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For a Moment, All Were Jewish

19 Friday Apr 2019

Posted by commart in FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation, Philology, Philosophy, Political Psychology, Religion

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Christianity, Easter, Exodus, God, Jewish culture and life, Judaism, Moses, Passover

Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Da_Vinci_5.jpg

From the (Still) Awesome Conversation:

I may note that the Jewish Liberation Story — the Exodus from Egypt — has stood signal as God’s affront to human power for almost 6,000 years. In that narrative, God commands Moses while having at the same time control of Pharaoh. While Jews treat Moses with reverence, none ever conflate or confuse Moses with God (he was lucky to have been rescued from among the reeds; spoke with a stutter or lisp (I think — he was most imperfect); and seemed to need a sidekick for courage. Moses was . . . merely human. He didn’t part the waters: God did.


Jesus, rabbi; the first Christians; was it really a Seder?

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/was-jesus-last-supper-a-seder/

BackChannels will leave the gathering and weighing of history’s slim evidence to the curious, but as depicted by da Vinci, inspired by The Bible, and inscribed now in the intellectual awareness and evolution of mankind, The Last Supper changed the character of the world.


Here’s “the rest of the story” — at least about the painting.

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FTAC – Hamas, Iran, Iranian Jews, Etc.

21 Wednesday Nov 2012

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Israel, Middle East

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Allah, friendship, God, history, Iran, Islam, Israel, Jewish culture, Jews, Muslim, Muslims, Persia, Quran, warfare

“Allah says these jews n christians will not let u live in peace unless u enter thier faith n whoever do tht will enter hell.”

He did not say that to Christians or Jews.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews

Should the figures be 100,000 rather than 300,000 Persian Jews prior to the establishment of the State of Israel?

I don’t know.

By any count, it seems fewer than 10,000 have chosen to remain in Iran.

Iran itself trots out the Neturei Karta — http://www.adl.org/extremism/karta/ — a cult, a fringe, at best, in the Jewish community both in Israel and the Diaspora.

[Responding to how I feel about five Israel deaths or 100 Palestinian deaths]:

“What bothers me most is not that Arabs kill our children, but that they force us to kill theirs.” Golda Meir, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., 1957.

The Jews I know have never felt differently.

Don’t you think it’s time to stop lobbing rockets at Israel? At the Jews?

Contemplating the destruction of the Jews?

Demonizing the Jews?

Hamas, heavily taxing its constituents, including “tunnel millionaires”, moving goods inbound and outbound with the cooperation of the IDF, purchasing electricity from Israel, ferrying its sick to Israeli hospitals when necessary, etc., nonetheless launched more than 1000 rockets, some supplied by Iran with a range of 45 miles, into Israel in 2012. Targets: any Israeli: Muslim, Christian, Jewish, adult or child, man or woman.

And then by design, Hamas has kept their own in harm’s way, launching within 1/2 block of residences, gasoline stations, schools, mosques, etc.

Hamas and Israel have entered a ceasefire at this time.

We’ll see how it holds up.

Trust the Jews, at least, for having the integrity to keep their side of the bargain (as they did ejecting their own from Gaza in 2005, a bid to “trade land for peace,” leaving Gaza Judenfrei).

Another reference to the Jews of Persia:

http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/light-and-shadows-story-iranian-jews

FTAC – Questions God Only Knows

08 Thursday Nov 2012

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation, Religion

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Abram, deviance, fairness, God, justice, questions, religion, rightness, tolerance, witches

I understand the reluctance to move more deeply into the theological discourse between the Abrahamic religions and to skirt the recorded history preserved or recovered from the earliest days of the Common Era. So many question come up . . .

Who was Abram before God called to him and would go on to call him Abraham?

As none of us are prophets ourselves, should we behave as if we were prophets, prophetic, and empowered both to judge and sway the lives of others?

Among the believing collectively, God has made, preserved, and heard — and hears — the children of Isaac and Israel both: what are we fighting if we fight on behalf of the descendents of one or the other?

Jesus, rabbi, produced his following, and Constantine, who has just been introduced in this thread by way of reference to the Council of Nicaea, consolidated that base, or leveraged it, turned it to war, and established Christian Rome. Has not God made Jesus and Constantine both?

Enlarge that last question: are others not chosen, important, included in God’s world?

Who was not created by God?

Who has been left out?

IF we are to judge the passage of ancient Jewish custom and thought through time and even suggest corruption, should not others having participated in the creation and transmission of behavioral, ethical, and moral guidance not also be examined?

Who would be immune from such questioning? Or above and beyond criticism?

If we set out to spare feelings while failing to spare lives, what, really, has been spared and kept?

In America, we no longer burn witches in Salem, generally doubt that witches exist at all, and we don’t condemn those who grow differently in their nature as somehow being beyond either God or nature, nor do we provide license for murder on so benign and trivial a basis. In Iran, the Ayatollah, believing himself directly the avatar of God, hangs the same from cranes. God made the Ayatollah too, I suppose, but what is that figure really and seen clearly before those cranes, ropes, and robbed souls?

The thread topic had to do with wine, halal in Islam, inseparable from Jewish custom and the Jewish appreciation of life and of God.  Another party voiced the Protestant, so it seemed to me, of judging indepently whether wine was a bad or good thing.

Wine is wine and is neither conscious nor possessed of conscience: it hasn’t the power to be either bad nor good, to be ethical or unethical, to be joyous and righteous or sorrowful and malign.  The one who abstains from wine and the one who partakes have all those powers: might not the badness and goodness reside instead in  the manners of both?

A part of the last questions and points fielded, stated, more or less: “Who has done the world good while drinking?”

Done good while drunk or between bouts: scores of beloved artists, musicians, and writers, famously. However, what I believe artists, musicians, and writers do — and there are more than a thousand of those here with me in spirit — is provide windows into many worlds and mirrors about the nature of our existence. Such are a little bit of everyone and everything, including God, and ecstatic or depressed, troubled in their private lives, they are ourselves with a creative spirit working through them.

The prophets depicted were themselves not angels — not one Prophet was Gabriel — but they to in depiction or historical acclaim or record live as men before becoming prophetic (e.g., Abraham had had a life as Abram before God called him, and text suggests he left behind and consigned to the past some wealth as he responded to that call; Moses enjoys not only depiction as an infant abandoned in the reeds but also as a shy fellow, a poor speaker — in his own words — and one not deserving, equipped, nor prepared to represent God, but God being God knows that and makes of Moses the Moses who leads the Jews and the mixed multitude into the desert and toward the Holy Land).

In Leviticus, Moses’ partner Aaron receives this instruction: “And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying, 9Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die:” — “when ye go into the tabernacle . . . .” The rule has context (Leviticus 10:5) and perhaps the context contains the principle: i.e., if one is to judge others, one should prepare for that work clean and sober.

The value of life, thankfulness for it, the pleasure to be had in living has in Jewish custom a relationship with wine, but in good episodes and households, even the sip comes with obligations to ourselves and others, and drunkenness, the lost of self-restraint, the taking of license or licentiousness, all of these things are discouraged.

Finally, with Noah, who plants vines and gets drunk first chance, we might also acknowledge a faulted humanity.

Although I feel I have been put to work on this thread — with thanks, for there has been a lot for looking over –I shall nonetheless stop here.

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Hillel the Elder

"That which is distasteful to thee do not do to another. That is the whole of Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and study."

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?"

"Whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

Oriana Fallaci
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon...I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16

אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php

Abraham Isaac Kook

"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.

Heinrich Heine
"Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).

Simon Wiesenthal
Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."

Maimonides
"Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

Douglas Adams
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Epigram appearing in the dedication of Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delusion.

Thucydides
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

Milan Kundera
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Malala Yousafzai
“The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”

Tanit Nima Tinat
"Who could die of love?"

What I Have Said About the Jews

My people, not that I speak for them, I nonetheless describe as a "global ethnic commune with its heart in Jerusalem and soul in the Land of Israel."

We have never given up on God, nor have we ever given up on one another.

Many things we have given up, but no one misses, say, animal sacrifice, and as many things we have kept, so we have still to welcome our Sabbath on Friday at sunset and to rest all of Saturday until three stars appear in the sky.

Most of all, through 5,773 years, wherever life has taken us, through the greatest triumphs and the most awful tragedies, we have preserved our tribal identity and soul, and so shall we continue eternally.

Anti-Semitism / Anti-Zionism = Signal of Fascism

I may suggest that anti-Zionism / anti-Semitism are signal (a little bit) of fascist urges, and the Left -- I'm an old liberal: I know my heart -- has been vulnerable to manipulation by what appears to me as a "Red Brown Green Alliance" driven by a handful of powerful autocrats intent on sustaining a medieval worldview in service to their own glorification. (And there I will stop).
One hopes for knowledge to allay fear; one hopes for love to overmatch hate.

Too often, the security found in the parroting of a loyal lie outweighs the integrity to be earned in confronting and voicing an uncomfortable truth.

Those who make their followers believe absurdities may also make them commit atrocities.

Positively Orwellian: Comment Responding to Claim that the Arab Assault on Israel in 1948 Had Not Intended Annihilation

“Revisionism” is the most contemptible path that power takes to abet theft and hide shame by attempting to alter public perception of past events.

On Press Freedom, Commentary, and Journalism

In the free world, talent -- editors, graphic artists, researchers, writers -- gravitate toward the organizations that suit their interests and values. The result: high integrity and highly reliable reportage and both responsible and thoughtful reasoning.

This is not to suggest that partisan presses don't exist or that propaganda doesn't exist in the west, but any reader possessed of critical thinking ability and genuine independence -- not bought, not programmed -- is certainly free to evaluate the works of earnest reporters and scholars.

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