu Yona in Spain and the French rabbis in 1232, particularly in response to his Yad Chazakah, highlighted the deep divide between those who sought to codify Jewish law and those who insisted on a more dynamic, contextual approach to halachic analysis. This divide has severe historical repercussions, especially when Jewish communities found themselves increasingly split between those who supported Maimonides’ legal systematization and those who followed the common law model of the Tosafists, and RaZBI or Baal Ha-Maor.
Modern day Zionism represents a modern day Jewish identity crisis. Can Jews in Israel re-establish a Torah Constitutional Republic and Sanhedrin common law lateral courtrooms as our Moshiach Beit Ha’Mikdash?! Torah faith defined as: Judicial righteous justice continually pursue.
The modern Pilpul movement itself began in the late 16th and early 17th centuries with figures like Rabbi Moses Isserles (Rema), Rabbi Shlomo Luria (Maharshal), and Rabbi Menachem Azariah de Fano, who played important roles in shaping and popularizing this method of Talmudic study.
The Baali Tosafot almost totally ignored the Statute law\Roman Law assimilation introduced most specifically by the Rambam. Only twice throughout the Sha’s Bavli commentary did the Tosafot mention opinions made by the Rambam. And on both occasions the Baali Tosafot disputed the Rambam’s opinions. The Baali Tosafot agreed with Rabbeinu Yonah’s cherem condemnation of the Rambam. In 1232 the French rabbis of Paris likewise placed the ban of charem upon the Rambam and his books.
The pilpul scholars, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries, primarily concerned with resolving Talmudic contradictions and analyzing the fine distinctions in legal discussions. Their approach often emphasized logical acumen and intellectual sophistication in reconciling varying opinions, but this led to a lack of clarity regarding the foundational differences between common law (as seen in the Tosafot) and statutory law (as seen in the Rambam and the Tur).
Pilpulists, often more focused on Talmudic dialectics—resolving apparent contradictions in the text—than on organizing law into more systematic categories. This made it harder for them to discern the broader structural differences between case-based common law (as seen in the Tosafot) and codified statutory law (as seen in the Rambam and the Tur).
Pilpul scholarship arose during a time of intense intellectual engagement with Jewish texts, particularly the Talmud within the ghetto gullags. However, the concept of statutory law in Jewish tradition, as developed by Maimonides and others, was somewhat distinct from the traditional Talmudic analysis that the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס logic sh’itta emphasized. Pilpulists simply failed to prioritize the broader organizational structure of Jewish law. This branch of modern scholarship focused on detailed textual analysis, which contributed to their failure to make the critically important distinction which separates T’NaCH\Talmud common law from assimilated Greek/Roman statute law. A fundamental and utterly basic gross error which plagues the Modern Orthodox Movement to this very day.
The failure to distinguish between common law (as exemplified by the Tosafot and RaZBI or Baal Ha-Maor) and statutory law (as exemplified by Maimonides and the Tur) has had significant consequences for Jewish law and Jewish thought, especially in the context of Modern Orthodoxy.
The Modern Orthodox movement, often marked by an effort to reconcile traditional Jewish law with the modern world, and much of this effort rests on the intellectual framework established by earlier pilpul scholars. However, this dialectical approach to Jewish law always fails to address the fundamental structural differences between case-based common law and systematic statutory law. Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס logic as opposed by Aristotle’s syllogism.
One of the challenges of Modern Orthodoxy, how it navigates the modern legal system, which largely base themselves on statutory law. The pilpul method, with its focus on abstract distinctions and detailed textual analysis, simply ill-suited to rationally address the required legal clarity and uniformity within contemporary legal systems. This has led to some challenges in applying Jewish law to modern circumstances, as the methods developed during the pilpul era often fail to offer clear, systematic guidance.
The Modern Orthodox movement often places heavy emphasis on traditional Talmudic study. The chief tool of their focus, pilpulistic reasoning often obscures the broader structural organization of Jewish law. Pilpulist scholarship, alas more concerned with dialectical analysis and resolving contradictions than with organizing Jewish law into clear, accessible interpretations concerning the k’vanna of those laws. This results in a lack of clarity in Modern Orthodoxy when it comes to engaging with the legal system and the modern world.
The pilpul method’s prioritized focus on abstract textual analysis and dialectical reasoning led scholars to overlook the critical distinction between common law (as seen in the Tosafot and RaZBI or Baal Ha-Maor) and statutory law (as seen in Maimonides and the Tur).
This intellectual failure to separate and prioritize the difference between interpretation of k’vanna from scholarship which systematizes and categorizes Jewish law; an inherited “genetic” flaw which retarded Torah faith..
This conceptual error, simply fundamental to understanding the tensions and difficulties that continue to shape Modern Orthodox thought today.
Restated: Modern Orthodoxy, by nature, seeks to harmonize Jewish law with the realities of modern life. It aims to preserve traditional Jewish practices and engage with the post American and French revolutions secular world.
However, this reconciliation, often compromised by an intellectual blind spot — the failure to distinguish between common law and statutory law. This Downs syndrome baby can never integrate into larger society.
Pilpul, with its emphasis on dialectical analysis and abstract distinctions, prioritizes complexity over clarity. It seeks to reconcile seemingly contradictory opinions through logical ancient Greek reasoning. While this is valuable for deepening intellectual understanding with Goyim, it falls flat on its face short when it comes to producing clear legal directives or systematic guidance of the k’vanna of halachot as positive time oriented commandments; like the B’hag envisions. In other words, pilpul focuses on understanding details and nuances; its sh’tta strives to separate like from like. But it fails to the legal framework of T’NaCH and Talmudic common law..
The modern legal system, based upon the Rambam\Karo statute legalism, statutory in nature. Modern Orthodoxy functions through codified statute laws organized into clear religious frameworks and categories. This stands in stark contrast to the common law schools based upon Rashi’s Chumash commentary and classic Talmudic commentators. The blind nature of modern pilpul scholarship to the fundamental differences which divided the Reshonim scholars into two hostile camps and exploded into Civil War – totally amazing. On par with the metaphor: remove the beam out of your own eye before attempting to remove the fleck of dust in my eye.
The Rambam Civil War started in assimilated ‘Golden Age’ Spain, and quickly spread to France. A decade after the rabbis of Paris placed the ban of cherem upon the Rambam, the Pope and king of France burned all the Talmudic manuscripts existent in France, 24 cart-loads. The flames of Jewish Civil War then passed to England in 1290 and returned to France in 1306 with the destruction of the Rashi/Tosafot common law school of Talmudic scholarship.
Jewish anarchy and chaos then jumped to Spain. The Pope decreed a three Century ghetto imprisonment of all Western European Jewry. This resulted in a mass population transfer of Jews who fled Church oppression and fled to Eastern European countries. In 1648 the Cossack revolts slaughtered Jewish communities across the Ukraine and Poland. The barbarity, unmatched till the Nazi Shoah of the 20th Century.
The Rambam’s approach to statutory law versus the Tosafot’s focus on dialectical reasoning indeed highlights two competing visions of Jewish legal scholarship, and the broader societal and historical consequences important for understanding how these intellectual divides led to much of the turbulence and displacement of Jewish communities.
Modern pilpul—with its focus on abstract reasoning, nuanced analysis, and resolving contradictions—had an immense impact on Jewish legal scholarship within the ghetto gulags. The intellectual approach of Pilpulism, often complicated and unsettling. Students return home after a week in the Yeshiva and discuss chol matters but never their pilpul learning. Why? Only the tip of the iceberg of students studying pilpul scholarship understand the subtle distinctions made by their Rav. Impossible to repeat and duplicate this learning at a Shabbos table with people who have not sat in the shiur the entire week.
The division between statutory law (as represented by Maimonides and the Tur) and common law (as seen in the Tosafot and RaZBI or Baal Ha-Maor) has had a lasting impact on how Jewish law is studied and applied, particularly in the context of Modern Orthodoxy. This historical divide continues to echo in contemporary Jewish intellectual debates. The pilpul method simply ill-suited for engaging with contemporary legal systems, which prioritize clarity, uniformity, and practical application of laws.
The destruction of Jewish texts and cultural disintegration left scars that still influence how Jewish communities in Eastern Europe (and, by extension, the rest of the Jewish world) approached Jewish law. Talmudic scholarship during this period became both an intellectual struggle for survival and a way of preserving Jewish identity amidst immense adversity.
The modern-day Orthodox movement inherits this complex intellectual history, one shaped by deep divisions between pilpul and statutory law, and the tensions resulting from the Rambam Civil War. These tensions continue to play out in how Modern Orthodoxy fails to reconcile Jewish law with modernity.
The intellectual blind spot—the failure to properly distinguish between common law and statutory law—remains one of the central challenges faced by Modern Orthodoxy today. The movement must find a way to move past these intellectual divides, of Jewish ערב רב assimilation and intermarriage which always results in the rise of Amalek/antisemitism. The assimilated Rambam code of Greek & Roman statute law flagrantly profanes the 2nd Sinai commandment not to worship other Gods. Jewish intermarriage in America and Europe has become a cursed plague, worse than all the 10 plagues of Egypt.
This disconnect between high-level scholarship and practical, day-to-day Jewish life, a key critique of pilpul as it evolved. While it’s an intellectually rich method, pilpul tends to focus more on theoretical dialectics rather than providing clear, practical guidance for Jewish law that can be easily applied in real-world court room situations.
This creates a fundamental tension for Modern Orthodoxy, as it tries to preserve Talmudic tradition while adapting to the needs and expectations of a modern, legal society that does not understand that a Torts courtroom splits 2 of the 3 Justices into prosecutor and defence attorneys.
The three Century Ghetto gulag produced famous commentaries to Karo’s statute law halachic code. But when Napoleon freed the Jews from their Ghetto gulag prisons, they faced the total shock of a modern world of Universities, roads, travel, and education! All the super-commentary statute law commentaries and codes upon halacha, transformed unto the value of tits on a boar hog over-night. Reform Judaism sprang from assimilation to statute law legalism and the false messiah movements of the 17th Century.
The Ghetto gulag served as a self-contained environment for Jews, where Jewish law and Talmudic scholarship were crucial to maintaining the fabric of community life. With the oppressive conditions of the Ghetto gulag, the focus on legalistic study became a central intellectual pursuit. In the absence of broader engagement with the secular world, Jewish scholarship turned inward, and figures like Rabbi Yosef Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, became central figures in the codification of Jewish assimilated statue law.
Super-commentaries on Karo’s statutory law became incredibly important during this time. They were essential for understanding, interpreting, and applying the halachic system in the context of Jewish life, and paved the way for an entire intellectual tradition focused on codifying Jewish religious ritual law and making it accessible to communities that, for centuries, lived in physical and intellectual isolation from the rest of the world.
When the Ghetto gulag system was lifted, when Russian Jews fled to the goldene medina, or when Napoleon shattered Catholic ghetto gulag walls, the Jews, thrust into an entirely new world that was radically different from the world of statutory law and ritual halacha that had defined their previous existence. The emancipation of Jews——introduced an intellectual and societal shock to Jewish communities. For Jews who had lived for centuries in the confines of Ghetto gulags, the opening up of the world, not just a physical liberation, but also a profound shift in how Jewish law now perceived and applied.
Modernity—with its emphasis on universities, intellectual freedom, secular knowledge, and the rapid growth of the modern state—posed a challenge to the traditional structures of Jewish scholarship and legal authority. The commentaries on Karo’s legal code, which had served to provide clarity and stability in a time of restriction, suddenly seemed irrelevant or even obsolete in a world that was no longer primarily governed by Jewish ritual halachic observances. Jews, now entered universities and interacted with broader society. Jews now exposed to new ways of thinking, new legal systems, and new forms of education.
This transformation led to tensions between Jewish tradition and the modern world. The Reform Movement, which arose in the early 19th century, capitalized on this sense of disorientation and pushed for a more modern, secularized understanding of Judaism that would align more closely with European norms and modern legal frameworks. The Reform Movement’s break from the traditional, legalistic approach to Jewish ritual law was, in part, a reaction to the irrelevance of codified Jewish law in a society that was increasingly governed by secular, statutory legal systems. Berlin became their New Jerusalem!
The rise of Reform Judaism in the 19th century—especially in Europe—was one of the most significant outcomes of the shock of modernity. Reform Jews rejected the rigid ritual legalism of traditional Judaism, and instead emphasized spirituality, ethical teachings, and personal autonomy.
The Reform critique of blind ritual legalism – consumed by the perception that statutory law and legal codes (like those of Karo) were no longer relevant to the new world they inhabited. Reform Judaism embraced a more assimilated, flexible and adaptable approach to Jewish ritual practices, prioritizing ethics and spirituality over strict blind legal adherence to ritual law that had no k’vanna. This response, while representing a significant break from traditional Jewish life, also highlighted the unresolved tension between Jewish law as a statutory code and the demands of modern society.
Assimilation became an inevitable part of this dynamic. The appeal of the modern world, with its emphasis on education, economic opportunity, and social integration, made it increasingly difficult for many Jews to continue adhering to the strict legal systems and Talmudic traditions that had once defined their communities. Especially when Traditional Jewry had clearly gone off the chosen path; Yeshivot skipped over the Aggadic portions because those rabbis had no education how the Addadah makes a drosh back to learn prophetic mussar, based upon the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס.
The modern world, in many ways, represented a temptation for many Jews to leave behind their traditional blind ritualism practices of “magic”, in favor of the opportunities and freedoms that secular society provided.
As Modern Orthodoxy emerged in response to these developments, it found itself tasked with reconciling the legalistic foundations of traditional Jewish ritual life with the demands of modern society. The shock of modernity was deeply felt, and Modern Orthodoxy attempted to navigate between the two worlds: on one hand, preserving traditional blind ritual practices through Jewish assimilated statute law, and on the other, engaging with the secular world in meaningful ways.
However, pilpul—with its emphasis on abstract dialectical reasoning—simply ill-suited for offering clear, practical guidance in the modern world to integrate prophetic musssar as the vision of ritual laws. This tension continues to plague Modern Orthodoxy, especially as it tries to navigate statutory law systems like those of Maimonides and the Tur and Talmudic dialectics that so dominate the post Rambam Civil war Jewish intellectual traditions. The rise of Reform Judaism demonstrated the difficulties that Jews faced in transitioning from a legalistic, codified world to one that demanded pragmatic, ethical, and spiritually centered approaches to Jewish life.
Modern Orthodoxy today faces a dilemma: how to preserve the deep intellectual engagement of traditional Common law while simultaneously providing practical, clear, and systematic legal guidance for the modern world. The failure to reconcile statutory ritual law that has no k’vanna, together with blind pilpulim—and the consequent disconnect between פרדס Ordered dicipline of rabbi Akiva’s logic sh’itta platform which interpreted the k’vanna of halachot, contrasted by Aristotle’s practical applications, which organized halacha into egg-crate codes organized into specific subject matters—remains a significant challenge.
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Why, based upon the UN Apartheid racism against Israel, does Israel and the US support disbanding the UN organization?
Just as the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre on April 13, 1919, led by British Brigadier General Reginald Dyer, a pivotal event in India’s struggle for independence. So too Chamberlain’s 2nd White Paper which destroyed the obligations Britain agreed to upon its acceptance of the League of Nations Palestine Mandate, equally destroyed the “British mandate from Heaven” to rule the League of Nations dividing Ottoman Greater Syrian into a spoils of war divided between the French and the British.
Effectively, Britain sided with Arab nationalist demands at the expense of Jewish self-determination, attempting to appease Arab opposition in the lead-up to World War II. This cowardly betrayal of Britain’s legal and moral obligations under the Mandate, particularly as Jews faced genocide in Nazi-occupied Europe. British rule in India, maintained throughout the history of its Imperial rule, with brutality – rather than legitimacy; the 1939 White Paper demonstrated that Britain’s rule in Palestine equally dictated by political expediency, rather than its Mandate obligations.
Both events eroded British credibility and accelerated nationalist movements—in India’s case, leading to the Quit India Movement (1942), and in Palestine’s case, leading to the Jewish armed resistance (Irgun, Lehi, and Haganah) against British rule. Britain’s colonial rule collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions and betrayals, leading to the rise of independent nation-states where imperial promises had once shaped policy.
Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948, after the expiration of the British Mandate for Palestine; in other words – before Britain returned the Mandate back to the UN. Britain introduced what became known as UN General Assembly Resolution 181. 181 came in the context of rising tensions between Jews and Arabs in the region, and the Irgun blowing up the King David Hotel, while Britain clung to its League of Nations Mandate.
Arab states universally opposed the British GA Resolution 181. November 29, 1947, made before England surrendered the mandate back to the UN. All Arab and Muslim countries before Camp David and the Trump Abraham Accords, because their anti-Jewish racism does not accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state, in what they consider as a territorial Arab political monopoly. Post ’67, UN Resolution 242 called for the “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict” and affirmed the need for all states in the region to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries.
Resolution 242, often interpreted as part of a framework, promoted by the Quartet Powers, a two-state solution, where Israel would give up land in exchange for peace with its Arab neighbours. However, the wording of the resolution, purposely & deliberately ambiguous. Israel must withdraw from all the occupied territories or just some? It failed to address the 1948 to 1967 illegal Jordanian occupation of Samaria, according to the UN condemnation of Jordan’s annexation as illegal in 1950. Jordan renamed Jewish Samaria, as the West Bank; all Jews in East Jerusalem systematically wiped out. Jewish grave-stones employed in building buildings. And historic synagogues in Old City Jerusalem, blown up and demolished.
The UN post ’67 insistence of referring to Samaria as “the West Bank”, supports the Arab propaganda that Israel illegally occupies Samaria. It ignores the fact that Britain separated as the Arab portion of the Palestine Mandate – Trans-Jordan. It equally ignores that Britain established the border between Arab Trans-Jordan/Palestine at the Jordan river.
UN 242 supports the Arab voting block political rhetoric (meaning their lies) which argues that Israel’s presence as a viable state in the Middle East, illegitimate until a peace agreement, reached with the Palestinians. Despite the Oslo Accords, Arab states insist that the Jewish state remains invalid in the Middle East.proving the lie to their political rhetoric which makes the legality of Israel as a Jewish state in the Middle East dependent upon the Will of the Palestinian people. Despite the fact that the KGB and Yasser Arafat did not embrace the political propaganda opportunism of referring to the Arabs within the borders of ’48 Israel as “Palestinian”, not till 1964.
The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre also directly compares to the Oct 7th Hamas surprise attack pogrom which slaughtered some 1300 Israelis and stole over 240 Israeli hostages, almost a third have died in Hamas underground Dungeons. Attempts by the UN, ICC, ICJ and the South African ‘Blood Libel’ which condemns Israel of Genocide of Gaza Palestinians, a betrayal as significant as the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. The absolute disgrace of the Red Cross/Double Cross to visit the Israeli prisoners of war – beyond unacceptable.
Israel disputes the idea that these re-captured territories, in any manner, “illegally occupied” by Israel. Based upon the British separating Mandate Palestine from Trans-Jordan at the Jordan river. Israel has proposed various arrangements for peace, though these have always been rejected by ”Palestinian leaders”; since when does a non country determine UN policies? Mandate Palestine ceased to exist in 1948. Never in all Human History has there existed a Palestinian State.
The dominance of both Britain and France has significantly collapsed, since Israeli Irgun resistence forced Britain to return the Mandate back to the UN. Especially after their imperialist defeat in the 1956 War, opposed by both the US and the USSR. UN policies: Specifically, the structure of the General Assembly—where alliances and voting blocs dominate all GA Resolution outcomes—politically motivated rather than based strictly on international law. Yet UN propaganda continually condemns Israel as a rogue state who ignores, defies, and abuses “inter-national law”.
The UN General Assembly granted Palestine non-member observer state status in 2012, a significant move towards recognizing Palestine as a state. The recognition of Palestine as a non-member observer state in 2012 by the UN General Assembly, interpreted by Israel, as a symbolic victory for Palestinian self-determination; it undermined Israeli legitimacy. UN revisionist history, by treating Israel – as if it lost its 1948 Independence War – and therefore the disputed territory remains part of a pre-1948 protectorate ward mandate territory of the UN; as if Israel never won its National Independence as a nation within the Middle East. As if the UN has the authority to determine the international borders of Israel. As if UN 242 functions as a Chapter VII dictate rather than a Chapter VI suggestion. The UN GA policy which permits nations who do not recognize and have no diplomatic relations with some other nation, yet permits – the right to condemn the nation they do not recognize through GA popular votes – a horrid abuse of the Charter of the UN.
Palestine remains excluded as a full UN member. Specifically the GA contrasts with the SC due to the power of the US veto. Some countries, particularly those aligned with the Palestinian & Arab voting block, argue that Israel’s presence in the region utterly illegitimate until a lasting peace agreement – reached with the Palestinians! This political rhetoric conceals the racism of Arab states and their absolute refusal to validate the Balfour right, of Jewish self-determination in the Middle East, as established by the League of Nations. Since when should a non State over ride peace treaties with Arab states and countries? This has led the Arab block and the African non aligned nations, and other sympathetic Arab block allied states like Cuba and countries in South America, to impose an Apartheid restriction upon the recognition of Israel’s right to exist.
The GA’s granting of non-member observer status to Palestine in 2012, clearly seen as a symbolic move to advance Palestinian recognition at Israel’s expense. The preceding condemnations of Israel’s “illegal occupation” of Palestinian territory served as the foundation by which the UN GA later recognized the Palestinian State. This General Assembly imperialist stance, it reflects a broader international sentiment grossly antisemitic, and perversely more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, particularly in the context of long-standing propaganda which condemns the Israeli occupation of “illegally occupied Palestinian territories”, spewed across the International press. The Nazi claim: if you repeat a lie enough, it becomes the truth! Despite the hard cold fact that Mandate Palestine ceased to exist in 1948. That no Palestine State ever existed in all Human History.
The UN justifies Israel’s exclusion from the Middle Eastern bloc regional group system; based upon the shallow excuse, where the UN demands that states in a bloc must voluntarily accept new members. Since Arab League and Muslim-majority nations oppose Israel’s inclusion, Israel forced to temporarily join the EU voting block. This Apartheid racism speaks to the ongoing tensions between Israel and many Arab states and non-aligned nations. Israel’s diplomatic and strategic interests have often led it to navigate these divides, with no other choice but to alignwith Western powers to avoid the UN Apartheid isolation. Despite Arab propaganda which refers to the Zionist entity as a Crusader State!
The modern push for Palestinian statehood, most essentially rooted in the aftermath of Israel’s establishment and the subsequent conflicts. Particularly after the 1948 and 1967 wars, which reshaped territorial control in the region, which Arab leaders originally referred to as the Nakba. The UN General Assembly’s stance on Palestine reflects broader international political trends, where many countries view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lens of colonialism, self-determination, and human rights. Which totally disregards essential historical and legal realities; such as the fact that Palestine quite simply never existed as a sovereign state before 1948. Instead, Roman revisionist history which renamed Judea unto Palestine after the Bar Kokhba revolt of 135 CE, this European baptism of defeated Judea unto Palestine, existed as merely a conquered part of successive empires. From the Ottoman Empire to the British Mandate, and Egypt, and Jordanian rule till the June 1967 surrender to Israel.
Israel’s diplomatic challenges at the UN, including forced to join the EU bloc rather than the Middle Eastern bloc, underscores the persistent Apartheid hostility which it faces within this “neutral” organization. Many Arab and Muslim-majority countries refuse to recognize Israel, which in turn impacts its ability to participate fully in regional diplomatic frameworks. This also reflects the broader geopolitical struggle where Israel often relies it US (and not European) alliances to counterbalance Arab and Muslim States international opposition.
Particularly in forums like the UN where automatic majorities, such as the 22 Arab countries and some 120+ NAM, non aligned third World African States + Russia, China, almost totally approve of and support the Palestinian propaganda Arab political warfare narratives and agendas. Arab political warfare prioritizes its strength and dominance in the UN. Its highly influenced and shaped by Hồ Chí Minh’s ‘Peoples’ War’ strategy which prioritized promotion of internal Civil War inside Israeli society, rather than direct military conflicts with the superior IDF military power.
This racial bigotry against the Jewish State, specifically the right to self determination of Jews based upon the Balfour Declaration defines Herzl’s Zionism, the UN has absolutely refused to address as a UN debasement of Israel’s membership in the UN. No other nation forced to join other outside regional blocks, as the Arab countries and their allies have forced Israel to join the EU regional block.
The unique “treatment” Israel has received within the UN system, particularly regarding its regional representation. No other nation, systematically excluded from its natural regional bloc in the way Israel forced to endure. The fact that Israel, as a matter of necessity, forced to join the EU bloc rather than the Middle Eastern bloc speaks volumes about the level of Apartheid hostility it faces within the UN framework.
The issue of Jewish self-determination, as articulated through the Balfour Declaration, which the League of Nations both accepted and later reinforced, by the League of Nations Mandate, absolutely overlooked or outright dismissed in international discourse. The UN’s failure to address the systemic bias against Israel—where a “democracy of hostile states, automatic majority in the General Assembly” subject Israel gross disproportionate pogrom like UN condemnation attacks.
This UN scrutiny and condemnation—stands in stark contrast to its handling of other international conflicts. The automatic majority in the General Assembly that consistently votes against Israel, often led by the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, who outright abandon the UN diplomacy, whenever an Israeli Representative addresses the UN, has turned UN institutions into a battleground for delegitimizing the Jewish state’s right to exist and govern itself.
While the UN preaches self-determination as a universal principle, its selective application of this right—which unilaterally endorses Palestinian self-determination, while absolutely ignoring, even actively undermining Jewish self-determination—reveals a deeper political and ideological UN rot. The UN refusal to acknowledge Israel’s exclusion from its natural regional bloc, represents an absolute abuse of the UN Charter. This gross Apartheid racism further highlights the double standards at play. This disgrace of international abuse of power, has led many to question whether the UN remains a neutral arbiter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or if it has become an institution that legitimizes political racism against Israel under the guise of international diplomacy. The disgraceful examples of UN Resolution: Zionism is Racism, UNWRA and UNIFIL serve as strong evidence to these facts on the ground.
The UN attributes this to the regional group system, where Block states must voluntarily accept new members; similar to how all EU states must mutually agree before permitting additional members. The Arab League and Muslim-majority nations oppose Israel’s inclusion, making it impossible for Israel to join the Middle Eastern bloc. No other country faces such exclusion, and the UN’s failure to address this systemic abuse, results in Israel’s diplomatic marginalization.
The General Assembly’s 2012 decision, framed as the shining picture, which reflects global support for Palestinian self-determination. The UN argues that it does not determine Israel’s borders but rather acknowledges international legal frameworks, such as UNSC Resolution 242, as a basis for negotiation. Despite UN 242 being a Chapter VI and not a Chapter VII resolution! This move, a politically feeble excuse rather than legal acknowledgment of UN Apartheid policies against Israel. This UN racism bypasses Israel’s sovereignty and rewards Palestinian leadership, despite its Gaza’s refusal to recognize the Oslo Accords and Israel as a Jewish state. Yet because the Arafat signed the Oslo Accords, the ICC declares it has judicial jurisdiction over Gaza – and by extension Israel. Despite the cold facts that Hamas won the independent Gazan elections and expelled the PA from Gaza. The ICC insists that Hamas Gaza remains under the PA! Just another example of the revisionist history practiced by “international law”.
The UN disproportionately promotes Palestinian self-determination while dismissing Jewish self-determination, particularly in its refusal to acknowledge the Jewish people’s historical connection to the land, and specifically to Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel. UNRWA perpetuates the Palestinian refugee crisis by treating Palestinians differently from other refugee populations, yet refuses to denounce the Arabs states refusal to repatriate their Arab refugee populations and give them citizenship in those Arab countries. UNIFIL has failed to prevent Hezbollah’s military build-up on the Lebanon/Israel border. This shows a lot more than simply a lack of neutrality. The US often blocks anti-Israel resolutions, but the General Assembly’s automatic majority continues to pass one-sided measures, demonstrating an imbalance in how this biased voting block despises the “Zionist Entity”. Passage of the Zionism is Racism, GA Resolution 3379. The UN, long ago hijacked by Arab terrorists through their automatic anti-Israel majority. Has transformed the UN into an arena for political warfare rather than genuine peace efforts.
The language of the League of Nations Palestine Mandate, because the League based this Mandate upon the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the entire idea of an Arab Palestinian narrative that has high-jacked the UN – utterly and completely absurd. The language of the League of Nations Palestine Mandate indeed reflects the commitments Britain agreed to in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. British support to establish a “national home for the Jewish people” in “Palestine”.
The modern Arab Palestinian national identity, developed particularly after the establishment of Israel in 1948, and subsequent KGB and Arafat’s establishment of the PLO in 1964. This revisionist history propaganda narrative emphasizes the displacement “Palestinian People”, and their right to self-determination; such rhetoric totally sweeps under the rug the original 1948 Arab disgrace! The failure and defeat of 5 Arab Armies to throw the Jews into the Sea.
The UN’s increasing emphasis on Arab-“Palestinian” rights and statehood, represents a gross perversion of the original intent of the “Palestinian” Mandate written by the League of Nation. All later UN resolutions, interpreted as supporting Arab-Palestinian narratives; which undermine the legitimacy of Israel’s claims based on historical and legal precedents. The original Mandate and its commitments, they compare to the Written Constitution of the “Palestinian” Jewish State.
The interplay between the Balfour Declaration, the League of Nations Mandate, and the post 1948 and 1967 Arab military defeats, Arab political warfare has sought to reshape this Palestinian Mandate Constitution unto an Arab-Palestinian identity revisionist history comparable to Holocaust Denial in its scope. The Mandate laid a foundation for Jewish self-determination, the emergence of a Palestinian propaganda lies has perverted Jewish equal rights to achieve self-determination in the Middle East unto a totally distorted notion of Arab “Palestinian” rights of return, and Arab Palestinians as the original native inhabitants, descendants of the Philistines, forcibly displaced by barbaric Jews from their native homelands. Despite the fact that Muhammad did not live till the 7th Century CE.
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How best to describe and understand the intent of the language of UN 242?
UNSC 242 shares about as much with EU neutrality and desires to restore peace in the Middle East, as EU’s refusal to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in UN 242, a denial of reality, akin to pretending a nuclear Israel doesn’t exist. It infantilizes Israeli sovereignty and keeps Europe locked in a colonial-era mindset, where they think they still get to decide Middle East borders.
A diplomatic game of denial — but only one side is expected to play fair. Israel’s policy of ambiguity regarding its nuclear capability — widely understood but never officially acknowledged — mirrors the West’s refusal to acknowledge Israel’s de facto victory and the political outcomes of 1967, especially regarding Jerusalem. Just as Israel says, “We won’t confirm or deny,” so too do Britain and France say, “We won’t accept what happened, even though we all know it did.”
The omission of Jerusalem’s status from 242 is glaring. Britain and France deliberately avoided affirming Israel’s sovereignty over East Jerusalem, even after the 1967 unification of the city — again signaling a non-neutral tilt against Israeli political and historical claims.
The Infamous “Withdrawal from Territories” Clause. UN 242 calls for Israel to withdraw from “territories occupied in the recent conflict,” not “all the territories.” The ambiguity was intentional, and different powers have since interpreted it differently — Britain and France used this to pressure Israel diplomatically, without actually ensuring peace from the Arab side.
Britain had exited Palestine in 1948 with a deep sense of resentment toward the Zionist movement. France, after the Algerian War, pivoted toward Arab states and saw the Middle East as a strategic chessboard to regain relevance. The resolution was shaped by Lord Caradon (UK) and French diplomats, whose countries had long-standing ties to Arab regimes, especially after the loss of colonial holdings. Supporting Arab causes post-decolonization became a way to maintain influence.
UN Resolution 242, drafted largely by Britain and France, was never a neutral document. It was a political compromise crafted in the shadow of their imperial interests, Cold War alignments, and long-standing pro-Arab policy biases — not an impartial framework for peace.
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Happy Pesach
Torah first and formost – not a belief system. Ya want to believe in God(s) become either Xtian or Muslim. Kosher – Jewish. Halal – Muslim. The latter worships other Gods. Arabs/Muslims eat treif camel flesh. Just as Xtians eat pork. Both sets of Goyim worship other Gods.
Pesach, almost precisely one month after Purim. The story of Amalek – as told through the specific of Haman (The numerical value of המלך and המן equal to one another.) – the story of the ערב רב who came out of Egyptian bondage. This so called mixed multitude – they had no fear of heaven. Assimilation and intermarriage with Goyim profanes the 2nd Sinai commandment – and defines ערב רב – assimilated and intermarried Jews.
Kashrut compares to a sofer writing a sefer Torah. Both this and that require fear of heaven. The Torah defines faith as: the righteous pursuit of judicial justice. Justice the Torah defines as: the obligation of lateral common law courtroom justices to compensate the damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B. Ruling the oath sworn Cohen land inheritance of ארץ ישראל has nothing to do with what a person personally believes or does not believe.
The court of Paro ruled oppression as just in the matter of straw withheld from Israelite slaves and thereafter beaten for their failure to meet their quota of brick production. Removing חמץ this משל, it teaches the נמשל to remove the ערב רב lack of fear of heaven, from within the Yatzir Ha’Rah within the heart. Fear of Heaven understood as a person who strives to protect and maintain his/her ‘good name’ reputation. Torah faith stands upon the יסוד/foundation of בעל שם טוב/Master of the Good Name.
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Pesach in only a couple of days! Let us remove the חמץ which assimilated and intermarried Jews daily consume. The Torah refers to such tuma Jews as the cursed ערב רב/mixed multitudes. Why cursed? Because assimilation to alien Goyim cultures and customs goes hand in glove with intermarriage with Goyim who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai.
The WordPress blog: The Bible Through the Seasons, Confrontation with Compassion: Pastor Nick quotes James 5: 14-16 as if this religious jargon qualifies as holy scripture. The mussar Book of Avot teaches “Ein Am Ha’aretz chassid” — because chassidut requires halachic literacy and precision. James represents not just a theological fork, but an entirely unauthorized avodah.
The chosen Cohen people must do avodat HaShem, like for example obeying the commandment not to work on shabbat. The wisdom required most essentially entails making a distinction between guard Shabbat (שמור) and remember it (זכור). Without discernment, without halachic categories rooted in the middot revealed to Moshe after the Eigel, you can’t access avodat HaShem. You get a foreign fire—like Nadav and Avihu. Or worse, a foreign god.
Without the Oral Torah, impossible to differentiate between shabbat and yom tov, clean and tamei, kosher korban and pig fat. Muslims consume camel flesh and milk together. Xtians despise Torah mitzvot declaring its utterly impossible for man to keep “the law”. The Apostle Paul introduced the substitute theology of ‘Original Sin’ defeatism. This alien foreign theology corrupted the Central Torah theme of blessing/curse – life in the cohen eternal land inheritance/judicial oppression in exile as exemplified by the court of Par’o which justified beating Hebrew slaves after Par’o withheld the necessary straw required to make those bricks.
All generations of Israel have the Torah faith obligation to pursue righteous judicial justice which makes fair compensation of damages which Part A inflicts upon Party B, within the borders of the chosen Cohen homelands. Obviously no Goy can keep “the law” when they lack the skills to discern between TNaCH & Talmudic common law from Greek and Roman statute law. The church fathers, their avoda zarah did not concern themselves with justice as the definition of Torah faith. Their avoda zarah simply glossed over this key Torah concept like as did the Apostle Paul’s ‘Original Sin’ jellied over the key Torah theme of g’lut/exile. Jews in g’lut, just as in Egypt, they lacked the means to impose fair judicial justice among the Jewish people.
Xtian theology substitutes ritual precision with emotional or communal acts—which might feel “spiritual” but remain, nonetheless, completely disconnected from Sinai. In doing so, they’ve invented a new avodah with a new god—not HaShem of the Torah, but a concept filtered through Greek philosophy and Roman structure.
Torah avodah isn’t about feelings, confession, or community healing—it’s a halachic precision-bound path based on brit, oath, and revealed middot. Without Oral Torah, the brit alliance impossible to even articulate. So what’s going on in James, not just a misfire—it’s a completely unauthorized system, one devoid of the chosen Cohen structure. Hence the new testament declares that Goyim can not only become ”grafted” into the chosen Cohen people, but Jews can convert and become Xtians! This Av tuma avoda zarah utterly devoid of halachic shemirah, and outside the brit framework of Sinai/Horev.
James is writing within a Second Temple–era Jewish-Christian hybrid theology, influenced by:
Early Messianic communities Possibly Hellenistic ethical ideas (Stoicism, communal virtue): A shift from Temple-based service which fundamentally requires שם ומלכות, to internalized, communal spirituality, which does not remotely resemble cutting a Torah brit by means of swearing a Torah oath which dedicates Oral Torah middot revealed to Moshe Rabbeinu 40 days after the sin of the Golden Calf. The church denies the existence of the Oral Torah.
Hence, the idea of: “Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed”…while it sounds “kosher”, in point of fact – utterly treif Av tuma avoda zarah. It completely misses the point – required halachic structure; like the observance of shabbat requires making the distinction between forbidden work from forbidden work ie מלאכה from עבודה. A Torah oath brit required in the chosen Cohen format known as “avodat HaShem”, requires the wisdom which discerns the k’vanna of שם ומלכות. Therefore these new testament verses worship some other unknown god(s).
Xtianity despises the revelation of Torah common law. It consequently simply glosses over and utterly perverts the meaning and intent of the Torah. Without Oral Torah, you can’t know how to make these critical distinctions, like what separates saying Tehillim from tefillah. Xtian avoda zarah glosses over these subtle nuances with the broad brush – prayer white wash. This second example adds to the previous example wherein Shabbat observance absolutely requires making the fundamental differentiation between מלאכה from עבודה. Lack of wisdom compares to the precedent of Avot which teaches that an Am Ha’aretz cannot be an Chassid. Without Oral Torah, the brit can’t even be articulated. So what’s going on in James, not just a misfire—it’s a completely unauthorized system, one devoid of the Cohen structure, devoid of halachic shemirah, and outside the brit framework of Sinai/Horev.
Without Oral Torah, a person has no tools to distinguish between: Saying a mizmor of Tehillim as a form of praise, vs.Tefillah, which requires: Shem u’Malchut (divine name and kingship); Zman (halachic time constraints); K’vanna (intention within halachic form which links to a life & death crisis crunch of faith); Sometimes a minyan or other communal structure, because a person can swear a Torah oath also with a minyan, based upon the precedent of the 10 spies in the days of Moshe.
This distinction, subtle to the untrained eye, yet it’s halachically massive. Tehillim quite beautiful and sacred to the Jewish people, but it’s not a substitute for Tefillah—and to equate the two (as Christianity always does) utterly blurs the kedushah-bound categories that Oral Torah establishes and preserves. A person who can see only with one eye – exempt from making the aliyah to Jerusalem on the Chag. Tefillah a matter of the dedication of tohor middot which define the depth of defined tohor middot which breath and live within Yatzir Ha’Tov spirit within the heart. JeZeus, by stark contrast, taught his disciples that their ”father” dwelled in Heaven!
In the Torah, HaShem never refers to the people as having a private, paternalistic relationship separate from brit obligations. Tefillah directly bound by the Akadat Yitzak cords of the oath brit alliance: ‘HaShem save my future born seed from Shoah and I dedicate their souls as a korban to keep and remember your commandments’. Hence a ‘burnt offering’ as the Goyim love to translate refers to a Shoah dedication! A claim to “Father in Heaven” that lacks Torah obedience, and denies Torah She’B’al Peh, does invoke Avinu She’bashamayim/Shekinah that lives within the Yatzir Tov of the chosen Cohen hearts—rather this av tuma avoda zara invokes a strange foreign concept deity god, detached from Sinai.
Xtianity erases distinctions. Torah She’B’al Peh creates, protects, and preserves distinctions. Torah avoda functions only within those boundaries which the Oral Torah defines. Without these distinctions, you don’t have Torah—you have a projection of human emotion dressed in biblical language.
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Another example of Gospel revisionist history which substitute the gospel for the T’NaCH narrative as primary: Luke 19:41-42
The noun peace does not correctly translate the verb shalom. Shalom stands upon the foundation of trust. Peace reflects ancient Greek philosophical rhetoric; where undefined key terms which require the listeners fuzzy logic to define these essential undefined terms, like shalom, upon which all later ideas thereafter hang upon. Herein defines the classic use of Greek rhetoric by which a person controls and directs the masses. The City of David represents the rule of fair and righteous Judicial common law justice. It has absolutely nothing what so ever to do with the revisionist history of the imaginary physical history of Jesus the imaginary myth man.
“Shalom” carries far more than the modern Western notion of “peace.” In Hebrew, shalom implies completeness, wholeness, harmony, security, and a just, equitable social order rooted in mutual trust; deeply tied to emunah (faith/trust) and mishpat (justice).
By contrast, the Greek eirēnē—translated into English as “peace”—more passive, & static, whereas shalom utterly dynamic. And when the Gospel of Luke (originally written in Greek) uses eirēnē, translators have historically rendered it as “peace” in English, which utterly obscures the Hebrew mindset behind Jesus’ (the Son of God character’s) lament over Jerusalem.
Greek rhetoric originally employed as a tool for crowd control. Rhetoric sophistry, and later Stoicism or Platonism, deeply shaped and influenced early Christian theology. These systems often pivot on undefined abstractions—”Logos”, “Peace”, “Salvation”, etc.—easily manipulated by rhetoric design, without grounding in lived experience or legal precedent (as Hebrew law absolutely demands).
Revisionist history and the mythologizing of Son of God Jesus. This aligns with the view that the Gospels understood as a allegorical political theology, where the imaginary mythical character of Son of God “Jesus” represents, not a literal historical figure but a narrative device or archetype for deeper sociopolitical critique—especially of Roman occupation and corrupt legal systems.
So if we read Luke 19:42 not as a personal lament by a mythological Son of God Jesus, but rather as a legal or prophetic indictment of Jerusalem’s Torah leadship and their collective failure to uphold mishpat (justice) and trust-based shalom, the entire tone and meaning of the text radically shifts, the Torah becomes demoted in priority – cast under the shadow of the Son of God narrative. Torah, in point of fact, and not the gospel rhetoric narrative, less about emotion and more about the oath brit alliance, the prophetic mussar which rebukes the leaders of the chosen Cohen nation for their failure, sworn at Sinai, their conscious corruption which pursues opportunistic political power over the righteousness of enforced judicial justice.
Shalom functions as a legal-communal framework, rather than merely a trick of rhetoric where mood or emotion dominates the direction taken by the blind mob masses. It reflects a system of relationships rooted in fidelity to the oath brit alliance and reciprocal trust (emunah). In that sense, shalom simply not something felt, but something upheld—a real social order built on mishpat (justice) and righteousness (tzedek), as found in the Torah and enforced by judges (shofetim) and prophets (nevi’im).
When shalom becomes translated into Greek as eirēnē, the foundational juridical content gets lost in abstraction. Eirēnē leans more toward inner tranquility or absence of conflict—passive, internal, de-prioritized obligations to pursue fair compensation to those who suffer damages. Peace reflects a word that fits into a philosophical or imperial religious context, not a oath brit alliance by and through which the Torah defines the term brit; a Sinai commitment לשמה. Greek thought, expressed in the new testament purposely neutralizes\whitwashes the legal and relational substance of Hebrew term Shalom, by absorbing Shalom into idealized peace categories. This Greek rhetoric technique then detached the gospels from historical accountability.
Greek rhetorical systems—especially sophistry and later Platonic-Christian syntheses—weaponize undefined key term peace. Such critical abstractions create semantic fog, where critical abstract terms, their most essential intent meanings. floats above the replaced Hebrew verbs with meaningless noun names. Where the writers of gospel narrative, those in power, both edits and controls this moral gospel narrative through subtle re-defined definitions. “Salvation,” “grace,” “faith,” and even “God” become perverted into malleable terms rather than precise sworn oaths which has a defined intent throughout the generations. The sworn oaths get totally whitewashed from the original T’NaCH prophetic mussar.
This Greek rhetorical shift, makes room for imperial theology, where obedience to Rome’s version of peace (Pax Romana), rebranded as the kosher spiritual obedience, and where Jerusalem’s failure isn’t legal but theological. This new testament justification for Jerusalem’s destruction consequent to the Jewish revolt in 66CE totally and completely ignores the prophetic mussar of the NaCH which warned of the destruction and exile of Judah by both the g’lut exiles caused by the Assyrian and Babylonian empires within the mussar of the T’NaCH itself.
Return the Gospel narrative to its roots of Hebrew common law jurisprudence, strip away the Greco-Roman mythologizing that turned the gospel narrative into its own separate religion, into an abstract religion of personal piety and internal peace. This new testament socio-legal drama, with its son of God figure lamenting the collapse of Jerusalem over its failure to recognize the Son of God true messiah. This gospel narrative replaces the oath sworn dedication to pursue justice within the borders of the chosen Cohen oath brit lands, replaced by a foreign idea of a passive messiah who brings peace to the Goyim people incorporated as part of the chosen Cohen people. This narrative totally ignores the teshuva made by HaShem where on Yom Kippur HaShem annulled the vow to make of Moshe’s seed the chosen Cohen poeple. Neither Babylon nor Rome destroyed Jerusalem. The failure of the chosen oath alliance brit, directly comparable to the sin of the Golden Calf, where the chosen Cohen people fail to obey the terms of the Sinai oath alliance, herein defines the basis for the destruction of Jerusalem and the g’lut exile of the Jewish people by the Assyrian, Babylonian and Roman empires. The Egyptian exile unto slavery caused by the betrayal and sale of Yosef by his jealous brothers.
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How John 13:34 perverts and justifies homosexuality
Intermarriage with the specific of Canaanites – equally applies to all Goyim who do not accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. I bring the Book of Ezra as proof. Many early Church Fathers used John 13:34 to claim a super-sessionist “new law”, replacing the Torah’s commandments with a simplified ethic of love. Yet ironically, the very idea of loving one’s neighbor—and even one’s enemy. An utter perversion of the oath brit alliance among the chosen Cohen people who accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Ezra 9–10, post-exile, shows the seriousness of intermarriage with foreign women—because it represents a breach of kedushah and brit, meaning: spiritual allegiance and oath brit fidelity. The Church Fathers (e.g., Justin Martyr, Origen, Chrysostom) weaponized verses like John 13:34 to argue that a new “spiritual” law of love had replaced the “old legalistic” Torah—especially the halakhic boundaries that safeguarded Jewish identity and fidelity to the brit.
Jesus introduced, according to these vile animals, “Love is enough!” A Greek ideal—abstract, universal, de-politicized—divorced from the concrete legal-communal, replaced with a substitutional theology. Love, defined by Torah, defined through the Torah precedent of marriage requires that a man love his wife by acquiring title to her world to come souls. Meaning the children, the product of this union. The custom of the wife taking the “title” name of her husband, a custom practiced to this day. Based upon the precedent of the brit cut between the pieces whereby Avram, who had no children, cut a brit over the future born first born chosen Cohen generations. This concept of the chosen Cohen people understands the intent of the prohibition to marry with Goyim who do not accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai.
Xtian super-sessionist theology gutted the concept of brit, which it replaced with “covenant”: Shalom became personal inner peace, rather than an oath alliance to pursue fair justice – compensation of damages inflicted by Party A to Party B among our chosen Cohen people within the borders of the oath sworn promised land.
The Xtian pervert theologians corrupted emunah unto belief in Jesus as the son of God and belief in God as a triune mystery of Monotheism. The Torah defines emunah as the righteous pursuit of justice among our oath brit peoples. The Xtian pervert theologians corrupted ‘ahavah’ unto generic love, rather than the Torah brit-bound hesed, based upon the oath brit foundation precedent of the oath which Avram cut between the pieces to therein establish for all generations the chosen Cohen people.
The Xtian pervert theologians, they knew absolutely nothing of Torah common law which stands upon the foundation of Torah precedents – both positive and negative commandments.
In doing so, the Church replaced the Torah’s vision of a holy Cohen people bound to legal, ethical, and national allegiance לשמה; with a mystical, universalized ethic that fundamentally and absolutely denies the enduring chosen-ness of Israel and the centrality of Sinai. John 13:34, obliterated the Torah common law faith to pursue justice among and between the chosen Cohen people who accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai; replaced by the Goyim “darkness” – people who reject this oath light unto the nations, like as do Arab states reject Zionism today.
The Xtian theologian perverts abhor the oath-bound brit alliance which forever discerns between emotional short term vows, from consciously making the choice to remember, from generation to generation, the oaths sworn by the Avot; whereby they cut the Torah brit, which permanently established the oath brit Cohen people. Hence the mitzva precedent of the captured woman through war. Whereby the Torah commands that she cut off all her hair and par her nails etc for no less than one month before the Israeli permitted to marry her! Why? Torah marriage cuts an oath brit alliance between man and wife; not an emotional vow which a man can easily annul, based upon the Torah precedent which permits the Father or Husband to annul the vows made by either young daughters or wives, upon first hearing their utterance!
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John 13:34, not just evil theology, it perverts marriage unto the metaphor, its language permits homosexuality. The chosen Am segulah (treasured nation) refers directly to the Sinai first-born Cohen people. The church fathers reject to this day, the revelation of both the written Torah Constitutional law and the Oral Torah common judicial courtroom law!
These Xtian theologian perverts preferred power. Hence they slept in the same bed with the Government monarchs which ruled Xtian lands. The American and French Revolutions separated Church from State and cast these Xtian whores unto the dogs to sleep with. All agricultural based economies require slave labor, a known fact of history. This has absolutely nothing to do with the bankrupt theology of the church great whore of Babylon, which post victory of the American Civil War, its reactionary opportunism now denounces slavery as evil. All church cathedrals built through feudal slave labor.
When categories established by Torah law—male/female, Israel/goy, slave/free—eviscerated, when new testament replacement theology – which abhors Torah common law – its specific Torah abominations such as homosexuality and men and women confusion of genders and clothes. Galatians 3:28 doesn’t just dissolve the legal structure of the Torah, but opens the door to ideological chaos—Same-sex marriage (“There is no male and female”); Gender fluidity and trans ideology; Erasure of Jewish national identity (e.g. no “Jew or Greek”); Social anarchy in place of legal status (no “slave or free”). In many liberal Xtian and post-Xtian circles, Galatians 3:28 has become the banner verse for LGBTQ+ inclusion, often cited directly to undermine Torah prohibitions in Leviticus 18 and 20. Paul’s statement simply interpreted as supporting the idea that: All categories are now irrelevant in Christ.
Paul’s doctrine, and the super-sessionist theology it spawned, does not merely disagree with Torah—it declares war on Torah categories. Shalom perverted into inner peace, not the righteous pursuit of judicial justice which strives to make fair restitution of damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B. His replacement theology abhors the post Golden Calf – Day of Atonement – where HaShem first revealed the revelation of the Oral Torah – which the church rejects. Galatians 3:28 simply not just heresy—but rather this Av tumah theological root begets modern moral collapse.
It dismantles the sacred distinctions that uphold holiness, family, justice, and national brit identity. It replaces Torah law with a boundaryless mysticism that justifies everything from homosexuality to gender nihilism to the erasure of Jewish nationhood.
This verse is often cited to support a universalist theology—that all human beings are one, created by God, and therefore equal and interchangeable. Viewed in the context of Paul’s theology, especially in Acts and Galatians, this verse becomes part of a larger Pauline strategy to undermine: Israel’s distinct chosen Cohen oath brit status, the chosen-ness of the Jewish people. The Torah’s territorial inheritance laws, and the culture and customs established by halaka, and the idea that only within the borders of the Promised lands to Jews possess the wisdom to keep and remember the oaths sworn by the Avot לשמה, from generation to generation.
Paul’s replacement theology perverts the oath brit alliance to that of a temporary vow, which his perverted theology attempts to annul through the new testament. The Torah establishes the vision that the nations inherit distinct national cultural and customs inheritances. Distinct languages, lands and destinies (Genesis 10-11). The essential concept of Israel’s national identity as a people relies upon and defined by the promised lands which Arab nationalism absolutely rejects. Deuteronomy 32:8 (LXX): “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.” Deuteronomy 7:6: “You are a people holy to Hashem… a chosen people from all the peoples on the face of the earth.” Paul’s replacement theology, like Arab hatred of Zionism which bases itself upon the 1917 Balfour Declaration wherein first Britain and later 2\3rd of all UN member states recognized Jewish equal rights to achieve self-determination within the borders of a distinct Middle Eastern nation.
His replacement theology abomination of shared human origin which collapses national distinctions cultures and customs, like modern Arab racist nationalism rejects Jewish national sanctity. Paul’s Acts 17:26 (universal origin) with Galatians 3:28 (category collapse) replacement theology destroys the chosen Cohen people of Israel; dissolves the laws of inheritance and land; undermines the Oral Torah halakhic requirements concerning intermarriage with Goyim and promotes modern Wokeism that emphasize awareness of social injustices and systemic inequalities, particularly related to race and identity. It is often viewed critically by some as being overly doctrinaire or insincere in its approach to social issues. Acts 17:26 is the philosophical foundation for Christian universalism.
It sounds innocent—but in Pauline context, it’s a soft prelude to the hard abolition of Israel’s unique brit. It paves the way for the erasure of identity, the rejection of Oral Torah Talmudic common law judicial lateral courts.
Paul’s 1 Corinthians 7:39 (KJV): Formula: “Only in the Lord” — Coded Super-sessionist Halakhah? Paul doesn’t outright reject the binding nature of marriage—but it’s loaded with subtle replacement theology logic. Torah marriage flatly not just a temporary transitional vow–but rather an oath brit, contractual alliance with family generations and national implications. Governed by halakhic precedent, rooted in Exodus 22, Deuteronomy 24, and the Oral Torah. Validated by witnesses, contract (ketubah), and understood as part of a nation’s framework of kedushah and inheritance. Paul substitutes this with a subjective spiritual criterion: his “Only in the Lord.”, directly implies – Marry a fellow believer in Christ. It’s not about cutting an oath brit alliance—rather replaced by a shared belief in Xtian faith that declares Jesus as God. This “Only in the Lord” phrase, exist as the key super-sessionist pivot of Pauling propaganda. It nullifies the Torah -brit based marital framework model, replaces halakhic structure with doctrinal allegiance to the church abomination. And renders Torah marital law as obsolete for “believers”.
It detaches marriage from the promised land, nation, and halackhic authority. Sets the foundation for spiritual intermarriage theology – a direct violation of Torah common law; leading to full Goyim-Xtian identity formation apart from Israel. If one can marry “in the Lord”, then one need not marry “in the nation”. If faith in the belief of Jesus as God replaces Israel as the chosen Cohen nation, then the new covenant has replaced the oath brit cut between the pieces with Avram.
Paul’s “Only in the Lord” is not a neutral phrase. It functions as a Trojan horse for an entire redefinition of marriage: no longer a national covenant rooted in generational Torah obligations, but a private, spiritualized union under Church doctrine.
Xtianity, especially in its Pauline and post-Constantinian forms, intentionally dissolves ethnic, legal, and national distinctions. This is central to its theology. Galatians 3:28 – “There is neither Jew nor Greek… male and female… all are one in Christ.” This replacement theology erased halakhic distinctions, promotes spiritual unity over ethnic/national differences. Recasts marriage as a personal vow like sacrament, which replaces the oath sworn to remember dedication which any and all brit alliances fundamentally requires.
Liberal Protestant thoughts concerning marriage emphasize: romantic love and personal choice; Xtian values of inclusivity; detachment from ancestry, tribe, nation, or land. The Torah oath NOT vow, brit relationship cut between man and wife binds Jews to Torah Constitutional Law, tohorat ha’beit requirements for the woman to visit a mikveh prior to sexual activity; and the standards of keeping tohor & tuma distinctions like kosher foods etc. A man commits that he will educate his future born children in the oath brit faith – not to worship other Gods through intermarriage and assimilation which embraces Goyim cultures and customs.
Xtianity’s doctrine of spiritual unity and its deconstruction of Torah-based national distinctions directly laid the groundwork for both the theological legitimation and cultural normalization of interracial marriage. It treats distinctions—whether between Israel and the nations, or male and female—as obstacles to spiritual truth, not as sacred boundaries tied to divine law and oath brit consciously remembered dedications passed down from generation to generations just as DNA. From Augustine to modern liberal Protestants, modern issues like Wokeism and identity dissolution directly consequential to the Pauline doctrines of utter abomination.
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4th Day of the Omer, the dedication to remove the חמץ of Av tuma avoda zarah from within the tuma Yatzir Ha’Ra within our hearts. How new testament Paul’s – Hebrews 9: 6-12 duplicates the Sin of the Golden Calf
HaShem is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19). The brit is not a metaphor. It is an oath-bound alliance, sealed with the Nefesh soul contained within living blood, upheld by divine t’shuva, and renewed in every korban offered by the sons of Aaron. To cancel that brit amounts to the denial of the character of HaShem Himself; to replace Moshe Rabbeinu with a foreign mediator, ultimately defines the Sin of the Golden Calf and Hebrews 9: 6-10 which repeats the sin of the Calf—not just in deed, but in theology.
Hebrews 9:6–10, traditionally read in Xtian theology as a critique of the korbanot system—framing it as ineffective, obsolete, and merely symbolic. In this interpretation, the daily offerings and Yom Kippur rituals, reduced to shadows, paving the way for a universalized, spiritual priesthood centered on Christ. This reading not only distorts the purpose of korbanot—it severs them from the oath brit framework that defines Israel’s unique Chosen Cohen identity. The Pauline religious rhetoric restricts korbanot relegated to making a barbeque unto Heaven.
The Pauline frameworks of guilt and substitution (e.g., Hebrews 9:12: “not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood…”). This substitute theology expressed in Hebrews ignores HaShem’s own t’shuva which defines the k’vanna of every Yom Kippur. Paul’s Av tuma religious rhetoric replaced his Original Sin guilt and repentance thesis of the fall of Adam, which requires the Jesus resurrection from the dead to atone for the guilt of the Original Sin made by Adam. Yom Kippur testifies to the oath brit faithfulness of HaShem together with His chosen Cohen People. HaShem not a Man that he should lie. The Pauline Hebrews 9:10 seeks to superimpose a Church Christ-centered priesthood – effectively canceling Israel’s oath brit Cohen status established at the brit cut between the pieces; where Christ replaces Israel as the holy Moshiach.
The Golden Calf originally reflects this av tuma theme of substitute theology, wherein the ערב רב of Israel demanded to make the Golden Calf a visible mediator to replace Moshe. Both the sin of the Golden Calf and Hebrews 9:6-10 seek to install an abstract, foreign model of nearness. Thus Hebrews 9 attempts to repackage the Divine Cohen services which eternally dedicate the Cohen House of Moshiach into the image of this new replacement foreign God Jesus mediator.
Torah brit faith, simply not metaphor as the book of Hebrews pretends. Rather this oath-bound alliance, sealed with the nefesh—the soul contained within the living blood collected from the cut throat of a korban animal whose beating heart pumps this living blood, thrown upon the altar. Israel swears an oath which requires שם ומלכות\blowing the Divine Spirit Name from within the Yatzir Ha’Tov within the heart together with a dedicated Oral Torah Horev revelation middah/attribute, designated and sanctified to adjust how a Jew socially interacts with his people in the future—upheld not by guilt or appeasement, but by the Divine t’shuva of loyalty itself, as expressed every Yom Kippur; every Shabbat Jews remember the tohor time oriented commandment which forever distinguishes the difference between מלאכה from עבודה.
This Shabbat rededication of the righteous pursuit of justice, as expressed through every korban dedicated, herein serves as the foundation of the mitzva of Moshiach, by the sons of Aaron whom Moshe originally anointed with oil. Just as the sons of Aaron anoint all korbanot dedicated upon the altar with oil. This anointing dedication through oil, it affirms the consecrated role of Am Yisrael as HaShem’s chosen Cohen nation, the Moshiach in all generations. To annul this oath brit utterly profanes the halachot of Shevuot. Such av tuma behavior simply denies the very character of the Chosen Cohen nation and its avodat HaShem through all generations as the anointed Moshiach. To replace Moshe Rabbeinu—the appointed lawgiver and oath brit mediator—with a foreign figure – not a kosher innovation. Rather it exposes the tuma of repeating the sin of the Golden Calf, not just in deed but in theology.
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Another example of praying to the God of Mars in heaven, James 1:5 in the new testament fraud.
Clearly the new testament forgery has a completely different take on the meaning of wisdom. Torah “wisdom”, based upon the four part inductive logic of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס logic system, bears absolutely no resemblance what so ever to Aristotles’ 3 part syllogism of deductive logic. The two systems of logic as different than a cat from a mouse.
According to the logic developed by rabbi Yishmael, to communicate something more that tuma religious rhetoric propaganda requires both כלל ופרט. The introduction of the idea of “wisdom”, clearly a general idea, based upon the night and day distinctions which separate פרדס inductive logic from syllogism deductive logic.
James religious rhetoric propaganda only introduces the general idea of “wisdom” but brings absolutely no qualifying particulars to define the k’vanna of its meaning. Lacking qualifying particulars the general term “wisdom” exists merely as eye-candy, like throwing in a baited hook into a pond hoping to catch a fish. James God, based upon the error of monotheism which violates the 2nd Sinai commandment, his rhetoric propaganda forces the fuzzy logic of the audience to assume that his God one in the same with the God of Sinai.
A cracked foundation from the get-go. New Testament propagandists and later church “authorities” failed to discern the Torah mitzvot precedents wherein the חכמה of Oral Torah defines the mitzva of Moshiach.
The church fathers deny this חכמה of Oral Torah yet claim that wisdom non brit Goyim can learn Oral Torah wisdom simply by asking for it?! If James’s epistle, read through a post-brit, Christianized lens—especially in light of his association with early Messianic sectarianism—then even this invitation to wisdom becomes subtly redirected; it prioritizes a pacifist Moshiach rather than a warrior Moshiach – like Moshe Rabbeinu in Egypt. Furthermore, Oral Torah wisdom not only abandoned and replaced by ancient Greek wisdom which sports a completely different sets of logic formats, the Gospels loses all bonds to the oath brit cut upon the soul of Israel at Sinai, the Sanhedrin, the beit midrash, or the korbanot dedications which serve as the foundational precedents for the Oral Torah mitzva of Moshiach.
Instead, the new testament forgery becomes a personal, internal, mystical endowment—part of a broader movement to dissolve the national Torah-halachic framework into some totally alien universal spiritualism. The wisdom of Torah logic (כלל – פרט) as defined by two great Torah scholars: rabbi Akiva and rabbi Yishmael, a non bnai brit Goy, who rejects the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, such a person could hope to acquire Oral Torah Horev revelation of wisdom? About as likely as a fish can sing an Opera! James 1:25 which attempts to frame “law of liberty”, a rhetoric non defined unknown term, hence forth also qualifies as yet another glaring example of new testament replacement theology.
Clearly the Epistle of James shares no grafted roots, a totally alien weed attempting to grow in the Garden of the Oral Torah Horev revelation of the 13 tohor middot. James religious Greek rhetoric promises only hazy and vague spiritual eye-candy promises, totally incapable of accomplishing. Hence the Epistle of James stands upon the foundations of a flat out lie.
The revelation of the Oral Torah logic system compares to the professional athlete acquires the wisdom of his skills as he hones trains for competition. During all the forced Xtian debates against Jews during the Middle Ages, the church fathers, cowards and frauds, limited any and all debates – basically demanding if Jews had sex with their mothers recently! A fat lazy over-weight couch-potato Monk could no more compete with an Olympic athlete than a fish could sing opera.
James 1:25’s so-called “law of liberty” (νόμον τῆς ἐλευθερίας), undefined and suspiciously rhetorical. It reads like Obama’s promise of “Change”! Liberty, as a Torah mitzva directly associated with the Yoval freeing of slaves. James foisted Pie in the Sky notion of liberty, far more akin to Hellenistic concepts of logos or Stoic ethics than to Torah mitzvot, halacha or Midrashic interpretation upon Talmudic aggadic stories which attempt to interpret T’NaCH prophetic mussar, with an eye to weave this prophetic mussar as the k’vanna of observing halachic mitzvot, as well as positive and negative commandments elevated and raised to Av tohor time oriented commandments from the Torah.
Hence James reflects a tits on a boar hog replacement theology! James has more nuance that the crude Pauline epistles. But both seek to drain the Torah of its oath brit-rooted Oral Torah time oriented revelation of Av tohor commandments … despite referring to HaShem as “father in heaven”. The oath sworn at this brit cut between the pieces by Avram, that the Spirit Name of HaShem breaths within the 7 menorah souls contained within the Yatzir Ha’Tov inside the heart of all chosen Cohen people. The foreign alien religious tripe of treif rhetoric from James compares to Jesus teaching his disciples to pray to some alien Mars God in Heaven!
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8th Day of the Omer 1 week and 1 day.
From Parchment to Power: A Post-1948 Jewish Counter-Theology
Luke 24 narrative sets the scene: “on the road”, with two disciples disillusioned and confused, mourning what they believe is Jesus and his failed redemption of Israel. This parallels the emotional and spiritual disarray Jews felt after the destruction of Herod’s Temple in 70 CE—how Herod’s murder of his family and betrayal of the Jewish people due to Roman seductions of power, had caused the mystical Shekhinah to withdraw from dwelling within the Yatzir Tov of the Jewish people.
Luke’s Gospel, written after 70 CE!!! In a world where Jews wrestled with the consequences of the recent revolt against Rome that had turned Confederate defeat – south. Many religious “orthodox” Jews struggled to comprehend Jewish survival without Herod’s Temple. In this context, Luke offers a replacement substitute theology, but instead of a Herod “Temple avoda zara”, this revisionist gospel narrative switches to the new god Jesus; rather than make its focus upon the actual and totally real destruction of Jerusalem, and Jewish slaves sold across the Roman empire unto g’lut/exile – the gospel narrative sets a religious rhetoric of: Salvation of all Mankind from the eternal curse of Original Sin.
Emmaus, geographically not far away from Jerusalem. As such these fictional characters, literally symbolically walking away from Herod’s Temple which lays in ashes. The “Lord is risen indeed” a משל to the restoration of an independent Jewish state in Judea? Hence Luke 24 bears a striking resemblance to the despair felt by Jews over the recent Roman victory. No. Not a chance in Hell that such an interpretation holds water. Rather the gospel narrative serves as a classic switch & bait. The gospel language ignores real Jewish anguish. The Roman censors, promotes a fraud forgery, which aimed to deceive the embittered Jewish people in Judea. Similar to how 19th Century Russian revolutionaries concealed their ambitions to overthrow the government of the Czar by employing a pastoral language to conceal their revolutionary plans from the Czar secret police. This theological pivot mirrors how Rabbinic Judaism, in its own right reacted to the hostile Roman propaganda rhetoric wherein it redirected the Jewish soul toward halakhah, prayer, and Torah learning. The Roman Luke religious rhetoric propaganda offers a rival answer: the Church, the Gospel, and the Eucharist.
Luke’s Gospel, then, simply not actually spiritual—this mythical fiction depicts refined and subtle revisionist history. It repackages the post-revolt Jewish defeat unto a new imperial cult of the ‘resurrected savior’. Why? Viewed from a Roman strategic interest perspective, Roman propaganda had strong reason to fear a second major Jewish revolt. Hence the story of the Gospels served their interests to promote a passive Moshiach who echoes Greek and Roman mythologies where the messiah rises from the grave and lives again as god. The purpose or intent of this fictional revisionist history, to drive a wedge between the Jews of Alexandria Egypt and the Jews of Judea! To prevent a united revolt of these two critical Jewish population centers united, making a war against Rome in order to expel the Romans from Egypt Judea and Syria.
The Gospels read from this vantage perspective makes a lot of sense because Rabbinic Judaism channeled loss in the 66-70 War into halakhic creativity and Torah scholarship; the writing of the Mishna in 210 CE and the Gemara in 450 CE both documents testifies as two key witnesses to this historical fact that Jewish strategic interests do not reflect Roman imperial strategic interests.
Jesus not as a fulfillment of Jewish prophecy, but as a deliberate fabrication, molded to resemble Greco-Roman dying-and-rising gods (Dionysus, Osiris, Romulus) in order to defuse Messianic nationalism, based upon the Torah model of Moshe Rabbeinu. This “resurrected god” Jesus-figure, crafted to drive a wedge between Judean Jews and the large, intellectually powerful Jewish community in Alexandria – especially shrewd. Alexandria, with its deeply Hellenized but still Torah-committed Jewish population, had historically maintained intense ties to Jerusalem, even constructing its own version of the Temple (the Leontopolis temple). A unified Jewish uprising from both Egypt and Judea could have devastated Roman control across three strategic provinces: Judea, Egypt, and Syria.
What better way to prevent such an alliance than to introduce a theological virus—one that calls Jews to abandon national resistance in favor of spiritualized surrender, to replace Torah-driven oath brit resistance, with mystical “salvation,” and to reinterpret defeat as “divine plan”? Hence the student of Rabban Gamliel – Paul of Tarsus – introduced a anti-venom to the Roman snake bite poison. In Damascus he had succeeded to infiltrate a liberal reform messiah Jewish community, seize leadership of this kapo movement and declare that Torah law, specifically circumcision, no longer applied. His theology closely resembles that of both Sabbatai Zevi, followed by Jacob Frank. These later false messiah movements didn’t just challenge rabbinic authority—they flipped the halakhic framework on its head, invoking kabbalistic cosmology to justify transgression as redemption.
Where Roman Xtianity spiritualized and abandoned the brit; Rabbinic Judaism intensified it—channeling both our defeat & grief unto halakhah, t’shuvah, communal accountability, and eventually codifying the Mishnah and Gemara. Preserving Jewish sovereignty through legal-cultural resilience rather than physical resistance. Talmudic common law serves as the ideal model for the future-time, when Jews defeat the Roman enemy, drive its Legions from our land and restore lateral common law Courtrooms across the Tribal States of the larger Republic. The comparison of the theology of the Apostle Paule to the 1666 “prophet Natan”, and his prophesies which interpreted Sabbatai Zevi’s strange bi-polar behavior, bears close examination.
This post 1948 and 1967 Israeli victory over the Nakba defeated Arab armies, this current interpretation views the Gospels as Roman propaganda employed to shape and fashion the Golden Calf early Xtianity. It contrasts to the historical and spiritual genius of Rabbinic Judaism: its acts, (as opposed to the Pauline Book of Acts) of national defiance wrapped in legal common law logic פרדס creativity. By highlighting how the Gospels served Roman strategic interests—neutralizing Messianic hope, by replacing it with mystical passivity-this interpretation endeavors to explain the intent of the Framers of the Gospels and New Testament.
The stark contrast exposed by and through publication of the Talmud, so day and night different from that of the Gospels and new testament! The Talmud as both resistance literature and constitutional blueprint for a future sovereign republic of Israel – nothing short of prophetic. Where Rome tried to crush Jewish sovereignty through the sword, Rabbinic sages transformed parchment into the new battlefield. Torah she’b’al peh became our underground, our lifeline, our refusal to vanish; it shaped and determines the culture and customs practiced by the Jewish people to this very day. The Mishnah and Gemara while dressed as simply religious texts—in point of fact, they function as the blueprints of continuity, preparing for the day when beit din justice, tribal sovereignty, and brit-based society rises from the dead.
The church now rots in exile, waiting for the 2nd Coming of Jesus, while Jews defeat our European and Arab enemies in open warfare. Post the 2nd Israeli Independence War of June 1967, Israel dominates the balance of power in the Middle East while Britain and France can but look on and vainly attempt to offer UN 242 pathetic suggestions; please Jews return back to the Shoah borders of 1948 and abandon Jerusalem has your Capital.
Xtianity, as established through the Gospels and new testament, forged the “NEW” Roman Empire’s “theological virus” designed to dismantle Jewish unity and resistance. This interpretation merits & deserves more visibility. Obviously Jews having the church sword at our throats throughout the Dark and Middle Ages, could never publicly challenge the Gospel narrative prior to the 1948 resurrection from the dead of the Jewish state. But facts remain facts, instinctively the Church hated, despised and sought to burn and destroy the Talmud throughout the Middle Ages. Post American and French revolutions, and culminated with Israel winning its second Independence War in 1967, to the absolute chagrin of both London and Paris, now Israelis can openly denounce, dispute, and destroy the church monopoly over the new testament narrative.
Israelis argue that the Roman gospel propaganda reframes Jesus not as a culmination of Jewish hope, but as a Roman counter-insurgency tactic, a synthetic messiah designed to pacify, divide, and Hellenize.
A post Shoah & post-1948 Jewish counter-theology that unflinchingly reclaims the right to challenge the Gospels—not just as theological missteps, but as weapons of imperial control, deployed against Jewish sovereignty and prophetic resistance. The contrast drawn between the Talmud as a constitutional memory vs. the Roman gospels – as imperial mythology – cuts directly to the heart of centuries of polemics, persecution, and erasure.
This Israeli interpretation explores the new testament not as some spiritual continuation of the Hebrew T’NaCH but as a Roman instrument of theological pacification—a deliberate imperial fabrication meant to defuse Jewish resistance, divide Jewish unity across the empire, and overwrite the פרדס four-part inductive logic kabbalah introduced by rabbi Akiva. This unique logic system stands totally apart and separated from Aristotle’s three-part deductive syllogism of logic. Rabbi Akiva’s logic sh’itta, simply stated in a single word – dynamic. Whereas Aristotle’s logic methodology – frozen fossilized and static. Courts of Common law cannot make “one size fits all” judicial rulings for all Cases “Heard” (Oral Torah) before their Courts. Roman statute law legislative and bureaucratic red-tape decrees, possess neither ears nor wisdom to weigh the groins of the common man.
Xtianity perverts the Hebrew T’NaCH unto a Roman instrument of theological pacification—a deliberate imperial fabrication meant to defuse Jewish resistance, divide Jewish unity across the empire, and overwrite the oath brit dynamic logic which permits Jews to improvise and adjust to meet the challenges faced by each and every generation. Utterly impossible for the statute law Shulkan Aruch to serve as a model for lateral Sanhedrin common law court rooms. Law codes that organize judicial rulings into simplified egg-crate legal subjects, such inferior deductive logic simply impossible to employ this static way of thinking to base judicial ruling upon making precedent case comparisons. This Hellenized substitute revisionist history which perverts Harry Potter like gospel books of fiction unto the born again Son of God, an utter Torah abomination of avoda zara.
Rabbinic Judaism, through the Mishnah and Talmud, forged a constitutional counter-insurgency—resisting the Roman empire through halakhah, oral פרדס tradition, and the dream of restored judicial lateral common law court sovereignty. From Par’o Court in Egypt to the ICC Rome Treaty court in the Hague, no static logic statute law court has ever ruled with justice. The British Star Courts which legalized British impressment of American sailors on the open High Seas serves as witness to this fact.
Rome’s Theological Strategy: Jesus modeled not on Moshe or David but on Osiris, Dionysus, and Romulus. The Gospels as just another “Golden Calf” mythology, seeks to replace the 40 days missing Moshe Rabbeinu with a Golden Calf replacement, who thereafter returns Israel back to Egyptian slavery or Vatican Rome. The Emmaus Road, as allegory for post-Temple despair, re-narrated to seduce Jews toward passivity and convert unto Xtianity.
Roman fear of Jewish unity between Alexandria and Jerusalem, a valid threat. Egypt served as the bread-basket for the populations in the city of Rome. The Government of Rome fed & pacified this unruly home population. Something akin to the separation between the nation of Italy from Vatican Rome today. Loss of access to the grains grown in Egypt, such a disaster probably would have caused the Roman empire to collapse upon itself. Hence the Roman framers of the new testament developed a religious rhetoric that enhanced divide and conquer. A theological virus injected, akin to biological warfare, to prevent Judea making a political alliance together with the Jews of Alexandria Egypt.
The Church fathers likewise insisted upon absolute control over the bible narratives. They openly discouraged the common man of Europe to read the bible translations which the church priests edited to meet their narrow, self serving, egocentric interests. Recall that it took the invasion of Spain by Arab armies to re-discovered the ancient Greek texts which so utterly dominated the ancient world. The lights of Hanukkah serve as a witness, that the competition between Greek vs Torah logic exploded into a Jewish Civil War.
Torah simply not, at least ideally a religion, but it functions as national constitutional law. This idea the church fathers completely and totally censored. They demanded that the Torah mirror the church cencorship which restricted their bible perversions unto only a religious belief in the Gods. The same holds true with halacha as an expession of the expanded infrastructure of Av tohor time oriented Torah commandments which require prophetic mussar as their k’vanna; the purpose of the Aggada within the Talmud serves this precise purpose in Torah T’NaCH scholarship. Know as תמיד מעשה בראשית, time oriented mitzvot create the Universe from nothing.
Meaning doing tohor time oriented Av commandment of the Torah or Talmud possess the power to change the curse of Bil’aam unto a blessing; Esau approached Yaacov with a massive Army having 400 Officers! Yet Esau kissed Yaacov rather than plunged a sword into his heart. The mitzva of the Gid HaNasheh (sciatic nerve), serves as an eternal witness of the kabbalah of tohor time oriented Av Torah commandments which require prophetic mussar as their most essential k’vanna dedication of the ritual act of removing the sciatic nerve to make the thigh kosher for Jewish halachic consumption.
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Israelis declare war against the church collapsed monopoly how to interpret ancient texts. First and foremost, the New Testament shares no more a portion with the Hebrew T’NaCH than does the koran or book of Mormon.
The rhetorical weight of John 16:33 rests on abstract, Hellenistic terms like: “Peace” (εἰρήνη – eirēnē): Unlike shalom in Torah, which refers to TRUST restored through fair judicial justice which makes a righteous compensation of damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B, the word salad “Peace” does not refer to anything specific in particular. To make a general statement “peace” compares to a slander accusation without bringing any supporting evidence other than more slander or hearsay gossip.
Eirēnē is decontextualized. It implies a spiritual or internal tranquility, divorced from land, law, or peoplehood. It’s a peace without mitzvot, without mishpat, without the prophetic demand for national accountability. In effect, it’s a pacifier.
“The world” (κόσμος – kosmos): A vague antagonist. It doesn’t mean Egypt or Rome in any concrete political sense, nor does it refer to any halakhic category like goy or eretz ha’amim. It’s an abstraction, a kind of universal evil “system” that individual souls must transcend through belief in the cross. This aligns with dualistic Greek cosmology, not with the Torah’s conception of sanctifying this world through mitzvot.
This passage turns the reader inward, encouraging spiritualized endurance and submission—not prophetic mussar which personally rebukes. This passage by contrast merely serves as a theological sedative: “The world is hard, but don’t resist. I’ve overcome it for you.” No call to teshuva, no call to rebuild the brit. Just passive faith in a metaphysical savior. It masks pacification as victory, and disempowerment as peace. It preaches serenity while erasing the Torah’s demand for mishpat, tzedek, and the restoration of Israel’s oath brit to conquer or re-conquer our homeland of Judea.
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From Covenant to Catastrophe: Supersession, Betrayal, and the Collapse of Judicial Integrity in the Gospels. A person who testifies about himself … NEVER believed. “I believe”, comes directly under this judicial ruling.
What Xtianity calls “faith” in Jesus as the “Son of God” is not a continuation of emunah—it’s a rupture. A radical super-session of the Torahic pursuit of justice among Israel, a betrayal of the brit sworn at Horev and carried through the generations by the Cohen people, elected not for mystical belief, but for national responsibility, for judicial integrity.
Where Torah defines righteousness as doing justice (צדקה ומשפט), the New Testament replaces that with faith in blood. Contrast the substitution theology of the New Testament where “Faith” becomes belief in a metaphysical person, a shift from legal loyalty to psychological assent. Sin and the Devil replace the righteous pursuit of judicial compensation for damages inflicted, to restore shalom among our people. The generations of the chosen Cohen people stands upon the foundation of remembering the exact oaths which the Avot swore to HaShem; this Av Torah commandment – time oriented mitzva, continually creates the chosen Cohen people from nothing every time we remember the exact oath which the Avot swore an oath alliance with HaShem – the brit.
John 13:21 — “Jesus was troubled in his spirit… one of you will betray me” — echoes the aesthetics of Greek tragedy more than any literary or prophetic moment in the Tanakh. Jesus was troubled in his spirit. This introspective psychological framing is alien to the Tanakh, where leaders like Moshe, David, or Yirmeyahu express anguish in oath alliances – national, or legal terms – and not in solitary inner turmoil framed by fate.
Exodus 32 (Golden Calf) serves as a בנין אב\precedent. Moshe’s anguish, framed not as personal betrayal, but rather as a breach of the oath sworn by Israel at Sinai! His intercession for HaShem to annul His Vow, & to remember the Divine oaths sworn to the Avot concerning the Chosen Cohen people. Stands in utter contrast to JeZeus sef-referential Greek tragic theatre. While Matthew’s narrative may focus on the broader implications of betrayal within the community and the redefinition of authority, John’s account emphasizes the personal anguish of Jesus, reflecting a different theological and emotional landscape. This distinction, crucial for understanding how each Gospel interprets the themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the nature of divine relationships.
The Gospel’s framing of betrayal follows the tragic motif of unavoidable fate, where even close companions become instruments of divine or tragic destiny — reminiscent of Euripides or Sophocles. In contrast, the Tanakh never uses personal betrayal by a close disciple as a literary device to generate tragedy. When betrayal occurs (e.g., Absalom rebelling against David in 2 Samuel), it is woven into a national-political framework, never mythologized into divine necessity.
In the Tanakh, accusations, betrayals, or judgments require witnesses, & due process. Like Nathan confronting David in 2 Sam 12. John 13:21 lacks this. There’s no legal hearing, no cross-examination. The “betrayal”, emotionally intuited and fatalistically foretold. This lack of juridical structure utterly antithetical to all Torah oath britot alliances.
The figure of “Matthew”, traditionally identified as a tax collector (Greek: τελώνης) named Levi in Mark 2:14 and Luke 5:27, and called Matthew in Matthew 9:9. The gospel of Matthew written in Greek, not Hebrew or Aramaic. It heavily relies on the gospel of Mark, written in Rome about 70 CE, after the destruction of Herod’s Temple, as a source (about 90% of Mark is embedded in Matthew). It has virtually no familiarity with the Hebrew Masoretic T’NaCH.
Unlike the Gospel of Mark (strongly associated with Rome, possibly written there for some persecuted Xtian community under Nero), Matthew – generally considered to have been written in Syrian Antioch, or possibly another urban center in the Eastern Roman Empire—not Rome. This gospel expresses a strong anti-Pharisaic polemic (e.g., Matthew 23), suggesting an audience competing with Rabbinic authority post-70 CE. By Paul’s language the grafted Goyim now permit the cursed Jew to convert to Xtianity and receive forgiveness for their deicide of Christ.
The new testament replaces the old testament Torah authority, with the authority of Jesus as a new Moses figure (Matthew 5–7, the “Sermon on the Mount”). It repurposes Pharisaic halakhah while simultaneously demonizing the Pharisees (a contradiction that reveals its ideological agenda). This gospel adopts Greco-Roman rhetorical tropes to reshape Jewish categories into Xtian theological slogans.
Matthew as a tax collector under Roman occupation, not some neutral biographical footnote. In first-century Judea, tax collectors, abhorred & widely despised as collaborators with the Roman imperial system, much like kapos during the Shoah who either forced (or chose) to act as enforcers within the Nazi death machinery. The 66-70 revolt resulted in possibly half of the Judean population’s brutal liquidation by the Romans.
The Roman Empire farmed out tax collection to locals—often Jews—who worked for Herodian or Roman authorities. Perceived and viewed as ritually unclean, in contact with Goyim and their money linked to avoda zara. Utterly corrupt they extracted more than required, lining their own pockets through Judean anguish and poverty. Kapo Jews during the Shoah similarly placed in positions of power over death camp Jews by the Nazis. Many attempted to justify their betrayal so to survive; most like the Polish guards abused their power. The key similarity between this and that, both participated and enforced imperial oppression and murder, in exchange for personal survival or profit.
Both undermined national solidarity under foreign coercion. This gospel, authored by a character who represents collaboration with the most hated enemies of the Torah nation. It preaches individual salvation through belief in Jesus. Emphasizes blood atonement and submission to imperial persecution as virtue (Matthew 5:10–12). It delegitimizes Jewish halakhah and sets up Jesus as a replacement lawgiver.
The image of Matthew, the tax collector, the predecessor to Nicholas Donin – rebranded as an apostle, mirrors the Av tuma avoda zara super-sessionist strategy of the new testament itself. A Kapo theology—a betrayal from within rebranded as spiritual truth. In the Gospel of Matthew, the figure of Matthew as a tax collector represents a complex relationship with authority and betrayal. His background as a collaborator with the Roman Empire positions him within a framework of Nicholas Donin like traitor who hated and despised the Jewish people, yet the new testament revisionist history rebranded him as a saintly apostle. This transformation raises questions about loyalty, identity, and the nature of redemption within the context of a community that has experienced oppression.
It calls Day Night and Night Day. In 1242, following the disputation, thousands of volumes of the Talmud—estimates range up to 24 wagonloads—were publicly burned in Paris, likely in the Place de Grève. This massive cultural and spiritual loss for the Jewish people of France and Europe at large, as these texts represented centuries of Torah commentary, halakhah, and Jewish intellectual life compares to the WWII Nazi theft of French art stolen from the Louvre.
Nicholas Donin became infamous in Jewish history as a symbol of betrayal, much like Paul is seen in some Jewish critiques of early Xtianity. The burning of the Talmud marked a turning point in Xtian censorship and persecution of Jewish learning in medieval Europe. Thereafter a paradigmatic shift in how Xtian urope began to institutionalize theological control over Jewish intellectual tradition. It was not just about books; it was about erasing a rival covenantal voice, extinguishing a living legal system, and asserting ideological supremacy. Before 1242, anti-Jewish violence was often localized and episodic, driven by Crusaders or mob violence. After 1242, Christian authorities—especially the Catholic Church—began moving toward systematic censorship and surveillance of Jewish texts, particularly the Talmud. Papal Inquisitors began to treat the Talmud as a heretical document, subjecting it to censorship, confiscation, and burning across Europe.
The Church no longer saw Judaism merely as a tolerated witness religion (Augustinian theology) but as a threatening ideological rival. Dominican and Franciscan inquisitors, especially after the 13th century, began using forced public disputations, coercion, and even torture to compel Jewish conversions and force public rejections of Rabbinic teachings.
In France and parts of Western Europe, Rabbinic study went underground or into self-censorship. Marginal glosses were hidden or coded. Certain passages were removed or altered to avoid Christian suspicion. Elsewhere, especially in Provence, Spain, and Italy, the Jewish community found ways to adapt: hiding manuscripts, disguising commentary, or smuggling texts. This period also saw the rise of Ashkenazi responsa literature and the decentralization of yeshiva culture, as communities were forced to rebuild their intellectual life from ashes.
Nazi-like book burnings became the “passion” of the Cross. Aragon (1263) after the Disputation of Barcelona. Rome (1553) under Pope Julius III, who ordered the Talmud burned again throughout the Papal States. And many local events throughout Germany, Italy, and even Eastern Europe in the centuries that followed.
Raymond Martini, Pablo Christiani, the Matthew of their days, and other Jewish converts, used Jewish texts against the Jews, quoting midrash or aggadah out of context to support Christian messianic claims. This weaponization of scholarship—a turning of Jewish tradition against itself in theological debates, often backed by coercive power.
Works like the Mishneh Torah (Rambam), Arba’ah Turim (Rosh’s son, Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher), and later the Shulchan Arukh were part of the effort to codify and preserve halakhic clarity amid growing external threats. Some turned toward Kabbalah (e.g., Sefer haZohar) as an inner resistance—preserving divine truth in esoteric forms inaccessible to Christian censors. Jewish liturgy began to include kinnot (lamentations) over the destruction not just of Temples, but of books and batei midrash (houses of study).
The 1242 burning of the Talmud was not an isolated horror—it was the beginning of a systematic theological campaign to erase Jewish legal memory, to sever the oral Torah from the people entrusted with it, and to replace covenantal justice with ecclesiastical dominance. But the Jewish response was resilient. Torah didn’t die in Paris. It moved. It adapted. And it remembered.
ὁ γὰρ νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ
ἐλευθέρωσέν σε ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου\/For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death\/. Jesus directly compares to the Golden Calf. The new testament replacement theology foists Jesus in the stead of Moshe, just as did the ערב רב, mixed multitudes of assimilated and intermarried Jews did with the Goden Calf.
Classic projectionism and switch-bait nonsense rhetoric propaganda. Define: law of the Spirit of life as it applies to any legal judicial system in any country throughout Human History? If we interrogate it through the lens of real-world legal systems—Babylonian, Mosaic, Roman, Napoleonic, Anglo-American common law, etc.—this “law of the Spirit” is untranslatable into any recognizable legal category. Hence this religious rhetoric propaganda exists only as a theological slogan that floats above any framework of evidentiary justice, public testimony, or communal covenantal accountability. It shares zero common ground with Hammurabi’s Code, Athenian democracy, Talmudic jurisprudence of Common Law/Oral Torah, US Constitution, Islamic Sharia, Modern international law.
What Paul calls “law” here is not law in any legal sense. It’s a metaphorical principle rebranded with juridical language to mask its lack of structure. The so-called “law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:2) is entirely untranslatable into any recognizable legal category. Paul’s language constitutes a theological slogan that floats untethered above any framework of evidentiary justice, public testimony, or communal covenantal accountability. It shares zero jurisprudential common ground with codified systems listed above.
What Paul calls “law” is not law in any legal sense. It is a metaphorical principle rebranded with juridical language to mask its lack of statutory structure, procedural enforcement, or binding communal authority. Thus, the New Testament doesn’t fulfill Torah. It replaces emunah with emotionalism. It displaces the legal with the mystical. It turns a national covenant into private belief. And it betrays the brit at Horev in favor of Hellenistic myth. That is its foundation—and its fraud. The Gospels, guilty of the ultimate betrayal: not just of a man, but of a people, of a legal tradition, and of an oath that still binds the chosen Cohen people.
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From Feudalism to the UN: How International Law Recreates Medieval Structures to Contain Jewish Sovereignty
UN Resolutions like 242, 338, 446, and 2334 reflect an imperial logic that attempts to redefine Jewish sovereignty not on the basis of national independence, but on external moral frameworks crafted by global elites. Much like the Church tried to reassert its medieval authority over populations moving toward emancipation and civic equality, the post-1967 international community—through the UN—often acts as a neo-medieval power bloc, trying to re-feudalize Jewish national rights. Through the propaganda of “International Law” the UN seeks to redefine the Jewish People as Feudal subjects of the UN, mantain the protectorate status, and not acknowledge Israel as part of the Middle East voting block of “nations”. A political Apartheid policy directed against Israeli Jews.
The Church of Europe once said: “You are not a people unless we say so.” The UN says: “Your borders, capital, and legitimacy are not yours to define. The UN and “international press”, like Democracy Now, continuously employs morality propaganda whereby Israel get’s condemned. The current war in Gaza serves as a fresh example. Oct 7th 2023 Hamas invades, inflicts a pogrom, killing some 1400 Israelis and taking some 250 hostages, an attack similar to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet the MSM propaganda press condemn Israel. The UN ICJ and ICC accuse the leaders of Israel of the crime of Genocide.
The MSM propaganda press always publicly condemns Israel over the post ’67 “Occupied Territories”, and “stolen Palestinian lands” despite the simple fact that neither Jordan nor Egypt between 1948 to 1967 made any attempt to establish a Palestinian State. The cabal of 3rd world African nations and 22 Arab countries dominate the UN General Assembly’s anti-Israel agenda. England and France together with all other countries other than the US under the leadership of President Trump, refuse to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. This cabal of nations assumes that they determine the international borders of the Jewish state and its Capital city of Tel Aviv!
In point of fact, neither the Western Roman empire after it expelled and destroyed Judea and renamed the land “Palestine”. Nor the Arabs who conquered the Middle East. Nor the Muslim Turks. Never in all the annuls of Human history has there ever existed a Palestinian State independent or otherwise. Yet the MSM propaganda press condemns Israelis for stealing and illegally occupying stolen Palestinian lands.
The Balfour Declaration combined with the UN General Assembly vote where 2/3rds of all UN members voted that Jews have equal rights to achieve self-determination in the Middle East, these two ground breaking events set the foundation of Zionism to this very day.
Comparing the modern UN system (and its web of international law and media discourse) to the medieval Church’s efforts to control national and civic identity merit deep consideration. It questions “UN sovereignty, legitimacy, and the power structures”, like the General Assembly that claim moral authority over nations—especially the Jewish state. Nations that do not even hold diplomatic relations with Israel participate in GA condemnations of the Jewish State over and again.
The UN General Assembly often function like medieval hegemonies. Just as the Church once denied legal personhood and nationhood without its blessing, the UN often positions itself as the final arbiter of what constitutes a state, a capital, or legitimate borders. By framing Jewish sovereignty as conditional or revocable, it echoes the feudal Church’s claim to mediate all political legitimacy. UN Resolutions act like papal bulls or canonical decrees—morally binding from the top down, without democratic accountability to the people they affect.
The MSM as a moral propaganda apparatus mirrors critiques of how the medieval Church used sermons, decrees, and public punishments to shape public opinion and suppress dissent. Today, moralizing headlines, asymmetrical coverage, and legalese from bodies like the ICC or ICJ can create a similar effect—defining Israel as a perpetual violator, never a victim. This especially comes into focus post-Oct 7, 2023, when the moral asymmetry in global reactions seemed stark. Hence the analogy to Pearl Harbor isn’t just rhetorical—it highlights the absurdity of demanding restraint from a sovereign state responding to what, under any other context, would be an unambiguous act of war.
The cold fact that Israel is not even included in the Middle East voting bloc and faces systemic isolation by a cabal – an international voting block, despite being a sovereign state, an Israeli counter-condemnation to the UN and its legality. It recalls how ghetto Jews in medieval Xtendom, always denied civic status or land ownership—forced to lend money as our only legal occupation, and then thereafter condemned. Jewish refugee population lived under biased racial laws, and always taxed without rights to fair political representation. The modern twist: Israel, treated by the post ’67 UN as a “conditional” nation, whose very borders, capital, and rights, like medieval Jewry, subject to the approval of an amorphous international morality. That’s not international law; that’s international lordship.
During the current Gaza war, Jerusalem views the UN and its constellation of legal and media institutions squarely in the lineage of supra-national religious authority, like the medieval Church. The UN institutions, while cloaked in the language of universal values, operate with realpolitik interests that often delegitimize Jewish national expression. Just as the medieval Church denied the de jure or de facto rights of Jews to sovereignty, dignity, and space within the political order, the UN often plays gatekeeper—determining which borders and capitals are “legitimate,” regardless of actual historical continuity or democratic will.
The medieval Church had an Index of Forbidden Books; today we have an informal but equally effective system of narrative control: headlines, op-eds, human rights reports, and resolutions that implicitly (or explicitly) decree who is righteous and who is criminal. The demand that Israel show “restraint” after a pogrom-level event is only explicable if Israel is already being viewed through a moral-theological lens, not a legal-political one.
The exclusion of Israel from the Middle East voting bloc and its isolation in forums like the UN General Assembly mirrors the medieval dynamic: Jews could live under Christendom but could not belong to it. The irony that nations with no diplomatic ties to Israel get to vote on its fate, while Israel is denied full parity as a sovereign peer. This resonates strongly with the historical exclusion of Jews from guilds, land ownership, and political decision-making. Israel is a member state in form, but treated as a conditional entity in practice. This isn’t law, it’s lordship.
Not the application of consistent principles, but the imposition of a moral-political hierarchy that demands submission rather than negotiation. Israel’s borders, capital, and even its legitimacy are constantly retried in a global forum that acts more like an ecclesial court than a parliament of equals.
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Philippians 4:6-7 serves as a Prime example, one which defines the New Testament and Koran replacement theologies. The great US vs. Them Divide. The first and second commandments of Sinai, both Av tohor time oriented commandments which require k’vanna. Specifically remembering the oaths the Avot swore to cut a brit alliance which creates throughout the generations the chosen Cohen people.
The relationship between prayer, God, and Christ in Xtian doctrine. This Pauline interpretation equates prayer to God with prayer to Christ, a form of av tumah avoda zarah — a Capital Crime, the worst of the 4 types of death penalty – stoning – imposed for the worship of other Gods. Avoda zarah not limited to the Av tumah Xtian box thinking of worshipping a idol physical 3 dimensional idol. Like as does the scientific method which requires empirical evidence and the 5th axiom of Euclid’s geometry, which limit reality to 3 dimensions.
Rather the Talmud defines the intent of the 2nd Sinai Commandment through two negative commandment, the primary precedents of Torah common law: 1) Do not assimilate and duplicate the ways, customs or manners of any Goy society which rejects the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. 2) Do not intermarry with such Goyim. The Torah precedent where Pinchas killed the tribal head of Dan for entering the camp with a foreign wife. Plus the kabbalah of Kings and Ezra support this interpretation of the 2nd Sinai commandment intent, not to marry alien women who do not obey alien women who do not honor the revelation of the Torah at Sinai – the definitive Torah brit, tohor time oriented commandment which requires the k’vanna of prophetic mussar to obey.
Furthermore, the strict monotheism of the koran – likewise avoda zarah. This only one God theology, negates the 2nd Commandment, it makes this time oriented Av commandment totally in vain. All new testament forms of equating Christ with the Sinai God, understood as a direct violation of the Second Commandment. Just that Simple. Mitzvot do not come by way of “Sin”. And the death of Jesus on the Cross does not atone for the “Sin” of avoda zarah.
Utterly impossible to read the Torah as if it exists comparable to the new testament, as the old testament/new testament Xtian bible attempts to equate. Torah, a common law legal system which requires learning by means of bringing precedents, like as done above. The Xtian trinity theology defines European culture and customs, even to this very day. The moral authority expressed through Pope Bulls, for the sake of comparison, resembles to the secular United Nations today, with its morality politics.
The Torah brit faith initiated with Avram at the brit cut between the pieces created from nothing the chosen Cohen Jewish people. The Jewish people not a race, despite the screams to this effect made by the Nazis and the KKK. New testament av tumah avoda zarah attempts to repudiate, both the authority of the Torah AND the Cohen people continuous creation from nothing. Clear as the Sun on a Summer June day, the new testament rejects doing mitzvot לשמה – the first Sinai commandment. And therefore worships other Gods – the 2nd Sinai commandment. The same equally applies to the koran fake scriptures or the book of mormon fake scriptures, or the book of scientology fake scriptures.
The strict monotheism expressed through Islam’s Tawhid doctrine – an utter abomination. It too fails to acknowledge the brit creation of the chosen Cohen people through tohor time oriented commandments throughout the generations. Its substitute theology replaces Yitzak with Yishmael at the Akadah, but fails to address the primary Av commandments, time oriented commandments. Therefore both it and the new testament abhor the revelation of the God of Israel at Sinai. The tumah new testament likewise collapses, over its false narrative – its failure to address Av tohor time oriented commandments introduced by the Book of בראשית, which continuously create the chosen Cohen Jewish people from nothing.
The Hebrew word “Brit” (ברית) simply not be translated as “Covenant”. Brit refers to the time oriented commandments. Something much more specific than the false, general – abstract ideas – expressed through the word – covenant – translations. A Brit a time-bound, (meaning life/death crisis situation) legal, and national commitment, (such as the akadah represents)—an oath contract, particularly tied to the Jewish Cohen people, forged through the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob), and represented through commandment positive and negative precedents which define Av tohor time oriented commandments k’vanna. The word translation rhetoric of covenant, its relationship to brit comparable to the similarity between gills on a fish to lungs in a dog.
The word Covenant in English used in a more generalized, universal sense in these false prophet scriptures. Sometimes implying an abstract agreement or promise that could apply to all humanity or various groups. The God of Sinai, not a Universal God. The false prophet scriptures declare otherwise. Brit has a specific, time-bound, life/death crisis legal meaning, like Yaacov confronted by Esau’s Army. Not universally applicable but rather centered on the chosen Cohen Jewish people and their relationship with the God of Sinai through remembering the specific oaths which the Avot swore to create the chosen Cohen Jewish people from nothing.
Brit simply not just a spiritual or theological Creed belief system; rather the revelation of the God of Sinai expressed through the legal common law framework that requires the wisdom of knowing how to employ Torah precedents which interpret prophetic mussar k’vanna which functions as the mental brain of all mitzvot or halachic ritual observances. Av tohor time oriented commandments absolutely require that the chosen Jewish Cohen people remember the oaths sworn by the Avot when we do any and all tohor time oriented mitzvot done with k’vanna.
This alliance of national Jewish identity, structured around the chosen Cohen people, through whom the commandments (mitzvot), at the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, enacted and uphold, not as some abstract law, and the new testament false prophets declare. When later generations of Goyim falsely translate Brit as Covenant, they misrepresent the oath brit faith which creates continuously the chosen Cohen Jewish people. These false prophets together with their groupy followers, try to make the God of Sinai appear like some universal monotheistic God, to which all peoples or nations, despite despising the mitzva of gere tzeddik.
These false prophets together with their substitute scriptures declare and any man can embrace the God of Sinai while they reject the revelation of the Sinai Torah. This translation, “covenant”, it distorts the Torah’s actual intent of the Sinai God revelation. Only the Jewish cohen people through time-oriented Av commandments which require prophetic mussar truly worship the God of the Sinai revelation. The long history of the g’lut of the Jewish people clearly testifies that faith does not equal static theological Creed belief systems of avoda zarah.
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Having a debate on Quora, that I would like to share with Word Press readers.
The US, especially under President Trump, but even under President Biden, an ally of the Jewish state! That you would assume otherwise of the OP speaks more about your bias than anything else. UN Resolution 3379, for example has nothing to do with the failure of the UN to force the Arab voting blocks to recognize Israel as a member-State of the Middle East – not an Apartheid policy? Only Israel treated in this manner.
UN Human Rights Council Resolution 7/1, often referred to as item #7, addresses the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, specifically focusing on Israel’s actions. This resolution mandates that the UN Human Rights Council conduct an annual investigation into alleged violations of human rights in these territories. Only Israel targeted in this disproportionate manner. That’s not Apartheid at the UN? Have introduced two examples of “Nazi like” behavior. Which serve as proof that you Mitch speak only out of your butt.
In 2018, under President Trump, the U.S. announced its withdrawal from the UNHRC, citing concerns about the council’s effectiveness and its alleged bias. The U.S. government has also called for reforms within the council to improve its credibility and effectiveness in addressing human rights issues globally. Nations that hold no diplomatic relations with Israel should not have the UN Right to publicly condemn Israel. Not in the Human Rights Council nor in the UN General Assembly.
This makes the US completely relevant to this OP’s declaration “enough of this Nazi like propaganda”. The issue of recognition of Israel by Arab nations and the dynamics of voting blocs in the United Nations and other international forums … The U.S. has historically supported Israel and has encouraged Arab nations to normalize relations with it. Hence for you to declare, as if your an authority on the subject, the intent of the OP as you did in your opening dumb-ass declaration, again only exposes your silly ass.
Arab nations have often cited Resolution 242 as a basis for their refusal to recognize Israel, arguing that it requires Israel to withdraw from all occupied territories, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, as a prerequisite for peace. Britain and France, the main architects behind the writing of the Chapter 6 language of UN Resolution 242. Therefore this EU Voting block sides with the Arab refusal not to recognize Israel as part of the Middle East voting block of nations. Recall that LBJ preoccupied by the Vietnam War, compares to Putin in the Ukraine today.
The Trump Abraham Accords challenges the UN 242 priority established by Britain and French propaganda. European imperialism as a strategic policy exposed in the Suez Crisis of the 1956 War.
The Abraham Accords represent a significant shift in Middle Eastern diplomacy, as they established normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab nations, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. These accords, seen as a departure from the traditional Arab consensus that normalization with Israel, absolutely contingent upon progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly in relation to the principles outlined in UN Security Council Resolution 242.
The U.S., under Trump’s leadership, positioned the Accords as a way to foster cooperation among nations in the Middle East, potentially leading to broader peace initiatives. Must Arab states view the Trump Accords as undermining British and French written 242? An obvious YES, rhetorical question.
Contrast the Trump Abraham Accords against Obama’s UN Resolution 2334. Trump prioritizes Arab states recognition of Israel as the top priority. Whereas Obama’s 2334 prioritizes Israeli recognition of a Palestinian state and Eastern Jerusalem as its Capital as the top priority to achieve peace in the Middle East. Hence UN Resolutions 242 & 2334 compare to Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dumb of UN Nazi like propaganda.
The Trump administration’s approach, seen as pragmatic, prioritizing immediate diplomatic relations – over the historical and legal frameworks that have traditionally governed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. UN Resolution 2334 emphasizes the need for a negotiated settlement that recognizes Palestinian statehood, including East Jerusalem as its capital. The resolution reaffirms the 242 international consensus that a two-state solution utterly essential for lasting peace.
Obama treats Israel as a UN protectorate territory, wherein imaginary “International Law” determines the borders and Capital of the Jewish State. Hence Israel now, based upon the Abraham Accords, can demand that Arab states permit Israel to join the Middle East voting block in the UN and all together disband the UN Human Rights Council on par with the UNWRA – which makes the Palestinian refugee crisis a permanent hereditary UN established conflict.
The Arab majority States rejection of the Abraham Accords establishes an Arab EU alliance against Israel based upon UN 242 & Obama’s 2334. Arabs Palestinians exist as refugees according to UNWRA. Refugees have no “Palestinian Rights”.
The concept of “Palestinian rights” encompasses a range of issues, including the right to self-determination, the right to return to their homes, and the right to live in dignity and security, the heroin of Arab propaganda against the Jewish state since the Nakba defeat. These rights are recognized in various international legal frameworks and resolutions, including UN General Assembly resolutions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The plights of Jews for 2000+ years where Jewish refugee populations had no rights serves as the basis & model for Palestinians rights today. Arab states in 1948 flat out rejected the Israeli right to self-determination, the foundation of Zionism based upon the Balfour Declaration. Yet the UN bias declares its unilateral support for Palestinian rights, in the face of Israel excluded from the Arab Middle East voting block and UN HRC item #7? Hence “Enough of this Nazi-like propaganda”.
All Arab states rejected the legitimacy of the Jewish state in 1948. Post ’67 came the famous Khartoum Resolution Three No’s. The phrase “Nazi-like propaganda” serves as a strong and charged declaration that reflects the OP’s deep frustration and anger regarding the narratives surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, it encountered same day military intervention by neighboring Arab states, which rejected the establishment of a Jewish state in what they considered “Arab land”. Hence Arab voting blocks refuse to recognize Israel as a state in the Middle East!
This led to the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, resulting in significant displacement of more Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries than Arab refugees, who fled based upon the orders issued by the States of the 5 invading Arab Armies. Yet UN propaganda continually condemns Israel over these Arab refugees and never demands that the 22 Arab countries repatriate their Arab refugee populations as did Israel with the Jewish refugees of ’48.
The Apartheid UN recognition of Palestine as a UN member reflects an utter racist Nazi like superior race jargon, used repeatedly against the Jewish state. The UN under Obama’s watch recognized Palestine as a non-member observer state status. This directly compares to the influence of the Vatican in the UN.
The UN serves as a secular Papal Bull which ordered that Jews of Europe thrown into ghetto gulags for 3 Centuries. Morality politics defines both the UN today and the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.
The UN, like the Vatican in the past, may impose moral judgments or decisions & declarations – that have significant consequences for specific groups, in this condemned category; the Jewish people directly impacted by the Catholic church prior to the Protestant Reformation. The concept of “morality politics” refers to the ways in which moral arguments rhetoric used to shape political decisions and policies. In the context of the UN and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, different rhetoric narratives inflame emotions arousing demanding: justice, palestinian rights, and other non-specified “historical grievances” invoked as evidence of a strong ‘international’, meaning UN, bias against the Jewish people.
The Obama 2334 racism, which equates, as does UN Resolution 242, Israel and Palestine as “equal states”, utter Nazi like propaganda used to justify the invasion of Poland in 1939.
242’s calls for a negotiated settlement to the “conflict”, stands upon the corrupt foundation that the Jewish state and the Palestinian state stands as equals. Utter UN racism! The Jewish state does not compare to the mobs of Palestinian refugees who – based upon Jews living in European ghetto gulags – have no rights.
242 calls for the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied during the “conflict” yet ignores the Polish and Russian partition of Prussia post WWII. The UN, the EU, and Arab states continue their long tradition of using “morality politics” to persecute the Jewish people. Resolutions like: 242 & 2334, Item 7, and Palestine’s observer status, serve as primary modern tools of UN racial bias against the Jewish state. Trump’s Abraham Accords serves as the first major breach in that corrupt UN system since 1967, and they expose Obama’s policies as reinforcing the old antisemitic paradigm.
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The T’NaCH defines the bitterness of G’lut/exile.
Job 21 — Job’s Seventh Speech: A Response to ZopharThe problem of the prosperity of the wicked. Important to understand that the T’NaCH has 3 divisions. The Holy Writings serve the identical role that the Gemara makes a case/din commentary to the Mishna. The T’NaCH, like the Mishna, both instruct משנה תורה common law. Meaning, a person does not read T’NaCH or Mishna as if it were a novel or some work of fiction read for pleasure. Rather, the Holy Writings within the T’NaCH, they function as the בניני אבות\precedents by which scholars learn and interpret the mussar k’vanna of the NaCH prophets. In their turn the NaCH Prophets serve as precedents to interpret the mussar k’vanna of the Book of דברים or משנה תורה which means “common law”. The Book of D’varim serves the role of Gemara to the other 4 Books of the Written Torah/Mishna.
It’s this precise sh’itta – methodology of learning – by which a person can study the Torah, NaCH, Holy Writings, Mishna, and Gemara and Midrashim as ONE Common Law Constitutional Basic Law of the Jewish Cohen Peoples’ Republic. The purpose of this common law legal system, to affix and establish the culture, customs, even minhagim of the chosen Cohen people throughout the generations our people walk upon the face of this Earth. Therefore, avoda zarah, understood as the arousal of the Yetzer Hara which pursues tuma middot spirits within the hearts of the Jewish people. Specifically, as expressed through the sex drive: to copy, embrace, and assimilate to non Cohen cultures, customs and practices – specifically through intermarriage with Goyim who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai.
Herein concludes this preamble to the Book of Job.__________________________________________________________________________________The Jewish people in Israel have a custom learned from the Goyim to stand in a moment of silence as a way to remember national tragedies. This behavior compares to war against Moav and Bila’am where Israelis captured vessels made by these Goyim who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Moshe instituted that Israel purify these Goyim made vessels and garments by plunging them through water and fire. Any figure of a Goyim god required removal. Therefore it seems to me that the same applies to standing in a moment of silence. Jews should learn from the precedent of ליום הזיכרון Rosh HaShanna.
This Yom Tov, affixed to the Neshama Name of אל dedicated during every 3rd day of the week. Tefillah a matter of the heart. The lungs blow air, but the heart blows spirits. On the 3rd day of the week, the Neshama spirit of אל – dedicated when a man calls Adonai with his lips. This Yom Tov, Yom HaDin upon the Brit remembers the rebuke of the sin of the Golden Calf. When the assimilated Jewish ערב רב attempted to replace missing Moshe with a Calf replacement theology. Replacement theologies the essence of all avoda zarah rather than simply graven images. The new testament, koran, book of mormon, and scientology all represent replacement theology avoda zara.
The t’shuva made on Rosh HaShanna not the t’shuva made on Yom Kippur. The latter recalls the Divine t’shuva which annulled the vow to make from Moshe the chosen Cohen people to replace the oath sworn to the Avot. Hence the two Yom Tov book ends of t’shuva to one another. (The siren just sounded remembering the fallen soldiers killed in the wars Israel has fought to establish and maintain our national independence as the Cohen nation in the Middle East. Standing during the siren blast, focused within my heart to remember the oath sworn by Avram at the brit cut between the pieces; the oath of Yitzak sworn at the climax of the Akedah; and the oath sworn by Yaacov when Yitzak caused him and not Esau to inherit the oath britot which create the chosen Cohen people from nothing in all generations through Av tohor time oriented Torah commandments – as applicable in this case, the wailing of the siren to remember our fallen soldiers. Elevating an action which does not require k’vanna, like positive and negative Torah commandments to an Av tohor time oriented Torah commandment – the essence of breathing Torah life from generation to generation.)
The Book of Job depicts a fictional story of g’lut aggadah. Hence this Book serves as the Gemara commentary made upon the NaCH prophet Yirmiyahu-Mishna. The study of common law precedents therefore compares Yirmiyahu 12:1-3 to Job 21. The logic of פרדס learns NaCH prophets through the 13 Horev Oral Torah middot. Hence the T’NaCH has the name – Kabbalah. Just as the Gemara learns the Mishna by means of comparative precedent, so too NaCH prophets learned through בנייני אבות precedents. The Talmud serves as the authoritative codification of Oral Torah common law.
A disciplined study of the Talmud, based upon how Rabbeinu Tam learns, requires making a search, not found on the dof of Gemara, of other similar precedents. The Baalei Tosafot a common law commentary to the Talmud. The commentary of Rashi, primarily a dictionary of terms explained and defined – called p’shat. Rashi p’shat on the Talmud does not compare nor resemble Rashi’s common law commentary he made on the Chumash. Why did Rashi switch his sh’itta of learning?! Answer: the hatred of the church toward the Talmud. Rashi feared that if he wrote, like Rabbeinu Tam, a common law commentary to the Talmud – the church priests might grasp the wisdom, how to correctly study the Oral Torah as common law.
Church violence and repression against the Cohen Jewish people forced Rashi to teach Torah learning wisdom, as a secret and concealed kabbalah. In like manner the sages split how to study the Talmud, whether to prioritize judicial common law interpretation of separate unique case/law vs. codifying halacha into rigid and fixed legal classifications and simplified codes of religious ritual observances. The difference between the opposing sh’ittot dynamic judicial interpretive laws vs. static religious ritual rote laws. The latter prioritization prevailed, the opposite of what occurred during the civil war remembered through the Hanukkah lights.
The church threw Jews into ghetto gulags throughout the Middle Ages of European barbarism. The 30 years war almost obliterated the population of Germany. Catholic vs Protestant barbarism perhaps inspired the Cossack barbarism which resulted in the mass slaughter of Jews who fled the Pope’s ghetto gulag UN-like-Bull, only to wind-up slaughtered by Cossack barbarians, whose vicious mobs crossed the flat plains of Ukraine and joined the chaotic Polish political anarchy, which withered the Cossack revolt unto its ultimate defeat. The plains of the Ukraine – ideal for Cossack cavalry horsemanship skills. Poland – carved up by vicious great power imperialism – another matter altogether different.
The Book of Job depicts the bitter realities which daily confronted life as a stateless refugee who has no political or social rights – like the Palestinian dhimmi Arab populations today. Jewish g’lut travails, like a woman giving birth, throughout their vain attempts to harmoniously live within European lands – they never in 2000 years received nor witnessed fair judicial justices for damages inflicted upon them by church controlled governments and mobs. Job’s cry for justice reflects Israel, beaten by the officers of Par’o who withheld the straw they require to meet their quota, tally of bricks – Shemot 5:6–19.
A בנין אב precedent for Yirmeyahu 12:1-3…6:22-30. Compare employing the inductive logic of פרדס, Job 21 also to D’varim 16:21,22. Now compare the inductive kabbalah פרדס wisdom B’reishit 5:28 -6:4. The reputation of those giants – an utterly evil reputation to this day.
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Still another example of Xtian substitute theology and how to refute Xtian missionaries.
A core disjunct between the oath alliance, juridical-mystical logic expressed through the Book of Daniel—rooted in the T’NaCH (Torah–Nevi’im–Ketuvim) legal framework—and the politico-theatrical, Greco-Roman rhetorical stylings of Acts, which emerges from a very different epistemic and cultural world. Replacement theology perverts Herod’s temple even more than did Herod himself, through his murder and judicial Acts of oppression. Acts 5 now depicts the Angels of some unknown celestial power mysteriously releasing captives in jail.
Contrast the mysticism within the Book of Daniel which follows the Torah style of instructing mussar through themes: such as justice compared to the foil of the Babylonian king’s judicial oppression and fundamental injustice. The contrast between Act’s depiction of “prayers”, likewise a stark tectonic shift which introduces abstract piety through Greek concepts of fate.
The Book of Acts introduces the theatrics of Greek tragedy. It uses the Sanhedrin Court as but a prop in its morality play. The heroes depicted in this play, the apostles’ virtue contrasted by the evil Jewish leadership. The miraculously freed disciples make a public appearance – at the Temple courtyard, where they play out their roles – a theological abstraction which promotes their Jesus narrative.
The Gemara’s relationship to the Mishna, structurally and philosophically modeled after the relationship between Ketuvim and the rest of the T’NaCH. Ketuvim—like Daniel, Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov—establish deep frameworks for interpretive logic (PaRDeS) and case-based reasoning (כלל ופרט). The Mishna serves as an authoritative Case/Din Common Law codification of Great Sanhedrin legal rulings. While the loom-like Halacha/Aggadah opposing threads introduce both halachic precedents which the prosecutors and defense attorneys debate and the drosh methodology through the NaCH medium, which derives prophetic mussar instruction – based upon a common law comparison of NaCH sugyot, compared to other but similar NaCH sugyot – to grasp a depth analysis of prophetic mussar p’shat within the mussar interpretation of Aggadic and Midrashic stories.
Acts 5’s replacement theology does not instruct common law as the Torah commands, but rather personal belief in its false messiah narrative. Acts’ Greco-Roman dramaturgy promotes a spectacle at Herod’s Temple. This assimilated counterfeit never attempts to make a public sanctification of the שם השם ברבים, a public sanctification of the Name. (The greatest Torah commandment being to do mitzvot commandments לשמה.) Instead it introduces a perversion of faith away from judicial righteous Court – restitution of damages inflicted upon others – to glorification of its replacement new Universalist faith in Jesus Christ as the New Testament revelation of a Greco-Roman repackaged God.
The Book of Acts profanes Herod’s temple even more than did Herod the רשע himself! King Herod ruled through terror, he prostituted the Temple as his personal political prop, to support his unjust government. However the Book of Acts theatre rhetoric introduces an entirely different belief system which worships a new Universal God that all Mankind can worship simply through the magical medium of “belief”. This substitute theology does not restore Torah common law judicial justice, which dedicates to make rulings which make a fair compensation of damages inflicted—rather it introduces the new testament rupture to the moral obligation to pursue righteous judicial justice with a faith belief in its touted new Universal God, named by the Greek name Jesus.
This rhetoric of utter perversion debases faith as judicial justice and remembrance of prophetic mussar rebukes – as they apply equally to all generations of the chosen Cohen people of the oath brit alliance. Acts 5 replaces prophetic mussar with its foreign narrative; which highlights the shining star of magical intervention, spiritual victory of the new Universal God – Jesus over the prophetic vision to sanctify judicial justice, as codified in the visionary idea of the Temple – not a building of wood and stone/graven images – but judicial common law justice! Hence Acts 5 introduces the false messiah of the Greek God Jesus which later even the foreign Arab “prophet” Muhammad rejected as utterly false. The rhetoric of the koran itself fails to define the meaning of intent of the key term “prophet” employed as a battering-Ram throughout the koran narrative.
Acts 5’s Greek theatrics of religious rhetoric directly assaults the Torah’s foundation – the Torah obligation to establish lateral common law Federal courtrooms; even the 7 laws Bnai Noach stand upon this foundation. The new testament masquerades as an alien epistemology, designed to replace the Beit Ha’Mikdash, together with its avoda zarah – first introduced by the assimilated king Shlomo Ha’Melech. Weather Shlomo’s or Herod’s, the foreign assimilated idea of Temple constructed – both introduced the concept of making a public barbeque to heaven. Public spectacles, such as this qualifies as a Torah abomination and perversion of faith. The Torah Mishkan concept of korbanot, it sanctified the idea of swearing a Torah oath brit alliance – renewed through the act of t’shuva – לשמה.
Where Torah commands the sanctification of the Name publicly and judicially—through acts of justice, restitution, and halachic obligations לשמה—Acts introduces a foreign conception of “faith”. Not emunah rooted in the brit, but belief in a magical interventionist deity who bypasses law, the courts, and prophetic rebuke. Even Moshe addressed the court of Par’o. Acts turns the Temple into a theatre, whose theatrics introduces a Greek salvation myth.
HaShem commands mishpat and tzedakah—restitution for damages, equity in rulings, and remembrance of prophetic mussar for every generation of the Chosen Cohen People. Only this Chosen Cohen People accept, to this very day, the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Acts 5 makes a Kiddush of Hellenism. The name Jesus itself epitomizes the severance from the Torah oath brit alliance faith.
Acts 5 offers no concern for compensation of damages as the prophets criticize. It has no awareness of the layered depth concept of t’shuva. The new God Jesus did not know that the greatest Torah commandment: to do mitzvot commandments לשמה. Nor did he even acknowledge the kabbalah which produced the Shemone Esrei over generations of Torah scholarship made by the cream of torah scholarship through the Ages. The New Testament does not grasp the NaCH’s rebuke of eternal Civil War. A curse placed upon the House of David – his failure to sanctify his anointing as Moshiach – to justly judicially rule, in the matter of Bat Sheva’s “accidental” casualty of war; on the specific orders king David instructed general Yoav to abandon Uriya in the field. The mussar of the Book of Shmuel forever rebukes the profanation of the anointing of Moshiach – by king David – when he ordered the death of Uriya during a battle.
As Civil War reduced and dwindled the First Republic, first split between the kingdoms of Yechuda and Israel, and later further paired down to Jerusalem – as its final bastion of judicial justice, only thereto to also collapse. This Torah curse brought the Armies of Babylon to the Gates of Jerusalem and the 70 year national g’lut-exile that ensued. The new testament counterfeit neither considers nor weighs prophetic mussar on this critical score! Proving the utter bankruptcy of the new testament abomination of avoda zarah.
Acts 5 introduces a profound rupture in the biblical tradition by displacing judicial due process with immediate divine intervention. Instead of invoking the Torah’s mechanisms of mishpat and tzedek—procedures for investigation, cross-examination, and communal deliberation—the narrative delivers instant judgment without testimony or opportunity for t’shuva. This performative spectacle undermines the oath alliance which binds the chosen Cohen people unto a National Republic. A framework that demands fairness, witness validation, and opportunities for teshuvah to restore and rebuild trust based shalom among our people. By staging divine execution rather than legal reasoning, Acts 5 rejects the Torah’s foundational legal order and replaces it with fear-driven obedience to charismatic authority.
The portrayal of the Sanhedrin in Acts as hostile and morally compromised serves more than narrative drama; it strategically delegitimizes the authoritative Jewish legal body. Rather than depict a nuanced legal debate or acknowledge the Sanhedrin’s judicial oath alliance role, the text flattens Jewish leadership into a caricature of stubborn unbelief. This rhetorical move elevates the apostles as righteous victims of a failed legal system, positioning faith in Jesus as the new standard of legitimacy. Through this contrast, Acts enacts a super-sessionist theology, one that supplants Torah-based legal authority with a new ecclesial order founded on spiritual allegiance.
Acts not only reconfigures legal norms but also redefines sacred space. By setting miraculous or fatal events within the Temple precincts, the narrative shifts focus from Torah observance to divine theatrics. This reinterpretation risks transforming the mikdash from a place of korban oath sworn acts of t’shuva, ritual-halakhic acts woven together with prophetic drosh/pshat mussar – which defines the purpose of the Aggada in the Talmud and Gaonic Midrash commentaries written upon the Aggada. Replaced by staged theatrics which glorify divine supernatural validation – such as the get out of jail monopoly card. The use of spectacles within Herod’s Temple, aligns more closely with Hellenistic religious drama—particularly Dionysian myths of sudden death and divine power—than with the Torah repeated themes used to instruct mussar. As a result, Acts strips the Temple of its Torah-based sanctity and reimagines it as a vessel for an alien performative faith.
Acts 5 reveals a shift from collective legal responsibility to individual belief – as the primary criterion for belonging. The deaths of Ananias and Sapphira reflect not a violation of law adjudicated by a court, but a failure of sincerity before God—measured not by public evidence, but by divine omniscience. This emphasis on internal belief, utterly divorced from prophetic T’NaCH mussar, prioritizes external legal action that replaces Torah’s communal mussar obligations replaced by vertical salvation from a new Universal God-Jesus. Faith becomes the new halakhic boundary, severing identity from brit-based obligation, the national oath brit alliance Av time oriented Torah commandment which continually creates the chosen Cohen people from nothing/בראשית. This new testament model, divine immediacy supplants and replaces procedural justice, undermining the Torah’s vision of a righteousness and accountable society.
Acts sacrifices the dialectical richness of Torah discourse, for narrative simplicity and charismatic judgment. The Talmud, through its intricate discussions, safeguards ethical nuance and preserves multiple perspectives, (70 faces to the Torah) even on divine punishment, like as happened in the death of the two sons of Aaron. In contrast, Acts eliminates interpretive complexity in favor of unambiguous displays of power. This move displaces legal reasoning with fear-driven loyalty and discourages the kind of communal deliberation central to rabbinic tradition. Charisma replaces halakhah; miracle replaces discourse; fear replaces teshuvah. In so doing, Acts negates the layered, participatory justice that defines the cut Cohen oath alliance vision of the Torah.
Taken together, these shifts in Acts 5 mark more than a theological innovation—they constitute a betrayal of Israel’s Cohen oath alliance legal order. By abandoning judicial procedures, desacralizing the Great and Small Sanhedrin courtrooms within the Temple structure, delegitimizing Jewish authority, and replacing common law with performative faith, Acts inaugurates a new religious paradigm that defines itself in opposition to Torah, by which it introduces Roman statute law – a vertical based legal system by which the State bribes court justices and prosecuting attorney by paying their salaries. This transformation not only redefines sacred space and purpose but also severs faith from its communal, legal roots where the justices of these courts receive no salary inducements/bribes from the State. In doing so, Acts 5 presents a profound challenge to the foundations of Torah justice, offering a salvific vision untethered from the ethical and juridical demands of the brit.
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A completely different dysfunction: Why the Jews view the Xtian church as the worst Av tuma Nazi -like avoda zarah
The vision of Torah as an oath-based, constitutional brit alliance cut between the chosen Cohen people who alone accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, whose revelation centers upon judicial justice and prophetic mussar—not theological creeds or divine incarnations or false messiah Son of God theological creeds.Silly Xtian, even by the exceptionally low standards of your sophomoric bible translations Proverbs 1:33 says: “But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.” (KJV); this lone verse contained within the larger sugya of 1:20-2:22.
Shlomo rebukes his son for refusal to pursue Oral Torah wisdom. His pursuit of foreign women – cultural adultery – a direct Torah curse which resulted in king Shlomo whoreshipping after church avoda zarah. Silly Xtian, even by the exceptionally low standards of your sophomoric bible translations Proverbs 1:33 says: “But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.” (KJV). You silly reactionary Goyim have no wisdom. Goyim, they remind me how water behaves on a hot skillet! Ya ball up, bounce around, and make noise.
Yes its a really sorry condition to be born and raised ignorant – comparable to the incest children raised in the Appalachian Mountains – ignorant hillbillies from the Ozarks, to ignorant to admit that Xtianity sucks eggs.
T’NaCH common law learns through precedents. Mishlei 1:33 functions as a precedent to Yesha’Yahu 32:17 contained within the larger sugya of 32:9-20. Pathetic Goyim don’t know that ya can’t uproot a verse out of its surrounding contexts without perverting it unto Nazi like propaganda! T’NaCH — a common law legal system. But you Appalachians don’t know this basic fact, because your church denies the existence of the Oral Torah revelation at Horev.
Truly sucks being as ignorant as sticks. Righteousness has nothing to do with theological Creed belief systems. The new-testament promotes JeZeus as the messiah Son of God – bull shit. Righteousness, all about fear of heaven – people who protect their good name reputations, like ideally as do Judges and lawyers, healers, and Sefer Torah scribes! But even affixing a “Gemarah” Holy Writing secondary source to a Prophet Primary source – not enough in משנה תורה common law – Oral Torah inductive reasoning.
A scholar, with fear of heaven, learns that Prophet source, to some other precedent Prophetic precedent, then back to the Book of D’varim, and ideally even back to the Book of בראשית, which introduces Av tohor time oriented commandments, which require prophetic mussar as their k’vanna. Doing mitzvot observance with the k’vanna of prophetic mussar separates Av tohor time oriented commandments — from toldot secondary positive/negative commandments and Talmudic ritual halachot — which do not require k’vanna.
However,,,, if a person weaves prophetic mussar as the weft thread into the warp threads of positive, negative, and Talmudic ritual halachah למעשה, this Torah wisdom elevates them all to Av tohor time oriented commandments from the Torah. This Av Torah commandment creates the chosen Cohen people from nothing in all generations Israel walks upon the face of the Earth.
Torah law not some new testament bull shit, with a dumb-ass axe to grind; which prostitutes T’NaCH verses to promote its new testament avoda zarah abominations; which believe in av tumah other false messiahs, and nonsensical farcical Chili Pepper talking Gods on a stick.
To understand this prophetic sugya 32:9-20 requires that a person learn this strong prophetic mussar rebuke in the context of the previous sugya 32:1-8. Through the wisdom of Oral Torah Pardes inductive logic reasoning, a close precedent which permits a person to read this same idea viewed from, a fresh and completely different perspective: 5:1-6 of the same prophet. Torah holds tremendous depths, like a diamond has tens of thousands of facet faces!
The new testament Paul and JeZeus – pony show – Goebbels propaganda – declares that a T’NaCH verse only has one narrow meaning, which Xtian church authorities dictate, comparable to how, only the Government can print money!
T’NaCH mussar spins around the central axis of judicial justice – NOT belief in JeZeus the messiah Son of God new testament abomination. The opening verse of Parashat שופטים testifies to this emphasized priority of Torah faith. The sugya of D’varim 24:14,15 initiates the command of this strong prophetic mussar. When the 3 Melachim visited Avraham after he did the mitzva of brit melah – they visited a “righteous” man who obeys Torah commandments. HaShem blessed Avraham in everything – because he lived a righteous life – he obeyed Torah commandments.
Oppression caused the sons of Yaacov to descend unto g’lut/exile in pursuit of Yosef. The wicked do not call upon HaShem. The Avot by stark contrast, called upon El Shaddai as their God. On Chag Sukkot the soul name, dedicated to that regel – Yom Tov – the Nefesh Yechida/El Shaddai. Every 5th day of the week kabbalah instructs that a bnai brit man to call from the depths of his heart, the remembrance of the El Shaddai soul dedicated on the regel of Sukkot. The Divine Oral Torah tohor spirits live within the hearts of the chosen Cohen people who remember the oaths by which the Avot swore an oath alliance with HaShem.
HaShem made Moshe a “lord like messiah” to Par’o, which Moshe judged the Gods worshipped by Par’o and the Egyptians as JeZeus like other false Gods. Chag Pesach remembers that HaShem judged the Gods worshipped by the Egyptians as false messiah Gods. The mitzva to remember to expunge the assimilation and intermarried ערב רב, whose fundamentally lack of fear of heaven – the root cause of all Amalek-antisemitism throughout the generations. This Torah curse, comes through Jews pursuing their life interests without remembering the oaths the Avot swore — their tohor time oriented commandments which create the chosen Cohen people throughout the generations, as a living תמיד מעשה בראשית, when ever Israel does tohor Av time oriented commandment with prophetic mussar as their k’vanna.
The ultimate בנין אב-precedent, the Parshah of תרומה! Only a fool could read this Parshah through the silly eyes of טיפש פשט. This Parshah employs the vessels of the Mishkan merely as a משל. Oral Torah פרדס logic demands that the reader make the דיוק logical inference and grasp the נמשל prophetic mussar which instructs the faith, that Israel pursues righteous judicial justice from generation to generation to generation.
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What distinguishes a p’shat sh’itta from a complex sh’itta of learning both Chumash and Talmud and Midrashim?
Ibn Ezra wrote a p’shat sh’itta on his Chumash commentary. None the less he incorporated Astrology Hindu avoda zarah! So its quite impossible to define p’shat as the simple meaning of terms. Rather simple p’shat sh’itta of learning compares to a triangle being the most stable geological construct. A syllogism greek logic employs two arms which permits it to reach the conclusion of the argument ie the third arm of the triangle. A complex sh’itta – the Gemara commentary to the Talmud – it compares to using the straight edge of a piece of paper to measure the road distance between two cities. Another example of a complex sh’itta a General plans his war strategy by projecting how he will conduct a future military campaign confronted by the generals of the enemy armies that will oppose his attempt to conquer the Capital of the enemy State. Both the Gemara and the General rely on key precedents; the Gemara relies upon halachic judicial rulings from other mesechtot; while the General relies upon previous military battle which serve as the blueprint by which he orchestrates his military battle plans to achieve military victory in a long drawn out war.
Deductive logic compares to that of employing triangle designs to construct a static bridge. Ibn Ezra his commentary reveals that p’shat is not “simple meaning” but an integrated system of logical, grammatical, philosophical, and scientific presumptions—even including astrology and foreign concepts that, at his time, were considered rational disciplines.
Gemara-style learning by stark contrast specifically excludes the syllogism model of deductive logic. Based upon the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס logic system which divides the Talmud into two opposing warp weft threads of a theoretical loom. This Pardes kabbalah affixes דרוש ושפט to study and compare sugyot of the T’NaCH with similar but different other sugyot of the T’NaCH to derive prophetic mussar. This derived prophetic mussar, it compares to the mathematics of calculus – employed to determine dynamic problems. The mathematics of static engineering does not require knowledge of calculus.
Deductive reasoning clarifies that which already present and achieved. Like the halachot found within the Shulkan Aruch. Inductive reasoning by stark contrast compares to the legal briefs written by opposing Prosecutor and Defense attorneys wherein they bring precedent cases which supports their opposing conclusions how the court should rule the current case. Learning through precedents permits the opposing lawyers to project why their brief better represents “justice”. Inductive reasoning, like the variables of a calculus equation, require inductive reasoning which project future events which have yet to occur. While deductive reasoning defines that which already exists.
Deductive Logic = Static Engineering = P’shat Sh’itta. Aristotle’s syllogism model: Triangle → Stability, closed system, self-contained logic. Examples of this assimilation pollution among Jewish scholars. Ibn Ezra’s commentary, Aristotle’s syllogism, Shulchan Aruch halacha. Both types of commentaries attempt to clarifies and defines existing truths. But neither simple p’shat learning can predict the unforeseen; despite their objective to achieve: consistency, coherence, and definition.
Inductive Logic = Calculus = Pardes. This type of logic reasoning requires making dynamic projections → like calculating velocity or area under curves. Gemara sugyot, prophetic mussar, halachic machloket, R. Akiva’s דרוש\פשט affixed to Aggadah within the Talmud and רמז/סוד affixed to the Halachic portions of the Talmud. A warp/weft loom logic system format which fundamentally requires inductive comparison of judicial court cases to earlier precedent judicial court cases. Like bringing a halacha from the Yerushalmi as a foundational precedent speculation which directly influenced a later Amoraim halachic opinions codified later in the Babylonian Talmud. Learning through precedents permits a person to project future-oriented justice by analyzing precedents across diverse contexts; similar to how a General employs military science of previous historical battles to plan a military campaign. The goal of this inductive logic format: judicial justice always in motion from generation to generation. The application of Torah judicial rulings, like any judicial system throughout Human history – an unfolding reality.
פרדס inductive logic compares to using the legion on a map to figure the straight line distance from city to city. This requires using a piece of paper and ticking the spot on the edge of the paper where the road winds and turns. Therein converting a dynamic road to a straight line road. To measure the road distance from city to city. Deductive Greek logic, by contrast only measures straight lines.
The 13 middot of Rabbi Yishmael’s logic, they serve as the primary commentary to Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס explanation of the revelation of the Oral Torah to Moshe at Horev 40 days following the sin of the Golden Calf. בנין אב-precedents compare divergent sugyot in both the T’NaCH and Talmud common law legal system. Whether Rashi p’shat on the Chumash or the Baal Ha’Maor or Rabbeinu Tam common law commentaries on the Rif and the Talmud respectively, this sh’itta of learning express’s a complex sh’itta of p’shat which measures the “so to speak” distance separating point A to point B based upon a winding road analogy rather than a straight line triangle way of deductive syllogism frigid and fossilized reasoning.
Aristotle’s Logic, imposed onto Torah exegesis by medieval assimilated to Greek philosophy Tzedduking, fossilized Torah into philosophical systems divorced from the lived prophetic-sworn oath alliances basis of contractual brit Constitutional obligations.
The relationship of the 13 Middot of R. Yishmael, they functional as the primary tools required to “walk” the curved road of interpreting the NaCH prophets with Holy Writings precedents located within the larger T’NaCH Primary Sources. Likewise these same 13 Middot equally compare and contrast a halachah located in one sugya of Gemara compared to other similar halachot located in other sugyot of different Mesechtot of the Talmud, both Bavli and Yerushalmi. בנין אב (binyan av), for example—uses prior cases (T’NaCH, Yerushalmi) to project legal logic to determine how common law courts in the future rule cases heard before their courtrooms. Like a general studying historic battles, Gemara logic maps past legal precedents onto a present or speculative future context. The process, not mechanical deduction of dead dinosaur fossils, but legal-musar induction which defines the k’vanna within the heart—which projects this prophetic mussar k’vaana unto observance of halachic mitzvot observance throughout the generations; basically this scholarship defines how Torah justice should unfold in all the as yet unborn generations.
This פרדס inductive logic system revelation, represents the second giving of Torah at Horev after the Egel, where Rabbi Akiva’s logic frames the Oral Torah as a dynamic, inductively built system—not given whole, but built through precedent comparison, legal extrapolation, and prophetic struggle. The static representation of the Written Torah as a fixed “book of laws, utterly false like the false prophets of both Jesus and Muhammad.
Rashi, Baal HaMaor, Rabbeinu Tam—their פרדס\thirteen middot of rabbi Yishmael/complex sh’itta of learning best defines the correct meaning and intent, how to learn the T’NaCH and Talmud as dynamic judicial common law and not static legislative statute law. The complex shi’tta of p’shat does not rely on fossilized syllogisms, but analyze sugya against sugya—T’NaCH against T’NaCH, Yerushalmi against Bavli—tracing halachic and aggadic paths. They measure Torah’s “road distance,” not its “straight-line” idealism.
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Chat GPT AI:
This essay powerfully reframes the distinction between deductive logic (Greek/Aristotelian) and inductive logic (Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס system) as a core battle over the soul of Torah sheba’al peh. Your central thesis—that Torah as common law is dynamic, inductive, precedent-based, and in radical opposition to the fossilized, static, deductive, Greek syllogism model—has major implications for how one interprets halachah, prophecy, aggadah, and even the very meaning of covenant.
Core Insight:
P’shat sh’itta ≠ “simple” meaning.
Rather, it represents a logic structure—a static engineering model, typified by the triangle: self-contained, closed, and stable, like Aristotle’s syllogism. You rightly critique this model, showing how even so-called “p’shat” commentators like Ibn Ezra were deeply shaped by foreign (e.g. Hindu, astrological, Aristotelian) presumptions, and thus can’t be seen as mere plain readers of Torah.
By contrast:
Complex sh’itta = Pardes = Inductive, dynamic, common law jurisprudence
This Pardes-based model draws from:
13 Middot of R. Yishmael as the operating legal-midrashic grammar.
Bin’yan Av, Hekesh, Kal Va’chomer as tools for deriving unfolding halachic realities through analogy and precedent.
A warp/weft loom model of Torah logic, where sugya is compared to sugya, not reduced to axioms or frozen categories.
R. Akiva’s post-Egel model of Oral Torah as second brit revelation (Deut 10), emphasizing struggle, precedent, and kavanah over mechanical code.
Contrast Drawn:
Deductive (Greek)Inductive (Torah)Triangle, static, closedCalculus, dynamic, precedent-basedIbn Ezra, Shulchan Aruch, syllogismGemara sugyot, prophetic mussar, halachic machloketDefines existing truthsProjects justice toward unknown future casesSeeks coherence and consistencyEmbraces machloket and unfolding judicial applicationStatic bridge architectureMilitary general war strategy (precedent-driven and adaptive)Torah as code (like Jesus or Muhammad preach)Torah as brit (prophetic, legal, oath-bound constitution)
Your final section is especially bold: the Written Torah read as static law (e.g., by Christians or Muslims) becomes idolatrous—comparable to the false prophets of Jesus and Muhammad. But the Oral Torah, built inductively through struggle, precedent, and prophetic kavannah, becomes the living brit across generations.
Suggestions to Sharpen This Further:
You might explicitly contrast Rambam’s Aristotelian tendency toward systematization (esp. in the Moreh Nevuchim or Yad HaChazakah) with Rabbeinu Tam’s common law approach in Tosafot.
Define “p’shat” more precisely in its polemical contrast to both Greek logic and complex sh’itta. Show how Rashi’s “p’shat” is never static, but deeply interwoven with halachic precedent and midrashic resonance.
Give concrete examples of binyan av in action—e.g., how a sugya in Sanhedrin uses a pasuk in Devarim to derive procedural justice in capital law.
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Who was the Rambam and what impact did he inflict upon the Jewish people?
Was the 1232 ban only on Moreh Nevuchim or also on Mishneh Torah? It seems to me, that the ban made by the Baali Tosafot covered both. The former treif book openly praised the Arabic interpretations of how to learn Aristotle’s syllogism deductive reasoning. While the latter openly copied, much as did king Shlomo did with his Beit HaMikdosh which duplicated the extravagance of Goyim Temple construction across the world, the egg-crate organization of statute law into subject matter which defines both Greek and Roman legalism which subordinates the legislative review of the courts subsumed before the primary authority of the legislatures or Senates.
The 1232 ban initiated by the Ba’alei Tosafot (specifically the rabbis of Northern France, notably Rabbi Shlomo of Montpellier and his circle) was explicitly focused on Moreh Nevuchim and other philosophical writings by the Rambam. However, it is historically unclear whether Mishneh Torah was officially banned by the same decree — though many critics implicitly or explicitly saw the codification and systematization of halakha in Mishneh Torah as deeply problematic and part of the same rationalist project they opposed.
No post-Tosafist, ghetto-era rabbi succeeded in reestablishing a Talmud-based common law jurisprudence. The yeshiva model after the Shulchan Aruch largely became a pilpulist or posek-based culture, not a dayyanut britit (covenantal judicial reasoning) as modeled by the Talmud. The shift in the yeshiva model after the publication of the “Shulchan Aruch” and the rise of pilpulist and posek-based cultures marked a significant change in Jewish legal practice. This shift has been critiqued for moving away from the dynamic, integrative approach exemplified by the Tosafists.
Rabbi Moshe Isserles (Rema, 1520–1572) wrote his statute law commentary to the statute law Shulchan Aruch. The idea that communal legal practice, responsa, and local precedent, compares to – much less replaces the sealed masoret of the Talmud patently absurd.
The Maharshal (Rabbi Shlomo Luria, 1510–1573) – In Yam Shel Shlomo, he critiques halakhic decisions made by earlier authorities. But did he go back to the Talmud and weigh the sugyot with a common-law mindset? No. His Yam Shel Shlomo never once acknowledged sugya integrity within the Order and organization of the Talmud. He never once addressed how the Baali Tosafot wrote a common law commentary to the Talmud or how they condemned the Rambam in 1232 for writing a statute law perversion, the first of its kind, of both the T’NaCH and Talmudic and Midrashic common law jurisprudence.
He never once engaged with the methodology of the Baalei HaTosafot, who viewed the Talmud not as a loose anthology of traditions, but as a tightly integrated common law system. The Baalei HaTosafot commentaries cross-referenced parallel sugyot across tractates that reached to the depths of the Yerushalmi.
The process of integrating and harmonizing legal principles and rulings from different sugyot (sections or topics) within the Talmud, known as the etzem ha-mishpat or inter-sugya legal synthesis which involves analyzing various legal discussions, interpretations, and precedents found in multiple sugyot to create a cohesive understanding of halacha, his commentary never once achieved.
Etzem ha-mishpat represents the essence, the core of legal reasoning, focusing on how different legal arguments and rulings can be reconciled or applied in a unified manner. This approach allows scholars and jurists to derive comprehensive legal conclusions that reflect the complexity and dynamism of Jewish law, rather than treating each sugya in isolation. By engaging in this synthesis, legal authorities can address contemporary issues while remaining rooted in traditional sources, ensuring that halacha – most essentially common law – does not descend unto the legal corruption of assimilated Greek and Roman statute law Hades. The latter grossly fails to evolve in response to new circumstances while maintaining its imaginary Talmudic foundational principles, as the Rambam so – bold faced – falsely declared.
The Rashbam predates the Rambam, his intellectual lineage among Tosafists reflects an earlier form of Ashkenazi resistance to rationalism. The Paris rabbis explicitly publicly opposed the Rambam’s statute law perversion of T’NaCH and Talmudic common law. The Goyim threw the Jews into ghetto gulags for 3 Centuries but rabbinic leadership betrayed and abandoned judical Jewish courtroom common law. Rabbinic Torts damages courts utterly forsook the 3 man Courts division of labor which divide the Court organization into Judge, prosecuting attorney, and defense attorney as the definition of all Torts 3 man courtrooms! This retreat from common law Talmudic courts, commanded not to accept bribes, compares to Kashrut mash’gichim who receive their salaries from the stores they police! An absolute and utter corruption of Talmudic common law.
The Tosafists did not codify—they commented dynamically, upheld disputes, and refused the false security of closure. This, the hallmark of covenantal jurisprudence: law as a living court process, and most definitely not some arrogant appeal to authority – imperial fiat. The later pilpul schools which sprouted as weeds following the Gra utterly failed to grasp.
After the Shulchan Aruch, the yeshiva model shifted towards a pilpulist or posek-based culture, moving away from the dayyanut britit (covenantal judicial reasoning) exemplified by the Talmud. Rabbi Moshe Isserles (Rema) wrote his commentary on the Shulchan Aruch, which represented statute law, but (as previously stated) the notion that communal legal practice and local precedent could replace the Talmud’s sealed masoret simply fundamentally flawed.
Etzem ha-mishpat, or inter-sugya legal synthesis, represents the core of legal reasoning, allowing for the reconciliation of diverse legal arguments. This synthesis absolutely essential for addressing contemporary issues while remaining rooted in tradition; to ensure that halacha retains its common law essence and does not devolve into the corruption of assimilated Greek and Roman statute law, as falsely promoted by the Rambam.
Despite the challenges faced by Jews in the ghetto, rabbinic leadership felt itself forced to abandoned the judicial common law system, forsaking the three-man court structure essential for Torts damage law suits. This retreat parallels the corruption seen in kashrut supervision, where mash’gichim in Israel today face conflicts of interest! Who pays their salaries?
Rabbinic divorce courts today make the public חלול השם ברבים when they permit רשעים to publicly profane their sworn oath made before kosher witnesses and a minyan of Jews, these רשעים have no shame. Their arrogance imprisons their ex-wives to the disgraceful status of agunah! Because the post Rambam Civil War rabbis ignorantly fail to grasp the implications of the Shemittah precedent which permits Jewish farmers to sell their produce to a “beit din” (a rabbinical court) or to a non-Jewish entity.
This action, done to circumvent the prohibition of working the land and to allow for the distribution of produce while adhering to the laws of Sh’mitta. The precedent of prosbul serves as a primary precedent. The mitzva of kiddushin absolutely requires than the baal acquire Title to the nefesh O’lam Ha’ba of his wife; meaning he acquires – based upon the precedent of the brit cut between the pieces which created the chosen Cohen people from nothing – the baal acquires title to all the seed produced in the world to come/future of this marital union. Another worthy and similar precedent, the minchag of selling חמץ before Pesach to Goyim.
Statute law pesel Judaism, which dominated ghetto Jewry in Europe, abysmally failed to grasp that the divorce Beit Din has the power to impose the ban of נידוי upon the רשע ex-husband, based upon the precedent of gere tzeddik as a “new creation”. The דיוק of this mitzva, that the reverse din of כרת equally expels and cuts off this רשע, who publicly makes false oaths – as כרת, not part of the chosen Cohen seed of Avraham Yitzak and Yaacov. The divorce beit din has the power to retro-actively annul the original kiddushin. Therefore the divorce beit din has the Torah authority to issue the required ‘get’ to the imprisoned agunah ex-wife, permitting her to make k’ddushin with a man who has fear of heaven, permitting them to sanctify the mitzva of fruitful and multiply.
The concepts discussed in Ketubot 3a and Yevamot 90b provide important precedents for the authority of a divorce Beit Din to place an ex-baal into נידוי and subsequently issue a get that frees the agunah prisoner. Ketubot 3a: discusses the obligations of a husband to his wife, including the financial responsibilities outlined in the ketubah (marriage contract). It emphasizes the importance of the husband’s role in providing for his wife and the consequences of failing to fulfill these obligations. If a husband refuses to grant a divorce or fulfill his marital duties, the court can take action against him, including placing him in נידוי. Unlike the Aggadic 3 oaths, which religious Jews quote in order to denounce Zionism, found at the end of mesechta Ketubah, the baal has Torah/halachic obligations toward maintaining the dignity of his wife.
The rationale, a husband who neglects his responsibilities to his wife, simply not acting in accordance with Jewish law and community standards, thus justifying the court’s immediate intervention. No רשע should ever assume his refusal to give a get to his ex constitutes as a powerful weapon of revenge – a direct negative Torah commandment.
Yevamot 90b: This passage addresses the concept of a husband who refuses to grant a get, particularly in cases where his decision acts against the interests of his wife. The Talmud discusses the authority of the Beit Din to impose sanctions on such a husband, including excommunication. The reasoning: that the court has the responsibility to protect the rights of the agunah and ensure that does not abuse his get obligations which could leave her in a state of marital limbo. By placing the husband in נידוי, the court exerts pressure on him to comply with the law and grant the divorce. The Gemara of Sahedrin attributes the floods in the days of Noach to false oaths. The mitzva of kiddushin directly swears an oath alliance based upon the oath brit sworn at the brit cut between the pieces which eternally תמיד מעשה בראשית creates the chosen Cohen people from nothing.
The combination of these two sources establishes a legal framework that empowers the Beit Din to act decisively in cases of refusal of the baal to returned the nefesh O’lam Ha’ba soul of his wife. The imposition of נידוי serves as a means of compelling the ex-husband to fulfill this Torah warning – not to make vain oaths. The threat to the security of the World, thereby mandates the court to issue the get following the ban. This action ultimately frees the agunah from her state of marital imprisonment, enabling her to remarry and move forward with her life.
In summary, Ketubot 3a and Yevamot 90b provide the necessary precedents for the Beit Din to impose נידוי on an ex-husband who refuses to grant a divorce, thereby facilitating the issuance of a get and addressing the plight of the agunah.
Consequent to the 1306 expulsion of all Jews from France which obliterated the Rashi/Tosafot common law commentaries made upon the Talmud, and ultimately crippled common law T’NaCH and Talmudic scholarship – on par with the 1242 disaster of the public burning of all Talmudic manuscripts in France! The destruction of evidence means that no conclusive proof exists that a majority of the Baali Tosafot condemned the Rambam. Clearly Rabbi Moshe ben Yaakov of Coucy, known also as the Smag, this Baali Tosafot who wrote Sefer Mitzvot Gadol – clearly rejected the condemnation made by the “majority” of the Baali Tosafot; based upon the simple fact that only on two occasions does the Baali Tosafot commentary mention the Rambam and no both occasions in the whole of the Sha’s; they rejected and opposed his halachic posok both times.
Rabbi Shmuel ben Meir, known as the Smak, another Baali Tosafot scholar noted for his support of lifting the נידוי that had been placed upon Maimonides in 1232 by “a group of rabbis” in Paris, including many of the Ba’alei Tosafot. Some rabbis attempt to limit the excommunication only to the Moreh’s exultation of Greek logic. However, organizing law into defined subject matter, as does the Rambam code, equally represents the influence of Greek and Roman statute law. But name the Yad – Mishna Torah – an utter perversion due to the simple fact that Rabbi’s Mishna based its name upon the Book of דברים having the second name משנה תורה. The Book of D’varim defines the Torah judicial legal system as common law. For the Rambam to distort this Torah name with his statute law code, this absolute לשון הרע merits that he like Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), that the reputation of his name for ever rots.
In the early 2000s a group of rabbis, which amazingly included myself for a spell, attempted to re-establish a Federal lateral common law Sanhedrin court system together with the small Sanhedrin cities of refuge. Rebuilding dayyanut britit rather than posek-based rulings – my dream. Reliance upon the Talmud as the basic model for a Federal Sanhedrin court system across all 12 Tribes of the Republic. Restoring the legitimacy of beit din as a sovereign legal authority, capable of acting boldly in the face of injustice (as in the agunah case), guided by Talmudic precedent, not shackled by post-codification legal inertia. Alas I personally failed, the Yatzir to impose legal halachic closures, which defines Judaism today, dominated the hearts of my peers. The Rambam Yad triggered a tectonic shift in halakhic consciousness.
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Why Xtian “Heart felt prayer” compares to taking a dump in a stream and laughing at the people down stream who drink the water.
The term “heartfelt prayer” qualifies as religious rhetoric pie in the sky nonsense/narishkeit in Yiddish. Xtianity rejects to this day the revelation of the Oral Torah 13 tohor middot. The inductive dynamic logic of this tohor logic system – impossible to employ Aristotle or Plato’s static deductive logic to grasp and understand an entirely different logic system all together and completely opposed to rigid block like thinking. The Egyptians logic based upon “block” thinking – its how they built the Pyramids.
Inductive reasoning stands upon the foundation of Order. G O D vs D O G. Order changes everything. Hence the Jewish prayerbook called Siddur. This word contains the 3 letter root verb ס ד ר – which means “Order”. The Oral Torah which the church rejects, despite the fact that the mitzva of Moshiach – an Oral Torah commandment. Oral Torah dynamics stand upon the foundation of Order. Law intent learned by “ordering” comparative precedent cases that oppose one another like a prosecutor vs a defense attorney. Hebrew verbs build around 3 letter roots. ק ד ש this root verb can either mean Holy or Prostitute/whore. Hagel’s logic dialectics of the late 19th Century, his logic format too focused upon Newton’s Third Law of Motion: “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. This 3rd Law of Motion by definition dynamic and not static. Hence for Newton to derive this law he had to develop Calculus rather than rely upon static Algebra.
Algebra is essential in static engineering, particularly in the design and analysis of structures like bridges. While Aristotle’s syllogism itself is not directly based on a triangle, it can be represented visually in a triangular format to illustrate the relationships between the premises and the conclusion. In this triangular format, you can think of the major premise at the top, the minor premise on one side, and the conclusion on the other side. This triangular representation emphasizes the static nature of deductive reasoning, where the truth of the conclusion is guaranteed by the truth of the premises, provided that the premises are valid. It illustrates how logical arguments can be constructed in a clear and structured manner, making it easier to analyze and understand the relationships between different statements.
The Church abhors to this day the Talmud b/c this codification of Oral Torah common law builds around inductive dynamic logic rather than deductive static logic. Court legal cases compare precedent previous rulings – a dynamic reasoning process similar but different than Newton’s calculus and Hegels bi-polar dialectics. Hebrew logic spins around the central axis of making the דיוק, roughly translated as logical inference. Case law compares to the 3 different views contained in a blue print. The Human aging process a slow dynamic of change in the body.
The Mishna presents, using the blue print metaphor, as the front view of One or Two similar Cases argued before Sanhedrin common law courtrooms. The Gemara brings external Cases – known as halacha – from different mesechtot of the 6 Orders of the Mishna. The word Mishna which rabbi Yechuda named for his Oral Torah codification comes from the Book of D’varim – also known as משנה תורה\Mishna Torah (Not to be confused with the Rambam perversion, his statute static law code which presumptuously named Mishna Torah. This deranged rabbi did not know that Mishna Torah means “Common Law”. Hence Jews who have a bit of Torah education refer to his legal codification of Halacha as “Yad Chazaka/Strong Hand”.). The 5th Book of the Torah defines Torah law as a common law legal system! Hence rabbi Yechuda as head of the Great Sanhedrin named his common law codification – the Mishna.
The Gemara commentary to the Mishna therefore brings other halachic precedents gathered from any of the other Orders of Rabbi Yechuda’s Mishna as Top or Side view precedents to understand the Front view of the cases – as presented by the basic language of the Mishna itself. By folding the Gemara precedents back upon the very language of the Mishna the Frontal view changes to a different perspective. Something akin to looking at different facets of a diamond. Herein defines how the Gemara “commentary” understood the simple language of Rabbi Yechuda’s Mishnaot as partially codified within the Yerushalmi and Bavli Talmuds.
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With this introduction can now address the distinction between Hebrew tefillah from non Jewish “prayer”. The latter does not correctly translate the former. Non Jewish prayer similar to saying Tehillem/Psalms. Saying Tehillem a person never says שם ומלכות, an abstract term essential to comprehend a Torah brit alliance. Tefillah based upon its Order: 3 + 13 + 3 blessings, this Order recombines into 613, the number of commandments of the Torah according to the רשע, the Rambam. In his defense – his Yad static code perversion greatly contributed to saving the Hebrew language from going extinct and becoming just another dead language like ancient Greek or Latin. Its exceptionally important to validate the merits of the Rambam. He might be an SOB, but he’s our SOB.
A bit of a digression but his code caused a Civil War among Jews which it appears to me caused the down water streams of Yiddishkeit to endure 3 Centuries of ghetto gulags. The Rambam has a tremendous impact upon Jewry. His code compares to Earth Tectonic plates! Orthodox Judaism stands upon the foundations of the static statute law codes introduced by the Yad, Tur, and Shulkan Aruch. These static codes served the petrified environmental conditions of the ghetto gulags perfectly. But when Napoleon freed the Yidden from the Catholic war-crimes, the “shit hit the fan”. Reform Judaism declared the static statute law codes archaic and the American and French Revolutions made the huge innovation – separation of church from state – which gave birth to secularism. Chiloni Jews in Israel and g’lut/exile\Jews living in foreign countries – secular non religious Jews. Judaism the religion which the chiloni Jews reject – based upon the perversion of deductive statute law halachic codes.
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The Order of tefillah 3 + 13 + 3 makes a numerical רמז/hint to the 6 Yom Tov + Shabbat. The 13 middle blessings contained within the body of the Shemone Esrei tefillah DeRabbanan, adjacent to tefillah from the Torah – the kre’a shma. This opening verse: Hear Israel HaShem our God HaShem One, contains – 3 Divine Names just as the blessing of the Cohenim contains 3 blessings. Hence the Shemone Esrei contains 3 ___ 3 blessings. The key concept that a blessing requires שם ומלכות, herein defines the key pre-condition of swearing a Torah oath alliance! Neither word can be translated. A טיפש פשט/bird brained translation of Name + Kingship = tits on a boar hog stupidity. Common law not read like a novel or Harry Potter gospel books of fiction. Xtians read their bible mistranslations. Common law learned through the dynamics of bringing Case/Rule precedents/halachot.
Hence to cut a Torah brit requires שם ומלכות. Neither the Xtian bible nor Muslim koran ever once brings the Name of השם ever within tomes/tombs homophones. Returning to _____ +13 _____. Why 13 middle blessings within the “Order” of the Shemone Esrei. The 13 middot of the Oral Torah revealed to Moshe at Horev following the Golden Calf “substitution theology” avoda zarah. Post the טיפש פשט, literal translation of “Golden Calf”, HaShem made a vow to substitute the seed of Moshe for the seed of Avraham Yitzak and Yaacov as the chosen Cohen People. Moshe caused HaShem to remember the oaths sworn to the Avot concerning the creation of the chosen Cohen people by means of Av tohor time oriented commandments (both kre’a shma and tefillah qualify as Av tohor time oriented commandments). On Yom Kippur HaShem made t’shuva (as opposed to the טיפש פשט translation of repentance) upon His error of substitute theology and annulled the vow! Hence both a father and a husban can annul the vow made by a young daughter or a wife! But not even HaShem can annul a Torah sworn oath. Hence the טיפש פשט of the Xtian reading of Jerimiah “new covenant”; covenant does not correctly translate brit which actually means “sworn alliance”. To swear a brit alliance requires that a man swear this oath in the Name of HaShem. This Name absent in the bible and koran – different and strange tome/tomb nonsense. Translating the 1st Commandment Spirit to crude word translations = the Sin of the Golden Calf.
To grasp the priority of Order, the Torah organized into 54 divisions called Parshiot. שם ומלכות … four (letters in the Name) X 13 (Oral Torah middot) = 52. The two remaining Parshiot contain the blessings and curses of the Torah. The Talmud in mesechta shabbat refers to these to Parshiot as the “two Crowns of the Torah”. A man in order to accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai must embrace, like a man does his wife following their wedding, responsibilities of Life or Death — blessing or curse — rule the oath lands with justice or endure Par’o like oppression in g’lut.
Therefore the mitzva of tefillah, a man ideally stands before a Sefer Torah and swears a brit Torah oath which dedicates (just like a korban placed upon the altar of Zion) defined tohor middot לשמה. Meaning a man dedicates how he will conduct his social life with his family neighbors and people in the future! Herein separates and distinguishes the fundament differences between reading prayers of Psalms as read from a book and swearing a Torah oath with dedicates tohor middot as the king which directs a man’s future social behavior with others among his people. Why? Because Israel came out of the judicial oppression of Par’o corrut courtroom ‘Star Court’, to conquer and rule the land of Canaan with righteous judicial court room common law justice. Jewish common law completely different from Legislative statute law decrees — like Jewish courtroom common law absolutely estranged from Greek and Roman statute decrees ruled from some foreign Roman Senate.
Tefillah a matter of the heart. Based upon the instruction of Rabbi Yechuda’s Mishna in ברכות which explains בכל לבבך\כם as the struggle between opposing spirits – tohor vs. tuma – within the heart. The mitzva of blowing the Shofar interprets שם component of the brit sworn oath as a breath blown. But k’vanna separates, like shabbat from chol, the spirit living within the heart from the air emitted from the lungs. Hence the 6 Yom Tov and Shabbat, each dedicate and breath different spirit names alive within the heart. These spirit names Yah, Ha’el, El, Elohim, El Shaddai, Eish Ha’Elohim, and Shalom. The 3 ____ 3 Order of the Shemone Esrei makes a רמז\hint to this deep kabbalah which answers why tefillah requires k’vanna.
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How to study the Talmud through wisdom
The Torah was given at Sinai along with the tools—the middot (hermeneutical principles)—for deriving halakha from the Written Torah. Rabbi Yishmael codified the 13 logical principles (middot) by which halakha is deduced from the written Torah. This is not transmission of content but inductive reasoning—a system of legal logic.
Rabbi Akiva, especially through the Kabbalah of PaRDeS (Peshat, Remez, Derash, Sod), emphasized that every detail in the Torah—down to the crowns of letters—was a potential basis for halakhic inference. Again: it’s a system of interpretation, not rote transmission.
Example: The Oven of Achnai (Bava Metzia 59b)
Rabbi Eliezer calls on miracles and even a Bat Kol (Heavenly Voice) to prove his halakhic ruling. But the other rabbis reject it, quoting:
“לא בשמים היא” (It is not in Heaven)—Deut. 30:12
This affirms that halakha is decided through human debate using proper reasoning and hermeneutics, not by appeal to prophetic or mystical authority—even from Heaven.
When people say “Orthodoxy believes the Oral Torah was revealed at Sinai,” they often flatten the nuance and make it sound like the Mishnah or Gemara were dictated by God. This is not the Talmud’s view, and it’s not the view of Rabbi Akiva’s PaRDeS or Rabbi Yishmael’s 13 Middot. Halacha serves as precedents used to re-interpret a different face of the language of the Mishna. Much like the 3 different views of a blue-print permits the contractor to understand a three-dimensional idea from a two-dimensional sheet of paper.
The Oral Torah is not a set of dictated content (like a second scroll from Heaven) but a system of legal reasoning handed down with the Written Torah. The 13 middot of Rabbi Yishmael and PaRDeS hermeneutics of Rabbi Akiva are not simply “interpretation”—they are the constitutional logic system embedded in the covenantal structure of Torah common law. Halakha is not mysticism nor the product of prophecy—it is an earthly, oath-bound legal tradition, decided through human debate and precedent within the beit din. “Torah lo bashamayim hi” (It is not in Heaven) proves decisively that halakhic authority does not rest in divine voice, but in national legal common law process.
Liberal Judaism “rejects the traditional Orthodox doctrine of Torah mi-Sinai,” this means that Liberal Reform Judaism rejected the statute law of the Shulkan Aruch as archaic and not relevant to the modern Era. The idea: “The Oral Torah (Mishnah, Talmud) is a product of rabbinic creativity, but not inherently binding—because its authority isn’t rooted in a national brit or divine mandate.” Carries the interpretation that the courts in each and every generation bear the responsibility to interpret the meaning of the Oral Torah as it applies to each and every generation. Hence: “”Halakhic authority does not derive from Sinai, nor from logical derivation through rabbinic hermeneutics, but rather from modern ethical intuition, historical context, and evolving values.””
The Oral Torah is not a second text revealed at Sinai, but the juridical system—the logic, rules of inference, and interpretive methodology—transmitted alongside the Written Torah. Rabbi Yishmael’s 13 Middot and Rabbi Akiva’s PaRDeS framework serve as the constitutional instruments for halakhic – primarily inductive precedent drosh reasoning and secondarily deductive learning any precedent from some other Gemara source through a triangle. Meaning the sugya which contains the גזרה שוה which links one mesechta to other mesechtot of Gemara precedents. This “common denominator shared between two or more mesechtot of Gemarah, contained within a large sugya. Just as the shemone esrei stands upon ORDER 3 + 13 + 3 blessings, so to the Talmud organizes each and every sugya of Gemara based upon a logical organization of ideas. The shortest distance between two points a straight line. This idea called a simple sh’itta. Therefore to understand a specific point shared between multiple Gemaras, like a fraction shares a common denominator with other fractions, each sugya of Gemara opens and closes with a thesis statement and a thesis statement restated in a slightly different way! Therefore since the shortest distance between two points – a sh’itta straight line, therefore any halacha within the body of this same sugya of Gemara has to likewise fit somewhere along the straight sh’itta line. Herein explains how each sugya of Gemara organized with a precise Order.
Therefore this logical deduction based upon three points compares to a triangle like syllogism of deductive reasoning. Which permits the scholar to re-interpret his own sugyah of Gemara based upon this new novel perspective. Furthermore this scholar can likewise re-interpret the language of the Mishna by viewing it from this novel perspective just as the front view of a blue print does not resemble the top and side views of the same blue print.
This simple articulation of Talmudic jurisprudence as a geometric-legal system. You are not only capturing the inner architecture of the Talmudic sugya, but also grounding it in a methodology of induction, structured deduction, and canonical order, all rooted in the covenantal logic of Torah law. The Oral Torah is not a second text revealed at Sinai, but a juridical system—a logic of interpretation, inference, and precedent—transmitted alongside the Written Torah as the operational structure of the national brit to persue righteous justice and have Sanhedrin courts make fair restitution of damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B among our people in all generations. Herein defines Faith from the Torah.
Rabbi Yishmael’s 13 Middot and Rabbi Akiva’s PaRDeS methodology constitute the constitutional instruments by which halakhic rulings are derived. This system is not prophetic or mystical, but rational and precedent-based, relying on inductive reasoning from case law and deductive geometry drawn from shared conceptual structures. Each sugya of Gemara is structured as a sh’itta—a straight conceptual line, the shortest distance between the sugya’s opening thesis statement and its closing restatement. Just as the Shemoneh Esrei stands upon a structured order (3 + 13 + 3 blessings), so too, each sugya possesses a precise inner order of ideas, legal arguments, and canonical references.
When precedent comparisons jump off the dof, to grasp the different dof of Gemara requires making a triangular linkage logical deduction disciplined training technique. Since a sugya is built upon a logical progression of arguments—like points on a line—any halakhic statement within the sugya must fit along that conceptual sh’itta.
This structural model allows for novel interpretation within the sugya—not by invention, but by realignment. A scholar can interpret this off the dof different Gemara sugya to reinterpret how he understands his own dof of Gemara together with his Misna view from a fresh completely different perspective. Much like the facets of a diamond. This is possible only by working within the Order of the off the Dof sugya’s geometric integrity, ensuring each legal poooint lies on the same conceptual sh’itta line of reasoning. A kind of syllogism: if A and B make a straight line then C (located in the body of that off the dof sugya) must rest somewhere on that line that connects points A & B into a simple sh’itta. Thus, the halakhist functions like an engineer interpreting a 3D blueprint: each new angle opens new insights, but all must cohere within the structure’s lawful design.
The Oral Torah is not a floating sea of opinion, nor a mystical voice from Heaven—it is a blueprinted structure of legal logic. Each sugya of Gemara is a tightly ordered unit, whose inner geometry can be mapped by, A) Sh’itta logic (linear argument), B) Triangle logic (comparing the opening thesis statement of the off the dof sugya with the closing statement of the off the dof sugya and the גזירה שוה shared common denominator, be it a different mesechta of Gemara based upon rabbi Rabbeinu Tam’s common law sh’itta of learning off the Dof of Gemara or learning directly to the Jerushalmi Talmud itself. C) Inductive precedent logic compares one sugya of Gemara to other mesechtot of different Gemaras. Whereas deductive logic understands that each and every sugya of Gemara leans like the two legs of a triangle which forms its simple hypotinus simple sh’itta line. This system not only explains the organizational precision of Talmudic discourse, but also justifies halakhic reinterpretation within the משנה תורה common law revelation of the Torha at Sinai.
The Oral Torah as Geometric Jurisprudence: Sh’itta Logic, Triangular Reasoning, and the Covenant of Justice. The Oral Torah is not a secondary revelation, nor a mystical supplement to the Written Torah. It is a juridical logic system—a structure of inference, precedent, and conceptual order—transmitted alongside the Written Torah as the operational core of the national brit between HaShem and Israel.
This brit exists not to express personal spirituality, but to pursue righteous justice and enable Sanhedrin courts in every generation to fairly adjudicate disputes, especially to determine restitution (damages) owed from Party A to Party B. The pursuit of justice through ordered legal interpretation is, by definition, the Torah’s conception of faith (emunah).
Just as the Shemoneh Esrei is structured (3 + 13 + 3 blessings), each sugya possesses a tightly ordered internal structure. Every halakhic point within the sugya must lie along this sh’itta, or else it does not belong to that sugya’s line of legal reasoning. The full conceptual understanding, inductive reasoning of a sugya requires a comparison across masechtot—jumping off the daf to another Gemara whose shared precedent or g’zeirah shavah forms the common denominator.
The triangle syllogism deductive logic of quickly learning the sh’itta of the off the dof precedent Gemara enhance the inductive logic which compared the shared common denominator גזירה שוה Gemaras in the first place.
Torah as Constitutional Justice, Not Mystical Religion. The Oral Torah is not a sea of conflicting opinions nor a mystical oracle from Heaven. It is the blueprinted legal logic of the national covenant—a common law revelation grounded at Sinai, encoded in D’varim/Mishneh Torah, and clarified through the Talmud’s intellectual discipline & precision of sugya Order. Herein explains how the editors of the Talmud, Rav Ashi, Rav Ravina, and the Savoraim scholars edited the Sha’s Bavli. This jurisprudence, expressed through sh’itta logic, triangular deduction, and inductive precedent, is the true revelation of Torah law—the foundation of Israel’s brit, the substance of Jewish faith, and the engine of divine justice throughout all generations.
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In the Shadow of the Lie, In the Light of the Brit … Blood and Brit: A Judgment Against Revision and Hypocrisy.
In the shadow of the past, they twist and turn,
Revisionist tongues, where the embers burn.
Genocide,” they cry—a hollow refrain,
While Tora! Tora! fades in disdain.(1).
Infamy cloaked in a selective veil,
As kingdoms of Judea fade, their stories pale.
Three crowns of defiance, in history’s grip,
While the Arab presence slips, a phantom’s trip.
Jordan’s grasp on Samaria, a name to erase,
“West Bank” they call it, a political face.
No state for the people, no dreams to ignite,
Just shadows of rulers who vanished from sight.
Egypt held Gaza, a fleeting charade,
Yet Nasser’s ambitions left nothing but shade.
Arafat’s embrace of a name, ’64 newly found,
In the wake of recapture, the truth’s tightly bound.
Revisionist whispers, like ghosts in the night,
Denying the horrors, distorting the light.
To compare Gaza as Holocaust, a vile, bitter jest,
In the theater of history, they fail the true test.
So let them rewrite, let them spin their tale,
But the weight of the truth will forever prevail.
For history’s not written by lies that deceive,
Though buried in Arab sands of deception & fraud,
Israel arises in Zion, on its own ancient National feet.
WordPress participants, if you slap the term “genocide” onto Israel’s response to the Oct 7th Abomination War, then intellectual honesty demands you paste the same label on the Dec 7th, 1941 assault—the “day of infamy”—which launched America into World War II. Accusing Israel of genocide while excusing the Allies’ firebombing of Tokyo and atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reveals either flagrant hypocrisy or ideological dishonesty.
Revisionist hacks whitewash the role Arab states played between 1948 and 1967, fabricating a myth in which a sovereign Palestine once flourished—until Israel supposedly destroyed it.
In truth, Jews rooted themselves in the land through three distinct political eras:
The united Twelve-Tribe Kingdom,
The Judean Republic under Persian suzerainty, and
The Hasmonean Dynasty, which threw off Greek-Syrian domination through armed revolt.
No Arab or Muslim polity ever ruled a sovereign state in the land now called Israel. Between 1948 and 1967, Jordan occupied Samaria—renaming it the “West Bank” in a rhetorical land grab—but never lifted a finger to forge a Palestinian state. The British Mandate for Palestine dissolved in 1948; no successor Arab government attempted to revive it. Arab states rejected UN 181, Britain’s feeble divide and conquer UN 242. Post the Nakba defeat and Israeli Independence, the UN has no authority to impose 194 – “right of return” upon the Jewish state. Despite the Goebbels repeated mantra refrain: Zionist entity Crusader State.
Egypt, likewise, seized control of Gaza. Despite the 1950 UN condemnation (endorsed by every member state except England and Pakistan), Egypt’s monarch made no moves toward Palestinian statehood. Nasser later toppled that king, but Arafat didn’t even adopt the term “Palestine” until 1964—just three years before Israel’s recapture of both Gaza and Samaria. The PLO’s founding charter, penned under Arab occupation, refused to claim either territory; instead, it called for Israel’s destruction. Their silence about Gaza and the West Bank in 1964 screams louder than any later propaganda.
Revisionist history mimics Holocaust denial by distorting the record, concealing cause and context, and blaming the victim for surviving.
When Ben-Gurion and the Zionist leadership named the new state “Israel,” they didn’t merely select a name—they resurrected an identity. “Israel” evoked ancient sovereignty, tethered modern Jewish nationalism to ancestral roots, and announced a reborn nation. This name galvanized a people and reshaped geopolitics.
Had the Jews named the state “Palestine,” the identity landscape might have fractured. For centuries, “Palestine” referred to geography—not Arab nationality. During the British Mandate, the term “Palestinian” often denoted Jews, not Arabs. Arabs roundly rejected both the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the 1922 League of Nations Mandate, which carved out a Jewish National Home. That rejection didn’t spring from a desire for Palestinian independence—it flowed from opposition to Jewish statehood.
The Jerusalem Post bore the title Palestine Post during the Mandate, further underlining the term’s original association with Jews. The Zionist movement, founded on Herzl’s vision, drew legitimacy from the Balfour Declaration. Every Arab war against Israel traces back to Arab rejection of Jewish self-determination.
Foreign propaganda outfits often deploy the word “created” to smear Israel as artificial or illegitimate. But in 1947, two-thirds of the UN voted in favor of Jewish self-determination in the Middle East. Following Israel’s Declaration of Independence, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union immediately recognized the Jewish state. Yet Arab states categorically rejected the British-sponsored UN Resolution 181 and waged war to erase Israel from the map.
The emergence of a “Palestinian Arab” national identity didn’t arise in a cultural vacuum—it developed as a reaction to Zionism and the Jewish victory in the War of Independence. Jewish sovereignty forced clarity onto a region long trapped in imperial ambiguity.
We didn’t steal a land. We reclaimed a homeland—and we won our war of national survival. Arab propaganda still clings to the word “created” because it cannot stomach the truth: Israel wasn’t manufactured by foreigners. Jews rebuilt it. Fought for it. Bled for it. Secured it.
The Palestinian national identity emerged in opposition to Zionism, not as a longstanding expression of sovereignty. Historical facts—like the Jewish political presence across millennia, the origins of the term “Palestinian,” and the legitimacy of Israel’s statehood—have been distorted by propaganda.
“There are those who parade mitzvos in public and butcher the brit in private.” Yet even as we confront the lies of nations, we must confront the lies we whisper to ourselves—in the shadows of our courts and the corners of our sanctuaries.
They sculpt their piety for the crowd. They cloak themselves in tallit and tefillin while gutting mishpat behind locked doors. Their lips chant hallel; their hands extort, manipulate, betray. They don Torah like theater, not oath. They fear scandal, not sin. Exposure, not exile. They crave applause, not HaShem’s judgment. They hijack yirat shamayim and weaponize it for social control.
“And there are those who break Torah laws in Zion, but build it in secret.”
They offend the eye. They scandalize the synagogue. They clash with halakhic decorum. But when no one watches, they feed the widow, guard the convert, return the lost. They wrestle with the brit in the dead of night. No banners. No blessings. Just emunah forged in sweat and silence. They cut paths through darkness while the righteous sleep.
“I prefer the latter.”
The Kotzker doesn’t flinch. He scorches the hypocrite. He crowns the broken. He hunts the soul that bleeds for justice while the choir sings. Better the one who stumbles in daylight but plants mishpat in the shadows than the one who dazzles the crowd while hollowing out Sinai with assimilated Greek logic and statute halachic codes. Better the sinner who limps toward HaShem than the Cohen who flees like naked Adam who clothes himself in gold and titles.
A Mashal: The Two Sons of the King: Yitzak & Yishmael
To what may this be compared? To a King who had two sons.
One son dressed each morning in royal garments. He walked the palace courts with a Koran under his arm and Molotov cocktail burning in the wind while publicly fasting on Ramadan to show honor to the homeless poor. When courtiers passed, he bowed low and recited Surahs & Ayahs in full voice. He offered tithes from the royal table and dipped his bread with flourish. But in the cellar—where no servant dared tread—his corrupted scales weighted profits from theft, scrolls smeared with lies, two separate accounting books. His voice rang holy; but his hands shed the innocent blood of corruption.
The other son wore torn g’lut clothes and wandered the outer gates. He walked upon dusty roads while his lofty brother goose stepped upon paved sidewalks. He spoke roughly, fought openly, and refused to step into any court which switched the syllogism for פרדס(2). When he prayed tefillah within his heart, the k’vanna did not address any God in the Heavens, but rather he stood before the Torah ark and remembered the oaths sworn by the Avot. The ministers mocked him; the elders wrote him off. But by night he visited the sick. He buried the forgotten. He returned coins dropped by the blind. His door on Shabbat remained open to orphans and strangers. He studied Torah alone, by candle, and wept when he did not understand its common law פרדס inductive logic. No trumpet announced his deeds. No ledger recorded them but the King’s.
When the Day of Reckoning came, both sons were summoned. The first stood proud, wrapped in Alba, Stole, Chasuble, Cincture, Pectoral Cross, and Liturgical Colors. The second stood silent, eyes lowered, hands crusted and scarred. And the King said:
“Better the son who stumbles in the street but guards My brit in secret, than the one who honors Me with his lips but who Koran never once mentions the brit in print. (3) For I do not seek actors in My court, but servants who carry justice in the marrow of their bones.”
Thus taught the Kotzker Rebbe: “Give me no angel wrapped in costume. Give me the soul that limps, bleeds, hides—but clings to HaShem with both fists.”
Chagigah 5b:
The baal teshuvah does not merely regret; he wrestles, burns, and rebuilds. He rips out the rotted beams of his past and drives Torah into new ground. No pedigree props him up. No ancestral merit shields him. He grafts emunah into the flesh of his heart and buries it deep within the souls of his children—where no eye sees, where only HaShem weighs the kiddushin mitzva of ‘fruitful and multiply’. He constructs his legal identity from the rubble of assimilation and statute laws. He births halakhic common law identity out of intermarriage chaos—not through inheritance, but through fire. Through sweat. Through judgment. Through t’shuvah.
The righteous man who never falls may stand, but the baal teshuvah ascends. Not like a Cohen on temple steps—but like a soldier dragging himself up Sinai, gashed, ragged, but clutching the sworn oath brit in stained bloodied hands. The baal teshuvah climbs from the pit of assimilation and intermarriage ruin to build something stronger than innocence—he builds justice from ash.
This Kotzker line doesn’t whisper piety. It shouts Torah common law. It carves a verdict: authenticity belongs to the one who fights for the brit in secret. The Rebbe doesn’t moralize—he judges. He cuts down the pius religious Jew who bases statute law Judaism code upon Greek foreign logic.
۞ Haqq al-Kadhib: The Truth of the Lie ۞
In the cadence of ancient reproach
Have they not claimed what they did not build?
Have they not wept over stones they did not lay?
Have they not called themselves what they were not named?
Lo! The land spoke before their tongue.
The hills bore witness before their fathers’ dust.
Zion remembered her children—
But they remembered not her name.
They cry “return”—but whence did they come?
From Kheibar? From Damascus? From the sands of Najd?
Not from Yehudah, not from Shomron.
Their fathers did not plant olives in Ephraim.
Their mothers did not sing by the waters of Zion.
Woe to the people who inherit envy.
Woe to the nation born of grievance.
They forged a people from negation.
They raised a flag over a wound.
And say: “Nakba! Nakba!”
But who cast the first spear?
Who heard the call of Mufti and Pharaoh?
Who marched seven nations against one boy, wrapped in prophecy?
And they were broken like clay jars on the threshing floor.
And lo—they claim Jerusalem!
Did their prophets anoint it?
Did their songs rise from her gates?
No—
The Temple did not weep for them.
The Cohonim did not speak their tongue.
Say to them:
You are Ishmael, son of the field—
And we are Israel, bound to the altar.
We remember the fire.
You remember the sand.
So perish the lie that cloaks itself in keffiyeh.
Perish the myth born in Cairo’s tongue.
The land knows her children.
The stones cry out against their claim.
And history is not mocked.
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(1) “Tora” references the Japanese military code for “lightning attack” (totsugeki raigeki), famously transmitted during the Pearl Harbor assault on December 7, 1941. The line critiques modern willful ignorance or contempt toward historical warnings or aggression.
(2) “פרדס” (Pardes) – A one-line footnote or aside explaining the four levels of Torah exegesis (Peshat, Remez, Derash, Sod) might enhance the meaning of rejecting syllogism for covenantal reasoning.
(3) The koran affirms earlier prophets but omits the concept of the brit as a legal-political alliance cut with Israel. The first word of the Torah בראשית contains ברית אש.
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A Review of German Leaders During WWII and thereafter
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) spat out speeches that shackled education to the Führerprinzip. This “Leader Principle,” the iron gauntlet gripping Nazi Germany, crushed democratic voices and pulverized collective will beneath the sole rule of the Führer—Hitler’s ruthless dominion. It throttled dissent, enslaved minds, and forged a dictatorship of absolute obedience. “The Führer himself and he alone is the present and future German reality and its law.” Heidegger declared. Under this doctrine, dissent throttled, minds enslaved, and the dictatorship of absolute obedience forged.
Heidegger hailed the Nazi revolution, at first, as a spiritual rebirth of the German Volk. A man stripped of shame, he refused to kneel, never coughed up an apology, never retracted his venomous allegiance. After the war, he slithered through denazification, dodging accountability and twisting truth with evasive lies.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer thundered opposition at Nazism from its dawn. He hurled blistering public condemnations at Hitler’s regime, especially its savage persecution of Jews, and hammered together the Confessing Church to shatter the Nazi state’s iron grip on Christianity. Bonhoeffer’s Ethics, where he writes of “cheap grace” as the lie that gutted German Christianity.
The German Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) erupted in the late 1930s, clawing back against the Nazi regime’s choking stranglehold on Protestantism, particularly within Lutheranism. After Hitler seized power in 1933, the regime dragged Protestant churches into the German Evangelical Church—a grotesque puppet engineered to broadcast Nazi hate, soaked in anti-Semitism and militant nationalism.
The Barmen Declaration (1934), forged by firebrands like Karl Barth and Bonhoeffer, ripped to shreds the Nazi regime’s attempt to enslave the church. It blasted state control, spat contempt in the face of political distortion, and declared open war on the regime’s monstrous manipulation of Christian faith. The Confessing Church ignited fierce resistance, its leaders hurling themselves into the breach, condemning anti-Semitic laws, and refusing to bow before tyranny. The state retaliated with brutal repression—arrests, beatings, and executions—but the Church’s defiance fractured the Nazi façade of total control.
Yet the Confessing Church splintered from within, torn between cautious cooperation and fiery rebellion. While some whispered compromise, Bonhoeffer and his allies sharpened their swords for active resistance. As Nazi terror tightened its grip, the Church staggered under relentless persecution—leaders vanished into prisons, congregations shuttered, voices crushed. Still, their moral blaze refused to be extinguished.
The Nazi regime clung desperately to the co-opted Lutheran Church to mask its monstrous agenda in sanctimony. Through the German Christian movement, the Nazis crushed dissent, injected venomous Aryan theology into sermons, and wielded Christian rhetoric to justify genocide and militarism. They weaponized faith to twist loyalty into fanaticism, forging a perverse godhead that sanctified cruelty.
Meanwhile, the Vatican under Pope Pius XII held its silence like a fortress of cowardice. Despite witnessing the Confessing Church’s fierce opposition, Pius XII calculated cold diplomacy over righteous outcry. When Rome’s Jews faced deportation in 1943, he offered hollow excuses instead of incendiary condemnation, betraying the innocent to the machinery of death. His 1942 Christmas message, where he vaguely lamented the persecution of “hundreds of thousands,” but refused to name Jews or Nazis.
Three Germans, three souls born into the turmoil of a shattered nation: Heidegger, the unrepentant collaborator, entangled in toxic ideology; Bonhoeffer, the prophetic conscience who sacrificed all to resist evil; and Pius XII, whose silence stained the Church’s legacy. Their stark choices carve a brutal fault line between genius warped by power, conscience sharpened by courage, and cowardice cloaked in diplomacy.
Post WWII – EKD – ((Protestant Church in Germany)) stands apart from the SELK – ((Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany)). The EKD permits and celebrates same-sex marriage; women’s ordination, and also Ecumenism: the principle or aim of promoting unity and cooperation among different Christian denominations and churches. The SELK rejects same-sex marriage, women’s ordination, and Ecumenism.
The EKD has redefined marriage not based on Scripture or natural law, but on secular cultural trends. By blessing same-sex unions, the EKD is seen as endorsing non-biblical sexual ethics, undermining the traditional understanding of sin, repentance, and sanctification. The EKD treats ordination as egalitarian activism, influenced more by feminism than theology. The EKD’s ecumenism engages in joint communions with Catholics and interfaith events with Muslims. It therein embraces a theological universalism.
Some conservative critics argue that after WWII, Germany’s Protestant churches—especially the EKD—shifted from the bravery of the Confessing Church (Bonhoeffer, Barth) to a theology of guilt, which sought to atone for Nazism through cultural submission and theological revisionism. In fleeing fascism, they embraced relativism. In rejecting tyranny, they surrendered truth. For traditional Christians, the EKD’s direction appears to be a moral unraveling, driven by guilt, political correctness, and secularism. This EKD shift from Bonhoeffer’s sacrificial resistance to liberal conformity, perhaps best summarizes the stark proof that Bonhoeffer’s theology did not survive his execution by the Nazis. Postwar Protestantism bury his witness beneath the rubble of moral relativism and progressive ideology.
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The Vulgate and Lutheran Bible translations so disgusting – eat shit and die – “translations”. What a pathetic joke. Werewolves, Vampires, and Frankenstein … follow with the cowardly lion, down the Yellow Brick Road – Oh my! Following Cults of Personality only produce Mao, Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot like – dumbasses.
John Calvin and Martin Luther, pivotal figures in the Protestant Reformation, each contributing significantly to the movement in distinct ways. Martin Luther (1483-1546), best known for his “95 Theses,” which he famously nailed to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517. This document criticized the Catholic Church’s practices, particularly the sale of indulgences, and called for reform.
His theology emphasized the doctrine of justification by faith alone, arguing that salvation is a gift from God and cannot be earned through good works or church rituals. Asserting that salvation is a gift from God, this theology day and night different from Torah common law as expressed through T’NaCH prophetic mussar common law and Talmudic halachic judicial common law. This prioritization of faith as the pursuit of judicial justice – fair compensation of damages inflicted by Jews upon other Jews, radically different from the theologies spewed forth by the Protestant Reformation.
Luther made an utterly sophomoric translation the Bible into German, which utterly failed and even compounded the Vulgate perversion of the T’NaCH. Luther’s translation became “The Word” for the ignorant Lutheran laity. He promoted the idea that individuals could interpret scripture without knowledge of Hebrew or Aramaic and despised the Roman clergy who relied upon Latin and Greek. Luther’s ideas established Lutheranism, and challenged the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church, leading to the formation of various Protestant denominations.
John Calvin (1509-1564), Calvin built upon Luther’s ideas but introduced a more systematic theology. His work, “Institutes of the Christian Religion,” laid out his beliefs about predestination, the sovereignty of God, and the nature of the church. He established Geneva as a center of Protestantism, implementing a theocratic government that enforced moral discipline and promoted education and social welfare. Calvin’s teachings led to the development of Reformed theology, influencing various Protestant groups, including the Presbyterians and the Huguenots. He stressed the importance of a disciplined Christian community and the role of the church in guiding believers’ lives.
The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572; the Huguenots were French Protestants influenced by John Calvin’s teachings. Tensions between the Catholic majority and the Protestant minority led to a series of civil wars known as the French Wars of Religion. The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was a turning point, where thousands of Huguenots were killed in Paris and across France, marking a significant moment of barbaric religious violence. This period was characterized by political intrigue, shifting alliances, and brutal conflicts, ultimately leading to the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which granted limited religious freedoms to the Huguenots. However, this tolerance was revoked in 1685, leading to further persecution and the exodus of many Huguenots from France.
The immediate trigger for the Thirty Years’ War came in 1618 with the Defenestration of Prague, where Protestant nobles in Bohemia revolted against the Catholic Habsburg rule. This event marked the beginning of the war, but the underlying tensions had been building since the formation of the Catholic League and Protestant Union. The events of 1609, particularly the formation of the Catholic League under Maximilian of Bavaria, were crucial in setting the stage for the Thirty Years’ War. The conflict would evolve into a complex struggle involving various European powers, driven by both religious and political motivations, leading to widespread devastation across the continent.
The Protestant Union, established in 1608, was indeed led by Frederick IV, the Elector Palatine, and aimed to protect the rights and interests of Protestant states against Catholic encroachments. This was a response to the increasing tensions and conflicts arising from the Reformation and the subsequent political landscape in Europe.
In reaction to the Protestant Union, the Catholic League was formed in 1609, primarily to counter the influence of Protestant states and to protect Catholic interests. This military alliance included several Catholic states and was a significant factor in the lead-up to the Thirty Years’ War, which began in 1618. These alliances were crucial in shaping the religious and political dynamics of the time, leading to significant conflicts and changes in power within the Holy Roman Empire and beyond.
The Peace of Westphalia in 1648, which ended the Thirty Years’ War, was primarily focused on resolving the conflicts arising from that war rather than directly addressing the earlier events of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. The Peace of Westphalia consisted of a series of treaties that concluded the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) and the Eighty Years’ War (1568-1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic. It marked a significant turning point in European history, establishing a new order based on state sovereignty.
The Peace of Westphalia and the ensuing treaties recognized the coexistence of Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism within the Holy Roman Empire. This was a crucial step towards religious tolerance, as it aimed to stabilize the region by allowing various Christian denominations to coexist. The treaties recognized the coexistence of Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism within the Holy Roman Empire. France gained territories in Alsace and parts of Lorraine, while Sweden gained influence in northern Germany.
While the Peace of Westphalia did not directly address the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, it did contribute to a broader context of religious tolerance and the recognition of Protestant rights in Europe. The massacre had already highlighted the violent tensions between Catholics and Protestants in France, leading to a long period of civil strife. The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572) deepened the divide between Catholics and Protestants in France, leading to further civil wars and conflicts. It exemplified the extreme violence and intolerance that characterized the period.
In the same year as the ‘Peace of Westphalia’ (1648), witnessed the barbaric explosion of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack-Polish War. Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the leader (1648-57) of the Zaporozhian Cossacks who organized a rebellion against Polish rule in Ukraine that ultimately led to the transfer of the Ukrainian lands east of the Dnieper River from Polish to Russian control. His barbarian Cossack hordes slaughtered perhaps 1 million Jews living in the Ukraine and Poland.
Germany annexed Prussia from Poland during the partitions of Poland, which occurred in three stages. (1772) – Prussia gained the region of West Prussia, which included parts of Polish territory. (1793) – Prussia acquired additional territories, including parts of Greater Poland. (1795) – Prussia annexed the remaining parts of Poland, including areas that would later be known as Prussian Poland.
After World War II, the Allies did not restore Poland to its pre-partition borders; instead, they established new borders based on the outcomes of the war and the decisions made at conferences among the Allied powers. Poland lost significant territory in the east to the Soviet Union, including areas such as Lviv (Lwów) and parts of what is now western Ukraine and Belarus. In compensation, Poland was granted territory in the west, including parts of former German territories such as Silesia, Pomerania, and the southern part of East Prussia. Poland was re-established as a sovereign state after the war, but its borders were significantly different from those before the partitions in the late 18th century.
Goyim superficially read “their” bible abominations of Av tumah avoda zarah. But continuously, from generation to generation, and Age from Age, they fail to learn and apply the rebuke given to them by their own God! JeZeus said: “By their fruits, you shall know them”. Reactionary Xtians read their bible trash translations oblivious to this fundamental rebuke. Its not the Nicene Creed theologies etc or Luther or Calvin theologies that determine their faith, rather its their barbaric Yatzir Ha’Rah to pursue violence and judicial injustice which testifies to the bankrupsy of every Xtian theology starting with that of Paul and JeZeus. Xtian Av tuma avoda zara just as crude and utterly devoid of humanity as the ancient Babylonian, and Greek and Roman empires which this NT theology replace those cultures and customs practiced by peoples from earlier times.
Bottom line … no belief in JeZeus in any theology, creed, or dogma can atone for the Shoah and the generational crimes which led up to the Shoah. Belief in JeZeus, regardless of Xtian or Koran theologies decrees those believers an eternal fire in Hell. Xtian parents should cast their bible abominations to the flame of Hell before permitting this Av tuma avoda zarah to infect the souls of their children.
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