9 September 2024, 6 Elul 5789.
Contents:
1. Revised Answer to Quora Query:
Was Jacob wrong to trick Esau into compromising his birthright?
2. New Article.
Rabbis Predicted.
Basic Facts and Main Text Supplied by Amnon Goldberg.
Some Background and supplementary information by Yair Davidiy.
Part 1.
3. Moses is the Talmud.
4. New Article.
Avraham Feld: Islamic Danger -1
The Arab Objective Is Genocide Against Israel.
5. "Spiritual Israel"?
Was the Chatam Sofer influenced by Meiri?
6. Psalm (TCT Tanakh) 55.
7. Some English Words with Hebrew Sources. Letter D.4.
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1. Revised Answer to Quora Query:
Was Jacob wrong to trick Esau into compromising his birthright?
https://www.quora.com/profile/Yair-Davidiy/https-www-quora-com-Was-Jacob-wrong-to-trick-Esau-into-compromising-his-birthright-answer-Yair-Davidiy
See:
Esau Tricked.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/esau2/esautricked.html
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2. New Article.
Rabbis Predicted.
Basic Facts and Main Text Supplied by Amnon Goldberg.
Some Background and supplementary information by Yair Davidiy.
Part 1.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/guest/goldberg1/predicted.html
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3. Moses is the Talmud!
Some Christians are attracted to Karaites who have a similar belief to that of the Samaritans.
The Samaritans reject the Oral Tradition which is what the Talmud is all about.
The Karaites often do not really believe in their own teachings and according to Maimonides the Sadducees (from whom the Karaites probably emerged) had atheistic intentions.
My personal opinion is that someone who really believes in the Hebrew Bible,
and studies it in Hebrew, will eventually realize that the Rabbinical understanding i
is the closest you are ever going to get to the Biblical intention.
The question are:
Do you really want that?
Can you face the quandary such a conclusion would face you with?
Exodus (TCT Tanakh) 20:
15 AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAW THE VOICES AND THE TORCHES, THE SOUND OF THE SHOFAR, AND THE SMOKING MOUNTAIN, AND THE PEOPLE SAW AND TREMBLED; SO THEY STOOD FROM AFAR.
16 THEY SAID TO MOSES, "YOU SPEAK WITH US, AND WE WILL HEAR, BUT LET GOD NOT SPEAK WITH US LEST WE DIE."
17 BUT MOSES SAID TO THE PEOPLE, "FEAR NOT, FOR GOD HAS COME IN ORDER TO EXALT YOU, AND IN ORDER THAT HIS AWE SHALL BE UPON YOUR FACES, SO THAT YOU SHALL NOT SIN."
18 THE PEOPLE REMAINED FAR OFF, BUT MOSES DREW NEAR TO THE OPAQUE DARKNESS, WHERE GOD WAS.
Moses is the Talmud!
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4. New Article.
Avraham Feld: Islamic Danger -1
The Arab Objective Is Genocide Against Israel.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/guest/feld/islam.html
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5. "Spiritual Israel"?
Was the Chatam Sofer influenced by Meiri?
Query From Mark Williams:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_as_the_chosen_people#cite_ref-44
Rabbi Menachem Meiri, a famous Catalan Talmudic commentator and Maimonidian philosopher, considered all people, who sincerely profess an ethical religion, to be part of a greater "spiritual Israel". He explicitly included Christians and Muslims in this category. Meiri rejected all Talmudic laws that discriminate between the Jews and non-Jews, claiming that they only apply to the ancient idolators, who had no sense of morality. The only exceptions are a few laws related directly or indirectly to intermarriage, which Meiri did recognize.
Meiri applied his idea of "spiritual Israel" to the Talmudic statements about unique qualities of the Jewish people. For example, he believed that the famous saying that Israel is above astrological predestination (Ein Mazal le-Israel) also applied to the followers of other ethical faiths. He also considered countries, inhabited by decent moral non-Jews, such as Languedoc, as a spiritual part of the Holy Land.[44]
Languedoc means mainly the present province of Occitaine in Southern France.
44. Gregg Stern. Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc. Routledge Jewish Studies Series
Jews as the chosen people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_as_the_chosen_people
Menachem HaMeiri (b.1249 discovered 1920).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_HaMeiri
The Meiri's commentary is noted for its position on the status of gentiles in Jewish law, asserting that discriminatory laws and statements found in the Talmud applied only to the idolatrous nations of old.[12][13]
According to J. David Bleich, "the Christianity presented so favorably by Me'ri was not an orthodox Trinitarianism but a Christianity that espoused a theology formally branded heretical by the Church".[14] However, Yaakov Elman argued that Bleich had no sources for this assertion.[15]
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Brit-Am Reply:
Thank you very much for this source. The articles are quite informative.
There may be a problem with the Mairi. He lived in the 1200s but his work was only discovered in the 1920s. He writes in a modern type style (though some other medieval Rabbis also did) and had modern type ideas.
I would have suspected his writings of having been forged albeit the work of a very learned person. No-one else however seems to have thought this. Writings in his name seem to have been accepted as genuine.
Some very prominent rabbis (such as the Hazon Ish) however did NOT accept his works for other reasons.
The Hatam Sofer (Rabbi Moses Schreiber 1762-1839) probably never heard of the Mairi since he was only "re-discovered" in 1920.
The Hatam Sofer was more the equivalent of a right-wing hardliner whereas the Mairi comes across as the equivalent of a Kosher Liberal.
That does not mean they would not have agreed with each other but they had different styles.
The Hatam Sofer opined that England and parts of Western Europe in the Messianic Age would be part of the Land of Israel.
See:
Predicted Hebrew Islands.
Were the British Isles and North America Promised to Become Israelite?
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/rabbi/sofer.html
Personally Brit-Am is concerned with physical descent.
The Jews are Judah in the physical and spiritual sense.
The Lost Ten Tribes are Israel in the physical sense.
Our task is to prove this as much as we are able and to bring knowledge of it to the parties concerned.
In Biblical terms they are the Chosen Peoples.
This is an important point.
Brit-Am has to present its case both to the Ten Tribes among the Gentiles AND to the Jews of Judah.
The Jews we focus on for this matter are Orthodox Jews.
When people who otherwise have agreed with us and used our sources adopt anti-Jewish attitudes (as has happened on a few occasions) it hurts our cause.
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6. Psalm (TCT Tanakh) 55:
1 FOR THE CONDUCTOR, ON NEGINOTH, A MASKIL OF DAVID.
2 WHEN THE ZIPHIM CAME AND SAID TO SAUL, "IS NOT DAVID HIDING WITH US?"
3 O GOD, WITH YOUR NAME SAVE ME, AND WITH YOUR MIGHT AVENGE ME.
4 O GOD, HEARKEN TO MY PRAYER, INCLINE YOUR EAR TO THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH.
5 FOR STRANGERS ROSE UPON ME AND VIOLENT MEN SOUGHT MY SOUL; THEY DID NOT PLACE GOD BEFORE THEM FOREVER.
6 BEHOLD, GOD IS MY HELPER; THE LORD IS [HELP] TO THOSE WHO SUPPORT MY SOUL.
7 HE WILL RETURN THE EVIL TO THOSE WHO LIE IN WAIT FOR ME; CUT THEM OFF WITH YOUR TRUTH.
8 WITH GENEROSITY, I WILL SLAUGHTER SACRIFICES TO YOU; I WILL THANK YOUR NAME, O LORD, BECAUSE IT IS GOOD.
9 FOR HE SAVED ME FROM EVERY DISTRESS, AND MY EYE SAW MY ENEMIES.
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7. Some English Words with Hebrew Sources. Letter D.4.
DOOM
Fated Destruction. Old English dom "law, judgment, condemnation."
cf. Hebrew "DIN" judgment.
DOOR Moveable barrier at entranceway.
cf. Hebrew "DOR" dwell. "DIR" dwelling Place for animals.
DOUBLE Latin duplus "twofold, twice as much." cf. Hebrew "DIBLAYIM" Dried fruit doubled over and compressed.
DROSS dirt, dregs," Old English dros "the scum thrown off from metals in smelting." CF. Hebrew "Deras" trample down, tear apart.
DUCK to suddenly go under water Old English *ducan "to duck." Waterfowl that ducks, dives.
cf. Hebrew "Dacka" force down, oppress, lower head.
DULL cf. Hebrew "Dalil, Dalul" shallow, weakened, poor, unfortunate.
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Jacob (aka Israel) Kept the Law of Tithing: Jacob linked his tithing to a Return to the House of his Father. We can do the same.
Genesis (NIV) 28:
18 EARLY THE NEXT MORNING JACOB TOOK THE STONE HE HAD PLACED UNDER HIS HEAD AND SET IT UP AS A PILLAR AND POURED OIL ON TOP OF IT.
19 HE CALLED THAT PLACE BETHEL, THOUGH THE CITY USED TO BE CALLED LUZ.
20 THEN JACOB MADE A VOW, SAYING, IF GOD WILL BE WITH ME AND WILL WATCH OVER ME ON THIS JOURNEY I AM TAKING AND WILL GIVE ME FOOD TO EAT AND CLOTHES TO WEAR
21 SO THAT I RETURN SAFELY TO MY FATHERS HOUSEHOLD, THEN THE LORD WILL BE MY GOD
22 AND THIS STONE THAT I HAVE SET UP AS A PILLAR WILL BE GODS HOUSE, AND OF ALL THAT YOU GIVE ME I WILL GIVE YOU A TENTH.
MALACHI 3:
10 BRING ALL THE TITHES INTO THE STOREHOUSE,
THAT THERE MAY BE FOOD IN MY HOUSE,
AND TRY ME NOW IN THIS,
SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS,
'IF I WILL NOT OPEN FOR YOU THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN
AND POUR OUT FOR YOU SUCH BLESSING
THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE IT.
Proverbs 3:
9 HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR WEALTH
AND WITH THE FIRST OF ALL YOUR PRODUCE,
10 SO YOUR BARNS WILL BE FILLED WITH ABUNDANCE,
AND YOUR VATS WILL BURST OPEN WITH NEW WINE.
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