A follow-up on
Update
7... The
Attack.
Dear Tom,
The following is a write-up I have done which proves that the sources
used by the Hebrew Roots Movement
(Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash, etc.) evolved into and purvey the same
occult teachings as the Kabbalah/Zohar.
The Appendix to this report, provided by Vicky
Dillen, adds further documentation showing that these sources
are in total opposition to Scripture. These are facts of which
every follower of the Hebrew Roots view of
Christianity should be apprised, but all seem to be totally unaware.
I am so glad you are addressing this subject and will be glad to
share any information I have in the future. Let
us pray that the Holy Spirit will reveal to disciples of the H.R.
ministries the truths of Christian liberty
expressed in the book of Galatians and lead them out of this movement,
which otherwise will eventually deliver them into the dreadful bondage
of the Noahide Laws and the global Kabbalist/Freemasonic New World Order.
May God bless you,
Barb Aho
Watch Unto Prayer
timbarbaho@msn.com
http://watch.pair.com/pray.html
THE HEBRAIC ROOTS MOVEMENT
Peter Michas' essay "Is The New Testament Hebrew/Aramaic or Greek?"
maintains that the original Gospels were written in Hebrew and/or
Aramaic, translated into Greek and are therefore not reliable, especially
having passed through successive translations to the English New
Testament used by English speaking Christians
today. The solution to this problem, according to Michas,
is to turn to the O.T. and Jewish traditions to
determine the truth of the New Testament. Peter Michas advocates
reliance upon the Jewish Mishnah,
Haggadah, Halakah, Talmud and Midrash, along
with the Torah (first five books of the Old Testament),
as better commentaries on New Testament doctrine than the Greek
and English New Testaments themselves, which he claims are inferior
translations of the presumed Hebrew/Aramaic originals:
Is The New Testament Hebrew/Aramaic or Greek?
http://www.ezl.com/~peterm/HB.GK.RF.HTML
"In summation, since
existing New Testament manuscripts are Greek, written to express
Hebraic concepts, why be limited to the
Greek or English translations when we have Hebrew, now
a living language not very different than
it was 2000 years ago. The New Testament is in the
pattern of the Jewish traditional work
of Torah, Mishnah, Haggadah, Halakah, Talmud and
Midrash, but inspired
by God Himself for the common people. These Hebraic works as well as
the Inspired Scriptures were quoted from
by Jesus and all the writers of the New Testament. But
even now, to have full comprehension, we
must read the scriptures in the proper Hebraic context.
"Most all of the
Judaic writings have been preserved for us and now translated into proper
English directly from the Hebrew, as well
as explained in true Hebraic manner. Therefore, why not
go to this material and study ourselves
approved before God with full context and understanding?"
JEWISH OR OCCULT SOURCES?
Is the New Testament in the pattern of the Mishnah,
Haggadah, Halakah, Talmud and Midrash?
"Jewish traditional work" refers to the oral traditions that were
passed through generations as opposed to the
written Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament. The University
of Calgary website of Hebrew scholar, Eliezer Segal, Ph.D., indicates
that these oral traditions originated in ancient Babylon and were handed
through successive generations until they were compiled in the Kabbalah
during the third to twelfth centuries
A.D. or C.E., the Common Era. Some information about the Mishnah,
Haggadah, Halakah, Talmud and
Midrash, may be obtained from Dr. Segal's website, which is cited
in this report along with other authoritative
sources, to give the reader an overview of the origins, history
and nature of these sources.
[NOTE: Dr. Segal received his M.A. and Ph.D.
in the Talmud Dept. at Hebrew University. He is
the recipient of several scholarships and
grants in Talmud and Babylonian Midrash studies, has
taught the Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash and
Rabbinics, published books and articles on the
Babylonian Talmud, Midrash, and Haggadah.
Dr. Segal is a lecturer on "Jewish Mysticism,"
"Halakha, Holidays and History", "On Completing
the Babylonian Talmud," "Ecology and the
Environment: Halacha and Reality," "Burned,
Banned and Best Seller: The Talmud," "Joseph
and Osiris," and other subjects.
He has participated in a number of interfaith dialogues. On his
site is also found the full explanation
of The Ten Sefirot of the Kabbalah:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/
]
THE MISHNAH
The Mishnah is the early Talmud or the forerunner of the Talmud.
To the Mishnah the rabbis later added the
Gemara (rabbinical commentaries). Together these comprise the Talmud.
Scholars will claim that the Talmud
is partly a collection of oral traditions given by Moses which had
not yet been written down in Jesus' time.
However, Christ condemned the traditions of the Mishnah (early Talmud)
and the Scribes and Pharisees who
taught it, because their oral traditions contradicted the teachings
of Scripture. The dire warning of Jesus Christ regarding the traditions
of men which make null and void the Word of God (Mark 7:1-13) seems to
be a
reference to the Mishnah, which was later compiled (c. 200 A.D.)
by Rabbi Judah ben Simeon, who presided
over Judaism's supreme judiciary and legislative body, the Sanhedrin.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudMap/Mishnah.html#Term
"Mishnah can refer
in a general way to the full tradition of the Oral Torah, as formulated
by the
Rabbis in the first centuries of the Common
Era. These traditions could not be written down, but
had to be transmitted and learned by word
of mouth. This restriction was observed quite
scrupulously throughout the eras of the
Mishnah and Talmud.
"The Jewish sages
whose statements are quoted in the Mishnah are known as Tanna'im*
(singular: 'Tanna'), derived from the Aramaic
root related to the Hebrew 'ShNH.' The era in which
the Mishnah was developed is therefore
referred to as the 'Tanna'itic' era."
*IMPORTANT NOTE ON THE TANNA'IM
The Jewish sages referred to as Tanna'im
are, in fact, the high initiates of Kabbalah. THE
THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY of Mme. H.P. Blavatsky
shows the correlation between Tanaim
and Kabbalah:
"TANAIM (Heb.).
Jewish Initiates, very learned Kabbalists in ancient times. The
Talmud contains
sundry legends about them and gives the chief names of them."
"KABALIST.
>From Q B L H, Kabalah, an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist
is
a student
of 'secret science,' one who interprets hidden meaning of the Scriptures
with
the help
of the symbolical Kabala, and explains the real one by these means.
The
TANAIM were
the first kabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about
the beginning
of the third century before the Christian Era... This secret doctrine is
identical
with that of the Chaldeans, and includes at the same time much of the Persian
wisdom, or
'magic'." (caps added)
"KABALAH (Heb.)
The hidden wisdom of the Hebrew Rabbis of the middle ages
derived from
the secret doctrines concerning divine things and cosmogony, which were
combined
into a theology after the time of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon.
All the
works that
fall under the esoteric category are termed Kabbalistic..."
There appears to be disagreement as to when the oral traditions took
on a written form. However, Dr. Segal
confirms that the Mishnah was developed and disseminated from a
fixed body of teaching that originated in
ancient Babylon (Chaldea):
"Although there
are traditions in the Mishnah that claim to go back to the fifth century
B.C.E.
(the 'Great Assembly'; cf. Nehemiah 8-10),
as well as a few additions from as late as the mid-third
century, the main body of the Mishnah consists
of teachings attributed to authorites from about
the middle of the first century, through
to the second decade of the third century C.E. This time
period witnessed some major historical
turning-points for the Jewish nation, such as the
destruction of the Second Jerusalem Temple
in 70, and the catastrophic failure of the revolt
against Rome under the leadership of Simeon
bar Kokhba (or: bar Kuziba) in 135. Because the
Mishnah is a technical work of religious
law, these momentous historical events find almost no
explicit mention in the Mishnah, even though
the very composition of the Mishnah is often viewed
as a response to those very events...
"All ancient sources
are in agreement that the Mishnah was compiled by Rabbi Judah the
'Prince,' before his death around 217 C.E.
On the author see below. It should be emphasized
that--contrary to a view that appears in
many histories and introductions, and which is based on the
writings of medieval Spanish Jewish authorities
[ed: see Sephardic Jews below] --this redaction did
not involve writing down the traditions,
but merely the determining and organizing of a fixed text
that was subsequently disseminated by memory.
It is clear from the internal evidence of the
Talmud that the teachings of the Rabbis
continued to be studied orally throughout the Talmudic
era, and this continued to be the practice
in the Babylonian academies well into the middle ages...
"Rabbi Judah ben
Simeon bore the Hebrew title of 'Nasi,' signifying the position of Patriarch,
the official political representative of
the Jewish people. From an internal Jewish perspective, the
Nasi presided over Judaism's supreme judiciary
and legislative body, the Sanhedrin. The title had
become a hereditary one, almost without
interruption, since the days of the revered Hillel the
Elder in the first century B.C.E."
THE MISHNAH TORAH
The Jews of Spain who followed Babylonian rather than Palestinian
Jewish traditions were exiled to Sepharad,
from whence they have been credited with disseminating Cabalism
throughout Europe. [See Encarta and
Grolier's Encyclopedia entries on the Sephardim below] Amongst the
most important Jewish thinkers from the
Sephardic tradition was Moses Maimonides:
Continuation of Eliezer Segal, Ph.D., U.
of Calgary commentary:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudMap/Maimonides.html
"[Moses Maimonides]
lived from 1138 to 1204. He spent ten full years compiling the Mishneh
Torah, which he continued to revise throughout
his lifetime. Moses Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe
ben Maimon, usually referred to in Hebrew
by the acronym "RaMBa"M) was one of the towering
figures in medieval intellectual and religious
life. In addition to his law code, he excelled in the
fields of philosophy, science, medicine,
exegesis and communal leadership. Though born in Spain,
in his youth his family fled religious
persecution, settling in Egypt...
"Maimonides' Mishneh
Torah was intended to be a summary of the entire body of Jewish
religious law... It opens with a section
on systematic philosophical theology, derived largely from
Aristotelian science and metaphysics, which
it regards as the most important component of Jewish
law. Most other Jewish codes avoided mixing
creed and religious law; and Maimonides'
interpretation of Jewish religion in terms
of Greek ideas aroused much opposition."
In Chapter 10 of the English Translation, Maimonides' Mishnah Torah curses Jesus Christ:
"It is a mitzvah
[religious duty; ARC], however, to eradicate Jewish traitors, minnim, and
apikorsim, and to cause them to descend
to the pit of destruction, since they cause difficulty to the
Jews and sway the people away from God,
as did Jesus of Nazareth and his students, and
Tzadok, Baithos, and their students. May
the name of the wicked rot." (p. 184)
THE TALMUD
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudMap/Gemara.html
The Babylonian Talmud is a commentary on the Mishnah composed by
Babylonian Jewish sages (Ravs) from
the early third to the sixth century. A Jewish sage who was
from Babylonia would have been addressed by the
title, 'Rav,' while one who lived in Israel would have been called
'Rabbi.' One portion of the Talmud dealt with
folklore, especially magical and medical recipes. The following
statement, from TORAH TO KABBALAH by
R.C. Musaph-Andriesse, on the primacy of the Babylonian Talmud (T.B.)
is representative of Jewish
scholarship:
"There are two editions
of the Talmud, the Jerusalem Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud. Of
these two, the Babylonian Talmud is authoritative
for Orthodox Judaism, which regards it as
divinely inspired... The superiority of
the Babylonian Talmud is so great, that when people now
talk about the Talmud, they always mean
the Babylonian Talmud. The authority of the Babylonian
Talmud is also greater than that of the
Jerusalem Talmud. In cases of doubt the former is
decisive." (pg. 40, New York, Oxford University,
Press, 1982)
Quoting Joseph Barclay in SECRET SOCITIES & SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTS,
Nesta Webster has
exposed the virulent anti-Christ teachings of the Talmud:
"So also it was
the Rabbis who, after hiding from the people the meaning of the sacred
tradition
at the moment of its fulfillment, afterwards
poisoned that same stream for future generations.
Abominable calumnies on Christ and Christianity
are found not only in the Cabala but in the earlier
editions of the Talmud. In these, says
Barclay --
"Our Lord and Saviour
is 'that's one', 'such an one', 'a fool', 'the leper,' 'The deceiver of
Israel,'
etc. Efforts are made to prove that he
is the son of Joseph Pandira before his marriage with Mary.
His miracles are attributed to sorcery,
the secret of which He brought in a slit in His flesh out of
Egypt. He is said to have been first stoned
and then hanged on the eve of the Passover. His
disciples are called heretics and opprobrious
names. They are accused of immoral practices, and
the New Testament is called a sinful book.
The references to these subjects manifest the most
bitter aversion and hatred." [Joseph
Barclay, The Talmud, pp.38, 39; cf Drach, op. cit I.167]
(Omni Publications, 1964, p.18-19)
THE MIDRASH
The Tanna'im, the high initiates of Kabbalah, also compiled the Midrash:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudMap/Mishnah.html#Term
"In some contexts
'Mishnah' is contrasted with 'Midrash.' The latter term denotes Rabbinic
teachings that are attached to the text
of the Bible, whereas the former term refers to teachings
that are organized or formulated independently
of Scripture...
"The Mishnah was
clearly not designed to encompass the whole of the Oral Torah tradition.
The same Rabbis who contributed to it also
figured prominently in the Tannai'itic Midrashic
collections."
Rabbi Scheinerman's Magical Midrash page also identifies the Midrash
as the product of the Tannaitic
period:
http://ezra.mts.jhu.edu/~rabbiars/midrash/index.html
"In its classical sense, Midrash, which
has as its root the Hebrew word darash, meaning "to seek
out," refers to a body of rabbinic literature
made up of anthologies of biblical exegesis and
homilies dating from the tannaitic period
(70_200 c.e.) through to the Middle Ages. The most well
known anthology of midrashim is Midrash
Rabbah, which provides a running midrashic
commentary to the five books of the Torah,
as well as to the "five scrolls" (Esther, Ruth,
Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Song of
Songs).
The Encyclopedia Judaica defines this method: "Midrash (midrashim:plural)
-- 'The method of interpreting
scripture to elucidate legal points (midrash Halakkah) or to bring
out lessons by stories or homiletics (midrash
Aggadah). Also, the name for a collection of such rabbinic interpretations.'"
Nesta Webster's SECRET SOCIETIES adds:
"... the Jewish
Encyclopedia admits that Jewish legends concerning Jesus are found in the
Talmud and Midrash and in the life of Jesus
(Toledot Yeshu) that originated in the Middle Ages. It
is the tendency of all these sources to
belittle the person of Jesus by ascribing to Him illegitimate
birth, magic, and a shameful death. " [Jewish
Encyclopedia, article on Jesus]
The Midrash and midrashic interpretation tend to devalue the literal,
historical interpretation of Scripture in
favor of private, hidden and even mystical interpretations.
For example, Rabbi Scheinerman's Magical
Midrash page states:
"Midrash is subversive as it winds its way
between and around stern, stark, seemingly stagnant
texts. As Judith Plaskow has stated, 'Jews
have traditionally used midrash to broaden
or alter the meaning of texts' (in Davidman/Tenenbaum,
80). Midrash assumes that the
black letters of scripture as well as the
white spaces between them are holy; that the explicitly
stated as well as that which can be inferred
from the Bible can be manifestations of God's word.
Midrash is a kind of scriptural archaeology,
bidding us not to stop at surface appearances but to
dig down deeply into the text to uncover
hidden riches..."
Midrashic interpretations permit students of Scripture to explore
far beyond the safe boundaries of the sacred
canon. Apostates such as Unity minister, Rev. J. Ronald Jones, are
permitted nearly unlimited license using
midrashim to support their false teachings:
http://www.unityspokane.com/Ron/Midrash.html
"Midrash requires that anything to be venerated
in the present must be connected with sacred
moments of Jewish history. It is the accepted
way of incorporating timelessness, continuity, and
authority into a sacred narrative. Jesus'
life was thus connected to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses,
David, Daniel, Elijah, Elisha, '2 Isaiah,'
and others. The virgin birth story was made to mirror
earlier stories of Zoroaster and Romulus
and Remus; and the ascension story was made to mirror
earlier stories of the Buddha and Osiris...
"How does a text lose its historical focus?
The closing of the canon removes a collection of sacred
writings from the temporal process. No
subsequent event, world view, conventional wisdom, or
cultural value has the power to change
the canon. No new writings can be added. Quite the
opposite, new events must be interpreted
with the aid of the canon. The canon stands beyond Time
as a judge of temporal events.
"Both Jewish and liberal Christian communities
agree that the Bible as canon still permits
perpetual interpretation. They accept it
as normal that there can be an infinite variety of
interpretations all 'inspired' by the text.
The goal is to 'search out' the fullness of what was spoken
by God. It is only through a process of
dialogue within a community of faith that knowledge of
God's revelation grows and becomes the
Word of God for the present generation. Visotzky notes:
'There is no one common reading of Scripture
that everyone can agree with--and there never has
been.'6 When a community of faith insists
on a single, normative reading that everyone must
'swear to,' it is on the verge of death
as a vital community.
"As a methodology, Midrash tends to minimize
the authority of the wording of the
text. It places the focus on the reader,
and on the personal struggle of the reader to reach an
acceptable moral application of the text.
While it is always governed to some degree by the
wording of the text, it allows the reader
to project his or her inner struggle into the text. This
allows for some very powerful and moving
interpretations which, to the ordinary user of language,
can seem to have very little connection
with the text. The great weakness of this method is that it
always threatens to replace the text with
an outpouring of personal reflection. At its best it
requires the presence of mystical insight
not given to all readers."
THE HAGGADAH
Technically, "the Haggada(h)" is a liturgical manual used in the
Jewish Passover Seder. The information on
this web site indicates that it was also developed by the Ravs in
Babylonia in the Middle ages. These are not
ancient documents, but were developed during the same period as
the Kabbalah.
The History of the Haggadah
http://www.ohr.org.il/special/pesach/hagghist.htm
"The word Haggadah
comes from the Torah command - 'And you shall tell (v'Higadeta) your
children on that day...' Although the minimal
fulfillment of this mitzvah is a simple recounting of the
going out of Egypt and explaining a few
of the Pesach symbols, proper fulfillment requires much
more.
"Over the centuries
additions have been made to the Haggadah to enhance this mitzvah. Many
of these additions gained such wide acceptance
that they became part of the Haggadah. One of
those additions is the Chad Gadya. Another
is 'Dayeinu.' Rav Saadia Gaon (882 CE - 942 CE)
included neither in his Haggadah, although
he did recognize the existence of Dayeinu. Neither
Rashi (1040-1105) nor Maimonides (1135-1204)
included Chad Gadya in their versions of the
Haggadah, although Rashi did include Dayeinu...
"The metamorphosis
of the Haggadah concluded in the late middle ages, aided by the invention
of the Printing Press, which enabled the
basic Ashkenazic version which had been endorsed by the
Ari z'l to be accepted even in Sephardic
communities. The text is based upon the Haggadah of Rav
Amram Gaon, who headed the Babylonian Yeshiva
of Sura between 856-876 CE. This text was
endorsed by Rashi. Rav Amram's Haggadah
concluded with the after blessing on the fourth cup of
wine. It did not include 'Chasal Siddur
Pesach'."
The Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities represent two mystical traditions
that have developed within
Judaism. This explains why an Haggadah is found on the New
Age Sirius Community web site which displays
the Sephiroth - Tree of Life (path of occult initiation) and a link
to The Way of the Kabbalah -
http://www.sirius.com/~ovid/haggadah.html
Essential to a study of the Kabbalist traditions is historical background
on the origins and theology of both
communities. Ashkenazic Jews originated in France, Germany,
and Eastern Europe. Sephardic Jews lived in
Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East. The ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF RELIGION describes
Ashkenazik Hasidism, which emerged from Germany in the late 12th
C., as a form of Jewish mysticism.
ASHKENAZIK HASIDIM
"The German-Jewish
pietists built their own understanding of hasid, or 'pietist,' upon the
cumulative foundation of earlier meanings
but moved in new directions as well. Their worldview
was grounded in the idea that God's will
is only partial revealed in the words of the Pentateuch, or
the Torah, given to the prophet Moses at
Mount Sinai. God's will requires of the truly faithful and
punctilious Jew, that is, of the hasid,
a search for a hidden and infinitely demanding additional
torah, which God encoded in the words of
scripture...
"Along with Maimonidean
religious philosophy, theosophical mysticism, or Qabbalah, and the
scholastic legal achievement of the glossators
of the Talmud, German-Jewish pietism permanently
reshaped classical Judaism into traditional
Judaism, which lasted down to the modern
period...Their writings about manipulating
the divine name in the form of permutations of the
Hebrew alphabet to achieve mystical and
magical goal, decidedly influenced later Jewish
mysticism in Spain." (Vol. I, p. 458)
SEPHARDIC JEWS
The Sephardic Jews are descendants of the large Jewish community living in Spain and Portugal in the Middle Ages. In 1391, under the Papal Inquisition, there was a massacre of thousands of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula. The Sephardic Jews have been credited with disseminating Cabalism throughout Europe, after they were forcibly expelled by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492. The Urantia Book Fellowship notes: "The greatest figure in Spanish Judaism was the philosopher, talmudist, and physician, Maimonides (1135-1204). He attempted to harmonize Judaism with the philosophy of Aristotle."
The Encarta Concise Encyclopedia entry "Cabala" identifies its origins in Spain and France:
"Cabala, generically,
Jewish mysticism in all its forms; specifically, the esoteric theosophy
that
crystallized in 13th-century Spain and
Provence, France, around Sefer Ha-Zohar (The Book of
Splendor), referred to as the Zohar. Cabala's
roots are in Hellenistic astral mysticism, in which the
adept, through meditation and the use of
magic formulas, journeys ecstatically through and beyond
the seven astral spheres. Medieval Spanish
Cabala, the most important form of Jewish mysticism,
is more concerned with esoteric knowledge
about the nature of the divine world and its hidden
connections with the world of creation.
"According to the
Zohar, above and beyond all human contemplation is God as he is in himself,
the unknowable, immutable En Sof (Infinite).
Zoharic theosophy concentrates on ten sefirot
(realms or planes) as symbols of the inner
life and processes of the Godhead. Because they are
also archetypes for everything in the world
of creation, understanding their workings can
illuminate the inner workings of the cosmos
and of history. This cosmic aspect was dramatically
developed in 16th-century Lurianic Cabala,
which arose in response to the cataclysmic experience
of Jewish exiles expelled from Iberia in
the 1490s, and which projected that experience onto the
divine world."
The extent of the dispersion is documented by Groliers' Encyclopedia,
which also confirms the Sephardim as
followers of the occult traditions of ancient Babylon:
"The Sephardim are
those Jews who follow the liturgy and customs developed by the Jews of
medieval Spain and Portugal. The name comes
from Sepharad, a place of exile mentioned in
Obadiah 20 and early identified with Iberia.
Unlike the Ashkenazim, those Jews who settled in
German lands, the Sephardim followed Babylonian
rather than Palestinian Jewish traditions. They
also developed their own language, Ladino,
or Judeo-Spanish, a blend of medieval Castilian,
Hebrew, Arabic, and other elements. There
is a considerable body of Ladino literature.
"After the expulsion
of the Jews from Spain (1492) and Portugal (1497) many Sephardim formed
communities in the lands of the Ottoman
Empire--the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Others remained in Iberia, nominally converting
to Christianity. Vilified as Marranos ('pigs'), they
were subject to continuing persecution,
and most eventually left to form communities in
northwestern Europe--Amsterdam became a
particularly important center. Sephardic traditions
were largely adopted by local Jewish groups
in the Middle East and North Africa; hence, today the
term Sephardim is loosely applied to all
Jews native to those areas. Among important Jewish
thinkers from the Sephardic tradition are
Solomon ibn Gabirol, Moses Maimonides, and Baruch
Spinoza."
THE NOAHIDE LAWS
Presently, there is a vast movement afoot with many points of entry
(Lubavitcher Movement, Nazarene
Movement, Hebraic Roots/Messianic Movement, Latter Rain/Roman Catholic
Year of Jubilee) to bring all of
mankind under the Law. These trendy movements to adopt the
customs and feasts of the Mosaic Covenant
are effectively laying the groundwork to mobilize the Church for
Jay Gary's call to "experience the Jubilee"
Year in AD 2000 and be "reconciled to our spiritual roots." Jay
Gary wrote in THE STAR OF 2000:
"The annual calendar
of Israel was built around three major festivals: Passover, Pentecost and
Tabernacles... The Year of Jubilee encompassed
these three festivals, only raised to a higher
power ...Then, as well as today, Jesus
calls us to experience His jubilee... It's time to blow the
ancient trumpet. It's time to be reconciled
to our spiritual roots." (pp. 84, 85)
This massive movement also seems to be leading toward the global
establishment of the Noahide Laws
(already U.S. law), for which disobedience the penalty is beheading
(Rev. 20:4) THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
JUDIASM lists these seven universal laws and indicates their binding
nature on all Gentiles:
"Full-page ads in
the New York Times and other newspapers have proclaimed: ‘All nations of
the world: Fulfill the 7 universal Noahide
Laws given to you in the Torah of Moses.’... One
additional element of greater severity
is that violation of any one of the seven laws subjects the
Noahide to capital punishment by decapitation.
(Sanh. 57A)"
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JUDAISM identifies the Babylonian Talmud (T.B.)
as the source of "The
Noachide Laws."
"According to Maimonides,
acceptance -- on the basis of the Bible -- of the seven universal
precepts means that any such righteous
Gentile is numbered with 'the pious ones among the
nations of the world...deserving a share
in the world to come' (Tosef. Sanh 13.2)
(1) Civil justice [the duty to establish
a legal system];
(2) Prohibition of blasphemy [which
includes the bearing of false witness];
(3) The abandonment of idolatry;
(4) The prohibition of incest [including
adultery and other sexual offenses];
(5) The prohibition of murder;
(6) Also that of theft;
(7) The law against eating flesh
[a limb] cut from a living animal [ie., cruelty in any shape or form]
(T.B. Sanh. 56A)
Hebrew scholar, Eliezer Segal, documents that the Babylonian Talmud
(T.B.) is a commentary on the Mishnah
composed by Babylonian Jewish sages (Ravs) from the early third
to the sixth century. Although it is claimed
by the Lubavitch, Nazarene and Hebraic Roots Movements that the
source of the 7 Noahide Laws is the
Torah (Genesis-Deuteronomy), it is apparent that Talmud and Mishnah
are derived from occult traditions that
contradicted and nullifed the teaching of Scripture.
The following appendix cites ample material from Nesta Webster's
SECRET SOCIETIES and other resources which demonstrate the occult
character of the Jewish sources relied upon by the Lubavitch
and Nazarene
Movements and, their pseudo-Christian counterpart,
the Hebraic Roots Movement.
APPENDIX
SECRET SOCIETIES & SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTS, Nesta H. Webster, Omni Publications, 1964.
P.6. Re: Oral Tradition:Talmud:Cabala
"According to Fabre d'Olivet, Moses, who 'was learned all the wisdom
of the Egyptians' drew from the
Egyptian mysteries a part of the oral tradition which was handed
down through the leaders of the Israelites.
"That such an oral tradition, distinct from the written word embodied
in the Pentateuch, did descend from
Moses and that it was later committed to writing in the Talmud and
the Cabala is the opinion of many Jewish
writers." [According to the Jewish view God had given Moses on Mt.
Sinai alike the oral and the written Law,
that is, the Law with all its interpretations and applications"
--Alfred Edersheim]
P.9... Re: Zohar:Talmud:Cabala
"The fact is that the main ideas of the Zohar find confirmation in
the Talmud. As the Jewish Encyclopedia
observes, 'the Cabala, is not really in opposition to the Talmud,'
and "many Talmudic Jews have supported
and contributed to it." Adolphe Franch does not hesitate to describe
it as "the heart and life of Judaism."
"The greater number of the most eminent rabbis of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries believed firmly
in the sacredness of the Zohar and of the infallibility of it's
teaching" ( Jewish Encyclopedia, article on Cabala)
P. 8. Re: Cabala--book 1--Sepher Yetzirah
. . . "says that its date has been placed as early as the sixth century
before Christ and as late as the tenth
century A.D., but that it is at any rate older than the Talmud is
shown by the fact that in the Talmud the Rabbis are described as
studying it for magical purposes. Sepher Yetzirah is also said to be the
work referred to in the Koran under the name of the "Book of Abraham".
P.8. Re: Cabala--book 2--Sepher-Ha-Zohar (Zohar)
. . . "Of the immense compilation known as the Sepher-Ha- Zohar,
Book of Light, is ... of greater importance of Cabalistic philosophy.
According to the Zohar itself, the 'Mysteries of Wisdom' were imparted
to Adam by God whilst he was still in the Garden of Eden, in the
form of a book delivered by the angel Razael. From Adam the
book passed to Seth ... Enoch... Noah ... Abraham, and later to
Moses, one of its principal exponents. Other
Jewish writers declare... that Moses received it ... first time
on Mt. Sinai. . . to the Seventy Elders. . . to David
and Solomon...Ezra...Nehemiah and finally to the Rabbis of the early
Christian era"
P.18-19 Re: Christ:Talmud:Cabala
"So also it was the Rabbis who, after hiding from
the people the meaning of the sacred tradition at the
moment of its fulfillment, afterwards poisoned that same stream
for future generations. Abominable calumnies
on Christ and Christianity found not only in the Cabala but in the
earlier editions of the Talmud. In these, says
Barclay -
"Our Lord and Saviour is 'that's one', 'such
an one', 'a fool', 'the leper,' 'The deceiver of Israel,' etc. Efforts
are made to prove that he is the son of Joseph Pandira before his
marriage with Mary. His miracles are
attributed to sorcery, the secret of which He brought in a slit
in His flesh out of Egypt. He is said to have been
first stoned and then hanged on the eve of the Passover. His disciples
are called heretics and opprobrius
names. They are accused of immoral practices, and the New Testament
is called a sinful book. The references
to these subjects manifest the most bitter aversion and hatred.
" [Joseph Barclay, The Talmud, pp.38, 39; cf
Drach, op. cit I.167]
P. 20 Re: Cabala: Talmud: Christ:
"... the Jewish Encyclopedia admits that Jewish legends concerning
Jesus are found in the Talmud and
Midrash and in " the life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) that originated
in the Middle Ages. It is the tendency of all
these sources to belittle the person of Jesus by ascribing to Him
illegitimate birth, magic, and a shameful
death. " [Jewish Encyclopedia, article on Jesus]
P. 8 Re: Cabal sources/origins
"...Until this date the Zohar had remained a purely oral tradition
... written down by the disciples of Simon ben
Jochai. The Talmud relates that for 12 years the Rabbi Simon and
his son Eliezer concealed themselves in a
cavern, where sitting in the sand up to their necks, they meditated
on the sacred law and were frequently
visited by the prophet Elias. In this way, Jewish legend adds, the
great book of the Zohar was composed and
committed to writing by the Rabbis' son Eliezer and his secretary
Rabbi Abba."
P. 23 re: Cabala: Talmud: Christ: Essenes
"... A subtler device for discrediting Christianity and undermining
belief in the divine character of our Lord has been adopted ...
who set out to prove that He belonged to the sect of the Essenes, ... Thus
Jewish historian
Graetz declares that Jesus simply appropriated to himself the essential
features of Essenism... So after
representing Christ as a magician in the Toledot Yeshu and the Talmud,
Jewish traditions seeks to explain His
miraculous works as those of a mere healer - an idea that we shall
find descending right through the secrets of
societies to this day ... if of the miracles of Christ were simply
due to a knowledge of natural laws and His
doctrines were the outcome of a sect, the whole theory of His divine
power and mission falls to the ground ..."
P. 299 re: Blavatsky: Talmud: Christ
"... Madam Blavatsky's writings, on the person
of Christ, ... 'For me, Jesus Christ, that is to say the
Man-God of the Christians, copy of the Avatars of all countries,
of the Hindu Chrishna as of the Egyptian
Horus, was never a historical personage.' Hence the story of His
life was merely an allegory founded on the
existence of the "a personage named Jehoshua born at Lud." But elsewhere
she asserted that Jesus may
have lived during the Christian era or a century earlier 'as the
Sepher Toldoth Jehoshua indicates.' And
Madame Blavatsky went on to say of the savants who deny the historical
value of this legend, that they --
"...either lie or talk nonsense. Is our Masters
who affirms it. If the history of Jehoshua or Jesus Ben
Pandera is false, then the whole of the Talmud, the whole of the
Jewish canon law, is false. It was the disciple
of Jehoshua ben Parachai, the fifth President of the Sanhedrin since
Ezra, who re-wrote the Bible. ...This story
is much truer than that of the New Testament, of which history does
not say a word."
P. 21 Re: Cabala: Talmud: and the Toledot Yeshu--referring to Christ
NOTE: Another name for Toledot Yeshu is Sepher Toldoth Jehoshua(Zohar)
"...the Toledot Yeshu relates with the most indecent details that
Miriam, a hairdresser of
Bethlehem,(4)affianced to a young man named Jochanan, was seduced
by a libertine, Joseph Panther or
Pandira, and gave birth to a son whom she named Johosuah or Jeschu.
According to the Talmudic authors of
the Sota and the Sanhedrim, Jeschu was taken during his boyhood
to Egypt, where he was initiated into the
secrets doctrines of the priests, and on his return to Palestine
gave himself up to the practice of magic.(5) The
Toledot Yeshu, however, goes on to say that on reaching manhood,
Jeschu learnt the secret of his illegitimacy,
on account of which he was driven out of the Synagogue and took
refuge for a time in Galilee. Now, there was
in the Temple a stone on which was engraved the Tetragrammaton or
Schem Hamphorasch, that is to say, the
Ineffable Name of God; this stone had been found by King David when
the foundations of the Temple were
being prepared and was deposited by him in the Holy of Holies. Jeschu,
knowing this, came from Galilee and,
penetrating into the Holy of Holies, read the Ineffable name, which
he transcribed on to a piece of whom
parchment and concealed in an incision under his skin. By this means
he was able to work miracles and to
persuade the people that he was the son of God foretold by Isaiah.
With the aid of Judas, the Sages of the
Synagogue, succeeding in capturing Jeschu, who was then lead before
the Great and Little Sanhedrin, by whom he was condemned to be stoned
to death and finally hanged" Such is the story of Christ according to the
Jewish Kabbalists ..."
Footnotes:
(4) cf. Baring -Gould, op.cit., quoting Talmud, treatise Sabbath,
folio 104,
(S. Baring-Gould, The Counter Gospels, 1874)
(5) Ibid.,p.55, quoting Talmud, treatise Sahhedrim,folio 107, and
Sota,
folio 47; Eliphas Levi, La Science des Esprits, pp.32,33
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For more information on the Noahide Laws:
Kabbalist Chabad-Lubavitch in Cyberspace
http://www.chabad.org/gopher/outlook/7laws/7laws.004.htm
The Lubavitch Movement
http://watch.pair.com/law.html
For more information on exposing the HRM:
End Time Ministries
http://www.cth.com.au/corp/despatch/Israel_Tishrei.html
http://www.cth.com.au/corp/despatch/vol83_questions.html
Cross and Word
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