#the end of elul

[mournfulroses]

Yehuda Amichai, from Selected Poetry of Y. Amichai; “The End of Elul,” (edited)

[yhebrew]

Flood year 1334 'as in Days of Noach'. God (1) lifted(3)lifted(3) Door (4). Jesus Lifted up age 34 or in year 34 AD.

Book Jubilees states Noach's flood in 1334. Yeshua Jesus death, burial resurrection age 34 or year 34 AD. As in the days confirmed in Flood year.

And when did God send himself in the flesh to save people into Heaven’s realm? Yes, 4000 years from Adam. And who was not yet 50 years old and proclaimed to have seen King David? And who did they misunderstand about what temple could be torn down telling him The Temple took 46 years to build? H ow long did God schedule His kings to reign? The number 40 is huge with God. Number 42 is huge as…

[etz-ashashiyot]

if you disappear off tumblr, I understand, but you'll be missed ❤️✡️🍃

You're sweet, anon.

I doubt I'll ever fully delete this blog and will likely pop in from time to time, but I have and will continue to take a major step back. Arguing on tumblr, while often enough cathartic, was still stressing me out enough that it was detrimental to my mental health in real life and was eating up time I could and should have been spending on Torah, work, friends, family, shul, mitzvos, hobbies, etc.

My most unproductive hobby is still more valuable than arguing with bigots who will never ever ever see me or my people as human. Unfortunately it took my personal life imploding to get me to realize that, but Hashem works in mysterious ways I guess 🙃

Ideally someday I'll be able to be here a healthy amount and post quality Jewish content again. I love the Jewish community here and have loved contributing (hopefully) positively to it.

In the meantime, know that I am working on some serious cheshbon hanefesh and teshuva in order to fix my relationships with my loved ones, my relationship to observance, my relationship to myself, and to Hashem. It might still be Menachem Av on the calendar, but it's already Elul for me baby, and that means pulling back from things I know will cause me emotional harm.

I will see you all occasionally, and in the meantime, do a mitzvah in my honor: love your fellow Jews more than they could ever hate us. We are family, at the end of all this.

[todaysjewishholiday]

1 Elul 5784 (3-4 September 2024)

“Ani l’dodi v’dodi li/ I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine” Shir HaShirim 6:3

Chodesh tov! Today is the first day of Elul, and the second day of Rosh Chodesh. The grief and consolation of Av is behind us for another year and we turn inwards and upwards. The sages make much of the fact that the Hebrew spelling of the word Elul— aleph lamed vav lamed— is an acronym for the poetic declaration of love which they took to be a statement of HaShem’s love for the Jewish people. In Jewish tradition, Elul is a month when the sovereign of heaven and earth leaves the throne and joins us in the field of our day to day struggles— a time when G-d draws near to us, making it that much easier for us to draw near to G-d.

This month-long period of divine closeness is of course a prelude to what is to come— the ten day period beginning with Rosh haShana and ending with Yom Kippur during which Jewish tradition calls us to to do the work of repairing our relationships with our fellow humans and the divine in preparation for our eventual mortality. These ten days— the Yamim Noraim, or Days of Awe— require a level of spiritual awareness that cannot be reached in a sudden leap. It requires at minimum a thirty day head start. Which is exactly what our tradition tells us Elul can be for us.

Forty day periods are important in the Hebrew Bible. In the beginning, it takes forty days and nights of continuous rain to cleanse the earth of human violence in the flood narrative. Later, Moshe spends forty days and nights receiving the words of the covenant directly from HaShem on Mount Sinai. And then, if midrash is to be trusted, does so two more times after his first visit ends with the catastrophe of the golden calf. The twelve spies spend forty days scouting out the promised land— and the outcome of their bad report is forty more years of exile. Eliyahu also spends forty days fasting en route to and atop Mount Sinai, and Yonah gives the city of Nineveh a forty day advance warning of its potential destruction. The thirty days of Elul and ten days of the Yamim Noraim give us an annual forty day period of introspection and repair work. Teshuvah and self awareness are of course intended to be continual, but we can still benefit from this season of heightened introspection and added deliberateness in our examination of where we are and what we need to work on to become who we want to become. May this season be fruitful and meaningful for you all.

[sophieakatz]

Thursday Thoughts: Does Darth Vader Do Teshuvah?

Someone in a nerdy-Jewish Facebook group I’m a part of recently posed the question, does Darth Vader’s repentance in Return of the Jedi redeem him for his sins in the prequel trilogy? We’re currently in the month of Elul, the weeks leading up to the high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, so this is a particularly appropriate time to reflect on this question.

In Judaism, redemption is a matter of teshuvah – of returning. If you did something wrong before, the way to be redeemed is to learn that what you did was wrong and then demonstrate that you’ve learned it by returning to the situation and making the right choice this time. As Rambam says in Hilkhot Teshuvah 2:1, “What is complete teshuvah? When a person again confronts a sin they committed, is capable of doing it again, but nonetheless refrains from doing so in order to repent, not simply because they are afraid of the consequences or too weak to carry out the act.”

Darth Vader has, undeniably, sinned. Looking just at Revenge of the Sith, he murders a lot of people, including children, and in doing so contributes to the destruction of the Jedi Order and the rise of the evil Empire. Could he ever be redeemed for this, or for any of the atrocities he committed afterwards, up to and including genocide?

Murder is, to put it lightly, a tricky thing to do teshuvah for. If you kill someone, then they’re dead. You can never go back and decide not to kill that person this time. From this perspective, Vader may never be able to find redemption.

However, this is the Jewish concept of redemption. I have to acknowledge that this isn’t universal. In some religions, redemption comes from confession. In other worldviews, commonly found in movies and books, redemption can come from death.

Star Wars as a franchise subscribes to the “redemption equals death” trope. In this trope, a character who has done evil things in their life realizes the error of their ways and does a big, good deed that results in their death. The narrative makes it clear that this ultimate self-sacrifice is redemptive. Darth Vader’s end is emblematic of this trope, to the point where his picture is currently at the top of the Redemption Equals Death TVTropes page. Near the end of Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader sacrifices himself to save his son, Luke. Vader kills Emperor Palpatine, suffering fatal injuries in the process. We later see that Vader has become one with the Force, a sign that he has been redeemed.

However, as far as Judaism is concerned, you don’t find redemption by dying. Once you’ve died, you can’t go back and try anything again, so a dead person cannot complete teshuvah. Objectively speaking, Darth Vader dies without going back and re-addressing any of his sins. We could interpret this climactic scene as Vader once again facing the choice about whether to let the Emperor destroy the Jedi Order, and choosing differently this time. But that’s a stretch, even for me, and it still doesn’t do anything about all the murder Vader committed.

It would be easy enough for me to leave it at that – that Vader may be redeemed by the rules of this fictional world, but not by Judaism’s requirements for teshuvah.

Except I’m not going to leave it at that, because Rambam acknowledged that there are some situations for which you can’t go back and try again. Returning to Hilchot Teshuvah 2:1, Rambam says, “…but if a person only repented in old age, thus lacking the power to do what they would have done at an earlier point in life, this is not ideal teshuvah but it nonetheless counts and such a person is considered a ba’al teshuvah – a penitent person. Even if a person was a sinner their whole life and then repented on the day of death and died in a state of teshuvah, all sins are forgiven…”

So perhaps there’s another way out for Vader. Perhaps, in his final moments sitting there with Luke on the floor of the Death Star, he became truly penitent. He would never be able to re-address his sins in life, but he was able to make it clear to G-d – uh, to the Force – that he had realized and internalized the error of his ways. By this interpretation, yes, Darth Vader completes teshuvah and is redeemed.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Would industrial society not simply re-emerge?

Ishkah: I’m sceptical of Kaczynskis’ confidence that a new industrial revolution wouldn’t simply re-emerge, especially with people passing down memories and books of all the benefits to modern life.

My concerns are that firstly, the harm to the environment would be much worse than us simply transitioning to renewable energy and rewilding areas as we depopulate, as is the trend in advanced countries. Secondly, I would argue the probability that we will achieve a long-lasting, mostly peaceful, technologically advanced, left-anarchist society is far more valuable to me than returning to an either never ending series of warring feudal societies or feudal societies that repeats the industrial revolution and has another series of world wars for resources.

Primitive life is more appealing to me personally than feudalism in that I could be born into a fairly egalitarian tribe like the Penan or even if I wasn’t I wouldn’t know any different life, or if I had some of the egalitarian ideals I have now, the possibility would be there to strike out on my own and form an egalitarian tribe. But, bar convincing everyone to be hunter gatherers, or the provision of technological incentives to have fair and democratic communication among societies who trade with each other – you just are going to recreate feudal era societies where you’d have to be very lucky to escape from conscription and tyrants, and where the environmental destruction in the long term could be far worse.

Zerzan: What is happening in terms of social movements? Perhaps Kaczynski’s forgotten. And to me his rigidly anti-tech focus kind of loses its steam. As you know, I’m anti-civilization and if you’re just stuck with only the anti-tech thing you get to this wooden position where you you lose a lot of potential it seems because the rest of it just flows.

I noticed in the notes you were saying well you don’t want to be stuck in some medieval deal without industry, well that’s right, there you get the problem, right? I mean there was a piece – not to go too far along with this, but there was a piece – in the American magazine ‘The New Yorker’ back in the 90s when the trial was still going on I believe, it was simply called ‘E Pluribus Unabomber’, it was kind of a funny little one page piece. And it posed that question precisely, precisely that, okay so you’re against modern technology? Does that mean you want the middle ages? And he never answered that question.

I don’t want the middle ages, hell no. You know, you’ve got to look back to see what this crisis is all about what has brought us to this stage. Otherwise you’re kind of stuck with this one note deal that’s really rather limited. He’s insisted over and over and over that he has no interest in anything but modern technology, I mean that’s almost silly, the crisis shows that it’s much bigger and much deeper than that.

It comes to a head with the technological society, and by the way he told me he got his ideas from Elull, it’s an American vernacular version of the technological society, that’s his great gift, that’s his great plus, he made it very readable, you know the original or the original translation in English is hard to read, it has that abstract classical mode of the way French are taught to write and it’s very off-putting I think in the rest of the world, the rest of the west anyway, the rest of say America. [6]

Ishkah: Yeah, and it’s interesting Ellul is a kind of classical Christian anarchist, who likes the anabaptist tradition of creating small communities within a federated society, so he’s very critical of this concept of technique, but he still wants to make accommodations for technology if we can view it as a tool.

But, yeah I think for most of the people who identify with Kaczynski’s philosophy, calling themselves anti-industrialists rather than primitivists is an optics move, in that they don’t want to be seen to be striving for something that most people see as impossible to achieve. Because an anti-industrial revolution is achievable if you can destroy the electricity grids and keep them from being rebuilt, and once it is thoroughly destroyed it will be harder to rebuild and easier to stop than at least other pre-industrial oppressive conditions like feudal tyrants.

Zerzan: Well sure, it’s less abstract, here we are so totally immersed in the technology and the alienation it’s brought is just frightful, it’s so palpable, it’s just you know utterly impossible to ignore.

So, yeah there’s the technology on all sides at every moment, so sure it’s obviously part of the problem of course it’s right up there, but that’s just part of it. To me it’s like the leftists who are only limited to talking about capitalism, well of course one’s against capitalism, but it goes much deeper than that, right? Look at the rest of it, look at how it emerges and why?

Ishkah: Yeah and I definitely like a lot of Bookchin & eco-feminist philosophy who write about the priestly classes throughout history, who even before there was capitalism were trying to keep people ignorant and regimented into hierarchies.

But, in terms of getting this global shift is it that you just don’t have kids and within a hundred years you’ve only got a very small population and obviously using some direct action to encourage people and show them the way?

Zerzan: Well yeah, it’s kind of hard to answer, I mean that’s the challenge, what would that look like? How fast could that happen if you change directions and start to imagine things so differently? I mean who can say? Whether it happens at all that is obviously an open question, we may not get anywhere with this, I’m not clear about that and no one can be I don’t think.

So, but you start to think about the emerging directions and the transition and so forth, but only when you get to that place can you start to pose those questions and think about specific practical parts of the picture, it’s difficult to speculate there and I have to some degree, but that’s a further question it seems to me.

Ishkah: Yeah it’s interesting, I like the critique in a lot of ways, like I talk about this concept of minimum viable use. Like we have a really nice culture in Europe of punk post, where if you want to talk to someone who’s on a camp across the country and someone’s going that way, then you write them a letter and that person takes it to them. So, rather than calling them you put the effort into the creativity of the writing to them and then that’s the minimum viable use technology needed for that task and then in doing that you’ve fulfilled yourself more than just a quick phone call. [7]

Zerzan: Yeah exactly, something technology is erasing. Now we just text, don’t even want to hear the human voice. I mean it’s just getting so monstrous, so fast, and maybe that’s of course the strangely silver lining in the whole thing, it’s just impossible to ignore the effects. And people are so miserable, I mean the immiseration is just almost unimaginable, but there it is, it’s the alienation, the isolation, there’s suicide among the young, deaths of despair, opioid crisis, on and on, and on, it’s just huge estrangement.

Ishkah: Yeah so that’s a good Segway to the next topic…

[widthofmytongue]

This Elul, I have had some struggles. Not as major as some in the past, but in particular I have been dealing with more than a little antisemitism at work. It's been hard to prepare myself for forgiveness, forgiveness for others and forgiveness for myself.

But in the last couple days, the final days of 5783, I've had some exchanges that have reaffirmed in me a sense of community and good will.

First, a comrade in my union meeting, while discussing plans for an upcoming strike, said almost verbatim:

'If I am not for myself, then who is for me; and if I am for myself alone, then what am I; and if not now then when?'

I laughed aloud at the wisdom of our ancestors and almost exclaimed 'Rabbi Hillel!' - in a union meeting of 30+ goyim. And this comrade, ready to walk out and picket at the very end of our strike mandate, is also a goy. A learned goy, yes, but even so, could she have known what she was saying? The solidarity manifest to me then is hard to describe.

Then I asked a Hindu colleague if she celebrated Christmas, as part of the antisemitism I've encountered at work of late has related to insistant and I think assimilationist plans for an office Christmas party which would prevent me lighting the menorah for Chanukkah. The week of Rosh Hashanah seems an odd time to plan Christmas, but eh. I thought the Christian hegemony may have impacted my Hindu colleague as well. She responded:

'I put up lights, but it's not a big deal. What's really important is Diwali! It's a great time for family, a festival of lights.'

I smiled and told her, 'yeah, we got one of those too'. Even as a lonely Jew in my workplace, I am not alone.

Then, on my way home, some random teenagers smiled and shouted at me in the park, asking excitedly if I'm Kurdish. I realised they noticed my keffiyeh, and told them it's Palestinian, which excited them more as they shouted over one another in Arabic, asking if I was Palestinian then. I told them I'm Jewish, but that's kind of the point. I joked they could call me keffiyeh kinderlach, and told them it's funny they thought I was Kurdish, as I had just been speaking about Öcalan earlier. Just hearing someone twice their age and white speak the name Öcalan filled them with joy, and we exchanged shouts of 'Free Öcalan!' back and forth as I left to catch my train home. 'The revolution has always been in the hands of the young'.

But then, perhaps most importantly, I was telling comrade @derdra recently that I am rather isolated as a Jew where I am, as the only temples in my vacinity are currently occupied by a music school and a rail station outbuilding. Days later, unprompted, she shared with me a post she made that reminds me of a lot of important truths. Many of these truths I think are particularly important to keep in mind during Teshuvah, but I'll let them speak for themselves. The message I want to leave here is twofold: you're never alone when you say you're a Jew - though we're miles apart; and always remember, our holiest mitzvah is to heal, ourselves, our community, and our world.

So have a sweet new year, comrades, and together we can make a sweeter world.

[dfroza]

A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures

for the 5th of September 2024 with a paired chapter from each Testament (the First & the New Covenant) of the Bible

[The Book of Revelation, Chapter 5 • The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 34]

along with Today’s reading from the ancient books of Proverbs and Psalms with Proverbs 5 and Psalm 5 coinciding with the day of the month, accompanied by Psalm 78 for the 78th day of Astronomical Summer, and Psalm 99 for day 249 of the year (with the consummate book of 150 Psalms in its 2nd revolution this year)

A post by John Parsons:

Today marks Rosh Chodesh Elul and the start of the 40 days of Teshuvah... Chodesh Tov, chaverim!

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Taken as a whole, the central message and ultimate point of the Scriptures is to turn to God for life... Rabbi Sussya once said: "There are five verses in the bible that constitute the essence of the Torah. These verses begin in Hebrew with one of these letters: Tav (תּ), Shin (שׁ), Vav (ו), Bet (בּ), and Hey (ה), which form the word for repentance, namely, "teshuvah" (תְּשׁובָה). The five verses are: 1) Tamim tiheyeh (תָּמִים תִּהְיֶה): "Be wholehearted before God" (Deut. 18:13); 2) Shiviti Adonai (שִׁוִּיתִי יְהוָה): "I have set the LORD always before me" (Psalm 16:8); 3) Va'ahavta lere’akha (וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ): "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Lev. 19:18); 4) Be’khol derakekha (בְּכָל־דְּרָכֶיךָ): "In all your ways know Him" (Prov. 3:6); and 5) Higgid lekha (הִגִּיד לְךָ): "Walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8). In other words, "teshuvah" (repentance) is an acronym that stands for being whole, seeing God, loving others, knowing God in all your journey, and walking in humility...

[ Hebrw for Christians ]

Micah 6:8 reading:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/micah6-8-jjp.mp3

Hebrew page:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/micah6-8-lesson.pdf

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from Today’s email by Israel365

Today’s message (Days of Praise) from the Institute for Creation Research

[thenewdeadseascrolls]

Judges 12: 11-15. "The Oak From Hell."

We know now the Jew is a specimen of the highest order, created and ordained by the God and gods of Israel to lead the world in search of its final configuration called Mashiach. Mashiach is a world that is able to invest in surplus of everything because it has finally agreed to divest itself of war and corruption.

Only Jews and Muslims push and push for a world such as this as a product of directed effort stipulated by the scriptures.

In the final frame of chapter 12, the Shoftim explains how Eretz Israel, the House of Israel is a House of Bread and War. The goal of Mashiach is a final war, one that liberates Israel and the Jew from slavery and oppression and then global peace without end for everyone as the spoils.

The structure is typical of the Torah and Tanakh, and employs Four Directions which introduce Elon and Abdon, "the oak from hell" two new Shoftim, aspects of the Tasty Jewish Shopper.

In general the Torah encourages individuality. Personal freedoms and Indepdendence from the state are the reasons we study Judaism in the first place. The Torah says so long as Jews are clones of each other along this all important principal, they are free to be who they want to be. Now the Shoftim says "All Jewish animals are equal but some are more equal than others."

The reason why is contained in the etymology of "The Oak from Hell in Aijalon":

"The root אלל ('alal) predominantly describes a protruding or sticking out. This may be positive (when one leads a collective), neutral (when one is a tree), or negative (when one fails convention). The latter sense in particular describes foolishness, or at least a failure to live up to cognitive standards or common codes of conduct.

Nouns אלון ('allon), אלה ('alla) and אלה ('elah) refer to oaks or terebinths but note the similarities with the demonstrative pronoun אלה ('elleh), "these," and אלה ('eloah) meaning god or God.

Nouns אליל ('elil) and אלול ('elul) mean worthlessness or a worthless thing (a thing that sticks out of the economy of useful things). Adjectives אויל ('ewil) and אולי ('ewili) mean foolish, and noun אולת ('iwwelet) means foolishness or folly. Noun אול ('ul) may mean belly or leading man.

Nouns אולם ('ulam) and אילם ('elam) mean porch. The former is identical to an adverb that means "however" or "but." Another adverb אולי ('ulay) means "perhaps."

Noun איל ('ayil), "protruder," refers in the Bible to a ram, a pillar, a chief and, yet again, a terebinth. Noun איל ('ayyal) means stag or deer — hence the panting deer of Psalm 42 also describes an ignoramus longing for instruction — and its feminine counterpart אילה ('ayyala) means doe.

The verb יאל (ya'al) means to be foolish, gullible or even simply compliant and pleased to go along in no particularly negative way."

Torah lore values a nice looking guy with a big bronze pole, so long as he knows how to use his mesmerizing glamor to lead other men to Mashiach. He can ride an ass, but he cannot be an ass. The inversion of this teaches subordinates not to choose a leader they cannot respect.

The proper choice is called Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, "The torturer son of praise who steals God's glory". The Tanakh is outspoken about the fact man must eventually relate to God through the gloriousness of other men. It is obscene to walk through life praising God while stupid fat and ugly men shoot, stab, shell, burn, starve, torment and betray each other.

Nice looking men with pleasant temperaments, who are outspoken with Grace fulfill the Torah Prophecy and these are the ones we want to lead and fill the ranks of the Jewish People:

11 After him, Elon the Zebulunite led Israel ten years. 12 Then Elon died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

13 After him, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, led Israel. 

14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years. 

15 Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 11-12: Elon the Zebulunite led Israel ten years. A year is how long it takes to see evidence of an Office in the Torah. The Ten Decrees take Ten Torah Years to establish in society. We have no life and no future with a mankind that refuses to accept the decade long effort required to cement the Ten Decrees within our lives.

The Value in Gematria is 6149, ואדט‎‎‎, and edt, "the denomination" meaning this is the loot that lies in the North, what has yet to be discovered by man. Donald Trump, a foul and disgusting demon, for example does not follow the Decrees. He in fact, flaunts his violations of them as do his followers. They say "so what! Praise Jesus Christ!"

Donald Trump and the filth are the product of a willful system that rejects the Decrees. He is a perfect example of why the Glory of God remains hidden in mankind on this planet.

v. 13: After him, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, led Israel. Abdon, "the torturer" says "do not praise a fukchuk, give God his due instead." v. 13 represents the Eastern direction, "the awakening." WHY we need to discuss all the ways the Republicans and Mormons, the filth, have violated the Decrees and the laws of the land and wonder if someone is going to do something about them is beyond me but apparently we do.

The term Pirathon "piracy", the rescinding society back from a bunch of scoundrels is unfortunately what we need to do. And I swear to God you Republicans are going to pay for what you did to Ukraine and all this abortion shit. That's before you pay for what you did to Israel on October 7. For all of this, and renominating Donald Trump, I promise you, you are going to pay.

After the teen pregnancies and deaths because of your abortion bans, I think people should gather in DC, haul you out of your offices and drag you all behind pickup trucks acoss the city, in fact:

"The verb פרע (para') means to bundle without restriction. It may refer to the formation of a tribal confederacy (i.e. a freely joined alliance that benefits all participants), which might come about either spontaneous or via a human catalyst, who would then be known by the noun פרע (pera').

For lack of a better word, this noun is commonly translated with "leader" but it rather denotes someone who emphasizes voluntary participation and preserved autonomy rather than submission to some higher authority.

The noun פרע (pera') also describes a lock or bundle of otherwise freely moving hair such as a pony tail. The word for hair, namely שער (se'ar), additionally describes the cognitive quality of being familiar with or afraid of something. In that sense, loose hair signifies freely expressed feelings, bundled hair signifies free expressions concerning a particular topic, braided hair signifies synthetically crafted discourse, and bound and covered hair (by a turban or a hat) signifies restrained and unexpressed feelings.

In a negative sense, the verb פרע (para') may refer to getting out of control, or assuming a degree of freedom where a governed, disciplined or regulated state is preferred."

The Value in Gematria is 1402, אדאֶפֶס‎ב, ‎adapesb, "adapt to the ways of the Assembly."

Leadership must insist on conformity to the Grandfathers and Fathers of Israel, the 12 and the Seventy forefathers.

Together they form a series of offices called the Ephod, "the covering" that explain how individual Jewish persons should act in order to find themselves before they consider electives:

v. 14:  He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years. Years are episodes in life. If one is lucky to live forty years and then forty more, one should be able to act wiser as well as older. The process of making forty sons, or forty fruits of one actions and then behave as if one is a proper Jew, possessed of his own Jewish Self, takes Eight Years. Seven spent toiling over the curriculum contained in the Seven Days plus one more which is spent enjoying a trouble free life for the rest of one's time on earth.

A proper read of the Torah will divulge each object lesson is thoroughly explained in detail. The Seven Days, the Four Directions, the Ten Commandments, Ten Plagues, all of it is explained.

There is a complicated magic formula for how it works in Terumah, I have not figured out how to match it all but here it is, the "layout" for the Torah and how all of its verses and rules and lessons fit together in one "Tabernacle Torah".

The Parshiot are included based on their direction and materials.

15 “Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. 16 Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,[k] 17 with two projections set parallel to each other. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. 18 Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle 19 and make forty silver bases to go under them—two bases for each frame, one under each projection. 20 For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, make twenty frames 21 and forty silver bases—two under each frame. 22 Make six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle, 23 and make two frames for the corners at the far end. 24 At these two corners they must be double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both shall be like that. 25 So there will be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

26 “Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, 27 five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle. 28 The center crossbar is to extend from end to end at the middle of the frames. 29 Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

=the 54 Bars and Frames are the 54 Parshiot. Gold Bars and Gold Rings are all connected by the temple architecture by Torah Traditions.

If we look at each tract and calculate the Gematria, how to proceed should be straightforward:

ex. Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. The Number is 2306, באג‎אֶפֶסו‎ ‎"Start where you left off."

 Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. The Number is 2420, בדבאֶפֶס‎‎ ‎, in dafapes, "Understanding is the dove of truth," "there are no pages that are false or misrepresenting..."

Apes=

The verb ψευδω (pseudo) means to lie. The English "pseudo" mostly signifies surrogacy or a playful pretending, but is much milder than the original Greek idea of willful and malignant misrepresentation and deception with intent and purpose.

In the Bible only the earlier and more common form ψευδομαι (pseudomai) is used, but since the essence of the concept of truth is very hard to define (as famously demonstrated by Pontius Pilate: JOHN 18:38), the essence of lying is equally obscure. Still, even little children seem to naturally understand the difference between lying and telling the truth.

With two projections set parallel to each other. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. The Number is 6361. "and so on until goa, the people form a calm nation."

Clearly every word in the Torah contains a hidden message from the Angels in the Host of Heaven. And they say the inent and purpose and source for the calm comes from the Gematria for the verse above. The Value in Gematria is 6154, ואהד‎, "and ahad" "and sympathize."

= Speak out against oppression happening against people that are not Jewish.

v. 15:  Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. Amelakites are "hand wringers" they work but are not happy. Jewish people and those around them must be happy or the Torah is an epic fail.

It is the job of the Oak from Hell to manage the Jewish community to this end...work, then Shabbat.

The Value in Gematria is 4149, דא‎‎דט‎, daedt, "know how to work the religion."

[numbersbythebook]

Eber, Rebekah, Enoch & Wisdom

written by Will Schumacher

My last post was on Eber and the Christchurch earthquakes connection. In it I noted the intriguing connection between generations 7, 14, and 21-all multiples of 7. Enoch, the 7th generation, is “raptured” at age 365. Eber, the 14th generation, is born 365 years before Isaac, the 21st generation and promised child by faith, marries Rebekah, a type of the virgin bride of Christ. The connection then in the 21st generation is not only to Isaac but also to Rebekah. The two became one in marriage, thus Rebekah is also the 21st generation.

I believe these two time periods of 365 mean the same thing. Eber and his age at death of 464 is tied to the door being shut. The door is Jesus and it is shut when the virgin bride is complete and HE returns. I would assume the birth of Eber is a type of the opening of the door/Jesus. The birth of Enoch (historically Pentecost) is like the opening of the door. The “rapture” of Enoch (historically Pentecost) is like the marriage of Isaac to the virgin bride.

Eber died 2187 years from creation. This verse has a gematria of 2187 so I see Eber tied to it. Jesus returns and His bride is given her reward.

Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

The very next verse has a gematria of 4479. Strong’s G4479 = Rebekah. She is the virgin bride. I have posted so many times on her:

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

This book I believe is the Book of Life. The same book that only Jesus is worthy to open in Revelation 5. It contains the names of the virgin bride.

As a quick recap, Rebekah was the first woman called a virgin in verse 608. Rebekah’s only mention in the New Testament is 6080 or 608 x 10 verses after Daniel 12:4.

So Daniel 12:3-4 is tied to Eber and Rebekah and speaks of the wise who constitute the book of life as the virgin bride of Christ.

Per my last post, the Christchurch earthquakes ties in to Eber and the door shut. The following verse is tied to the first Christchurch earthquake and has a gematria of 2808:

Nehemiah 6:15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

Strong’s G2808 =”door shut” and is used in the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. The concept of “wise” and “virgin” again is important. It links back to Daniel 12:3-4 and the “wise” and Eber and Rebekah again:

Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

Matthew 25:10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

Nehemiah 6:15 is verse 12417. There are 2 verses in the Bible with a matching gematria of 12417. This is the first:

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

Notice the concept of “wise” again. Luke 12:42 is tied to Rebekah by being verse 608 of Luke. Recall Rebekah is called a virgin in verse 608. In context the verse speaks of the reward the wise steward receives when Christ returns when His Church is complete. This again ties back to Dan 12:3-4.

Further, in Luke 12:42 Strong’s G5429 = wise

If you add 5429 verses to Luke 12:42 (Bible verse 25502) you get the virgin bride Rebekah in Revelation (verse 30931):

Revelation 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb

Eber’s only mention in the NT is verse 25061. The door being shut in Matthew 25:10 is verse 24019. The verse jump is 1042. The first verse in the Bible with a gematria of 1042 has to do again with wisdom:

Proverbs 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

Chapter 464 (Eber’s age at death) of the Bible is Job 28. This chapter is noted for Job’s song of wisdom.

There is a strong connection in the Bible between Eber and Rebekah and wisdom. Jesus tells a wedding parable about 5 wise virgins and a door being shut when the groom/Jesus returns. Eber is tied to the door being shut and Rebekah is the wise virgin bride. Daniel 12:3-4 are tied by their gematria to Eber and Rebekah. The Christchurch earthquakes are tied to Eber and Rebekah. Eber and Rebekah are tied together by the Enoch number of 365. The earth rotates around the sun in 365 days, a completion number.

In the jewish mindset the Torah = wisdom. A gentile Christian might say the word of God = wisdom. Jesus is called the wisdom of God by Paul. Jesus is also called the Word of God by John.

Pentecost is what the Christian church calls the Feast of Weeks or Shavuout. We celebrate it as the giving of the Holy Spirit. The jewish people celebrate it for the giving of the Torah at Sinai.

Since the Torah = wisdom, Shavuot/Pentecost at Sinai in the OT was the giving of wisdom. God then gave us His Holy Spirit at Pentecost in the NT to indwell us and teach us His Word/Wisdom. Enoch was historically born on Pentecost after 622 years. The word “torah” has a gematria of 622 in this verse about the giving of the torah at Sinai on Pentecost.

Exodus 24:12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

When Abraham sends his servant to get a bride (Rebekah) for his son Isaac it is a picture of the Father sending the Spirit to get a bride for His Son Jesus. Abraham commands his servant in verse 596:

Genesis 24:4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

The gematria of the above verse is 2519. Verse 2519 is about Shavuout/Pentecost:

Exodus 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

This verse contrasting the wise and foolish also has a gematria of 2519.

Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Job 28 which is chapter 464 of the Bible and contains the song/poem of wisdom ends with basically the same statement:

Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Rebekah/Enoch/Eber is the wise virgin bride with lamps full of oil/Holy Spirit. God’s law/wisdom was given on Pentecost and He sent the Holy Spirit on Pentecost to fill us and teach us His law/wisdom. The foolish virgin with no oil rejects God’s law/wisdom and says in his heart that he is his own god deciding what is right and wrong.

I did a series of posts a while back on the 22 chapters of Revelation and their relation to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. I believe the 22 letters also relate to the 22 generations of the Bible. The number 144 only appears in Revelation chapters 7, 14, and 21 matching Enoch, Eber, and Rebekah/Isaac.

Rebekah is the virgin bride and in the 14th chapter of Revelation is the 144,000 virgins-a type of Rebekah.

Revelation 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb

Recall from earlier this is 5429 verses form Luke 12:42 about the wise steward. Strong’s G5429 = “wise”. This was verse 608 of Luke. Rebekah is called a virgin in verse 608.

This virgin bride of Revelation 14:4 is said to have the Father’s name written on their foreheads:

Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

This refers to the command to bind God’s word/wisdom on their forehead. Just incredible:

Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

The Jewish people wear tefillin on their head and arms in response to this command. On the tefillin is the 21st Hebrew letter shin. Rebekah marries the 21st generation Isaac when Eber is 365. Since in marriage the two become one she is the 21st generation also.

300 is the gematria of the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet-Shin. 300 is also the gematria of “Spirit of God”.

Shin is symbolic of fire. The Holy Spirit is symbolized by fire throughout the Bible.

[writer59january13]

Rosh Hashshana 2023

Began at sunset

on Friday, Sept. 15,

and ends at sunset

on Sunday, Sept. 17.

No matter yours truly an atheist,

I consider myself

fascinated with my Semitic ancestry (maybe unwittingly genealogically linkedin with unsuspecting readers) excited regarding: upcoming Jewish holiday(s) fast approaching

by the bewitching hour,

which doth hold key to Chamber Of Secrets to – me analogous being Sorcerer's Apprentice tendering, and kindling Goblet of Fire as you will read and see, though impossible mission to proffer extensive family tree.

Courtesy of Google, this grown man

linkedin with tribes of Zion

indulged curiosity of mine

proudly harkens, (particularly

as he doth accumulate

orbitz around the sun)

from Semitic ancestral line

surrounded by Jewish community (countless years ago, when we called Penn Valley

our place of residence)

off a street that arched (like Noah’s bow sprint)

and named Woodbine.

Yet, he knows virtually nothing about Jewish History

lets inquisitiveness wander

as a descendent from

the “Lost Tribes Of Israel”

pondering how his life would be lived

if baptized in customs, faith, and religion

considered one of

the oldest codified paradigms.

The first of the High Holy Days

or Yamim Nora'im ("Days of Awe")

celebrated on the first two days of Tishrei

the first day of the

seventh month as "Zikhron Teru'ah"

("A memorial with the blowing of horns").

Rosh Hashanah is described

as "the day of judgment"

(Yom ha-Din) and

"the day of remembrance" (Yom ha-Zikkaron)

occurs 163 days

after the first day of Passover (Pesach)

beginning of Rosh Hashanah

at sundown at the end of 29 Elul.

The evening before

Rosh Hashanah day is known

as Erev Rosh Hashanah

("Rosh Hashanah eve").

On Rosh Hashanah day,

religious poems, called piyyuttim, are added to the regular services.

A special prayer book,

the Mahzor is used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

This sacred day,

the horn doth blow to then chauffeur

(two precious daughters now grown and autonomous

didst long since exit and escape

parental basket of deplorables,

where freedon beckoned,

when age of consent attained exited – rather hightailed out front door)

marginally linkedin with historical past

replete with tantalizing lore,

where legions of commandments pour

and more relevant than ever

as global tempests roar

atrocity diminishing Hebraic peoples

courtesy incessant pograms and war.

[yhwhrulz]

Worthy Brief - September 15, 2023

It's the season of repentance!

Hosea 3:4-5 For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. Afterward, the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.

On the Hebrew calendar, we're at the end of the month of Elul. This particular month the shofar is sounded once a day as a call for the people to repent as we approach the Hebrew month of Tishri.

Interestingly enough, Yom Teruah [Hebrew for "Day of the (shofar) blast"] known in modern times as Rosh HaShanah (Hebrew for "Head of the Year") falls on the 1st day of Tishri (beginning tonight) which is also the seventh month of the year -- yet it has been designated as the New Year. This season is also known as the season of "teshuva". In Hebrew, "teshuva" means "repentance", and yet it also means "return".

So, ironically, the beginning of the year is connected to the end of the harvest year. The beginning is connected to the end. And the end is connected to the beginning. Thus, a cyclical pattern emerges: the gospel message was delivered by the Jewish people whose Messiah Yeshua appeared at the beginning of this age. This message has gone to the nations for nearly 2000 years and is now returning to its source, Israel and the Jewish people, whose return to their homeland signals the completion of the cycle culminating in the spiritual resurrection of the nation. We are certainly witnessing the beginning of this fulfillment at the end of the age with Messianic believers multiplying and proclaiming faith in the true Messiah to their own Jewish people.

In this season of repentance ("teshuva"), as we ourselves turn to the Lord, please remember to be praying for the Jewish people -- not only for their return to their homeland, the physical restoration -- but for their repentance and faith in the only Name given under heaven by which we must be saved -- the spiritual restoration which signals the coming of King Messiah Yeshua.

Your family in the Lord with much agape love,

George, Baht Rivka, Obadiah and Elianna (Dallas, TX) (Nashville, TN)

Editor's Note: We are planning our Winter Tour so if you would like us to minister at your congregation, home fellowship, or Israel focused event, be sure to let us know ASAP. You can send an email to george [ @ ] worthyministries.com for more information.

[dontstopbelievin9]

Day 1 of 75 Mom Challenge

1. Calorie Deficit ✅

2. 45 minutes of exercise - 45 minutes cozy cardio on elliptical ✅

3. 45 minutes of housework - end of day clean up ✅

4. 1 gallon of water ✅

5. Read 10 pages - The Next Best Thing by Lauren Weiner ✅

6. Self care- morning pages and Elul log #11; am/pm routine ✅

[todaysjewishholiday]

6 Elul 5784 (7-8 September 2024)

The fifty fourth century was a golden age for the Ashkenazim of Bohemia, Moravia, Galicia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. As with all such golden ages for the Jewish people, it was not without dangers, and it ended in a devastating conflagration, but while it lasted it was a time of a great flowering of rabbinical study and remarkable freedom of movement for Jews across the eastern lands of Europe. More than anything else, it was this age that established the strength of Ashkenazi Judaism from which modern Jewish orthodoxy has fed. And one of the great lights of this time, whose rabbinical career carried him across the full breadth of Ashkenaz, was Gershom Shaul Lipmann ben Nathan haLevi Heller, known to his contemporaries as the Tosfot Yom Tov.

Heller was born in 5339 in Bavaria, days after his father's sudden death at the age of 18. Despite Nathan Heller's brief life, he had fathered four children. Gershom was taken under the wing of his paternal grandfather, Rabbi Moses, who began his education in Torah study. After several years of study in a yeshiva near home, the adolescent Heller traveled on his own to the beit midrash of the Maharal of Prague, a giant of both Torah and secular studies who regularly debated with the great gentile scholars of his time. Shortly after his eighteenth birthday, Heller received semicha from the Maharal and an appointment as a dayan in Prague. He remained there for 27 years, producing a number of treatises including the one whose title became his rabbinic eponym, before journeying to Moravia to take up a rabbinical post there, and being offered the position of Chief Rabbi of Vienna after barely a year in the region.

Yom Tov was of great service to Vienna's scattered Jews, receiving permission to establish a centralized community, and creating a communal constitution and various communal institutions for the good of all. However, his organized and thoughtful approach soon made him enemies among the wealthier members of the kehilla. When the Gentile authorities imposed harsh taxes on the city's Jews, Heller led the community's leaders in deciding to collect the tax progressively as a percentage of individual wealth, rather than as a simple poll tax, to lighten the burden on the community's poor. The rich, however, were not happy being asked to pay their share, and accused their chief rabbi of slandering Christianity. Heller was arrested and sentenced to death, but his allies were able to persuade the Emperor to reduce the sentence to a fine of 10,000 thalers, and a ruling that he was not to serve as a rabbi anywhere in the Emperor's realm. As soon as the fine was paid off, Heller left for the eastern border.

He was warmly welcomed into the Jewish community of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and soon appointed to the Council of the Four Lands, which functioned as a Jewish proto-legislative body and as a gathering for Jewish leaders to discuss issues for which they needed to collectively appeal Gentile authorities. Yom Tov served for three years as a rabbinical authority in Nemirov, then moved to Ludmir, and from there to Krakow, where he served as one of the Av Beis Din of Krakow's rabbinical court, and also as head of the Krakow yeshiva. It was during his two decades in Krakow that the horrors of the Chmielnicki Revolt passed through the Commonwealth. He survived the massacres, and passed away six years later on 6 Elul 5414. He was laid to rest in a humble grave in a corner of Krakow's Jewish burial ground.

[fierceautie]

Jewish Holiday: Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement. It is the most important holiday of the Jewish year. It is part of the group of holidays called the High Holy Days or the Days of Awe. It is a 10-day period. It is one week after Rosh Hashanah. Yom Kippur falls on the 10th day of Tishrei. History of Yom Kippur The first Yom Kippur took place months after the Israelite's exodus out of Egypt and their arrival at Mount Sinai in the Jewish year of 2448. This is where G-d gave Moses the 10 Commandments. When coming down from the mountain, Moses caught the Israelites worshiping a golden calf. Because of this, he broke the tablets in anger. G-d forgave them when they atoned for their sin of idolatry. G-d offered a second set of tablets. During that year, the people built a tabernacle, a portable home for G-d. The Tabernacle was a center for prayers and sacrificial offerings. The service in the Tabernacle climaxed on Yom Kippur, when the High Preist would perform a speciality service. INscense would be lit and the lottery with two goats, one of which was brough as sacrifice, the other being sent out into the wilderness. The High Preist wore ornate golden clothing on Yom kippur. He would immerse in a mikvah (ritual bath) and wear plain white clothing to perform this service. Scripture recount that back in biblical days, Yom Kippur was the only day on which the high priest could enter the inner sanctum of the Holy Temple in Jeruselum. While there, he would perform a series of rituals and sprinkle blood from sacrificed animals on the Ark of the Covenant that contained the Ten Commandments. Through this complex ceremony, he made atonement and asked for G-d's forgiveness on behalf of the people of Israel. This tradition continued until the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE. It was then adapted into service for Rabbis and their congregations in individual shuls. According to tradition, G-d judges all creatures during the 10 days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur by deciding whether they will live or die in the coming year. Jewish law teaches that G-d inscribes the names of the righteous in the Book of Life and condemns the wicked to death on Rosh Hashanah. People who fall between the two categories have until Yom Kippur to perform Teshuvah (repentance). Preparing for Yom Kippur 40 days before Yom Kippur, on the first of Elul, the shofar is blown every morning and reciting Pslam 27 after the morning and afternoon prayers. In Sephardic commities, they say Selichot every morning. Asheknazi Jews start a few days before Rosh Hashanah. This builds an atmophere of reverence, repentence and awe leading up to Yom Kippur. On the day before Yom Kippur it is customary to (important to note that not every Jew does all of these things): - Kaparot is often performed early in the morning - There is a custom to request and receive a piece of honey cake (we make ours at home) - Many have a mikvah on this day - Extra tzedakah (charity) is given. - Just before the fast begins, it is customary to bless the children with the Priestly blessing (NOT EVERYONE CAN FAST AND THAT IS COMPLETELY ACCEPTABLE. Health always comes first.) - Holiday candles are lit before the onset of the Holy Day. Observing Yom Kippur Observant Jews consider Yom Kippur and the days leading up to it a time for prayer, good deeds (mitzvot), reflecting on past mistakes, and making amends with others. For 26 hours, Jews "afflict our souls" by abstaining from eating, drinking, washing, lotions or creams, leather footwear, and sex. Jews spend the day in shul and pray for forgiveness. Even Jews who are not that observant, observe this day. They don't work, during this day and participate in religious services. This is the busiest time of the year for shuls. After Yom Kippur After Sundown, the closing service ends with the Shma prayer and with everyone saying "Next year in Jeruselum." Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/yom-kippur-history` https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/177886/jewish/What-Is-Yom-Kippur.htm https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/177886/jewish/What-Is-Yom-Kippur.htm Read the full article