GALILEE FLOWERS By Israel Shamir | February 25, 2001
When in 1543, the typhoon-blown Portuguese schooners approached the shores
of Japan, the astonished sailors could not believe their eyes: on a warm
spring day, the tropical island ahoy was buried under snow. They were
witness to one of the real Seven Wonders of the World, the flowers of
sakura, the wild cherry of Japan. As soon as the benevolent heaven bestows
this seasonal gift to earth, the Japanese forget their wives and kids,
their duties, employers and bills; they just sit under the trees, drink
sake wine and write poems, short and sharp as swords.
That is why, these days, leaving behind our man-made troubles, I sit under
the white cloud of a tree and watch the beautiful white and pink blossoms
of almond trees covering the hills of Galilee. These lovely blossoms are
our version of the Japanese sakura, and a chance to indulge in the custom
of flower viewing. A honey aroma wafts through the air; the skies are
crystal blue. Yellow daisies dance on the lush green grass at the base of
these almond wonders, interspersed by violet cyclamen and red anemones. The
glorious backdrop is provided by the huge snow mass of Jebel al Sheikh (Mt
Hermon). Palestine is a sister to Japan. These two hilly lands are home to
stubborn mountain folk, devoted to their customs and ways.
For all the similarities in the landscape, there are differences. The hill we
sit on, all white like Jaffa sea surf, is the ruin of a village. If we were in
Japan, it would be alive and humming. The village of Birim has been dead for
fifty years. It is beautiful even in death, like Ophelia floating down the
stream in the pre-Raphaelite painting of Millais. It was not ruined by war. Its
Christian inhabitants were expelled from their houses well after the 1948 war.
They were told to leave for a week or two, for "security" reasons. They had no
option but to believe the Israeli officers and move out. Their village was
dynamited, their church surrounded by barbed wire. They went to Israeli court,
they went to the government, commissions were appointed and petitions signed.
Nothing helped. Ever since, for 50 years, they have lived in the nearby villages
and on Sundays they continue to visit their church. Their lands were seized by
their Jewish neighbors, but they still bring their dead to be buried in the
church graveyard, under the sign of the cross.
Until the arrival of the Israeli army, this ruined village with its
orphaned church was the home of the rural Christians of Birim who, for
centuries of Moslem rule, lived in peace with their Moslem neighbors of
Nebi Yosha and with the old Sephardi Jewish community of nearby Safed.
This little Guernica in the Galillee can single-handedly undermine the myth of a
"Judeo-Christian" civilization opposing a "monstrous" Islam. This myth lays at
the foundation of the Christian Zionist movement; among its fervent supporters,
one can find a friend of Mark Rich and a newly minted New York citizen, W. J.
Clinton.
The problems of the Middle East are ugly enough without the current
Moslem-bashing. The pro-Israeli pundits of the New York Times quote the
blood-curling verses on Jihad, retell the old traditions of religious wars
and persecutions, to "prove" Islam's cruelty and intolerance. They are
repeated by a pleasant upper-class Jewish lady from London, Barbra Amiel.
In a sotto voce, she writes about "exclusivist" Islam and Jewish
"moderation". In order to incite hatred, Israelís lobby works all the
ropes. Before the rise of Israel, Arab sheiks were depicted as romantic
heroes in movies acted by Rudolf Valentino. Nowadays, the pro-Israel
producers of Hollywood turn out propaganda films on ill-shaven Moslem
terrorists with the subtlety of Edward D. Wood, Jr. This new prejudice is
amplified a hundredfold by the Christian Zionist Congress, claiming
"protection for Christians of Palestine from the Moslem (?!) persecution".
These people obviously have not walked among the ruins of Birim.
Another email comes into my laptop, this time from Gaza. An American girl,
Alison Weir from San Francisco evades Israeli bullets, comforts the scared
Palestinian kids, and writes: "The problem is when you know the truth, it
is far too cruel, far too diametrically opposite what we used to think and
what everyone still thinks to express. The lie is too big, the repression
too complete, the Palestinians' lives too horrible to write about
reasonably".
Well, Alison is right. We face a huge lie, an anti-Moslem blood libel, and
it is time to stop it. I do not think that the problems of Middle East have
anything to do with religion. But if the supporters of Israel want to wake up
the sleeping ghost of religious intolerance, to incite Christians
against Moslems, let us audit their balance.
If these Christian Zionists care for Christ, not only for Zion, let them
learn what Jews and Moslems feel towards Christ. Rami Rozen expressed the
Jewish tradition in a long feature in a major Israeli newspaper Haaretz[i]:
"Jews feel towards Jesus today what they felt in 4 c or in the Middle Ages: It
is not fear, it is hatred and despise" [sic]. "For centuries, Jews concealed
from Christians their hate to Jesus, and this tradition continues even now".
"He is revolting and repulsive", said an important modern religious Jewish
thinker. Rozen writes that this "repulsion passed from the observant Jews to
the general Israeli public".
On Christmas Eve, according to a report in the Jerusalem local paper, Kol
Ha-Ir[ii], Hassids customarily do not read holy books, as it could save
Jesus from eternal punishment (the Talmud teaches that Jesus boils in
hell[iii]). This custom was dying out, but Hassids of Habad, the fervent
nationalists, brought it back to life. I still remember old Jews spitting while
passing by a church, and cursing the dead, while passing by a Christian
cemetery. Last year in Jerusalem, a Jew decided to refresh the tradition. He
spat at Holy Cross, carried in the procession along the city. Police saved him
from further trouble, but the court fined him $50, despite his claim that he
just fulfilled his religious duty.
Last year, the biggest Israeli tabloid Yedioth Aharonoth reprinted in its
library the Jewish anti-Gospel, Toledoth Eshu, compiled in the Middle Ages. It
is the third recent reprint, including one in a newspaper. If the Gospel is the
book of love, Toledoth is the book of hate for Christ. The hero of the book is
Judas. He captures Jesus by polluting his purity. According to Toledoth, the
conception of Christ was in sin, the miracles of Jesus were witchcraft, his
resurrection but a trick.
Joseph Dan, a Professor of Jewish mysticism in Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, writing on the death of Jesus stated: "The modern Jewish
apologists, hesitantly adopted by the church, preferred to put the blame on
Romans. But the medieval Jew did not wish to pass the buck. He tried to
prove that Jesus had to be killed, and he was proud of killing Him. The
Jews hated and despised Christ and Christians". Actually, adds Prof. Dan,
there is little place to doubt that the Jewish enemies of Jesus caused his
execution.
Even today, Jews in Israel refer to Jesus by the demeaning word Yeshu
(instead of Yeshua), meaning "Perish his name". There is an ongoing
argument, whether His name was turned into a swear word, or other way
around. In a similar pun, the Gospel is called "Avon Gilaion", the booklet
of Sin. These are the endearing feelings of the friends of Christian
Zionists towards Christ.
What about Moslems? The Moslems venerate Christ. He is called "The Word of
God", "Logos", Messiah, the Prophet and is considered "a Messenger of God",
along with Abraham, Moses and Muhammad. Many chapters of the Kor'an tell the
story of Christ, his virgin birth and his persecution by Jews. His saintly
mother is admired, and the Immaculate Conception is one of the
tenets of Islam. The name of Christ glorifies the golden edifice of Haram
a-Sharif. According to the Moslem faith, it was there that the founder of
Islam met Jesus, and they prayed together. The Hadith, the Moslem
tradition, says in the name of the prophet, "We do not forbid you to
believe in Christ, we order you to". Moslems identify their prophet with
Paracletes, the Helper (Jn 14:16) whose coming was predicted by Jesus. They
venerate places associated with the life of Jesus: the place of Ascension, the
Tomb of Lazarus, the Holy Sepulchre are adjacent to a mosque and perfectly
accessible by Christians.
While Moslems do not consider Jesus God, they proclaim him as the Messiah,
the Anointed one, the Paradise Dweller. This religious idea, familiar to
Nestorians and other early churches, but rejected by mainstream
Christianity, opened the gates for those Jews, who could not part with the
notion of strict monotheism. That is why many Palestinian Jews and
Christians of the 7th century accepted Islam and became Palestinian
Moslems. They remained in their villages, they did not depart for Poland or
England, they did not learn Yiddish, they did not study the Talmud, but
they continued to shepherd their flocks and plant almond trees, they
remained faithful to their land and to the great idea of the fraternity of
men.
In the south of Hebron, in the ruins of Susiah, one can see how in the
course of two centuries a synagogue slowly evolved into a mosque, as the
population of nearby caves abandoned the exclusionary faith of Babylonian
wizards and adopted Islam. These shepherds still live there, in the same
caves. In the last year, the Israeli army has twice tried to expel them to
provide more room for new settlers from Brooklyn.
Why, in this season of blossoming almond trees, do I brood on the sensitive
subject of Jewish and Moslem attitudes towards Christ? Because one has to stop
the mills of hatred operated by Israel's supporters. Because the
"Judeo-Christian" code language is being used to justify the barbed wire around
Birim's Church and the tanks around Bethlehem. Because there is a duty to remove
an obstacle from the path of the blind.
The majority of the Christian Zionists are simple misled souls, people of
good intentions but little knowledge. They think they "support Jews", but
they promote the Christ-hating spirit among the Jews. It was not in vain
that a hero of the Zionist Bible, Exodus by Leon Uris, kept a poster in his room
saying "We crucified Christ". It was not in vain that an Israeli soldier on
the roadblock of Bethlehem told me yesterday, "We starve the beasts", referring
to the native Christians of the city of Nativity. It was not in vain that the
Gospel was burned on a stake in Israel, while anti-Gospel literature is widely
spread; that new immigrant Jews embracing Christianity are persecuted and
deported; that every preacher of the Christian faith in Israel can be sent to
jail according to new anti-Christian laws; that Israeli archaeologists erase the
Christian holy sites and memories off the face of the Holy Land.
To the leaders of the Christian Zionists, who surely know these facts, but
lead their innocent flock on the path of the Anti-Christ, I say, "Whoever
causes one of these little ones who believe in Christ to sin, it would be
better for him to have a large millstone tied round his neck and be drowned in
the deep sea" (Mt 18:6).
To my Jewish brothers I say: the opinions of medieval Jews do not bind us.
Every Jew can decide for himself, whether to pray for the destruction of
the Gentiles or to share the blessing of the Holy Land with the villagers
of Birim and Bethlehem. Within the Jewish people, there were always
spiritual descendants of the prophets who wished to bring peace and
blessing to all the children of Adam. As true as this almond blossom, in
you the prophecy will be fulfilled: "All the nations of the earth will
bless you" (Deut. 7).
Israel Shamir is one of the best-known and respected Russian Israeli
writers and journalists. He wrote for Haaretz, BBC, Pravda and translated
Agnon, Joyce and Chandler into Russian. His articles The Rape of Dulcinea,
Kid Sister and The Test Failed could be found on many Internet sites,
www.thestruggle.org
www.antiwar.com
www.NileMedia.com
He can be reached at sham...@netvision.net.il, or
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Related to the above article is the following which shows the hatred Jews have
for Jesus and Christians. These writings come from the Hasidic Lubavitch
movement and they are Orthodox. This is the same religious body which Senator
Joseph Lieberman associates himself with. When you read the following just
imagine how close America came to having a Vice President (who is only a heart
beat away from being the president) who accepts the following Anti-Christ
bigotry. Their own words people!
Subject: What Jews Teach About non-Jews and Their Souls (In Their Own Words)--R
2 --REPOST
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http://www.chabad.org/calendar/
(Main Page) Chabad in Cyberspace
Click search and you come to this link:
http://www.mnemotrix.com/chabad/
Enter into their "search engine" these words: non-Jew soul
and here is what you get:
1: Interview with the Lubavitcher Rebbe
http://www.chabad.org/miracle.htm
Torah the answers to their struggles and concerns. Throughout his years
of leadership, beginning in 1950, the Rebbe, in his inimitable style,
applied the depths of Torah scholarship to virtually every area of
life.... (18K)
Excerpt: " This afternoon we heard a lecture by Dr. Block in which he
explained that a Jew has a Divine spark. He didn't say explicitly, but he
intimated that only a Jew has this Divine spark but a non-Jew does not. Is
this so? To illustrate from the body again. Each part has its own
function: the brain to think, the heart to feel, and the legs to carry one
about. So the mission of a Jew in life is to transform the physicality of
the world into spiritual, divine. The non-Jew has a different purpose and
therefore the two do not have the same Divine spark."
2: Insights to Passover Haggadah
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/update/files/g3.htm
The word "Seder" means order. Everything we do tonight, must be done in
proper order. The Holy revelations on Pesach night are similar to the
Divine revelation at the time of Yetzias Mitzraim. Hashem wants the
Kedusha... (31K)
Excerpt: " ANSWER: In order to avoid assimilation our sages instituted
certain ordinances. Among them is the prohibition to drink wine which is
handled by a non-Jew. Throughout history the world has endeavored to
physically annihilate us. Many efforts have been made to detach us from
Hashem and Torah and thus destroy us spiritually. We lift the cup of wine
to indicate that thanks to our adherence to the command of not mingling
with the world by "drinking wine" in their company, we averted their every
effort to destroy us."
(Special Note from Doc Tavish: The Jewish Talmud even elaborates on the
above with this passage: "Libbre David 37: "To communicate anything to a
Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all
Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us
openly." Jewish Talmud You all can see how the writings complement each
other!)
3: Wellsprings
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/weekly/exodus/006/w7.htm
And those who repose in the dust will arise and sing." Sichos In English
22 Shvat, 5755 THREE INTERPRETATIONS THREE CATEGORIES OF MITZVOS
On the verse: [1] "These are the judgments which you shall place before
them,"... (27K)
Excerpt: " With regard to eidus, and surely with regard to chukim, there
is no need to forewarn against approaching non-Jewish judges, for it is
plainly obvious that non-Jewish judges do not share any connection to
these matters. Their rulings depend on human intellect, and they have no
connection to subjects which transcend human intellect."
4: The Chassidic Dimension
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/weekly/genesis/003/w2.htm
The Midrash comments: "While Avraham was traveling in Aram Naharayim.
he observed the inhabitants eating, drinking and acting frivolously and
wantonly. He said: 'I wish to have no part in this land.' When he
arrived... (18K)
Excerpt: " In the book " In The Ladder Up (Building Block No. 6)" it was
explained that Jews have a neshamah. This is the functional difference
between Jews and non-Jews. There is no Jew alive, no matter how he denies
his Judaism, who has not felt an affinity for another Jew which he cannot
explain. We can describe the neshamah. It is explained in Tanya that the
neshamah is a part of HaShem enclothed in the nefesh (soul) of a Jew. This
is the specific difference between Jews and non-Jews. Jews have a
neshamah, Gentiles do not."
(Special Note from Doc Tavish: The usage of the term "Nefesh" is meant to
claim that only Jews have a "divine soul" as shown here:
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/cjso/ChaiTimes/v2.2/Intermarriage.txt
(Link active for verification 2/24/2001) "There is no Intermarriage!
by Sam Kochman... ..., people must understand the difference between a Jew
and a non-Jew. There is one difference between a Jew and a non-Jew. A Jew
has a Nefesh, a divine soul, which a non Jew does not have. This soul is
part of G-d and this is what makes us Jews, not how many mitzvahs we do or
how good a person we are. The divine union of marriage is between
Nefeshot(two souls). When a Jew "marries" a non-Jew this union cannot
occur because there are not two souls to combine." Their very own words
people-- NOT mine!)
[...]
9: Wellsprings
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/weekly/genesis/009/w7.htm
Divine service of every Jew. To summarize in brief: a) divine service
involves work, not leisure; b) achdus, unity, is the first stage in these
efforts; and c) the success of these endeavors, and our source of
strength... (21K)
Excerpt: " This points to a difference of a larger scale between Jews and
non-Jews. Even while a Jew is involved with material concerns, he is
living on two planes simultaneously. Not only is he involved with the
material concerns of this world, he shares a connection to the spiritual
truth of the World to Come."
10: Torah Studies - Adaptation of Likutei Sichos
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/weekly/genesis/011/w2.htm
Yosef sustained his father and brothers." In light of the above, our Sages
interpret the verse: "Who leads the flock of Yosef," to mean that all the
people of Israel are known by the name Yosef, for it was he who... (18K)
Excerpt: " During this week every Jew will experience the commencement for
the year of the process of golus. Golus, by definition, is an evil. When a
Jew is without his roots, estranged from his spiritual base he experiences
golus. For most Jews today, golus is the time when, engulfed by his
non-Jewish environment, he succumbs to some sort of assimilation or
compromise of his Jewishness.
[Tavish comment: Notice that golus aka evil is compared to a non-Jewish
environment!]
There are still even more! The page has a link to go to:
"Hits 11-20 of a potential 733 hits."
These are only the first of 733 Hits!
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Subject: Jewish Anti-Christ Communist Sympathy and Identification With
Communists --
Jewish Communist Sympathy and Identification With Communists
From Chabad Lubavitch Cyberspace Website
In Their Own Words Series
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http://www.chabad.org/shavuos/besht.html
Baal Shem Tov
Happy Birthday, Baal Shem Tov! by Tzvi Freeman, author of "Bringing Heaven
Down to Earth - 365 Meditations of the Rebbe" Vivo Icon Listen to stories
of the Baal Shem Tov. Requires Vivo Plugin The Lubavitch Library...
Excerpt: " By the way, that year -- 1848 -- also occupies a central place
in the secular calendar. It was called the "year of revolutions" in
Europe, the most significant year in the fall of the old order. And
another major work by a very different Jewish author was published: The
Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx."
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/update/odysseys/episode.008.htm
My Life with the Online Hasidim
Rabbi Perl was ecstatic: "Can you imagine? Five children! I found five
Jewish children!" Photo/Graphic/Quote: Donna Gaines: "I needed to stand in
a traditional synagogue again, to be where women and men are separated...
Excerpt: " Lighting Shabbes candles I felt a connection to all Jewish
women in the world. I was grasping for the roots of what my parents,
Jesus, Marx, Freud, Hannah Arendt, and Lenny Bruce had given me. In his
discussion of machinery and modern industry in Volume I of Capital, Marx
contends that technology in and of itself is neutral; in the hands of the
artisan, a machine is a tool and embodies a certain type of "dearness."
Within capitalist production, where the aim is profit maximization, the
machine is imbued with an evil nature."
http://www.inner.org/gentiles/7noachide/7princip.htm
The Seven Principles of Faith and Divine Service for a Non
Just as each of the 613 commandments of the Torah given to the Jewish
people at Sinai possesses an inner dimension, so does each of the seven
Noachide laws possess an inner dimension. These are the seven
principles...
Excerpt: " When a non-Jew does possess a sense of affinity towards Jews,
he merits inspiration from the source of the soul of Israel. He becomes
motivated to be a good person in all of his relations to his fellow man
and to devote his life to the service of G-d. The rectification of the
non-Jewish world in general depends upon the inspiration and insight which
it receives from the Jewish people. In accordance with the principle of
clarification, as defined in Kabbalah, one can always deduce or extract a
spark of good from within the context of evil. The major non-Jewish
religion of Western culture believes in an individual Jew and worships him
as god. This is certainly a great transgression (of the fourth Noachide
commandment defined above). Nonetheless, from this evil we can deduce a
principle of good. The true rectification of the non-Jewish world will
come when it will recognize the Divinely ordained purpose of the Jewish
people to enlighten the world and bring about universal peace and
prosperity..."
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/daily/tanya/leap/09end/24.htm
part.04
And yet, they failed! Of the hundreds of millions `devotees' to all these
faiths and causes, only a tiny fraction are truly faithful to them. The
overwhelming majority are self-deluding hypocrites: they take from...
Excerpt: " Believer: Secondly, they did succeed---to the extent that they
do concur with the essence of man and of creation. Communism, despite its
flaws and corruptions, has had a profound effect on our sense of social
justice. Christianity, despite the horrendous atrocities it perpetrated
and justified, played a major role in introducing, to a largely pagan
world, the concepts (though much adulterated) of a one, omnipotent and
non- corporeal G-d and of a messianic end-goal to existence."
http://www.fastlane.net/~bneinoah/life.html
CB"N - The Covenant of Everlasting Life
The idea of everlasting life is rather appealing to most folks. A somewhat
primal yearning seemingly tugs at us to somehow reclaim that certain
something which Adam and Chava lost when they sunk their teeth into...
Excerpt: " And now a personal observation, if you please: If (indeed, IF:
hypothetical speculation with such an example is, at best, an exercise of
futility - the socio-historical situation speaks for itself in the
archives of Jewish history) the righteous Jews of the Second Temple period
had taught the Seven Laws of Noah to the non-Jews, there would never have
risen a religion such as Christianity. With the knowledge that (through
the observance of the Sheva Mitzvot B nei Noach) everlasting life could be
attained as promised by Hashem to Noach, the resulting fabrication that
everlasting life could come only through belief and worship of a human
being would never have happened. Instead, as we have noted, the teaching
concerning the Covenant of the Rainbow - The Covenant of Everlasting Life,
had been forced into hiding by the vicious persecution of the Jews, and
the new covenant of Christianity was but a pagan attempt to replace the
eternal Covenant made by Hashem to Noach."
http://www.fastlane.net/~bneinoah/feb98view.html
CB"N - ViewPoint: February 1998
"Although the Jews are prohibited from speaking out against idolatry in
lands outside the land of Israel, we must keep in mind that this is our
land, that these are our people. The Bible is full of stories about what
happens to Gentile lands that do not enforce the prohibition of idolatry.
Why don't we direct our energies on doing something about the idolatry
within our own land? Christianity clearly violates the two primary Laws of
the Torah, that of idolatry and blasphemy. We need to take action. We need
to go on the offensive. We need to strive to establish courts that uphold
all of the Laws of Noah, not just a few of them. And maybe then, when the
Church is too busy trying to save its own idolatrous skin to worry about
converting the Jews, will they have the time to do other things, such as
teach us the Sheva Mitzvot."
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Subject: Bigoted Reasoning of Jews on Relations with Non-Jews From Chabad
Lubavitch Cyberspace Website
In Their Own Words Series
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All "searches" in this post were made using:
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If anyone thinks I am making a stretch accusing Jewish teachings of being
bigoted then just use this simple test: substitute Jew or Jewish with
white and non-Jew with non-white. We don't want two standards do we?
Using Keywords in the search engine: non-Jew bread
We get these examples among others:
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/weekly/genesis/008/w10.htm
The Parted Curtain - 52 steps to Fullfilment
And Yaakov sent messengers." (32:4) QUESTION: Rashi comments: "Malachim
mamash" Actual angels." What right did Yaakov have to use Hashem's angels
as his messengers? ANSWER: In the final pesukim of the previous
parshah,...
Excerpt: " ANSWER: From the fact that a non-Jew hates a Jew, a new halacha
was formulated. If two Jews are eating a meal, one eating meat and the
other dairy, they are not to share one table because they may exchange
some of their food. However, a Jew and a non-Jew are permitted to share a
table, even if one is eating meat and the other is eating dairy. The
reason is that the non-Jew hates the Jew and there will not be any
exchange of food between them."
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/weekly/leviticus/009/w6.htm
Insights to Geula
Discover Moshiach" is available in printed format with art clipings. Ideal
for use in School and Home. It is suitable for children and adults. Buy
your own printed version from Rabbi Bell * Electronic version is... (6K)
Excerpt: " The Parsha tells us that Eretz Yisroel is especially holy
during the sh'mita year. Nevertheless, the food which grows may be fed to
non- Jews. If it is so holy, why may it be given to them?"
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/weekly/numbers/008/w10.htm
Homily's in Q&A Format on the Weekly Torah Portion
And Balak saw all that Israel had done to the Amorite.And Balak was king
of Moav at that time." (22:2,4) QUESTION: Why isn't he referred to as
"king" in the first pasuk? ANSWER: Balak was not actually the king of...
Excerpt: " In an effort to prevent the Jewish people from intermarrying,
the Sages have forbidden the oil, bread and wine of non-Jews (Shabbat
17b). The word "shefi" - "alone" - is an acronym for "shemanan" - "their
oil" - "pitan" - their bread - and "yeinan" -"their wine." Consequently,
"vayeilech shefi" - he went the route of "shefi" - advising Balak to
invite the Jews to their festivities, where they would partake of
non-Jewish oil, bread and wine."
http://www.mabak.org/Havienu/html/beis_med/prhal/ph-26.html
T'VILAS KEILIM
Which vessels require immersion? The material of the vessel Electrical
appliances Eating in a Jewish restaurant or hotel 7. Disposable vessels
Who can perform the immersion? Source The Torah, in reference to the...
Excerpt: " The requirement of immersion applies to any vessels acquired
from a non-Jew, even when these are new, so long as they are to be used
with food. "Use with food" includes not only utensils in which the food is
served and eaten, but also in or with which the food is prepared, provided
the food is in its final state in this utensil. In regard to utensils
which are used in preparation of the food before this stage, such as
kneading troughs or knives used for ritual slaughter, there are differing
opinions. Hence, they should be immersed, but without a brocho."
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/daily/rambam/daily/Day-092-104/DAY-095.htm
DAY-095
The Torah lists all the non-kosher birds that are not to be eaten.
Research of that list has shown some common characteristics between the
birds that are forbidden as food. Almost all the prohibited birds are
hunters....
Excerpt: " The Torah tells us that some types of food are just not right
for us. Our Neshamah is, in a sense, "allergic" to these foods. The
Neshamah of non-Jews are not affected by eating these foods."
NOTE: Neshamah is the soul and Jews teach that only Jews have Divine Souls
which non-Jews do not have!
LOOK!
Using Keywords in the search engine: Neshamah non-Jew
We get these examples among others:
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/weekly/genesis/003/w2.htm
The Chassidic Dimension
The Midrash comments: "While Avraham was traveling in Aram Naharayim. he
observed the inhabitants eating, drinking and acting frivolously and
wantonly. He said: 'I wish to have no part in this land.' When he
arrived...
Excerpt: " In the book " In The Ladder Up (Building Block No. 6)" it was
explained that Jews have a neshamah. This is the functional difference
between Jews and non-Jews. There is no Jew alive, no matter how he denies
his Judaism, who has not felt an affinity for another Jew which he cannot
explain. We can describe the neshamah. It is explained in Tanya that the
neshamah is a part of HaShem enclothed in the nefesh (soul) of a Jew. This
is the specific difference between Jews and non-Jews. Jews have a
neshamah, Gentiles do not. The difference is manifested in two main ways:
--"
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/daily/tanya/regular/02/19.htm
Tanya (Regular Year): 19 Iyyar
Yetzer Hara also come to love G-d. And for this one must first meditate on
the contents of the blessings of the Shema, which describe the
self-nullification of the angels and other creatures. Thus, the
blessings...
Excerpt: " It is therefore impossible to say that "You have chosen us"
refers to Jewish souls, for there can be no comparison between Jewish and
non- Jewish souls, inasmuch as a Jew's soul (13) "is truly part of G-d
Above.""
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/daily/tanya/regular/08/12.htm
Tanya (Regular Year): 12 Mar Cheshvan
Vitebsk (or Horodok), who had settled in the Holy Land in 1777. It
concludes by rousing them to the mitzvah of tzedakah in general, and
particularly of maintaining the family of R. Mendel. The Alter Rebbe is
here...
Excerpt: " [This alludes to the Chayah of the tzaddik, the soul-level
which is even loftier than the soul-level called Neshamah, and which
infuses the followers of the tzaddik with a transcendent mode of
life-force which enables them to withstand challenges from non-Jewish
(i.e., unholy) sources."
http://www.inner.org/gentiles/7noachide/lowliness.htm
Lowliness - A Home for G-d
When asked to explain the difference between a Jew and a non-Jew, the
Lubavitcher Rebbe would often answer that a Jew is essentially a giver,
whereas a non-Jew is essentially a receiver. All of the stages of the...
Excerpt: " It is thus the ultimate purpose of the non-Jewish world to
create a most pleasant home for the Jewish people and to arouse them to
descend and enter in full the context of lower reality. So will the Jewish
soul bring redemption and salvation to all reality, and so will the Jewish
home become the sanctuary of G-d. We thus conclude with the thought that
the rectified relation of Jew to non-Jew is almost as one of husband to
wife. The wife, continually serving as a devoted helpmate, experiences her
existential lowliness and dependence on her husband, while the husband
senses the ultimate origin of the soul of his wife, as preceding his
own.."
DID YOU ALL NOTICE THE ROLE OF "HELPMATES" JEWS ASSIGN US? Tavish
http://www.inner.org/gentiles/7noachide/7princip.htm
The Seven Principles of Faith and Divine Service for a Non
Just as each of the 613 commandments of the Torah given to the Jewish
people at Sinai possesses an inner dimension, so does each of the seven
Noachide laws possess an inner dimension. These are the seven
principles...
Excerpt: " When a non-Jew does possess a sense of affinity towards Jews,
he merits inspiration from the source of the soul of Israel. He becomes
motivated to be a good person in all of his relations to his fellow man
and to devote his life to the service of G-d. The rectification of the
non-Jewish world in general depends upon the inspiration and insight which
it receives from the Jewish people. In accordance with the principle of
clarification, as defined in Kabbalah, one can always deduce or extract a
spark of good from within the context of evil. The major non-Jewish
religion of Western culture believes in an individual Jew and worships him
as god. This is certainly a great transgression (of the fourth Noachide
commandment defined above). Nonetheless, from this evil we can deduce a
principle of good. The true rectification of the non-Jewish world will
come when it will recognize the Divinely ordained purpose of the Jewish
people to enlighten the world and bring about universal peace and
prosperity..."
http://www.inner.org/gentiles/7noachide/NJsoul.htm
The Jewish Soul and the Non-Jewish Soul
Kabbalah teaches that every human soul possesses a full array of ten
sefirot, or spiritual powers. The first three spiritual powers are
intellectual in nature while the following seven are emotional in nature.
In...
Excerpt: "The Jewish Soul and the Non-Jewish Soul The Jewish Soul and the
Non-Jewish Soul In the Jewish, Divine soul, the three powers of the
intellect are its primary motivating force. In the soul of the non-Jew,
the seven emotive powers are its primary motivating force. In the innate
state of the non-Jewish soul the three intellectual powers are
subordinate, and serve the earthbound desires of the seven emotive
powers."
Using Keywords in the search engine: non-Jew divine soul
We get these examples among others:
http://www.chabad.org/miracle.htm
Interview with the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Torah the answers to their struggles and concerns. Throughout his years of
leadership, beginning in 1950, the Rebbe, in his inimitable style, applied
the depths of Torah scholarship to virtually every area of life.... (18K)
Excerpt: " This afternoon we heard a lecture by Dr. Block in which he
explained that a Jew has a Divine spark. He didn't say explicitly, but he
intimated that only a Jew has this Divine spark but a non-Jew does not. Is
this so? To illustrate from the body again. Each part has its own
function: the brain to think, the heart to feel, and the legs to carry one
about. So the mission of a Jew in life is to transform the physicality of
the world into spiritual, divine. The non-Jew has a different purpose and
therefore the two do not have the same Divine spark."
2: L'Chaim Weekly Newsletter
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/weekly/Archives/lchaim.w1/5755/1/344.htm
L'Chaim 344 - Vayeishev 5755
Greeks attempted to impose their culture on others. However, their aim was
not to eradicate indigenous cultures, but rather to Hellenize and
assimilate them. Thus, the Greeks were willing to recognize the Torah,...
Excerpt: " The Jew, even while living in the physical world, is intimately
connected to both the physical and spiritual realms, whereas the non-Jew
has no true attachment to spiritual matters."
Excerpt: " I trust, indeed I am quite confident, that this "wild" Project
will bring forth G-d's blessings in a correspondingly "wild" and
extraordinary measure, so that the Project will be implemented and
completed much sooner than expected, and that it will serve as a living
testimony to the vitality and strength of our Jewish people transcending
all limitations and bounds; living testimony to Jews and non-Jews alike."
EVERYONE READ THE LAST SENTENCE IN THE QUOTED EXCERPT BELOW!! THIS IS WHAT
JEWS ENVISION FOR NON-JEWS AND AFTER YOU ALL READ IT AGAIN AND AGAIN READ
WHAT I ATTACHED FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH! Tavish
http://www.inner.org/gentiles/7noachide/sincerity.htm
Sincerity - I am Abraham s Servant
Jew is a son of G-d whereas a non-Jew is intended to be a servant of G-d.
Although a Jew in essence is always a son, when he does not merit (to
manifest the essence of his Divine soul) he is also referred to as a...
Excerpt: " As mentioned above, a Jew is a son of G-d whereas a non-Jew is
intended to be a servant of G-d. Although a Jew in essence is always a
son, when he does not merit (to manifest the essence of his Divine soul)
he is also referred to as a servant. Though in relation to Jewish
consciousness this is definitely a fall, in relation to creation as a
whole, it serves a most positive purpose. As we have seen above, the Jew
must show the way to the non-Jew. When the Jew assumes the state of
servant he inspires the non-Jew to rise to the same calling, to become a
servant of G-d. With the advent of Mashiach, all non-Jews will willfully
serve (the Divine purpose of) the Jewish people."
The Lubavitcher Yids are spelling it out when the Jewish Messiah comes
then: ".. all non-Jews will willfully serve (the Divine purpose of) the
Jewish people."
HERE IS ISAIAH:
Isaiah 60: 9-12, 16 ;61:5,6,9 (English-KJV)
Isaiah 60
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to
bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the
name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath
glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings
shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour
have I had mercy on thee.
11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut
day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles,
and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea,
those nations shall be utterly wasted.
16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the
breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and
thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 61
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the
alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the
Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in
their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring
among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are
the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
WHETHER BY THEIR JUDAISM OR BY THEIR COMMUNISM-- JEWS ENVISION HAVING
NON-JEWS AS THEIR SERVANTS!!
When will non-Jews stop worshipping these anti-Christs and see them for
what they are? My admonition to all the lemmings who adore the Jews-- stop
being a blind dupe-- stop worshipping the anti-Christs who look down upon
you and will NEVER look upon you as equals! They have not changed-- you
have changed. You believe that there exists a Judeo-Christian unity but
the Jew doesn't and NEVER has!
ADMONITION TO CHRISTIANS:
If you think that it is God's will to have a partnership with Judaism
while embracing Christianity then consider:
1 John 2: 18 "Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you
have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be
many antichrists."
1 John 2: 22,23 "Who is the liar if it is not the one that denies that
Jesus is the Christ [or Messiah]? These things I write you about those
who are trying to mislead you!"
1 John 4: 2,3 "You gain knowledge of the inspired expression from God
by this: Every inspired expression that confesses Jesus Christ as
having come in the flesh originates with God, but every inspired
expression that does not confess Jesus does not originate with God,
Furthermore this is the antichrist's inspired expression which you
have heard was coming, and now it is already in the world."
2 John 7,10,11 "For many deceivers have gone forth into the world,
persons not confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is
the deceiver and the antichrist. If anyone comes to you and does not
bring this teaching, never receive him into your homes or say a
greeting to him. For he that says a greeting to him is a sharer in his
wicked works."
That last sentence which says: "For he that says a greeting to him is
a sharer in his wicked works." is pretty strong advice!
Doc Tavish
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