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sophieakatz · 1 year ago

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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.

#thursday thoughts #star wars #judaism #jewblr #teshuvah #yom kippur #high holy days #rambam #darth vader #repentance #redemption

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dailyanarchistposts · 4 months ago

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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…

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widthofmytongue · 1 year ago

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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.

#shanah tovah #rosh hashanah #original

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jewishvitya · 2 years ago

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I got a lot of beautiful responses that made this post worthwhile. People who were touched by my feelings about the Shofar, people who thanked me for explaining what I did, and so much support for the problem I was bringing up.

This, though:

Thank you so much for this. I actually found myself looking for an idiom that says "out of something painful, came something sweet" just to try to describe how this made me feel. Couldn't find one in English, but that's a rough translation.

I read these tags out to my partner, because they're so beautiful. I also spoke to him about... Wanting to share the Shofar in more than just a couple of sentences. I don't know if you're Jewish or not, or if your knowledge changed since then. I don't know if this would be welcomed. But I felt like maybe it could be nice? Hopefully?

Like I said, I'm an atheist (though I grew up religious), so the way I relate to it all is specific to me.

My partner and I listened to a few recordings of the Shofar on YouTube, even found a Jewish song that incorporates it. It all fell flat. But then we had a conversation about what makes the Shofar so impactful, and I hope it's okay to share that.

In Judaism, the soul is good and it can't be tainted. The core of you isn't something you can destroy. The soul is pure, and that's stated in the blessing we say every morning when we wake up. At heart, you are good.

In our calendar, the last month of the year is Elul. That's the time you start hearing the Shofar. It's not required yet, but some communities add it to certain morning prayers. Elul a contemplative month. You consider your missteps and your path. How far am I from who I want to be as a person? How am I treating the people around me? In Judaism God can't offer you forgiveness for hurting another person, only that person can, so this question is especially important.

The whole month ends in two major holidays: Rosh Hashana, and ten days after, Yom Kippur. This is when you hear the Shofar the most, and it's almost meditative.

Rosh Hashana is the Jewish new year. And starting a new year is a big deal. After a month contemplating your place, you sit and listen to an instrument that awakens your heart. It tells you that you're not broken, that you're wanted, that you're not too far gone.

It's a mournful sound, too - in it, I feel like I can hear thousands of years and those who lived through them. It carries grief for everything we lost. But it's hopeful, and it ties me to them. Especially since we hear it in prayer, as part of a community, all of us silently listening.

Since we believe that the soul is good - at the core, you're someone good - sitting with the desire to be better felt like connecting with the deepest part of myself. I sit among my people, drowning in a powerful sound that tells me I can be better. That door is always open to me and it can't be closed.

Yom Kippur is the only holiday we have that's also a fast. Most of our holidays have feasts. Most of our fasts are sad. Yom Kippur means Day of Atonement, or Day of Forgiveness - and that's a happy thing. We see it as the day where we're closest to the divine. It's a day spent almost fully in prayer.

Here, the Shofar is blown at the end of the closing prayer, after the fast is done. It marks the end of our holiest day. It always felt heavy, knowing I won't hear again until Elul.

It's full of meanings of loss and forgiveness and being called to come home because you'll always be wanted back. I love it deeply.

I wrote in this post why Hogwarts Legacy is antisemitic and why playing this game, even pirated, is like printing out an antisemitic caricature and saying "I just like the art."

I was right.

If you play this game, fuck off and stay away from me.

Sorry, finding this out almost made me cry.

#riki babbles #jewish things

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veale2006-blog · 27 days ago

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The Truth of Genesis: The Seven Feasts Of Yehovah, Part 6 10/28 There are seven feasts, or appointed times, that God gave Israel to keep. Six of the feasts we know several days ahead of time when the feast day is going to occur. However, the only one that occurs “on a day that no man knows”, is the Day of Trumpets. It is the first day of the seventh month, called Tishri. At the end of the sixth month (Elul), witnesses in Jerusalem are watching the sky to see if the first sliver of the renewed Moon will be visible. It is either 29 days or 30 days after the beginning of the sixth month. But until NASA was able to create a system that would calculate the moment that the Moon would be visible, it was always a “guess”, and a ��wait and see”. Now, it is just a “wait and see”, because NASA cannot predict cloud cover. If there is cloud cover on the 29th day, the new month is declared on the 30th day.

By protocol, two eye witnesses to the sighting of the Moon, must give their testimony to the High Priest on what they saw, in order for it to be declared the beginning of the seventh month, called Tishri. The time or moment of the evening is defined as when there are three stars visible as the sun is setting. At the evening of the 30th day, if the renewed Moon has not yet been sighted, the start of the 1st day is proclaimed, whether or not the lower crescent of the Moon has been seen. The cycle of the moon is 29.53+ days, or 29 days, 12 hours, and 44 minutes, so there cannot be a 31st day. It can only be 29 or 30 days. The possibility of cloud cover makes it difficult to predict. That’s why it has been called “the day and hour that no man knows”. It has been associated with the day of the coming of Yeshua.

Exodus 19: 1, 2, 10 – 11, 16 - 20 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. 10 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes, 11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

It is my belief that the following scripture occurred on the eighth day of the third month, which would be the very first “Day of Pentecost”, when God gave Israel the new language of Hebrew when He first spoke to them at Mt. Sinai.

16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. 20 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Now, on a clear day, from the top of Mt. Sinai, Yehovah had thunder rolling, and lightning flashing, and the ground shaking, and His voice roaring. What other deity has ever done such a thing? Has any of the gods of Greece, Rome, Egypt, India, and Islam ever appeared in front of any people? Since they have not, why do people insist on worshiping such fictitious false gods?

Exodus 20:18-20 18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Yehovah only spoke about ten of His 300 or so commandments, and Israel was so scared, that they asked Moses to tell God to stop.

Deuteronomy 5:1 - 28 1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 4 The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5 (I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying, 6 I am Yehovah thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Skipping down to verse 23 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye said, Behold, Yehovah our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yehovah our God any more, then we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27 Go thou near, and hear all that Yehovah our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that Yehovah our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it. 28 And Yehovah heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and Yehovah said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.

Therefore, as a memorial to remember that day which God spoke, the nation of Israel was to look for, and be ready for, the first day of the seventh month, which would be called the Day of Trumpets.

Leviticus 23:23-25 23 And Yehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

I now ask this question. Has any god, other than Yehovah, ever spoke or shown themself so that people could hear or see evidence of the deity? So why do people worship false gods, such as Mithra, Venus, Zeus, Ganesha, and Allah? Are they insane? There are those that say “Allah is Greater”. Greater than who? Greater than who!!? The only true God in existence, who created this universe, has told us His name. His name is Yehovah, and Yehovah became Yeshua. Those that knowingly bow down and serve false gods are evil, and are worshiping Satan. Have I made myself clear? The only God in existence is Yeshua. It is Yeshua, who is coming down to Earth from Heaven to kill the armies of the anti-Christ, after Elijah and Enoch are risen from the dead, off of the street in Jerusalem, and sent back to Heaven. What other god do you ever expect to see? I repeat. What other deity do you ever expect to see?

Numbers 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

The KJ bible was translated by gentile theologians of England. When they came across the Hebrew word that was for an assembly, they interpreted it to be what they called a convocation, which was an English assembly of Bishops and representative clergy of the Church of England, or a consultative assembly of clergy and lay delegates from an Episcopal diocese. The word convene is used to describe an agreement to meet to discuss or plan something that is not of a critical nature. To convoke, which is what the word convocation comes from, is a more formal assembly to handle, discuss, or observe something special. Since each of the feasts were of special recognition, it would be appropriate to call the assembly a convocation.

Again, what in the world does anyone expect to gain by forsaking the only real Deity, and worshipping trees, rivers, animals, Lucifer, Hindu deities, sun gods and moon gods, such as Allah? You have to be insane to do such a thing! Come Judgement Day, you will face an angry God that will incinerate your eternal soul in the Lake of Fire forever, and ever, and ever, without any rest. The fire is going to be so hot it is going to torment Lucifer, night and day. What do you think it’s going to do to you? Would you want to join Satan who deceives people? I do not have the vocabulary to properly describe the stupidity of worshipping anything or anyone else, other than Yehovah. Do you think you can stick your nose up at our Creator and not be punished? I plead with all that hear my voice (read my words). Please, please, throw away everything else and worship Yehovah. Yeshua IS Yehovah.

At the beginning of each month, two witnesses would be allowed in the temple chambers to give their report to the High Priest. While the two witnesses are standing outside the gate, the High priest would shout “come up hither”. Upon presenting themselves before the priest, the witnesses then would explain what they saw in the sky, describing what the Moon looked like, and at what time. If the priest believed their report, the trumpets would blow, and bon fires would be lit, mountaintop after mountaintop, letting all of Israel know that the new month has begun that evening.

After the first evening of the month has been declared, everyone would know what day of the month an ensuing feast day would occur, if it has any, such as Passover on the 14th day of the 1st month, and the Day of Atonement on the 10th day of the 7th month. But in the case of the Day of Trumpets, we don’t know what evening that it will begin until the sighting of the first sliver of the renewed Moon, unless cloud cover forces recognition by default. It is the only feast or moadim that begins on a day or hour that no man knows.

The Day of Trumpets begins the Autumn feasts, which Yeshua will begin to fulfill at His next appearance in the sky. This has been called the second coming of Jesus. He will not set foot on the Earth at that time. He will only appear in the sky with His angels, kill the armies of the anti-Christ with swords coming out of His mouth. But before that happens, leading up to that special Day of Trumpets, a certain sequence of events must first occur.

I am of the belief that the seven year count down will begin March 29th, 2023. If that is correct, we can expect the Temple in Jerusalem to start construction within 11 months from then, maybe in December 2023. One issue that I’m wondering about is that it also is about the time that we might see the planet Nibiru in the sky. They might coincide with each other.

In Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount, I expect the Dome of the Rock to come down. I would be very surprised if the Temple began construction with the Islamic Dome still standing, because it would be a persisting defamation of the Temple Mount. I expect the temple to be ready for the day of Attornment, in the September/October timeframe in the year 2026. But shortly afterwards, with the expected moadim of Dedication, also called the Feast of Lights, I would expect the Anti-Christ to make his move, and reveal himself. That is when the brimstone hits the fan.

At that time, being brought back to Earth, will appear Enoch and Elijah, dressed in sackcloth. While the rest of the world is at the mercy of the beast and the false prophet, the two witnesses will prophesy against the anti-Christ, telling him how he and the false prophet will burn forever in the Lake of Fire.

Suppose the Temple Mount was not where the first two temples were constructed? The place called “Zion” was maybe in the aera called “the city of David”.

Enoch and Elijah will carry on with their testimony for 3 ½ years. If any of their enemies try to harm them, fire will come out of their mouth and kill the attacker. But then, after an apparent head wound heals on the Anti-Christ, he will have enough power to kill the two witnesses, and they will lie dead on the street for 84 hours. That’s 3 ½ days. Many evil people will walk up to their bodies and cheer, being glad that they are dead, and give gifts to each other in celebration. But after the 3rd day, they will rise up from the dead, I believe on the evening that starts the Day of Trumpets. Yeshua will call them up to Heaven, and allow the witnesses to give their report.

Revelation 11:3-12 3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. 11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

Each new month begins with the sighting of the renewed Moon at sundown, every 29.530588853 days, or 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2.8 seconds. Yehovah runs this universe by His timeclock, based on the lunar cycle. I am persuaded that the two witnesses, Enoch and Elijah, will be caught up to Heaven to give their report to the High Priest, who is Christ Jesus. Therefore, I would expect the first battle of Armageddon and the rapture of the saints to occur right after the sighting of the renewed Moon, the lower crescent after sundown, in the seventh month, in whatever year Yeshua returns to Earth.

End of Part 6.

Have a blessed day and week. May Yeshua Hamashiach the Christ bless you. Love, Lizzy

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thebookofnehemiah · 27 days ago

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"The Scumbags." From the Book of Nehemiah, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of the Lions that Lay," 6: 11-15.

The Nsh is being pursued by a bunch of scoundrels who are disappointed to find out he is not interested in nepotism, which is a violation of the Decrees. He knows the only way to emerge unscathed is to remain true to his principals and complete his work on the Walls and the Doors.

Following are the deliberations: how should one respond to intimidation and fear for one's life and emerge the legal as well as the actual victor over the circumstances? A Nsh cannot be an ax swinging dyke about everything, but a few things are going to require clear legal recourse, what is called Noadiah, "a meeting with God."

Of this, Sanballat and Tobiah, "the goodness that is swallowed up the hind rear" are clearly in need:

11 But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should someone like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!” 12 I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

13 He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.

14 Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, my God, because of what they have done; remember also the prophet Noadiah and how she and the rest of the prophets have been trying to intimidate me. 15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.

The passage refers to hired men. Hired men are aspects of the behavior that are either forced or incentivized into doing the right things. The term usally refers to Yehsiva boys who are forced into the Shule at an early age in exchange for residence in the parent's homes, but internally, this refers to the self-control one must indenture oneself into possessing. There are indeed aspects of the mind that will try to intimidate a man or woman into spending too much time on their backside. Except our rear end butts are not permitted to prostitute us or whore us out.

One cannot say "my ass whored me out so I went along for the ride." It must always be the reverse. To perform Noadiah and "to bear witness repeatedly before the congregation, like a habit" due to the sins of the flesh is not acceptable.

On the societal level, society must indeed prosecute and persecute persons who are not in control of their genitals. We are not doing a very good job of this. The age of consent is inviolate. One cannot reframe violations of the age of consent under any circumstances nor fail at due process. This is the first office named by the Torah and for this there is a reason.

The Republican Party has used "underage prostitutes" to stage incidents of stachitory rape against their opponents using little drug addicted psychos to discredit or intimidate them, and they are for the most part getting away with it as you can tell. This is repugnant and deserves the harshest of punishments and proper persecution in the public sphere.

The Zohar says mais oui to this.

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 11-12: But should a man run away? Men and boys do not mix. Yes, run. There are plenty of people with pubes that are horny just like you. Find one of these instead.

The Number is 8742, חז‎‎דב‎‎, hazdev, "you scumbag!"

v. 13: He'd been hired to intimidate me! The Number is 6503, ו‎נג‎, and ng, "illuminate the situation."

"The verb נגה (nagah) means to lighten, or to reflect light and occurs a mere two or three times in the Bible: 2 Samuel 22:29, which is reduplicated as Psalm 18:28 ("lighten up the darkness"), and Isaiah 13:10 ("the moon reflects light").

It's probably prudent to note that this root does not actually describe light or being light (which would be done with the root אור, 'or) but rather the traveling of light or else its effect of illuminating."

v. 14-15: The Wall was completed. The Number is 11051, קין‎‎א‎, kina, "a louse, a label, a style, a term."

"The verb קנן (qanan) isn't used in the Bible but it appears to tell of the weaving of many strands into a dynamic and interlocked network. These strands may be reeds and twigs that a bird weaves into a nest, or it may be acts of trade and routes of commerce that together combine into a bustling economy. Noun קן (qen) means nest, and verb קנן (qinnen) means to make a nest.

Verb קנה (qana) means to obtain, i.e. to acquire or in some instances to create. It's the regular verb for a commercial purchase. Noun קנין (qinyan) describes an item acquired (or created). Noun מקנה (migneh) means cattle (as unit of commerce). Noun מקנה (miqna) means purchase or purchase-price. Noun קנה (qaneh) denotes some herb on a stalk, or any rod, reed, branch- or stalk-like item (in this sense, a plant "acquires" its branches).

The verb קין (qyn), which isn't used in the Bible, occurs in cognate language with the meaning of to fit together, fabricate or forge (often of metal things). In the Bible occurs only the noun קין (qayin), meaning spear. Note that our modern word "franchise" comes from a word that meant spear, and originally denoted a free man, i.e. one who had the authority to bear arms, own property and thus conduct trade. The earliest republican government of Rome was called curia, literally spear-bearers, and the link between bearing a spear or other such ceremonial weapon and a senatorial government (a government by tribal elders) appears to have been pretty much globally understood throughout history.

Noun קינה (qina) denotes a kind of sad poem; a dirge or lamentation, which both had to be fabricated and could, presumably, pierce a person's soul like a spear (which is an obvious Biblical figure of speech; see Luke 2:35). The denominative verb קונן (qonen) means to do a dirge, which could be either to chant or compose one.

The verb תקן (taqan) means to make or become straight."

It seems the Nsh chose to go and find the pedophiles that were trying to frame him, arrested them according to the customs and laws of his people and disposed of them. Go Nsh!

Donald Trump, the Republicans, Mormons, Catholics and others romanticize and spiritualize sex with minors and the problem is pandemic. You may have heard Mitt Romney and others claiming sex with minors is an aspect of their religious freedom and "that is how we bring them to Jesus Christ!" The US Government has addressed the problems posed by persons Mitt Romney and Donald Trump who have openly admitted to sexual misconduct with minors with gross negligence and incompetence and millions of lives have been destroyed.

Sex between family members and persons who are not of age is illegal. When minors are trafficked, especially by public officials, the crimes are considered Crimes Against Humanity.

In cases like those involving Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Rick Perry, Josh Hawley, Mitt Romney and other members of Congress and the Supreme Court like Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Alito, et al. incidents require mandatory prosecution and prevent individuals involved from holding public office and other types of positions where exposure might induce risk. The White House is expected to respond to this today. The US Government is not allowed to fuckaround and fuckabout with this issue, we must insist it deal with the problem with the urgency that is legally required.

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dfroza · 2 months ago

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A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures

for the 2nd of October 2024 with a paired chapter from each Testament (the First & the New Covenant) of the Bible

[The Book of Matthew, Chapter 10 • The Book of Judges, Chapter 3]

along with Today’s reading from the ancient books of Proverbs and Psalms with Proverbs 2 and Psalm 2 coinciding with the day of the month, accompanied by Psalm 11 for the 11th day of Astronomical Autumn, and Psalm 126 for day 276 of the year (with the consummate book of 150 Psalms in its 2nd revolution this year)

A post by John Parsons:

The appointed time of Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashanah) begins Wed. Oct 2nd at sundown this year...

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The underlying assumption at work behind the call to do teshuvah is that your life matters and your actions carry profound significance - both in this world and in the world to come. Sin is so dangerous because it damages our very essence, and if unremedied, such damage will be irreversible. Therefore today is the day to seek healing, for your days are numbered in this world and every day you live ratifies the end of your life. The sages say "mitzvah goreret mitzvah" (מצווה גוֹרֶרֶת מְצוּוֶה) - "the reward for a mitzvah (i.e., blessing) is another mitzvah" (Avot 4:2), though of course the logical corollary is also true, "the reward for a sin is another sin."

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree [going] to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings..." (C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory)

In the Talmud (Makkot 2:6) we read, "They asked of Wisdom: 'What is the sinner's punishment?' It replied, "Evil pursues the sinners" (Prov. 13:21). They asked Prophecy: 'What is the sinner's punishment?' It replied, "The soul that sins shall die" (Ezek. 18:4). Then they asked the Holy One, blessed be He, 'What is the sinner's punishment?' He replied, "He should turn to me and be forgiven. This is the meaning of the verse, "Therefore he guides sinners in the way" (Psalm 25:8) - God guides sinners to do teshuvah so they may find life.

What is God like - what is His heart - is the first question, and how we answer that will determine how we deal with all the other questions that come up in theology... What do you feel inside when you stare up at the ceiling before you go to bed? In light of the ambiguity and heartaches of life we might wonder if God is there for us. Does God care? Is He angry at me? Does He really love me? This is the raw place of faith, where we live in the midst of our questions. The Name YHVH (יהוה) means “He is present,” even when we are unconscious of His Presence in the hour of our greatest need.

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

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generation8 · 2 months ago

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SEE WHAT GOD DID THERE - Parshat Ki Tavo

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19 Elul 2024 Parshat Ki Tavo

Yesterday we read the Torah portion of Ki Tavo.

The parshah includes a Divine covenant of curses and blessings which God commanded the Jewish people to invoke upon their entry into the Land of Israel – blessings which would shower down upon them if they would choose to follow God's ways, and curses which would befall them if they would choose to lead other lifestyles. The section continues with a long "rebuke," depicting in great detail the outcomes of these blessings or curses. The narrative ends with God tying this covenant back to an earlier similar covenant, which we read in parshat Bechukotai.

In both covenantal narratives, the verses which list the actual "curses" and "rebukes" are read publicly in a quieter undertone, on account of their harsh content in general, and their graphic descriptive nature in particular.

Yesterday we also celebrated the birthdays of the founder of the collective Chasidic Movement, Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, and of the founder of the Chabad Chasidic Movement, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

The story is told about Rabbi Schneur Zalman's son and successor, Rabbi Dovber (the Mittler Rebbe), that when he was a teenager it happened that his father was away the week of Parshat Ki Tavo. His father would usually read from the Torah publicly himself, but in his absence someone else was appointed to read it in his stead. And when the reader reached the section of the Torah relating the "curses" and "rebuke," young Dovber fainted. When he came to, the Chasidim asked him what had happened. He responded, "When I heard the reader reading the curses, I fainted." The Chasidim asked, "But you hear the same curses read every year?" To which Dovber replied, "When father reads it, I don't hear curses."

What are we to make of this story? The verses say what they say. And what they foretell is more or less true to the horrific tragedies which ultimately befell the Jewish people in land after land throughout their two millenia exile. Finally, how does one not hear curses, when the Torah itself calls them "curses"?

But there is a fundamental principle we are taught that everything in Torah, even that which appears negative, is in fact Divine blessing. It is only that some blessings are too "high," too intense, to be received in an unrectified world without "breaking the vessels."

On the surface, this might not bring much comfort... Suffering can just be too intense for a person to make room in their mind and heart for what may feel like abstract justifications. But perhaps there are two ways to approach this idea, and in the context of these very verses, to at least open windows in our minds and hearts to begin to see the possibility of hidden blessings within the "curses," and perhaps even the possibility of transforming the "curses" themselves into blessings.

As noted, the two covenant narratives of Bechukotai and Ki Tavo are tied together by God Himself at the end of this week's parshah, Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 28:69):

"These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb."

In the earlier Bechukotai covenant, made in Horeb, after all the harsh predictions are enumerated, the verses conclude (Leviticus 26:44-45):

"But despite all this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them nor will I reject them to annihilate them, thereby breaking My covenant that is with them, for I am the Lord their God."

"I will remember for them the covenant [made with] the ancestors, whom I took out from the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be a God to them. I am the Lord."

In other words, as prophesied by Moses, even if the Jews were, God forbid, to stray with every sin and to suffer every imaginable calamity (as they in fact, historically, did), God promised that despite it all He would never utterly reject them or annihilate them. He would forever remember and ultimately restore His covenant, His relationship, His love, with them.

This being the case, every word of curse is really both a curse and a blessing -- a curse that sin would result in suffering, and that increased sin would result in increased suffering, but combined with the blessing that no matter how far the sins may go, and no matter how far the resultant suffering may go, the covenant, the relationship, the love will forever remain intact and eventually be healed and restored.

In that light, we can perhaps also understand why God went to the extreme of describing in such graphic detail the inhuman suffering the Jews would potentially endure. For if God were to have promised only in a general way, "No matter how much you sin, and no matter how much you suffer, I will still remember you and redeem you," at some point in their long and bitter exile the Jewish people might have eventually doubted to themselves, "It is true that God foretold to us that we would suffer for our sins and that He would still never forget us. But He never actually told us just how much suffering we could expect Him to remember us and save us from... Perhaps now that things have gotten SO painful, perhaps such intense and prolonged suffering is a sign that God has changed His mind and no longer intends to remember us and save us..." And so G-d went to the extreme of listing every single type of curse and suffering that might befall us, in vivid gory graphic detail, so that we could never ever think to say that there is any sin or suffering from which God did not already promise us to still love us and still remember us and still cleanse us and still save us. Seen in this light, every rebuke listed in the portions of Bechukotai and Ki Tavo carries within it a hidden blessing -- the blessing of the promise of G-d's unbreakable covenant and vow to love us and save us, no matter what.

But let us take this a dimension deeper.

Rabbi Yehudah Hanasi, author of the Mishnah, once observed, "My ability in analysis and clear thinking was increased because when I studied under my own master, Rabbi Meir, I sat in the first row behind him and was able to see his back while he was teaching. And if I had sat in front of him and seen his face, my ability would have developed even more." (Eruvin 13b)

What does this mean? How does seeing the back of one's teacher sharpen one's ability to analyze and interpret his teachings accurately? And how does seeing the teacher's face increase this ability even more?

But there is so much communicated through body language and facial expression. Body language, for example, reveals whether a thought is taught in a state of agitation or calm. Facial expression, for example, reveals whether a thought is taught with harshness or with compassion.

And so with every verse we read in the Torah – Torah being the teaching of the Master of all masters of all masters – we must strive to see God's "back," and if at all possible, His "face."

This means that even when reading those verses which God Himself calls "curses" or "rebuke," we are not forced to assume that they were said by God with a scowl or scorn. They can also be read as God crying through heaving sobs of painful compassionate tears. Or as God yearning and begging us to make the right choice, for our sake as well as His. Or as God speaking with equanimity, out of His confidence that His simple words alone can deter us from wrongdoing even when spoken gently, because He believes in us that we are intelligent enough and mature enough to receive and internalize His words even when they are delivered with calm and trust.

Or employing more modern imagery, if we were to publish an "Emoji Bible," it would be entirely in our hands to choose which emoji we read into God's words, no matter how harsh a verse may sound -- an angry red faced emoji, or an emoji depicting God's heartbreak, or His crying, or His longing and yearning, or His hopeful hug, or His confidence in us and His empowering strength...

This is perhaps a deeper meaning into the concept of "shivim panim latorah" – that there are "70 facets of Torah," 70 different ways to read and receive and integrate every verse in Torah into our personal lived experience. Because the word panim connotes a dual meaning: panim-faces and pnim-inner world. A person's face-panim reveals what they are experiencing on the inside-pnim. The "70 faces of Torah" reveal the 70 ways of relating to and interpreting Gods own "mind and emotions" in expressing His Divine word. For the number 70 in Torah would seem to represent 70 different intellectual-emotional combinations and personality types (manifesting in the 70 Archetypal Souls of the House of Israel, the 70 Nations of the World, the 70 Prophetic Elders, the 70 Sages of the Sanhedrin, etc). And so when we dig deeper to decipher the deeper pnim, the deeper "intellect and emotion," the deeper "personality" of God behind His every word in Torah, we thereby discover a new panim-face-expression of God reflected at the surface level of His words, which can transform what we assumed to be a scowl into a smile, and a curse into a blessing.

There is a fascinating teaching in the name of the Maggid of Mezritch which perhaps aligns with this approach. The Talmud (Megilah 14b) questions why King Josiah sent messengers to ask a prophecy from the prophetess Hulda rather than from the prophet Jeremiah (II Kings 22:14). The Talmud answers that women are by nature more compassionate, and King Josiah was hoping for a compassionate prophecy. Asks the Maggid: If a prophet's role is to faithfully convey God's unadulterated message, what difference does it make what the temperament of the prophet is? The Maggid explains that although a prophet cannot choose the content of his prophecy, he or she can choose the tune, the tone, in which they deliver it. And if they choose to deliver a harsh message in a compassionate tune, that itself can transform how the message itself will actually manifest -- that its manifestation, too, will be compassionate. (Maggid Devarav L'Yaakov sections 120-121; Or Haemet section 426; Or Torah sections 164, 449; Likutim Yekarim 18a; Oheiv Yisrael, end of Parshat Ekev)

Perhaps this hints to an even deeper insight. That when we choose to read God's seemingly harsh words from a place of belief and trust in His infinite love and kindness, that "vote of confidence" in God from our end itself elicits a reflective vote of confidence in us from God's end, resulting in the remembrance of our covenant and the restoration of our relationship.

So too, in every generation, and for each one of us. It is in our hands to read God's words in the Torah, even those which on the face (panim) of it appear to be harsh, and strive to discern the inner (pnim) love, the inner heart, from which they were actually said to us. And this itself depends on us and the truth of our own inner (pnim) heart which informs our own surface (panim) consciousness and interpretation of God.

In the words of Proverbs (27:19), "As in water, face answers to face, so is the heart of a man to a man." Our ability to read love into the heart and intention and word of another, even a harsh word, and even of God, is commensurate to and a reflection of the truth and totality of the love in our own word, in our own intention, in our own heart, for them.

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pomegranate-jewitchery · 2 months ago

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─── ･｡ ✡︎ : ｡ﾟ. ☽ . L’shana tovah u’metukah! . ☽ . ｡ﾟ : ✡︎ . ───

Rosh Hashanah, literally the head of the year, is the birthday of the universe and the first of Tishrei. Rosh Hashanah is celebrated on the first two days of the year, on Tishrei 1 and Tishrei 2. Preparation usually started on the eve of the first day, Erev Rosh Hashanah. Some of us have already started.

We typically greet someone with a Shanah Tovah on Rosh Hashanah, and a few days after. The saying translates to “good year”. It is a part of a longer phrase L’shana tovah u’metukah, meaning “for a good and sweet year.” Another way to greet someone for Rosh Hashanah from Sephardic and Mizrahi tradition is Tizku leshanim rabot!, meaning "wishing you many, many years!" In response someone will say Tizke vetichye veta'arich yamim! Which means "may you have the fortune to have a long and good life!"

Tashlich

The ritual to cast off sins, the most famous of the traditions for Rosh Hashanah. Go to any body of water, typically living waters, and throw bread, sticks, stones, or other goods into the water to symbolize casting off your sins. “It is also a Kabbalistic practice to shake the ends of ones garments out” [1]

Tashlich provides an opportunity not only to cast off one's sins, but to shed fears, doubts, and negativity, or anything that no longer serves you. What do you wish to leave in this year? What is no longer bringing you joy, wonder, and happiness? What is holding you back? Cast it to the depths of the sea. [2]

Traditional Foods

Apple and Honey. Started by medieval Ashkenazi Jews to symbolize bringing in a sweet new year.

Pomegranates

A fish head to symbolize the head of the year

A round challah to symbolize the eternal cycle of life

“Some people avoid eating nuts at this time, since according to a somewhat convoluted gematria (mystical numerical interpretation) the Hebrew words for nut (egoz) and sin (het) have the same numerical value.” [3]

There are so many other foods eaten on this day. Share some of foods you and your family typically eat for Rosh Hashanah.

Moon Rituals

While it is Rosh Hashanah, it is also another Rosh Chodesh, a new moon. You can bring in the new year with your Rosh Chodesh traditions on top of your normal Rosh Hashanah ones. Meditating might also be a war you chose to honor Rosh Hashanah, to finish your reflection of Elul.

Wear something new and/or white

Bring in the new year by blowing the shofar [4]

Light candles [5]

Attend synagogue services

Read liturgy

Lead a Rosh Hashanah seder, a sephardic tradition [6][7]

Go to the mikvah to honor the new year

Do a divination spread for Rosh Hashanah [8]

Links!

[1][2]https://jewitches.com/blogs/blog/rituals-for-rosh-hashanah?_pos=2&_sid=7f773e842&_ss=r

[3]https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4644/jewish/Rosh-Hashanah-2024.htm

[4]https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4858924/jewish/Shofar-Blowing-Blessings-and-Instructions.htm

[5]https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4836/jewish/Rosh-Hashanah-Candle-Lighting.htm

[6]https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/905170/jewish/Rosh-Hashanah-Seder.htm

[7]https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/a-sephardic-rosh-hashanah-seder/

[8]https://www.tumblr.com/reader-raye/188120309736/a-spread-i-did-for-rosh-hashanah-also-suitable?source=share

#it won't let me put more than 10 links #so tumblr gets the citation links #the discord gets allll the links #rosh hashanah #jewish #jewitch #jewitchery

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thenewdeadseascrolls · 6 months ago

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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."

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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.

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