Judaism

Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews

Alvin Radkowsky, "The Relationship between Science and Judaism,"

The chosen people, without a doubt.

I came to belief in God because of physics, then had to make a determination of what to believe. I believe that God is unknowable, yet we all have a personal relation with God. I think that to God we are all equal, yet when it comes to religion, and history, the Jews definitely stand out as chosen. Either they control religion by a conspiracy, or God made it so.

Regardless, they must be given whatever they choose, otherwise we will have war. Consider that most wars have had a religious component, then think of how Judaism is the foundation of both Islam and Christianity. If religion is how you control people, then Judaism is how you control religion.   

If we are looking for a revelatory messianic solution, or if we wish to apply only logic and reason in coming to a final solution for the well being of mankind, the only effective path is through the Jewish people.     

Exodus 19 :  3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:  6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.  7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him.

Review: The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks, by Marc David Baer:

http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/2010/02/union-and-progress.html

Union and Progress?

 

The Other Secret Jews By Adam Kirsch from new republic

Most readers interested in Jewish history know something about the conversos, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews forced to convert to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In recent decades, historians have come to see their story not just as a tragic or heroic one—an affair of Jews forced to give up their faith, or contriving to remain faithful in secret—but as an important episode in the evolution of the modern world.

Sabbatai Zvi

Shabbateanism was the largest and most momentous messianic movement in Jewish history subsequent to the destruction of the Temple and the Bar Kokhba Revolt. The factors giving rise to its extraordinarily widespread and deep-seated appeal are twofold. On the one hand there was the general condition of the Jewish people in exile, and the hopes for political and spiritual redemption fostered by Jewish religious tradition and given great emphasis in Jewish thought, which at all times could provide fertile soil for the blossoming of messianic movements aimed at ushering in redemption. On the other hand there were the specific conditions contributing to the impetus of the movement that began in 1665

Talmud

http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi_Akiva

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_ha-Nasi https://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/1101363/jewish/Talmud-St...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNCGJ0Dzlgk

https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6518   lecture text file below 

Julius Caesar's respect for Jews

Roman dictator, consul, and conqueror; born July 12, 100 B.C. (according to Mommsen, 102 B.C.); assassinated March 15, 44 B.C. Cæsar's attitude toward the Jews is manifest from the many enactments issued in their favor by him and by the senate.

 

Pleroma

 

Seven ??

1. First the • (Point), the Monad, Bythus (the Deep), the unknown and unknowable Father.

2. Δ (Triangle), Bythus and the first emanated pair or Duad,

3. Nous (Mind) and its syzygy Aletheia (Truth)

4. □ (Square), the dual Duad,

5. Tetractys or Quaternary, two males ||

6. the Logos (Word)

7. Anthrôpos (Man)

RABBIS, PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS FUNCTIONS

A rabbi is not a priest, neither in the Jewish sense of the term nor in the Christian sense of the term. In the Christian sense of the term, a priest is a person with special authority to perform certain sacred rituals.

A rabbi, on the other hand, has no more authority to perform rituals than any other adult male member of the Jewish community. In the Jewish sense of the term, a priest (kohein) is a descendant of Aaron, charged with performing various rites in the Temple in connection with religious rituals and sacrifices. Although a kohein can be a rabbi, a rabbi is not required to be a kohein.

A rabbi is simply a teacher, a person sufficiently educated in halakhah (Jewish law) and tradition to instruct the community and to answer questions and resolve disputes regarding halakhah. When a person has completed the necessary course of study, he is given a written document known as a semikhah, which confirms his authority to make such decisions.

Christian Kabbalah

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