posted ago by SwampRangers ago by SwampRangers +5 / -5

I was asked to review this article, so I am posting my brief results publicly.

https://themillenniumreport.com/2019/03/even-most-jews-dont-know-the-hidden-truths-about-judaism/

The link starts out with and builds on a Luciferian quote attributed to Harold Wallace Rosenthal that only appeared 2 years after his 1976 death, written by Walter and Opal White, who also founded the anti-Semitic org Western Front. There's no evidence of its authenticity despite its claims of being a taped transcript, even though there is evidence of "Jewish" and "Christian" Luciferians generally. It seems self-evident that anti-Semites publishing a pamphlet against an individual whose death prevents him from suing for libel should not be the sole source for founding a theory. That should be added to my hoaxes article.

Factual and etymological errors: (1) Lucifer's name in the Bible is not "Hillel" (H1985) as stated but "Helel" H1966, same root, different grammar. Catholics say "Hallelujah" just fine without the root word being the problem. (2) I've disproven hexagram claims. (3) The word "chai" can mean beast but also means the four living beings of Revelation [zoa in Greek] so isn't significant. (4) "Hovah" can mean "falling out" as a special case of the word "being", but Yahweh is unrelated because not rightly pronounced Jehovah, which is not a Hebrew word because its deliberately wrong vowels wouldn't be pronounced with those consonants by any native Hebrew speaker. [Joining disparate applications of "to be" is as stupid as saying that, since "art" means artifice and lying, then "Our Father who art in heaven" means God lies.] (5) The fact that Yahweh and satan were both called baals or lords doesn't equate them. (6) There is no connection between Yiddish, a natural blend of Hebrew and German, with Enochian, a fictional language created in the 1500s by John Dee. (7) Adonai, Elohim, El-Shaddai, and Zeba'ot are titles of deity (Lord, God, Sufficient God, and Of-Hosts) and most bar mitzvah candidates know they mean exactly this; "diyenu" appears to be a pronunciation spelling of "dayenu", sufficient-for-us (not a title though related to Shaddai), from a very old root for sufficiency or manifoldness (dayay or dayah) that seems totally unrelated to PIE *diwyos for deity (root of Diana, Deus, Theos, etc.). (8) The fact that Masons corrupt Yah into Jahbulun doesn't defame Christian use of Yah (again, Hallelujah). (9) I've repeatedly debunked the idea that Talmud says "Christ is in Hell boiling in excrement and semen", the most frequently misquoted text on all of Scored.

The article concludes that God's true name is Ehyeh or Ahayah citing Ex. 3:14-15. The problem is that this text literally also gives the name Yahweh. It is threefold: when he is asked his name, it says with transliterations, "And God said unto Moses, [Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh] I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, [Ehyeh] I AM hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, [Yahweh] The LORD ... hath sent me unto you." The most straightforward reading is that God is giving three different forms of his name. But it certainly cannot be read that God's name is Ehyeh and not Yahweh (without objecting to the text) because both are given the same predicate.

So what we get, in the name of "hidden truths about Judaism", is a bunch of mistaken or unproblematic obscurities, some of which have been debunked for centuries, cobbled together as if they prove a grand conspiracy. If we really wanted to write an article about hidden truths about Judaism, we'd take the very real objections that myriads of Messianic Jews have publicly raised about how Rabbinical Judaism has gone off its original rails. Here are a few examples.

(1) Not that Judaism has formally rejected Jesus (Yeshua) as Messiah, but that it is unwilling to rule on Jesus at all despite its many internal recognitions that a Messianic candidate might need to rise from the dead: its spirit of inquiry is drowning in fear. (2) Rabbinical Judaism substituted bloodless for bloody sacrifices without availing itself of Jesus's blood, which Messianics accepted, showing it knowingly clings to an inferior system destitute of Mosaic originality. (3) Rabbis elevated their own commands, like Sabbath and Hanukkah candles, and regulations, such as halakhic fences around kashruth and eruvim, to the level of Mosaic commands, and then persecuted Karaites for questioning these strictures. (4) Rabbis permitted many superstitious practices, such as Kol Nidre and Kapparoth on Yom Kippur, and mechitzah b'peh as opposed to tubal suction, and industrial yahrzeit prayers and lights, to arise despite the fact that they are easily abused and misinterpreted by folk Judaism and criticized by Gentiles. (We could argue that the Jewish suppression of the name Yahweh due to superstition was covered in the link, but its purpose is not to criticize it as superstitious but to argue that it proves Luciferianism.) (5) Jewish insularity and refusal to proselytize its own truths has led to declines and stagnations across Jewish denominations and accusations that Jews hide their documents instead of openly sharing and explaining them so as to boldly defend, and accept the consequences of, their views about idolaters.

I trust the reader can see the difference between calling all Judaism evil, and calling certain Jewish practices evil while emphasizing that there are better Jewish practices to accomplish the same things.