As we approach Easter and the Resurrection of Christ, the media is filled with bizarre propaganda claiming the day was hijacked from pagan rituals.. There are three schools of thought: 1. The Christian designation was formed via the Latin world albis, the plural form of alba meaning ‘dawn’ which became eostarum in Old German. 2. Another theory is that Easter came from the goddess of spring and fertility, Eostrae. 3. Ishtar was the goddess of fertility and sex during the times of Babylonia and Assyria.
Eostrae and Ishtar are essentially the same legend created by atheists to usurp Christianity.
The basis for the pagan derivative is found in the writings of an 8th century monk known as Venerable Bede, who reported that pagan Anglo-Saxons in medieval Northumbria held festivals in her honor during the month of April. Other than this text, there is little to no knowledge of how she was honored by the Pagans, or whether Eostre was really worshipped as a goddess or not. In fact, Historians have debated whether she ever actually existed or was simply a myth that arose centuries later.
But the controversy has created a chasm.
The origins of the myth itself became muddled in modern pagan/atheist declarations proclaiming Eostre was an evil corrupter who was bespoiled in all realms of orgy and death and tortuous incantations. Whereas the original myth was simple German folklore wherein fertility was symbolic of bunnies and eggs were symbolic of life. The Equinox as the advent of Spring was also symbolic for its renewal as winter recedes and blossoms begin their bloom. There really is no point in attempting to explain the evolution of colored eggs any more than there is of Christmas trees. Stay focused.
Some Christians have chosen to believe the myth and refuse to celebrate Easter at all because of this schism. But there is absolutely no written evidence of the Goddess story, it is born of atheists.
Choosing a date to celebrate Easter, was finalized in the 8th century via the Pascal Controversies. The purpose was to allow the Jewish Passover to remain a singular religious holiday instead of an overlap with the Christian Easter. There was no discussion of pagan mythology.
Embracing this pagan lore, President Biden, a stated Catholic, has declared that Easter is no longer Christian and has been renamed “Transgender Day of Visibility” embracing pagan rituals. Obviously, Zionist Jews do not celebrate Easter given they shun Christ’s existence. Therefore, it is quite possible that the White House Handlers manipulating Biden have Zionist blood.
When choosing which history to believe, the exact date of Christs ascension is really not the point – we have free will to believe and support what belongs to the Christian religion. The point is not a day marked on a calendar, the point is Christ ascended into Heaven and a unified date for all Christians to celebrate was proclaimed.
According to the Jewish Talmud, Mary was a prostitute, Jesus was a bastard, and anyone who believes otherwise is a heretic. Jewish eschatology, holds that the coming of the true Messiah will be associated with events that have not yet occurred, such as the rebuilding of The Temple, a Messianic Age of peace, and the ingathering of Jews to their homeland. Secular Netanyahu believes that Israel is the homeland of paganism – and thus he needs to eradicate the Palestinians who embrace Jesus.
While Jews don’t believe in Christ, The New Testament, or anything in that context, it is important for Christians to recognize that their Christ is shared by the AntiSemites called Muslims.
Which explains why the Jews hate with such a fervor – both Muslims and Christians.
Division and hate is the power of satan. The Satan who creates The Common Enemy as espoused by Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Biden – none of whom are Christian but have their seeds in the Dark World.
Despite the attempt at global chaos, Easter will proceed. FAITH will be unified. And compassion will prevail in the hearts and souls of those who are aligned in Christ. This cannot be severed. Not by any evil dictum. And this then becomes their focus for destruction. Unity, love, and Christ.
I always find it quite enlightening and entertainment when some obscure person lectures me on religion. They presuppose that I am an idiot in their maniacal verbose self idolatry of narcissism. While I most often attempt to convey my knowledge, I would say that the vast majority are not concerned with knowledge or wisdom – but self imposed – Rightism.
Enjoy the celebration! Enjoy the Resurrection and what it means for humanity! Enjoy your family and friends and remember that Faith is inside you – not inside secular media pundits who want to attack all things Christian.
A 4th or 5th grade education of Jewish children in grade schools.
Heavens to Murgatroyd! Exit JeZeus Stage Left! Vanity of all vanities: the pursuit by Man to believe in God(s). What a colossally huge waste of time and energy.
T’NaCH does not teach history but rather prophetic mussar based upon the prophetic mussar instruction learned from the Chumash itself. The Chumash broken down to אבות הזמן גרמא מצוות opposed by תולדות מצוות. Av בראשית followed by תולדות: שמות ויקרא ובמדבר. Talmudic mesechtot Shabbat and Baba Kama ask the famous question: Do the toldot follow the Avot? Based upon the Av/toldot relationship of the opening 4 Books of the Written Torah.
Hence the Book of Kings has a similar relationship to the Book of Shmuel wherein the prophet Shmuel anoints David as the definition of the mitzva of Moshiach for all generations to come. Hence since Torah mitzvot – not a one-time affair, as the gospel counterfeit false messiah so declares – Torah mitzvot apply equally to all generations, as does all prophetic mussar.
Hence all the anointed Moshiach kings of both Yechuda and Israel kingdoms, they all exists as toldot of the Av anointing of David as Moshiach king. Now weigh the Talmudic question asked by mesechtot Shabbat and Baba Kama: Do the toldot follow the Avot? All the kings of Israel did not follow Av David mitzva of Moshiach. A few of the kings of Yechuda did follow the Av David mitzva of Moshiach.
Hence the Books of Kings totally repudiates the Roman counterfeit gospels account of the Torah mitzva of Moshiach.
This Primary/secondary dichotomy in both Chumash and T’NaCH sealed masoret, likewise expressed through the Primary/secondary functions of the mitzva of Moshiach. The Av/primary mitzva of Moshiach: to rule the land with justice. Torah “faith”, defined as: the pursuit of judicial righteous compensation for damages, inflicted upon Jews by other Jews. Hence the Primary function of Moshiach: to build the Federal lateral common-law Sanhedrin Courts system. Expressed through the משל/metaphor of building the Beit HaMikdash. The משל not the same as the נמשל, just as a dream always follows after its qualifying interpretation.
The secondary/toldot of the mitzvah of Moshiach, for the king to go out and fight the wars of the people. This role of Moshiach plays “2nd fiddle” to the Av/Primary role of ruling the land with established Judicial common-law courtrooms.
Avoda zarah in a perverse fashion pursues the tumah route of faith: the pursuit of theological belief systems/creeds\dogmatism which dictate how people must believe in this or that God(s). A fundamental error. Just as obvious as the Sun shining in the Heavens on a cloudless Summer Day.
As insects no matter how wise cannot grasp Man, so too Man – no matter how wise – cannot grasp the Gods. Vanity of all vanities: the pursuit by Man to believe in God(s). What a colossally huge waste of time and energy.
The aggadah of the two babies 1 living and 1 dead and the two mother whores, the latter a משל for Yechuda and Israel the two divided kingdoms. The Book of Kings written AFTER the death of king tyrant Shlomo!
What constitutes the mitzva דאורייתא of Moshiach? Shlomo the heir of king David whom the prophet Shmuel “annointed” Moshiach? A simple פשט question. If any reader of the Book of Kings fails to ask this question of פשט, then they fail to observe the satire of this prophetic mussar! טיפש פשט, another way of describing “revisionist history”. Silly bird-brains ie טיפש פשט.
The mitzva of Moshiach learns from the בנין אב precedent(s) of the oppression of the Court of Par’o, when Moshe and Aaron sought restitution for damages before the king concerning the brutal beatings inflicted upon Israeli slaves for their failure to meet the quota of bricks king Par’o artificially imposed by means of pulling a cruel deception upon Israel. Thereby imposing a decree of cruel slavery upon the Hebrew nation in Egypt.
Another בנין אב precedent to understand (discern like from like) of the mitzva of Moshiach, which this question of Moshiach applies equally across the board to all the kings of Yechuda & Israel! Yitro’s rebuke which directly confronted Moshe of the impossibility of him alone serving as the Courts of Israeli common law. NaCH prophets command mussar, the Book of Kings does not teach history. Fools who learn NaCH as history compare to טיפש פשט Xtians who read the בראשית Creation story, that some silly God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. טיפש פשט revisionist history stinks the fowl manure of cleaning the industrial chicken-house after slaughtering all the chickens – something like the avoda zarah stench produced by a catholic mass.
The mitzva of Moshiach sums up the Torah concept of faith: אמונה: צדק צדק תירדוף|justice justice pursue|. The avoda zarah of believing in some theological Creed belief system; whether the Nicene Creed or Mohammedan jargon of Muhammad the prophet and only one God Allah טיפש פשט utter and complete nonsense.
The mitzva of Moshiach – has nothing to do with the avoda zarah of king Shlomo’s assimilated building of a Catholic Cathedral calling it “The Temple” טיפש פשט עבודה זרה abomination! This king fool triggered a ירידות הדורות, dumbing down the generations טיפש פשט that polluted the waters of all down stream generations of Israel!
The “concept” of throwing the ensuing generations into a down-ward spiral of stupidity defines ירידות הדורות; the exact opposite of the Xtian avoda zarah dogma known as “Free Will”. Down stream generations who fail to read the prophetic mussar of the Book of Kings, but through טיפש פשט read this NaCH Book as a book of history, they duplicate the avoda zarah tumah committed by king Shlomo the fool.
The mitzva דאורייתא of Moshiach strives to securely establish the common law Sanhedrin lateral משנה תורה courtrooms across Israel through building the Cities of Refuge דיני נפשות small Sanhedrin courtrooms of common law! Hence the sages placed the Great Sanhedrin within Shlomo’s Temple as a mussar rebuke to the טיפש פשט king whose avoda zarah triggered a mass ירידות הדורות upon the Jewish people to this very day!
But tohor and tumah do not mix, anymore than a person clutching a dead rat and going to the mikveh! A mussar Talmudic נמשל interpretation of placing the Great Sanhedrin into Shlomo’s building of wood & stone avoda zarah – the first and second Temples! Ezra too assumed the mitzva of Moshiach centered around the assimilation to Goyim culture and customs of building a work of architecture, like depicted in the stone building ruins of both Ancient Greece and Rome, as the mitzva of the Moshiach building the Beit HaMikdash avoda zarah!
Rather, the mitzva דאורייתא of Moshiach learns from the last mitzva performed by Moshe Rabbeinu himself! Moshe built the 3 Cities of Refuge with their Small Sanhedrin courtrooms! The mussar of the NaCH Book of Kings, Shlomo the fool tried the Case of the two whores and one living baby before his own Par’o like courtroom rather than through Sanhedrin דיני נפשות Federal courtrooms! All the kings of both Yechuda and Israel failed to establish the Federal Sanhedrin courtroom system of Capital-Crimes Common Law! Hence all the kings of both Yechuda and Israel, only one baby still lives to this day, failed to accomplish and breath the mitzva of Moshiach unto their generations!
Dhimmi Arabs must stand before a Great Sanhedrin court and answer to the crimes committed on Oct 7th 2023. The leaders of Hamas executed by casting them naked off a 3-story platform with jagged rocks beneath. The people of Gaza who in mass rejoiced and handed out sweets and candies exiled in a mass population deportation of all Gazans from this Jewish conquered land. Followed-up with the mass deportation of a Dhimmi Arabs living in East Jerusalem and Samaria unto Gaza. For their mass support of the Oct 7th abomination.
What is the difference between the Torah, Talmud, and Mishnah?
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First you need to understand what the Mishnah is. When Moshe received the Torah on Har Sinai he spent forty days and nights studying it and getting taught the performance and explanations of it. Thus when he came down he had two things- the written Torah and the explanations and details of its performance. The written Torah is what is also known as the “Chamishe Sifrei Torah”, commonly translated as “The Five Books of Moses”.
The explanations and details of performance were only passed on orally and are commonly referred to as the Oral Torah. Before the Bar Kochba revolt which resulted in the massive exile of the Jews 80 or so years after the destruction of the Second Temple Rabbi Akivah organized the oral law into a more organized and easier to teach format.
After the Bar Kochba revolt with the bulk of the Jews in exile in different places (the difference to the prior Babylonian exile was that there the bulk of the Jews were in one place, albeit outside of Israel) there was a fear that the oral Torah would be forgotten or altered, so Rebbi Yehudah HaNasi, the head of the Sanhedrin at the time, compiled the Oral Torah into the form we have today and we refer to this written compilation of the Oral Torah as the Mishnah.
However, there was discussion on its application, philosophy, ethics, what to do in different situations, the trying to grasp the essence of the law so it could be utilized in different, unenvisaged situations, the mysticism and the practical. These discussions were recorded in the Gemorah. This is how we get to the Talmud- it consists of two main parts- the Mishnah and then the associated Gemorah to that Mishnah.
In modern editions there are also multiple commentaries, footnotes, cross references to passages in the Torah, prophets and scriptures when they are mentioned etc. Typically it is published in 20 volumes- the ArtScroll translation is 73 volumes! It is not something that you just read but something that requires intense study and a teacher so you know how to study and understand the methodology utilized in the Talmud.
Moshe Kerr: No. Totally incorrect. Rabbi Yechuda named his Mishna based upon the בנין אב/precedent that Moshe Rabbeinu named דברים the Mishna Torah — which means common law. The Mishna codified by Rabbi Yechuda in 210 ce follows the משנה תורה common law model established by the Book of דברים. Common law legal system stand upon precedents. The Hebrew for precedent: בנין אב.
The Gemara, compiled by a later set of scholars AFTER Rabbi Yechuda “sealed” the Mishna, based upon the precedents of the sealing of the T’NaCH, caused Rav Ashi and Rav Ravina to seal the Gemara in about 450 ce. The purpose of sealing this Oral Torah methodology of common law, to prevent a perversion of the seal masoret/traditions from counterfeit imposters like the New Testament replacement theology to pervert the seal masoret/traditions unto tumah avoda zarah.
A second primary purpose of sealing the masoret/traditions: that all down stream generations of Israel inherit the identical masoret, thereby preventing an equal Av tumah avoda zarah commonly known as ירידות הדורות – understood that later generations cannot dispute the rulings made by earlier generations. This Av-tumah avoda zarah collapses when confronted with Oral Torah logic which validates that no one generation enjoys a monopoly of Torah logic over later generations.
The correct understanding of ירידות הדורות refers to the idea of “domino effect”.
Talmud, which means learning (Yeshivot fail to learn Talmud, when they study Gemara.), the Gemara brings halachic precedents from across the Sha’s Bavli as precedents. The purpose of the precedents, the Common Law Baali Tosafot commentary/criticism of Rashi p’shat on the Talmud, fundamentally erred and failed to learn a halachic precedent to re-interpret משנה תורה the k’vanna of the language of the Home Mishna which the Gemara brings outside precedent halachic sources to re-interpret the k’vanna of the language of Rabbi Yechuda’s specific Mishna.
This failure of Reshonim scholarship went across the board, some Reshonim better than others. The B’hag, Rif, Rosh common law halachic commentaries, like the Baali Tosafot – correctly learned and understood the Gemara commentary to a specific Mishna as Common law. Not so the super-commentaries written on these excellent Reshonim scholarship of Talmudic common law. The later scholars confused and perverted Talmudic common law unto Roman statute law. Students in Yeshivot across the world, never receive any instruction which differentiates between T’NaCH/Talmudic common law from Roman statute law. A most basic and fundamental error. Which has plagued g’lut Jewry down through the Ages.
In like manner, and equally as bad: the Reshonim scholars abysmally failed to discern (One and All, they failed to make the מאי נפקא מינא הבדלה with discerns “like from like” the basis which observance of all Torah and halachic mitzvot most fundamentally require. A most basic and fundamental error. Which has plagued Jewry down through the Ages. The Av/toldot relationship between tohor time-oriented from positive & negative toldot commandments.
Even Rashi’s common law commentary to the Chumash (as opposed by his טיפש פשט reading of the Talmud. Rashi changed his sh’itta of p’shat as learned from to Chumash and contrasted by his sh’itta of p’shat made upon the Talmud! Reshonim scholarship disgracefully failed to note this fundamental contradiction in Rashi scholarship. Proof that the Reshonim learning had derailed itself and gone off-track. Why? Because the Reshonim and later rabbinic lackeys failed to understand how the concept of ירידות הדורות refuted the Xtian avoda zarah known as “Free Will”.
A colossal error made by a great Jewish leader: be it King Shlomo who built an assimilated Catholic Cathedral or the Rambam who perverted Talmudic common law unto Roman statute law. Once a great sage/leader worships avoda zarah, (Shlomo perverted the priority of establishment of Federal Great/Small Sanhedrin courtrooms as the k’vanna of building the Beit HaMikdash), the Av tumah of this perversion which validates the 2nd Sinai Commandment, all down-stream generations likewise pursue this Av-tumah avoda zarah abomination, from generation to generation to generation! Hence the concept of ירידות הדורות invalidates the Xtian dogmatism of “Free Will”.
The Torah mitzva of Moshiach does not learn from a NaCH source. Torah mitzvot learn from Torah sources. Why? Because Moshe Rabbeinu, the greatest of all prophets. The failure of Reshonim scholarship to correctly grasp how the Chumash learns, proof of the cursed existence of g’lut Jewry who lacked the wisdom to do mitzvot לשמה.
The Torah operates upon a most basic: Av/Toldot relationship. The Book of בראשית, together with the tohor time-oriented commandments codification known as the Siddur, commands Av tohor time-oriented commandments. “Time” not tied to a watch, but rather to crisis situations which threaten the chosen Cohen people with Shoah; like Akadat Yitzak, or the mitzva to remove the sciatic nerve! The latter explained by targum Uziel. Esau approach “toast” Yaacov with an Army lead by 400 officers. NaCH precedents D’vorah and HaDassah whose רשות מצוה defines the k’vanna of תפילת ערבית according to rabbi Yehoshua. Av tohor time-oriented commandments learn from women that doing mitzvot with k’vanna — a רשות rather than a חיוב.
In the defence of the Reshonim: in the Gemara of ערבין the Baali Tosafot did not know how Rav Ashi could change the dispute between Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Yose haGelili. According to the כלל, the halacha should follow the opinion of r. Akiva. The Baali Tosafot clearly did not have access to the Targum Uziel. Otherwise, they would have understood that Rav Ashi’s recognition that Uziel agreed with the opinion expressed by rabbi Yose haGelili and therefore changed the halacha expressed in that halachic dispute as recorded in the Gemara of ערובין.
Therefore, the First Book of the Torah serves as the אב טהור זימן גרמא מצוות. The second, third, and forth Books of the Torah serves as the תולדות מצוות; hence the B’hag ruled in his Hilchot G’dolot: that 100 blessings, nar shabbat, nar hannuka, kre’at m’gillah, etc qualify as mitzvot from the Torah!
The Rambam, whose Yad Chazaka perversion worshipped avoda zarah: understood as a) assimilation b) intermarriage with Goyim, as opposed to the Xtian abomination which erroneously translates avoda zarah as idolatry; the 30 year-war slaughtered as many as did WWI when western Europe’s population about 1/3rd of 20th Century Eupean populations, over a debate over the catholic cruxifics and worship of saints.
The Rambam abomination of avoda zarah assimilation to ancient Greek logic, that fool did not understand the kabbalah of how Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס interprets the k’vanna of the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev. A most basic and fundamental error. Which has plagued Jewry down through the Ages.
The last and 5th Book of the Written Torah משנה תורה commands the generations to learn the Torah through the wisdom of common law ie Rabbi Yechuda and the Gemara sages as codified in the Talmud.
The gravity of ירידות הדורות avoda zara, this question fails to address the Midrashic scholarship which defines the contribution made by the Geonim. As a loom has a warp/weft relationship, the Talmud has halacha/aggadita relationship. Midrash functions as the Geonim scholarship which delved into the Aggadic portion of the Talmud. Yeshivot across the world do not know how to learn, not only Midrash as the primary source-commentary which links the דרוש-פשט with T’NaCH prophetic mussar; like as learns Rashi’s Chumash p’shat. As contrasted by the halachic Oral Torah logic of רמז-סוד. A most basic and fundamental error. Which has plagued Jewry down through the Ages.
Happy Easter Helena. I want to thank you for your wonderful blog. I always look forward to your posts which really stand out amongst the noise in this crazy world.
Easter and all the rest of the Pagan Nonsense pushed by the corrupt daughters of Catholicism is a distraction from truth.
He was not born in the rainy season of December 25, there is no ” Lord’s Day” other than the Sabbath mandated in the Ten Commandments, each of the actual Holy Days established by God prefigure Christ in a Holy and acceptable to God manner.
It isn’t just eggs, either.
I will never forget sitting at a table on break, volunteering for the Salvation Army and reading an editorial in their magazine, The War Cry.
The topic was the author’s view that we should’ve indulgent of the little tykes thinking it was all about ” Chickies and Bunnies” and not embracing the solemnity of it all…
I remember thinking, as I gazed down at the technicolor plastic tablecloth decorated with, of course, friendly looking Chickies and Bunnies, that the editorial was classic Churchianity, and by far the most magnanimous bit of hypocrisy I had ever read.
And I have read a lot of hypocritical crapola from Churchian sources.
1. you have no idea what the weather was 2000 years ago, 2. Jesus was after the Ten Commandments, 3. Celebrations of Christ are celebrations – not laws, 4. The resurrection was not solemn – 5. Your secular atheism is showing. – How do you know it wasn’t raining? How do you know the temperatures 2000 years ago? You obviously don’t know yuour Bible or you would know this post is completely born of propaganda and false testimony.
I wonder why Muslims believe in Jesus?
Does that mean they were Christians first… before Mohammed?
Good question – so I looked it up: Before Mohammed, the Middle East practiced Christianity and Judaism predominantly. Thus they accepted Abraham and Ishmael, Noah, Moses, and Solomon as their ancestors – which Mohammed aligned with as well. Before Mohammed it is important to note that the Middle East was certainly not what it is today in terms of unity and land.
I understand Moslems believe in the old testament dudes as they sprung from that line too… but Jesus?
Some people don’t believe he existed and the new testament is a construct of the Catholic church deciding which writings to include and which to leave out at the first council of Constantinople in 381 AD
Yet it occurred to me the Moslems wouldn’t be going along with that and thus if they believe Jesus existed and was a prophet they must have some historical writings of their own and/or trust in the letters of the apostles!
(Sorry I tried looking it up so as not to bother you but it seems no-ones thought of that before haha)
Happy Easter Helena!
the problem does not occur in the Dutch French and Italian speaking countries. Pasen, Paques. Pasqua. Germany has Ostern, so that comes from the same root as Easter I suppose.