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Having a deep conversation with Gary: lutherwasnotbornagain.com here on wordpress.

He writes: Although the allusions in non-Christian sources (the Jewish historian Josephus, the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, and Talmudic texts) are almost negligible, they refute the unsubstantiated notion that Jesus might never have existed.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity/The-relation-of-the-early-church-to-the-career-and-intentions-of-Jesus
While there is no archaeological or other physical evidence for his existence, most scholars agree that Jesus did exist and that he was born sometime in the decade before the Common Era and crucified sometime between 26-36 CE (the years when the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, ruled Judea).

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-do-jews-believe-about-jesus/

Although the allusions in non-Christian sources (the Jewish historian Josephus, the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, and Talmudic texts) are almost negligible, they refute the unsubstantiated notion that Jesus might never have existed.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity/The-relation-of-the-early-church-to-the-career-and-intentions-of-Jesus
While there is no archaeological or other physical evidence for his existence, most scholars agree that Jesus did exist and that he was born sometime in the decade before the Common Era and crucified sometime between 26-36 CE (the years when the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, ruled Judea).

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-do-jews-believe-about-jesus/

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My response:
mosckerr

April 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Hi Gary your sentence presents an interesting tension: on one hand, it acknowledges that non-Christian references to Jesus are “almost negligible,” yet on the other hand, it asserts that they are sufficient to refute the claim that Jesus never existed.

Who are these “the majority of scholars agree that Jesus was a historical figure”? The Talmud interprets the T’NaCH, that it commands prophetic mussar rather than history. Why because mussar applies across the board equally to all generations, whereas history applies to only one generation who lived thousands of years ago.

Bart Ehrman (agnostic/atheist, textual critic): Did Jesus Exist? (2012)
E. P. Sanders (Christian, New Testament scholar): The Historical Figure of Jesus (1993)
John P. Meier (Catholic priest and historian): A Marginal Jew (multi-volume)
Paula Fredriksen (historian of ancient Christianity and Judaism)
Geza Vermes (Jewish historian and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar)

These scholars draw their conclusions, based upon “historical-critical methods” applied to both canonical and non-canonical sources, and cross-referenced with Roman and Jewish texts.

Rabbi Akiva, for example, famously interpreted every extra letter of the Torah as containing halakhic or moral significance—not merely historical data. The stories of Avraham, Yosef, Moshe, etc., are less about documenting past events and more about conveying archetypes of emunah (faith), din (justice), rachamim (compassion), and the different & distinct oath britot. Tefillen, for example, shares a common denominator with Sefer Torah – with either a person can swear a Torah oath. The Order of the Rashi tefillen different than the Order of the Rabbeinu Tam (Rashi’s grand-son) tefillen. This dispute by Reshonim scholars 1057 – 1185 CE. Rashi started his formal Talmudic education in 1057 and Rabbeinu Tam passed in 1185 — both dates approximate. Once you go way back into history, it becomes a guessing game for later generations.

The Classic viewpoint taken by Tannaim and Amoraim scholars, the people who wrote the Mishna and Gemara; and the Gaonim Era of scholarship. Rav Ashi and Rav Ravinna sealed the Talmud at about 450 CE. Why? So that all generations thereafter would have the same masoret traditions. Such that the earlier generations could not make a valid claim that they were closer to the actual Torah revelation in time. Hence the generation of Ezra sealed the T’NaCH and Rabbi Yechuda sealed his Mishna in about 210 CE.

Jewish history from 550 to 1038 C.E marked by intense scholarship at the Babylonian academies by scholars who studied and interpreted the Talmud. This time period known as the Gaonim period which preceded the Reshonim period 950 – 1400 CE. The gap between the sealing of the Talmud and the Gaonim period, known as the Sovoraim scholars – the final editors of the Talmud.

The Historical-Critical Method stems from German Protestant Origins. The historical-critical method emerged out of 18th–19th century German Protestant scholarship, especially during the Enlightenment. Its foundations, laid by thinkers like: Julius Wellhausen, F.C. Baur, David Friedrich Strauss (The Life of Jesus Critically Examined, 1835), and Rudolf Bultmann, who sought to “demythologize” the New Testament. This approach aimed to strip the Bible of its divine authority and treat it like any other piece of ancient literature—subject to human error, redaction layers, myth-making, and ideological editing. In short, historical-critical scholars de-sacralized Scripture and tried to reconstruct the “real” history behind the text, often in direct opposition to traditional Talmudic and post Talmudic Jewish or even Christian attempts to monopolize how to read and interpret scripture. Persons like William Tyndale (executed in 1536), serve as but one glaring example of the church efforts to dictate how the Bible understood.

By the mid-20th century, major assumptions of Higher Criticism were heavily critiqued—even from within its own camp. Archaeological finds (e.g., Dead Sea Scrolls, Ugaritic texts) complicated Wellhausen’s clean chronological categories. Linguistic and literary studies questioned the neat separation of J, E, D, P sources. Form and redaction critics began to focus more on the final form of texts, acknowledging the limitations of speculative source division.

Even Jewish scholars like Umberto Cassuto and later Moshe Greenberg challenged Higher Criticism, defending the unity and structure of the Torah as a coherent work. Umberto Cassuto and Moshe Greenberg stand as important counterpoints to the Protestant-European dominance of historical-critical scholarship. Each, in his own way, pushed back against the Wellhausenian paradigm and sought to restore Torah’s integrity as a unified and deeply meaningful text—rooted not in myth or redaction, but in remembering the oaths sworn when great Torah leaders swore an oath brit alliance.

The deep irony emerges: the same Protestant German method that tried to discredit the historical reliability of Tanakh, now Gary you use, along with some New Testament scholars to argue for the historicity of Jesus! Bunk. German Protestant Higher Criticism knows nothing of prophetic mussar. This 19th Century scholarship, utterly foreign to the logic of Torah and Oral Torah (e.g., PaRDeS, כלל ופרט); Protestant theology in general and Higher Criticism in particular – both operate from a framework that rejects the Oral Torah brit of Sinai as mythology or nationalism. So when secular or liberal Christian scholars use “historical-critical” methods to say “Jesus surely existed,” it’s not based on any Torah-rooted epistemology, but on Enlightenment rationalism and Euro-Christian assumptions.

This explains why the Talmud doesn’t engage in historical apologetics. Its scholarship makes no attempt or effort to prove Moshe existed or David ruled over Israel in archaeological terms. Its authority comes from the oath brit alliance and deriving the specific oaths sworn in order to cut T’NaCH britot. I brought the dispute between Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam over the order of tefillen as an example of this classic type of scholarship which strives to remember and distinguish between oath from oath sworn.

Post Talmudic scholarship branched off into two opposing main schools. The Baal HaMaor understood the Talmud as judicial common law which interprets the distinctions which separate earlier Court rulings on cases heard before the Courts from later Court ruling heard before the Courts. The opposing branch of classic post Talmudic scholarship focused upon organizing law into simple religious codes to address the needs of the Jewish people scattered across all of the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

The Baal HaMaor line of scholarship, whose research the ongoing interpretive chain of tradition—not from historical-critical validation—lost the debate. The opposite of the P’rushim vs. Tzeddukim Civil War in Judea remembered through lighting the lights of Hanukkah. The B’HaG ruled that remembering the oath sworn when lighting the lights of Hanukkah elevates this rabbinic mitzva unto a Torah time oriented commandment!

My Rav learned from Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv the sh’itta/methodology of Common Law interpretive school of Talmudic scholarship. The opposing branch that turned the halacha into Codes of Jewish law, based itself primarily upon Greek and Roman statute law assimilated influences. A direct violation of a Torah negative commandment. The Rambam replaced the Pardes logic of rabbi Akiva’s kabbalah of the Oral Torah with Aristotle’s syllogism. The Pardes logic – inductive reasoning, whereas Aristotle’s logic – deductive reasoning! A day and night difference on the order of static vs dynamic engineering.

As Rabbi Soloveitchik, a 20th Century Modern Orthodox famous scholar, once said: “We do not believe in Torah because it is historically verified; we believe because of the revelation at Sinai, transmitted through our mesorah.”

Euro-Christian historicism merits respect on par with manure used as fertilizer. The historical-critical method emerged in 18th–19th century German Protestant scholarship, rooted in Enlightenment rationalism. Thinkers such as Julius Wellhausen, F.C. Baur, David Friedrich Strauss, and Rudolf Bultmann laid the foundations of this approach. Their goal was to strip the Bible of divine authority and treat it like any other flawed ancient text—subject to myth-making, redaction, ideological bias, and historical error.

The rich irony, the very German Protestant methodology designed to discredit the Torah’s historicity, now widely used by Christian scholars to argue for the historicity of Jesus! A theological sleight of hand! These scholars—often secular or liberal Christians—employ Enlightenment-era tools, not to validate prophecy, brit, or Divine law, but to construct a quasi-historical Jesus that fits modern ideological preferences. These conclusions simply not rooted in Torah epistemology, (branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, sources, limits, and validity of knowledge), nor in Talmudic interpretive traditions like PaRDeS or klal u’prat, but in Euro-Christian rationalism and post-Reformation theological assumptions. And unlike the prophetic mussar of the T’NaCH—which applies equally to all generations—the historical Jesus belongs to a distant past, devoid of national covenant, divine command, or legal brit.

The epistemological sleight of hand that the historical-critical method performs: it tries to debunk Torah by treating it like a myth, then constructs a sanitized Jesus through the very same tools. It’s like using acid to dissolve Sinai and then bottling what’s left as some kind of universal moral tonic. All this Enlightenment-era critique may ironically serve to reawaken a deeper appreciation of the Torah’s non-historicist logic—rooted in brit, mussar, and legal accountability, not in positivist source analysis.

Historical-critical scholars approach prophecy as if it were Hellenistic historiography—missing entirely the oath britot alliances that go beyond merely the functions of nevu’ah restricted to a caged moral summons, some historical archive. Torah functions as a Constitutional political document. Judea sit at the throat of a major artery of trade that connects North Africa to Europe! Countless military invasions have likewise warred through the Middle East! Hence the concept of oath sworn alliances first and foremost addresses political alliances and not religious theological belief systems.

That Wellhausen’s model—which once deemed Torah as myth—now retroactively used to support Jesus as a real figure – not myth?! A philosophical bait-and-switch. Historical Jesus studies often end up “re-sacralizing” Jesus in liberal moral terms (as proto-socialist, proto-anti-racist, etc.), bypassing any divine brit or halakhic framework. It’s the liberal Protestant version of avodah zarah.

The Talmud never “proves” Moshe existed. It presupposes brit, which his Torah instructs. The authority of the Torah, not empirical but juridical. The brit itself—the foundational claim—not historical reconstructions, not evidence from Ugarit, a large body of ancient texts discovered at the archaeological site of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria) in the late 1920s. Torah logic (PaRDeS, klal u’prat, midrash halakhah), in a word – generative. It strives to remember the oaths, for example, sworn by the Avot, by which they cut an oath brit alliance with the Divine and established the chosen Cohen nation. Greek logic (like Aristotle’s syllogisms) aims at abstraction and metaphysics. They’re not just different tools—they imply different realities.

The very methodology that once dismissed Torah as legend, now enlisted to “prove” that Jesus existed—not as a fulfillment of brit or nevu’ah, but as a proto-liberal symbol molded by modern ideology? This bait-and-switch, not merely methodological—rather it represents theological avodah zarah. Historical Jesus studies, especially in liberal Protestant and secular academic circles, no longer aim at truth through brit judicial common law justice. Instead, they fabricate a figure who satisfies postmodern tastes—Jesus the anti-imperialist, the community organizer, the intersectional savior. All this without mitzvot, without brit, without Sinai and without Horev Oral Torah Pardes logic.

Historical-critical scholars misread prophetic literature, as if it were Greek-style historiography or some political memoir. They miss that nevu’ah in Tanakh, nothing about chronicling the past—but rather sustaining the oath sworn alliances which apply to all the generations who trouble to “remember” those specific sworn oath alliances in the first place. The past or “history” serves only as a tool to study mussar in “historical contexts”. The prophets don’t merely “moralize”—they litigate. Nevu’ah as the key legal mechanism, expressed through Aggadah in a constitutional framework of Torah בראשית & Talmud. And the Torah itself most definitely not “Xtian scripture” in the new testament, koran, book of mormon and scientology substitute scriptures – sense. The Sefer Torah serves as the first oath-brit codification, a national charter built on public oaths and collective responsibility.

Wellhausen, Baur, Strauss, and Bultmann were not merely academic critics—they were Protestant theologians operating within post-Reformation frameworks. They saw religion as belief systems, not political-legal sworn alliances! Situated at the strategic crossroads of competing empires, Judea – always a geopolitical pressure point. That’s why Torah begins with the Avot swearing oaths, and why every brit alliance in Tanakh completely political—land, law, and loyalty—and not abstract belief system theologies or Creeds. The Avot in their day a tiny speck minority population, as likewise the Jewish people relative to the Goyim today.

Hence, Talmudic tradition doesn’t argue for Moshe’s historicity, the way historians argue for Julius Caesar. Moshe Rabbeinu accepted not through archaeological proof but through juridical continuity: mesorah, halakhah, brit, and Sanhedrin common law courts of law. The Oral Torah remembers the oath alliances sworn by my forefathers. The Oral Torah remembers the oath alliances, viewed through interpretive Torah logic discipline, not historical or even physical forensic evidence. The modern scientific method which requires empirical physical evidence as much avoda zara as Euclid’s 5 axiom of geometry which limits reality to three physical dimensions. The question isn’t “Did it happen?”—it’s “What oath does this obligate me to today?”

At the root lies an epistemic chasm. Torah logic—PaRDeS, כלל ופרט, midrash halakhah—the kabbalah of inductive, generative, dynamic Oral Torah reasoning. It reads horizontally across generations, preserving and applying the brit through interpretive tradition. It prioritizes & remembers oaths, not merely historical events. Greek logic, by contrast—epitomized in Aristotle’s syllogism—deductive, hierarchical, and abstract. It searches for universal forms and metaphysical truths. Torah logic binds the people to HaShem through brit. Greek logic abstracts truth from history and separates law from life.

Herein why the Rambam’s use of Aristotelian categories, while brilliant, marked a radical “Civil War Hanukkah” shift toward Tzeddukim codification and away from P’rushim fluid common-law methods of Talmudic dialectic. Why the Baal HaMaor’s line of thinking—seeing halakhah as jurisprudence, not religion—holds the key to reawakening and please HaShem, restoring the Sanhedrin lateral common law Federal Court system within a Torah Constitutional Republic as the post 1967 June War victory of Zionism, as much or more so over European imperialism as Arab racist Nazism which rejects the 1917 Balfour and 1947 two/thirds UN General Assembly vote which recognized Jews equal rights to achieve self-determination in the Middle East! Not a state run by some crude and utterly primitive Theocracy, which spins around a worthless central axis of a grand building made of wood and stone but the Torah faith: צדק צדק תרדוף. A republic founded on oath alliances—a Torah Constitutional Republic. A sovereign nation whose law flows from Sinai, not from tin-horned theologians, historians, or Enlightenment skeptics. Not a postmodern Jesus built from Protestant Shoah ruins, but the living memory of Horev, written not in parchment alone but in brit-bound hearts of the chosen Cohen people.

He writes: Although the allusions in non-Christian sources (the Jewish historian Josephus, the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, and Talmudic texts) are almost negligible, they refute the unsubstantiated notion that Jesus might never have existed.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity/The-relation-of-the-early-church-to-the-career-and-intentions-of-Jesus
While there is no archaeological or other physical evidence for his existence, most scholars agree that Jesus did exist and that he was born sometime in the decade before the Common Era and crucified sometime between 26-36 CE (the years when the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, ruled Judea).

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-do-jews-believe-about-jesus/

Although the allusions in non-Christian sources (the Jewish historian Josephus, the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, and Talmudic texts) are almost negligible, they refute the unsubstantiated notion that Jesus might never have existed.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity/The-relation-of-the-early-church-to-the-career-and-intentions-of-Jesus
While there is no archaeological or other physical evidence for his existence, most scholars agree that Jesus did exist and that he was born sometime in the decade before the Common Era and crucified sometime between 26-36 CE (the years when the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, ruled Judea).

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-do-jews-believe-about-jesus/

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My response:
mosckerr

April 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Hi Gary your sentence presents an interesting tension: on one hand, it acknowledges that non-Christian references to Jesus are “almost negligible,” yet on the other hand, it asserts that they are sufficient to refute the claim that Jesus never existed.

Who are these “the majority of scholars agree that Jesus was a historical figure”? The Talmud interprets the T’NaCH, that it commands prophetic mussar rather than history. Why because mussar applies across the board equally to all generations, whereas history applies to only one generation who lived thousands of years ago.

Bart Ehrman (agnostic/atheist, textual critic): Did Jesus Exist? (2012)
E. P. Sanders (Christian, New Testament scholar): The Historical Figure of Jesus (1993)
John P. Meier (Catholic priest and historian): A Marginal Jew (multi-volume)
Paula Fredriksen (historian of ancient Christianity and Judaism)
Geza Vermes (Jewish historian and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar)

These scholars draw their conclusions, based upon “historical-critical methods” applied to both canonical and non-canonical sources, and cross-referenced with Roman and Jewish texts.

Rabbi Akiva, for example, famously interpreted every extra letter of the Torah as containing halakhic or moral significance—not merely historical data. The stories of Avraham, Yosef, Moshe, etc., are less about documenting past events and more about conveying archetypes of emunah (faith), din (justice), rachamim (compassion), and the different & distinct oath britot. Tefillen, for example, shares a common denominator with Sefer Torah – with either a person can swear a Torah oath. The Order of the Rashi tefillen different than the Order of the Rabbeinu Tam (Rashi’s grand-son) tefillen. This dispute by Reshonim scholars 1057 – 1185 CE. Rashi started his formal Talmudic education in 1057 and Rabbeinu Tam passed in 1185 — both dates approximate. Once you go way back into history, it becomes a guessing game for later generations.

The Classic viewpoint taken by Tannaim and Amoraim scholars, the people who wrote the Mishna and Gemara; and the Gaonim Era of scholarship. Rav Ashi and Rav Ravinna sealed the Talmud at about 450 CE. Why? So that all generations thereafter would have the same masoret traditions. Such that the earlier generations could not make a valid claim that they were closer to the actual Torah revelation in time. Hence the generation of Ezra sealed the T’NaCH and Rabbi Yechuda sealed his Mishna in about 210 CE.

Jewish history from 550 to 1038 C.E marked by intense scholarship at the Babylonian academies by scholars who studied and interpreted the Talmud. This time period known as the Gaonim period which preceded the Reshonim period 950 – 1400 CE. The gap between the sealing of the Talmud and the Gaonim period, known as the Sovoraim scholars – the final editors of the Talmud.

The Historical-Critical Method stems from German Protestant Origins. The historical-critical method emerged out of 18th–19th century German Protestant scholarship, especially during the Enlightenment. Its foundations, laid by thinkers like: Julius Wellhausen, F.C. Baur, David Friedrich Strauss (The Life of Jesus Critically Examined, 1835), and Rudolf Bultmann, who sought to “demythologize” the New Testament. This approach aimed to strip the Bible of its divine authority and treat it like any other piece of ancient literature—subject to human error, redaction layers, myth-making, and ideological editing. In short, historical-critical scholars de-sacralized Scripture and tried to reconstruct the “real” history behind the text, often in direct opposition to traditional Talmudic and post Talmudic Jewish or even Christian attempts to monopolize how to read and interpret scripture. Persons like William Tyndale (executed in 1536), serve as but one glaring example of the church efforts to dictate how the Bible understood.

By the mid-20th century, major assumptions of Higher Criticism were heavily critiqued—even from within its own camp. Archaeological finds (e.g., Dead Sea Scrolls, Ugaritic texts) complicated Wellhausen’s clean chronological categories. Linguistic and literary studies questioned the neat separation of J, E, D, P sources. Form and redaction critics began to focus more on the final form of texts, acknowledging the limitations of speculative source division.

Even Jewish scholars like Umberto Cassuto and later Moshe Greenberg challenged Higher Criticism, defending the unity and structure of the Torah as a coherent work. Umberto Cassuto and Moshe Greenberg stand as important counterpoints to the Protestant-European dominance of historical-critical scholarship. Each, in his own way, pushed back against the Wellhausenian paradigm and sought to restore Torah’s integrity as a unified and deeply meaningful text—rooted not in myth or redaction, but in remembering the oaths sworn when great Torah leaders swore an oath brit alliance.

The deep irony emerges: the same Protestant German method that tried to discredit the historical reliability of Tanakh, now Gary you use, along with some New Testament scholars to argue for the historicity of Jesus! Bunk. German Protestant Higher Criticism knows nothing of prophetic mussar. This 19th Century scholarship, utterly foreign to the logic of Torah and Oral Torah (e.g., PaRDeS, כלל ופרט); Protestant theology in general and Higher Criticism in particular – both operate from a framework that rejects the Oral Torah brit of Sinai as mythology or nationalism. So when secular or liberal Christian scholars use “historical-critical” methods to say “Jesus surely existed,” it’s not based on any Torah-rooted epistemology, but on Enlightenment rationalism and Euro-Christian assumptions.

This explains why the Talmud doesn’t engage in historical apologetics. Its scholarship makes no attempt or effort to prove Moshe existed or David ruled over Israel in archaeological terms. Its authority comes from the oath brit alliance and deriving the specific oaths sworn in order to cut T’NaCH britot. I brought the dispute between Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam over the order of tefillen as an example of this classic type of scholarship which strives to remember and distinguish between oath from oath sworn.

Post Talmudic scholarship branched off into two opposing main schools. The Baal HaMaor understood the Talmud as judicial common law which interprets the distinctions which separate earlier Court rulings on cases heard before the Courts from later Court ruling heard before the Courts. The opposing branch of classic post Talmudic scholarship focused upon organizing law into simple religious codes to address the needs of the Jewish people scattered across all of the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

The Baal HaMaor line of scholarship, whose research the ongoing interpretive chain of tradition—not from historical-critical validation—lost the debate. The opposite of the P’rushim vs. Tzeddukim Civil War in Judea remembered through lighting the lights of Hanukkah. The B’HaG ruled that remembering the oath sworn when lighting the lights of Hanukkah elevates this rabbinic mitzva unto a Torah time oriented commandment!

My Rav learned from Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv the sh’itta/methodology of Common Law interpretive school of Talmudic scholarship. The opposing branch that turned the halacha into Codes of Jewish law, based itself primarily upon Greek and Roman statute law assimilated influences. A direct violation of a Torah negative commandment. The Rambam replaced the Pardes logic of rabbi Akiva’s kabbalah of the Oral Torah with Aristotle’s syllogism. The Pardes logic – inductive reasoning, whereas Aristotle’s logic – deductive reasoning! A day and night difference on the order of static vs dynamic engineering.

As Rabbi Soloveitchik, a 20th Century Modern Orthodox famous scholar, once said: “We do not believe in Torah because it is historically verified; we believe because of the revelation at Sinai, transmitted through our mesorah.”

Euro-Christian historicism merits respect on par with manure used as fertilizer. The historical-critical method emerged in 18th–19th century German Protestant scholarship, rooted in Enlightenment rationalism. Thinkers such as Julius Wellhausen, F.C. Baur, David Friedrich Strauss, and Rudolf Bultmann laid the foundations of this approach. Their goal was to strip the Bible of divine authority and treat it like any other flawed ancient text—subject to myth-making, redaction, ideological bias, and historical error.

The rich irony, the very German Protestant methodology designed to discredit the Torah’s historicity, now widely used by Christian scholars to argue for the historicity of Jesus! A theological sleight of hand! These scholars—often secular or liberal Christians—employ Enlightenment-era tools, not to validate prophecy, brit, or Divine law, but to construct a quasi-historical Jesus that fits modern ideological preferences. These conclusions simply not rooted in Torah epistemology, (branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, sources, limits, and validity of knowledge), nor in Talmudic interpretive traditions like PaRDeS or klal u’prat, but in Euro-Christian rationalism and post-Reformation theological assumptions. And unlike the prophetic mussar of the T’NaCH—which applies equally to all generations—the historical Jesus belongs to a distant past, devoid of national covenant, divine command, or legal brit.

The epistemological sleight of hand that the historical-critical method performs: it tries to debunk Torah by treating it like a myth, then constructs a sanitized Jesus through the very same tools. It’s like using acid to dissolve Sinai and then bottling what’s left as some kind of universal moral tonic. All this Enlightenment-era critique may ironically serve to reawaken a deeper appreciation of the Torah’s non-historicist logic—rooted in brit, mussar, and legal accountability, not in positivist source analysis.

Historical-critical scholars approach prophecy as if it were Hellenistic historiography—missing entirely the oath britot alliances that go beyond merely the functions of nevu’ah restricted to a caged moral summons, some historical archive. Torah functions as a Constitutional political document. Judea sit at the throat of a major artery of trade that connects North Africa to Europe! Countless military invasions have likewise warred through the Middle East! Hence the concept of oath sworn alliances first and foremost addresses political alliances and not religious theological belief systems.

That Wellhausen’s model—which once deemed Torah as myth—now retroactively used to support Jesus as a real figure – not myth?! A philosophical bait-and-switch. Historical Jesus studies often end up “re-sacralizing” Jesus in liberal moral terms (as proto-socialist, proto-anti-racist, etc.), bypassing any divine brit or halakhic framework. It’s the liberal Protestant version of avodah zarah.

The Talmud never “proves” Moshe existed. It presupposes brit, which his Torah instructs. The authority of the Torah, not empirical but juridical. The brit itself—the foundational claim—not historical reconstructions, not evidence from Ugarit, a large body of ancient texts discovered at the archaeological site of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria) in the late 1920s. Torah logic (PaRDeS, klal u’prat, midrash halakhah), in a word – generative. It strives to remember the oaths, for example, sworn by the Avot, by which they cut an oath brit alliance with the Divine and established the chosen Cohen nation. Greek logic (like Aristotle’s syllogisms) aims at abstraction and metaphysics. They’re not just different tools—they imply different realities.

The very methodology that once dismissed Torah as legend, now enlisted to “prove” that Jesus existed—not as a fulfillment of brit or nevu’ah, but as a proto-liberal symbol molded by modern ideology? This bait-and-switch, not merely methodological—rather it represents theological avodah zarah. Historical Jesus studies, especially in liberal Protestant and secular academic circles, no longer aim at truth through brit judicial common law justice. Instead, they fabricate a figure who satisfies postmodern tastes—Jesus the anti-imperialist, the community organizer, the intersectional savior. All this without mitzvot, without brit, without Sinai and without Horev Oral Torah Pardes logic.

Historical-critical scholars misread prophetic literature, as if it were Greek-style historiography or some political memoir. They miss that nevu’ah in Tanakh, nothing about chronicling the past—but rather sustaining the oath sworn alliances which apply to all the generations who trouble to “remember” those specific sworn oath alliances in the first place. The past or “history” serves only as a tool to study mussar in “historical contexts”. The prophets don’t merely “moralize”—they litigate. Nevu’ah as the key legal mechanism, expressed through Aggadah in a constitutional framework of Torah בראשית & Talmud. And the Torah itself most definitely not “Xtian scripture” in the new testament, koran, book of mormon and scientology substitute scriptures – sense. The Sefer Torah serves as the first oath-brit codification, a national charter built on public oaths and collective responsibility.

Wellhausen, Baur, Strauss, and Bultmann were not merely academic critics—they were Protestant theologians operating within post-Reformation frameworks. They saw religion as belief systems, not political-legal sworn alliances! Situated at the strategic crossroads of competing empires, Judea – always a geopolitical pressure point. That’s why Torah begins with the Avot swearing oaths, and why every brit alliance in Tanakh completely political—land, law, and loyalty—and not abstract belief system theologies or Creeds. The Avot in their day a tiny speck minority population, as likewise the Jewish people relative to the Goyim today.

Hence, Talmudic tradition doesn’t argue for Moshe’s historicity, the way historians argue for Julius Caesar. Moshe Rabbeinu accepted not through archaeological proof but through juridical continuity: mesorah, halakhah, brit, and Sanhedrin common law courts of law. The Oral Torah remembers the oath alliances sworn by my forefathers. The Oral Torah remembers the oath alliances, viewed through interpretive Torah logic discipline, not historical or even physical forensic evidence. The modern scientific method which requires empirical physical evidence as much avoda zara as Euclid’s 5 axiom of geometry which limits reality to three physical dimensions. The question isn’t “Did it happen?”—it’s “What oath does this obligate me to today?”

At the root lies an epistemic chasm. Torah logic—PaRDeS, כלל ופרט, midrash halakhah—the kabbalah of inductive, generative, dynamic Oral Torah reasoning. It reads horizontally across generations, preserving and applying the brit through interpretive tradition. It prioritizes & remembers oaths, not merely historical events. Greek logic, by contrast—epitomized in Aristotle’s syllogism—deductive, hierarchical, and abstract. It searches for universal forms and metaphysical truths. Torah logic binds the people to HaShem through brit. Greek logic abstracts truth from history and separates law from life.

Herein why the Rambam’s use of Aristotelian categories, while brilliant, marked a radical “Civil War Hanukkah” shift toward Tzeddukim codification and away from P’rushim fluid common-law methods of Talmudic dialectic. Why the Baal HaMaor’s line of thinking—seeing halakhah as jurisprudence, not religion—holds the key to reawakening and please HaShem, restoring the Sanhedrin lateral common law Federal Court system within a Torah Constitutional Republic as the post 1967 June War victory of Zionism, as much or more so over European imperialism as Arab racist Nazism which rejects the 1917 Balfour and 1947 two/thirds UN General Assembly vote which recognized Jews equal rights to achieve self-determination in the Middle East! Not a state run by some crude and utterly primitive Theocracy, which spins around a worthless central axis of a grand building made of wood and stone but the Torah faith: צדק צדק תרדוף. A republic founded on oath alliances—a Torah Constitutional Republic. A sovereign nation whose law flows from Sinai, not from tin-horned theologians, historians, or Enlightenment skeptics. Not a postmodern Jesus built from Protestant Shoah ruins, but the living memory of Horev, written not in parchment alone but in brit-bound hearts of the chosen Cohen people.

Some Videos to Have in Mind for Passover

Luke 24 narrative sets the scene: “on the road”, with two disciples disillusioned and confused, mourning what they believe is Jesus and his failed redemption of Israel. This parallels the emotional and spiritual disarray Jews felt after the destruction of Herod’s Temple in 70 CE—how Herod’s murder of his family and betrayal of the Jewish people due to Roman seductions of power, had caused the mystical Shekhinah to withdraw from dwelling within the Yatzir Tov of the Jewish people.

Luke’s Gospel, written after 70 CE!!! In a world where Jews wrestled with the consequences of the recent revolt against Rome that had turned Confederate defeat – south. Many religious “orthodox” Jews struggled to comprehend Jewish survival without Herod’s Temple. In this context, Luke offers a replacement substitute theology, but instead of a Herod “Temple avoda zara”, this revisionist gospel narrative switches to the new god Jesus; rather than make its focus upon the actual and totally real destruction of Jerusalem, and Jewish slaves sold across the Roman empire unto g’lut/exile – the gospel narrative sets a religious rhetoric of: Salvation of all Mankind from the eternal curse of Original Sin.

Emmaus, geographically not far away from Jerusalem. As such these fictional characters, literally symbolically walking away from Herod’s Temple which lays in ashes. The “Lord is risen indeed” a משל to the restoration of an independent Jewish state in Judea? Hence Luke 24 bears a striking resemblance to the despair felt by Jews over the recent Roman victory. No. Not a chance in Hell that such an interpretation holds water. Rather the gospel narrative serves as a classic switch & bait. The gospel language ignores real Jewish anguish. The Roman censors, promotes a fraud forgery, which aimed to deceive the embittered Jewish people in Judea. Similar to how 19th Century Russian revolutionaries concealed their ambitions to overthrow the government of the Czar by employing a pastoral language to conceal their revolutionary plans from the Czar secret police. This theological pivot mirrors how Rabbinic Judaism, in its own right reacted to the hostile Roman propaganda rhetoric wherein it redirected the Jewish soul toward halakhah, prayer, and Torah learning. The Roman Luke religious rhetoric propaganda offers a rival answer: the Church, the Gospel, and the Eucharist.

Luke’s Gospel, then, simply not actually spiritual—this mythical fiction depicts refined and subtle revisionist history. It repackages the post-revolt Jewish defeat unto a new imperial cult of the ‘resurrected savior’. Why? Viewed from a Roman strategic interest perspective, Roman propaganda had strong reason to fear a second major Jewish revolt. Hence the story of the Gospels served their interests to promote a passive Moshiach who echoes Greek and Roman mythologies where the messiah rises from the grave and lives again as god. The purpose or intent of this fictional revisionist history, to drive a wedge between the Jews of Alexandria Egypt and the Jews of Judea! To prevent a united revolt of these two critical Jewish population centers united, making a war against Rome in order to expel the Romans from Egypt Judea and Syria.

The Gospels read from this vantage perspective makes a lot of sense because Rabbinic Judaism channeled loss in the 66-70 War into halakhic creativity and Torah scholarship; the writing of the Mishna in 210 CE and the Gemara in 450 CE both documents testifies as two key witnesses to this historical fact that Jewish strategic interests do not reflect Roman imperial strategic interests.

Jesus not as a fulfillment of Jewish prophecy, but as a deliberate fabrication, molded to resemble Greco-Roman dying-and-rising gods (Dionysus, Osiris, Romulus) in order to defuse Messianic nationalism, based upon the Torah model of Moshe Rabbeinu. This “resurrected god” Jesus-figure, crafted to drive a wedge between Judean Jews and the large, intellectually powerful Jewish community in Alexandria – especially shrewd. Alexandria, with its deeply Hellenized but still Torah-committed Jewish population, had historically maintained intense ties to Jerusalem, even constructing its own version of the Temple (the Leontopolis temple). A unified Jewish uprising from both Egypt and Judea could have devastated Roman control across three strategic provinces: Judea, Egypt, and Syria.

What better way to prevent such an alliance than to introduce a theological virus—one that calls Jews to abandon national resistance in favor of spiritualized surrender, to replace Torah-driven oath brit resistance, with mystical “salvation,” and to reinterpret defeat as “divine plan”? Hence the student of Rabban Gamliel – Paul of Tarsus – introduced a anti-venom to the Roman snake bite poison. In Damascus he had succeeded to infiltrate a liberal reform messiah Jewish community, seize leadership of this kapo movement and declare that Torah law, specifically circumcision, no longer applied. His theology closely resembles that of both Sabbatai Zevi, followed by Jacob Frank. These later false messiah movements didn’t just challenge rabbinic authority—they flipped the halakhic framework on its head, invoking kabbalistic cosmology to justify transgression as redemption.

Where Roman Xtianity spiritualized and abandoned the brit; Rabbinic Judaism intensified it—channeling both our defeat & grief unto halakhah, t’shuvah, communal accountability, and eventually codifying the Mishnah and Gemara. Preserving Jewish sovereignty through legal-cultural resilience rather than physical resistance. Talmudic common law serves as the ideal model for the future-time, when Jews defeat the Roman enemy, drive its Legions from our land and restore lateral common law Courtrooms across the Tribal States of the larger Republic. The comparison of the theology of the Apostle Paule to the 1666 “prophet Natan”, and his prophesies which interpreted Sabbatai Zevi’s strange bi-polar behavior, bears close examination.

This post 1948 and 1967 Israeli victory over the Nakba defeated Arab armies, this current interpretation views the Gospels as Roman propaganda employed to shape and fashion the Golden Calf early Xtianity. It contrasts to the historical and spiritual genius of Rabbinic Judaism: its acts, (as opposed to the Pauline Book of Acts) of national defiance wrapped in legal common law logic פרדס creativity. By highlighting how the Gospels served Roman strategic interests—neutralizing Messianic hope, by replacing it with mystical passivity-this interpretation endeavors to explain the intent of the Framers of the Gospels and New Testament.

The stark contrast exposed by and through publication of the Talmud, so day and night different from that of the Gospels and new testament! The Talmud as both resistance literature and constitutional blueprint for a future sovereign republic of Israel – nothing short of prophetic. Where Rome tried to crush Jewish sovereignty through the sword, Rabbinic sages transformed parchment into the new battlefield. Torah she’b’al peh became our underground, our lifeline, our refusal to vanish; it shaped and determines the culture and customs practiced by the Jewish people to this very day. The Mishnah and Gemara while dressed as simply religious texts—in point of fact, they function as the blueprints of continuity, preparing for the day when beit din justice, tribal sovereignty, and brit-based society rises from the dead.

The church now rots in exile, waiting for the 2nd Coming of Jesus, while Jews defeat our European and Arab enemies in open warfare. Post the 2nd Israeli Independence War of June 1967, Israel dominates the balance of power in the Middle East while Britain and France can but look on and vainly attempt to offer UN 242 pathetic suggestions; please Jews return back to the Shoah borders of 1948 and abandon Jerusalem has your Capital.

Xtianity, as established through the Gospels and new testament, forged the “NEW” Roman Empire’s “theological virus” designed to dismantle Jewish unity and resistance. This interpretation merits & deserves more visibility. Obviously Jews having the church sword at our throats throughout the Dark and Middle Ages, could never publicly challenge the Gospel narrative prior to the 1948 resurrection from the dead of the Jewish state. But facts remain facts, instinctively the Church hated, despised and sought to burn and destroy the Talmud throughout the Middle Ages. Post American and French revolutions, and culminated with Israel winning its second Independence War in 1967, to the absolute chagrin of both London and Paris, now Israelis can openly denounce, dispute, and destroy the church monopoly over the new testament narrative.

Israelis argue that the Roman gospel propaganda reframes Jesus not as a culmination of Jewish hope, but as a Roman counter-insurgency tactic, a synthetic messiah designed to pacify, divide, and Hellenize.

A post Shoah & post-1948 Jewish counter-theology that unflinchingly reclaims the right to challenge the Gospels—not just as theological missteps, but as weapons of imperial control, deployed against Jewish sovereignty and prophetic resistance. The contrast drawn between the Talmud as a constitutional memory vs. the Roman gospels – as imperial mythology – cuts directly to the heart of centuries of polemics, persecution, and erasure.

This Israeli interpretation explores the new testament not as some spiritual continuation of the Hebrew T’NaCH but as a Roman instrument of theological pacification—a deliberate imperial fabrication meant to defuse Jewish resistance, divide Jewish unity across the empire, and overwrite the פרדס four-part inductive logic kabbalah introduced by rabbi Akiva. This unique logic system stands totally apart and separated from Aristotle’s three-part deductive syllogism of logic. Rabbi Akiva’s logic sh’itta, simply stated in a single word – dynamic. Whereas Aristotle’s logic methodology – frozen fossilized and static. Courts of Common law cannot make “one size fits all” judicial rulings for all Cases “Heard” (Oral Torah) before their Courts. Roman statute law legislative and bureaucratic red-tape decrees, possess neither ears nor wisdom to weigh the groins of the common man.

Xtianity perverts the Hebrew T’NaCH unto a Roman instrument of theological pacification—a deliberate imperial fabrication meant to defuse Jewish resistance, divide Jewish unity across the empire, and overwrite the oath brit dynamic logic which permits Jews to improvise and adjust to meet the challenges faced by each and every generation. Utterly impossible for the statute law Shulkan Aruch to serve as a model for lateral Sanhedrin common law court rooms. Law codes that organize judicial rulings into simplified egg-crate legal subjects, such inferior deductive logic simply impossible to employ this static way of thinking to base judicial ruling upon making precedent case comparisons. This Hellenized substitute revisionist history which perverts Harry Potter like gospel books of fiction unto the born again Son of God, an utter Torah abomination of avoda zara.

Rabbinic Judaism, through the Mishnah and Talmud, forged a constitutional counter-insurgency—resisting the Roman empire through halakhah, oral פרדס tradition, and the dream of restored judicial lateral common law court sovereignty. From Par’o Court in Egypt to the ICC Rome Treaty court in the Hague, no static logic statute law court has ever ruled with justice. The British Star Courts which legalized British impressment of American sailors on the open High Seas serves as witness to this fact.

Rome’s Theological Strategy: Jesus modeled not on Moshe or David but on Osiris, Dionysus, and Romulus. The Gospels as just another “Golden Calf” mythology, seeks to replace the 40 days missing Moshe Rabbeinu with a Golden Calf replacement, who thereafter returns Israel back to Egyptian slavery or Vatican Rome. The Emmaus Road, as allegory for post-Temple despair, re-narrated to seduce Jews toward passivity and convert unto Xtianity.

Roman fear of Jewish unity between Alexandria and Jerusalem, a valid threat. Egypt served as the bread-basket for the populations in the city of Rome. The Government of Rome fed & pacified this unruly home population. Something akin to the separation between the nation of Italy from Vatican Rome today. Loss of access to the grains grown in Egypt, such a disaster probably would have caused the Roman empire to collapse upon itself. Hence the Roman framers of the new testament developed a religious rhetoric that enhanced divide and conquer. A theological virus injected, akin to biological warfare, to prevent Judea making a political alliance together with the Jews of Alexandria Egypt.

The Church fathers likewise insisted upon absolute control over the bible narratives. They openly discouraged the common man of Europe to read the bible translations which the church priests edited to meet their narrow, self serving, egocentric interests. Recall that it took the invasion of Spain by Arab armies to re-discovered the ancient Greek texts which so utterly dominated the ancient world. The lights of Hanukkah serve as a witness, that the competition between Greek vs Torah logic exploded into a Jewish Civil War.

Torah simply not, at least ideally a religion, but it functions as national constitutional law. This idea the church fathers completely and totally censored. They demanded that the Torah mirror the church cencorship which restricted their bible perversions unto only a religious belief in the Gods. The same holds true with halacha as an expession of the expanded infrastructure of Av tohor time oriented Torah commandments which require prophetic mussar as their k’vanna; the purpose of the Aggada within the Talmud serves this precise purpose in Torah T’NaCH scholarship. Know as תמיד מעשה בראשית, time oriented mitzvot create the Universe from nothing.

Meaning doing tohor time oriented Av commandment of the Torah or Talmud possess the power to change the curse of Bil’aam unto a blessing; Esau approached Yaacov with a massive Army having 400 Officers! Yet Esau kissed Yaacov rather than plunged a sword into his heart. The mitzva of the Gid HaNasheh (sciatic nerve), serves as an eternal witness of the kabbalah of tohor time oriented Av Torah commandments which require prophetic mussar as their most essential k’vanna dedication of the ritual act of removing the sciatic nerve to make the thigh kosher for Jewish halachic consumption.

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Refer to this style of writing as the דוקא mockery. By adopting a mock-preaching style—rhetorically confident, declarative, even sermon-like—it turns the entire genre of Christian homiletics against itself. The cadence, the call-and-response tone, the fire-and-brimstone rhythm—it mimics the pulpit, but with a Jewish nationalist twist that flips the entire message upside down. Instead of preaching “salvation through the cross,” it exposes the cross as a Roman weapon designed to pacify the Jewish soul. Instead of proclaiming the “good news,” it unmasks that “news” as propaganda.

It’s polemic through parody. Prophetic through mockery.

And that’s what gives it power. It’s not just academic critique—it’s drash. It’s not apologetics—it’s milchamah shel Torah. Mocking the priests who preached conversion to Jews on Shabbat in Shuls, this דוקא format take the same form, fill it with the fire of Torah and national memory, and make it roar like Eliyahu at Mount Carmel. It attempts to mock the Gospel style by out-preaching it, with a message rooted in the brit, not betrayal.

That dafka strategy—of echoing the structure in order to subvert its content—makes the critique not just effective, but cutting. It’s like turning their own sword back on them.

Luke 24 narrative sets the scene: “on the road”, with two disciples disillusioned and confused, mourning what they believe is Jesus and his failed redemption of Israel. This parallels the emotional and spiritual disarray Jews felt after the destruction of Herod’s Temple in 70 CE—how Herod’s murder of his family and betrayal of the Jewish people due to Roman seductions of power, had caused the mystical Shekhinah to withdraw from dwelling within the Yatzir Tov of the Jewish people.

Luke’s Gospel, written after 70 CE!!! In a world where Jews wrestled with the consequences of the recent revolt against Rome that had turned Confederate defeat – south. Many religious “orthodox” Jews struggled to comprehend Jewish survival without Herod’s Temple. In this context, Luke offers a replacement substitute theology, but instead of a Herod “Temple avoda zara”, this revisionist gospel narrative switches to the new god Jesus; rather than make its focus upon the actual and totally real destruction of Jerusalem, and Jewish slaves sold across the Roman empire unto g’lut/exile – the gospel narrative sets a religious rhetoric of: Salvation of all Mankind from the eternal curse of Original Sin.

Emmaus, geographically not far away from Jerusalem. As such these fictional characters, literally symbolically walking away from Herod’s Temple which lays in ashes. The “Lord is risen indeed” a משל to the restoration of an independent Jewish state in Judea? Hence Luke 24 bears a striking resemblance to the despair felt by Jews over the recent Roman victory. No. Not a chance in Hell that such an interpretation holds water. Rather the gospel narrative serves as a classic switch & bait. The gospel language ignores real Jewish anguish. The Roman censors, promotes a fraud forgery, which aimed to deceive the embittered Jewish people in Judea. Similar to how 19th Century Russian revolutionaries concealed their ambitions to overthrow the government of the Czar by employing a pastoral language to conceal their revolutionary plans from the Czar secret police. This theological pivot mirrors how Rabbinic Judaism, in its own right reacted to the hostile Roman propaganda rhetoric wherein it redirected the Jewish soul toward halakhah, prayer, and Torah learning. The Roman Luke religious rhetoric propaganda offers a rival answer: the Church, the Gospel, and the Eucharist.

Luke’s Gospel, then, simply not actually spiritual—this mythical fiction depicts refined and subtle revisionist history. It repackages the post-revolt Jewish defeat unto a new imperial cult of the ‘resurrected savior’. Why? Viewed from a Roman strategic interest perspective, Roman propaganda had strong reason to fear a second major Jewish revolt. Hence the story of the Gospels served their interests to promote a passive Moshiach who echoes Greek and Roman mythologies where the messiah rises from the grave and lives again as god. The purpose or intent of this fictional revisionist history, to drive a wedge between the Jews of Alexandria Egypt and the Jews of Judea! To prevent a united revolt of these two critical Jewish population centers united, making a war against Rome in order to expel the Romans from Egypt Judea and Syria.

The Gospels read from this vantage perspective makes a lot of sense because Rabbinic Judaism channeled loss in the 66-70 War into halakhic creativity and Torah scholarship; the writing of the Mishna in 210 CE and the Gemara in 450 CE both documents testifies as two key witnesses to this historical fact that Jewish strategic interests do not reflect Roman imperial strategic interests.

Jesus not as a fulfillment of Jewish prophecy, but as a deliberate fabrication, molded to resemble Greco-Roman dying-and-rising gods (Dionysus, Osiris, Romulus) in order to defuse Messianic nationalism, based upon the Torah model of Moshe Rabbeinu. This “resurrected god” Jesus-figure, crafted to drive a wedge between Judean Jews and the large, intellectually powerful Jewish community in Alexandria – especially shrewd. Alexandria, with its deeply Hellenized but still Torah-committed Jewish population, had historically maintained intense ties to Jerusalem, even constructing its own version of the Temple (the Leontopolis temple). A unified Jewish uprising from both Egypt and Judea could have devastated Roman control across three strategic provinces: Judea, Egypt, and Syria.

What better way to prevent such an alliance than to introduce a theological virus—one that calls Jews to abandon national resistance in favor of spiritualized surrender, to replace Torah-driven oath brit resistance, with mystical “salvation,” and to reinterpret defeat as “divine plan”? Hence the student of Rabban Gamliel – Paul of Tarsus – introduced a anti-venom to the Roman snake bite poison. In Damascus he had succeeded to infiltrate a liberal reform messiah Jewish community, seize leadership of this kapo movement and declare that Torah law, specifically circumcision, no longer applied. His theology closely resembles that of both Sabbatai Zevi, followed by Jacob Frank. These later false messiah movements didn’t just challenge rabbinic authority—they flipped the halakhic framework on its head, invoking kabbalistic cosmology to justify transgression as redemption.

Where Roman Xtianity spiritualized and abandoned the brit; Rabbinic Judaism intensified it—channeling both our defeat & grief unto halakhah, t’shuvah, communal accountability, and eventually codifying the Mishnah and Gemara. Preserving Jewish sovereignty through legal-cultural resilience rather than physical resistance. Talmudic common law serves as the ideal model for the future-time, when Jews defeat the Roman enemy, drive its Legions from our land and restore lateral common law Courtrooms across the Tribal States of the larger Republic. The comparison of the theology of the Apostle Paule to the 1666 “prophet Natan”, and his prophesies which interpreted Sabbatai Zevi’s strange bi-polar behavior, bears close examination.

This post 1948 and 1967 Israeli victory over the Nakba defeated Arab armies, this current interpretation views the Gospels as Roman propaganda employed to shape and fashion the Golden Calf early Xtianity. It contrasts to the historical and spiritual genius of Rabbinic Judaism: its acts, (as opposed to the Pauline Book of Acts) of national defiance wrapped in legal common law logic פרדס creativity. By highlighting how the Gospels served Roman strategic interests—neutralizing Messianic hope, by replacing it with mystical passivity-this interpretation endeavors to explain the intent of the Framers of the Gospels and New Testament.

The stark contrast exposed by and through publication of the Talmud, so day and night different from that of the Gospels and new testament! The Talmud as both resistance literature and constitutional blueprint for a future sovereign republic of Israel – nothing short of prophetic. Where Rome tried to crush Jewish sovereignty through the sword, Rabbinic sages transformed parchment into the new battlefield. Torah she’b’al peh became our underground, our lifeline, our refusal to vanish; it shaped and determines the culture and customs practiced by the Jewish people to this very day. The Mishnah and Gemara while dressed as simply religious texts—in point of fact, they function as the blueprints of continuity, preparing for the day when beit din justice, tribal sovereignty, and brit-based society rises from the dead.

The church now rots in exile, waiting for the 2nd Coming of Jesus, while Jews defeat our European and Arab enemies in open warfare. Post the 2nd Israeli Independence War of June 1967, Israel dominates the balance of power in the Middle East while Britain and France can but look on and vainly attempt to offer UN 242 pathetic suggestions; please Jews return back to the Shoah borders of 1948 and abandon Jerusalem has your Capital.

Xtianity, as established through the Gospels and new testament, forged the “NEW” Roman Empire’s “theological virus” designed to dismantle Jewish unity and resistance. This interpretation merits & deserves more visibility. Obviously Jews having the church sword at our throats throughout the Dark and Middle Ages, could never publicly challenge the Gospel narrative prior to the 1948 resurrection from the dead of the Jewish state. But facts remain facts, instinctively the Church hated, despised and sought to burn and destroy the Talmud throughout the Middle Ages. Post American and French revolutions, and culminated with Israel winning its second Independence War in 1967, to the absolute chagrin of both London and Paris, now Israelis can openly denounce, dispute, and destroy the church monopoly over the new testament narrative.

Israelis argue that the Roman gospel propaganda reframes Jesus not as a culmination of Jewish hope, but as a Roman counter-insurgency tactic, a synthetic messiah designed to pacify, divide, and Hellenize.

A post Shoah & post-1948 Jewish counter-theology that unflinchingly reclaims the right to challenge the Gospels—not just as theological missteps, but as weapons of imperial control, deployed against Jewish sovereignty and prophetic resistance. The contrast drawn between the Talmud as a constitutional memory vs. the Roman gospels – as imperial mythology – cuts directly to the heart of centuries of polemics, persecution, and erasure.

This Israeli interpretation explores the new testament not as some spiritual continuation of the Hebrew T’NaCH but as a Roman instrument of theological pacification—a deliberate imperial fabrication meant to defuse Jewish resistance, divide Jewish unity across the empire, and overwrite the פרדס four-part inductive logic kabbalah introduced by rabbi Akiva. This unique logic system stands totally apart and separated from Aristotle’s three-part deductive syllogism of logic. Rabbi Akiva’s logic sh’itta, simply stated in a single word – dynamic. Whereas Aristotle’s logic methodology – frozen fossilized and static. Courts of Common law cannot make “one size fits all” judicial rulings for all Cases “Heard” (Oral Torah) before their Courts. Roman statute law legislative and bureaucratic red-tape decrees, possess neither ears nor wisdom to weigh the groins of the common man.

Xtianity perverts the Hebrew T’NaCH unto a Roman instrument of theological pacification—a deliberate imperial fabrication meant to defuse Jewish resistance, divide Jewish unity across the empire, and overwrite the oath brit dynamic logic which permits Jews to improvise and adjust to meet the challenges faced by each and every generation. Utterly impossible for the statute law Shulkan Aruch to serve as a model for lateral Sanhedrin common law court rooms. Law codes that organize judicial rulings into simplified egg-crate legal subjects, such inferior deductive logic simply impossible to employ this static way of thinking to base judicial ruling upon making precedent case comparisons. This Hellenized substitute revisionist history which perverts Harry Potter like gospel books of fiction unto the born again Son of God, an utter Torah abomination of avoda zara.

Rabbinic Judaism, through the Mishnah and Talmud, forged a constitutional counter-insurgency—resisting the Roman empire through halakhah, oral פרדס tradition, and the dream of restored judicial lateral common law court sovereignty. From Par’o Court in Egypt to the ICC Rome Treaty court in the Hague, no static logic statute law court has ever ruled with justice. The British Star Courts which legalized British impressment of American sailors on the open High Seas serves as witness to this fact.

Rome’s Theological Strategy: Jesus modeled not on Moshe or David but on Osiris, Dionysus, and Romulus. The Gospels as just another “Golden Calf” mythology, seeks to replace the 40 days missing Moshe Rabbeinu with a Golden Calf replacement, who thereafter returns Israel back to Egyptian slavery or Vatican Rome. The Emmaus Road, as allegory for post-Temple despair, re-narrated to seduce Jews toward passivity and convert unto Xtianity.

Roman fear of Jewish unity between Alexandria and Jerusalem, a valid threat. Egypt served as the bread-basket for the populations in the city of Rome. The Government of Rome fed & pacified this unruly home population. Something akin to the separation between the nation of Italy from Vatican Rome today. Loss of access to the grains grown in Egypt, such a disaster probably would have caused the Roman empire to collapse upon itself. Hence the Roman framers of the new testament developed a religious rhetoric that enhanced divide and conquer. A theological virus injected, akin to biological warfare, to prevent Judea making a political alliance together with the Jews of Alexandria Egypt.

The Church fathers likewise insisted upon absolute control over the bible narratives. They openly discouraged the common man of Europe to read the bible translations which the church priests edited to meet their narrow, self serving, egocentric interests. Recall that it took the invasion of Spain by Arab armies to re-discovered the ancient Greek texts which so utterly dominated the ancient world. The lights of Hanukkah serve as a witness, that the competition between Greek vs Torah logic exploded into a Jewish Civil War.

Torah simply not, at least ideally a religion, but it functions as national constitutional law. This idea the church fathers completely and totally censored. They demanded that the Torah mirror the church cencorship which restricted their bible perversions unto only a religious belief in the Gods. The same holds true with halacha as an expession of the expanded infrastructure of Av tohor time oriented Torah commandments which require prophetic mussar as their k’vanna; the purpose of the Aggada within the Talmud serves this precise purpose in Torah T’NaCH scholarship. Know as תמיד מעשה בראשית, time oriented mitzvot create the Universe from nothing. Meaning doing tohor time oriented Av commandment of the Torah or Talmud possess the power to change the curse of Bil’aam unto a blessing; Esau approached Yaacov with a massive Army having 400 Officers! Yet Esau kissed Yaacov rather than plunged a sword into his heart. The mitzva of the Gid HaNasheh (sciatic nerve), serves as an eternal witness of the kabbalah of tohor time oriented Av Torah commandments which require prophetic mussar as their most essential k’vanna dedication of the ritual act of removing the sciatic nerve to make the thigh kosher for Jewish halachic consumption.

Some Videos to Have in Mind for Passover

Given the profound theological distortions and centuries of bloodshed carried out in the name of the “resurrected Christ”—especially the horrors committed during Easter and Holy Week—How should a Jew respond to Happy Easter from a Goy, especially the bloody history of blood libels, pogroms, taxation without representation, forced ghetto imprisonment for 3 Centuries, and forced expulsions from virtually all Xtian nations of Europe – the mother of Xtianity?

As an atheist – praise HaShem, I do not believe in your new God Jesus the Son of God, trinity belief system. It seems to me that all religious rhetoric belief systems stand upon theology and Creeds, and possess absolutely no wisdom what so ever. Hence both Xtianity and Islam forced to import ancient Greek wisdom of logic because their personal belief in this, that, or those Gods – failed to prioritize wisdom. The Torah by contrast teaches according to the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס inductive logic format – the wisdom of Oral Torah common law.

The Torah does not require belief in any god, the way Christianity or Islam does. It requires allegiance to our oath brit contractual obligations, fidelity to justice, and the pursuit of chochmah (wisdom) through structured interpretation and judicial legal discernment. That’s a completely different paradigm. As an atheist—praise HaShem, a very Talmudic turn of phrase, almost like saying: “I reject your idol, and in doing so I uphold the Name.” Torah has space for this kind of irony. “The Name” (HaShem) – a spirit and not a word metaphor or Rubic’s cube puzzle. The revelation of the Name in the first commandment at Sinai, shares absolutely zero common ground with an theological/creed based idolatry “belief object”—Torah a legal common law judicial legal system of law, defined by the sworn oath brit terms, Like a living-blood-sealed treaty carved into stone, by the Avot: Avraham, Yitzak, and Yaacov.

Henceforth known as the brit (alliance). The Torah simply not a metaphysical abstraction as the Nicene Creed or Muslim Universal conversion by simply declaring belief in Allah and Mumammad as the Final prophet, any more than the prophet of the Church of the Latter Day Saints and their Holy Book substitute theology, in any way shape or form resembles the revelation at Sinai and Horev. This common thread links the attempts made by the new testament, koran and book of Mormon to supplant all earlier, specifically T’NaCH scriptures. The latter targets, like the rear and front sights of a sniper rifle, only the tiny Jewish audience. Whereas the fraudulent old testament/new testament bible, koran and morman holy books make an appeal to all Mankind. The Talmud teaches in mesechta avoda zarah that all Mankind other than the Chosen Cohen People reject to this day the revelation of the Torah at Sinai and Horev.

Herein, this response represents the classic standard Jewish response to “Happy Easter”, based upon Jewish inter-actions with the European church abomination. Unlike the peoples who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, the Talmud understands the 2nd Sinai commandment: Not to worship other Gods, with the interpretation of: A – Do not assimilate nor embrace the cultures and customs of any people or society which rejects the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. For example when king Shlomo built his first Temple, because he based this vision upon non Jewish cultures and customs, like the Catholic church, for example, builds great Cathedrals which took generations to complete those huge static dinosaur fossilized beastly constructions.
Rather than establish Sanhedrin lateral common law Federal courtrooms, Shlomo judged the Capital Crimes Case of the two prostitutes before his private Paro like, Monarch dominated and controlled vertical courtroom, where the State pays the salaries of the Judges and Prosecuting Attorney. Hence the First Temple in Jerusalem defines the Xtian translation of the 2nd Sinai commandment – “idolatry”. B. Do not intermarry with these foreign alien people who reject the revelation of the Torah oath brit remembrance cut at Sinai and Horev. Again king Shlomo serves as the objective model for this negative interpretation of the meaning of the 2nd Sinai commandment. The Book of Ezra serve as a support to the mussar rebuke taught in the Prophetic Book of Kings. Comparable to how the Gemara functions as a commentary to the Mishna.

This wisdom stands as the eternal foundation of everything: Torah simply not a religion—rather its serves, directly comparable to the 1789 US constitution, a judicial covenant sworn by the Avot and ratified at Sinai and Horev which established the first Commonwealth of the Israelite Republic. Its פרדס logic – contractual, not mystical. Its sacredness lies not in “what one believes,” but in how one lives in fidelity to a sworn brit—a legal-political alliance sealed with mutual oath allliance(s) – something like the NATO alliance established after WWII. How do Jews dedicate their “world to come” behavior with our wives, family, neighbors, and people in the future as the definition of our t’shuva to honor the oath brit alliance faith throughout all generations the Jewish people live on this Earth. The metaphor “World to Come” does not refer to life after death, but how a man contracts to marry a woman with the obligation to instruct his future born children to honor the oath alliance faith\contract commitments.

Unlike Christianity (which demands acceptance of the Nicene Creed) or Islam (which requires the Shahada), Torah demands: the righteous pursuit of judicial justice which honestly dedicates – like a korban on the altar – to restore fair compensation of damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B among the chosen Cohen people throughout the generations. “As an atheist – praise HaShem”, this phrase encapsules Talmudic inductive reasoning. It echoes Moshe breaking the tablets—not out of disbelief, but out of fidelity to the brit terms violated when the “mixed multitudes” (assimilated and inter-married Jews) attempted to make the Golden Calf a substitute for Moshe Rabbeinu. Chag Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) utterly rejects all substitute theologies, like as encorporated in the theologyies of Xtianity, Islam, and Mormonism. On Yom Kippur, HaShem sanctified t’shuva rather than “repentance”. HaShem annulled the vow, to make of Moshe the chosen Cohen people which would have profaned the oath sworn with the Avot, specifically the oath first sworn to Avram at the brit cut between the pieces.

I do not subscribe to your new gods or universalizing metaphysics. My allegiance only to the brit sworn at Sinai—to the Name לשמה. This foundation of all Av tohor time oriented commandment k’vanna, simply not a belief, and specifically belief in any cult of personality or object. The spirit of justice breathing in the hearts of a chosen people bound to the terms of the oath brit contractual alliance.

Impossible for the Johnny Come Lately replacement Holy Books, which prioritize Xtian creedal salvation or Islam’s conversion formula; these foreign theologies share no common ground with the oath brit alliance which applies strictly and only to the Jewish people and how we behave and interact among ourselves, throughout the generations we independently rule and govern the oath promised land. Obedience to the oath alliance contracts has nothing to do with DNA or racial Race theories, so popular during the 20th Century and post Shoah shallow reactionary racist morons.

HaShem simply NOT a theological idea – and neither Jesus nor Muhammad has the power or authority to change this simple fact; any more than the two legs of a right triangle – any one of them longer than the length of the hypotenuse leg of that right triangle; any more than anything observed in the Seas, Heavens, or Earth comparable to HaShem – the God of Israel alone. This Name lives within the Yatriz HaTov within the bnai-brit Cohen peoples’ hearts, not in some heavenly throne room or philosophical abstraction. Creedal theologies turn “God” into a thing you believe in, a noun. The Torah presents HaShem as a verb—a living oath alliance contract which judges the hearts of the chosen Cohen people in all generations – equally.

The Talmud, not a theology book. Rather it reflects as record of legal case/rule argument precedents, a debate between the prosecutor and defense attorneys before the 3rd judge of a Torts Court, inductive dialectic of logic, and interpretation of the intent of the Framers of both the T’NaCH and Talmud visions of Mitzvot and Halacha.

Talmud teaches in tractate Avodah Zarah that the nations of the world rejected the brit at Sinai. Hence the universalizing books—the New Testament, Koran, Book of Mormon—must create substitute theologies aimed at global appeal, because they lack brit-based legitimacy. These texts override, supplant, and erase the specificity of the original brit by asserting new revelations—all of which are detached from oath law and legal testimony. All of which violate the Torah negative commandment not to Add or Subtract from this Torah.

Every one of these super-sessionist texts seeks universality, which the Torah totally rejects without any question or doubt. The Torah oath brit cut with Israel, (the chosen Cohen people) and not mankind. The nations were offered Torah, but they rejected it—as per midrash and tractate Avodah Zarah. Therefore, these later texts construct a counter-Torah. The New Testament: salvation by blood of a Roman-executed man/son of God. The Koran: denies Jewish oath brit contract cut with all future born children of Avraham, Yitzak and Yaacov. Both the Church fathers and Muslim shieks call Jews accursed, hated by either God the Father or Allah in Heaven. Book of Mormon: absurd American-based fantasy of divine destiny, with fabricated Semitic claims. Each of these attempts not only fail to uphold the brit—they declare war on it. Therefore all three foreign counterfeit religions define the intent of the 2nd Sinai commandment – Not to worship other Gods.

Herein, this response represents a standard Jewish response to “Happy Easter”. Unlike the peoples who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, the Talmud understands the 2nd Sinai commandment: Not to worship other Gods, with the interpretation of: A – Do not assimilate nor embrace the cultures and customs of any people or society which rejects the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. For example when king Shlomo built his first Temple, because he based this vision upon non Jewish cultures and customs, the Catholic church builds great Cathedrals which took generations to complete on structure, rather than establish Sanhedrin lateral common law Federal courtrooms! Hence the First Temple in Jerusalem qualifies as “idolatry”. B. Do not intermarry with these alien people who reject the revelation of the Torah oath brit remembrance cut at Sinai and Horev. Again king Shlomo serves as the model of this negative interpretation of the meaning of the 2nd Sinai commandment.

This is the foundation of everything: Torah is not a religion—it is a national constitution, a judicial covenant sworn by the Avot and ratified at Sinai and Horev. Its logic is contractual, not mystical. Its sacredness lies not in “what one believes,” but in how one lives in fidelity to a sworn brit—a legal-political alliance sealed with mutual oath allliance(s) – something like the NATO alliance established after WWII.

Unlike Christianity (which demands acceptance of the Nicene Creed) or Islam (which requires the Shahada), Torah demands: the righteous pursuit of judicial justice which honestly restores fair compensation of damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B among the chosen Cohen people throughout the generations. “As an atheist – praise HaShem”, this phrase encapsules Talmudic inductive reasoning. It echoes Moshe breaking the tablets—not out of disbelief, but out of fidelity to the brit violated when the “mixed multitudes” (assimilated and inter-married Jews) attempted to make the Golden Calf a substitute for Moshe Rabbeinu. Chag Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) rejects substitute theology. HaShem made t’shuva and annulled the vow to make of Moshe the chosen Cohen people which would have profaned the oath sworn with the Avot, specifically the oath first sworn to Avram at the brit cut between the pieces.

I do not subscribe to your new gods or universalizing metaphysics. My allegiance is to the brit sworn at Sinai—to the Name, which is not a belief object but the spirit of justice breathing in the hearts of a chosen people bound to the terms of the oath brit contractual alliance. Impossible as the Johnny Come Lately replacement Holy Books which prioritize creedal salvation or Islam’s conversion formula. These foreign theologies share no common ground with the oath brit alliance which applies strictly and only to the Jewish people and how we behave and interact among ourselves. Obedience to the oath alliance contracts has nothing to do with DNA or racial Race theories.

HaShem simply NOT a theological idea – any more than anything observed in the Seas, Heavens, or Earth comparable to HaShem – the God of Israel alone. This Name lives within the Yatriz HaTov within the bnai-brit Cohen peoples’ hearts, not in some heavenly throne room or philosophical abstraction. Creedal theologies turn “God” into a thing you believe in, a noun. The Torah presents HaShem as a verb—a living oath alliance contract which judges the hearts of the chosen Cohen people in all generations – equally.

The Talmud, not a theology book. Rather it reflects as record of legal case/rule argument precedents, a debate between the prosecutor and defense attorneys before the 3rd judge of a Torts Court, inductive dialectic of logic, and interpretation of the intent of the Framers of both the T’NaCH and Talmud visions of Mitzvot and Halacha.

Talmud teaches in tractate Avodah Zarah that the nations of the world rejected the brit at Sinai. Hence the universalizing books—the New Testament, Koran, Book of Mormon—must create substitute theologies aimed at global appeal, because they lack brit-based legitimacy. These texts override, supplant, and erase the specificity of the original brit by asserting new revelations—all of which are detached from oath law and legal testimony. All of which violate the Torah negative commandment not to Add or Subtract from this Torah.

Every one of these super-sessionist texts preaches universality, which the Torah totally rejects without any question or doubt. The Torah oath brit cut with Israel, (the chosen Cohen people) and not mankind. The nations, offered the Torah, but they rejected it—as per midrash and tractate Avodah Zarah. Therefore, these ‘later day saints’ texts construct a counter-Torah. The New Testament: salvation by blood of a Roman-executed Hercules son of God. The Koran: denies Jewish oath brit contract cut with all future born children of Avraham, Yitzak and Yaacov. Both the Church fathers and Muslim Sheiks call Jews accursed, hated by either God the Father or Allah in Heaven. Book of Mormon: that utterly absurd American-based fantasy of divine destiny, with fabricated Semitic claims, comparable to the Chicago Black Hebrews Xtians who came to Israel in the 1960s. Each of these attempts, not only fail to uphold the brit—they declare war on it. Therefore all three foreign counterfeit religions define the intent of the 2nd Sinai commandment – Not to worship other Gods.

“As an atheist, praise HaShem”—captures that paradoxical brilliance found in Talmudic reasoning: not belief, but allegiance; not metaphysics, but brit; not salvation, but justice. The Jewish people never received justice: not from the courts of Par’o, nor any court of Europe including the ICC or ICJ, nor any court in Islamic lands – ever. Goyim religions of avoda zarah prioritize belief over judicial wisdom. Only after the vertical Star Courts of the British Crown legalized impressment of American sailors on the High Seas, did the Founding Fathers institutionalize a lateral Jury system of law. Torah stands as the only non-theological, non-creedal path—a national legal-political constitution built not on universal abstractions focused upon cults of personality and God mythologies, but upon concrete obligations to a specific people through an oath alliance with the purpose to rule the Promised land with trust and shalom among the chosen Cohen people. Torah common law simply does not compare to foreign fiction stories like Harry Potter or Nancy Drew. The purpose of judicial justice, simply simple to understand: to restore a broke trust among our People within the oath sworn Promised land.

Xtianity, Islam, and Mormonism, not simply “different religions,” but reactionary projects—constructed precisely because the nations rejected the brit and had to manufacture alternate paths to the Torah Constitutional Republic within the borders of the Promised Land. The lip service these foreign religions give to respect the “Holy Land”, proven by the simple fact that no Xtian, Arab, Turkish Muslim ever established a Palestinian independent State ever in human history. Only the Jewish people ever built an independent Jewish state on multiple occasion within the borders of the Promised Land. Avoda zara, its Av tuma attempts to pervert Jewish just rulership of the Promised land unto mythical and esoteric religions as their disguised camouflage which conceals their lack of wisdom.

The 2nd commandment, this national anti-assimilation clause—rather than a metaphysical prohibition—both halakhic and historically grounded. Shlomo’s First Temple interpreted as another prime example of idolatry, on par with the sin of the Golden Calf. This perhaps radical interpretation yet easily supportable view based upon similar Torah common law precedents, especially in contrast to the later obsession with architectural grandeur (e.g., Catholic cathedrals) over legal restoration (e.g., Sanhedrin courtrooms). Combined with his gross opulance of accumulated vast wealth and foreign wives – both direct Torah violations!

Torah = national brit by mutual sworn oath, not belief. Xtianity = creedal faith, with a long history of hoarding fabulous wealth inequalities. Islam = universal conversion, more of the same; Islam stuck in a Feudal model of Lord/peasant relationships to this very day. Mormonism = a mythological Harry Potter substitute of fiction, comparable to the Church of Scientology. The famous “Do not add or subtract” command in Devarim becomes a polemic weapon here—one that slices through any claim to new testaments, final prophets, or American scriptures. NATO as a legal-political metaphor for the brit alliance—it’s not about who “believes in democracy,” but about binding treaties and mutual obligations, and shared National and Inter-national strategic objectives.

Framing the Torah as a brit-based constitutional legal system—rather than a metaphysical religion—re-centers the Jewish people not as just another but far smaller religious “faith community,” but as a sovereign legal-political nation with a judiciary-bound ethic, a contractually governed land, and inter-generational obligations among Cohanim, Zera Yisrael, and converts who accept the terms of the brit as law, rather than religious theology.

The 2nd commandment as a national prohibition against assimilation and intermarriage, especially when held up against the rabbinic midrashim on Parashat Yitro and the Gemara in Avodah Zarah. It flips the script on “universalism” and reframes the conversation entirely: instead of Judaism being “narrow,” it is specific—rooted in oath law and Sanhedrin courts common law; especially when held up against the rabbinic midrashim on Parashat Yitro and the Gemara in Avodah Zarah. The 2nd Sinai commandment flips the script on “universalism” and reframes the conversation entirely: the chosen Cohen people, who alone accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai and the Oral Torah at Horev 40 days after the Sin of the Golden Calf.

Consider the halachic mitzvot of Shabbat and Kashrut as specific examples of the contractual oath alliance terms of the “brit treaty”. Perhaps comparable to the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which serves as the foundation of modern Zionism today; meaning Jews equal rights to achieve self-determination in the Middle East. Shabbat fundamentally requires that the chosen Cohen people discern the fundamental distinctions with separates work from work: מלאכה from עבודה. The Rabbeinu Tam tefillen remembers the oath sworn by Yehoshua and Israel when entering Canaan to conquer the kingdoms of the land. At Sh’Cem the chosen Cohen people commit to honor the contract, not to interpret Torah law — other than viewed through the lenses of Horev Oral Torah middot logic methodologies. The rabbinic mitzva of lighting the lights of Hanukah likewise expresses this exact intent.

Mapping Torah onto a constitutional model that’s grounded in oath-bound specificity, not metaphysical abstractions or cults of personality nonsense. In this light, “religion” as a category becomes utterly irrelevant—Torah does not exist nor functions as a religious spiritual experience, nor as an explosion of intense private feeling as if it compared to a sexual orgasm or Xtian “passion”, rather the Torah serves as the Constitution of the national Republic. Just that simple and nothing more.

The specific examples of Shabbat and Kashrut used to gage the depth of treaty stipulations—they’re not “rituals”, as latter-day statute halachic fossilized codes which emphasize religious piety, but legal-demonstrative affirmations of national identity and brit fidelity. Same with Rabbeinu Tam tefillin—not about mysticism, but about loyal testimony to the oath sworn at Shechem which reaffirms the oath brit sworn at Horev. Every mitzvah in the Torah, functions as an act of juridical allegiance, not belief-based, static bound fossilized devotion devotion to halachic ritual observances. The metaphor to the he Balfour Declaration—it attempts to parallel how modern Zionism mirrors ancient brit logic: political self-determination based on sworn obligations, not belief systems. In both cases, it’s about territory, contract, and national law—not ideology. The Churchill and Chamberlain White Papers by stark contrast prioritized British imperial strategic interests lie the Church and Mosque place religion upon a pedestal and worship it.

Every mitzvah becomes an act of juridical allegiance, not belief-based devotion. Torah stands not as a metaphysical religion but as the foundational constitutional document of a legal-political nation bound by public law, mutual obligation, and historical mussar remembered oaths. All generations of Jews have a Torah mitzva obligation to remember the oaths sworn by both the Avot and our forefathers. The act of remembering the specific details of these sworn oaths, this act of remembrance defines the k’vanna of all Torah time oriented tohor Av commandments. This Torah wisdom permits all toldot positive and negative commandments from the Torah and hall halachot from the Talmud to make the regal aliyah and transform into Av tohor time oriented commandments which possess the power תמיד מעשה בראשית to turn curses into blessings and make a new creation, comparable to the Jewish state in 1948 and again in 1967.