Anti Semitism

No one need establish that anti Semitism exists and that it is a worldwide phenomenon that dates after the destruction of the second temple and the period that it marked. And there is only one reason for why it exists: our forsaking of God. This was declared in prophecy by Moses, and it most certainly came to pass. When God says that a particular action shall lead to a particular reaction and punishment, and that moreover this punishment is a curse, one cannot twist this punishment into a blessing. The specific punishment for our apostasy would be to be driven from our promised land and to be scattered in the nations. We would be persecuted and preyed upon. He would give us a tremulous heart, and a misgiving soul. No one can deny that this has been the case.

Yet anti Semitism has continued for so long because the cause is unidentified amongst Jews. The temple was destroyed in 70 AD. We were scattered and persecuted. Yet Jews do not link this to any apostasy, nor our continuing captivity as the cause of an ongoing apostasy. We have, in effect, removed any guilt. It just “happened.” Jews boast of the Torah, and then glibly overlook this curse placed within it, and even more they overlook that this scattering and persecution has been ongoing since the temple was destroyed. Returning to Israel has not helped much. The land and a political state have not removed the curse. It has only recently exacerbated it.

This article is intended to show how Jews have aided in this phenomenon. I see no better example of this than the wanton neglect of God’s word. This has become dangerous in recent years due to the rise of secularism and with this the furthering of ignorance of scripture. This is overlapping a dangerous and obvious rise in both anti Zionism (used here to refer to a Jewish state) and anti Semitism (used here as anti Jews or Judaism). Moreover, the reaction to anti Semitism has exposed the basic lack of God in the thought of those who expound Judaism the most. Jewish intellectualism may exist in secular arenas, but it has sadly been lacking in the religious element of Jews. Judaism has become so ritualistic and mindless this should not be surprising. And Hasidic “Jews” practice such a quasi Polish/Greek mysticism that it originally earned them excommunication. This leaves only the Nazarenes with a respect for scripture, they and a few pockets within Jews who see there is clearly a “religious bolshevism” running Jewry, where, to use Solomon’s words: “the princes walk on foot and the servant sits the horse.”

This is made clear by a number of web sites, one hosted by a New Age Rabbi and one that shall be referred to here www.aish.com/seminars/whythejews/ It is used here not for the purposes of ridicule, but for the fact that it displays the lack of God as foremost in Judaism, and for the fact the author appears to be capable of writing in a profound way, and is very sincere in his adulation. His adulation, unfortunately, is of Jews and Judaism. It seems only an afterthought is applied to God. He is not being selected out for this; this is a common precedence in Jewry. One cannot promote such indirect reference to God as respect, since in essence that is to make God’s name and accomplishments vain. Those who write G-d may think they are being respectful, but it may be they simply cannot spell it. .

This attitude is the worst reactionarism that can occur, and it is one that will endanger Jews the most. It is encouraged that the reader go through his pages before continuing, especially here at his question of “Race.” http://aish.com/seminars/whythejews/yjt05600.htm

We must make something clear here before continuing. Despite the author’s basic misdirected play at discouraging the notion that Jews are a “race” by his referrals to converts (and his approach is shared by many in recent times) Judaism has seldom attracted outsiders in the post destruction period. It is true that Jews are not a race. Jews are nothing more than Hebrews (predominantly), and Hebrews are nothing more than Chaldeans (with some Egyptian mixed in 3,600 years ago). Herodotus even noted that the Jews alone are the only people in Palestine who are not Canaanites. Rather they “maintain they are Chaldeans.” This is perfectly true. We have to stop thinking in terms of “anti-Jewishness” and “anti-Semitism.” The bigotry in the world is “anti-Hebrew.” Let’s finally dispense with “Jew is a people.” Jew is a religion. The chosen are Hebrews. The covenant is with them first. Religiously, one did not have to be “Jewish” to inherit life. This was made clear at the Exodus, and at Horeb, and in the Song of Moses, and, one might add, throughout the Prophets. Who was David’s most loyal servant? . . .but Uriah the Hittite— and God saw the injustice that was done to him. Because of this, God would never take the sword from David’s house.

God himself recognizes his people as being the Hebrews.  It is a fallacy of post Holocaust reactionarism to accentuate the religious aspect of Jews, and dwell on the fact that Jews can be from any number of races (converts). Religiously, Jews have become a squabbling joke, and many aren’t even sure what “Jew” means anymore.  Hasidic Jews won’t accept converts to Reform Judaism unless they convert and become a Jew first (according to their understanding of it) because Reform Judaism just isn’t ‘it’ despite the fact it is full of Hebrews. But then Hasidism was so repugnant to traditional Jewry that it suffered excommunication in the 18th century when it began. Technically, Hasids aren’t Jews either by any classic standard. But almost to a man they are Hebrews. There are Jews called “Ultra-orthodox” Jews who hold onto a chicken and recite an incantation, believing this will transfer their sins to the chicken. Some slaughter the chicken and swing it over their head in some half --- sacrifice. Orthodox is Greek for right or correct doctrine. This is hardly correct, and Moses would have slain someone for doing this abomination. The upshot is that ultra orthodox Jews aren’t Jews either— they are heretics . . .but they are Hebrews.

Post Holocaust Jews have had and have given out a false emetic about how “Jew is not a race; it is a people.” This is, of course, true. We are Chaldeans. There are other strains of the Chaldeans, but there are not other strains of Hebrews. Another strain of Chaldeans that survive unto the present are the Haranites, for instance. They are called the Kurds today, and are considered to be our closest living genetic relatives. In fact, herein is found a good example of the knaves that speak the loudest in Judaism. The “no race” rebuttal to anti-Semitism was so loud and so long that when antagonists made the assertion that most Ashkenazi  Jews were only the descendants of mass conversion of Russians and the Kirghiz, the knavery rushed to prove their genetic purity. Tests were done showing how a particular gene has not changed and that is predominant in the kohenim branches of “the family” and in many Kurds. The parrots in Judaism touted this as proof that the assertion that Jews today are nothing but a bunch of Europeans playing at quasi-Judaism is absurd. We have proof we are the Hebrews, those born to the covenant given to Abraham, the covenant that would come through Isaac, the child of promise. But when it serves its purpose, the “no race, we are a people” rebuttal is pulled out.

There is, in fact, set rebuttals to perceived attacks. It doesn’t seem to matter that they often contradict. For the record: Jews are mostly Hebrews. Nothing more. The Hebrews are Chaldeans. They are not the only surviving strain of that people. There are others. God, yes, God— novel to bring Him up— but God made a covenant with Abraham. Through Sarah a child would be born. This would be the child of the promise. God would bless all nations through Abraham. He warned Abraham that his descendants would be in Egypt. Also, he said that in the 4th generation they would come out. He raised up Moses to do this. God chose Abraham. God forewarned of what was to come. God raised up Moses to bring the Hebrews out of Egypt. Do you notice a pattern?— God.  He brought us to Horeb. There God spoke with a voice, and there we freaked out when we heard it. There we insisted that Moses speak unto us, not God, for we could not bear it!   

As Abraham was forewarned of the captivity of his descendants in Egypt, so did God warn Moses about what would happen “when,” not if, we went astray. God’s point of view in the Torah is that we are Hebrews, the literal descendants of Isaac. One more time, the curse:

(Deut 28:63-): “And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you; and ye shall be quickly removed from the land, into which ye go to inherit it. And the Lord thy God shall scatter thee among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods, wood and stone, which thou hast not known, nor thy fathers. Moreover among those nations he will not give thee quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of thy foot have rest; and the Lord shall give thee there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul. And thy life shall be in suspense before thine eyes; and thou shalt be afraid by day and by night, and thou shalt have no assurance of thy life…”

A people is in view, not a race or a religion— the Hebrews. Even if serving other gods, God will not regard them as another religion or people. He knows the sons of Isaac.

Anti- Semitism is anti-Hebrew. Just get a grip and accept it. Proffering “we are not a race” won’t stop “racism” or bigotry. When it was clarified to Adolf Hitler that Jews are not a race but accept any converts, he declared Jews to be mongrels, and for this reason now they should be exterminated. When someone wants to get you, they’ll find the excuse. And these are only excuses. The reason is something else.

In light of the curse above it is remarkable and quite astonishing that the author of the website http://aish.com/seminars/whythejews/yjt05600.htm claims that anti-Semitism is in response to Jews’ goodness derived from following the precepts of the Torah. He makes an excellent point at http://aish.com/seminars/whythejews/yjd09001.htm that people cannot cope with their feelings of having done something bad, which we all know is true. He also asserts we cannot stand seeing goodness and truth, when we are not. This is also true. But the result to him is ludicrous: “Stuck in this ‘Catch-22’ situation, people turn with their mounting frustrations against the Jews, who they perceive as personifying humanity’s collective conscience.”

Such alarming fondling of Jews is remarkable, but not so much when you realize this author’s level of understanding the Torah. His ignorance is partly derived from the very thing he speaks about— ancient Jews who, in the Talmud, displayed their bald face inability to accept our destruction and scattering as being the result of our own sin. Therefore they had the gall to openly misrepresent the Torah. The author quotes: “The Talmud (Tractate Shabbos 89) cites the source of anti-Semitism using a play on words. The Torah— the source of Jewish system of laws, values and moral standards— was received at Mount Sinai. The Hebrew pronunciation of “Sinai” is almost identical to the Hebrew word for “hatred”— sinah. ‘Why was the Torah given on a mountain called Sinai?’ asks the Talmud. ‘Because the great sinah — the tremendous hatred aimed at the Jew — emanates from Sinai.’ ”

Not at all. It plainly emanates from the curse God (who so far is second place to the Torah in the article) declared unto us for our apostasy. No greater a misrepresentation can be made for the Torah, both in the Talmud and in this author’s piece. Moreover, Sinai became a common word only later for the mount. Biblically, it is almost always referred to by its original name: Horeb. Therefore the play on words is merely a week and semi Gnostic attempt to cover up the actual words of the Torah.

Despite his claim that Jews are persecuted the world over (because they represent goodness), this author must attack Christianity in particular at http://aish.com/seminars/whythejews/yjd09001.htm thereby annulling his reasons for Jewish persecutions stated on other pages. It is now because Judaism is a particular threat to the belief in a divine messiah that Christianity does not like Judaism. Christianity is used to that claim, and it hasn’t bothered Christians for centuries. 

Considering his lack of knowledge on the Torah, his rather gross adoration of our own Jewishness (based on a Judaism quite different to Jews of the Second Temple period and obviously not based at Sinai) it is not surprising he does not even figure out the overt statements of God coming to his people both in the Torah and in the prophets.

Once again, Moses declared: “The Lord thy God shall raise up to thee a prophet of thy brethren, like me; him shall ye hear: according to all things which thou didst desire of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and we will not anymore see this great fire, and so we shall not die. And the LORD said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to thee. I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him. And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak to them, I will take vengeance on him.”

Well, well, that’s rather blunt. God is basically saying that he refuses to speak to the people directly about all they want to know. That statement must have been particularly sobering to Moses. Essentially, he is saying that Moses is unworthy to be told these things or do what this prophet is to do. Something far greater would come to God’s people . ..and not from Horeb. It was only promised at Horeb— a codicil on the Torah. God plainly declared that another will come in the future, so that God will speak directly to his people again. How blunt did God have to be? Obviously, what this prophet would say would not entail laws. Those were needful for our daily lives, and Moses was worthy to relate these. “That prophet” would be coming for a far greater purpose than the setting of precepts.

Moses fully and implicitly understood how great this prophet would be since it was obvious to him that what he was being given at Horeb wasn’t the whole thing, else God would not have said the above statement. Moses understood the divinity of “that prophet,” for God would speak directly through him. Moses sang in his song of departure. “Behold, behold, I am, and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live; I will smite, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands. For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say, I live forever.”

It has already been stressed in Men & Brethren the significance of the statement “I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say, I live forever.”

This continued to unfold, and David spoke of his descendant, calling him “my Lord.” Isaiah spoke of him frequently. And he said, “Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Again in Men & Brethren the nature and meaning of “virgin” was well known to ancient Jews, and it was so translated as that into Greek by Jews . (See Messianic Prophecies)

Isaiah 7 and 9 are about as blunt as one can get. Isaiah 49 expands it: “Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; And said unto me, Thou art my servant O Prince of God in whom I will be glorified. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. And he said, It is too small a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages.”

Amazingly, since the Cross and because of the Cross the Gentiles call upon the name of the LORD, just as it was foretold. It was declared that Israel would not be gathered, but that “I” will be glorified nonetheless because the Gentiles would be given as his inheritance. The prophets were anticipating the end of our age after a 40 year period. This is made clear by the scrolls at Qumran. This indeed came to pass in 70 AD. Only 40 years before at Passover in 30 AD something happened. This was the Cross.

This is why there is anti-Hebrew today. Overkill on Jews not being a race won’t stop it. Highlighting the recent spate of non Hebrew converts can’t forestall persecutions. God’s warning to Ezekiel will apply. Persecution sure as hell has not been because of our righteousness. The cause for the dispersion was committed. We did not hearken unto “that prophet” who would come and be God speaking directly to us, things which obviously God would not tell Moses, and which the Torah still required must come.

Just as at Sinai, we continue to tell God to stop speaking. The author of the piece referred to above, like so many Jews, simply refuses to hear Moses as well. Anti-Semitism will increase, and the rationalizations of Jewish leaders who can’t even represent scripture accurately isn’t going to stop it or soften the blow. Converts can fall away, but one thing will remain: Hebrews. “And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak to them, I will take vengeance on him.” You are born to a covenant, Hebrew, that you cannot escape, no matter what religion, if any, you adopt.

That is God’s standard. He recognizes his people as Hebrews first, Jews second. If not, there would have been no reason to destroy the ancient kingdom of Israel or scatter the kingdom of Judah. They had gone after idols and detestable things. They had forsaken the covenant. God could not simply say like so many knaves and lackeys in Judaism today, “Well, they’re not Jews anymore.” Or “Well, they have the power to adjust truth and change it, so I’ll recognize it all.” No. They were destroyed.

Hebrews and Jews alike better wake up and think about that. Every sect that has changed or interpreted the purpose of God’s covenant better realize we were and are persecuted not for our righteousness but for our transgressions. Either you can turn from this, or God will make it clear for the umpteen time that he does not walk with this kind of perverseness. Every prophet announced his coming. Everything Christ taught in the gospels can be found in Scripture. The people didn’t even know the scriptures, and those in authority that did, did not want somebody telling them they were not the ultimate authority to make the scriptures say what they wanted. Nothing has changed.

The knaves, connivers and cheats— the sons of snakes, as the Essenes called them— of our own people have only caused millions of Jews to fall away.  It is time to restore the highway of our God, and not consider the fears of the peasant preachers— the Pharisees— who happened to survive the destruction in 70 AD and began to lace Judaism with their own particular brand of self-serving peasant superstitions. This escalated until Hebrews are so divided into bizarre sects of Hasidism, orthodoxy, and liberalism, none can figure out that they even are Hebrews first. They don’t know what a covenant is, and many were taught Abraham chose God.

The divinity of the Messiah was made clear before, and was a widespread view.  Both the Simultudes of Enoch, the Song of Moses in the Torah, the promises of an everlasting kingdom to David, and the direct prophecies of Isaiah impressed upon Jews of the Second Temple Period that “Messiah shall last forever.” What’s the point of having a Messiah otherwise? Every time a deliverer or good king arose, we went a whoring later and we were plunged into destruction. The only way to stop that is to change the heart. No man can do that. The Messiah, to even live up to the concept, cannot be but a man.

But as Daniel said, and also Isaiah, he shall be “cut off for his people,” but no sin will be found in him. He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces and we despised him, and we did not value him. Surely he has borne our sufferings, and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment that made us whole was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each of us, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

   He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. From detention and judgment he was taken away— and who can even think about his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living, he was stricken for the transgression of my people. Then they made his grave with the wicked, and with rich people his tomb— although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

   Yet the LORD was willing to crush him, and he made him suffer. Although (Because he) made his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring, and he will prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will triumph in his hand. Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light, and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore will I allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; because he poured out his life to death and was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for their transgressions.”

Figure it out.

See Daniel 9’s cipher for a timeline of the Messiah.