If you knew anything about an Indigenous People, then you would know that our people’s myths are built around names, every name has a specific meaning, and the stories could *not* be written without the name nor with another name. It doesn’t matter to the Jews of Judea-Samaria that our Torah and Talmud stories are “tall tales” – the former to scare ANE empires from encroaching on Jewish land, and the latter to survive the European Christian and Arab Muslim occupations of our land. For us, those patriarchs and matriarchs exist, because Torah speaks stories about them (these special names filled with meaning), and it does *not* matter that they didn’t actually exist as people in this world.
For example, according to our Torah, “teaching,” Elohim “children of El (and El)” created in six days a formed earth out of the already existing primordial elements, and created human males and females at the same time upon the earth. Hence, why we humans are created in “our image,” according to our Jewish Torah myth. Then, after the first Shabbat, “day of resting,” YHWH god (one of creator El’s children) duplicates this creative process in a microscale on his portion of the land, the Levant. Since the Jewish people are the only surviving vassaled people of YHWH upon this planet, aka indigenous to the land, we have conveniently misplaced the vowels to the name of our god-King, so as not to speak it in vain – since YHWH is a rather emotional child of El, renown for his stormy violent behavior when upset! So, we simply call YHWH “Lord,” a meaning taken from the word adonai. His name is the only mystery name in Torah, that had meaning when the stories were written, but which is now “fill in the blank.” YHWH molded the first human of the Levant from the soil, grew a garden on his land, and placed this Levantine human within it to work the garden and to rule all within it (aka, self-sovereignty).
For example, Adam is the genderless human molded from the top soil (adama), hence his name means “human.” Chava, formed from one half of sleeping Adam’s ribcage, is the mythical first female of the Levantine tribes, and her name means “life-giver.” By the story having Adam announce Chava to YHWH’s garden, male and female genders were assigned to them at this spoken moment. Then, they discovered the serpent and had sex, and the land’s Deity, YHWH, cursed the land with drought for this (angry that his children had grown up!). This is why Noah need to be born as a continuation to these stories. For, by the very meaning of Noah’s name, he was born to end YHWH’s curse of land drought, by championing his family as the sole survivors of the great continental flood. From this, YHWH swore never to curse the land again on account of humans.
For example, through Noah’s family, we get the map of nations upon the continent in the genealogy of Noah’s sons. Europeans up north and Arabians-Ethiopians down south are included among Noah’s sons. From Avraham we get the people of Judah and the people of Edom in the Levant, the brother tribes (yes, it’s there, in the Torah! – all of what I share). It’s not by accident that D’varim tells the people of Judah “do not forget your brother” Edom for, when the empires encroached upon our Indigenous land, Edom fled into Judah and joined the Jewish people. Moab, east side of the river and our birthplace as a people, went extinct, as did northern Israel through forced assimilation into Assyrian culture and ethnic identity, but we the Jewish people have survived. What do you think Avraham’s and Sarah’s and Hagar’s names mean? How about Yaakov and Moshe’s? These stories could not be written without knowing this! These ancestral stories help to form and help to remind us of our Jewish identity as an ethno-religious people, aka Indigenous, through the generations. And the halachot defines our laws, such as who is Jewish and who is not.
Christianity and Islam are *not* ethno-religions, but proselytizing/conquesting theological universalist religions. Christianity and Islam have absolutes to have “faith” in, elsewise you’re not a true “believer.” Whereas, Jews are born Jews, whether we perform our ethno-religious rituals or not, whether we step into a synagogue or not. We are not religion, but a people with a religion about ourselves and our place in this world.
This is why there are 2.4 billion converts to Christianity and 1.9 billion converts to Islam, while the Indigenous Jewish people, 15.2 million worldwide, are still trying to catch back up to pre-Shoah numbers of our people. We are not a religion, like Arab Islam and European-ish Christianity.
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Purim, a story about a Zionist woman who stands up to Colonizer power at great risk to her own life *in defense of her people*!
“Zionism” itself is an ethno-religious mandate for the Jewish people, ever since we became the Jewish people in Moab (think southern Jordan) in the 13th century BCE. It is a staple within our inherited ANE ancestral literatures. King David and other Jewish monarchs fought for Zionism against other nations. The Maccabees and Simon bar Kokhba both fought for Zionism, the former against the Greeks and the latter against the occupying Romans. The Irgun, Lehi, and Palmah freedom fighters fought for Zionism against the British and Arabs. Likewise, to this day the Israeli Defense Forces fight for Zionism against terrorists and violent political activists.
Modern צִיּוֹנוּת Zionism, “return to self-sovereignty” on Jewish ancestral land, began in 1882 with Arab persecution of اليهود اليمنيون Yemeni Jews. This persecution of ME Jews resulted in mass immigration by sea and on foot back to Judea-Samaria (“Palestine”), and this Zionism spread to Europe, where “political” Zionism was born in 1897 (aka, Herzl’s Zionism). Remember, it’s all the same continent, and all Jewish Diasporas – Middle East, Southwest Asia, North Africa, Aegean north, Europe – had underground Zionist groups.
Both Arabs/Muslims and Europeans/Christians together through their antisemitic violent acts towards Jews *forced* MENA Jews and European Jews (same continent!) to engage in this modern Zionism to reestablish Israel, successful “return to self-sovereignty” upon *our* ancestral land – free from the rule of colonizing religious occupiers. This is Judaism, “Judah-people-ism,” full stop!
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