[Prefatory Note: On October 26 the Istanbul Statement issued on behalf of the Steering Committee was issued, and expressed the central concluding concern that although a ceasefire was formally agreed upon by Israel and Hamas, the genocide continued, including periodic resumptions of lethal violence by Israel killing many Palestinians. The struggle for a just peace continues, and includes the rejection of all efforts to exclude Palestinian rights and Palestinian authentic participation.]
Istanbul, 26 October 2025
At conclusion of the Final Session of Gaza Tribunal this Istanbul Statement is made on behalf of the Steering Committee at a historic moment of darkness expressive of our continuing quest for the light of justice.
The Gaza Tribunal recognizes that the current genocide in Palestine, rooted in a century of colonization and oppression, represents a watershed moment in the history of our world. If the Israeli perpetrators and their western enablers are allowed to escape justice, and the Palestinian survivors are left without meaningful redress and, ultimately, their full liberation from the dehumanizing shackles of Zionism and colonialism, the world will have ratified one of the worst atrocities in history. The Tribunal notes that if colonialism, apartheid, and genocide are not moral redlines, then there are no redlines. And the world that presages will be a world of unprecedented horror. Every member of the human family has a stake in Palestinian justice.
Cognizant of this, the Gaza Tribunal was established in London in November 2024, as a people’s tribunal in the tradition of the Russell Tribunal that was established at the height of US aggression in Vietnam. It convened public hearings in Sarajevo in May 2025, adopting the historic Sarajevo Declaration as a statement of the principles of the Tribunal and of the global quest for justice in Palestine. Its work over the past year has consisted of the collection of information and analysis, the hearing of witnesses and survivors, the archiving of evidence, and the issuing of appeals to humanity for action to end the genocide and to secure justice for the Palestinian people. Its convening here in Istanbul has brought together members of the Tribunal, witnesses, survivors, experts, and an international Jury of Conscience to issue a moral judgement on the crimes of the Israeli regime and those complicit in their perpetration, and to set the course for the next phase of the quest for justice in Palestine.
The members of the Gaza Tribunal welcome the findings of the Jury of Conscience, applaud their moral clarity, and commit to the struggle to see their implementation in full.
The accelerated genocide of the past two years had shocked the conscience of humanity. The images of its audacious cruelty are forever seared in the minds of decent people everywhere, and the echoes of the cries of its victims will forever ring in our ears. We will forget none of it. The brutal attacks on an imprisoned civilian population, the intentional infliction of hunger, thirst, and disease as weapons of genocide, the targeting of bullets and bombs and drones at innocents, the mass arrests and imprisonment in notorious dungeons, the systematic beatings, and torture, and sexual violence of the genocidal perpetrators, the sniping of toddlers for sport, the systematic destruction of hospitals, schools, churches, mosques, homes, refugee shelters, aid facilities, agricultural fields, food stores, even cemeteries, and the deliberate targeting of civilian truth tellers, journalists, medical personnel, aid workers, and other protected persons. So too will we remember the arrogant genocidal threats and declarations of the perpetrators, and their cruel laughter and public celebration of their crimes, all recorded forever in a catalogue of shame.
We warn the world today that the genocide in Palestine has not ended. The Israeli regime continues to murder Palestinians in Gaza with its Western-supplied bullets and bombs. It continues to obstruct the delivery of food and medicine to the survivors. It continues to impose its unlawful siege on the survivors. Its two-year systematic imposition of hunger, disease, injury, the plaguing of all of Gaza with toxic chemicals and explosive ordinance, its destruction of most shelter as well as the infliction of mass mental disorder and impaired developmental capacities for surviving civilians, will all continue to claim victims of the genocide for years to come. Even as Gaza continues to bleed, the Israeli regime has extended the annihilation phase of the genocide to the West Bank, where land, and livelihoods, and lives are claimed every day in the ethnic cleansing and racist assaults of the Israeli army and its violent settlers.
Nor do the colonial maneuvers reflected in the so-called Trump Plan, or in the New York plan, offer any hope for end to the genocide, or for freedom or justice for Palestine. Even as we welcome any ceasefire, we note that the Israeli regime has continued to violate with impunity the current declared cessation with daily killings of Palestinians and the continued obstruction of humanitarian aid. We reject the provisions of both plans that would violate fundamental Palestinian rights of self-determination, the essential elements of which are agency, sovereignty, authentic representation and unified leadership. The proposed Plans presuppose impunity for Israeli genocide and apartheid, normalize the Israeli regime, ignore the rights of the Palestinian people under international law, and impose proxy occupation and colonial control over the victims of genocide, while doing nothing to reign in the perpetrators of genocide. Palestinians must lead the restoration of Gaza, and Israel and its enablers must be held responsible for all reparations.
We demand accountability for the perpetrators and their complicit enablers, redress for the victims and survivors, action to address the root causes of Zionist colonization, occupation, and apartheid, rejection of all efforts to normalize the perpetrator regime and its criminal acts, and freedom for Palestine. In sum, we demand justice.
To these ends, we call on people of conscience everywhere to intensify their efforts to secure justice for the Palestinian people, through increased and coordinated efforts to isolate the Israeli regime, reject its normalization, and to hold it to account through boycotts, divestment, sanctions, military embargoes, criminal prosecutions of perpetrators and complicit actors, civil actions against those benefitting from harms, education of our neighbors, public protest and civil disobedience, and the amplification of calls for a free Palestine.
[image: Francisca Albanese V1-Work in progress – Sam July 16 2025 (2).jpg] thanks for your work. This statement seems so clear an decise it is sure to be helpful.. Sam and Katah
The atrocities committed on October 7th, during which a series of violent acts were perpetrated against civilians, are vividly etched in the memories of those who witnessed or were affected by the events. Survivors, their families, and communities hold deep and varied sentiments that reflect the trauma, loss, and ongoing implications of that day.
Decontextualization of October 7 produces a distorted imagery of good and evil.
Without taking account of the oppressive occupation of Gaza that preceded and
the excessive response that followed the Hamas-led attack are both integral to
moral judgment. Without context a condemnation of October 7 becomes a private form
of state propaganda. This is especially true given the ambiguity surrounding the attack
consisting of ignored, repeated warnings, incomprehensible failings of Israel’s surveillance
capabilities.
Why does the blessing of Shabbat repeatedly refer to “מלאכתך” both in the evening & morning קידוש blessing which distinguishes between shabbat from chol?
מלאכתך closer to the word מלאך rather than עבודה which refers to “work” מלאכתך. Therefore the idea of the mitzva of shabbat to cease to create life rather than “work”. Granted that a man needs to work, from the sweat of his brow in order to live, as the Torah refers to Adam after HaShem expelled Adam from the Garden of Eden. Therefore the mitzva of shabbat, a person does this ‘time oriented mitzva’ (which requires k’vanna) Jews who keep shabbat, they develop the conscious k’vanna not to create מלאכים\life, like as did Yaacov who sent a מלאך to his brother Esau who came to meet him surrounded with an Army lead by 400 Officers, according to Targum Uziel, in order to kill Yaacov and his entire family.
The Torah states that Esau greeted Yaacov with a kiss. But Rashi teaches that he wanted to bite his brother’s neck. Akin to Bil’aam who intended to curse Israel but HaShem sent a מלאך and Bil’aam blessed Israel to the horror of the king of Moav. Swearing a Torah oath requires שם ומלכות dedications of the שם השם blown from the Yatzir Ha’Tov within the heart, as opposed to blow air from the lungs when pronouncing words framed from the lips, tongue, and teeth. The mitzva of shabbat absolutely requires that bnai brit Israel make this fundamental discernment which separates k’vanna from empty rote ritualism. The spiritual concept that Torah oaths can create life as in מלאכים tohor spirits achieved through the dedication of מלכות, a term that makes a רמז to מלאכה. Specifically a person can dedicate tohor Spirits revealed first to Moshe at Horev following the sin of the Golden Calf: ‘אל רחום וחנון וכו. Hence the time oriented mitzva of Shabbat reveals the holy dedication of פרדס thirteen Oral Torah middot.
Therefore, the substance crux of shabbat observance distinguishes between cessation of the creation of life rather than the false focus of not doing work. HaShem informed g’lut Adam that he must work to live. Prioritizing shabbat as not doing work misses the point of Shabbat observance which separates the holiness of LIFE over the g’lut need for working in order to live. A key but subtle distinction that avoda zara religion totally miss all together. Life prioritized over g’lut “work”, defines the k’vanna of shabbat observance throughout the generations.
The Journalism of Mad-Cow Maddow
Maddow’s legacy stands not as a triumph of inquiry but as a cautionary precedent: how media institutions, once guardians of accountability, can mutate into instruments of false prophet belief systems.
Rise (2016–2018): coverage drives ratings and expectations. During the height of the Russia-Gate narrative, Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC platform became the secular pulpit of the anti-Trump resistance. Her show transformed investigative speculation into moral ritual, with viewers tuning in not for evidence but for confirmation. Her detailed monologues and confident prophetic tone projected inevitability: that proof of Trump-Russia collusion was near at hand. Ratings soared; expectation became belief.
Fall (2019): Mueller Report’s anticlimax and erosion of trust. The release of the Mueller Report, which found no prosecutable collusion, exposed the gulf between Maddow’s narrative and the evidentiary record. Her defense of unelected intelligence officials—many later discredited or internally rebuked—compromised her claim to journalistic independence. When Mueller testified before Congress, that anticlimax destroyed her credibility covenant with her audience; it exposed her as being a witch rather than a prophet. Investigative journalism corrupted into partisan sermonizing: a loss of prophetic Good-Name legitimacy.
Aftermath (2020–present): rebranded as general political commentator. In the years following, Maddow repositioned herself as a scaled-down general political commentator, widening subject matter but retaining the same partisan lens, limited to the field of Russian hostility to America. Her overt support for Democratic candidates—Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020—cemented her within the ideological establishment she once claimed to honestly interrogate. Her reactionary alignment blurred journalism with advocacy and reduced MSNBC’s role to that of an echo chamber reinforcing moral ‘burn the witch’ – certainty rather than testing factual claims. Her “journalistic” style closely resembles the racism expressed through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” which attempted to turn Donald Trump into Hester Prynne.
Her reporting style, “narrative-first” rather than “evidence-first,” parallels classic yellow journalism—sensational framing driven by political passion. The BBC’s later manipulation of Trump’s January 6th remarks exemplifies the same moral decay: editorial splicing presented partisan drama in place of judicial record. Rachel Maddow’s transformation from investigator to partisan commentator marks a structural decline in American journalism itself. In the covenantal sense, she violated the brit emunah between reporter and public—truth exchanged for loyalty to faction. The newsroom, once a tribunal of evidence, became a pulpit of ideology.
Her defense of unelected intelligence officials who later faced credibility crises has permanently compromised her claim to journalistic independence. MSNBC functions as a secular pulpit, and Maddow’s audience compares to congregants seeking moral confirmation rather than factual inquiry. Her journalist reputation collapsed after the Mueller testimony before Congress, as exposure of her false-prophet witchcraft legitimacy. Maddow’s “narrative-first” reporting slavishly obeys yellow journalism; comparable to the recent BBC slander against Trump on Jan 6th 2020 Nancy Pelosi scandal, where the BBC spliced two different Trump speeches which corrupted Trumps viewpoint to what later became known as the Jan 6th Democrat slander made against Trump. Where the BBC publicly declared Trump’s guilt for his an attempted coup. A Joseph Goebbels-like propaganda lead by Nancy Pelosi, and other disgraced politicians and key Federal bureaucrats.
The Russia-Gate scandal, its scandalous allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election, significantly affected various media figures, including Rachel Maddow. It duplicated the Biden laptop denial made by 51 FBI Officials in the 2020 election cycle. During the peak of the Russia-Gate investigation, Maddow’s show on MSNBC gained immense viewership, becoming one of the most-watched programs in cable news. Her extensive coverage set high expectations among viewers for groundbreaking revelations related to the investigation.
Some critics argue that Maddow repeatedly presented speculative narratives as definitive conclusions; leading to claims of overstating evidence against Trump. Right-wing commentators and supporters of Trump have continuously criticized Maddow, accusing her of pushing a partisan agenda and failing to deliver on the explosive claims she sometimes hinted at; no different than from California Congress persons: Adam Schiff, Nadler, and Waters. While many viewers praised her detailed investigative approach, others felt betrayed when some aspects of the investigation, particularly regarding collusion, did not lead to the anticipated criminal charges against Trump or his associates. The Biden lawfare attempts to arrest Trump extended to his supporters like the former Mayor of New York, prior to the 2024 elections. This disgrace in American politics compares to the Charlie Kirk political assassination and to the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump prior to the election.
Skeptics question Maddow’s credibility, especially as the Mueller Report concluded without definitive evidence of collusion; Maddow had promised the expectation that it would result in a forced Trump Nixon-like resignation from Office. Post-Russia-Gate, her show has dramatically reduced her public face; but has expanded to cover broader topics, positioning her as a damaged goods, yet resilient commentator, in the landscape of political partisan journalism.
Rachel Maddow’s rabid support for Democratic candidates, particularly Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and Joe Biden in 2020, has directly impacted her reputation across the board. Maddow’s vocal support for Clinton and Biden led many to concluder her as nothing other than a partisan commentator – witch. Critics argue that her support reinforces echo chamber effects, where viewers continuously restricts repeated propaganda story lines, which the Liberal Media then continuously harps upon like a scratched repeating scratched phonograph record that resemble the talking points made by parrots.
Support for candidates like Clinton and Biden has fueled criticism from conservative commentators, who claim she lacks objectivity and promotes liberal Democratic & homosexual agendas. Maddow’s complete lack of neutrality, impacts her broader audience base. Even her supporters argue that she focuses too heavily on partisanship rather than objective analysis. This critique places her together with discredited Late Night Comedy Show and the View programs.
Her vocal support for the corrupt bureaucratic heads of the FBI, CIA, and NSA intelligence has permanently tar & feathered her homosexual reputation. She promotes a Democratic super-liberated agenda, rather than providing unbiased reporting. Her strong alignment with Democratic candidates detracts from the journalistic integrity. Maddow’s witchcraft compares to that of discredited programs like late-night comedy and The View. These platforms share a tendency to blur the lines between journalism and entertainment.
The LGBTQ+ under Biden’s Administration directly corrupted the Armed Forces. The slander made against right wing opposition very much resembles to how witches cursed their victims. The Liberal MSM produced propaganda no different than that produced by Nazi Germany; clearly with another intent but propaganda sought to destroy the enemy none the less.
Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC program became the flagship voice of the anti-Trump movement. Her nightly monologues framed investigation as moral drama; audiences came to expect definitive proof of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Her reliance on anonymous intelligence sources and on agencies later criticized for internal bias now defines her reputation as a journalist.
During the Biden administration, federal institutions—including the armed forces—increasingly influenced by social and ideological agendas. Policies intended to promote diversity and inclusion shifted focus from a priority for military readiness and merit, towards an He/She\It sexual confusion which directly impacted both privacy in bathrooms to men engaging in women’s sports. The resulting internal tension raised harsh questions about command discipline which the military requires, and the dignity of the sexes not invaded by the other in locker-rooms.
This moral corruption described above has a a parallel transformation in major media networks. Outlets that once emphasized investigative independence now often frame political conflict as moral drama, presenting ideological narratives as settled truth. Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC program exemplified this pattern: her use of anonymous intelligence sources and dependence on agencies later criticized for bias left her work vulnerable to charges of partisanship. The larger concern is that the American press, like state institutions, risks becoming a vehicle for political validation rather than civic accountability.
משנה תורה — קידושין סוגיה א
Sugya integrity represents the נפש יסודי מלאכתך wherein bnai brit Jews dedicate positive mitzvot and halachot unto קום ועשה – זימן גרמא מצוות דאורייתא המלאכים החיים — תמיד מעשה בראשית — בצלום אלהים זימן גרמא מלאכים נברא. A radical Torah spirituality that no pervert statute halachic code ever even once communicated. Comparable to the cold hard fact that the Goyim bible and koran av tuma avoda zarah never once bring the שם השם לשמה. Hence these course “Protocols of the Elders of Zionism” counterfeit fraud religions view Angels as some God sent messenger rather than a bnei brit messenger through which Israel dominates our World; av tuma avoda zarah alway oblivious to tohor vs. tuma middot spirits. The former quickens the Yatzir Ha’Tov whereas the latter breaths death into the Yatzir Ha’Raw within the heart.
The creation of מלאכים through Torah sworn oath time oriented Av commandments, the genius how to control and dominate the Created World. Healing disease in medicine, technological advancements in science etc., all the result of tohor oath sworn time oriented Av commandments which create מלאכים יש מאין, like the chosen Cohen people תמיד מעשה בראשית נברא יש מאין.
The av tuma haters of Israel, easily discernable: they seek power over justice; view Jews as a Race rather than the spiritual consequences of oath sworn time oriented Av commandments; T’NaCH as history rather than spirituality which instructs equally applicable to all generations – prophetic mussar. These av tuma religious frauds view reality based upon a static rather than interpreted through dynamic ever-changing subtle always changing perspectives.
The genius of Talmudic sugya integrity, it permits a down stream scholar who respects sugya integrity to made logical deductions, something akin to a thesis statement term paper English 101: Thesis Statement ~~ specific details which nail down the general clause made by the Thesis Statement ~~ Re-stated Thesis Statement shaped and influenced by the 3 or more specific details contained within the body of the paragraph. The Order of this type of writing discipline resembles sonnets of poetry literature.
Sonnets often explore universal themes, such as “love”, “nature”, “time”, or “morality”. William Shakespeare known to have written 154 sonnets. John Milton’s sonnets, quite often weighed political or spiritual themes. A Gemara sugya, this author suggests compares to a sonnet that has 14 lines of poetry. Obviously sugya integrity – not a sonnet.
Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” and a 14-line sonnet exemplify the rich diversity of poetry, but they differ significantly in form, structure, and thematic focus. The latter type of poetry explores ‘free verse’ that has no specific line length or meter. It resembles a collage of poems. Whitman celebrates himself, together with his expansive view of democracy and nature which reflect the vivid nature of late 19th Century American life-styles. Radically different from the Utilitarian writings of Jeremy Bentham or John Stuart Mill.
Eras radically changed the style of literature expressed. Late 18th – mid-19th Century Romanticism to 1830s – 1860s Transcendentalism to mid-19th Century Realism to late 19th Century Naturalism etc. This same trend separates the Yerushalmi Talmud from the Bavli Talmud like day different from night. None the less, the fact that the sugya of Gemara fixed, it becomes ideal to study this common law Jewish literature by means of making deductive syllogism specific comparison with the opening vs. closing communications of a sugya.
This establishes a “sh’itta” or line of reasoning, akin to the opening and closing statement made by a thesis statement paragraph. The body of any Gemara sugya raises points or issues which by logical deductive syllogism reason must fall somewhere along the line which connects the opening thesis statement with the closing re-statement of the same thesis statement proven as valid based upon the evidence of the details contained within the body of the paragraph.
Talmudic study follows this כלל: First Order then Speed. The common law specifics within a Gemara sugya follow the middot established by both rabbis Yishmael and Yossi HaGalili two sets of logical middot which permit the down stream generations the skills required to compare Case/Din to similar Case/Din different halacha rulings. Interpreting poetry in like fashion requires scholars to compare poetry with other poetry. This comparison permits scholars to separate and order literature into separate writing styles as mentioned above.
G’lut Yeshiva institutions of learning slavishly learn only the simple פשט of Jewish classic literature. No effort does g’lut religious rabbis, strive to discern between authors who wrote common law halachic commentaries from authors who wrote statute law halachic commentaries. Despite the simple fact that judicial common law courtroom authority establishes the Law of the country of Israel; having the Constitutional Torah mandate of ‘Legislative Review’ over Knesset Parliamentary statue laws. Day and night, shabbat from chol — judicial common law different from statute law religious ritual observances. Worlds separate Judicial common law which strives to rule the homeland through just restitution of damages inflicted, from observing Torah and halachot – טיפש פשט simply as religious ritual observances; an enslaved g’lut enchained mentality – Torah curse. Its easier to leave the slavery of Egypt than to free oneself from the crushed Human self-esteem dignity of living as enslaved oppressed servants – for millennia.
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כן דרכה היא מסתירה מעשיה, ואומרת כי לא פעלה און.”
.אבן עזרא על משלי ל:כ–.כן דרך אשה מנאפת – היא דוגמת דרך הנחש על הצור, שאין אדם יודע דרכו This reactionary interpretation of משלי מוסר perhaps reflects the groveling self esteem of an oppressed slave, despite his wearing the crown of a king. King Shlomo worshipped avoda zara consequent to all his many foreign wives – a direct Torah לא תעשה. Hence it appears that this p’suk, more applicable to Shlomo than to women in general. מה אמרה תורה (דברים כב) כי יקח איש אשה. ולא כתב כי תקח אשה לאיש. מפני שדרכו של איש לחזר על אשה, ואין דרכה של אשה לחזר על איש. משל לאדם שאבדה לו אבידה. מי חוזר על מי? בעל אבידה מחזר על אבידתו
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Men and women equally have the Torah obligation to remember the oaths sworn by the Avot through which time oriented Torah commandments create the chosen Cohen people in all generations. Yom Kippur HaShem defined the mitzva of t’shuva after Moshe reminded to remember the oaths sworn to the Avot wherein the Torah cuts an eternal brit faith alliance.
Granted our Gemara addresses the specific subject of קידושין, but utterly essential to remember that these specified mitzvot exist within the כלל of oath brit Av time oriented commandments. The פרט serves to define the כלל like as do specifics raised in the body of a thesis statement paragraph serve as concrete examples which contain and give actual meaning to the intent of the thesis statement made at the opening and closing of the paragraph.
A person has to always keep his eye upon the prize. Time oriented Torah commandments expressed through the specifics of positive and negative תולדות secondary commandments. In like manner the Gemara contains and employs all manner of halachot. But these halachot serve as precedents whereby the down stream generations can re-interpret\משנה תורה/ the original language of the Mishna viewed from a different perspective.
The tuma Yatzir within our hearts continuously seeks to worship the stars as Gods in their own existence! Hence the statute law codes made halachot from the Gemara into religious ritual observances in their own right. Later the commentaries written by the Reshonim placed upon a pedestal and worshipped. The rabbis preach the טיפש פשט parrot brained nonsense of ירידות הדורות but so conveniently ignore when the כסף משנה repudiates the הלכות גדולות.
משנה תורה — קידושין סוגיה ראשונה
An introduction to the Vilna Sha’s Bavli. This edition has two primary Reshonim commentators Rashi and the Baali Tosafot. Rashi functions as the dictionary. The grand-children of Rashi introduce Talmudic common law. The latter commentators decreed a נידוי ban upon the Rambam in 1232. Spinoza influenced by possibly either by Greek Stoicism philosophers like Heraclitus and Plotinus. Some pre-socratic philosophers, such as Anaximander, likewise expressed ideas akin to pantheism.
The Jewish community in Amsterdam made the decision to impose a cherem decree upon Benedict de Spinoza in 1656. Rationalist philosophy, developed by both Maimonides (Rambam, 1135-1204) and Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) utilized Greek philosophical concepts to shape their theological and philosophical views. The Rambam’s embraced the Muslim concept of a Universal God and rejected that only the 12 Tribes of Israel accepted the Torah at Sinai. This key Talmudic concept therefore understands HaShem as a local Tribal God. Spinoza, perhaps influenced by Hinduism – specifically Brahman – both express the view that God and Nature – Deus sive Natura. A Latin phrase that translates as “God or Nature.” Rambam’s emphasis on the unity of God paved the way for Spinoza’s conviction that the divine lives in all aspects of the universe, leading to his famous statement that “God or Nature” (Deus sive Natura).
The Talmud emphasizes that God’s essence simply beyond human understanding or comprehension. Akin to asking a frog to explain a word definition found in Webster’s dictionary. Speculating about God’s nature across the board, viewed as presumptuous or inappropriate – better that such a person – never even born.
Hence the Talmud interprets the language of the Torah: צדק צדק תרדוף as a limitation of faith restricted on the obligation of common law courts to impose fair compensation of damages. Prophets functioned as the police enforcers of Sanhedrin courtroom rulings which established Jewish common law within the borders of the oath sworn lands. By stark contrast Av tuma avoda zara employs rational theology as its fulcrum wherein it defines the nature of the Gods. The Nicene Council declared Trinity whereas Muhammad declared a strict Monotheism. Both this and that failed to comprehend that time oriented oath sworn commandment create מלאכים יש מאין תמיד מעשה בראשית.
גופא: The Vilna Shas, as expressed in the opening thesis statement establishes Rashi as a Webster’s dictionary and the Talmud as a common law commentary which interprets any given sugya of Gemara often through similar Case/Rule precedents located in other Gemara mesechtot. משנה תורה means “Common Law”. The Rambam did not know this basic fundamental. Rabbi Yechuda Ha’Nasi named his Mishna based upon the second Name given to the Book of דברים; the Mishna teaches common law judicial rulings made by Sanhedrin courtrooms. Statute law originates from authority figures; law imposed or decreed by some Legislature, Congress, or Parliaments qualify as statute law. Rambam’s code of halacha – statute law.
Its this fundamental distinction which forever separates Shabbat from Chol, common law from statute law. Hence in 1232 the rabbis of Paris agreed with the court of Rabbeinu Yonah in Spain to impose the ban of נידוי upon the person of Rambam. Nothing can altar the simple fact that Rambam’s halachic posok reflects statute law rather than common law. Just that simple. No fancy dance’n.
As a two-dimensional painting cannot accurately depict three dimensional life, so too and how much more so statute law cannot replace judicial common law rulings which strive to make fair restitution of damages inflicted. Statute law by stark contrast prioritizes religious ritual observances which requires no k’vanna. The restriction of Torah and Talmud to קום ועשה ושב ולא תעשה מצוות directly compares to a person who publicly profanes Shabbat in front of ten Torah observant men. Both time oriented commandments שבת וקידושין actively require a minyan; based upon the false oath sworn by the 10 spies which duplicated the floods which destroyed the generations of Noach and the Orthodox rabbis refusal to make aliyah to the Zionist Palestine British mandate in the 20s and 30s which thereafter witnessed the Shoah.
Cutting a Torah brit alliance – requires swearing a Torah oath, just as does observance of both Shabbat and קידושין. This basic fundamental, Orthodox Judaism today just as ignorant as Rambam’s failure to grasp the meaning of משנה תורה.
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כי יקחאיש אישה. ולא כתב (דברים כב) כי תקח אשה לאיש. מפני שדרכו של איש לחזר על אשה ואין דרכה של אשה לחזר על איש. משל לאדם שאבדה לו אבידה. מי חוזר על מי? בעל אבידה מחזר על אבידתו
Disciplined Talmudic scholarship requires making a precedent search for both the p’suk as well as the language of a גזרה שווה which links our Gemara to :נדה לא. Its these *asterisks, which quietly instruct how to learn a dof of Gemara practicing the Torah wisdom of common law. Notice, if you will the frequency that the Baali Tosafot likewise examine a sugya of Gemara by comparing it to these identical outside source precedents. Common law learns by means of making precedent study analysis. The Bavli employs these *astericks to other sugyot in the Sha’s Bavli. But once a person discerns the exact phrase of the Mishna which that sugya addresses, then likewise possible to make a Yerushalmi search. The two opposing Gemara frequently instruct conflicting ideas on the exact same subject. To make a Yerushalmi depth analysis, hands down far superior than relying merely upon Reshonim commentaries.
Rav Nemuraskii ז”ל he repeatedly emphasized to me the central importance of sugya integrity. He explained that each sugya of Gemara resembles to the structure of a sonnet or a thesis statement. This permits a scholar, for example – when the Baali Tosafot jump off the Dof, to establish a syllogism of fixed rigid logic: Opening vs Closing thesis statement and one din adjacent to the off the dof Baali Tosafot גזרה שווה precedent. The objective of this type of discipline in learning, to view the same identical idea from a completely different Mishna/Gemara perspective. Based upon the logical syllogism premise: if A & B accurate therefore the concluding proposition equally accurate. Standard syllogism deductive reasoning.
Rav Nemuraskii’s sh’itta of Talmudic learning easier to learn in practice than to describe it in theory. The יסוד of this Talmudic kabbala, sugya integrity across the Shas. This fixed point in all Talmudic literature permits down stream generations to learn any off the Dof sugya based upon the established principals that a syllogism comprised of three parts.
The statute law halachic codifications obliterated, in their pursuit of fixed religious ritual practices so as to simply Judaism’s faith in God – Talmudic sugya integrity. Furthermore, no judge in any Sanhedrin courtroom ever tried a case where “belief in God” shaped the outcome of the judgment! To permit personal beliefs in theology to determine the rule of law defines the לא תעשה מצוו not to accept a bribe. Justice addresses the issue of damages inflicted NOT a persons’ personal theological belief system.
The wisdom necessary to compare one Gemara sugya with a similar but different mesechta Gemara sugya distinguishes רמז\סוד logical diagonal which separates פרדס fluid inductive logic from syllogism rigid deductive logic; like the difference between Calculus variables vs. plane geometry proofs and algebraic equations. Dynamic vs. static mathematical reasoning.
The latter error compares to the Middle Ages wherein catholic/protestant priests or pastors would invade synagogues across Europe every Shabbat and force Jews to listen to their utterly despised and abhorred preaching attempts to convert us to convert and embrace their murderous Av tuma avoda zara religion(s). The church(s) imposed their evil ghetto gulags for 3 Centuries as a despicable expression of their perverted notions of justice. Post Shoah, NEVER AGAIN — Jews have sworn a solemn oath that Goyim shall not judge Jews in their corrupt courtrooms ever again — starting with the UN/ICJ or ICC/Rome treaty. Both institutions post Oct 7th 2023 have utterly destroyed their good name reputations.
The g’lut Yeshiva education system, even in ארץ ישראל, has yet to cast off the tuma klippa shells. In Kabbalistic mysticism, particularly as articulated by the Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria), the concept of klippot representative of the “shells” or “husks” that envelop and conceal the divine light. These shells are often associated with forces of evil and obstruction to spiritual elevation. Klippot are viewed as barriers that hinder spiritual enlightenment and individual connection to the divine. Just as a fruit’s shell may protect and hide its nourishment, klippot obscure the underlying divine light.
In Kabbalistic thought, the interplay between holiness and klippot illustrates the duality within creation. Klippot embody chaotic, destructive forces that can lead individuals away from divine consciousness and fulfillment. Encountering klippot understood as part of a spiritual journey. Overcoming these shells allows individuals to reclaim the divine light veiled within our Yatzir Ha’Tov; transforming tuma middot spirits from within our Yatzir Ha’Raw by remembering the oaths sworn by the Avot wherein their oath brit first created the chosen Cohen people.
Lurianic Kabbalah often categorizes klippot into different levels or types. The ‘Ten Klippot’ parallel the Sefirot (divine attributes), as taught through the kabbalah of the Zohar; a profound Reshon midrashic commentary to the Chumash. Published after the Pope and king of France publicly burned all the Talmudic hand written manuscripts in France in 1242. The ‘Ten Klippot’, according to the Talmud – they represent the mussar דרוש\פשט which remember the ten times the generation of the Wilderness, under the leadership of Moshe, Aaron and Mariam, denied our oath Sinai brit alliance.
This idea supports the משל, that each klippa serves to conceal the light associated with each corresponding Sefira. T’shuva does not spin around the central axis of regret, like it does in the religions of avoda zara. Rather, t’shuva – based upon Moshe reminding HaShem of the oath sworn to the Avot – spins around remembering the 3 oaths sworn by the Avot wherein each cut an oath brit alliance concerning the eternal life of the chosen Cohen people.
Just as the klippot conceal the divine light, statute law conceals the living precedent of the Oral Torah. Restoring sugya integrity – an act of tikkun—the peeling away of the husk to reveal the oath brit within common law itself.
The precedent for the 10 Sefirot, the עשרת הדבורות מסיני. The Reshon Zohor midrashic commentary, obviously influenced by the alien 10 commandment reading of the Xtian bible. The Talmud instructs that Israel only accepted the first two Sinai commandments prior to Israel demanding that Moshe rise up and receive the rest. Israel did not receive the rest of the Written and Oral Torah revelation until after Yom Kippur 40 days after the sin of the Golden Calf translation of the שם השם סיני רוח הקודש to the av tuma avoda zara word אלהים.
Limiting the initial revelation of Sinai restricted to only the first two commandments — utterly repudiates the av tuma avoda zara of both Xtianity and Islam. Neither ever once bring the שם השם first commandment Name. Islam’s strict monotheism violates the 2nd Sinai commandment; if only one God lives then no need for this commandment. Alas the false prophet Muhammad ignored all the NaCH prophets whose mussar condemned the worship of avoda zara by Israel – starting with Egypt under Par’o. The idea of some ONE Universal God, an avoda zara which defines the error of the Rambam’s statute law assimilation, completely denies that only Israel accepted the yoke of the kingdom of Heaven at Sinai; that only through observance of tohor time oriented commandments, which require prophetic mussar as their k’vanna, does the Torah brit continuously creates the chosen Cohen people יש מאין.
Shall follow the Order of precedents based upon our Gemara “outline”. Statute law reads the Gemara as a finished product. A fundamental error; a building – no matter how tall, regardless of the Rambam Yad or Karo בית יוסף – with a cracked foundation, must come down. The Tur collage of Reshonim opinions fails to discern between common law from statute law. The sloppy scholarship made by assimilated Reshonim produced the fruits of ירידות הדורות, no different than did king Shlomo’s Temple which replaced the establishment of Sanhedrin Federal common law courtrooms – based upon the din of the two prostitutes who compare to Moshe standing before the court of Par’o.
The Talmud serves merely as a outline which requires down stream generations to make a פרדס logic analysis. Each down stream scholar can logically compare the Talmudic outlined Case to his own theory of ideal precedents! The Vilna Shas is not a book but a courthouse. Rashi provides the language of testimony; Tosafot the case precedents; and the Gemara, the living motion of common law. Against this stands Rambam’s Yad — the first codified statute law to replace the covenantal courtroom with bureaucratic religious decree. The founding fathers of the American Republic separated Church from State in the first Amendment to their Constitution.
Talmudic analysis requires gopher work. דברים כב:יג located within the larger sugya כלל: כב:יג-יט. This sugya contains no שם השם מידה. Hence, by the way Rav Aaron taught me, the sugya כלל: כב:ה-יט. The opening sugya introduces: ולא ילבש גבר שמלת אשה כי תועבת. Our Gemara likewise makes distinctions between Men and women. The next sugya addresses the obligation to respect even the dignity of animals. The next sugya addresses the dignity of the land itself. The next sugya forbids working animals possessing different innate strengths together; this equally applies to fabrics from plant vs animal sources. The mitzva of tzitzit serves to confine the purpose of Torah commandments to protection of dignity and value.
Par’o crushed the dignity and value of g’lut Jewry stateless refugees, as did both the Church and Islam. Now within this context the intent of כי יקח איש אשה ובא אליה ושנאה ושם לה עלילת דברים והוצא עליה שם רע. Learning a Torah p’suk requires the discipline of reviewing that specific פרט as it understands the sugya כלל לשמה. The Chumash addresses how a fool can permanently destroy his good name reputation. Herein the Torah addresses the concept of יראת שמים.
Compare the mussar from בראשית ד:א והאדם ידע את חוה אשתו ותהר ותלד את קין ותאמר קניתי איש את השם. Why did HaShem reject the korban dedicated by Cain? Cain offered a barbeque unto Heaven. His brother, the chosen Cohen first born, dedicated יראת שמים as the k’vanna of his korban. A time oriented commandment, greater than a positive commandment. Upon this distinction did HaShem chose who qualified as the first born son of Adam. Fear of Heaven, it does not compare to the famous reflex impulse commercial: “Gee I could have had a V-8”. דכתיב: וינחם ה’ כי עשה את האדם בארץ ויתעצב אל לבו. Still another example of bruised dignity: ותאמר שרי אל אברם חמסי עליך אנכי נתתי שפחתי בחיקך ותרא כי הרתה ואקל בעיניה ישפט ה’ ביני וביניך. The mitzva of קידושין rests squarely upon a man building the dignity of his house. This applies to both wife and children. Just that simple. No fancy dance’n.
Weigh the kabbalah of שמואל א יד:א-ה. Jonathan developed a tuma midda of undermining the authority of his father. In the end, Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, his loyalty to David became suspicious following the Av Shalom revolt. Later, Solomon weighed the complexities, & remembered Jonathan’s love for David. He preserved Mephibosheth’s inheritance. This decision highlighted the importance of loyalty over-cast by suspicion, in a times of political anarchy and chaos.
The dynamics between King Shlomo, Mephibosheth, Ziba, (Mephibosheth’s servant), who undermined his master by claiming that Mephibosheth sought to take advantage of David’s troubles and aligned himself with Absalom; and Shimei, (Shlomo’s Talmudic instructor), illustrate the complexities of loyalty, authority, and familial relationships which prophetic mussar frames. It appears to me that our Gemara likewise addresses marital family relationships based upon similar complexities.
This type of in-depth analysis the statute law codes, and Reshonim commentaries simply do not address. Utterly absurd to make a study of the Talmud, divorced from the Primary Sources of the T’NaCH literature. Midrash functions “the” commentary of Talmudic Aggadic sources throughout the Sha’s. This basic fundamental the Yeshiva world today totally ignores.
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דתנן: המפלת ליום מ’ אינה חוששת לולד … וחכ”א אחד בריית הזכר ואחד בריית הנקבה — זה וזה מ”א. גמ. מסתברא טעמא דרבי ישמעאל דקמסייע ליה קראי קמ”ל. דרש רבי שמלאי למה הולד דומה במעי אמו לפנקס שמקופל ומונח ידיו על שתי צדעיו שתי אציליו על ב’ ארכובותיו וב’ עקביו על ב’ עגבוריו וראשו מונח לו בין ברכיו ופיו סתום וטבורו פתוח ואוכל ממה שאמו אוכלת ושותה ממה שאמו שותה
ואינו מוציא רעי שמא יהרוג את אמו
“As we have learned: A woman who gives birth on the fortieth day is not concerned about the fetus… And the sages say, whether it is a male infant or a female infant — both are significant.
Gemara: The reasoning of Rabbi Ishmael is evident, as it is supported by verses. Rabbi Shemalai interpreted: Why is the fetus in its mother’s womb compared to a folded notebook with its hands on both of its cheeks, its elbows on both of its knees, and its heels on both of its ankles? Its head is positioned between its knees, its mouth is sealed, and its navel is open. It eats from what its mother eats and drinks from what its mother drinks, and it does not release any waste, for fear that it might harm its mother.”
Clearly in matters of healing, the Talmud authority being Ages past time and Human knowledge have undermined. None the less, the issue raised by the Gemara runs parallel to the Book of Shmuel quoted previously. Learning T’NaCH precedents serve as the basis by which later generations understand the framers of the Talmud.
The second leg of our sugya syllogism: ומפני מה איש פניו למטה ואשה פניה למעלה כלפי האיש? זה ממקום שנברא וזו ממקום שנבראת. ופני מה האיש מקבל פיוס ואין אשה מקבלת פיוס. דכתיב: משלי יד:א–חכמות נשים בנתה ביתה ואולת בידיה תהרסנו. No one force king Shlomo to marry all his foreign wives! He alone bears full responsibility for his avoda zara עון. Its this pre-condition wherein he agreed to cut alliances with other goyim kingdoms, starting with Egypt. The wisdom of that alliance did not prevent king Shishak for conquering Jerusalem!
These two points establish the sh’itta line of learning this sugya. שאלו תלמידיו את רבי דוסתאי ברבי ינאי: מפני מה איש מחזר על אשה ואין אשה מחזרת על אש? משל לאדם שאבד לו אבידה. מי מחזר על מי? בעל אבידה מחזיר על אבידתו
These precedents weigh the dignity and worth of Man and woman as equal – straight from their inception and birth. Each exorcises different skill sets. But life depends equally upon the other. Therefore the idea of child rape as kosher – utterly repugnant. How did the Baali Tosafot address this question?
אי תנא קונה ה”א בע”כ. ואע”ג דתני האיש מקדש דמשמע בע”כ, היינו משום דכבר אשמועינו הכא דבע”כ לא יהא דקתני היבמה נקנית ולא קתני היבם קונה בע”כ. איידי דקתני האשה נקנית תני נמי סיפא, היבמה נקנית דנקנית משמע מדעתה
Therefore the Tosafot disputes the posok halacha made by the Rambam quoted earlier. Obviously this one case does not systematically refute statute halachic law straight across the board as treif. But king Shlomo forced his teacher to live within the borders of Jerusalem, and when he pursued to recover his lost ass, king Shlomo put him to death in accordance with his fathers’ wishes. Its absolutely essential to stand the Talmud upon the foundations of the T’NaCH literature. The g’lut Yeshiva education system today does not learn in this manner. Talmudic scholarship which fails to delve into prophetic mussar makes itself blind to the k’vanna of time oriented Torah commandments. Clearly, it seems to me, that a man pursues קידושין in order to build the dignity of his wife and family.
Dear Professor Falk,
The Israeli military is a tragic failure, entirely. Nobody is budging by any means with human progress until the Israeli army starts restoring some humanity among themselves.
How are they going to do that? How can they be brought about, restoring their own humanity to themselves?
What is happening in Israel now — a civilized time and age is worse than what was happening in Sparta and its totalitarian state.
I came accros this link, and this somewhat looks like a slight awareness of what is happening, which is gravely sad:
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Asylum – it is a crazy house that is run by the insanely inane.
Should humans who have the capacity to remain human be in a GRAVELY INHUMANE combat environment, be on ANTIPSYCHOTIC? MIND-AND- BRAIN-ALTERING substance.
That is very, very dangerous for a human existence and its continuation – and that for all who are involved.
International Laws and Warfare ethics do exist, and that is for the protection of all who are involved. But they do not want to see it in that way.
ICC has already removed war criminals from the battlefield – why are they not removed from the battlefield by everyone else?
This is why: Insane are running an Asylum among themselves and are trying to run everyone else with their inanity.
Those who have committed international war crimes and are continuing with it do need to be removed from the battlefield, at a minimum. That is a minimum that has to happen.
I personally do not hate them; I do not even dislike them (be shocked if you can with this fact),
However, what they did is horrific, and they will wish that humans hate and dislike them because they are in hate that is not coming from humans, but the Divinity of the Spirit that is among humans.
There are limitations to humans: they shall not kill another human.
Innocent blood is not forgiven by any means – and this is where the provisions of the Law/s would be effective so important so that everyone can continue with some humanity among themselves?
Provision of the International Law and War ethics is not effective because they are Anarchic and Lawless … because they have their own Laws among themselves? It is absurd what they have done and continue to do, in a diabolical interpretation of their own reality and of everyone’s reality.
I am not wrong about this.
What is done is done – it cannot be changed. It is past time for everybody. They did irrevocably evil things, and it is an eternal thing what they did to themselves, and among themself.
They are not processing their human reality in the correct way, nor can they.
I will mention that a priest said that it takes about 20 years for a human (human capacity) before they even try to process guilt that they may or may not have ended a human’s life, because they are not fully conscious of the fact. Mainly, it is suppressed.
This is a terrible reality for a human to be responsible for the clusters of mass-murders.
Professor Falk, I hope that insanity that is taking place can end soon for the sake of the most prosecuted in every way.
K.F.
Dear Professor Falk,
When it comes to Transgender individuals, we do not have enough biological studies to confirm the existence of both reproductive organs (at birth of the child), with the dual reproductive organs being somewhat 100% expression of human existence with the dual – reproductivism, which we do not understand. It is possible that children who somewhat more or less feel female or male in their biological existence could be, say, 40-80% of the expression of what their actual make-up is (as a whole person).
It is definitely a medical condition – or even a possible evolutionary adaptation to environmental threats of species extinction.
I am not close-minded; however, the castrato-conditioning of the girls and boys that they may have had sexual trauma in early childhood is horrific, and inhuman. It is violating and re-violating a suffering person.
It is definitely a medical condition, in every way – and someone with a strong and uncompromised mind has to look at those things.
Also, we all have to look and see how we do as humans must continue in our human continuation with the conditions of those who are most vulnerable and how they can — or cannot continue with all their jobs that they not only have capacity to do but are more than qualified to do – just as anybody else.
I do not like bigots who kick off individuals from their rightfully selected and earned careers within their own human ability just because they think that everyone’s biological-computers should be ticking, as their own –and the same way.
It is definitely a medical condition, and it seems to me it can be “medically discriminating and firing from jobs” in many cases.
They could be released for medical condition in some environments which require imputed discipline in every way — and order, but with honorable medical discharges and reasonable pays and medical settlements.
I personally do not like whores-fakking bigots who are gravely grandiose and are firing people who are truly committed to their calling left and right just because they think they can — and that without any consequence, at all. If they ever were in whore/s — they are IREVOCABLY DUMB.
Have reasons and even personal motives in order to be unconsciously stupid – without any reverence for anything is not OK.
K.F.
Justice Justice Pursue
The concept of Ancient Consciousness Engineering involves understanding how ancient cultures perceived and interacted with the divine, particularly through the art of building and construction. This perspective often highlights the spiritual and symbolic dimensions of architecture, emphasizing how structures reflect the consciousness and beliefs of the societies that created them.
Buildings often incorporated symbols that represented gods, myths, or cosmological theories. For instance, Egyptian temples were aligned with celestial bodies, reflecting the connection between the divine and the cosmic order. Structures like temples or pyramids were often seen as physical manifestations of divine plans, mirroring cosmic structures. The layout of cities and monuments was frequently designed to reflect mythological tales or the lives of deities.
The scale, orientation, and materials used in construction often reflected social hierarchies and religious beliefs. Larger, grander structures typically represented higher spiritual significance or authority. Temples like the Parthenon were dedicated to specific deities and were built to embody their attributes and myths, serving as a focal point for worship and community.
Shlomo’s reign occurred during a time of extensive interaction with neighboring cultures (the Goyim), whose worship practices involved building grand temples dedicated to their gods. This context shaped Solomon’s approach to architecture and spirituality. Shlomo deluged with foreign wives, starting with the daughter of Par’o. Many ancient cultures valued grand temple architecture as a reflection of their gods’ majesty. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Mesopotamians built magnificent structures to honor their deities.
His construction of the Temple was a pivotal ירידות הדורות moment for Judaism. The בית שני Talmud response to king Shlomo’s avoda zara which so dominated later generations, beginning with Ezra’s rebuilding of a 2nd Temple avoda zara abomination. The Talmud Bavli prioritized the בית המקדש not as a building of wood and stone. It interpreted the Torah construction of the Mishkan as only a משל.
The anointing of the house of David as Moshiach likewise a משל through which the prophet Shmuel interpreted its נמשל response to the rebellion of Israel against the Torah, the anointing first Shaul and later David as Moshiach! Based upon the prophetic mussar of the prophet Natan תוחקה mussar rebuke which he instructed both David and Shlomo. Natan saved Shlomo and his mother in the opening Book of Kings. רחבעם ignored the advise given by the elder advisors of Shlomo just as Shlomo did the exact same with the תוחקה mussar rebuke wherewith the prophet Natan commanded Shlomo not to build the בית המקדש but rather prioritize building the establishment of a Federal Sanhedrin common law court system; based upon the p’suk: צדק צדק תרדוף.
The Talmud comments on the consequences of avoda zara associated with Shlomo and later generations, emphasizing the need for prioritizing Courtroom common law justice over Pie in the Sky theological beliefs in Gods, associated with Shlomo and all later ירידות הדורות generations. Prophets like Natan admonished Shlomo regarding his actions, instructing him to focus on establishing a system of justice (Federal Sanhedrin) rather than solely on temple construction.
The anointing of David and later Shlomo as Moshiach reflects a broader narrative regarding leadership and adherence to Torah centered upon the pursuit of judicial justice based upon the memory of judicial injustice before the Court of Par’o and the מוסר תוחקה which Yitro rebuked Moshe immediately after Israel gained our National freedom from Par’o and Egypt. Israel came out of Egypt in accordance with the oath brit sworn to the Avot concerning the eternal inheritance of this land. HaShem brought Israel out of Egypt with the k’vanna that Israel would rule the land with righteous judicial justice – fair restitution of damages inflicted.
Xtianity and Islam, their av tuma avoda zarah prioritizes belief in God – just as does assimilated Rambam’s 13 essential beliefs! In point of fact, the Torah commands no belief in God or Gods. Its this distinction which separates the revelation of the Torah at Sinai from belief in av tuma avoda zara Gods – based upon Creeds, theologies or Angelic revelations! Therefore Prophets like Natan and all other prophets thereafter admonished Shlomo and all the kings of Yechuda and Israel – regarding their failure to prioritize judicial justice through common law courtrooms. The mussar תוחקה of all NaCH prophets therefore instructs both Shlomo and all generations of our Cohen people thereafter, to focus upon ruling the oath sworn lands of the chosen Cohen people with justice – Federal Sanhedrin – common law justice.
The prophetic mussar rebuke of Cain & Abel serves as the יסוד upon which stands the Torah revelation of the Mishkan with its required korbanot dedications. The central Torah theme: Who merits as the Chosen Cohen, initiated through the murder of Abel by his older brother following the korban dedications made by both sons of Adam HaReshon. Cain offered as his korban – a barbeque unto Heaven. Abel dedicated his korban to אל מלך נאמן – God the faithful King … Faith understood as meaning fair judicial justice. Hence the prophet Shmuel interpreted the נמשל mitzva of Moshiach based upon the משל mussar taught through the commandment of the Mishkan together with korbanot.
Moshe, the greatest of all Torah prophets commands prophetic mussar. Hence all other NaCH prophets – they too command mussar rebukes. Mussar defines all prophetic revelations recorded in the literature of the T’NaCH. Witchcraft and/or Goyim prophets like Bil’aam – their av tuma avoda zara predicts the future. The NT framers, they depicted their imaginary false messiah JeZeus as a person/God who fulfilled the words of the prophets. Hence the NT framers redefined T’NaCH prophets including Moshe Rabbeinu as witches because witches foretell the future.
C. S. Lewis, the moral coward, never denounced the church guilt for the Shoah. Lucy Maud Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for her classic novel Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. L.M. Montgomery passed away on April 24, 1942. Church’s silence during the Holocaust (Shoah), coupled with the Catholic Rat Lines that assisted Nazi War criminals to flee justice by hiding in S. American countries and the post WWII Polish pogroms! This has led to discussions about the responsibilities of faith leaders and the impact of moral cowardice in the face of atrocity. Lewis and Tolstoy both failed to address the war crimes committed by their people in their life times. Tolstoy failed to condemn the Czarist Pogroms of the 1880s and the secret police forgery: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
L.M. Montgomery, while primarily focused on themes of childhood and community in her novels, lived during a time that contained its own set of moral struggles, including the events of World War II. She never publicly condemned the 1938 pogrom: Night of Shattered Glass. The failure of figures like Lewis and Tolstoy to address grave injustices raises questions about moral courage and the obligations of public intellectuals. The Church’s silence and the concealment of war criminals spotlight the responsibilities of faith leaders in the face of atrocities.
C.S. Lewis labeled a “moral coward” for his silence regarding the Church’s role during the Holocaust. The lack of denunciation of institutional wrongs at a time when moral clarity was crucial exposed the truth of his moral spinelessness. Similarly, Leo Tolstoy’s inaction regarding the Czarist pogroms and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion reflects a pattern of moral evasion. L.M. Montgomery’s literary focus on childhood and personal growth didn’t typically address societal issues.
The silence of various Christian denominations during the Holocaust, specifically the Lutheran support for Hitler’s Nazism, coupled with actions like the Catholic Rat Lines, raises critical questions. The failure to confront and condemn atrocities reflects a broader moral cowardice among faith leaders. The concealment of Nazi war criminals illustrates a deep conflict between moral teachings and institutional actions. Pope Pius XII permitted the Nazis to murder the Jews of Rome. What is the responsibility of public intellectuals in speaking out against injustice? Should their focus include social or political obligations? How should churches and faith institutions hold themselves accountable for past inactions?
Authors and intellectuals are often perceived not just as commentators but as moral agents who can influence public opinion and action. Navigating the balance between personal beliefs and public responsibility poses complex ethical questions, particularly during times of upheaval. Religious and social institutions need to confront their past in order to guide future actions and regain credibility. Institutions must not only teach values of justice and ethics but also demonstrate commitment through action, particularly in contexts of societal injustice. These reflections challenge both individuals and organizations to consider the implications of their actions (or inactions) in the face of moral crises.
Did not write a commentary on the political content of the Obliviousness article. Rather my commentary transposes the structure of Obliviousness into a Torah-based, oath brit, judicial reading. The relationship works on the level of intent, not topic. As an Israeli my world completely different than an American perspective. The American society ruled by Power rather than justice. The Courts – utterly and totally corrupt. The contrast of Trump out of power and Trump as President – Night and Day different. The two assassination attempts and the political assassination of Charlie Kirk define the deep fractures of American political insanity.
Obliviousness — Society is falling apart because institutions have abandoned accountability.
Power replaces justice. Systems that should deliver fairness instead deliver corruption, secrecy, and self-serving elites. The public is deceived by structures that look like order (government, churches, media) but conceal rot. The consequences are systemic: shutdown, corruption, violence, failed leadership, manipulation of justice, tribalism. America exists as a nation on the verge of anarchy and collapse because justice – an utter joke. Obama Clinton and the Intelligence Agency heads have yet to stand trial for treason. Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Waters likewise have never stood trial for the charge of treason.
The Israeli Torah perspective: ancient kings abandoning צדק צדק תרדוף and falling into avoda zara. Oblivious shows what happens when a society replaces justice with spectacle, belief systems, and personality cults. While Justice Pursue argues that this likewise occurred under king Shlomo and Yeridas HaDorot of g’lut rabbinic Judaism which assimilated to Roman statute law and abandoned Torah as judicial common law. The Temple becomes a theological object (avoda zara) rather than a metaphor for judicial structures. Belief replaces courtroom justice. Theology replaces the oath alliance expressed through judicial common law. Power (kingship) replaces federal Sanhedrin.
My comment reads Oblivious as a modern example of the ancient pattern of civilizational decline caused by abandoning common-law justice. Elite corruption & hidden crimes (Epstein / Obama, Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Waters, CIA, FBI, NSA Heads). Shlomo’s foreign alliances, wives, temple grandeur → political rot → prophetic rebuke; Justice Pursue interprets this modern collapse as the same pattern the prophets condemned.
Citizens suffer because leaders reject accountability — Prophetic critique: kings of Yehuda rejected תוחקה and צדק. Just as Oblivious describes democratic institutions failing their people; Justice Pursue argues that ancient Israel fell for the same reason. Party loyalty and personality cults replace honest governance. Avoda zara: divine right of kings replaces common-law rank-and-file judicial authority – the foundation upon which the American Republic stands. Oblivious sees American politics becoming a cult of personality. Justice Pursue says: this is literally the biblical definition of avoda zara.
Collapse of public trust; no one believes institutions anymore. Natan the Prophet’s warnings: society cannot survive without justice. All NaCH prophets’ focus prioritized not theology/Democracy, but legal structure. The article Obliviousness – The same spiritual mistake that the Torah warns about. A society becomes idolatrous when it substitutes belief, symbols, or buildings for courtroom justice. America today Washington has replaced Justice. Oblivious replaces justice with conspiracy narratives, personality cults, theocratic rhetoric, media mythologies, spectacle politics.
Ancient Israel did the same when it replaced the federal Sanhedrin, mussar rebuke, case law with statute law, Temple fixations, kings, theological dogmas, Greek-style creed systems (Par’o, later Rambam’s 13 ikarim). There is no civilization without צדק צדק תרדוף. Therefore my commentary functions as the נמשל to Oblivious as the משל. All civilizations collapse when they abandon common-law justice for belief systems (avoda zara). Justice Pursue reveals the ancient consciousness engineering behind the pattern of national decline.
Everything you observe in modern America – the Oblivious Article – the same pattern that destroyed ancient Israel and every empire thereafter. It is the structural sin of replacing justice with belief, power, and symbols. Torah and prophecy diagnose the disease at its root.
Understanding how Chag Hanukkah a mitzva דאורייתא
Shabbat a זימן גרמא מצוה.
All time-oriented commandments require making a fundamental הבדלה which separates Av time-oriented commandments which require כוונה from toldot קום ועשה ושב ולא תעשה מצוות שלא צריך כוונה. להבדיל בין מלאכה מן עבודה
Am a yid attempting t’shuva after coming to Israel in 1991. Rejected the Rambam’s Sefer Ha’Mitzvot in favor of the B’HaG vision of Torah commandments. For a time-oriented commandment example: tefillah; Rambam’s introduction rejects the B’HaG’s order of mitzvot. Let’s focus upon his 5th positive commandment – tefillah. The B’HaG learns the opening Mishna of ברכות – that קריא שמע תפילה דאורייתא. The Rambam, based upon the criticism made by the RambaN, ruled that tefillah Shemone Esrei דאורייתא.
A fundamental error on par with his error concerning forced קידושין על ידי ביאה with a young minor child who lacks the mental maturity to understand the “k’vanna” of the time oriented mitzva of קידושין. This fundamental flaw in the Sefer Ha’Mitzvot which divides the תרי”ג מצוות into positive & negative commandments and ignores Av tohor time-oriented commandments an error that makes his scholarship totally treif. On par with his perversion of 4 part inductive logic פרדס – the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva, Yishmael, and Yossi Yossi Galili. Assimilated Rambam relied upon the 3 part deductive syllogism logic of Plato and Aristotle; Rambam blew out the lights of Hanukkah and caused the Jewish people a tragic ירידות הדורות, Israel forgot the Oral Torah as the Hanukkah blessing in the bencher testifies.
His statute law code utterly worthless when learning the Gemara. The example of the opening sugya of קידושין brings the common law precedents of etrog and כוי. To understand the limitations of the 3 ways a baal acquires a woman as a wife which do not apply to a young girl due to her lack of maturity – similar to etrog. Rambam’s statute law (assimilated to Roman statute law which organized law into categories), none of the super commentaries starting with the כסף משנה/Karo caught his fundamental error.
Talmudic common law (court-room judicial law) brings precedents (בניני אבות) which re-interpret (משנה תורה-common law) the intent of the language of the Mishna based upon a completely different perspective. Like the Front/Top\Side views of a blue-print permits the קבלן to construct a 3 dimensional building from a 2 dimensional blue-print. The Rambam erred when he ruled that ביאה achieves קידושין even in a young child who lacks the mental maturity to understand how a man who rapes her acquires her as his wife.
In short the halachic rulings made by this assimilated Jew utterly treif. In 1232 the Rabbis of Paris/Baali Tosafot agreed with the court of Rabbeinu Yonah in Spain and placed the ban of נידוי upon the Rambam. 10 years later the king of France together with the Pope decreed the burning of the Talmud in France. Rabbeinu Yona duplicated the error wherein the two warring brothers, Aristobulus II and Hyrcanus II, invited Roman general Pompey into the walls of Jerusalem to resolve their dynastic dispute. The Hasmonean kingdom fell without even a whimper. What a disgrace.
Unlike the Tzeddukim who lost the Hannukah Civil War, Karaite Rambam won the identical Civil War wherein Jews forgot the Oral Torah פרדס logic system; the Talmud compares to the warp\weft of a loom – halacha/aggada. דרוש ופשט affixed to the Aggada which makes a drosh onto T’NaCH prophetic mussar (T’NaCH like the Talmud a common law legalism); רמז וסוד weave prophetic mussar “p’shat” determining the k’vanna of halachic mitzvot. The B’HaG rules that raising mitzvot to Av tohor time-oriented commandments makes these rabbinic mitzvot into דאורייתא commandments.
This sh’itta of learning “acquired” from Rav Aaron Nemuraskii a talmid of rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv. Rabbi Nemuraskii did not teach this sh’itta of learning to his sons because he feared they would suffer isolation and disgrace. Rabbi Elyashiv did not teach this sh’itta to his sons Moshe and Binyamin, both of whom danced at my wedding, I suspect for the same exact reason. As a person attempting to remember the ways of my forefathers ie t’shuva, the risk of isolation and disgrace much more far removed.
Hanukkah clearly a post Torah rabbinic commandment. That’s if a person “shoe boxes” Torah commandments into Moshe commandments and post Moshe commandments as the Rambam did. This latter רשע totally assimilated like the Karaim and before them the Tzeddukim; all these religious sects or leaders believed and embraced as the Primary basis of their faith absolute trust and acceptance of ancient Greek Philosophy over the secondary Torah revelation at Sinai and Horev. The Rambam no different from those earlier/contemporary Jewish cults and/or sects who deny the Oral Torah revelation at Horev. Obviously this includes the writers of the New Testament.
Rabbi Akiva taught a kabbalah touching the Oral Torah revelation at Horev which defines it as a rational inductive reasoning logic system. Its known as the פרדס four part inductive comparison logic which measures Case/Rule cases to other previous judicial Case\Rule cases – precedents — בניני אבות. Judicial common law establishes law through courtroom rulings rather than cult of personality authority figures or legislative law. One of the central meanings of משנה תורה – Legislative Review.
The scholar known as the B’HaG, the last generation of the Talmudic scholars which preceded the Reshonim talmudic scholars. Gaonim 600 to 950CE. Reshonim 951- 1450 CE. The Rambam published his Yad Chazakah statute law halachic code in about 1185. In context, the Rabbeinu Tam – the leader of the common law Baali Tosafot French school of Talmudic scholarship – he died prior to the Rambam publishing his assimilated abomination code of halachic statute law.
The Book known as Sefer Ha’Mitzvot the Rambam wrote as an introduction to his puke Yad narishkeit. In that book he classified the 613 Torah commandments limited strictly to the language of the Written Torah; akin to how Orthodox Xtians interpret the Creation story of sefer בראשית. The Rambam rejected the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva’s 4 part פרדס inductive logic format in favor of Plato and Aristotles 3 part syllogism deductive logic philosophy.
The B’HaG preceded the Rambam by about 3 generations. As one of the last of the Gaonic school of Talmudic scholarship in Iraq, he too introduced his common law halachic codification הלכות גדולות, by first addressing Torah commandments. The B’HaG greatly influenced, even dominated the early Reshon – the Rif – and how he organized his common law halachic code. The Baali Tosafot approved of the court of Rabbeinu Yonah’s ban of נידוי upon this early Spinoza Rambam; in 1232 the rabbis in Paris place the ban of נידוי upon the Rambam. The Rif, two generations before the Rambam published his Greek/Roman statute law halachic perversion.
The B’HaG’s “sefer Ha’Mitzvot” unlike the assimilated puke Rambam’s travesty codification of the so called 613 Torah commandments, which froze these commandments into, so to speak, an ice tray having two rows: positive and negative commandments. The Rambam failed to grasp the Av priority of tohor time-oriented Torah commandments!
The B’HaG understood that if a T’NaCH\Talmudic scholar possessed the wisdom to elevate secondary commandments which do not require k’vanna to Av tohor time-oriented commandments which absolutely without exception require prophetic mussar as the k’vanna; then this special type of Av commandments possessed the power to make an aliya, to raise rabbinic commandments out of the din of g’lut, unto Torah commandments observed in ארץ ישראל in all future generation redeemed from the Torah curse of g’lut. This the “substance” rather than the “form” of Torah commandment observance has the power to raise rabbinic mitzvot unto Torah commandments.
The Rambam puke – being a totally assimilated Jew clung to Greek philosophy rather than a scholars of the kabbalah of rabbis Akiva, Yishmael, Yossi Ha’Gallilee – the great Tannaim (scholars who preceded Rabbi Yechuda’s codification of Great Sanhedrin judicial rulings known as the Mishna). This “rabbi” who betrayed the substance of Rabbinic Judaism – teachers of the Oral Torah revelation at Horev, who accepted the yoke of the kingdom of Heaven from the P’rushim – the Rambam’s complete and totally treif learning compares to the New Testament abomination.
In conclusion: All time-oriented mitzvot are Av tohor commandments. Av mitzvot require כוונה, and the כוונה defined by prophetic mussar, not by the mechanistic performance of the act. Toldot mitzvot (קום ועשה / שב ואל תעשה without kavanah) rely on the Av-mitzvah to give them meaning by functioning as precedents within the language of the Written Torah.
An example of elevating rabbinic to Torah commandments: Torah allows Sanhedrin to determine months — a human action becomes the Torah’s time. If a rabbinic commandment is aligned with an Av time-oriented mitzvah and framed through prophetic mussar, it ascends from din derabbanan to din d’oraita.
The Rambam’s code, which freezes Sinai into a dead text divorced from the living Sanhedrin. Chanukkah as a Torah commandment categorically rejects Hellenistic assimilation. The establishment of both Chag Purim and Chanukkah – an act of Sanhedrin court authority. Once Ḥanukkah attaches itself to the Av-mitzvah of Hoda’ah on national geulah, its status automatically becomes דאורייתא — not because its lights – ancient, but because its kavanah dedicates a Jew to only interpret the Written Torah through פרדס Av-tohor time-oriented commandments.
The Oral Torah functions as a common-law constitutional system (פרדס), NOT some Greek statute. A Torah obligation national oath brit commitment to pursue judicial justice within the borders of our Homeland, to make fair restitution of damages inflicted upon other. The substance and reason of the first Sinai commandment.
Romans 8:28 – And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Which God referred to? That’s the question. The NT never once refers to the שם השם revealed in the 1st Sinai commandment; the greatest commandment of the entire Torah. Therefore Romans 8:28 profanes the 2nd Sinai commandment and calls upon foreign alien Gods.
The theological Creed known as Nicene which created out of the blue a mysterious 3 in 1 Gods – completely and totally alien to the Torah revelation at Sinai. The substitution of a false messiah JeZeus which the NT theology replace the faith to pursue judicial justice in the lands of Conquered Canaan defines the Faith revealed in the 1st Sinai commandment. Goyim living in foreign lands have no connection what so ever with being brought out of slavery oppression and being brought into Canaan through victorious series of Wars.
The Oral Torah interprets the mitzva of Moshiach based upon the Torah precedent of Moshe anointing the House of Aaron as Moshiach. The Talmud refers to Penchas the grandson of Aaron called – Moshiach Milchamah. Hence Shmuel anointed first Shaul of the Tribe of Binyamin and later David of the Tribe of Yechuda. Any and all Jews can pick up the mantle of Moshiach.
Just as the House of Aaron anointed as Moshiach, meaning dedicated to pursuit righteous judicial justice among the Jewish people. So too and how much more so all other anointed Moshiahim – this mitzva not limited to one man but to the entire House of Israel, in all generations!!!
Monotheism not only violates the 2nd Sinai commandment, but it ignores the 10 plagues of Egypt concluded by the splitting of the Sea of Reeds — all of which judged the Gods of Egypt. The brit cut at Gilgal by the prophet Yehoshua prior to conquering 33 Canaanite kingdoms, that HaShem would judge the Gods of Canaan like as did HaShem judge the Gods of Egypt.
“”You Don’t beat a strong enemy by being stronger. You beat him by making him think incorrectly.”” Staff Sergeant Thomas Callahan
The decision made by the Rambam, and virtually all the Reshonim rabbis made famous through the false reference “the Golden Age of Spain”, almost all of these Reshonim rabbis thoroughly assimilated to Ancient Greek philosophy & deductive syllogism logic.
Abraham Ibn Ezra (c. 1089–1167), remains a towering figure in Spanish Reshonim scholarship of the Chumash and Talmud. A prominent Reshonim scholar, poet, and philosopher born in Spain. His son, Joseph Ibn Ezra, converted to Islam. This conversion quite common during that period of mass Jewish assimilation and intermarriage. Various factors, including economic, social, and political pressures, often influenced such decisions.
But by far the most damning influence upon Spanish Reshonim Jewry: the Muslim re-discovery of the concealed ancient Greek texts which produced a Jewish Civil War during the Syrian Greek Seleucid dynasty. During Ibn Ezra’s time, many Jews lived under Islamic rule, Islam reached the pinnacle of their empires’ cultural and social development. Islam dominated all fields of intellectual research. Their societal dynamics produced a culturally vibrant civilization which cast Europe as barbarian cave dwelling Neanderthals by comparison. The conversion of Ezra’s son exposed a complex emotional issue not only for Ibn Ezra, (challenging his beliefs, values, and the cultural identity he championed in his writings), but the Reshonim of Spain cast a light which casts the great Gaonim schools in Iraq into their shadows.
Following the death of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, founded by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander’s generals. The Greek Syrian empire encompassed a vast region stretching from modern-day Turkey and Greece in the northwest to parts of Persia and Pakistan in the east. This Greek dynasty, known for its blend of Greek and Eastern cultures; it promoted Hellenization in the regions it governed, encouraging the spread of Greek language, art, philosophy, and politics. The sycophant assimilated Tzeddukim sought to convert Jerusalem into a Greek City State. These Jewish traitors sought to replace the kabbalah explanation of the 13 tohor middot Oral Torah revelation at Horev made through rabbi Akiva’s פרדס inductive reasoning logic format with the deductive syllogism logic of Plato and Aristotle.
The Syrian Greeks relied upon sycophant assimilated Tzeddukim – who rejected the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev, and how much more so the kabbalah taught by rabbis Akiva, Yishmael, and Yossi Ha’Gallee; the Tzeddukim, and later Karaim assimilated Jews, the latter who at their height, fully half of all g’lut Jewry accepted and embraced their literal reading of the T’NaCH Primary sources; which view the T’NaCH as religious texts, rather than the P’rushim – who prioritized the Oral Torah as judicial common law courtroom justice.
Hanukkah marks the Jewish Civil War which pitted the assimilated Tzeddukim house of Aaron Cohonim against the P’rushim, who cut a political alliance with the Maccabees. The latter house of Aaron family, lead by Yechuda Maccabee, who died in the war – which defeated the Syrian Greek empire. And resulted in the birth to the Hasmonean Kingdom – 140 to 63 BCE. The 3rd Jewish kingdom prior to the birth of Muhammad and the Islamic movement.
The Muslim conquest of Spain in around 900CE, with mass publication of the lost Ancient Greek thoughts which do dominated the cultural life of the Maccabbees and the Hasmonean kingdom, once again ripped off the bandages of that Tzeddukim/P’rushim Civil War and exposed the Karaite/Rabbinic Civil War of the early Middle Ages. Publication of the Rambam’s Yad, for many Jews torn between the opposing doctrines taught by the Karaim vs. the Rabbis, this halachic code served as a Middle Ground compromise which effectively terminated the influence on a mass scale of the Karaim anti Talmudic theologies. The Rambam actually wrote that with his code, Jews no longer needed to consult with the Talmud!!!
A complete and total refutation of the corrupt United Nations and Arab “Palestinian people” rhetoric propaganda lies. Arabs learn to lie straight from their mothers’ tits.
Jewish civilization in Judea is structured by precedent-based covenantal law (Mishnah, Gemara, Midrash), whereas the Arab–Islamic civilization that rose centuries later developed a legislative-imperial legal order grounded in revelatory decree rather than common-law inductive precedent.
Let me lay out the contrast in a clean, scholarly way: Chronology: Jewish Legal Structures Long Precede the fictional revelation of the Koran.
Mishnah — codified 210 CE. Nearly four centuries before Muhammad’s birth (circa 570 CE). It represents the crystallization of a precedent-based courtroom common law tradition, rooted in the Hanukkah P’rushim, the courts of the Zugot and Tannaim.
Gemara — major redaction 450–500 CE (Bavli); 350–400 CE (Yerushalmi) Still two centuries before Islam and before any Caliphate. It represents the full flowering of T’NaCH common law, where sugyot rotate perspectives on a Mishna the way a court rotates angles or different witness perspectives of the same case heard before a Sanhedrin common law courtroom.
Midrash Rabbah — mostly 5th–7th century Final redactions contemporary with or slightly after the first Islamic century. But its roots, methods, and content—Tannaitic and Amoraic—long predating the Koran and the Abbasid empire. Therefore: the entire rabbinic legal system, fully developed in Judea before the Quran existed; and centuries before Iraq became the seat of the Abbasid Caliphate. No propaganda rhetoric polemic—this historical fact of published historical sequencing easily refutes historical revisionism promoted by the British French UN Resolution 242 Revisionist History slander and most foul lie. Russia and Poland occupy to this day the captured lands of Prussia conquered through War. Israel not a UN Protectorate territory; neither it nor any Security Council country determines the borders and Capital City of the Jewish Republic.
Nature of the Two Civilizational Legal Systems. Jewish Civilization in Judea a Brit-Based Common Law sh’itta methodology. Mishnah serves as the Sanhedrin constitutional blueprint mandate which establishes both Sanhedrin ‘Legislative Review’ lateral common law Federal courts and also Prophet police enforcers of Sanhedrin Court judicial rulings.
Terms of the national oath (brit), not statutory law. Based on: precedents, judicial פרדס reasoning which culminated in Sanhedrin Court rulings, inductive derashah, the 13 middot, Av vs. toldah structures, sugyot “rotating” the Mishnaic blueprint. It is a pre-legislative, pre-codified common-law legal system.
Gemara = common law NOT statute law; court argumentation NOT government legislative decrees. כלל: Aramaic appears where the sugya moves from av-level categories to derivative toldot mitzvot, like as in the specific case of חופה as taught in the 2nd sugya of the Av Mishna of קידושין.
Midrash Rabbah = narrative constitutional interpretation of Aggadic portions of the Talmud. Not legislation. Not revelation of new law; and definitely Not the 7 mitzvot Bnai Noach as codified by the Rambam statute halachic code. This Aggadic source from mesechta Sanhedrin refers strictly and only to gere toshav temporary Goyim living within the borders of Judea. The ethical-legal drosh of prophetic mussar which the Torah revelation of Sinai and Horev commands the chosen Cohen civilization to root itself in this Torah oath brit common law, never expressed through Aggadic sources within the Sha’s Talmud.
Chag Hanukkah directly opposes, and contrasted by Greek\Roman statute law like as expressed through the assimilated Rambam’s Yad statute halachic codification. The lights of Chanukkah – the dedication to only interpret the Written Torah through the revelation of פרדס inductive sh’itta logic. In short: Jewish law, the manifestation of the Sinai oath brit, precedent-driven, interpretive, judicial common law. Just that simple. No fancy Dance’n.
Arab Civilization Under Islam: Imperial Legislative Model: The Quran (7th century): Not a product of legal precedent or judicial debate. But rather a statutory revelation—a legislative text. The Caliphate (661–1258): Governed through – centralized rule, top-down decrees, juristic schools (madhahib) deriving law from Koran dictates; this alien system has absolutely no concept of precedent based and binding common law, no sugyanic rotation akin to the Bavli & Yerushalmi, no inductive logic\פרדס common-law systematic reasoning Oral Torah.
Abbasid Iraq (750–1258): Influence overwhelmingly by Persian and Greek statute law—The Abbasids adopted various aspects of Persian bureaucracy, culture, and administrative practices, along with elements from Greek philosophy and science. This period displaced Arab Meccan–Medinan tribal structures with: Hellenistic logic, centralized bureaucracy, canon-law style jurisprudence, philosophical reinterpretation of revelation, codified shari‘a. Thus: Islamic law – legislative-revelatory, not Judicial precedent-based courtroom rulings of law. It cannot be confused anymore than can Catholic dogmatism with Jewish “common law” in any T’NaCH or Talmudic sense.
Muhammad did not understand that Torah prophets – dependent upon Sanhedrin courts of common law. No Sanhedrin court of common law existed in the days of Muhammad. Nor did this foreign totally alien “wet-back” Goy understand that T’NaCH מלאכים/Angels created through the k’vanna of time-oriented Av tohor Torah commandments, based upon the entire Book of בראשית. The development of the Koran fraud occurred centuries AFTER Jewish law had already matured and developed through T’NaCH Siddur, Mishna, Gemara & Aggadah/Midrash.
Applying This to Kiddushin: The Sugya as Civilizational Evidence. This sugya of the Gemara of קידושין represents a complex, multi-tiered legal analysis. Mishnah (210 CE) sets structural categories. Gemara (pre-Islam) dissects exclusions and-or inclusions. (According to the sh’itta of rabbi Akiva’s Amendments of rabbinnic logical middot, this idea comes under the heading of רבוי מיעט). Aramaic appears only as a רמז of kabbalah derivative reasoning which includes: Av/toldah distinctions, in this specific Gemara of קידושין: Daʿat-based maturity requirements, Mishkan-based metaphors, Common-law inferences (דיוקים), בנין אב from multiple domains (מקדש → אוהל → חופה). All of this predates Islam.
A level of judicial sophistication absent from early Islamic jurisprudence. Early Islam knows:Command, prohibition, prophetic decrees Sunna, (which refers the traditional practices, teachings, and examples set by the Prophet Muhammad in Islam.), and analogy (qiyās). But not: sugyot, shakhla-vetarya, dialectical reversals, בנין אב, derashot, hermeneutic middot, multiple rotating interpretive vantage points, or common-law precedent formations found across the Talmud.
Midrash Rabbah’s chuppah metaphor—even if redacted during or after early Islam—rests entirely on pre-Islamic rabbinic traditions. Thus even the later Midrash stands on foundations far older than Islam. Chuppah as the “first house” (מדרש רבה) demonstrates a continuity of Jewish interpretive civilization rooted in the Mishkan.
This exposes a continuity that Islam never possessed in its own legal evolution. Before the Koran existed, the Jews had already built a fully functional common-law civilization in Judea — Mishnah, Gemara, hermeneutic middot, and the interpretive sovereignty that defines the Oral Torah. By contrast, the Arab-Islamic legal civilization arose centuries later, in a different land, with a different epistemology, and with no access to the Judean precedent-based oath-brit chosen Cohen people legal traditions. Therefore Muhammad lied when he declared that his revelation of the Koran – an extension of the T’NaCH prophets revelation based upon the Torah at Sinai.
Torah Common judicial courtroom common law shares no common denominator with Xtian avoda zara revisionist history theological rhetoric prophaganda & Statute law legislative dictates imposed by cult of personality dictators.
The circumstances surrounding the mythical birth JeZeus where the Father Zeus transformed a bastard child into the only begotten Son of God; the Torah commandment against adultery overshadowed by the birth of the only begotten son of Father Zeus. This mythical revisionist history work of pure Harry Potter fiction depicted as actual physical history qualifies as gross revisionist history and denial of T’NaCH prophetic mussar which does NOT teach history. Why? Because history a study of the past whereas prophetic mussar the application of prophetic rebuke within the Yatzir Ha’Tov of the hearts of Jews living today.
Prophetic mussar compares to seeds sown into the Earth to produce a crop. Mussar growth grows at its own pace & time inside the hearts of each and every individual Jew throughout the generations. History studies only impact knowledge held within the brain whereas prophetic mussar directly impacts the Yatzir Ha’Tov within the heart.
The camouflage fiction story of Mary’s conception of JeZeus by the Holy Spirit – Av tuma theological avoda zarah. Holy Spirit a direct reference to the Spirit Name revealed in 1st Sinai commandment which the NT totally ignores and perverts in the Name of JeZeus.
The birth of Hercules emphasizes Zeus’s authority and capability to transcend natural order, asserting his role as a god in human affairs. The JeZeus story actively depends upon the writings of the Apostle Paul whose letters preceded the publication of the much later Gospel works of fiction. The framers of the NT Protocols of the Elders of Zion forgery inverted the sequential Order; they introduce the Gospels – written after the letters of Paul! The Apostle Paul’s narrative of the “Fall of Adam and his banishment from the Garden of Eden serves as the first introduction of Fire and Brimstone, Mankind condemned to eternal hellfire and damnation till the birth of JeZeus who saves!
This demigod JeZeus messiah savior, the hero of NT mythology. Xtian theology steals and borrows much of its theological premises from the Ancient Greek Hero literature. The Torah’s commandment against adultery goes hand in glove with the Torah mitzva of kiddushin. The stark ignorance of the NT fraud forgery of these critical positive and negative Torah commandment definitively proves this Rome NT forgery as a functioning Protocols of the Elders of Zion Czar secret police fraud slander.
Torah common law instructs judicial courtroom jurisprudence – as expressed through the Talmud. The Church abomination publicly burned the Talmud because the Talmud categorically rejections Greek/Roman philosophy employed to shape and determine theological rhetoric propaganda narratives. The NT Harry Potter messiah story appeals to irrational emotions gut felt emotions rather than cold Talmudic inductive reasoning which compares a judicial case to other prior judicial case Courtroom ruling based upon the strict struction of inductive reasoning. The latter ordered Case/Rule comparison compared to similar but different Case/Rule judicial rulings directly compares to the strict structure that a sonnet requires. Obviously not in a literal 13 line since but rather as a משל\נמשל Par’o dreams and Yosef’s interpretations sense.