God Re-creating His People: Worship No other gods, for I am unswervingly loyal unto the thousands who love me and will keep all my commandments. Exodus 20:1-6

Exodus 20:1-6 Names of God Bible

The Ten Commandments

20 Then Elohim spoke all these words:

“I am Yahweh your Elohim, who brought you out of slavery in Egypt.

“Never have any other god. Never make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water. Never worship them or serve them, because I, Yahweh your Elohim, am El Kanna. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me. But I show mercy to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments.

Word of God for the Children of God

Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.

The order of faithful obedience is always the same in Scripture: God reveals himself to us, blesses us with his grace, then asks us to respond with obedience.

In other words, God blesses us first and then asks us to obey – grace precedes the call to obedience!

God is all-powerful and supreme.

He could demand our obedience just because of who he is, but he doesn’t.

He has chosen to reveal himself through Scripture, nature, his acts of salvation, and most completely in Jesus.

He wants us to know him and respond to him.

Our obedience may be difficult.

Our call to obey will sometimes be hard for us to unswervingly wrap our souls around, unquestioningly trust because of our all too rock hard stubbornness.

However, we can overcome such stubbornness when we know such a summons comes to us from a Father who has paid an ultimate price to redeem and adopt us into his family and has repeatedly proven himself to be gracious and faithful.

Genesis 1:26-28 Names of God Bible

26 Then Elohim said, “Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the domestic animals all over the earth, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”

27 So Elohim created humans in his image.
    In the image of Elohim he created them.
        He created them male and female.

28 Elohim blessed them and said, “Be fertile, increase in number, fill the earth, and be its master. Rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”

God Re-creates His People ….

This is my story, this is my song … Our Implicit Trust vs. Our Implicit Distrust?

When we walk with the Lord

Author: John H. Sammis (1887)

1 When we walk with the Lord
in the light of his word,
what a glory he sheds on our way!
While we do his good will,
he abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.

Refrain:
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

2 Not a burden we bear,
not a sorrow we share,
but our toil he doth richly repay;
not a grief or a loss,
not a frown or a cross,
but is blest if we trust and obey. [Refrain]

3 But we never can prove
the delights of his love
until all on the altar we lay;
for the favor he shows,
for the joy he bestows,
are for them who will trust and obey. [Refrain]

4 Then in fellowship sweet
we will sit at his feet,
or we’ll walk by his side in the way;
what he says we will do,
where he sends we will go;
never fear, only trust and obey. [Refrain]

When we seriously study, meditate, about the faithfulness of God, the Ten Commandments are probably not among the first things that come to mind.

After all, one of the main uses of God’s law is to show us that we are sinners.

The commandments help us to clearly envision we absolutely need God to save us from sin, that we need to confess our sins and ask the Lord for forgiveness.

When God first gave his law to his people, they had just been rescued from long years of brutal slavery in Egypt, they were still dealing with being slaves to sin.

God was calling them from generations of slavery to freedom, to live a new life in him that would serve as a blessing to all nations … they needed to learn that.

God’s Truth be Told … So do we.

John 8:31-32 Amplified Bible

The Truth Will Make You Free

31 So Jesus was saying to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you abide in My word [continually obeying My teachings and living in accordance with them, then] you are truly My disciples. 32 And you will know the truth [regarding salvation], and the truth will set you free [from the penalty of sin].”

God’s commands are designed to be a guide for daily living, reminding us to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind, and to love all our neighbor as we love ourselves. The law ultimately points us to Jesus Christ for salvation and shows us how to live in gratitude to the one, true, faithful God.

God knew that his people who first heard the Ten Commandments would soon stray, wander from him and break their promises. But at the heart of their new creation is the faithful God who’ll always shepherd them and watch over them.

God is faithful from one generation to the next.

Just as he sought after and cared for his people in the desert, God still faithfully summons, seeks after, awaits our response, and always cares for us every day.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Praying ….

Psalm 8
For the choir director; on the gittith;[a] a psalm by David.

Yahweh, our Adonay, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!

Your glory is sung above the heavens.[b]
From the mouths of little children and infants,
    you have built a fortress against your opponents
        to silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens,
    the creation of your fingers,
    the moon and the stars that you have set in place—
        what is a mortal that you remember him
            or the Son of Man that you take care of him?
        You have made him a little lower than yourself.
        You have crowned him with glory and honor.
        You have made him rule what your hands created.
        You have put everything under his control:
            all the sheep and cattle, the wild animals,
            the birds, the fish,
            whatever swims in the currents of the seas.

Yahweh, our Adonay, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!

Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen

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Author: Thomas E Meyer Jr

Formerly Homeless Sinner Now, Child of God, Saved by Grace.

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  1. The revelation of the Torah at Sinai – a two part revelation.
    Process (how Sinai unfolded) – Two-stage revelation: God spoke the first two “dibrot” aloud; after that Israel asked Moses to receive the rest and transmit it (Exodus narrative as read by rabbinic tradition). Oral transmission of the 13 tohor רוח הקודש spirit interpretation of the first commandment שם השם as the בטול idea of תורה לא בשמים היא revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Legal common law middot such as introduced by Hillel and other Tannaim serves as the יסוד by which the generations interpret the k’vanna of the revelation of the 13 Tohor Oral Torah middot at Horev.
    The Torah does not invalidate the existence of other Gods; not the Gods of Egypt, Canaan, nor the Gods in later NaCH prophetic mussar. NaCH prophets do mock Gods limited to wood & stone. The Book of satire Kings mocks king Shlomo “as the wisest of all men” for his ignoring the mussar of the prophet Natan who commanded king David not to copy architectural constructs of how Goyim worship their Gods through Cathedral-like constructions. Rather the model of the Mishkan understood by the precedent of Moshe Rabbeinu’s last mitzva before he passed from this Earth – the Small Sanhedrin Capital Crimes Courts which define all the cities of refuge.
    The 2nd stage of the revelation of the Torah at Sinai followed the sin of the Golden Calf – substitute theology which declared that אלהים (who occupies both the Heavens and the Earth) brought Israel out of Egypt. This substitute theology denies the בטול revelation of the שם השם לשמה – לא בשמים היא revelation that the רוח הקודש Oral Torah spirits live within the Yatzir Ha’Tov hearts of the chosen Cohen people when and only when we rule the oath brit land inheritance. The Torah revelation consists of two parts: Blessing/Life vs. Curse\Death-G’lut. Based upon the language of the 1st Sinai commandment “Egypt” לאו דוקא; all Goyim lands of g’lut – Jews live – just as no Sanhedrin or Yovel freedom for them so too no other Torah commandments apply other than to do t’shuva and remember – Israel came out of Egypt to conquer and rule Canaan with Sanhedrin courtroom common law justice.
    No where, for example, does the Torah address the God worshipped in India and Asian countries. The brit of Gilgal/order of Rashi tefillen contrasts with the brit of Sh’Cem\order of Rabbeinu Tam tefillen. The oath sworn at Gilgal: just as HaShem judged the Gods of Egypt, so too HaShem will judge the Gods of Canaan. Just as Moshe a prophet so too Yehoshua a Torah prophet. Monotheism as a theology violates the 2nd Sinai commandment because if the Islamic Tawhid accurate then the 2nd commandment in vain. But the chicken always precedes the egg; Muhammad did not accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, his replacement theology substitutes Allah like as did the Golden Calf did with אלהים and the NT does with some “Father” in Heaven.
    Monotheism, especially as framed by the נדוי Rambam assimilates to the foreign idea of ONE UNIVERSAL GOD. This false avoda zara assimilation validates Jews davening inside Mosques! It declares the Aggada of mesechta Sanhedrin touching the 7 mitzvot applicable to gere toshav to all “bnai noach Goyim in all lands! Mesechta Avoda Zara and in many other places throughout Sha’s teach that only Israel accepts the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Therefore the שם השם לשמה by definition בטול, limited and restricted to the status of a local tribal god and not the foreign align Universal ONE God theology of alien foreign religious belief systems.
    In like manner the mitzva of Moshiach not limited to some God/Man in the past as Xtian avoda zara attempts to dictate. Rather Torah common law stands upon the יסוד which requires בניני אבות-precedents. The NT worship of avoda zarah – other Gods – rejects the revelation of Oral Torah common law. It rejects Moshe anointing the House of Aaron as Moshiach despite the Talmud reference to Pinchas as משיח מלחמה or the NaCH reference to king Cyrus as משיח.
    Goyim, by definition reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai\Horev, therefore Goyim worship other Gods. Impossible for Goyim who reject the revelation of the Torah to thereafter dictate Torah mitzvot such as does the NT attempt with its false messiah paradigm and as does the Koran with its false definition of prophets sent to all Goyim paradigm. King Shlomo no different than his son at Sh’Cem. Just as Shlomo began his avoda zara “Civil War” curse imposed by the Natan curse following the David Bat Sheva injustice shown to her husband; Aaron dedicated by Moshe as Moshiach to sanctify through korbanot the dedication to rule the land of Canaan with judicial Sanhedrin common law justice. So too Rechavam ignored the elder advisors of king Shlomo just as young king Shlomo initiated building a Temple Cathedral avoda zara rather than establish the Federal Sanhedrin courts as the case of the two prostitutes proves.

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    1. Fear of the Lord fails to communicate יראת שמים why? Torah common law not read, but rather it stands upon making comparative logical inductive-reasoned precedents. The translation: ‘Fear of Heaven’, totally confuses the revelation at Sinai, from how early prophets – like those found in the Book of בראשית, understood the Creator as told in the opening creation Aggadic story. Abraham did not know the revelation of Sinai Divine Name! So what distinguishes the Divine Names אל שדי, אלהים, & אל ect, from the first Sinai commandment Divine Name? This question a person who develops יראת שמים immediately asks.
      The pre-Sinai prophetic revelation understood that HaShem fills the Heavens and the Earth. Whereas the mystic concept Shekinah, bases itself upon the “revelation” of the Mishkan at Sinai; the mystic idea of Shekinah communicates the post Sinai vision that the 1s Commandment Divine Presence – lives only within the Yatzir HaTov hearts of the “chosen” bnai brit Cohen people. Herein the k’vanna of בכל לבבך\כם intent as learned by rabbi Yechuda’s interpretation of tefillah דאורייתא, and also by תורה לא בשמים היא in the Talmud. The term יראת שמים most essentially learns from the catastrophes, such as the Bar Kochba false messiah and Shabbetai Tzvi\Yacov Frank false messiah disasters; contrasted by the rise of Hasidism initiated by rebbe Israel ben Eliezer/Baal Shem Tov. The affectionate title awarded to this rebbe implies that his ‘good name’ reputation stands unto this very day.
      The 2nd Sinai commandment does not say do not worship “idols”. Sophomoric translations imported to understand abstract Hebrew terms – compare to placing a screen door on a submarine. Never such a thing as virgin birth in the T’NaCH and specifically not in the Prophetic Book of Isaiah. Errors shape and define theologies. Both Martin Luther’s Protestant and John Calvin’s impact upon the theology developed by Zwingli of Zurich down the road — kicked the can of protestant theology down the road to not only the 30 Years War, but worse – support by the vast majority of its German ‘believers’ to kiss and embrace the Nazi war insanity – to exterminate the Jews. The good name reputation of Xtianity in general and German Protestantism in particular now rots in exile waiting for the 2nd coming of JeZeus to heal its shattered reputations.
      The 2nd Sinai commandment does not say do not worship “idols”. Never such a thing as virgin birth in the T’NaCH and specifically not in the Prophetic Book of Isaiah. Errors shape and define theologies. Both Martin Luther’s Protestant and John Calvin’s theologies, their impact upon the theology developed by Zwingli of Zurich — down the road — kicked the can of theological avoda zarah, that through its support, by a vast majority of its members in German and countries allied with the German anti-communist war effort, specifically Pope Pius XII to likewise support the Nazi war to exterminate the Jews. Where was JeZeus during the Shoah; “by their fruits you shall know them”.
      The translation “You shall not make for yourself a graven image”, false. אלהים אחרים does not mean “other gods”, as the literal טיפש פשט biblical translations dictate. Just as Isaiah 7:14 “the virgin shall conceive” does not convert “almah” – which refers to a young girl, aged between 12 to 12.5 years of age – also called נערה, unto the Greek mythology where Zeus rapes a married woman and conceives Hercules.
      The Hebrew “אלהים אחרים” does not base itself upon עצב/pesel – idol, but remembers the Gods of Egypt and the future invasion of Canaan wherein the Gods of Canaan would fall under the God of Israel curse. Acceptance of the yoke of the kingdom of Heaven “metaphor” directly refers to remember the g’lut oppression of Egypt. Goyim never came out of g’lut Egypt, nor stood at Sinai, they never to this very day accepted this tribal god; neither the NT nor Koran ever once brings the revelation of the 1st Commandment Divine Name. But instead worship אלהים אחרים Golden Calf word translations. Clearly JeZeus did not grasp the central foundation of the Sinai revelation; because the revelation of the first Commandment of Sinai – this Divine Name – a Spirit and not a word – lives within the heart, based upon the Mishkan Torah precedent model. Confusing a glorified tent and a gold covered Ark for the “Shekinah” — Divine Presence spirit — as false as confusing moms apple pie with vinegar.
      Chag Pesach approaches. Consider a real Jewish example — fully understand that Goyim not Jewish and that the Apostle Paul’s idea of grafting false, based upon their complete and total ignorance of the T’NaCH. Shall introduce two separate lines of rational reasoning:
      ONE
      The switch from T’NaCH\Talmudic/Midrashic common law to assimilated Roman Statute Law during the Dark and Middle Ages of Goyim barbarism, anarchy and chaos — compares to the similar impact that the movable type printing press — likewise shapes and determines statute law — religious off the דרך halacha — to this very day. The Talmud refers this species of moral disaster — also to a known ירידות הדורות—domino effect upon later down-stream generations.
      My Kollel rav, rabbi Eliezer Wolfson from Jerusalem passed in 2025. He showed me a hand-written Baali Tosafot manuscript which differs from the Baali Tosofot commentary printed in the Vilna Shas. The latter writes מותר גניבת גוים whereas his hand written manuscript מותר גבינת גוים. The shift from discussing theft to cheese has important halachic implications, affecting the permissibility of various foods depending on their origin and preparation methods. In the 8th פרק daf 116b–117a of mesechta Chulllen, the Rif poskined that once a ruminant consumed something, it became פרשא בעלמא. Rashi disputed with the Rif ruling. But based upon the בכתב יד of rabbi Eliezer Wolfson, the Baali Tosafot appears to supported the ruling made the Rif posok halacha.
      Israeli dairy rations — built around availability, not ideal nutrition. Corn in general — nutritionally smoother, but not economically dominant. Corn — imported and expensive. The “switch” before Pesach — from a wheat‑based diet to a corn‑based diet — the former — a mixed ration that includes some wheat by‑products added to that cattle feed ration. While the latter attempts to eliminate all possible chametz sources. Israel’s dairy industry relies heavily on: wheat silage, wheat bran, gluten feed, local by‑products (citrus pulp, brewers’ grains, etc.), and imported corn grain and corn silage.
      Wheat silage involves moisture required to achieve fermentation. The most desirable fermentation occurs when silage has a moisture level of 55 to 70 percent, with 60 to 65 percent considered optimum. If silage — ensiled at lower than recommended moisture levels, it may undergo incomplete fermentation or be subject to heat damage and protein breakdown.
      The Israeli milk industry does not use corn all year due to its higher expense. Many European countries rely on imported GMO feed for livestock, including from the U.S., because non-GMO alternatives quite often more expensive or unavailable at scale. If Israeli dairies fed a Pesach—style ration all year, milk prices would rise significantly. The Pesach ration, a temporary, more expensive, less efficient formulation used only because halacha requires it.
      Corn starch ferments more slowly, very good for rumen stability, but wheat by‑products add fiber, protein, and digestible energy at low cost. Israeli cows fed TMR (total mixed ration) designed to balance rumen pH, so the risks of wheat more managed. The Pesach ration represents a halachic workaround, not a nutritional upgrade. The industry would never choose the Pesach ration year‑round because it costs more, depends on imported ingredients, reduces flexibility in ration formulation, and removes valuable, cheap, local feed sources. Hence the Pesach ration — less economical, not more. Corn, therefore used before Pesach because its non-chametz and safe from a kashrut standpoint. But nutritionally and economically, the normal mixed ration (with some wheat by‑products) far superior for the rest of the year.
      The Israeli dairy industry does not switch feed because of the Rif–Rashi debate at all — even if the Rif + Tosafot would permit digested chametz. The issue ““Does digestion turn chametz into פרשא בעלמא?” not the reason for the rabbinic requirement to switch to corn prior to Pesach. Rather — a Jew may not own chametz during Pesach, due to the Torah כרת curse. Despite chametz eaten by a cow becomes halachically irrelevant, and even if the milk is unquestionably permitted … the feed itself remains chametz! And Israeli dairy farms — almost all of which are Jewish‑owned — cannot legally or halachically own chametz on Pesach. The mashbirim (feed suppliers) cannot produce chametz feed for Jewish farms during Pesach. Chag Pesach directly impacts the entire supply chain. Nonetheless, if the Baalei Tosafot indeed support the Rif’s principle, that digestion nullifies the issur, then milk from cows fed chametz would qualify as halachically kosher; cheese made from such milk would also permitted. The entire gevinat akum discussion shifts, and many modern kashrut stringencies become unnecessary.
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      Fundamental distinctions which radically change the intent and interpretation of Torah as a political foundation/Constitution vs the religions established through Biblical and Koran counterfeits. Goyim never accept to this day the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. They do not thereafter dictate any Torah commandment. Not Moshiach nor who or what qualifies as a prophet. Daniel a mystic not a prophet. Oral Torah — by definition — interprets the k’vanna of wisdom commandments\time-oriented mitzvot.
      Jewish Halacha despite Middle Ages assimilation to Greek logic philosophies — which in effect negated the Chanukkah lights — halacha contained within the Gemara “commentary” to a specific Mishna — serves as courtroom witnesses, who testify; based upon observance of the Mishnaic case viewed from different perspectives. Halacha after the Roman exile of Jews from Judea “converted” into religious law — with rabbinic decisors (geonim, rishonim, acharonim) who fill the function of spiritual-legal guides whose rulings regulated communal religious existence in cursed g’lut. Halacha of this much later statute law assimilated codes, copied Roman law, much like the bible influenced by the printing press.
      Despite these codes, imposed by decisor “authorities” such as Rambam or Karo, halacha simply not religious law. But remains precedent—based, by which witnesses testify concerning a Case heard before a Sanhedrin common law courtroom — viewed from different perspectives. A living human being shares no comparison to a mirror reflection or photograph of that person stored in a vault for hundreds of years. Still another example: The Cathedral copy-cat Temple built by king Shlomo merely a “photograph” of the Torah commandment צדק צדק תרדוף — which serves as the foundation of judicial common law courtrooms mandated by the Torah written Constitution. As determined by a Torah precedent: Moshe’s establishment of 3 Cities of Refuge with their small Sanhedrin courts.
      If you take the time to learn the Hebrew T’NaCH you will see the day vs night difference between the Hebrew T’NaCH which the Xtian bible has replaced. For example: how a person organizes ideas changes what that person understands. Take the “Order” of — GOD vs dog. The Xtian bible translations did just that with their institution of Chapter & Verse organization, which replaced the Hebrew sugya/sub-chapter Order. Something akin to Grover Cleveland’s decision to abandon all original US President advice from Washington — Madison — father of the US Constitution — inclusive of Andrew Jacksons’ free banking rejection of European Central Banking.
      Yes, today even the Hebrew T’NaCH also modified through printers — to include Xtian chapter and verses! But within the Torah scrolls & Hebrew T’NaCH, remain odd gap/spaces scattered throughout all that literature. Starting with the 5 Books of the Torah scrolls read on shabbat and organized around an internal פ & ס. These two Hebrew letters interpreted to refer to “sugyah” — sub-chapter and “Parech” — chapter. The printed Hebrew T’NaCH — originally likewise organized in hand written manuscripts prior to the printing press movable type 1455 invention – employ easily observable gaps which separate one sub-chapter from another. The printing press invention directly impacted the 1611 KJB together with the Catholic Bibles. Just as did the chapter system, developed early in the 13th century by Archbishop Stephen Langton 1205-1227. The verse system introduced in the 16th century — Santes Pagnino produced a versed Latin Bible in 1551.
      The Catholic bibles based upon Latin translations. They include deuterocanonical books whom Ezra and other post destruction of the 2nd Temple, Tannaim Era survivors excluded from the Hebrew T’NaCH literature. King Cyrus of Persia, whom the prophetic Book Isaiah refers to as “moshiach”, permitted Jews to return back to Judea after our 70 year Babylonian exile ordeal. The Catholic/Protestant 30 Years War terminated in 1648. Martin Luther moved the Catholic deuterocanonical books to an “Apocrypha” section in his 1534 German bible.
      William Tyndale executed in 1536. Convicted of Lutheran heresy—mainly for his Protestant theological writings (e.g., justification by faith, denial of transubstantiation) and related polemics; his English Bible translation viewed as a direct challenge Lutheran Church authority. Strangled at the stake, then his body was burned. The Lutheran church sided with Hitlers’ Nazism. Nonetheless Tyndale’s translations omitted some deuterocanonical books prior to his betrayal and State murder. John Calvin treated them as separate and apart from “Scripture”. The 1611 King James Bible reflects that Protestant tradition and relied heavily on Tyndale, the Geneva Bible, and the Bishops’ Bible.
      A substantial portion of German society—including many Protestants and Catholics—backed or accommodated the Nazi regime, especially in the 1930s, motivated by nationalism, anti‑communism, fear, and the regime’s social/order promises. Major church bodies made compromises (e.g., the Protestant Reich Church movement, concordats and local accommodations by Catholic bishops). Anti‑Jewish violence did not end in 1945—notable examples like the 1946 Kielce pogrom in Poland show continued lethal antisemitism and communal breakdown after the war. Moral accountability for mass support remains a valid and widely held judgment against all biblical translations, based upon the language of the gospels themselves: “by their fruits you shall know them”. Where was Jesus during Xtian war crimes throughout history from the Crusades to the blood libels to pogroms to mass expulsions to ghetto gulags etc?
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      1. “Where was Jesus during Xtian war crimes throughout history from the Crusades to the blood libels to pogroms to mass expulsions to ghetto gulags etc?”

        exactly where has always been from before the dawn of time … except for a brief span of time in the 1st century.

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      2. First the gospel of Toilet – bat shit crazy. That forth gospel confuses the sin of the golden calf with “and the word was God” dumb-ass! The distinction between how the Avraham Yitzak and Yaacov understood the revelation of their god and the revelation of Sinai 1st commandment day and night different. The Avot understood that their god filled the Heavens & the Earth. The revelation of the Spirit Name revealed in the first Sinai commandment: תורה לא בשמים היא! The Divine Presence Spirits ie Oral Torah 13 middot revelation of the 1st commandment Spirit Name/רוח הקודש – dwells only within the Yatzir Ha-Tov within the hearts of the chosen Cohen seed of the Avot. Where was HaShem during the Shoah? HaShem lives only within the hearts of Cohen Israel when we rule the oath sworn lands with justice. The 2nd paragraph of tefillah דאורייתא – kre’a shma – explicitly testifies to “hidden face” – the Torah curse of g’lut. G’lut Jewry directly experiences the “hidden face”; this Torah curse defines the entire history of Jewish g’lut – starting with the 230 years of Egyptian g’lut, the model of all later repetitions of g’lut – which started with the expulsion of Adam from the Garden.
        Thomas you do not have a clue what “Hidden Face” means. Your oblivious to the cold fact that your silly bible or koran new religions never once validate the “Hidden Face” that prevails in all lands outside the oath sworn brit Cohen lands. When does the Name ceased being “Concealed”. When the Cohen people rule the oath sworn land with righteous justice — Sanhedrin common law courts.

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      3. All Xtian or Muslim theological belief systems – Treif av tuma avoda zara.
        Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer never accepted the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. The difference between ספר בראשית — אל שדי, אלהים, אל וכו from ספר שמות ודברים — עשרת הדיבורות — the first Sinai commandment revelation of HaShem as תורה לא בשמים היא became permanently established. JeZeus prayed to his father Zeus who dwells in the Heavens, and not within the Yatzir Ha-Tov within the Cohen hearts here on this Earth. The Torah concept of בטול restricts the revelation of the שם השם לשמה to Spirits/רוח הקודש living within the chosen Cohen peoples’ hearts.
        Just as the first born son Adam, Avraham, and Yitzak, and Yaacov rejected as the chosen Cohen, so too and how much more so the Pauline propaganda that Goyim — through belief in JeZeus as God become — magically becomes “grafted” onto the Torah Sinai revelation reserved only for the chosen Cohen people. The AI idea – [Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as a 20th-century Lutheran theologian, operated within a Christian framework that did not engage with Oral Torah as a normative, revelatory source — nor did he interpret the Shem HaShem (the Divine Name) through Kabbalistic or rabbinic lenses. His theology centered on Christ as the embodiment of God’s Word] … Which came first the chicken or the egg? Duh! The chicken.
        The NT replacement theology in no wise respects the Torah concept of בטול as interpreted as לא בשמים היא. Therefore the AI clause that Bonhoeffer “respected” the Torah – utter drivel and complete bunk. Bonhoeffer, not respectful in the least to Hebrew Scriptures. All other Torah commandments, including the mitzva of Moshiach depend upon the 1st Sinai commandment. The mitzva of Moshiach – not a false messiah obligation to wait and recognize the son of God born from a virgin. The Moshiach wisdom commandment no different that all other Torah wisdom commandments — applicable to all generations of Israel; equally to sanctify this Torah commandment, no different from the model Torah wisdom commandment of shabbat.
        The NT written in Greek not Hebrew. The Greek NT language has no concept of the distinction between מלאכה vs עבודה. JeZeus never kept shabbat as a mitzva. Torah wisdom commandments – starting with the Creation “story” introduce the wisdom of time through the 6 days of Creation! Not that “time” itself central, anymore than the bark of the tree replaces the fruit! This type of “time-oriented” commandment sanctifies Torah wisdom, which affixes the dedication of Oral Torah לשמה middot as the k’vanna of all time-oriented Torah commandments.
        Just as the wisdom commandment of Shabbat dedicates not to do wisdom commandment/מלאכה on the day of Shabbat in order to sanctify doing wisdom commandments/מלאכה throughout the 6 days of the creation of מלאכים. The term מלאכה\מלאכים stands upon the precedents of Yaacov stripping the poles when ewes stood in heat, and sending מלאכים to Esau. Sheep conceived whatever condition which Lavan decreed to impoverish Yaacov; just as Esau, despite an Army led by 400 officers – kissed Yaacov!
        The creation of מלאכים goes hand in glove with the creation of the chosen Cohen people – likewise created through wisdom time-oriented commandments; the wisdom commandments like shabbat or Moshiach forever testify to תמיד מעשה בראשית. Wisdom Torah commandments, they create the chosen Cohen people in all times and generations.
        Lutheran Bonhoeffer, like all Goyim throughout history has no connection to this Torah revelation because only Israel accepts this revelation which the NT substitutes with its new God JeZeus. This closing statement, not polemical, but rather it represents judicial precision which fundamentally rejects all theological creed belief systems as the k’vanna of the 2nd Sinai commandment.
        Greek NT word: ἔργον (ergon), can refer to anything from manual labor to moral actions; its employed throughout the NT in many contexts. Contrast mesechta Shabbat which defines מלאכה through the 39 skills required to construct the Mishkan. The two languages of opposing verbs not at all equivalent terms. The Greek NT text like Mark 2:27 uses general vocabulary like ergon or poiein (“to do”), not technical halakhic terms. The P’rushim, however, discern melacha — as defined through 39 skills required to construct the Mishkan — which Moshe Rabbeinu did not do on Shabbat.
        The NT does not use the technical Jewish term melacha. Therefore, the Gospel writers are not making a halakhic argument about which specific actions count as melacha. Mark 227 replaces the commandment not to do מלאכה with a declaration that shabbat made for man rather than sanctifies the מלאכה required to accomplish the 6 days of creation.
        The Rambam Yad dresses up philosophy in the garments of halacha. A NT wolf dressed in sheep wool con-job. Gemara halachic ruling only serve as witness who view the Mishnaic Case/Din viewed only from different witness perspectives and never from some foreign כלל of a Universal Monotheistic Tawhid God. Halacha observance in g’lut – Jews have no freedom and therefore no obligation to rule the oath sworn lands with justice. G’lut Jews “Rome becomes their New Jerusalem”.
        Never once anywhere across the Yad code does the Rambam remember the oaths sworn by the Avot to cut the brit that they alone would father the chosen Cohen people through wisdom commandments. The statute Yad assimilated abomination declares that Gemara halachot stand upon their own two feet – they operate independently from serving as precedents which interpret a specific Case/Din Mishna! This catagorical error forever separates his Yad from the Talmud codes of the B’HaG Rif Rosh and Baali Tosafot common law commentaries on the Talmud.
        Rambam’s statute halakhic system – not identical to the Torah‑she’be’al‑peh common law judicial system established by Ezra, the Anshei Knesset HaGedolah, and Chazal. Torah as Brit, not assimilated counterfeit Greek philosophy; פרדס inductive logic does not compare to Greek syllogism deductive logic. Rambam’s reduction of Torah commandments to 613 catagorically rejects the B’HaG who ruled that rabbinic commandments sanctified as wisdom mitzvot – from Sinai. Justice defines the k’vanna of the salvation from Egyptian slavery unto freedom. No where in the Rambam Yad does he once refer to justice as Sanhedrin court obligations to make a fair restitution of damages inflicted by Jews upon other Jews. No where does the Rambam ever once refer to the rejection of Shaul as Moshiach and the rebuke of David by Natan for their failure to sanctify justice as “the k’vanna” of their anointing as Moshiach – based upon the Torah precedent of Moshe anointing the House of Aaron as Moshiach.
        Rambam’s statute halacha a perversion on par but different from the Karaim and Shomronim differ from the Torah established by Ezra and the Men of the Great Assembly. Rambam subsumes לא בשמים היא to a Tawhid Allah Universal God. Hence בדיעבד he permits a Jew to daven in a Mosque. Rambam’s this-worldly, political-national definition fails to validate the mitzva of Moshiach as a wisdom bound time-oriented commandment. His Sefer Ha’Mitzvot limits the 613 commandments to positive and negative commandments which do not require k’vanna. He confuses a building of wood and stone as the substance of צדק צדק תרדוף; that’s as false as JeZeus is God or Muhammad is a Torah prophet. He fails to discern that Shalom a verb that stands upon trust; whereas peace a noun forever used as Greek propaganda rhetoric to rule the mob/masses. His erroneous nonsense fails to learn Torah common law precedents as the basis to interpret wisdom k’vanna; Moshe anointed the House of Aaron as Moshiach to dedicate korbanot with the wisdom to sanctify צדק צדק תרדוף through Sanhedrin common law courtrooms! Restore Israel and build the Temple confuses klippot/bark with justice fruits of National Independence/responsibility\accountability. Slaves – Jews in g’lut have none of these three priorities of “freedom”.
        Sugya: Shabbat 49b–50a, this sugya is perfect because it exposes the difference between Talmudic method and Rambam’s method. The sugya’s structure – inductive; start with a case then brings proofs, analogies, counter-proofs. It derives principles and applies them back to Mishna Case\din. In Hilchot Shabbat 7:1–2, Rambam simply states: “There are 39 melachot… these are the categories of prohibited labor.” His Yad presents – a closed list, no Mishna case; no sugya reasoning; no witness-perspectives; no inductive derivation; no connection to the oaths by which the Avot cut the brit to father the chosen Cohen people, the משל\נמשל Mishkan/Shekinah within the Yatzir Ha-Tov בכל לבבך interpretation made by rabbi Yechuda’s tefillah דאורייתא.
        Contrast the Rif\Tosafot/Rosh: The Rif quotes the sugya almost verbatim, preserving the reasoning. The Tosafot analyze contradictions, exceptions, and conceptual boundaries. Rosh preserves the disputes and the logic – they all treat the sugya as jurisprudence, not legislation. In Hilchot Shabbat 12–13, Rambam “One who carries from reshut to reshut is liable…” “If he carries less than a shiur, he is exempt…” The Mishnah (Shabbat 1:1) presents a case: A poor man outside, a homeowner inside – who extends a hand vs ho takes or places. The Gemara analyzes: Intent, domains, agency, minimal quantities and purpose of carrying – case/based reasoning. The Rif code treats halacha as precedent; the Rosh treats halacha as jurisprudence. The Rambam Yad abstractions switches justice into statute – not brit obligations. The Rif/Rosh do not codify the mitzva of Moshiach. They treat it as aggadic-halacha which צריך עיין.

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      4. Planting the mussar seeds of justice within the hearts of the Jewish people as Chag Pesach approaches.
        The traditional vertical court system fails to deliver true justice and equality, whereas the T’NaCH and Talmud present a transformative vision through horizontal courts that empower justices to collaborate in decision-making. The standard model of judicial systems worldwide, including Israel, operates on a vertical framework where individuals face the State, and the government funds the salaries of judges and prosecutors.
        In contrast, the T’NaCH and Talmud propose a different vision of courtroom justice. My scholarship emphasizes the establishment of a court of three Torts Justices, specifically designed to address cases of physical damages. This model represents a radical shift from vertical British Star-courts to horizontal courts, akin to the American Revolution’s establishment of the jury system.
        I have served as a judge on a 23-member Sanhedrin Capital Crimes exile court and later on the Great Court in Jerusalem, consisting of 71 justices for Final Appeals. Unfortunately, many of my rabbinic peers concentrated their legal education on statute-law and religious halachic ritual codifications developed during the dark days of Jewish exile in Europe and Arab lands, a period characterized by political chaos and called the ‘Dark Ages.’ The post-Shoah modern Jewish state bears little resemblance to those long-suffering societies that lived as stateless refugees, deprived of essential social and political rights.
        The Talmud vision to serve as the model of common law courts when the Jews reconquered our homelands away from any Goyim attempts to dictate terms. The Talmud bases its vision of common law courts upon the earlier T’NaCH common law prophetic commands of mussar. Prophets commanded mussar to kings, fully aware that mussar a person cannot command. Not to kings nor to all generations living thereafter. Mussar, as a rebuke, compares to a seed that sprouts and grows from within the hearts and not from words which denounce wrongs made by people long since dead. The vision of prophetic mussar – plays a long game.
        Confronted with defeat, I failed to convince or sway a majority of my judicial peers that the Torah Constitution mandates common law courts; wherein one justice, in the 3 man most simple Torts example, appointed as the prosecution – opposed by a second justice who argues the defense. Both required to write a brief of precedent cases, wherein that judge attempts to sway or persuade his opposing other – court justice judge – that the case-precedents contained in his “brief”, more closely resemble the case currently heard before the court. And visa-versa, the same equally applies with the judicial opposing Case/precedent brief. Only in a situation where both of these opposing justices, that they failed to persuade their opposing “other” – of the merits of their precedents – only in this dead-lock would the 3rd court Judge rule one way or the other.
        The specific case where Rav Shwartz argued that the Sanhedrin should judge a judicial dispute of damages which occurred in the jurisdiction of American courts. I failed to convince Rav Shwartz that mesechta Sanhedrin Aggadita which refers to bnai noach goyim only referred to gere toshav persons living within the borders of Judea. Rav Shwartz relied upon the ruling of the Rambam. I failed to convince a majority of my Sanhedrin peers that statute law not the same as common law. An absolute disgrace for the post Shoah Sanhedrin courts to base our legal system upon Roman statute law legal systems – on par with the NT wolf dressed in wool metaphor.
        Rav Shwartz focused upon the tactics of the case at hand and failed to perceive the strategic ‘Big Picture’.
        Lateral common law court justices do not receive any salary from State authorities or figures. Just as kashrut police should not receive a salary from the stores they police for kashrut. A lateral common law court – similar to Israeli health insurance – court justices paid a salary from legal insurance till the people who make a damage claim dispute require a courtroom hearing. One against another wherein the guilty agrees to pay a portion of court costs – the time required for the court to resolve their damage dispute; restore trust by awarding fair compensation of damages inflicted upon the injured party.
        The T’NaCH prophets vision of common law expressed through the precise medium of mussar. If compared to the metaphor of a Loom prophetic mussar contrasts with Talmudic common law “threads” which make the warp/weft woven fabric of Talmudic common law. Mishnaic common law, expressed through prior Case/Rule judicial ruling precedents. The Gemara – both within the Yerushalmi and later Bavli – employs halachot as judicial precedents. Meaning, these judicial halachic precedents משל instruct the נמשל of witnesses testifying what they personally saw in a case heard before a Sanhedrin court. Just as the ‘Front/Top\Side views of a blueprint present different picture images, so too the perspectives seen by different eye-witnesses before the court.
        The statute law codification of religious ritual observance made during the Dark Ages of Jewish exile no more apply to a Sanhedrin court in post Shoah Israel than the Sanhedrin court has a judicial mandate to judge Goyim disputes in foreign lands abroad! The jurisdiction of the Great Sanhedrin בטול to within the borders of Israel just as the first Commandment Sinai Name בטול to the Divine Names in the first Book of בראשית wherein the Avot witnessed the vision of God in the Heavens above and the Earth below. Whereas the Sinai revelation makes, so to speak the Ari’s mysticism – Tzimtzum; תורה לא בשמים היא. Meaning the Spirit of the 1st Commandment Name – post the Yom Kippur revelation of the 13 tohor spirits/Oral Torah – that this שם השם לשמה Spirit dwells only within the Yatzir Ha-Tov hearts of the chosen Cohen people.
        What conditions must exist for this בטול of אל שדי in the Heavens above to השם restricted to the Yatzir Ha-Tov tohor middot within the Cohen peoples’ hearts? Only to the living and not the dead. Jews tuck their tzitzits into their pockets with visiting a grave. Mitzvot לשמה only apply with living Jews within the borders of ארץ ישראל. Jews living in foreign lands – remain in Egypt. Slaves no more free than Judea ruled by Roman appointed kings or governors.
        Consequently the spirits of the 13 tohor middot which Moshe Rabbeinu heard on Yom Kippur – where HaShem made “t’shuva” and remembered that only the Avot would father the chosen Cohen seed, not Moshe, nor JeZeus, nor Muhammad. Claims of ‘Son of God’ compare to Ishmael bound upon the altar by Avraham! All substitute theological belief systems, such as the Tawhid or Trinity – equal to and no different from Goyim who style themselves as being “bnai Noach” while living in Goyim countries abroad. The revelation of the 1st Commandment שם השם לשמה made only to the 12 Tribes of Israel who came out of Egypt to conquer Canaan. Hence rabbi Akiva argues that the Wilderness generation has no portion in the world to come. World to come learns from the brit cut between the pieces wherein Avram asked what could אל שדי give his seeing he had no seed? That oath brit cut there, stands upon the oath that the Avot, starting with Avram, would father the chosen Cohen people — in the future עולם הבא.
        The din of כרת, this Torah curse – the opposite of the ברכה known as ger tzeddik. Just as the latter a new creation so too the former. Hence the court has the mussar mandate of נידוי. For example: if a man profanes his קידושין oath, and refuses to return Title to the acquire נפש עולם הבא soul of his wife, the court can impose the din of כרת, based upon the precedent of the Wilderness generation who refused to rise up and conquer the land of Canaan. The נידוי din imposed upon the Wilderness generation, does it not likewise explain the din of the Shoah upon European Jewry.
        This type of lateral court the vision of both the T’NaCH and Talmud, excludes by definition the T’zeddukim or the alien Goyim – imported by the Assyrian king who conquered the kingdom of the 10 Tribe republic of Israel, whose decree imposed a mass population transfer of the tribal kingdom of Israel. Who replaced a foreign peoples, from other nations – equally conquered by that same evil empire. This specific alien people who embraced the Torah, due to their great dread: “fear of lions”, planted by the Assyrian king in Shimron – historically the lands of Samaria; the NT Greek work refers to these despise foreign imported aliens – as Samaritans – whom the Jews greatly despised. Ezra’s generation (Ezra 4:1-3) rejected the “assistance” of the Shimronim to build the 2nd Temple.
        Isaiah, a great prophet of the kingdom of Yechuda, referred to king Cyrus as “moshiach’. He permitted Yechudim exiles to return and rebuild our nation. But the great king, while he paid from his own national treasury the expense to build Ezra’s Temple, that king rule an empire of 127 conquered collapsed nation states like the examples of both conquered kingdoms of Yechuda and Israel. Yechuda, the name of the 4 son of Yaacov, king Cyrus labelled Yechudim as “Jews”. That name, has stuck to this very day in time.
        The Book of Esther, set during the reign of King Ahasuerus, often identified with Xerxes I of Persia; about 2 generations prior to king Cyrus who permitted Jews to return from conquered Babylonian exile. The Persian empire conquered the defunct Babylonian empire – occupied the current State of Iraq today.
        The Gemara – a commentary on the Mishnah. A compilation of Jewish oral laws codified by Rabbi Yehuda haNasi, rather than a direct commentary on rulings of the Great Sanhedrin. While the title of ‘Great Sanhedrin’ the Romans technically maintained/permitted. That “court” compares to the ‘Great Sanhedrin’ established by Napoleon! That Gemara commentary written in Iraq, supplemented an earlier attempt to do the same thing within the borders of Judea itself. But the Yerushalmi attempt collapsed about 90 years after rabbi Yechuda made his first formal codification of Sanhedrin courtroom rulings, established prior to the Romans imposing first king Herod and later Roman governors to ruled that tiny land – which the Romans renamed as Palestine.
        This latter name, the League of Nations referred to in their 1922 Palestine Mandate, which authorized Britain to restore a Jewish national home in “Palestine”, based upon the 1917 Balfour Agreement and the policy of the Great King Cyrus of the extinct Persian empire destroyed by Alexander the Great. All Arab and Muslim conquered provinces, ruled by Britain and other European great powers, who later attained their own national independence, condemned both the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate which directed England to establish a Jewish National Home in Palestine.
        All Arab Israeli wars fought starting with the 1948 Independence War, Arab and Muslim warring states fundamentally reject that dhimmi Jews have equal rights to achieve self determination in the Middle East. Arabs argued that once lands conquered by Arabs, that those lands could not change their status. Since the Camp David Accords and later Abraham Accords more and more Arab and Muslim countries have started to recognize Jewish equal rights to self determination in the Middle East.
        Since the 1948 War of National Independence, foreign state imperialism has attempted through UN Resolutions to determine the borders of the Jewish state. But Israel, once it won its national Independence ceased to exist as a ward of the UN protectorate mantle. Post ’67 UN “Star Courts” have attempted to treat Israel as a protectorate of the UN. Such Top-down decrees, serve only foreign attempts by countries like England and France to restore their deposed ‘Great Power’ status across the Middle East. Especially after Eisenhower & Stalin forced London and Paris to withdraw their attempt to seize control of the Suez Canal. Post ’67 with LBJ tied down in the Vietnam War, Britain and France attempted to restore their dominance in the balance of power in the Middle East by introducing UN Resolution 242.
        Great Power interference through the UN Security Council, indicates a collective ‘Great Power’ effort to address ME conflicts … to dominate the balance of power in the ME. The UN 242 language “the right of all states to live in peace”, implies Palestine as a State! Later UN Resolutions of condemnations over settlements and occupation proves conclusively the hostile intent of ‘Great Powers’ to dominate the balance of Power in the Middle East. Absolutely no different than from the attempt in 1956 to seize the Suez Canal. These so-called defrocked great powers – they do not determine the borders of the Jewish state nor the Capital of the Jewish state anymore than Britain and France determine the borders of the US or Russia or the respective Capital cities of those Independent Nation states.
        Post the Oct7th Abomination War, UN Top-down justice attempted to declare a unilateral decree which condemned Jerusalem guilty for the war-crime of genocide. The ICJ and ICC, the later Israel never validated the Rome agreement, likewise condemned the Israeli PM as a war-criminal. Despite the failure of the International Red Cross to visit Israeli hostages held in Hamas dungeons and UNRWA’s participation in the Oct 7th massacre.

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      5. By their fruits you shall know them …… calls for accountability. Not what a person believes in this or that god. But how a person pursues justice – fair compensation of damages inflicted upon victims. All branches of the church abomination ignore accountability over “born again nonsense stupidity”.

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