By Ted Belman
From now on comments on every post must relate to the content of the post.
Comments that don’t relate to the post must go here.
Any person who contravenes this demand will be put on moderation. Also their offending comment will be trashed.
The reason for this demand is so that people who want to read comments which pertain to the post, don’t have to wade through the chatter.
Everyone will be happier.
SEB-Yes it’s a good system you have. My wife, a kindergarten teacher devised this method to teach our 4 children to read. Made a game of it. Sara was reading at 2ee’v at 2, Rebecca more normal at just under 4, and Rachel at 1 year and 11 months. Within 2 years they were reading youth books of age 10-14 Black Beauty, etc published by Purnell a huge publisher at that time now swallowed up by another. They wanted to build a whole display around Sara, and take her all over the country and elsewhere but I wouldn’t allow it
As for “the virgin birth” The 4 gospels were anonymous up to the middle or end of the 2nd cent. when their present names were arbitrarily put on them. None was written by a Jew and none had ever been in Palestine, leading to many topographical and religious errors, of which I gave an example.
So they only knew the Greek Septuagint, which itself had “miraculous” beginnings attached to it.
You are correct in that they used the term “virgin” as their translation of
“almah” which means merely a young woman. The Hebrew for “virgin’ is
betula”. And Isaiah’s prophesy was ….THAT young woman HAS conceived and will shortly bear a son…..” A prophesy for a looming situation, of that exact time. Impossible to have been for 7-800 years later.
The Christian sect, I think even before they were called Christians, indignant that they were not noticed, were always looking for something special to distinguish them.
So they grabbed it and as we all know, it was the beginning of a 2 thousand year period which ended in the Holocaust Or was suppose to have, although we know better today that Jew Hatred has never ceased.
@Edgar Yes, that’s what I’m doing and then the program tests me.
As for the other thing, please correct me if I’m wrong: My impression is that the virgin birth thing comes from a mis-translation into the Greek for the Septuagint. In Hebrew young woman and virgin are two different words but in Greek, as in English, it can be one word which could be either. In English, the word would be, “maiden.” And it also dovetails with similar Greek legends.
SEB-
Perhaps a row of separate letters of the Alef Bet laid out with English pronunciation underneath should help
A quick way to learn. I recommend it.
@Reader But to write letters, wouldn’t I need to know them first?
WELL-
No takers. Maybe all in Church.. Sorry that no lively discussion has emerged from Biblical contradictions. Historical facts seem out of fashion these days, Everyone knee deep in Zelenskyism.
Conspiracy theories and political pedestrian known “inner” details all the rage. WiKi and other public outlets heating up from overwork, revealing nondescript details of already publicized matters we can’t do a damned thing about.
@Sebastien Zorn
It is a crazy suggestion but do you want to try writing English backwards with Hebrew letters?
It is easier than Yiddish and it removes at least half of the burden of learning the alphabet.
I tried Duolingo a while ago and didn’t like it for some reason.
Language learning needs repetition (at least 15 minutes a day, although I noticed that after a while, skipping a couple of weeks lets the stuff kind of improve) and context (for me reading is best).
From simple to complicated without losing the previous vocabulary, unlike the popular method of learning by topic (impressive but almost completely useless except for those with photographic memories).
I wish you luck.
I need more willpower.
@Reader Recognizing the letters of the alphabet and associating them with the sounds they make is the first hurdle for me. I tried with the help of a teacher who was a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in NY and gave up when I was 13. It helps that I was doing the same thing with Hangul, the Korean alphabet before this on Duolingo, not that I’ve completely mastered it. Computer languages are like that, too. If you know more than one, it gets easier. Many of the letters in Hebrew appear indistinguishable from other letters. Now it’s mostly a matter of visual memorization, at this stage, not that that’s easy for me. Of course, it’s complicated by how context alters things. More than one letter can make the same sound, there are letters whose final form is different such as nun, and it is standard to omit diacritical marks that give you the vowels. And the difference between a p and an f or a b and a v sound is as little as a dot in the middle. But, I’m slowly getting the hang of it, I think, when I don’t slack off. I’ve tried to learn a few languages without much luck so far. Wish me luck but don’t expect too much.
I once quipped that one of Americans’ greatest flaws, being typically unable to learn foreign languages, might be the source of one our greatest virtues, namely, our welcoming, open-hearted compassion for strangers, because if we understood even a tiny fraction of what people were saying about us in their own languages, we’d be in a pretty bad mood. 😀
@Sebastien Zorn
No, I am not fluent in Hebrew, I can read it slowly (this doesn’t mean that I understand a lot of what I read without a dictionary or Google Translate).
I think learning to read Hebrew is much harder than learning to read an Indo-European language because not only you are dealing with a different language family but also with an alphabet which looks completely unfamiliar and has to be learned and memorized at the same time.
I was too intimidated by this in the beginning, so I started by taking some Yiddish courses.
While Yiddish is written in Hebrew letters right to left, it is 80% German with a few Slavic and Hebrew borrowings.
I wrote the Hebrew letter sounds under each letter in the text (the introductory texts were very simple) in pencil using English letters corresponding to each sound, and this was how I learned the Hebrew alphabet by reading Yiddish.
The Roman Governor in Damascus must have arrived in Jerusalem about the second week in April 37 C.E.. Damascus is 270 miles from Jerusalem and a Roman army marching day was about 10-15 miles.
Tanna- The reason you believe more of “my” scriptures than I do is simple, if not exactly true.
You believe literally every word and miss the allegories, poems, acrostics, real meanings etc
I delve deeper, see the real meanings, and also know more about the then social and religious structure.
As an example… this text…”A voice cried in the wilderness, make a path”..etc you know the phrase by Isaiah.
It REALLY reads….”A voice cries in Ramah, in the wilderness make a way, a path for….
It doesn’t refer to Jesus or anything Christian , but to the return of Rachel’s children from Babylon. It was uttered by Isaiah, at the King’s Court in Jerusalem. nowhere else.
There are others, but I think this is enough. I hope you think so too.
I’d be interested to know the titles of the Ehrman books you have, ands if you read them all or part, or just flipped through.
I found him thoroughly sincere and very detailed giving a flood of legit references and writing as if just speaking to the reader…VERY readable.
****Did you know there were 3 Isaiahs, separated by hundreds of years.****….????
******Did you know that Ehrman , up to about 30+ was an evngelical preacher, pastor and with the highest Christian qualifications .Steeped in his belief. A completely Christian Christian.******?????
Continued….
Bearing in mind all the foregoing, Antipas had intent to or had already divorced his wife of 20 years to marry Herodias. She was the daughter of King Aretas 4th of Nabataea, also a client king but very strong.and cifficult.
Enraged, he attacked and defeated Antipas, who contacted Damascus and asked the Roman Governor for aid. The governor got orders from Tiberius to aid Antipas and marched his army from Damascus, stopping at Jerusalem for R&R it being Pesach. Whilst there he got word that Tiberius had died, on the historical date of March 16th 37 CE.
He sent for new orders to Caligula now Emperor. We hear no more of this episode.
BUT….if John was believed in the Gospels to be “the Forerunner” then Jesus was still alive, aged say 40, not very young, giving credence to the “not yet 50” comment.
So, with simple arithmetic, Jesus must have been crucified AFTER 37 CE, likely 38 CE.
He is believed, assuming there WAS a Jesus, to have been born before 4 B.C,E. the death of Herod, and likely 6 BCE so MUST have been say 45..
This totally contradicts the widely believed age of about 30-32 and a crucifixion date of around CE 30-33. If aged 30-32 than when baptized would have been no more than 1- 12 years old
In those days news from Rome to Jerusalem=and vice versa, came by a 3-4 week voyage
So what is the answer. was Jesus over 40, and was he crucified as late as 38 CE.
All the above goes directly against strong Christian Belief and even the Gospels.
I hope to hear from the several devoted Christians on this site.
Tanna-
I’m glad to hear from you even if your post is so convoluted and contradictory that I’m even more puzzled. But it is timely, as I’m about to ask a question about Early New Testament days which is even more cloudy.
I KNOW there are seriously devout Christians on this site on whom until know I in whose ranks until now I’d included you. You could be a Noachide, but NO matter. I believe you as totally wrong.
Here is my puzzle which I hope will get several answers.
John 8.57 it’s said to Jesus, “Thou ar’t a man not yet 50.”. Living an itinerant life he could look older than his years.
John Baptizer is a historical figure attested to by Josephus, and came to notice during a census of the year 6 CE. Already well known, likely at least 25-30 the story of the dove etc, can we assume that Jesus was a follower of John, whom he regarded as ” the greatest man who ever lived”??? I think so.
Christianity regarded him as “The Forerunner”.
So let us come to many years later when Herod Antipas has John imprisoned in Machaerus. A gospel says it was because of John’s objection to Antipas marrying the wife (widow-?) of his brother Phillip.
Josephus says it was because Antipas being a Roman client, HAD to keep the peace with the unruly Jews and feared a rebellion. He killed John. John at that time didn’t seem to know or have heard anything about Jesus.
Edgar, Edgar, O Edgar, you break my heart. How many times do I have to remind you – I am NOT a Christian. I disagree with the fundamentals of Christianity and all the things one must believe in to be a Christian…… most of tenants of Christianity I do not believe. I was not ignoring you – just been busy and overlook your post.
You’re a very smart man no doubt. Well-read and much smarter than I. On top of that your Jewish, which I am not. Tell me Edgar, why is it, this Gentile can read your scripture given to mankind by YOUR God and your holy Sages and I believe more of what they teach then you can? Why does this Gentile have more bitachon and enumah in your GOD and his word then you do? Is it that you’re so smart that the GOD of Israel has ceased to exist for you and bro. bart? Bart is an evil man, and it would have been better that his mother had aborted him for the damaged he has cause to people’s faith and belief in GOD – regardless, if those people believed in the Jewish understanding of GOD or if it was the Christian understanding of GOD. Freewill has allow Erdman to make his choice, he will have to give an answer for it and for ALL the people he has led away from- “the fear of God”
Counting from a distance it looks like I have 4 or 5 of Eerdmans books on my book self. – I refuse to give him another $$$$.
This type of dialogue is most difficult, it would be hard enough sitting face to face. Edgar, I assume your great teachers like Rashi, the Rambam and the Ramban, Iben Ezra, Abarbanel, J.H. Hertz, Malbim, Radak, and others have something worth looking into and learning. You and I could read the same biblical text and have a different understanding- thus 70 interruptions of the Torah. But to discount and spew nonsense against your heritage and work to destroy what the Almighty has bestowed upon you and for your people to share and bring light to the nations of the world – makes no sense to me. Can a leopard change its spots, or can a Jew remove his circumcision? NO, God Forbid! I’m sorry, I forgot you don’t believe in God. Your circumcision is not only in your flesh, it is also upon your heart, per your own Prophets.
Your own Torah tells us that YHWH (make no mistake who God is) chose you and your people as the ONLY nation to reveal himself to. Therefore, ALL OTHER nations only have a distorted view of that revelation. History tells us along with the Prophets that Israel and Judah also has a hard time understanding and following the revelation YHWH has given to you and which your to share with the nations.. But that is not to say – none of the JEWs have understanding. We know as in Elijahs day – God has reserved 7000 that have not bowed a knee to BAAL and in every generation, there are righteous men who pass the information down.
As to Yeshua (Jesus) – there have been many lies told on him and about him. But never forget YESHUA was a righteous JEW and even your great teachers know this! Gentiles not a party to the revelation given to Abraham made this first century Judean into a man god like all their other gods. The problem with man, we make god into our image – instead of making ourselves into the image of GOD. IF your correct and Erdman is correct then there is no God – everything in the Bible is just lies and myth made by ignorant primitive man sitting around campfires trying to understand how corn grows and why barley always shows up around Passover? And Edgar, I refuse to believe – we humans are left to our own wanderings, without a GOD and we are our own GOD.
If you and Erdman are correct, then the Jews need to submit to the world and give the land of Israel to the Arabs and accept everything that comes your way due to the lies and chaos you and your people have brought to the world. IF ALL of the HEBREW Scriptures and the New Testament writings are lies – then the Jews deserve what they get! But DO NOT misread my words. The only nation YHWH ever revealed himself to- the NATION of Israel and today known as the JEWS. The only One God and creator has worked for the last thousands of years – maybe 5785 to bring his creation to the place he wants his children to get to. We are not there yet – but I choose to believe your family story is true – distorted and misunderstood by time and evil men like Bert Erdman and by men like yourself that have not set at the feet of your great Masters. Erdman like many men before him will waste away to the dust bin of history but YOU JEWS and all Israel shall remain. If there is no Messiah – No seed of King David who is to one day rule YHWH’s Kingdom here on this earth – it will be the same as me living all my years believing that my Mother gave birth to me by being Impregnated by my Father……. If It was all a LIE…. As the Rabbi Paul a student of Gamaliel said, We are of all men most miserable! – It’s still my story and I’m sticking to it! Be in good health and prosper!
@ Reader No, I’m way behind. My priority is to be able to phonetically read Hebrew. I think that is the first step. I’m making a little progress. Sometimes, words are attached to meanings which is where I got that but I am unable to do any of the vocabulary exercises without being able to read the words.
I have also been to beginner’s services in shuls where the few transliterations were mostly useless and I really couldn’t follow along. Judaism is really inaccessible without Hebrew literacy. I mean the real thing. And the English translations have no music or nuance to them which makes them really boring considering how much repetition there is.
Not that I plan to go full bore observant, I’m the product of my New Age upbringing and I, personally, go with whatever resonates with me but this is the culture of my people, it is what it is., and I want to grok* what it is.*
Are you fluent in Hebrew?
* “Where did the term “grok” come from?
AI Overview
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The term “grok” comes from Robert A. Heinlein’s 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. In the book, the main character, a Martian, uses the word to describe a profound understanding of something. “
TANNA-
I was really expecting to hear from you re: my rundown of Ehrman’s book and I assumed that we’d become internet friends. and discuss it. Obviously I was mistaken, and that you view our religious differences as cause to ignore .
Very sorry that happened ,but Facts are indeed Facts, never more true than in the issues which we (I) were (was) discussing. It became
It became speedily one-sided because I did my research and reading, which you apparently did not.
So again,…..sorry about that. Truly….!!
@Sebastien Zorn
I meant reading song lyrics and listening to the song at the same time.
FSI is printed dialogs with audio which you don’t have to listen to if you don’t feel like it.
If you are way ahead of song lyrics and dialogs in your learning, I apologize for the inappropriate suggestion.
I like to learn languages by reading also but everyone has his or her own unique method.
READER-
Thank you again. The only kind of clipboard are actual wooden ones we with the clip at the top, used to clip documents on to.
My knowledge of computer lingo is minus nil. My children, said they needed computers for school. I made a computer room with 2 computers and a huge, expensive, Hewlett Packard colour printer ($500), never taught me how to use them, as promised.
I use a computer, as a typewriter. I’m a very old fashioned person indeed.
My kids, supposed to be teaching me, played computer games instead.. What could I do??
Your suggestion about my daughter is the solution I’ve no doubt. And I’ll follow it, She’ll be here on Thursday P.G.
@Edgar G.
Copy copies from the original and deposits the copied piece in the clipboard for you to paste into another place without changing the original.
Cut takes the piece you want OUT of the original and deposits it in the clipboard for you to paste in another place, so the original is now different BEFORE you do the Paste part.
It is better to use Copy (at least when you are learning) because it will NOT ruin the original in case you make a mistake.
@Reader My priority is reading Hebrew. But thanks for the suggestion.
READER_
Yes very readable, even if I’m shaky on what I’m reading. I have a 17″ ACER and Windows 11.. I understand “paste” but not exactly “cut” nor opening a file (like Cloud) I only use Google Chrome which id the easiest for me.
I was once able to cut and paste years ago, with an old, simple computer ,but as my son was replacing them just as I was mastering them , I lost the knack, which was more complicated on each “better” computer.
Being new I don’t use or understand most of what’s on this computer, Totally ignorant as I am , not surprising.
Your suggestion of my daughter is the best for me. I’ll show her your post and she’ll show me how…
Mit a sheynem danke..
Tanna-
Apologies, not Eccl. but Jonah and Daniel, both fictitious..
Eccl was admitted to the Canon because it was thought King Solomon wrote it, but internal evidence shows it was written anonymously about 500 years later.
Ehrman tells of Galen walking past a bookseller where 2 men were arguing loudly over a passage in of his books. He intervened, and found the book was a forgery..
He has very large amounts of anecdotal stories like that. He also said that the story of Nero lighting Christians for torches was fake, and there is NO evidence that he persecuted Christians, whom he likely hadn’t noticed. I’ve read many other experts who’ve said the same.
Also that the Chrestus whom Seutonius mentioned as the cause of Claudius banning Jews from Rome, was NOT “Christus” which is a title, and that Chrestus was a very common Roman name. This also mantioned by other experts.
Oh yes, the Acts of the Apostles are fake, written by the writer of “Luke”
Including Timothy, 6 letters of Paul. He gives detailed reasons showing conclusively that this is so. There was much more in my lost post, that I can’t replicate. I’m recalling them in “dribs and drabs”>….
I’m not surprised that as a devout Christian you denigrate Ehrman..
@Edgar G.
It is called “copy-and-paste”.
You highlight the text you want to copy, copy it from the original with a keyboard shortcut (see below), and paste (copy) it with a different keyboard shortcut INTO a file (document) – I use Microsoft Word – that you have opened for this purpose.
Do you know what kind of computer and system (Windows, or?) you have?
The shortcuts below are for a PC or Mac.
Do NOT use the “+“ sign.
The “+“ sign simply means that while one finger holds down the Ctrl key, you use another finger to click once on the second key shown in the shortcut.
Ctrl + A
Sometimes you’d like to mark ALL of the text in a document
or on a webpage so you can perform an action like copying or
formatting.
Ctrl + A lets you select everything without
having to mouse through it all.
Select text:
Shift + one of the arrow keys (usually bottom right of the keyboard – I can’t copy them into my comment)
Want to select specific words or paragraphs without reaching
for your mouse?
Position your cursor where you want to start,
hold down the Shift key, and use the
arrow keys to move around the page
marking (highlighting) the text.
Copy & Paste:
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V
Once you have used one of the options above to select your
text, you can copy it to your clipboard by pressing
Ctrl+C, and paste it again in the desired
location with Ctrl+V.
If the application you are using allows you to remove text, you
can also cut out your selected text by
pressing Ctrl+X and it will also go to your
clipboard for pasting.
Cut-and-paste is Ctrl+X HOWEVER, it removes text from the original, so keep to copy-and-paste in the beginning.
Clipboard is the space that is invisible to you that your computer uses to keep whatever you happened to copy or cut via a shortcut ONLY UNTIL you do the next copy or cut, so it is IMPORTANT to PASTE FIRST before performing another copy or cut.
One of your daughters can probably show you how to do this, this will be a lot faster and easier.
If you don’t know how to open a file, you can save your post temporarily in an E-mail, just don’t send the E-mail to anyone.
I hope this is helpful.
READER-
I don’t know how to “save”, perhaps you will explain. Thanks.
I think that shadow banning , of which I heard only recently, is allowing the writer to read his text but preventing or side-lining the recipient from doing so.
@Sebastien Zorn
Have you ever tried learning a language by listening to simple songs?
You can slow down th speed in the settings on YouTube.
Try googling FSI (Foreign Service Institute) – the stuff is free online with the audio – some people say it is too old but who cares.
TANNA-
I am devastated. At the time I posted the name of Ehrman’s book I was beginning, I was already reading it. From that moment, minimum 16 hrs a day, non stop reading until 2.32 last night my time.
Even the footnoted gathered at the back kept revealing new names details of in-book references etc.
Totally fascinating beyond measure. He wrote that Daniel and Eccliastes were written several centuries after their real time by unknown writers.
Me mentioned Isaiah 1,2,3 the first in the time of Ahaz, 8th cent (I think) the second 2 cent later, and third about 2nd cent BCE.Also the spurious last 12 verses of “Mark” by an unknown….All experts agree on this.
How to say this, it was vaster than a vaster VAST. The erudition and sheer scholarship is beyond measure. Just now Peloni told me that my post was lost, I believe it was far too long and should have been broken into 3 segments. Stuck in the computer bowels . A solid 30 mins writing.
Yes there WAS “twisting” as you said, but NOT by Ehrman, but by the people, ancient and more modern who lied, plagiarised, copied, mistranslated, stole, wrote under better known names and frankly FORGED. Which makes me wonder if you mis-understood what you were reading.
The first 4 cent were rife with it, as was every cent up to today especially the 19th and 20the cent.
He went from the 9th cent BCE to Pythagoras, to Plato to Socrates, to Galen, to Rome, and so on. ALso Photius letter bewailing no mmention of Jesus by Justus of Tiberias, nor by any contemporary famous historian of which there were several famous. He believes a Jesus existed, but not the Gospels one.
Forgeries galore in all centuries. Although more or less zooming in on Christian spurious documents and books, of which there were hundreds maybe thousands, he dealt with the Faiths of several other prominent nations, detailing names, works specific texts, quoting from all, and demonstrating why they were spurious, either for profit, fame, or to get read under a famous name and not the unknown writer.
Into modern times he showed the proliferation of forgeries in the 19rh cent, the 20th including “Hitler’s Diaries”, and into 2205.
He left NO stone unturned…in MY opinion, but I am ignorant by comparison since he began the books by saying it was a non scholarly text for easy reading by the layman,
I’d hate to have to read one of his books meant for scholars.
I wonder which of his books you say you read…a whole book, an excerpt, a WiKi blurb or just a few references. Please tell me………!!
I’m balking at going straight into another Maelstrom-ic torrent of details, fascinating though they be. I need a break.
@Edgar G.
Save your posts before uploading.
Personally, I feel like I’ve been mostly talking to myself for the last several days.
Have you ever heard of being “shadow banned”?
@Edgar
Sorry, but there isn’t anything in moderation or the trash.
TED/PELONI-
I’ve just now posted a response to TANNA. It got stuck somewhere in the vitals of your computer system.
It may have been to long. But when I tried to retrieve it to make 2 posts,your system refused and asked to “reload” .Windows couldn’t find the problem.
I can hardly do it over again , it took me 30 minutes of solid writing. So please do your utmost to find it and if needed divide it into 2 -3 posts.
Thank you.
SEB-
In that case it’s better and less waste of precious time to just look up the word, phrase etc as needed. You are a brave man to tackle a foreign, complicated language after ceasing , I assume about 50+ years ago.
I did the same, gave it up after age 13, even though my famous teacher Menachem Mansoor told me that I had a talent for Biblical Hebrew, which, as you may know is rather different from Ben Yehuda’s effort, as spoken in Israel today.
It’s interesting to know that the siddurim are written mainly in Biblical, with a little Aramaic thrown in.
But at least one thing is sure, You won’t get a rotator cuff tear from the effort.
Have you ever followed the development of the alphabet from the old Sumerian cuneiform to today? Fascinating seeing the gradual changes from the completely unlike…., I do from time to time.
Right up to the “Alef Bet”.
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@Edgar Duolingo. It’s an app I’m using to learn Hebrew starting with the alphabet which I last gave up when I was 13, no mean feat for me as I’ve always been terrible at learning languages.
I see Google Translate agrees with you. That’s not very encouraging.I don’t want to take a language course because I’d never be able to keep up.
I love this quote only I now apply it to us Zionist Jews, not Communists:
“We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the neighbouring marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having separated ourselves into an exclusive group and with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation. And now some among us begin to cry out: Let us go into the marsh! And when we begin to shame them, they retort: What backward people you are! Are you not ashamed to deny us the liberty to invite you to take a better road! Oh, yes, gentlemen! You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the marsh. In fact, we think that the marsh is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don’t clutch at us and don’t besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are “free” to go where we please, free to fight not only against the marsh, but also against those who are turning towards the marsh!”
– Lenin, “What is Be Done?”
Happy Washington’s Birthday. (Presidents Day)
The Time of Their Lives (1946) Abbott and Costello Ghost Story about espionage and betrayal during the American Revolution fast forwarding to the present.
{spoiler alert} Vindicated of treason, Costello’s ghost is unable to get into heaven in the end because the gates are closed for Washington’s Birthday.
https://youtu.be/dAps3FoRfj0?si=RaeM0LbF0RwPCa6T
@Edgar G.
A possible explanation for
:
https://www.chiefrabbi.co.za/ This is Rabbi Goldstein’ web site. He also has accounts with Instagram, “Twiiter” and Facebook that all begin with a form of his name, easily recognizable.
SEB-
I thought this too coincidental to be real and just checked. It seems that there is no Hebrew word for
‘politician except “politika”, -a transliteration.
Sa-ar, literally means “Storm” or “Strong”….as far as i could ascertan.
Where did you see your trans??-
Rabbi Goldstein does not identify any web site where he podcasts except his own in South Africa. My computer won’t allow me to post it. But its web address begins “rabbigoldstein” and gives a South African web address. He also has pages Facebook, Instagram, and “Twitter” (he doesn’t seem to have learned that has renamed its “X.” All of these accounts use some variant on his name “Rabbigoldstein.” although not this exact word. All begin with “rabbi” and have something like “rabbig” in their title. His podcasts are nearly all posted on these accounts.
I also believe that Rabbi Goldstein’s podcasts can be located on Arutz Sheva’s Christian web site, although Rabbi Goldstein does not say this.
I’m really NOT very happy about Trump’s “Donner und Blitzen ” remarks about “all hell will break loose after 12 noon TODAY”, although
i was when it was uttered.
I bought an umbrella in anticipation. It looks as if I wasted my money,
It has turned out that he was just bloviating, and soon toned down to’
“It’s up to Israel, I don’t know what they’ll do”….etc.etc.
We KNOW what Israel will do, It’ll stick strictly to the agreements, and carry on with the dreary, deal with Hamas which is eking out the minimum of hostages being freed, for the obscene numbers of convicted terrorists and murderers.
Naturally, they are encouraged by Israel’s pusillanimity, and, following their normal pattern. Hamas will survive in a muted form, only to recruit again even if not in Israel, and whichever host country it may be, Arab of course, infect the population which will need little urging, and we’ll have a far greater number of Hamasniks once again on the warpath.
If G-D Forbid another Peres type is PM at that time …………..???
Rabbi Goldstein, the chief Rabbi of South Africa, has a wonderful podcast from South Africa in which he explains the importance of Trump’s recent policy decisions about South Africa for reviving the South African economy, making foreign private investment in South Africa possible again, enabling South Africa to rejoin the Western family of nations, reviving its broken but desperately needed relationship with Israel, and ending its extremely self- destructive relationships with Russia, China and Iran. Rabbi Goldstein points out that these countries have invested almost no private capital in South Africa, but are funding jihadist organizations whose openly declared purpose is to overthrow the South African constituion and system of government.
I have already forgotten what station where we can watch this marvelous podcast by one of Judaism leading rabbinical scholars and Jewish rights activist. I will get to you shortly with what station you can watch Rabbi Goldstein’s presentation.
@fquigley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_the_Two_Dollars
Ephraim Kishon also wrote a story on this premise and it is also the premise for the Hitchcock movie, “North by Northwest.”
Though, yes, tru ’nuff, Jordan rightfuly belongs to the Jews, too.
That’s hilarious. Gideon Sa’ar’s last name means, “politician.” 😀 Unless it’s not spelled the way it sounds.
@Adam
Good help is so hard to find.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsIUC4f5_1
This is an excellent podcast on the crime problem in South Africa. With particular emphasis on the city of Cape Town. According to this extremely well documented report, with numerous interviews with witnesses, victims, police, private security guards, and even some security camera footage of bandits “at work” Carjackings and house breakins have been suffered by nearly all middle class people. Many middle class people, including professionals such as doctors, have been murdered. The very rich can retreat to their private castles. But the middle class is under attack every day. Most young men are gangsters and belong to one or another gang. Robbery is their sole means of support. Their job. The only thing you can do to protect yourself is to go oarmed all the time, know how to use a firearm and a knife, ohire. a private security service to help ypu. The private security firms are doing a thriving business.However, about thirty security guards are killed in the line of duty every year. And about the same number of police officers.
All those virtue-signalling ___holes who spent so much time denouncing “apartheid” are silent about this post-apartheid catastrophe. One black intellectual , interviewed on a South African television station, told the interviewer that black people were betteroff under apartheid. Most people had jobs, although they were low-paying. Nearly all kids got at least a few years of school, in which they were taught the basics by competent black teachers. It was possible for black people to afford an apartment or even a house. Now, he says, under a black government, all that is impossible for black people unless they are rich and have government connections.
The abolition of white rule has apparently not benefited the majority of black South Africans. They are victimized by corrupt black politicians, who treat them worse than the former white rulers.
Cat Juggling, Steve Martin, The Jerk
https://youtu.be/1bGVT4-1DBU?si=zYHvUo51uMEnS13S
USAID paying for hamster fighting and njecting animals with drugs in addition to funding Islamo-Nazi terrorists with oceans of Israeli and American blood on their hands to the tune of many Billions.
I’m really getting tired of waiting for Mudar to take over Jordan and institute his reforms and new policies.
They are still by a very large amount the best solution for this beggar, concocted nation, and a chance to make it a real nation. Maybe te only chance.
I’ve been holding my breath (figuratively) for years now and running out of oxygen ……..metaphorically speaking……!!
Read about the Israeli Land Authority. There is a complex history to this and its sister organization, which has been responsible for buying Land for Jews in what Palestine prior to Israel for Jewish settlement.
Thanks, Rafi and Edgar. Israeli Land Authority it is, then, and 49- and 99-year leases. This accords well with Torah:
Is the Israeli Land Authority under the oversight of the knesset? or the High Court? (just curious here).
Rafi
I am drawn to write because of great betrayals. being carried out daily on israpundit site
You are contributing.
Any school boy with a serious teacher will know that the Treaty in Paris after WW1 was over will know that the geographical area of Palestine was being set aside for the Jewish homeland.
The Arab leaders in Arabia were in agreement.
The whole area of geographical Palestine was set aside to be the Jewish state
That’s the beginning and end of it as far as aTrotskyist Communist is concerned and for me only that counts. Only that is relevant.
People on israpundit who disagree with that need to be asked very basic questions as to what they are doing on israpundit.
Actually I don’t have to deal with the subsequent evil in the intervention of Churchill because as a Trotskyist Communist it is already part of the initial statement. It certainly nullifies much of what is being spouted by so many on this israpundit site today.
My understanding, when I lived there is that all leases were for 99 years to give some permanence to descendants of original families, but because or the very slow release of building land it was reduced to 49 years with the “possibility” ( nothing was definite in Israel (those days) of renewing for another 49.
I lived there between 1975-1988. Married, and had my children there.
@ Michael- Nothing Bibilical but Israeli land practices.
In Israel, land leases are a way to use land owned by the state or Jewish National Fund for a long period of time. The Israel Land Authority (ILA) manages most of the land in Israel.
How do land leases work in Israel?
Lease terms: Leases are usually for 49 or 99 years, but can be extended.
@Michael, what I am referencing if Israel takes Gaza and makes it part of the Land of Israel land. Such land is usually leased for 49 or 99 years.
Sorry it is not biblical.
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