“Judeo-Christian” values is *not* Jewish, folks! It never has been. There is no such thing as “Judeo-Christian” culture, values, or beliefs – unless, we are talking about *appropriation* of Indigenous culture!
Ressurection of the dead versus t’chiyat hameitim. The first is Christian, the second is Jewish. What is the difference between them? And how does this difference reveal the lack of relationship between Levant Judean culture and northern Aegean-created Christian religion?
The Christian religious belief is rooted in the concept of all humans being born sinners against “God,” thus needing salvation by the demiGod in flesh Jesus Christ. If a Christian (a human, in Christian parlance) dies without accepting the Christian demiGod as “Lord and Savior,” then he or she will resurrect to spend an eternity gnashing their teeth in excruciating pain and suffering in the lake of Hell fire. If a Christian dies having accepted the Christian demiGod then, despite his or her behaviors upon this planet, he or she will ressurect to spend an eternity in a world of such goodness and pleasantness that there is absolutely no badness by which to compare it to. (Which, personally, also sounds like Hell, to me. For, how do you know it’s good and pleasant?).
Now, the Jewish ethno-religious concept of a resurrection of the dead, t’chiyat hameitim, is just a super *large* tad different from Christian beliefs. First, this ressurrection only applies to the Jewish people, and it is fully rooted in the Jewish apocalyptic literatures period, 200 BCE to 200 CE, era of Roman occupied Judean historical events. The belief was that – and, since it hasn’t happened fully yet, *is* that – a mashiach (an annoited leader) would rise up and lead bnei Yisrael (the people of Israel) in a victorious battle against the “Beast,” the Roman Empire, that has occupied and oppressed our Indigenous People. By this undefeatable victory that reestablishes Jewish sovereignty upon Judea-Samaria, the nations of the world will lay down their weapons and make peace with Israel, and those Jews who had lived prior to seeing this age of re-sovereigned peace upon eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel) will ressurect to live their life a second time upon Judea-Samaria in this mashiach age of peace.
As I said, they are *not* the same concept. The Jews of the Nazarene sect thought that Jesus would be this mashiach, this mighty military and civil leader of the Jewish people. When he proved not to be, by his death for insurrection against the Roman occupiers, these Jews turned him into a mythic legend in their writings – still believing that *in their lifetime* Jesus would resurrect and lead Israel into defeating the Roman Empire. He did not! Other potential mashiachs also arose during this occupation period. The closest Jewish leader to actually achieving the mashiach envisioned world was Simon bar Kokhba and his army of rebels, who reestablished Israel’s sovereignty for three short years. And, no, no one ressurected during this time.
So, now, to the purpose of this impromptu inspired post. The values between Judean ethno-religion and Jewish appropriating northern Aegean Christian religion are starkly different. Jews value Indigenous survival and sovereignty upon our assigned land, and all our laws and stories are meant to fulfill this singular generational objective, until “land and skies are no more.” It’s a group thing for us. Whereas Christian values focus fully around the *individual*, and his/her righteousness or lack of righteousness. This inherent Christian concept, from which all Christian values and beliefs derive, could not be in more conflict with Judaism (Judea-people-ism)!
There is no such thang as “Judeo-Christian” culture, values, or beliefs! Except, in the minds of Christians that appropriate Jewish cultural beliefs and ideas to validate Christian theology!
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Arguing with racists and trolls achieves nothing, folks! It sure does not lead to protecting our extremely small Indigenous Judean nation. It drives people away from hearing what needs to be heard. This is why these racists argue with people!
Please, don’t feed trolls! … Do as I do. Correct the social narrative while calling out the racists, and move on. The more arguing with idiots and haters, the more missed opportunities to correct the social narratives about Jews Indigenous to Judea-Samaria.
Racism is a disease, folks, and it is *not* curable! Preventing racism is the *only* path forward,… not combatting it after the fact.
So,… Anyone can be an Arab/Muslim or European-ish/Christian occupier of Indigenous Peoples’ lands. All you have to do is profess your “faith” in this supremacist racist ideology! There are over 4.3 billion of you religious converts to Colonizer mentality. Very few get to be a member of a surviving Indigenous People, like the Jewish people. Only 15 million of us worldwide, and half are in Israel defending our Indigenous land Rights.
Israel is the size of Taiwan, is smaller than Lake Michigan, is six times smaller than the USA state of New York. In contrast, mostly unpopulated Saudi Arabia is *3.2 times larger* than the USA State of Texas. Yet Israel, Judea-Samaria, is being physically occupied by over 4 million *Arab* political land-squatters calling themselves the new ancient “indigenous,” who are determined to end the sovereignty of the *only* Independent Indigenous refugee nation upon this entire world – the Jewish people’s nation – to return the Jewish people back to historic sovereign-less dhimmi status under Arab occupation and rule, as our Kurdish brothers and sisters are still to this very day!
Arabs are just waiting for our tiny Indigenous nation to get tired of her *Arab* non-citizen land-squatters, so they have an excuse for another genocide of our Indigenous people. I am *not* “gaslighting” you here! When will Israel be allowed to demilitarize from daily struggle to survive and live comfortably in peace, like the Arab and European Colonizers’ nations?! When are the politically land-squatting *Arab* settler-occupiers upon Indigenous Kurdish and Jewish land going to get off and respect Indigenous Peoples’ land rights?! Enough with Arab and European occupations of Indigenous Peoples’ lands!
All who get this and repeat this, themselves, *for truth and honesty in this world*: Thank you for supporting Kurdish and Jewish Indigenous land Rights upon our ancestral lands! The “Palestinian” *Arabs* and Imperialist European Colonizers do not need to occupy and rule over every Indigenous Peoples’ lands in this world. There is room for we Indigenous Peoples and our self-sovereignty, too!
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Jewish land specific festivals and indigeneity to Judea-Samaria has never been a questionable fact! … Yet, do I still have to prove it (again)?
Shavuot, this land specific ritual festival “is described first as Chag Hakatzir (Exodus 23.16) with mention of Bikurim, the First of the Harvest (23.19). It appears eleven chapters later as Chag Shavuot (Exodus 34.22) together with the command to bring the First of the Harvest. In Leviticus (23.16-17) the festival is unnamed, referred to only as the culmination of the 49 days of the Omer, although the term Bikurim is once again used. In Bemidbar (28.26) again the name HaBikurim appears but as Yom instead of Chag. And in Deuteronomy (16.9) it is Chag Hashavuot as in Exodus 34 but with the definite article.[3] Why does the Torah use different names in seemingly random fashion?”
Nearly every day, since the two land-grabbing conquest religions – Christianity and Islam – were invented (1,600 years and 1,400 years ago, respectively), I and every other Indigenous Judean has to address their mutual expressed *libel* – thrown specifically at the Jewish people – to invalidate the Jewish people’s land rights to Judea-Samaria. In all their Arab and European colonizing, occupying, and appropriating ignorance of ancient Indigenous Judean stories written to scrolls, they try desperately to say that the Jewish people have from the beginning been always like them – violent agressive land-grabbers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands.
First, these Arabs and Europeans came and occupied our Indigenous Judean land, and they *appropriated* our ancestors and ancestral myths. Then, they created religions (one in the Aegean north and one in the Arabian south) that justifies their religious need to conquest the entire world for Allah/Christ and caliphates/kings. And, in the process of their violent anti-Indigenous racist conquests to rule the world, they have given the Indigenous Jewish people of Judea-Samaria a BAD name everywhere in this world with their misuse of our identity and our stories!
These appropriating Arab and European Colonizers and occupiers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands are flat out *wrong* when they say that Jews were the first colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands. No, we – the Jewish people – were the first Indigenous People to be mutually conquested by these modern Arab and European Colonizers! The Jewish people became a distinct Indigenous People in Moab, and a distinct Indigenous nation north of Moab and across the (Jordan) river – in Judea-Samaria.
As it was for all ancient peoples, we – the Jewish people – expressed our indigeneity in the mythic story form, for all Indigenous Peoples upon this planet have their own pantheon of gods that define them as a people and the land that they are obligated to be upon and to keep (maintain) by indigenous laws! Ours is the Canāanite pantheon:
Deut 32:8 When Elyon (the “Most High” god) gave nations (their land) inheritances, at his dividing the children of Adam (humans), he erected boundaries for peoples by the number of the gods (of the Canāanite pantheon). 32:9 Indeed, the (land) portion of YHWH became his (vassaled) people, Yaakov, the lot of his inheritance (upon Canāan).
5:1 And Moses called all Israel (the sons of Yaakov) and said to them, “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I speak into your ears this day, and learn them, and observe to do them. 5:3 YHWH did not make this covenant with our fathers before us, but with us who are alive here today (in Moab).
27:9 Moses and the priests of Levi spoke to all Israel, saying, “Pay attention and listen, Israel! This day, you have become a (vassaled) people to YHWH (the land god-King), your God.
The founding event that created our distinct Indigenous People known as the Jewish people, the people of Israel, occured in Moab (the southern part of Jordan today), approximately around the 14th century BCE. Prior to this, we were just Levantine originating Canāan pastoral nomads wandering the Middle East portion of the continent. (The story of Cain and Abel is specifically about the tension between city-dwelling Canāanites and nomadic Canāanites.)
As speakers of the Canāanite language (which we still speak to this very day!), the stories we Jews inherited and made uniquely ours are of Canāanite history. This is the well of knowledge and experience that we first drew from to form our uniquely Jewish origin stories. Our direct experiences with the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Philistinian (BCE Palestinian) invaders became our second and third wells of historic and mythic experience from which to draw from – further adding to the shape, nature, and number of our Indigenous People’s stories.
These racist anti-Indigenous Arabs/Muslims and Europeans/Christians, who are appropriaters of Jewish ancestors and ancestral myths, are *wilfully* wrong about the Jewish people in their social narratives! Their efforts to silence Indigenous Judean voices (like mine and other insular Jews), to appropriate our Indigenous land rights for them colonizing-selves, to prevent us from fulfilling our Indigenous land obligations under *our* self-sovereign Independence and national rule, this is *all* meant to erase the Jewish people from history and to replace us with their occupying-selves as the new ancient “indigenous” of Judea-Samaria.
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A Bedouin soldier in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 War of Independence.
Yes, even Arabs by origin helped the Jewish people to reestablish our decolonized Indigenous Judean refugee nation upon Judea-Samaria!
Denying history does *not* change history!
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The hope and dream of Judaism, Judea-people-ism, is the very survival of the Indigenous Jewish people of Judea-Samaria upon our ancestral land. This is the defining purpose of our internally conflicting origin myths and laws that we wrestle with as a people – that we study and question intensely, argue over the minute details, cherish and chant between each other.
Through Torah myths, we have actual historical facts about our Moab-originating people that is surrounded and interlaced with fantastic “tall tales” about our ancestors that posit our Indigenous people as equals to the marauding empires. Through Torah mitzvot and Talmud halachot, we have our Indigenous laws – *our Indigenous Judean obligations* – that defines our relationship with eretz yisrael, the land herself, and with bnei yisrael, the Jewish people.
These Jewish myths, histories, and laws preserved within our ancestral language all serve to define our very *identity* as an Indigenous Judean people of Judea-Samaria. Whether we are chiloni, “secular,” in lifestyle or dati, “religious,” in daily behaviors (shomer/shomea halacha) – whether we believe in the ancestral pantheon of gods and goddesses preserved in Torah, believe in Rabbinic monotheistic “God” of Maimonides or Spinoza, or are atheist in personal beliefs – to be an Indigenous Jew of Judea-Samaria is to embrace and accept our Torah and Talmud as they are, and to add our individual and generational voice to them!
https://www.thetorah.com/article/accepting-the-torah-through-the-prism-of-chaos-theory
Accepting the Torah through the Prism of Chaos Theory
Illustrating four aspects of Shavuot from critical and traditional perspectives.
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You would have to be a fool to think that land entitlement is based upon skin color, folks! But, skin color was initially the result of land entitlement, stay long enough in one place… This is why Arabs and Egyptians from southern Arabia have darker skin colors from we northern Levantine and Persian folk! Because Arabs are closer to Africa in indigeneity, and the Jewish and Kurdish people are closer to Europe in indigeneity. We Levantine peoples introduced light skin colors to early Neolithic Europeans. Duh!
So, when Arabs play the white man’s Christian-invented “race” card, I laugh! Because, land entitlement is not based on skin color! It is based on indigeneity to a land region, regardless how many times Arab invaders from down south and European invaders from up north conquest and occupy an Indigenous nation’s land, raping and pillaging, causing us Indigenous Judean people to be the most genetically admixed Indigenous Peoples in this entire world! We had to tighten our Indigenous laws on who is a son/daughter of Judea-Samaria and who is not, in fact, because of this.
“The idea that “Palestinian Arab” conquerors could become indigenous through conquering the Jewish people, even though the term “Palestinian” was only used in reference to Jews before 1948, is anathema. While Arabs claim to be related to the descendants of Israel through blood, it’s just another way to say that they acted like all conquerors, raping and pillaging and then settling and subsuming the locals. Native North Americans especially understand that simply conquering indigenous people does not grant one indigenous status. Building a monument over our sacred places does not make them yours (Mount Rushmore, anyone?) Not any more than UNESCO declaring the Temple Mount to be a Muslim sacred site because they built a mosque over the church that was built over the ruins of the Jewish Temple.” – Ryan Bellerose, Advocacy Coordinator for Western Canada of B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, February 08, 2017, Are Jews Indigenous to the Land of Israel? Yes., Tablet Magazine
Jewish Indigenous status is determined *only* by halacha (indigenous Judean law), not by Arab and European Colonizers social erasure of Indigenous identity. Not by Arab and European appropriating religious interpretations of Indigenous Peoples’ stories. Not by Arab and European settler-occupations of Indigenous Peoples’ lands. We Indigenous Peoples will survive you Arab and European appropriaters of Indigenous Peoples’ identities and lands, this you *can* be sure of!
The Jewish people were the first to decolonize from Arab and European occupier rule. The Kurdish people are still fighting hard for it daily. The Pueblo, Lakota, and Cherokee peoples are talking about it. For the sake of all Indigenous Peoples, we Jews of Judea-Samaria will remain free and self-sovereign upon our ancestral land (in all our varied Jewish skin colors and looks)!
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