Hinduism is a world religion (1.2 Billion adherents). Christianity and Islam are world religions (2.4 Billion and 1.9 Billion converts). Buddhism is maybe a world religion (535 Million adherents). But, Judaism? Judah-People-ism, a *world* religion?! (There are only *15.2 Million* Jews in this world, from theistic to non-theistic in ethno-religious approach.)
Even Communists have world religion numbers, when you consider how many human lives they influence. Just counting actual members in the Marxist party, 95.15 Million are in China’s Communist Party with another 8.9 million worldwide, which totals to 104.05 Million Marxist members (total population size that is govermentally affected is *1.58 Billion* citizens).
Which demonstrates clearly that Judaism can’t possibly be a “World Religion.” Or, to say it this way, is *only* a world religion because our ethno-religion has been *propped up as such* by Christianity, specifically, and Islam, secondarily – two universalist proselytizing/colonizing religions that spin *their* religions off of our inherited ancestral literatures.
Think about this, please, the next time you want to blame Jews for other people’s problems. Judaism (Jewish-People-ism) is *hardly* a “world religion” in *reality*, and doesn’t have the physical numbers to do more than *react* for indigenous survival!
If you really are a supporter of Indigenous Peoples independence and civil-religious lifestyle, then *be a real ally* in this world and teach the historical truth! All this world needs is for those blessed and/or born with supremacy to listen to the minorities, and act on their behalves. Legislatively, please! *This* is the only path to achieving *both* peace and conscious morality upon this planet Earth!
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No! Hasidim do NOT speak for, nor represent “Traditional Judaism,” except in myth.
Neturei Karta, this version of heredi Judaism was created in 1938 in Jerusalem, splitting off from Agudas Yisrael. Agudas Yisrael is a heredi Jewish political party that was founded in Poland in 1912. A religious political party! For history sake, *all heredi Jewish communities of today* originate as a post- Holocaust reactionary response to both the attempted world-wide genocide of the Jewish people *and* a rejection of modernity.
For historical sake, Hasidism itself originated in Galicia, southeastern Poland, in 1760 after Rabbi Israel Ben Eliezer’s death. Hasidism was a *populist* reaction against *traditional* Judaism, and they were considered, then, to be so radical in behavior and beliefs that they were abandoning the traditional Nusach Ashkenaz. This led to Vilna Gaon issuing a writ of herem (excommunication) against the hasidim for the charge of “believing in panentheism.”
(Panentheism is the belief that “God” is greater than the universe, includes the universe, and interpenetrates the universe. An idea that stood against the henotheistic Jewish belief and understanding of a national god-King, that rules Israel specifically and rules over the gods of other nations incidentally, as *Torah says is the reality*!)
It is only because the rabbi of Rimanov, Menachem Mendel, created an alliance with the Hasidim in the 19th century, to bolster Jewish hostile response towards Austrian attempts to force modernization on the traditional Jewish society, that hasidim became symbolic of “traditional” Judaism in the 20th post-Holocaust century. *Elsewise, to this day, the hasidim would still be a fringe Jewish movement, in the same manner as Karaite Judaism has historically been.*
The heredi Jewish communities are *NOT* representative of Jews as a whole, especially religiously. Nor do they historically represent our Jewish ethno-religion, being so new to the historical scene! They represent an extremist version of Judaism, that even the 200 BCE to 600 CE deeply religious Jewish communities *would not recognize* as correctly or properly Jewish, full stop!
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To end antisemiticism, we have to: 1 – assert our historic indigenous right to dictate the future of our Zion (Jerusalem), and 2 – openly and publicly question *why* Christians and Muslims, converts to a religion only, feel societally the need to define us for us (as an ethno-religious people) and politically dictate our future.
When are we Jews going to learn that appeasement for security only works historically short-term and never generates *real* security? When was the last time we embraced and united with the 355 other million remaining indigenous peoples – still trying to survive Christian and Muslim colonization of the world, to turn it into their liking?
Example of this point – a Christian who laughed at this Jewish Hillel post about addressing antisemiticism. His post declares that Jews usurp Israelite identity to the rejection of Christians. Because, those not born into the people feel the need to *replace* the people, because that is what these pure religions do, full stop. And this will not change within Christianity and Islam, until we Jews demand that they stop(!).
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haTikva, “the Hope” for Jew and Arab Israelis:
“As long as deep within his heart / an Israeli’s soul yearns, / and to the ends of the east, / his eye still looks for our land.
Our hope is not yet lost, / the ancient hope, / to return to the land of our fathers, / to the city in which David, in which David encamped.”
Israeli means both “Jew” and “national citizen.” L’artseynu means “our land,” which is a direct and indirect reference to Zion – “Israel” as a whole and “Jerusalem” the city.
Second stanza is the original first stanza of this poem of hope, now the national anthem for the modern nation-State of Israel. Since Arab Israeli citizens are loyal to Israel, it is befitting to modify the anthem in a way that includes them in with Jews. Thus, all Israelis, not just Jews, can long for “the hope”!
“Kol od balevav p’nima / nefesh yisra’eli homiya, / u’lefa’atei mizraḥ kadima, / ayin l’artseynu tsofiya
Od lo avda tikvateynu, / hativka ha-noshana, / lashuv le-eretz avoteynu, / le’ir ba’David, David ḥana”
https://forward.com/culture/153452/rewriting-hatikvah-as-anthem-for-all/
Rewriting ‘Hatikvah’ as Anthem for All
Tikvatenu, original poem:
“עוֹד לֹא אָבְדָה תִּקְוָתֵנוּ
הַתִּקְוָה הַנּוֹשָׁנָה
מִשּׁוּב לְאֶרֶץ אֲבוֹתֵינוּ
לְעִיר בָּהּ דָּוִד חָנָה.
Our hope is not yet lost,
The ancient hope,
To return to the land of our fathers;
The city where David encamped.
כָּל עוֹד בִּלְבָבוֹ שָׁם פְּנִימָה
נֶפֶשׁ יְהוּדִי הוֹמִיָּה
וּלְפַאֲתֵי מִזְרָח קָדִימָה
עֵינוֹ לְצִיּוֹן צוֹפִיָּה.
As long as in his heart within,
A soul of a Jew still yearns,
And onwards towards the ends of the east,
His eye still looks towards Zion.
כָּל עוֹד דְּמָעוֹת מֵעֵינֵינוּ
תֵּרֵדְנָה כְּגֶשֶׁם נְדָבוֹת
וּרְבָבוֹת מִבְּנֵי עַמֵּנוּ
עוֹד הוֹלְכִים לְקִבְרֵי-אָבוֹת.
As long as tears from our eyes
Flow like benevolent rain,
And throngs of our countrymen
Still pay homage at the graves of our fathers.
כָּל עוֹד חוֹמַת-מַחְמַדֵּינוּ
עוֹד לְעֵינֵינוּ מֵיפַעַת
וַעֲלֵי חֻרְבַּן מִקְדָּשֵׁנוּ
עַיִן אַחַת עוֹד דּוֹמַעַת.
As long as our precious Wall
Appears before our eyes,
And over the destruction of our Temple
An eye still wells up with tears.
כָּל עוֹד הַיַּרְדֵּן בְּגָאוֹן
מְלֹא גְּדוֹתָיו יִזֹלוּ
וּלְיָם כִּנֶּרֶת בְּשָׁאוֹן
בְּקוֹל הֲמֻלָּה יִפֹּלוּן.
As long as the waters of the Jordan
In fullness swell its banks,
And down to the Sea of Galilee
With tumultuous noise fall.
כָּל עוֹד שָׁם עֲלֵי דְּרָכַיִם
שָׁם שַׁעַר יֻכַּת שְׁאִיָּה
וּבֵין חָרְבוֹת יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
עוֹד בַּת-צִיּוֹן בּוֹכִיָּה.
As long as on the barren highways
The humbled city-gates mark,
And among the ruins of Jerusalem
A daughter of Zion still cries.
כָּל עוֹד שָׁמָּה דְּמָעוֹת טְהוֹרוֹת
מֵעֵין-עַמִּי נוֹזְלוֹת
לִבְכּוֹת לְצִיּוֹן בְּרֹאש אַשְׁמוֹרוֹת
יָקוּם בַּחֲצִי הַלֵּילוֹת.
As long as pure tears
Flow from the eye of a daughter of my nation
And to mourn for Zion at the watch of night
She still rises in the middle of the nights.
כָּל עוֹד רֶגֶשׁ אַהֲבַת-הַלְּאֹם
בְּלֵב הַיְּהוּדִי פּוֹעֵם
עוֹד נוּכַל קַוֵּה גַּם הַיּוֹם
כִּי יְרַחֲמֵנוּ אֵל זוֹעֵם.
As long as the feeling of love of nation
Throbs in the heart of a Jew,
We can still hope even today
That a wrathful God may have mercy on us.
שִׁמְעוּ אַחַי בְּאַרְצוֹת נוּדִי
אֶת קוֹל אַחַד חוֹזֵינוּ
“כִּי רַק עִם אַחֲרוֹן הַיְּהוּדִי
גַּם אַחֲרִית תִּקְוָתֵנוּ”.
Hear, oh my brothers in the lands of exile,
The voice of one of our visionaries,
that only with the very last Jew,
Only there is the end of our hope!”
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Like black Americans in the United States, Jews have been colonized for so long that we no longer have a singular Jewish culture – not even in Israel. We have lost a lot, despite our unique survival as an ancient indigenous ethno-religious people. While it is true that Jews did what we had to do as a people to survive – to include, specifically, reclaiming sovereignty on a portion of our ancestral land in Judea-Samaria – it is equally true that many of us Jews lament the borrowed Western ways that have permeated the landscape and society of modern Israel. And, this is especially true for Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews, the non-European Jews, that live within Israel.
Even the original political Zionists from the Enlightenment era who envisioned a modern Israeli nation were astutely aware of the need to recreate a common Jewish culture within this future Israel. Though they may have been terrible religious Jews, halachically speaking, even these Western influenced Jews were fundamentally and profoundly aware of what Jews around this world and what Middle Easterners, in general, would have difficulty with in regards to our present day Israel.
Seriously, am I wrong here? There really would be less tension to stir antisemitic extremism, if Israeli Jews modified the present govermental structure, economic structure, and architectural structures to a more Jewish-specific form. I’m not asking, rather pointing out that this needs to happen.
Now, I’m not suggesting that we try to recreate the ancient ANE approach to governing Israel, nor even to adopt an approach of basing our modern laws on un-evolved canonized precedents. But, within Israel, we should be recreating an authentic Jewish culture among all citizens that does not rely on politically pressured outside influence.
Meaning, the first official Torah scroll for our people as a nation was D’varim, and D’varim demands the following:
An emphasis upon social justice for all citizens. One law for Jew and non-Jew that are citizens. And, that Israelis be an example for all the nations of the world to follow. We will never achieve this mandate clinging to the Western ways of living and doing things! For it’s not Jewish, but borrowed into some Jewish – full stop. … Now, you might be wondering how I view Israel as a Jewish nation. Yes? No?
Israel of today needs to be a bridge between the past and the future. For the sake of world legitimacy, very much so! This means structuring our democratic govermental ways within the ancestral govermental ways. For example, we should have a King as head of our nation – HERE ME OUT. But, this King is the elected version of the Western Prime Minister, who is chosen from the entire Jewish citizenship (yes, Jewish citizens!). This King only serves for seven years, and a new King is elected by the people from within the entire Israeli Jewish citizenry.
Let’s explore further. Shall we? Because D’varim demands that all Jews are to be priests, thus equal in status, then all Jews must vote and all non-Jews who are citizens must be fully allowed to vote in every single election. One law for both Jew and non-Jew, right? Western style politics be damned! Further, as Jews, we desperately need to recreate our own ethnic cultural approach to architecture, literature, and so forth. If Kuwaitis can be modern and yet clearly Arabic in design, it is time for us Jews to recover our ‘colonized out of us’ uniquely Jewish forms of design. We do this in art and writings already, limitedly, but we do not presently do this in our architecture and our economy. It’s hideously Western!
Another issue to be addressed, the present Israeli commitment to the evil of Western Capitalism and the myth of Exceptionalism, which is heartless and empty at the individual level (just like established Communism). This not thinking outside the colonized box and within Jewish tradition brings hatred upon our Jewish people from two-thirds of the world! Only the Christians are supporting this way of life for us Jews, so there *must* be a better way to approaching societal life! What is it?
Seriously! Why do we not have within Israel a Jewish ritual Sanhedrin, comprised of seven religious and seven secular scholars who are elected by the Jewish people every three years to their posts, to critically and cautiously determine a uniquely modern Jewish cultural approach to rituals that is actually rooted in the land, rather than keeping many different divisive approaches found in present Diaspora Rabbinic laws? And, why do we not have in Israel a Beit ha’Mikdash that is built around the Muslim Al-Aqsa to serve the purpose of a national Jewish synagogue to pray and/or study in, and that also serves as a national Beit Midrash for the critical religious and secular study of Jewish ancestral literatures?
Folks, we Jews need to decolonize! How else are we going to teach our children to think indigenously Jewish again from the ancestral homeland perspective? Nevermind me! I’m just wondering tonight, as my mind is ever doing, as to why we humans can’t find ways to bring peace, even within an ethno-religious people such as ours?
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It’s colonizer culture. Which the Spanish forced upon Mexicanos.
“Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1.
This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.
In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes.
When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.”
How the Mexicanos got it is through Roman conquests of the world, after assimilating the Celts into Rome the later BCE Roman Christians absorbed and usurped the Samhain tradition, Christianized it, and forced it upon the world.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween
History of the Day of the Dead
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Get this right, folks! The Southern States did NOT “take up arms against the United States”!
They *seceded* from the Republic, and *formed* their own nation. This Confederate Republic enshrined slavery as a “white” perpetual right as the sole reason for this act. It was the Union that “took up arms against” the Confederacy, in response to the secession – NOT to free the slaves, but to *force the seceded States back into the United States*.
The Confederate nation survived for three years as an independent nation with a Constitution, with a President and Administration that paralleled the U.S. government. It was Abraham Lincoln’s capitulation to make the war about the abolitionist movement’s cause, after two plus years of military defeats, that allowed the Confederacy back into the Republic – WITHOUT punishment nor acknowledgment of their egregious “white” original sin, European Christian racism!
Historical lies on both the Right and the Left, no matter the intent, leads this nation no closer to freedom from white supremacy!
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