Tomorrow night begins the holiday of Chanukah, Here’s a fine video from our friends at The Land of Israel, that sketches the historical roots of the Festival of Lights and its modern relevance.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW138NkFoI8[/youtube]
Allow me to add an important historical note.
It is true that the Jewish revolt was directed against the Seleucid Empire, but the Maccabean revolution was also a declaration of war against apostate Jews who rejected Judaism and Jewish nationalism in favor of the dominant pagan culture.
In fact, the revolution was sparked when, in approximately 167 BCE, in the village of Modiin, a Jew—the progressive liberal of his time—stepped forward to worship an idol, and was killed on the spot by the priest Matityahu, father of Judah the Maccabee, who, with his valiant brothers, led the ferocious and ultimately successful guerilla war against the professional Seleucid armies.
This renegade Jew is still with us, still anxious to sacrifice at the altar of paganism and betray Judaism and the land of Israel in favor of a new and shiny ideal that is, at the core, corrupt and anti-Semitic.
Thus, as much as the enemy in today’s world is political Islam, the internal enemy is, in many ways, far more insidious, for these apostate Jews justify and enable forces that seek to establish a caliphate empire.
Dear Robert:
Happy Chanukah to you and yours.
The Greco-Roman conception of a deity is capricious, arbitrary and nasty in the way of the basest instincts of humans.
HaShem declares the rules of the universe (Torah and Mitzvoth) and He is bound by the rules He declares. The Universe of HaShem makes sense, is logical, and can be comprehended by us.
The Greco-Roman conception has one rule, power. You may do anything as long as you have the power to do so. (as an aside Islam is NOT an Abrahamic religion because Allah is arbitrary, capricious, and bound by no rules.)
Those secularist Jews like Friedman the Despicable worship only power and the reflection of their own egos. They only fear the opinion of their ilk. They see themselves as deities and unanswerable to anyone or anything. This is the un-human ethic of totalitarianism and they see no higher power than that of the cravings of their animal souls (in the sense of Chasiddus).
May the Almighty Bless Us in this season of light and turn the hearts of our elites towards Torah and Mizvoth.
Best Wishes and Regards
Dovid Fauman
Amen!
A freilechen Chanukah!
Mordechai
Happy Chanukah, Robert and all the observant Jews on this website.
Happy Chanukah to Robert, Karen and the entire Avrech family, and to all of the readers of Seraphic Secret as well.
Shalom,
PJ
Prophet Joe:
Thanks so much. And a Merry Christmas to you and yours.
May you and yours have a very happy Chanukah, Robert.
GW:
Thanks so much. A Merry Christmas to you and yours.
This renegade Jew is still with us, still anxious to sacrifice at the altar of paganism and betray Judaism and the land of Israel in favor of a new and shiny ideal that is, at the core, corrupt and anti-Semitic.
If only it were that simple …
Any ideology that these renegade Jews have, does not withstand critical scrutiny, and its hypocrisy is easily exposed, and its factual foundations clearly refuted.
What motivates these Jews is their overwhelming desire to be accepted by the liberal establishment.
The way they distance themselves from authentic Judaism and Israel, often to the point of being more anti-Semitic than the non-Jewish liberals, is a pathetic desperate insanity that cries out:
“ See, we’re not like those Jews, we can hate them even more than you do, so can you please, please, please, like us now ?!”
I hope and pray, that if this is repeatedly brought home to them in a way that they cannot deflect it, that their insanity will one day clear and dissipate.
May the One Who Heals all maladies, speedily bring a complete and lasting recovery to their Spiritual illness …
Exdemexlib:
Many of these Hellenized Jews are prominent in the media: Thomas Friedman of the New York Times is probably the best representative of this kind of Jew. His recent comment about the Israel Lobby having bought the American Congress is outright Jew-hatred, a libel beloved by the Muslim world.