Torah teaches that Jews became a people in the land of Moab and archaeological studies further confirms this! Where is the confusion in this? Ah, yes, let me guess. We’re fighting with converts to non-Jewish religions who firmly *believe* in the historicity of inherited myths and we, the Jewish people, are way out numbered in the deluge of narratives upon this!
So, it really saddens me how many Jews in the United States – supposedly a land of educational “enlightenment” – do not have even the basic knowledge of who and what the Jewish people actually are. Not mythically speaking, but historically speaking! Is the USA really a land of education, or not? Allow me to explain!
It is a literal *myth* that the Jewish people conquered the Canāanite people. It is *also* a literal myth that the Jewish people made a mass exodus from Egypt. Origin myths are not origin history! So, if these stories are just myths, is there any historical evidence within them? Yes, actually.
The Canāanites – from which Moabites, Judahites, and Edomites directly descend from – were the indigenous people of the Jordan river Levant. It is a historical fact that some of them migrated down to Egypt, and *settled* in Egypt for 430 years. When weather patterns and Egyptian politics changed for the worse, during the 19th-20th Egyptian dynasties, there were several semi-mass exoduses of these Canāanite people back up to the ancestral homeland.
It is a historical *fact* that the Israelite people – Jews and Hebrews – became a distinctly different indigenous people from other Canāanite peoples while in the nation of Moab, directly east side of the Jordan river. (1) Not just does Torah confirm this, but the writings of other nations speak of an Israel people around Moab. (2)
It is *also* a historical fact that the Israelite peoples became a nation of their own – Judea and Israel – on the west side of the Jordan river. (1) The boundaries of this indigenous nation included a part of the east side of the river and all of Judea-Samaria.
As well, it is a historical fact that Moab, Judea-Israel, and Edom – all direct descendants of the Canāanites – shared the same Canāanite pantheon of gods and goddesses and inherited myths. Judea-Israel’s national god was YHWH god, Edom’s national god was Qos, and Moab’s national god was Chemosh.
What happened to Moab and Edom? Moab became extinct as an indigenous people of the land. Their indigineity, their ethno-religion, forever lost to historical change. Edom became assimilated into the Jewish people of Judea-Israel during the Greco-Roman period of occupation of this Canāanite land.
It is a historical *fact* that the *Jewish people* are the only remaining indigenous people of this portion of the Levant. (3) We are the only descendants of the Canāanite people that preserve the ancestral language, inherited literatures, the original halachot/mitzvot, and seasonal rituals of the land. Jewish indigenous identity is fully tied to and dependant upon our attachment to and presence in our ancestral land in the Levant.
It is also a historical *fact* that in this modern CE period of human history two colonizing religions emerged, both claiming an obsessive need to possess the Jewish portion of the Levant, because their religious identity is based solely on our indigenous Jewish ancestral literatures. These colonizing religions are European Christianity and Arab Islam! Neither are the indigenous of Judea-Samaria. Neither would have even an interest in Judea-Samaria, were it *not* for their colonizing religions.
The regional conflict in what these colonizers call “Palestine” is not about religion. It’s about whether these conquesting religions are going to respect the Jewish people, and our Indigenous Rights to our ancestral land. This conflict is about whether 15.2 million Jews worldwide will be allowed by the 4.3 billion converts to the two colonizing religions to have safety and self-sovereignty upon our indigenous land! It is about whether we, the Jewish people, direct inheritors of Canāanite traditions (admixed with some Egyptian and Babylonian traditions), are going to be allowed to live our indigenous ethno-religious way-of-life (our derech) *without* persecution by the Colonizers of this world!
What the colonizers want – Arab Muslims and European-ish Christians – is to control the narrative by which Jews must be seen in this world. To force the Jewish people to argue and defend against myths, at the expense of historical facts. For without the myths found in Jewish ancestral literatures, these world colonizing religions have *no* justification for being.
(1) The scroll of D’varim is very clear that it is in the land of Moab (present day Jordan) that Israel the people – the thirteen tribes – was sprung up from the land, meaning born as an ethno-religious indigenous identity.
D’varim/Deuteronomy 5:3: “לֹא אֶת אֲבֹתֵינוּ כָּרַת יְהוָה אֶת הַבְּרִית הַזֹּאת כִּי אִתָּנוּ אֲנַחְנוּ אֵלֶּה פֹה הַיּוֹם כֻּלָּנוּ חַיִּים Not with our fathers did YHWH cut this covenant, but with us, yes, us, those here today, all of us [who are] alive!”
D’varim/Deuteronomy 5:28: “וְאַתָּה פֹּה עֲמֹד עִמָּדִי וַאֲדַבְּרָה אֵלֶיךָ אֵת כָּל הַמִּצְוָה וְהַחֻקִּים וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר תְּלַמְּדֵם וְעָשׂוּ בָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי נֹתֵן לָהֶם לְרִשְׁתָּהּ But you stay here with me [in Moab] so that I may give you all the commands, decrees, and laws you are to teach them to observe in the land I am giving them to possess.”
D’varim/Deuteronomy 6:1: “וְזֹ֣את הַמִּצְוָ֗ה הַֽחֻקִּים֙ וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּ֛ה יְ-הֹוָ֥ה אֱ-לֹהֵיכֶ֖ם לְלַמֵּ֣ד אֶתְכֶ֑ם לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת בָּאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתֶּ֛ם עֹבְרִ֥ים שָׁ֖מָּה לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ These are the commands, decrees, and laws YHWH your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing [the Jordan] into to possess.”
D’varim/Deuteronomy 29:3: “וְלֹֽא נָתַן֩ יְ-הוָ֨ה לָכֶ֥ם לֵב֙ לָדַ֔עַת וְעֵינַ֥יִם לִרְא֖וֹת וְאָזְנַ֣יִם לִשְׁמֹ֑עַ עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה YHWH has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear until this very day.”
D’varim/Deuteronomy 27:9: “…הַסְכֵּת וּשְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה נִהְיֵיתָ לְעָם לַי-הוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ. …Take heed and hear, O Israel: Today [in Moab] you have become the people of YHWH.”
D’varim/Deuteronomy 28:68: “אֵלֶּה דִבְרֵי הַבְּרִית אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְ-הוָה אֶת מֹשֶׁה לִכְרֹת אֶת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּאֶרֶץ מוֹאָב These are the terms of the covenant YHWH commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab.”
(2) Read Merneptah Stele line 27 “Israel the people is laid waste and his seed is not” (Egyptians often exaggerated their achievements!); Tel Dan stele which details a conflict between the “king[s] of Israel,” and the “House of David”; Mesha Stele that details a struggle over lands between the nations of Moab and Israel; and Kurkh Monoliths that describe how many chariots and foot soldiers that Israel committed to Assyrian war efforts.
(3) The Jewish people includes here the Karaite Jews and Samaritans. For both are direct inheritors of Jewish ethno-religion, even though both groups separated from mainstream Judaism, becoming a separate off-shoot of their own. Like the Jewish people, they continue to preserve and teach the indigenous path, ethno-religion and land -connected identity, of our shared familial ancestors.
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What’s wrong with religion? A lot! “I’m glad Judaism is not a religion….
Religion offers salvation, enlightenment, a place in heaven. Religion teaches self-improvement: humility, devotion, patience, faith. Religion demands a standard of behavior that benefits our souls, our bodies and our society. I’m glad Judaism is not a religion. Because all of the above can be self-serving and narcissistic. Religion can be its own worst enemy.
Religion emphasizes the importance of being good, and of being right. It condemns those who are bad and those who are wrong. Those who practice a religion strive to be perfect. If they fail they may be condemned, and if they succeed they may become intolerant of others. I’m glad Judaism is not a religion.
Religion must invariably create a caste system — more religious is better, higher, holier. Less religious is lesser, lower, more profane. The pious can be measured in percentages. 100%, 50%, 2%.
Religion insists our nature is evil. To be good, we are told, we must resist our natural impulses and replace them with other worldly virtues. You can’t be “you” and good at the same time. You must therefore sacrifice the “you” and choose “good.” I’m glad Judaism is not a religion.
What is Judaism?… The opportunity to serve provides an escape from narcissism by taking us beyond ourselves. The objective now focuses on the deed rather than on the person. Is it good? Is it right? That is the question.
My own goodness and righteousness is not the issue. Even when I’m not all good I can do that which is truly good. And when you do a mitzvah it is as good regardless of who you are or what you are. The gratitude for this opportunity brings real joy to life….
Cooperation, not religious competition. Equally significant is the fact that we [Jews] are born to these mitzvahs. G‑d created us for this mission. It is therefore our truest self that fulfills the mitzvah, not a denial of self.
The 613 mitzvahs don’t make you religious or pious. They simply bridge the most Jewish in the Jew with the most G‑dly in G‑d. One to One. The mitzvahs are the many intimacies we can share with G‑d. They express the Jew in you. Every mitzvah counts — every Jew is precious. Now, that’s Judaism.” Our Jewish-People-ism, our ethno-religion.
– Menachem Manis HaKohen Friedman מנחם מניס הכהן פרידמן; born 1946, is a Chabad Lubavitch Hassid, Shliach, rabbi, author, social philosopher and public speaker.
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“The tragedy of Jewish life today is that many Jews lack the courage to confront their inner beings as Jews. They observe the Jewish people and Judaism as a sociological phenomenon to be studied from *without*.” See, I’m not the only saying this!
The children of Isaac, Israel, all 15.2 million of us Jews worldwide. The children of Ishmael, Islam, all 1.9 billion converts to the Book. The children of Romans, Christianity, all 2.4 billion converts to their books. If there is a path to peace for Jews, we the Jewish people don’t have the numbers to influence this. And those that do need to be massively educating their own!
Radical honesty is the only real path to ending Jew-hate in this world. 2.4 billion converts to Christianity and 1.9 billion converts to Islam do not make an indigenous people. 15.2 million Jewish people – whose identity, ethno-religion, halachot, ancestral language, and inherited ANE literatures are tied to the land of Judea-Samaria, from which we sprung from as a people – makes obviously an indigenous people.
Influence with factual perspective! It is foreigners to the land that call Judea-Samaria “Palestine,” not the indigenous of the land, the Jewish people. As Jews, we need to be teaching each other how to bring the narratives to a reality about our size and actual influence in this world. Our words must be loud and impactful!
“The Jewish community may be involved in many issues of Jewish concern and may struggle with problems of survival, but as long as it does not inspire Jews to say “li,” .i.e. to feel a personal and total commitment to authentic Jewishness, it will not create the right conditions for continuity and renewal.
“Li” means that one recognizes that one’s own group has a singular and distinctive contribution to make to the world and if this is not developed and cultivated, not only the group itself loses out—the whole world suffers as a result.”
https: //www.cardozoacademy.org/thoughtstoponder/living-like-a-jew-playing-music-and-saying-to-me/
Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Thoughts to Ponder
Living Like a Jew: Playing Music and Saying “to Me”
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This is the size of the land that the entire world is obsessed with, Israel (shadowed by the size of Texas), courtesy of colonizing European Christianity and colonizing Arab Islam. I want you to think about this, please! Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Iran, and Turkey are all near the size of the State of Texas in the USA.
Israel is 448 times smaller than the United States. Israel is 98 times smaller than Saudi Arabia, which is 3.2 times bigger than Texas! Israel is 46 times smaller than Egypt, which is also 1.5 times larger than Texas! Israel is 20 times smaller than Iraq, and is 9 times smaller than Syria, and is 4.1 times smaller than Jordan (a third of which used to be BCE Israel). This concludes the list of Arab/Muslim nations that outsize and obsess mightly over delegitimizing the existence of the nation-State of Israel.
What’s left?! Non-Arabs that still retain non-Arabic identity, of course. Only two left in the Middle East, outside of the only Jewish nation in this world, clinging to our ancestral land! Israel is 75 times smaller than the Persian nation Iran, which is presently ruled by an oppressive terrorist-supporting Islamic caliphate. Israel is 36 times smaller than Turkey, a nation overwhelmed by Islam, but still reserving its non-Arab identity.
There are only 6+ million Jews living in the entire Middle East, and the other 7+ million Jews are living in the world Diaspora! The regional conflict in what non-Jews call “Palestine” is *not* about religion. It’s about whether colonizing European Christianity and colonizing Arab Islam is going to *allow* the Jewish people to live in peace and self-sovereignty on our ancestral land, full stop!
We, the Jewish people, are only a world religion *because* Christianity said we were, to justify their replacement theology – you know, we failed because we rejected their idol worship, so they are now the new inheritors of *our* ancestral land, are the “true” Jews, so say the founding Church Fathers of gentile Christianity.
We, the Jewish people, are only a problem for another world religion, Islam, because we refuse to remain publicly shamed dhimmi forever under their obsessive rule. How dare the Jewish people reassert self-sovereignty within the Arab/Islam colonized Levant, much less reassert their Jewish independence within their ancestral land?!
Come on, folks! Wake up and learn a thing or two in life! 1.9 billion converts to an Arab colonizing religion and 2.4 billion converts to a European colonizing religion does *not* make a 15.2 million Jewish indigenous people trying to survive intact and not assimilated within this world!
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Because it’s time for Jews and African Americans and First Nations to radically come together and *unite for a common purpose*, one more thought, because statistics really do matter:
It is an imperative that Black Lives Matter in the USA! There are only 42 million African Americans in the USA, out of *329.5 million citizens in the USA* (most “white” and Hispanic), whose “black” culture is a direct result of racist white Christian supremacy in this world! African Americans only represent 12% of the USA population.
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
The Jewish people have been saying this, since the rise of Roman Christianity’s “Good News” for the planet! Oh, USA politicals Left and Right, y’all *all* are bought into these revisionist histories! Just don’t know who is friend and who is foe in this world. And we wonder *why* there is no peace in this world?!
There are only 15.2 million Jews worldwide, out of *7.8 billion human beings*. Of which, 1.9 billion are converts to Arab ethnicity and Islam religion, 2.4 billion are converts to Byzantine Christianity. And, 1.58 billion are adherents/subjects of Marxism (a reaction to Colonizers’ religions!).
There are only 6.4 million Jews in the USA, representing 1 percent (not a typo!) of the USA population. Like David versus the Goliaths, trying to survive intact as an ethno-religious people, half in the Middle East and half in the West. Fighting Goliaths who think in too many places that we, the Jewish people, are somehow the world ruling majority, the one manipulating the giants!
Radical honesty demands that Jews and African Americans unite for a common goal: correction of the social narratives that say the majority is threatened by the minorities, who are just looking for peace and equality in this world! This also includes all First Nations on this continent, too. Minorities, it’s time to unite!
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