Welcome to ערב, the 3rd of September! This weekend, I had some thoughts about atheistic Jews (the minority), non-theistic Jews (the majority), and theistic Jews (the runner-up majority) who fully believe in our Torah’s god-King of our Levant land. These thoughts occurred to me while I was chanting the ויכלו Vay’chulu (“And Will Be Finished”). Mainly, my thoughts reflected upon the first two, and the differences between them on how they approach traditional chant (Torah chanting). So, I wish to share these thoughts here, along with a personal recording of this chant.
Jews who do not believe that a god or gods exist in this perceivable world (atheistic Jews) seek alternative ways to expressing their Jewishness. They are quick to want to abandon the traditional chanted expressions of Judaism, Judea-people-ism, to meet their intellectual disbelief in gods and goddesses. In other words, everything Jewish has to be purely and religiously “humanistic” for them (and, they really show it!). And, there is nothing inherently wrong in this – for, we the vassal treatied Jewish people of Judea-Samaria, are *indeed* forbidden by mitzvah/halacha, indigenous Judean law, to worship idols of *any* kind!
This is why I try to adapt traditional Jewish chants to meet the atheistic Jewish need, which is a Western Diaspora phenomenon, as well. All Jews are valuable members of our national tribe, full stop, regardless how they indigenously represent in this world! This is why our modern Canaanite Hebrew embraces the non-binary (non-he/she gendered) language, to keep within us those who are of “two (or more) spirits.” Yes, Hebrew, like Torah, is more open-minded than most European-Christian and Arab-Muslim religion-minded folks would like for you, *the world around us*, to believe!
Jews who do not believe that gods/goddesses exist outside of our human imagined and shared stories (non-theistic Jews) are not deterred nor afraid to express in chant and in dialogue the names and words of our reverence for our people’s god-King (formerly, for our gods and goddesses who ruled us). Nor for the “heavenly host of beings” of Torah, nor for the serpentine flaming saraf, and not even for the numerous demigods found in Torah. It is not a conflict for us to share the “story” and, especially, as we chant every Shabbat in our homes and while assembled as a people in our Jewish communities. We see it as *necessary*, in fact! To continue our story-telling tradition as the Jewish people! For the Jewish people, it does *not* actually matter whether our Torah stories actually happened or not in planetary history. Our stories happened in the Torah, and this is reality *enough* for our stories about our indigenous Judean people!
Jews who are inclined in nature to worship the god-King, YHWH – who we are committed by mitzvah, as a vassaled people, to “love” with all our heart, all our body-mind, and all our fullest actions – (theistic Jews) do so and *not” in ignorance! They are sticklers for mitzvot/halachot, as a means to our Jewish people’s indigenous survival upon the land of Israel. Sure, many of them are all about religious worship (sometimes, even too much so!), as our Jewish ancestors were historically and demonstrably so. But, there are many different types of Jewish worship!
Our Siddur, the book of daily chanting, is a rather modern invention. Evidence from the ground of Judea-Samaria shows clearly that the Jewish people were chanters of Torah (not expanded formulaic blessings to “Adonai Eloheinu”), regardless which version of Torah that we called the authoritative version! Meaning, even if you have failed to say a modern prescribed daily blessing, our chanted daily amulet for Indigenous People survival, if you’ve chanted Torah, then you have saved the future of our Jewish people of the land of Israel! Those who wrap tefilin, further amulet for our people’s future upon our ancestral land!
In other words, this is not about some kind of belief or “faith” in gods and goddesses, but about our Jewish-ness and our Judaism. Being Jewish is about our resolute determination to survive as a people, who are still somewhat intact in original form in this ever changing world of human beings upon the planet Earth. We still speak, write, and think in our Canaanite Hebrew language! Every Jew who feels their inherited Jewishness understands this – even misguided Jew’canos who work for the survival of the Colonial Arabs-Europeans for Allah-Christ and caliphates-kings way-of-life, at the expense of a significant portion of their Jewish people’s survival.
As I get looser with the rules in my older age, due to the changes in human reality, I get that much more insular into our Jewishness as a people. You can force some or, even, most of the Jewish people out of our ancestral land, but you can *never* force the Jew out of the indigenous human being! This is my d’var for this week. Argue as you will!
Vay’chulu
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As to my question posed to you: “D’varim was the first written scroll for the people of Israel, our people’s Covenant vassal treaty with the land’s god-King, YHWH. Why was it not made the first book of Torah to be read?” It was the first scroll to be recited daily (this Deuteronomy scroll), before Bereishit (Genesis) and before Sh’mot (Exodus) and before Vayikra (Leviticus) and before Bamidbar (Numbers) scrolls were ever compiled for the reading by the Jewish people of Judea-Samaria, the land of Israel. So, being the first scroll, *why* was it not the first book of Torah?
(If you answer like a Christian and say that “to put Deuteronomy first would be putting the cart before the horse,” then you’ve already shown *deep* ignorance in Indigenous Judean people’s ancestral literatures!)
The reason that D’varim is the last scroll (aka, “book”) in Torah is because: For D’varim to be a genuine and unquestioned vassal treaty scroll of an Indigenous People (we, Jews) with our land’s god-King (that would be, YHWH), who is supposedly more powerful than the national gods of all surrounding empires, then the origin history of this Indigenous Levantine people had better muster up to the necessary level to deter *anymore* empire invasions of our Jewish ancestral land!
In other words, the very first scroll (aka, “book”) of Torah had better be about how our land’s god-King (that would be, YHWH) created his vassaled people upon the Levant soil. And, wouldn’t you know it, this is exactly what the Bereishit scroll teaches about the Jewish people, the people of the land of Israel! After the first Shabbat, which was formed into shape by the planet-creating god El, YHWH god of the Canaanite Levant then created the Levantine people on his assigned portion of this continent! Jews, the people of Israel, are the last surviving members of these original Levantine families who were vassal treatied by YHWH god.
We are the keepers of Canaanite Hebrew (the language and worldview), the pantheon of god names (throughout TaNaKh), and the laws of the land (the mitzvot/halachot)! Without the origin story of our being formed from the soil of the Levant in Bereishit, the D’varim Covenant between YHWH god and the Israeli people born from the people of Moab would have little standing compared to the Babylonians, Egyptians, etc. and *their* land-god covenants! Our tall tales had better match with as much and even *better* intensity for Indigenous Peoples’ survival in this world!
Now, as to the curse of drought in the Bereishit scroll existing upon the land from Adam to Noah, this is clearly understood by the very names in Torah. If you do not understand the names in Torah, then you do *not* understand Torah. The Torah could never have been written to scrolls (aka, “books”) without understanding the names by which these stories were literally formed around! No matter how much some (proselytizing religion) appropriators may try, Jesus is *not* Yitzhak, one of our many Jewish mythical demigods, and could *never* be in any sense of the name! Likewise, there could be no end to YHWH’s curse of drought upon the land without the birth of Noah!
I would not be a teacher of the Jewish people’s Torah, if I did not now ask the question: Who is Noah? And why was he necessary to save the Levantine people from the curse of drought upon the land? And why was he necessary to save humankind from the deluge of flooding waters upon the land? Who is ready to now start reading our ancestral Jewish Torah on its own terms, and stop trying to place it into a Colonial religion’s theological box?!
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Folks, indigenous Judean law, our Jewish mitzvot/halachot, has no legal concept of Levant indigenous status being based on skin color. This is strictly a European Christian 3rd century invention to explain why “good nations” (European nations) are deserving of the Christian supremacist demiGod and all other nations, “bad nations,” are such for sinning against the Christian god before birth. Though, Levantines (aka, the Jewish people), Kurds, Druze, and Persians are “white” skinned compared to Arabians, Egyptians, and Africans, we peoples born of the Levant and Southwest Asia soil are target number one for European Christianity created racism, which Arabs/Muslims have fully appropriated since the Jewish people forcibly decolonized upon our ancestral land in 1948.
Even though most Jews are Levant-Persian “white,” every Jew by halacha – no matter the skin color – is just as Jewish. Torah itself speaks of Moshe marrying an Arabian woman and an Ethiopian woman, and Miryam being briefly cursed with leprosy for having questioned Moshe’s non-Levantine wife choices (remember, these Torah stories, all of them, were written in Judea-Samaria in our Canaanite Hebrew). The European-Arab Christian-Muslim classifications of human beings based on skin colors, that’s a *Colonial Arab-European world’s racism problem* – and it is for you all to solve. We Jews simply don’t have the numbers to be the world’s anti-racism police. It’s hard enough just remaining anti-Colonial decolonized upon our own ancestral land!
Folks, Arab-European Colonial racism is a disease and it is not curable. If you hate Zionism, Jewish indigenous decolonization and self-determining sovereignty upon Judea-Samaria, then you hate the Jewish people, full stop! If you also hate “second Israel,” the other “Zionists” according to Arab occupiers of Levant and Southwest Asia lands, known as the Kudish people, then you hate the Kurdish people, full stop! Please help the Kurdish and Jewish peoples to end Arab-European Colonial racism, supremacy, and occupation of Indigenous Peoples’ lands in the Middle East. Help us to Defund Racism online! Thank you!
Snapshot: Cleopatra was half Persian! Levantine peoples and Persian peoples are near identical due to continuous historical intermixing. Guess what, Gal Gadot is Jewish, which is a Levant-Persian ethnicity. Did I mention that Cleopatra was Persian?
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The Israeli-Palestinian regional conflict in one family discussion:
I purchased a home for my *human* family (we decolonized our land, establishing self-sovereignty), and I said “no” to any furry “pets” larger than a cageable rodent in our home (we said “no” to Arabs who fought us to prevent our decolonization upon our land). Despite my “no,” because I knew that I would be the one who would have to take care of them, I found our human home colonized one after another with a furry eternal child-like pet (despite our decolonization, we became occupied by Arabs intending to settler-occupy against our sovereign rule, with no intentions on contributing to the success of our decolonized nation). … Now, I am being admonished for being the one who refuses to neuter these pet-children occupiers of our human home, to control their wild natural behavior, so that they can roam anywhere in our home without causing us clean-up work (now we are being daily accused of “evil” for not neutering their anti-Indigenous behaviors within their occupied parts of our decolonized land, because we can’t *trust* them to actually care about the rest of our land – learn the Arab history regarding their lack of care for the land of Israel and her citizens!). … They, these (originally) undesired house guests are just being wild *inside* the house, and I did say not to bring them in, if you’re not willing to deal with the consequences of this!!! Now, I am expected to turn them in eunuchs? So that I can allow them full run of the *human* place?! Knowing full well that they *already* know how to mark up the place, and force us to have to clean up after them?!
Before you say that this comparison is some kind of dehumanization of “Palestinians,” remember that they are not actually “Palestinians,” but settler-occupying Arabs for Allah-Marx and caliphates-communism and the ocassional European for Christ-Marx and kings-communism upon a decolonized *Indigenous refugee nation* land, who are not citizens and do not ever want to be this! They are correctly wild, from a sovereign status perspective. We love them (like I’ve learned to love the pets that I originally said “no” to!), but many now want them neutered – so that we can live in peace upon our land. *Too late for that!* They are here to stay as is, and we need to learn to live with them, instead.
I wonder if this is the heart behind the Jewish prohibition of not neutering animals (human or any other kind)? I’ll have to reflect further on this.
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“Any identity that is rooted in the sense of victimhood, in the final analysis, is an unhealthy identity. If Judaism, [Judea-people-ism,] is not a life, as our sages, as indeed our [sacred literatures] describe it, of a tree of life, a living, vital, vibrant, dynamic, beautiful, exciting, wonderful way of life to live, then why the hell should [the Jewish] people have that cross to bear? If you’ll excuse me, I’m mixing my metaphors. So, [our decolonized since 1948] Israel is the most mind boggling transformation in the [historic] condition of the Jewish people. And the amazing thing about it is, in terms of it’s [recent forcibly decolonized] history, Zionism [Israeli self-sovereignty upon our land of Israel] was opposed on both poles, by the most liberal segments in the Jewish community and by the most ultra orthodox. Today, I believe it’s fair to say that there is not one single component in Jewish life that defines *itself, despite Israel*….
Peace for Israel is not only an imperative for the survival of it’s own society, it’s not only an imperative for the [1964 KGB-PLO invented “Palestinian people”s] dignity and national aspirations of the Palestinians, it’s not only an imperative to be able to break through the hostility in the Muslim world [who were directly targeted by the USSR with *continued* Nazi rhetoric about the Jewish people for decades after WWII] towards Israel and the Jewish people, it’s not only essential in order to address the Islamic-West relationship, it not only has ramifications with regards to global security but, ultimately, it has critical ramifications with regards to Judaism [Judea-people-ism] itself. Because, if Judaism itself is ultimately defined or influenced by a society that is in conflict and at war and has to be a fortress that by definition becomes insular and self-protective and loses its universal and its global responsibility, [our indigenous Judean] message, then the whole relationship of Jews everywhere gets distorted [as has been happening between colonized USA Jews, who want Israel to be a mini-USA nation, and the rest of the Arab-European antisemitically-targeted Jewish communities of this world]….
And, once again, this tiny little people that is so insignificant numerically, is forced to the very pivot, to the center, to the belly button, of global conflict and interaction. Once upon a time, it was geographical, because all the nations, all the global empires had to cross this little piece of land [the size of Taiwan, six times smaller than the USA State of New York] if they wanted to access one Empire or one continent to another [the African-Arabian south, or the Aegean-European north]. Now it is because we [the Jewish people] are at the cutting edge of the interaction between civilizations [due to Arab and European appropriations of Jewish ancestral literatures for worldwide Colonial religious dominion purposes]. And whether we like it or not [or want to be in this precarious place for our Indigenous People’s survival], we’re right at the center. And what we do has ramifications way beyond our understanding of how it pertains to us…. So, the bottom line is, finding a way to resolve this conflict [even though we are both the existential target and the very historic daily victim], breaking out of the cycle of violence in the Middle East is of critical consequence in determining who we are [as the indigenous people of Judea-Samaria], and who we will be [as the Jewish people in the future].” – Rabbi David Rosen
We are an Indigenous People that refuses to forever be repeatedly colonized by Arab Islam and European Christianity and their created anti-Islamic/Christian Marxist Communists. And we, the Jewish people, must refuse to be the dhimmi and ghettoed forever victimized sub-class of Colonial Arab-European societies (for equal class status is only an illusion that’s being provided to some Jews in the Colonial European’s USA). And we, the Jewish people, must resolutely continue to refuse their Arab-European desire for re-occupying our 1948 decolonized land of Israel. And the only way to achieve this desired result for the People of Israel, our desire to live in demilitarized peace upon our ancestral land, is to get this point across to the historic racist European-Arab Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands for Allah-Christ-Marx and caliphates-kings-communism:
There is no equivalency between Colonizers and Indigenous Peoples – period, never ever as social equals! We actual Indigenous folk only want to be heard in the worldwide Colonial Arab-European social medias. We already know that arguing facts with racist Colonials that don’t care about inconvenient facts is a waste of time. Daily reminding the Colonial Arabs-Europeans that they are settler-occupiers for Allah-Christ and caliphates-kings upon our Indigenous Jewish and Kurdish (and etc, etc, etc) lands is what is needed daily and repeatedly in mainstream discourse! An honest easily verifiable historical reality check!
And no matter how much you try to spread and push 1960s-80s KGB-PLO created “Palestinian people” anti-Zionist propaganda, this changes absolutely nothing about historical reality! Neither does laughing emoji-ing. (Don’t get me wrong, every time one of those appears, we Jews know that someone has received in them the seed of anti-Colonialism – anti-Arab-European occupational supremacy on other peoples’ lands – and the laugh emoji is like water for this germinating seed.)
We Jews were the first IP to be colonized and we are the first IP to decolonize from Arab-European Colonial occupational rule! The only kind of history that Colonial Arabs-Europeans have upon and within our land is this settler-occupying history – this appropriating, land and identity claiming, for Allah-Christ and caliphates-kings history. So, every single day,… Colonial Europeans publicly support Colonial “Palestinian” Arabs with their flags of racist anti-Indigenous supremacy in the names of Allah Christ and caliphates kings. And for having obeyed Allah-Christ and caliphates-kings, this does not make you Arabs-Europeans now equal “indigenous” upon the land with the *actual* Indigenous Peoples of the land!
Again, there is no equivalency between the Jewish people who are indigenous to the land of Israel and Colonial “Palestinian” settler-occupying Arabs for Allah-Christ-Marx and caliphates-kings-communism! We Jews Indigenous to Judea-Samaria will survive your 1964 KGB-PLO created “Palestinian people” long-term settler-occupation force upon our 1948 decolonized Jewish ancestral land, Colonial Arabs-Europeans! The Jewish people will *no longer* be your victimized dhimmi, no matter how many antisemitic resolutions you enact at the United (Arab-European Colonial) Nations and no matter how many lies you spread about us on social media.
May the Kurdish people be next to decolonize from “Syrian” and “Iraqi” Arab occupational rule of Kurdistan! The days of Allah Christ and caliphates kings suppression, oppression, and outright erasure of surviving Indigenous Peoples, while settler-occupying upon our Indigenous Peoples’ lands, is coming to an end, Arabs-Europeans! We will *not* prostitute ourselves to your Colonial gods, cultures, and determinations that we give up our identities-lands and lose our self-determining futures.
Jewish communities in the Western Diasporas who are struggling with their Jewish youth not fully understanding the need to be *proud* of the nation-State of Israel, please have your sons and daughters listen closely to what Rabbi David Rosen is saying in this video:
https://m.facebook.com/video.php/?video_id=613925033698124
Do Jews Even Know?
Conversations which look beyond our present understanding of the realities we experience are rare, causing many to avoid studying or understanding their past, which is one of the most important elements necessary for building one’s future.
Rav David Rosen issues a powerful cry out to the Jewish People to wake up and understand their history, identity, purpose, and collective aspirations.
The conversations our generation must have is the same one previous ones had. What is the next chapter of Jewish history and what must we do to write the pages of the future we would like to see?
Edited by Kavana Films
Rabbi David Rosen
Snapshots: Rudy Rochman is a young Jew who fully understands how necessary it is for the Jewish people to fully decolonize our minds. The days of hiding under the coattails of Colonial Arab-European supremacists are no longer necessary for our continued Judean survival in this world.
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