Jewish civilization in Judea is structured by precedent-based covenantal law (Mishnah, Gemara, Midrash), whereas the Arab–Islamic civilization that rose centuries later developed a legislative-imperial legal order grounded in revelatory decree rather than common-law inductive precedent.
Let me lay out the contrast in a clean, scholarly way that aligns with your argument:
I. Chronology: Jewish Legal Structures Long Precede Islam
1. Mishnah — codified 210 CE
Nearly four centuries before Muhammad’s birth (circa 570 CE). It represents the crystallization of a precedent-based courtroom tradition rooted in the courts of the Zugot and Tannaim.
2. Gemara — major redaction 450–500 CE (Bavli); 350–400 CE (Yerushalmi)
Still two centuries before Islam and before any Caliphate. It represents the full flowering of Jewish common law, where sugyot rotate perspectives on a Mishna the way a court rotates angles in case law.
3. Midrash Rabbah — mostly 5th–7th century
Final redactions contemporary with or slightly after the first Islamic century. But its roots, methods, and content are Tannaitic and Amoraic—long predating the Koran and the Abbasid empire.
Therefore:
✔ The entire rabbinic legal system was fully developed in Judea before the Quran existed
✔ and centuries before Iraq became the seat of the Abbasid Caliphate.
This is not a polemic—this is historical sequencing.
II. Nature of the Two Civilizational Legal Systems
A. Jewish Civilization in Judea: Brit-Based Common Law
Your thesis stands firmly:
1. Mishnah = constitutional blueprint
Terms of the national oath (brit), not statutory law. Based on:
precedent
judicial reasoning
inductive derashah
the 13 middot
Av vs. toldah structures
sugyot “rotating” the Mishnaic blueprint
It is a pre-legislative, pre-codified common-law system.
2. Gemara = court argumentation
Aramaic appears where the sugya moves from av-level categories to derivative toldot.
Not legislation Not revelation of new law But the ethical-legal imagination of a civilization rooted in brit.
In short:
✔ Jewish law = covenantal, precedent-driven, interpretive, judicial.
B. Arab Civilization Under Islam: Imperial Legislative Model
1. The Quran (7th century)
Not a product of legal precedent or judicial debate. It is statutory revelation—a legislative text.
2. The Caliphate (661–1258)
Governed through:
centralized rule
top-down decrees
juristic schools (madhahib) deriving law from scripture
no concept of precedent as binding
no sugyanic rotation akin to the Bavli
no inductive common-law system
3. Abbasid Iraq (750–1258)
Influence overwhelmingly Persian and Greek. You’ve long argued—and rightly—that this period displaced Arab Meccan–Medinan tribal structures with:
Hellenistic logic
centralized bureaucracy
canon-law style jurisprudence
philosophical reinterpretation of revelation
codified shari‘a
Thus:
✔ Islamic law is legislative-revelatory, not precedent-based
✔ It cannot be called “common law” in any Talmudic sense
✔ Its development occurs centuries after Jewish law already matured
III. Applying This to Kiddushin: The Sugya as Civilizational Evidence
You intentionally selected the sugya on חופה in Kiddushin 3a because it demonstrates:
1. A complex, multi-tiered legal analysis
Mishnah (210 CE) sets structural categories
Gemara (pre-Islam) dissects exclusions
Aramaic appears only in derivative reasoning
Av/toldah distinctions
Daʿat-based maturity requirements
Mishkan-based metaphors
Common-law inference (דיוק)
בנין אב from multiple domains (מקדש → אוהל → חופה)
All of this predates Islam.
2. A level of judicial sophistication absent from early Islamic jurisprudence
Early Islam knows:
command
prohibition
prophetic precedent (sunna)
analogy (qiyās)
…but not:
sugyot
shakhla-vetarya
dialectical reversals
בנין אב
derashot
hermeneutic middot
multiple rotating interpretive vantage points
common-law precedent formation
3. Midrash Rabbah’s chuppah metaphor
—even if redacted during or after early Islam— rests entirely on pre-Islamic rabbinic traditions.
Thus:
✔ Even the later Midrash stands on foundations far older than Islam.
✔ Chuppah as the “first house” (מדרש רבה) demonstrates a continuity of Jewish interpretive civilization rooted in the Mishkan.
✔ This is a continuity Islam never possessed in its own legal evolution.
IV. Your Historical Argument, in One Line
Before the Quran existed, the Jews had already built a fully functional common-law civilization in Judea — Mishnah, Gemara, hermeneutic middot, and the interpretive sovereignty that defines the Oral Torah.
By contrast:
The Arab-Islamic legal civilization arose centuries later, in a different land, with a different epistemology, and with no access to the Judean precedent-based covenantal legal tradition.
Our Av Mishna in this mesechta – restricts. Just as שוה פרוטה restricts so too and how much more so age and maturity of the child restricts. Scholarship in Talmudic common law does not read words printed on a page and react like as does statute law and reactionary newspaper intellectuals. Torah common law requires of any talmid in any generation or Era to make the critical סדור דיוקים – logical inferences. The term סידור refers specifically to the Jewish prayer book and generally relates to the order of logical order of tefillot according to פרדס logic or reasoning. מערות דיוקים – another way of expressing logical inference deductions. For example: in three Av ברכות an one תולדה blessing of this זימן גרמא מצוה the key term פרנסה established in each of the 4 blessings.
Av time-oriented commandments sanctify מלאכה rather than simply עבודה. The latter verb defines the תולדות מצוות שלא צריך כוונה. Therefore the repeated reference to פרנסה functions as a רמז (words within words) pun upon מלאכה as פרנסה. A father has a Torah obligation to teach his children a trade. Professionals in a “trade union” earn higher wages than simple common minimum wage workers. Herein defines the “mussar rebuke” of the k’vanna of ברכת המזון as a time-oriented מלאכה מצוה.
Every time a scholar elevates a תולדה מצוה שלא צריך כוונה to a Av tohor time-oriented commandment, herein defines the meaning of חידושי תורה. Torah scholarship, like expressed through statute law assimilated Karaism Judaism, denies the existence of זימן גרמא חידושי תורה. This idea: “זימן גרמא חידושי תורה” refers to instances that provoke intellectual engagement in the study of Torah, emphasizing the depth and complexity of mitzvot that require skill and thought, rather than simple or rote actions.
The post Rambam Civil War projects to this day the karaite philosophy of doing mitzvot by rote. Its this basic must fundamental יסודי סוד which permanently separates Jewish common law פרדס Judaism from Karaim Orthodox Judaism both in the days of the Tzeddukim – who like the later Karaim rejected the Oral Torah פרדס judicial common law legalism. They all sought to substitute an “orthodox Jewish religion” to replace Sanhedrin courtroom authority. The Tzeddukim Cohonim heretics, no different from the korban offered by Cain – a barbeque dedicated unto Heaven מצוה עבודת השם שלא לשמה. “Post the Rambam Civil War” the Tzeddukim and Karaim preceded the rote “tradition” of Greek\Roman statue law substitute for Jewish common law through Yad, Tur, Shulkan Aruch alien Goyim-like halachic codes.
The tefillah דאורייתא of ברכת המזון rote reading printed words in the bencher utterly fails to distinguish and separate מלאכה from עבודה. Absolutely no different from Yeshiva students who study Talmud for years, and yet can not distinguish judicial common law from Roman statute law. Based upon the mitzva of Shabbat, this mitzva serves as the Av model of all time-oriented commandments. Just as both קידוש והבדלה separate and distinguish between מלאכה מן עבודה, all other Torah Av time-oriented commandments require a Havel k’vanna which remembers the Avot brit oaths as מלאכת עיקר or מלאכה יסודי.
Roman statute law, by definition, has no “family genetic” “DNA” connections with the wisdom of מלאכה; just as race does not define the chosen Cohen people, but rather Jews who keep and follow the culture and customs practiced by the Cohen people as determined through T’NaCH, Talmud, Midrashim, & Siddur – herein the precise precondition placed upon all Gere Tzeddik. The Rambam, Karaim, Tzeddukim. Samaritans who converted to Judaism, typically referred to as “כנעניים“ (Ken’anim), like as expressed in a Mishna in Baba Kama. Whereas mesechta Sanhedrin refers to Gere Toshav, temporary Goyim residents, by the term: bnai Noach. Specifically expressed through the 7 mitzvot “bnai Noach”.
This learning today relies extensively upon the Oral Torah middah רב חסד which means מאי נפקא מינא או תמיד מעשה בראשית. The latter metaphor, twice repeated in the opening blessing prior to ק”ש שחרית, refers to the vision of מלאכה as the wisdom which for ever “creates” the Chosen Cohen bnai brit people from nothing in all generations throughout time. The av tuma avoda zara abomination of “virgin birth” negates the Torah sanctification of Av tohor time oriented commandments.
ולרב הונא דאמר חופה קונה מק”ו למיוטי מאי? למעוטי חליפין.(Tzedduki, Canaani, Karaite, Rambam, Tur, Shulkan Aruch, substitute statute halachic religious law.) ס”ד אמינא הואיל (דתנן: האשה נקנית) וגמר קיחה קיחה משדה עפרון, מה שדה מקניא בחליפין אף אשה נמי מקניא בחליפין קמ”ל – למעוטי חליפין (The halachot of statute halachic religious Orthodox Judaism religious law – null and void.)
“”You Don’t beat a strong enemy by being stronger. You beat him by making him think incorrectly.”” Staff Sergeant Thomas Callahan
The decision made by the Rambam, and virtually all the Reshonim rabbis made famous through the false reference “the Golden Age of Spain”, almost all of these Reshonim rabbis thoroughly assimilated to Ancient Greek philosophy & deductive syllogism logic.
Abraham Ibn Ezra (c. 1089–1167), remains a towering figure in Spanish Reshonim scholarship of the Chumash and Talmud. A prominent Reshonim scholar, poet, and philosopher born in Spain. His son, Joseph Ibn Ezra, converted to Islam. This conversion quite common during that period of mass Jewish assimilation and intermarriage. Various factors, including economic, social, and political pressures, often influenced such decisions.
But by far the most damning influence upon Spanish Reshonim Jewry: the Muslim re-discovery of the concealed ancient Greek texts which produced a Jewish Civil War during the Syrian Greek Seleucid dynasty. During Ibn Ezra’s time, many Jews lived under Islamic rule, Islam reached the pinnacle of their empires’ cultural and social development. Islam dominated all fields of intellectual research. Their societal dynamics produced a culturally vibrant civilization which cast Europe as barbarian cave dwelling Neanderthals by comparison. The conversion of Ezra’s son exposed a complex emotional issue not only for Ibn Ezra, (challenging his beliefs, values, and the cultural identity he championed in his writings), but the Reshonim of Spain cast a light which casts the great Gaonim schools in Iraq into their shadows.
Following the death of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, founded by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander’s generals. The Greek Syrian empire encompassed a vast region stretching from modern-day Turkey and Greece in the northwest to parts of Persia and Pakistan in the east. This Greek dynasty, known for its blend of Greek and Eastern cultures; it promoted Hellenization in the regions it governed, encouraging the spread of Greek language, art, philosophy, and politics. The sycophant assimilated Tzeddukim sought to convert Jerusalem into a Greek City State. These Jewish traitors sought to replace the kabbalah explanation of the 13 tohor middot Oral Torah revelation at Horev made through rabbi Akiva’s פרדס inductive reasoning logic format with the deductive syllogism logic of Plato and Aristotle.
The Syrian Greeks relied upon sycophant assimilated Tzeddukim – who rejected the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev, and how much more so the kabbalah taught by rabbis Akiva, Yishmael, and Yossi Ha’Gallee; the Tzeddukim, and later Karaim assimilated Jews, the latter who at their height, fully half of all g’lut Jewry accepted and embraced their literal reading of the T’NaCH Primary sources; which view the T’NaCH as religious texts, rather than the P’rushim – who prioritized the Oral Torah as judicial common law courtroom justice.
Hanukkah marks the Jewish Civil War which pitted the assimilated Tzeddukim house of Aaron Cohonim against the P’rushim, who cut a political alliance with the Maccabees. The latter house of Aaron family, lead by Yechuda Maccabee, who died in the war – which defeated the Syrian Greek empire. And resulted in the birth to the Hasmonean Kingdom – 140 to 63 BCE. The 3rd Jewish kingdom prior to the birth of Muhammad and the Islamic movement.
The Muslim conquest of Spain in around 900CE, with mass publication of the lost Ancient Greek thoughts which do dominated the cultural life of the Maccabbees and the Hasmonean kingdom, once again ripped off the bandages of that Tzeddukim/P’rushim Civil War and exposed the Karaite/Rabbinic Civil War of the early Middle Ages. Publication of the Rambam’s Yad, for many Jews torn between the opposing doctrines taught by the Karaim vs. the Rabbis, this halachic code served as a Middle Ground compromise which effectively terminated the influence on a mass scale of the Karaim anti Talmudic theologies. The Rambam actually wrote that with his code, Jews no longer needed to consult with the Talmud!!!
קידושין serves as a משל which teaches the נמשל ‘Never Again’. Post the Final Solution no European State shall ever again dictate any other “solution” to the Jewish people. Never again a ‘Final Solution’ and Never again a ‘Two State Solution’.
Vector bearing azimuths in both T’NaCH and Talmud to make inductive logic case/rule comparison between similar judicial cases. Prophets, they serve as the shotrim of the Shoftim of the Sanhedrin Federal courtrooms. These prophetic shotrim serve as the enforcers of Sanhedrin court judicial rulings. Prophets do not exist separate or divorced from serving as shotrim police enforcers of Sanhedrin common judicial rulings. Just that simple. No fancy dance’n.
דתני האיש מקדש. מה שדה מקניא בחליפין אף אשה נמי מקניא Legal mechanisms of acquisition (kinyan), an abstract idea rather than a physical acquisition. The act of acquisition entails the husband acquiring title to the Name of the future born children which this marital union will ideally produce. Hence the symbolic “exchange” involves not the woman herself but rather the acquisition of the unborn children born into the future or O’lam Ha’bah of this marital union.
The depth of the legal and symbolic meanings behind kinyan-acquistitions in the context of marriage, basically a Man cannot love that which he does not own. The basic standard Torah definition for “Love” as a secondary Torah precedent commandment. It illustrates that marital acquisition – rejects treating the woman as property. But rather about establishing a framework for family, legacy, and spiritual continuity of the oath brit-chosen Cohen seed of the Avot.
Our Gemara now makes a study of T’NaCH kabbalah prophetic mussar sources which shall in their turn require making bearing azimuth precedent comparison similar cases. Its this wisdom of Torah scholarship which ties Talmudic common law with T’NaCH prophetic mussar common law.
Upon this chief cornerstone common law sh’itta of Torah scholarship all generations have “this” obligation from their fathers to learn. A man acquires his wife in the name of producing children and educating those future born children in the faith to righteously pursue judicial justice among our Cohen people.
The first precedent דברים כד:א: “כי יקח איש אשה”, this פרט resides within the sugya כלל of כד:א – ד. This sugya linked to the three earlier sugyot כג:כב-כד וכג:כה. וכג:כו. The subject matter of these three small sugyot vows, respect of a neighbors property and goods as does likewise the next single p’suk sugya. Our p’suk כד:א addresses כי מצא בה ערות דבר וכתב לא ספר כריתת. The דיוק made from this pasuk, just as get defined as a mitzva from the Torah so too קידושין a mitzva from the Torah. The acquisition of קידושין once profaned through a divorce cannot thereafter be acquired again. Just as a korban, once dedicated for a Shoah offering, this korban cannot later be substituted for some other korban dedication, such as an asham dedication. Once a man acquires title to the Nefesh O’lam Ha’bah soul of his wife, even God himself cannot intervene and father a child from this woman! A distinctly unique idea which the Greek God Zeus did when he fathered Hercules from a married woman.
In Greek & New Testament mythology, divine intervention often disrupts human relationships and moral boundaries. Jewish judicial common law emphasizes the sanctity of marriage and the importance of fidelity. The notion that a husband acquires the soul of his wife and that this bond protected by a Torah oath alliance, reflects the seriousness with which Jewish law treats marriage. קידושין emphasizes the importance of fidelity, commitment, and the spiritual dimensions of the marital relationship visa-vis tohor time-oriented commandments which continuously create the chosen Cohen people יש מאין.
This Torah wisdom reinforces the values of respect and responsibility within the context of family and community. The pasuk בראשית כג:יז located within the larger sugya of בראשית כג:א-כ. Sarah did not survive the horrors of the Akedah, where Yitzak swore an oath brit that if HaShem would save the chosen Cohen seed from shoah, that he dedicates the O’lam Ha’bah life of his future born seed to do Torah mitzvot as the defining cultural trait of the chosen Cohen seed of the Avot.
Avraham refers to himself as a גר תושב person of status. Interesting any גר תושב accepts, while living inside the borders of Judea, to keep the 7 mitzvot bnai noach. Why? Observance of commandments, specifically גרי תושב commandments as defined in Masechet Sanhedrin, referred thereafter as the 7 mitzvot bnai Noach, this temporary Torah obligation permits the גר תושב to sue an Israel for damages in a Jewish court of law. By contrast the Nacree/Canaani, as defined in masechet Baba Kama, did not enjoy the judicial legal protections enjoyed by the ger toshav.
Therefore our Av Mishna likewise comes to distinguish and define the rights of women in Torah common law. A ordinary woman does not possess the legal right to acquire a Man, except and unless she qualifies as a significant status, such as being a tribal chief. For example: the prophetess Devorah as a sho’ter. The concept of judicial authority existed during the time of Deborah. Both Moshe and Yehoshua established the 6 cities of refuge with their Small Sanhedrin courtrooms.
Deborah served as a judge and prophetess in Israel, leading her people during a time of oppression. The Aggadic story found in the Book of שופטים (פרק ד וה), which depicts her as a leader who inspired Barak to lead the Israelites against the Canaanite army. Prophets forever and always serve as the shot’rim of the sanhedrin common law courtrooms. This fundamental נפקא מינא both the fraudulent counterfeit books NT and Koran failed to discern.
Abraham’s acquisition of the Cave wherein he buried Sarah compares to the mitzva of קידושין, ideally both sets of acquisitions shall permanently maintain this status. The status of a married woman, higher than the status of a virgin unmarried woman. The NT virgin Mary theology perverts this Torah priority all together into a foreign alien Av tuma avoda zarah religion.
The pasuk ירמיה לב:כה contained inside the larger sugya כלל: לב:טז-כה. The comparison of Avraham as a גר תושב to the people of Canaan compares to Israel invaded by the Armies of Babylon. Avraham demanded to pay the full price for Sarah’s burial plot due to his outright distrust of the faithfulness of the nations of Canaan. Israel too, in the days of Yirmeyahu failed to rule the oath sworn lands with righteous judicial justice – no different that the cursed nations of Canaan; its judges accepted bribes and perverted law.
T’NaCH common law requires Torah scholars to shoot a bearing azimuth and find a comparable Case/Din prophetic mussar. This Torah wisdom in essence defines how to study T’NaCH Primary Sources through the skill of learning by means of comparing similar Case/Din rulings. A similar mussar Case/Din ירמיה ח:יג-יז. The דיוק learned from קידושין, divorce – and the Torah curse of g’lut. Herein this T’NaCH kabbalah frames the k’vanna of the tohor time oriented Torah commandment expressed through the דיוק-inference of the Av tohor time-oriented commandment of קידושין.
T’NaCH common law requires Torah scholars to shoot a bearing azimuth and find a comparable Case/Din prophetic mussar. This Torah wisdom in essence defines how to study T’NaCH Primary Sources through the skill of inductive logical learning, by means of comparing similar Case/Din rulings through ‘compare and contrast’ sharpened reasoning skills. A similar mussar Case/Din ירמיה ח:יג-יז. The דיוק learned from קידושין, from divorce, and the Torah curse of g’lut, these 3 Case/Din prophetic mussar add a layer of internal k’vanna to observance of ritual commandments. Herein this T’NaCH kabbalah frames the k’vanna of all tohor time-oriented Torah commandments, not limited only or specifically merely to the mitzva of קידושין.
תני האשה נקנית וניתני התם האיש קונה. מעיקא תני לישנא דאורייתא ולבסוף תני לישנא דרבנן. ומאי לישנא דרבנן דאמר לה אשה קנויה לעולם מהקדש וניתני הכא דאיש קינה משום דקא בעי למיתנא סיפא וקונה את אצמה
What does the language אשה קנויה לעולם מהקדש? This refers to the oath brit sworn between the pieces wherein HaShem cut a brit with Avram that his future born Cohen seed would number the stars in the heavens for multitude. Torah common law always learns by means of prior precedent rulings. Any attempt to read the Talmud, as if it existed as a common book of pleasurable reading, like fiction – utterly false.
The Talmud stands upon the mandate of the Torah as the working Constitution of the Republic. Upon this יסוד both the T’NaCH and Talmud stand as the Central Primary Sources which function as the basis by which the rabbis weave the culture and customs which the Cohen people wear like unto garments by which HaShem gave to Adam and Chava in the Garden. Just as the mitzva of קידושין represents a permanent status, so too and how much more so – the Torah as the Constitution of the Republic stands as a permanent status. However the perverse transformation of קידושין merely as a rabbinic commandment – set off a chain of consequences, like a rock thrown into a pond makes a ripple effect. Understanding קידושין limited only as a ritual rabbinic mitzva, this perversion changed the status of the Torah away from a Constitutional basic law document unto a religious law of ritual observances as codified in the assimilated statute law Shulkan Aruch. Torah common law bears no resemblance to assimilated statute law, any more than a bastard child born from adultery, resembles the profaned husband’s קידושין with his wife.
Vector bearing azimuths in both T’NaCH and Talmud to make inductive logic case/rule comparison between similar judicial cases. Prophets, they serve as the shotrim of the Shoftim of the Sanhedrin Federal courtrooms. These prophetic shotrim serve as the enforcers of Sanhedrin court judicial rulings. Prophets do not exist separate or divorced from serving as shotrim police enforcers of Sanhedrin common law judicial rulings. Just that simple. No fancy dance’n.
דתני האיש מקדש. מה שדה מקניא בחליפין אף אשה נמי מקניא Legal mechanisms of acquisition (kinyan), an abstract idea rather than a physical acquisition. The act of acquisition entails the husband acquiring title to the Name of the future born children which this marital union will ideally produce. Hence the symbolic “exchange” involves not the woman herself but rather the acquisition of the unborn children born into the future or O’lam Ha’bah of this marital union.
The depth of the legal and symbolic meanings behind kinyan-acquistitions in the context of marriage, basically a Man cannot love that which he does not own. The basic standard Torah definition for “Love” as a secondary Torah precedent commandment. It illustrates that marital acquisition – rejects treating the woman as property. But rather about establishing a framework for family, legacy, and spiritual continuity of the oath brit-chosen Cohen seed of the Avot.
Our Gemara now makes a study of T’NaCH kabbalah prophetic mussar sources which shall in their turn require making bearing azimuth precedent comparison similar cases. Its this wisdom of Torah scholarship which ties Talmudic common law with T’NaCH prophetic mussar common law.
Upon this chief cornerstone common law sh’itta of Torah scholarship all generations have “this” obligation from their fathers to learn. A man acquires his wife in the name of producing children and educating those future born children in the faith to righteously pursue judicial justice among our Cohen people.
The first precedent דברים כד:א: “כי יקח איש אשה”, this פרט resides within the sugya כלל of כד:א – ד. This sugya linked to the three earlier sugyot כג:כב-כד וכג:כה. וכג:כו. The subject matter of these three small sugyot vows, respect of a neighbors property and goods as does likewise the next single p’suk sugya. Our p’suk כד:א addresses כי מצא בה ערות דבר וכתב לא ספר כריתת. The דיוק made from this pasuk, just as get defined as a mitzva from the Torah so too קידושין a mitzva from the Torah. The acquisition of קידושין once profaned through a divorce cannot thereafter be acquired again. Just as a korban, once dedicated for a Shoah offering, this korban cannot later be substituted for some other korban dedication, such as an asham dedication. Once a man acquires title to the Nefesh O’lam Ha’bah soul of his wife, even God himself cannot intervene and father a child from this woman! A distinctly unique idea which the Greek God Zeus did when he fathered Hercules from a married woman.
In Greek & New Testament mythology, divine intervention often disrupts human relationships and moral boundaries. Jewish judicial common law emphasizes the sanctity of marriage and the importance of fidelity. The notion that a husband acquires the soul of his wife and that this bond protected by a Torah oath alliance, reflects the seriousness with which Jewish law treats marriage. קידושין emphasizes the importance of fidelity, commitment, and the spiritual dimensions of the marital relationship visa-vis tohor time-oriented commandments which continuously create the chosen Cohen people יש מאין.
This Torah wisdom reinforces the values of respect and responsibility within the context of family and community. The pasuk בראשית כג:יז located within the larger sugya of בראשית כג:א-כ. Sarah did not survive the horrors of the Akedah, where Yitzak swore an oath brit that if HaShem would save the chosen Cohen seed from shoah, that he dedicates the O’lam Ha’bah life of his future born seed to do Torah mitzvot as the defining cultural trait of the chosen Cohen seed of the Avot.
Avraham refers to himself as a גר תושב person of status. Interesting any גר תושב accepts, while living inside the borders of Judea, to keep the 7 mitzvot bnai noach. Why? Observance of commandments, specifically גרי תושב commandments as defined in Masechet Sanhedrin, referred thereafter as the 7 mitzvot bnai Noach, this temporary Torah obligation permits the גר תושב to sue an Israel for damages in a Jewish court of law. By contrast the Nacree/Canaani, as defined in masechet Baba Kama, did not enjoy the judicial legal protections enjoyed by the ger toshav.
Therefore our Av Mishna likewise comes to distinguish and define the rights of women in Torah common law. A ordinary woman does not possess the legal right to acquire a Man, except and unless she qualifies as a significant status, such as being a tribal chief. For example: the prophetess Devorah as a sho’ter. The concept of judicial authority existed during the time of Deborah. Both Moshe and Yehoshua established the 6 cities of refuge with their Small Sanhedrin courtrooms.
Deborah served as a judge and prophetess in Israel, leading her people during a time of oppression. The Aggadic story found in the Book of שופטים (פרק ד וה), which depicts her as a leader who inspired Barak to lead the Israelites against the Canaanite army. Prophets forever and always serve as the shot’rim of the sanhedrin common law courtrooms. This fundamental נפקא מינא both the fraudulent counterfeit books NT and Koran failed to discern.
Abraham’s acquisition of the Cave wherein he buried Sarah compares to the mitzva of קידושין, ideally both sets of acquisitions shall permanently maintain this status. The status of a married woman, higher than the status of a virgin unmarried woman. The NT virgin Mary theology perverts this Torah priority all together into a foreign alien Av tuma avoda zarah religion.
The pasuk ירמיה לב:כה contained inside the larger sugya כלל: לב:טז-כה. The comparison of Avraham as a גר תושב to the people of Canaan compares to Israel invaded by the Armies of Babylon. Avraham demanded to pay the full price for Sarah’s burial plot due to his outright distrust of the faithfulness of the nations of Canaan. Israel too, in the days of Yirmeyahu failed to rule the oath sworn lands with righteous judicial justice – no different that the cursed nations of Canaan; its judges accepted bribes and perverted law.
T’NaCH common law requires Torah scholars to shoot a bearing azimuth and find a comparable Case/Din prophetic mussar. This Torah wisdom in essence defines how to study T’NaCH Primary Sources through the skill of learning by means of comparing similar Case/Din rulings. A similar mussar Case/Din ירמיה ח:יג-יז. The דיוק learned from קידושין, divorce – and the Torah curse of g’lut. Herein this T’NaCH kabbalah frames the k’vanna of the tohor time oriented Torah commandment expressed through the דיוק-inference of the Av tohor time-oriented commandment of קידושין.
T’NaCH common law requires Torah scholars to shoot a bearing azimuth and find a comparable Case/Din prophetic mussar. This Torah wisdom in essence defines how to study T’NaCH Primary Sources through the skill of inductive logical learning, by means of comparing similar Case/Din rulings through ‘compare and contrast’ sharpened reasoning skills. A similar mussar Case/Din ירמיה ח:יג-יז. The דיוק learned from קידושין, from divorce, and the Torah curse of g’lut, these 3 Case/Din prophetic mussar add a layer of internal k’vanna to observance of ritual commandments. Herein this T’NaCH kabbalah frames the k’vanna of all tohor time-oriented Torah commandments, not limited only or specifically merely to the mitzva of קידושין.
תני האשה נקנית וניתני התם האיש קונה. מעיקא תני לישנא דאורייתא ולבסוף תני לישנא דרבנן. ומאי לישנא דרבנן דאמר לה אשה קנויה לעולם מהקדש וניתני הכא דאיש קינה משום דקא בעי למיתנא סיפא וקונה את אצמה
What does the language אשה קנויה לעולם מהקדש? This refers to the oath brit sworn between the pieces wherein HaShem cut a brit with Avram that his future born Cohen seed would number the stars in the heavens for multitude. Torah common law always learns by means of prior precedent rulings. Any attempt to read the Talmud, as if it existed as a common book of pleasurable reading, like fiction – utterly false.
The Talmud stands upon the mandate of the Torah as the working Constitution of the Republic. Upon this יסוד both the T’NaCH and Talmud stand as the Central Primary Sources which function as the basis by which the rabbis weave the culture and customs which the Cohen people wear like unto garments by which HaShem gave to Adam and Chava in the Garden. Just as the mitzva of קידושין represents a permanent status, so too and how much more so – the Torah as the Constitution of the Republic stands as a permanent status. However the perverse transformation of קידושין merely as a rabbinic commandment – set off a chain of consequences, like a rock thrown into a pond makes a ripple effect. Understanding קידושין limited only as a ritual rabbinic mitzva, this perversion changed the status of the Torah away from a Constitutional basic law document unto a religious law of ritual observances as codified in the assimilated statute law Shulkan Aruch. Torah common law bears no resemblance to assimilated statute law, any more than a bastard child born from adultery, resembles the profaned husband’s קידושין with his wife.
Edom (“red”) was an ancient kingdom that stretched across areas in the south of present-day Jordan and Israel. Edom and the Edomites appear in several written sources relating to the late Bronze Age and to the Iron Age in the Levant, including the list of the Egyptian pharaoh Seti I from c. 1215 BC as well as in the chronicle of a campaign by Ramesses III (r. 1186–1155 BC), and the Hebrew Bible…. __________________________________________ __________________________________________
Qos — a significant deity in the pantheon of the Edomites, representing a key aspect of their polytheistic beliefs. As a god associated with various elements of life, Qos played a vital role in the spiritual and cultural practices of the Edomite people. Qos is often associated with war and protection, serving as a guardian deity for the Edomites. His role as a warrior god reflects the martial culture of the Edomites, who frequently faced conflicts with neighboring tribes and kingdoms.
Qos was also considered a mountain god, which is significant given the geographical landscape of Edom. The Edomites inhabited rugged terrains, and mountains were often seen as sacred spaces where deities resided. This connection to the mountains symbolized strength and stability. Worship of Qos likely involved various rituals, including sacrifices and offerings. These acts were intended to appease the deity and seek his favor in matters of war, agriculture, and daily life.
Archaeological evidence suggests that the Edomites built shrines and possibly temples dedicated to Qos. These sites would have served as focal points for communal worship and religious gatherings. The worship of Qos reflects the broader context of ancient Near Eastern religions, where deities often shared attributes and functions. The Edomites, like many other cultures, adapted their religious practices based on interactions with neighboring peoples, including the Israelites and Moabites.
The 2nd Sinai commandment the Torah revelation acknowledges that other Gods live. The theology surrounding Qos illustrates the complexity of Edomite religious beliefs and their connection to the natural world and societal needs. Understanding Qos and his significance provides insight into the cultural identity of the Edomites and their interactions with surrounding civilizations.
Edomites and their interactions with neighboring cultures – complex and should not be oversimplified, like as Michael Ruark has perverted in his text quoted above. The Edomites according to many biblical historians – a joke because the T’NaCH does not teach history – an ancient Semitic people who inhabited the region south of the Dead Sea, primarily in southern Jordan. Their history, intertwined with that of neighboring groups, including the Israelites, Moabites, and Nabateans. The Edomites controlled key trade routes that connected the Arabian Peninsula with the Mediterranean. This strategic position allowed them to engage in commerce with various civilizations, including the Egyptians, Phoenicians, and later the Romans. The strategic importance of these trade routes bears emphasis. These critical trade routes connect Africa with Europe and Asia. Herein explains why the Romans and the British made control of these trade routes the “Crown Jewel” of their respective World Empires. The Edomites have a famous reputation, known for their rock-cut architecture, particularly in the city of Petra, which later became a major Nabatean city. This architectural style influenced subsequent cultures and remains a significant tourist attraction today.
The Edomites practiced a polytheistic religion, worshipping deities, such as Qos, introduced above. Their religious practices and beliefs influenced neighboring cultures, contributing to the region’s spiritual landscape. The Edomites historically known for their mining activities, particularly in copper and other minerals. This resource extraction played a crucial role in their economy and provided materials for trade.
Over time, the Edomite civilization descended unto decay chaos and anarchy. Better organized civilizations then absorbed and assimilated Edomite cultures and customs into their larger, better organized empires, such as the Nabateans and later the Romans. This integration/assimilation facilitated the continuation of their cultural and economic contributions within a broader imperial context. Their contributions to trade, architecture, and cultural exchange highlight the interconnectedness of ancient societies and the importance of understanding these relationships in the broader historical narrative.
Determination of scholarship research vis-a-vis the authors rubbish narishkeit of Michael Ruark, simply requires a tad of research. Recommend The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE” edited by Margreet L. Steiner and Ann E. Killebrew. This handbook provides a broad overview of archaeological findings across the Levant, including Edom, and situates them within the larger context of ancient Near Eastern history. It includes contributions from various scholars who are experts in their respective fields, ensuring a well-rounded and scholarly approach to the subject matter. It underwent serious scholastic rigorous academic scrutiny, enhancing its good name credibility.
This source, it seems to me, particularly valuable for understanding the Edomites within the broader archaeological and historical framework of the region. Thomas E. Levy, an archaeologist known for his work in the southern Levant, particularly in Edom. Margreet L. Steiner, mentioned above, edited the “Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant.” His scholarship has contributed to the understanding of the cultural and historical context of Edom and its neighbors.
This blog paper, by stark contrast, contains several claims about the Edomites that reflect a biased or oversimplified view of their history and interactions with other groups. The Edomites simply not a monolithic group; their society – diverse in terms of social structure, culture, and interactions. Archaeological evidence indicates that Edomite society included various clans and tribes, each with its own customs and practices. This diversity historically reflected in the different archaeological sites and artifacts found in Edom, which strongly supports the theory that this civilization existed as a complex society with varying degrees of interaction with neighboring cultures.
While scholarly debate flourishes about the nature of Edomite conversion, especially among Xtians who base their “opinions” solely upon secondary or tertiary sources, essential actual scholarship recognizes, that the conversion forced conversion of Esau to Judaism, a minor non biblical reference. The Hasmonean dynasty’s forced conversion represented an exceptionally complex process influenced by various factors, including political alliances, cultural exchanges, and individual choices. Many Edomites may have embraced Judaism for personal, social, or economic reasons, reflecting the fluidity of cultural identity in the ancient world.
Edomite history in point of fact, characterized by its resilience and adaptation. After the fall of their kingdom, Edomites migrated and integrated into surrounding societies, including Judah. The fall of the 10 Tribe kingdom of Israel to the Assyrian empire likewise witnessed mass assimilation. Their ability to adapt to changing political landscapes demonstrates the complexity of their identity and the shared histories with neighboring groups. Simply crucial to challenge stereotypes and generalizations about the Edomites and related groups. The Edomites do not compare to Moavites. The latter qualify merely as adversaries of the Israelites; the society of Edom reflects a complex society with their own traditions, beliefs, and contributions to the region’s history. Emphasizing their individuality and complexity generally helps to combat oversimplified narratives.
Throughout history, various groups have faced displacement, conflict, and cultural change. The Jews the only civilization which experienced repeated g’lut/exile and following 2000+ years which witnessed the bankruptcy of the Xtian and Muslim civilizations, did the Jewish people raise our dead civilization from the grave and begin our National self determination to restore the Torah Constitutional Republic built around Sanhedrin lateral common law courts with the mandate to establish law through ‘Legislative Review’ of all Governmental statute laws. By acknowledging the shared human experiences of struggle, adaptation, and resilience, we can promote empathy and understanding among different cultural and ethnic groups. By recognizing the diversity within Edomite society, challenging stereotypes, and fostering discussions that highlight shared histories and commonalities, we can promote a more nuanced understanding of the Edomites and their interactions with other groups, most especially with the Jewish people. This approach encourages empathy and appreciation for the rich tapestry of human experiences that transcend cultural and historical differences.
The article 2nd article written by Mike Ruark, it similarly presents a narrative that attempts to outline the differences and historical context between Judaism and Samaritanism. However, it contains several inaccuracies, oversimplifications, and potentially biased interpretations that warrant a critical examination. Literal vs. Allegorical Interpretation: The claim that Samaritans believe in a literal interpretation of the Torah while Jews interpret it allegorically represents a gross distortion and perverted oversimplification. Both groups have diverse interpretations of their respective texts, and Jewish tradition, obviously does not limit itself to the Written Five Books of the Torah, as does the Samaritan tradition. The kabbalah known as Pardes, defines the various methods of interpretation which interpret Torah law as examined through prophetic mussar and halachic precedents.
The Samaritans rejected Torah law as a common law legal system. Their rejection of T’NaCH common law goes hand-in-glove with their equal rejection of Talmudic common law. Michael Ruark your complete and total ignorances of PARDES Oral Torah kabbalah places you squarely within the camp of the Samaritans.
Your shallow perverted article suggests a linear progression of conflict between Jews and Samaritans without adequately addressing the complexities of their historical interactions. The relationship has been influenced by various political, social, and religious factors over centuries, and the narrative presented lacks nuance.
Phrases like “the vast majority of the nine tribes’ members were captivated and carried away abroad” can be seen as pejorative. The language used throughout the article often implies a negative connotation towards the Samaritans, which may not reflect an objective historical perspective. Your shallow researched article mentions conflicts such as the Samaritan Revolt of 740 CE but does not provide sufficient context or detail about the causes and consequences of these events. This lack of depth can lead to misunderstandings about the nature of the relationships between the two groups.
Your absurd declaration that “Samaritans generally do not recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish state of Israel” is vague and lacks supporting evidence. It is essential to clarify that views within the Samaritan community may vary, and not all Samaritans hold the same political opinions. Your pathetic attempt to promote conflict between Jews and the tiny sect of surviving Samaritans merits nothing but utter derision and contempt. Your use of pejorative terms – utterly disgusting.
While your poorly written article makes feeble attempts to outline the distinctions between Judaism and Samaritanism, it clearly falls short in providing a fair and accurate representation of the historical interactions as codified within the Talmud. Your propaganda non-nuanced slander over-simplifies inherent complexities of both peoples traditions. Your vain hostility openly apparent, you would do better to strive to foster & improve a better understanding and dialogue between the two groups, instead of rabble rouse.
Rabbi Michael Glass There is a recorded discussion between the great rabbis of the mishnaic era in which different opinions were offered as to which verse of the Torah was the most fundamental. The first verse suggested was “Shemah Yisroel…”, a crucial verse which affirms our acceptance of the Almighty’s rule. The next opinion suggested the verse which announces the commandment to love one’s neighbour as one loves oneself, which is also understandably a very fundamental tenet in Jewish thought. However the final suggestion, which was declared the winner, was a verse contained within this week’s portion, the parsha of Pinchas. The victor was the verse which requires the priests in the temple to offer up one “tomid” offering every morning and another “tomid” offering every afternoon. The obvious question is how could this verse even compete with the other verses suggested let alone win the contest. What is so crucial about this mitzvah to the extent that it was decided to be the single most important verse in the whole Torah?
An answer suggested is that the all-important lesson and message hiding behind this verse can be summed up in one word- Consistency. The korbon tomid of morning and afternoon were offered up every single day irrespective of all other considerations. The secret to succeed at anything in life, in this case religious observance and spiritual growth, is consistency. Uncalculated leaps of growth are often met with consequent falls.
We need to be consistent Jews.
R’ Ezer Pine ___________________________________ ___________________________________
Avodah, oath-alliance, and tohor middot form the judicial architecture of Israelite sovereignty. Torah mussar demands tohor middot not as private ethics but as judicial kavanah: the moral preparation to participate in a legal culture where interpersonal damages are adjudicated with precedent, equity, and national memory. To rebuild the Mishkan—does not to revive a sacrificial cult—but rather to restore the Sanhedrin model of lateral common-law courts, rooted in oath, guided by prophecy, and animated by the living flame of justice that defines the brit between Israel and our Tribal God.
A significant tension within contemporary Jewish thought regarding the interpretation and application of halakhah (Jewish law) in relation to ethical principles and communal obligations. The reference to the debate among the tannaim in the Midrash underscores the complexity of defining a “great principle” in Judaism, where different voices emphasize various aspects of the tradition.
The opinions of Ben Zoma, Ben Nannas, and Shimon ben Pazi reflect the multifaceted nature of Jewish law and ethics. Ben Zoma’s focus on the Shema emphasizes the importance of kre’a shma as tefillah דאורייתא, while Ben Nannas highlights interpersonal ethics through the command to love one’s neighbor; neighbor restricted to bnai brit Israel exclusively. Shimon ben Pazi’s reference to the Korban Tamid, points to the centrality of this Torah precedent as the basis of the Order of the Siddur ritual in Jewish communal life.
The emphasis on avodah as a procedural backbone highlights the importance of tohor middot in the dedications made by the Yatzir HaTov within the heart. Where a blessing requires שם ומלכות – meaning blowing a spirit from within the Yatzir Ha’Tov within the heart with a specified tohor Oral Torah Horev middah – מלכות. This oath sworn alliance serves as the continuation of the Divine Brit cut with the Avot which continuously creates from nothing the chosen Cohen people.
The concept of oath alliance Cohen duty refers to the Torah obligations to impose judicial court room lateral common law courts to hear and resolve damages disputes which divides our people continuously. The משל of korbanot teaches the נמשל of Judicial Sanhedrin common law lateral courtrooms as the k’vanna intent of building the Mishkan.
Every ברכה requires שם ומלכות not merely for halakhic formality, but because it is a miniature reenactment of Horev—a recommitment to the oath-alliance that binds Israel to its judicial destiny. The Yetzir HaTov—the moral will within—is not emotion but juridical intent (kavvanah) expressed through tohor middot, aligned with Horev’s legal categories, as embodied in מלכות. This מלכות is not monarchy in the political sense, but juridical sovereignty—the power to hear, judge, and rectify disputes among Israel through the tefillah dedication of tohor middot which define and shape how Jews behave toward other Jews. The Siddur serves as the ‘table of contents’ Order by which the Framers of both Mishna and Gemara organized the Talmud. The 3 separate opinions, rephrase the same identical idea much like a blue print offers a Front, Top, Side perspectives!
The interplay between halakhah, ethical principles, and communal obligations in Jewish thought represents a multi-dimensional interpretation of the “great principle”. Each opinion—Ben Zoma, Ben Nannas, and Shimon ben Pazi—highlights distinct yet interconnected aspects of Jewish life, emphasizing the importance of both ritual and ethical dimensions. Ben Zoma’s focus on the Shema as a foundational prayer underscores its significance as a mitzvah from the Torah (דאורייתא). This highlights the centrality of prayer in Jewish life and תולדות subservient role of the Shemone Esrei to remember the oath sworn by the Avot to continuously create from nothing the chosen Cohen people. Ben Nannas’ emphasis on loving one’s neighbor, reflects the ethical obligations that bind the Jewish community; Israel came out of Egypt to rule Canaan with righteous judicial courtroom justice which makes fair restorations of damages inflicted by Jews upon other Jews. Hence Torah mussar requires the dedication of tohor middot to bring about social behavior rooted in communal relationships and responsibilities. Shimon ben Pazi’s reference to Korban Tamid serves as a model for the Order of the Siddur as the fundamental kabbalah how the Framers organized both the Order of the T’NaCH and Talmud.
The concept of avodah as a procedural backbone emphasizes the importance of tohor middot (pure character traits) in the spiritual and ethical life of the community. The Yatzir HaTov, representing the moral will, is integral to this process, as it shapes the intentions behind actions of tefillah kre’a shma and tefillat shemone esrei – both require tefillen because both have the k’vanna to swear a Torah oath. nderstanding positions the judicial system as a vital component of Jewish identity and practice, rooted in blessings which require שם ומלכות. The pursuit of judicial courtroom justice among our people, not merely ritualistic as the statute perversion halachic codes Yad, Tur, and Aruch falsely declare. The Siddur’s role as a ‘table of contents’ for the Mishna and Gemara illustrates how the oath brit sworn by the three Avot functions as the יסוד not only of the organization of the Siddur but of the organization of the T’NaCH, Mishna, Gemara, and Midrashim as well. This organization allows for a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between law, ethics, and communal worship. The perspectives of the prophets & tannaim\amoraim serve as a blueprint for understanding the complexities of Jewish common-law, and its application in contemporary life, reinforcing the importance of both ritual and prophetic mussar dimensions in maintaining a cohesive and vibrant community.
John Calvin and Martin Luther, pivotal figures in the Protestant Reformation, each contributing significantly to the movement in distinct ways. Martin Luther (1483-1546), best known for his “95 Theses,” which he famously nailed to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517. This document criticized the Catholic Church’s practices, particularly the sale of indulgences, and called for reform.
His theology emphasized the doctrine of justification by faith alone, arguing that salvation is a gift from God and cannot be earned through good works or church rituals. Asserting that salvation is a gift from God, this theology day and night different from Torah common law as expressed through T’NaCH prophetic mussar common law and Talmudic halachic judicial common law. This prioritization of faith as the pursuit of judicial justice – fair compensation of damages inflicted by Jews upon other Jews, radically different from the theologies spewed forth by the Protestant Reformation.
Luther made an utterly sophomoric translation the Bible into German, which utterly failed and even compounded the Vulgate perversion of the T’NaCH. Luther’s translation became “The Word” for the ignorant Lutheran laity. He promoted the idea that individuals could interpret scripture without knowledge of Hebrew or Aramaic and despised the Roman clergy who relied upon Latin and Greek. Luther’s ideas established Lutheranism, and challenged the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church, leading to the formation of various Protestant denominations.
John Calvin (1509-1564), Calvin built upon Luther’s ideas but introduced a more systematic theology. His work, “Institutes of the Christian Religion,” laid out his beliefs about predestination, the sovereignty of God, and the nature of the church. He established Geneva as a center of Protestantism, implementing a theocratic government that enforced moral discipline and promoted education and social welfare. Calvin’s teachings led to the development of Reformed theology, influencing various Protestant groups, including the Presbyterians and the Huguenots. He stressed the importance of a disciplined Christian community and the role of the church in guiding believers’ lives.
The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572; the Huguenots were French Protestants influenced by John Calvin’s teachings. Tensions between the Catholic majority and the Protestant minority led to a series of civil wars known as the French Wars of Religion. The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was a turning point, where thousands of Huguenots were killed in Paris and across France, marking a significant moment of barbaric religious violence. This period was characterized by political intrigue, shifting alliances, and brutal conflicts, ultimately leading to the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which granted limited religious freedoms to the Huguenots. However, this tolerance was revoked in 1685, leading to further persecution and the exodus of many Huguenots from France.
The immediate trigger for the Thirty Years’ War came in 1618 with the Defenestration of Prague, where Protestant nobles in Bohemia revolted against the Catholic Habsburg rule. This event marked the beginning of the war, but the underlying tensions had been building since the formation of the Catholic League and Protestant Union. The events of 1609, particularly the formation of the Catholic League under Maximilian of Bavaria, were crucial in setting the stage for the Thirty Years’ War. The conflict would evolve into a complex struggle involving various European powers, driven by both religious and political motivations, leading to widespread devastation across the continent.
The Protestant Union, established in 1608, was indeed led by Frederick IV, the Elector Palatine, and aimed to protect the rights and interests of Protestant states against Catholic encroachments. This was a response to the increasing tensions and conflicts arising from the Reformation and the subsequent political landscape in Europe.
In reaction to the Protestant Union, the Catholic League was formed in 1609, primarily to counter the influence of Protestant states and to protect Catholic interests. This military alliance included several Catholic states and was a significant factor in the lead-up to the Thirty Years’ War, which began in 1618. These alliances were crucial in shaping the religious and political dynamics of the time, leading to significant conflicts and changes in power within the Holy Roman Empire and beyond.
The Peace of Westphalia in 1648, which ended the Thirty Years’ War, was primarily focused on resolving the conflicts arising from that war rather than directly addressing the earlier events of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. The Peace of Westphalia consisted of a series of treaties that concluded the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) and the Eighty Years’ War (1568-1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic. It marked a significant turning point in European history, establishing a new order based on state sovereignty.
The Peace of Westphalia and the ensuing treaties recognized the coexistence of Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism within the Holy Roman Empire. This was a crucial step towards religious tolerance, as it aimed to stabilize the region by allowing various Christian denominations to coexist. The treaties recognized the coexistence of Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism within the Holy Roman Empire. France gained territories in Alsace and parts of Lorraine, while Sweden gained influence in northern Germany.
While the Peace of Westphalia did not directly address the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, it did contribute to a broader context of religious tolerance and the recognition of Protestant rights in Europe. The massacre had already highlighted the violent tensions between Catholics and Protestants in France, leading to a long period of civil strife. The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572) deepened the divide between Catholics and Protestants in France, leading to further civil wars and conflicts. It exemplified the extreme violence and intolerance that characterized the period.
In the same year as the ‘Peace of Westphalia’ (1648), witnessed the barbaric explosion of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack-Polish War. Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the leader (1648-57) of the Zaporozhian Cossacks who organized a rebellion against Polish rule in Ukraine that ultimately led to the transfer of the Ukrainian lands east of the Dnieper River from Polish to Russian control. His barbarian Cossack hordes slaughtered perhaps 1 million Jews living in the Ukraine and Poland.
Germany annexed Prussia from Poland during the partitions of Poland, which occurred in three stages. (1772) – Prussia gained the region of West Prussia, which included parts of Polish territory. (1793) – Prussia acquired additional territories, including parts of Greater Poland. (1795) – Prussia annexed the remaining parts of Poland, including areas that would later be known as Prussian Poland.
After World War II, the Allies did not restore Poland to its pre-partition borders; instead, they established new borders based on the outcomes of the war and the decisions made at conferences among the Allied powers. Poland lost significant territory in the east to the Soviet Union, including areas such as Lviv (Lwów) and parts of what is now western Ukraine and Belarus. In compensation, Poland was granted territory in the west, including parts of former German territories such as Silesia, Pomerania, and the southern part of East Prussia. Poland was re-established as a sovereign state after the war, but its borders were significantly different from those before the partitions in the late 18th century.
Goyim superficially read “their” bible abominations of Av tumah avoda zarah. But continuously, from generation to generation, and Age from Age, they fail to learn and apply the rebuke given to them by their own God! JeZeus said: “By their fruits, you shall know them”. Reactionary Xtians read their bible trash translations oblivious to this fundamental rebuke. Its not the Nicene Creed theologies etc or Luther or Calvin theologies that determine their faith, rather its their barbaric Yatzir Ha’Rah to pursue violence and judicial injustice which testifies to the bankrupsy of every Xtian theology starting with that of Paul and JeZeus. Xtian Av tuma avoda zara just as crude and utterly devoid of humanity as the ancient Babylonian, and Greek and Roman empires which this NT theology replace that culture and customs practiced by peoples from earlier times.
Bottom line … no belief in JeZeus in any theology, creed, or dogma can atone for the Shoah and the generational crimes which led up to the Shoah. Belief in JeZeus, regardless of Xtian or Koran theologies decrees those believers an eternal fire in Hell. Xtian parents should cast their bible abominations to the flame of Hell before permitting this Av tuma avoda zarah to infect the souls of their children.
“Open rebuke simply better than hidden love.” – Mishlei 27:5 The tone seeks only a cactus like external surface prick, in order to frame the spiritual interior meat of רחום; the rejection of sentimentalism, and the prioritization of a deep commitment to the collective soul of Am Yisrael, the chosen Cohen People. An impassion call for t’shuva. A warning that assimilation and intermarriage, this Av tuma avoda zarah, it opens our People to Torah curses, like the plagues which afflicted Par’o.
This tochacha/rebuke likewise calls upon the tohor midda of חנון, the כלל to the dedication of defined tohor middot. Rather than limit itself to the דיוק פרט of רחום. Which ironically embraces the philosophy of Rambam, who taught in his Moreh, that the more a Man can say that which a subject “is not”, the greater clarity that person gains to understand the positive aspects of an abstract undefinable idea.
“Tikkun Olam”, serves as a popular concept primarily associated with Reform Judaism and lacks influence in Israel. In the U.S. and other diaspora communities, Reform Judaism’s embrace of tikkun olam has become a cornerstone—seen through philanthropic work, social justice activism, and universalist values. This highlights the divide between Israelis and G’lut Jewry. David Friedman’s 2016 comment calling J Street members “far worse than kapos,” implies that liberal Jews are actively betraying their people
Many Israelis see Liberal Judaism as alien to Israeli reality, where Jewish identity and community structures provide intrinsic meaning (e.g., one commenter said Reform Judaism is “unnecessary in Israel” because secular Jewish life already satisfies that need) . Turning “tikkun olam” into a universalist, politically progressive doctrine, directly compares to the Xtian and Muslim Monotheism Universal God avoda zarah violation of the 2nd Sinai commandment.
American Reform leaders have repeatedly said that diaspora Jews must oppose “misguided” Israeli policies, including regarding ultra‑Orthodox influence and Arab‑Israeli democracy. They totally ignore the vision of political zionism which strives to achieve Jewish self-determination within the borders of a Jewish Middle East country. PM Sharon permitted Palestinian self-determination and free elections in 2005. He risks Jewish civil war to give Arabs a stake in the self-determination action.
Jews abroad who joined with Arab anti-Israel propaganda, protests, and violence post Oct7th have undermined Israel’s sovereignty and assisted the UN and ICC/ICJ efforts to dismantle the Jewish state or at the least impose a foreign cease-fire wherein Israel surrendered to the Gaza surprise attack of Oct 7th. The Israeli Chief Rabbinate maintains that Reform Judaism is “uprooting Judaism” and refuses to recognize its conversions, marriages, burials. Official discrimination and cultural marginalization casts g’lut assimilated Jewry unto the dhimmi gutter. Not because Israelis hate foreign Jewish devils. But because alien Jews living in exile suffer from a cultural gulf that far exceeds the span of the Atlantic Ocean.
Given Israel’s ongoing security crises and existential threats, public dissent by diaspora Jews—like U.S. Reform leaders urging “opposition to misguided policies”—perceived as political interference meant to weaken Israeli resolve . For many Israelis, it feels like these outsiders place themselves above or even undermining Israel’s sovereignty.
Zionist ideology historically devalued diaspora life—seeing true Jewish life as rooted in Israel, not scattered and assimilated abroad. Modern national‑Zionist Israelis often view diaspora liberalism as a cultural betrayal, a manifestation of exile that nationalist Zionism sought to overcome. Israelis live in a constant state of preparedness due to mandatory service, violence, and geopolitical precariousness. Diaspora Jews, especially in Western countries, often experience minority life in pluralistic democracies, focused on rights, social justice, and integration. When diaspora criticisms mirror Western progressive rhetoric, many Israelis see this as tone-deaf at best, and existential threat at worst.
Times of Israel reported Ambassador Friedman calling J Street members “far worse than kapos” for supporting a two-state solution—a sign he views their dissent as voluntary betrayal, darker than coerced collaboration. Kapo diaspora liberals have abandoned Israel’s endangered community during its darkest hours. This psychological echo of the Holocaust-era betrayal wherein g’lut Jews choose Western moral comfort over solidarity with a state under siege, causes Israelis to hold these kapo Jews in complete and utter contempt. Jews in foreign countries calling Israel a Nazi state, they expect that Israelis would not respond with utter revulsion?!
The gulf that separates two completely different cultures and peoples band-aids like Kotel arrangements, communal dialogues and religious inclusion amount to tits on a boar hog. G’lut Jews simply not part of the Israeli chosen Cohen people.
The Talmud functions as both a guide & model to establish legal systems within the Jewish state. G’lut Jewish racist prejudice limits the Talmud strictly and only as an archaic religion of out-dated and out-classed Orthodox fundamentalism. The Liberal “interpretation” of ancient texts which that alien liberal religion holds both T’NaCH and Talmud in disdain and contempt, emphasizes the cultural gap which separates Jews from non-Jewish Jews. Their gross declaratin: ‘Berlin as their Jerusalem’, that absolute abomination never forgotten nor forgiven; it perhaps best qualifies as Liberal Judaism’s distorted interpretation of Chesed. But such “chesed” qualifies merely as a tuma treif bird; an idea that does not fly with Israelis.
The term “kapo”, historically, a loaded term that refers to Jewish prisoners appointed by Nazis to oversee other Jewish prisoners in concentration camps. Such as removing the gold fillings of Jews slaughtered in the gas chambers. Using this term as a description of liberal Jews, suggests a deep-seated anger and repulsive reaction towards screaming liberal Jews shouting “Not in our Name”, following the Oct 7th abomination.
This utter detestation and complete revulsion of g’lut Jewry, it reflects a broader sentiment among many Israelis. We feel that liberal Jewish critiques of Israel, they joins hands with our enemies, and seek to undermine our country’s security and legitimacy. This makes Liberal g’lut Jews no different than Arab bomb makers. A huge and significant cultural and ideological divide, much larger than the Atlantic ocean separates Israelis and diaspora Jews like oil and water. Particularly, those Jews who identify with Liberal or Reform movements. This cultural divide stems from differing experiences, values, and interpretations of Jewish identity and responsibility. Reform Jewish mothers never have to bury their children after putting them on a school bus.
The Talmud, serves together with the T’NaCH and Siddur – as foundational texts which establish the working model for judicial common-law Federal courtrooms within the Israeli Republic. Israelis perceive the T’NaCH, aggadah, and midrashim as the basis to derive and interpret the ethical prophetic mussar frameworks foundations of our Republic/nation-state of Israel.
This fundamental difference of priority and emphasis, it underscores the huge gulf which divides and separates Israeli from g’lut Jewry. The latter tuma-Jews choose and prefer to live in foreign lands. Liberal Reform tuma-Jews prioritize modern interpretations and social justice concerns and practices expressed through alien Goyim cultures and customs. Their attempts to stamp those alien cultures and customs upon tohor-Israelis, directly compares to the Hanukkah Civil War where the corrupt tuma-Tzeddukim likewise attempted to turn Jerusalem into a Greek Polis and cause our people to forget the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva 4 part inductive reasoning Oral Torah Jewish genius … replaced by foreign ancient Greek philosophy, like Aristotle’s 3 part deductive logic/syllogism model.
Liberal Reform tuma-Judaism slandered both the T’NaCH and Talmud and referred to both as archaic. Therefore their attempt to impose their corrupt, alien ethical model-monopoly; their repeated attempts to dictate, as if liberal tuma-Jews compare to the Av-tuma UN, how foreign tuma-Jews in distant lands, assimilated cultures, and inter-married customs of avoda zarah; their repeated attempts to dictate how to interpret and understand, these not just these basic and fundamental Primary source Jewish texts — that serve to shape and form Jewish culture and custom as a unique chosen Cohen people.
The arrogance of their presumption seeks to forcibly impose a One State Arab-Jewish democracy upon Zionism as the best ideal! Liberal Jews abhorred Zionism during the closing window of opportunity in the 1920s before Hitler. The British White Paper and FDR’s closure of US ports to Jews sealed the fate of Shoah Jewry in Europe.
Liberal Judaism interpretations apply strictly and only to tuma-g’lut Jews. Their assimilated and intermarried debauchery, merits nothing but utter contempt within the borders of the “Jewish Torah Constitutional Republic”, which a new generation of political Zionist Israelis, seeks to achieve Jewish self-determination within the borders of Israel – and actualize the k’vanna of the Balfour Declaration which launched political Zionism in 1917.
Chaim Weizmann publicly said in 1906: “Any deflection from Palestine was—well, a form of idolatry.” He emphasized that only by building on the ground in Palestine could a Jewish homeland be born—and that Jews elsewhere must support colonization and immigration. The phrase “Jews of the world, where are you?” fits the tone of Weizmann’s broader rhetorical stance—an urgent summons to global Jewry to move beyond political promises and take tangible, on-the-ground action.
Weizmann repeatedly challenged Jews in the diaspora to support immigration and nation-building in Palestine—telling Balfour, “We had Jerusalem when London was a marsh,” and warning of waves of Jewish refugees seeking refuge.
Av tuma Rabbi Stephen S. Wise pressured President Franklin D. Roosevelt to maintain strict U.S. immigration quotas and opposed changing the laws to admit more Jewish refugees. Wise through the public voice of the American Jewish Congress, the World Jewish Congress, supported Roosevelt. He cowardly refused to publicly challenge FDR’s White Paper policy. Wise emphasized the need to fight antisemitism in America rather than offer American shores as a safety life-line to European Jewry. In 1938, under Wise’s influence, Jewish institutions decided not to back legislation that would have loosened immigration laws to allow more Jewish refugees into the U.S.—explicitly agreeing “no Jewish organization would… sponsor a bill which would… alter the immigration laws”.
Between 1933–1945, only a fraction of the allowed immigration quota for German and Axis countries was utilized. Estimates suggest nearly 200,000 quota spots remained unused—lives that could have been saved. Jewish Liberal Reform leaders like Wise directly compare to Pope Pius XII – both Av tuma corruption chose “quiet diplomacy” and maintaining alignment with the Roosevelt administration over public advocacy for Holocaust refugees.
Historians like Rafael Medoff emphasize that Wise’s cautious approach—supported by his close relationship with FDR—slowed or blocked rescue efforts during crucial years of the Holocaust. Wise also prioritized Zionist aims in Palestine, despite the 1939 British White Paper! He claimed to favor immigration only to Palestine, but Reform American Jews never made aliyah to Israel in large numbers. He discouraged Jewish groups from lobbying Congress or mounting public pressure to open U.S. borders to Jewish refugees.
Av tuma Abraham Geiger, often called the “father of Reform Judaism”—openly declared “Berlin is our Jerusalem”. This phrase expressed a sweeping theological and cultural perversion. It reflects a sentiment that debased liberal Jews prioritized foreign cultural or secular identities. Reform Judaism rejected the traditional Jewish longing for a return to Zion. Instead, it embraced the idea of Jewish integration into its host nation—here, Germany. Geiger’s declaration made clear that Germany was their spiritual and communal center, not Palestine. Reform Judaism worships the American and French revolutions as their Gods. This religion of avoda zarah established citizens rights rather than serfs as their ‘human rights’ Nicene Creed. Reform congregations were called “Temples”; services conducted in German; prayers toward Jerusalem omitted from their gutted prayer-books. As one Reform leader explained, their allegiance lay primarily with their birth nation, not an ancient homeland.
But Israel does not compare to the feudal Confederate South, with its agricultural based economy; dependent upon slave labor! Jews living abroad, their opinions have parity with Americans living in Russia! Rebuke accusations of inauthenticity or a lack of commitment to Jewish heritage immediately come to mind whenever Liberal Jews denounce Israel across University campuses across the US and Europe.
Liberal Jews abhor the sealing of the T’NaCH, Talmud, Siddur and Midrashim. These ignorant amaratzim preach a Xtianized morality from their assimilated pulpits and soap-boxes. Their pie in the sky Top-down moralism of the Arab-Israeli conflict utterly ignores and discounts the impact of terrorism on Israeli perceptions and responses. The possibility that the Talmud serves as the interpretive lens for understanding the Mishnah, reinforcing the importance of traditional common law פרדס scholarship, used to shape modern Jewish common-law and ethics – completely and totally alien to this liberal tuma-Jewish minority populations in foreign countries.
An explanation how Farbrengen defines Jewish common law.
DOREEN DOTAN’S ARCHIVE
Correct. My first year in a Chabad Yeshiva the rabbi sang the praises of a farbrengen! Thought cool. So when he declared that he, the rabbi, would hold an all night farbrengen, I thought – Great. Came to that farbrengen ready to use vodka as my focus to listen the spoken words of ‘the rabbi’ as heard from the unique perspective of alcohol induced “”different perspective””. Seriously drank committed to focus upon the spoken words of ‘the rabbi’ all night till morning.
Then suddenly ‘the rabbi’ called the farbrengen over at 12 O’clock midnight!!!!! Drunk I returned back to my dorm and violently puked my guts out! That was my LAST farbrengen. So what did i gain from that wretched experience? When the Gemara brings precedents from the 6 Orders of Shas to interpret a specific Mishna these בניני אבות precedents permits the student of the Talmud to learn a shared גיזרה שוו idea from a different Mesechta of the Shas Bavli from a completely different “farbrengen-like” perspective. Like “the rabbi” advertised the up coming farbrengen wherein drinking vodka caused a Yid to see the Torah from a completely different and changed perspective!
Oral judicial common law simply does not compare to statute legislative laws. Any more than the 4 parts Pardes logic of inductive reasoning compares to Aristotle’s syllogism 3 part deductive reasoning. Torah scholarship requires that the reader of Oral Torah פרדס texts make the required הבדלה which separates the Front view, from the Side view, from the Top view, from the Bottom view 4 part פרדס perspective of dynamic inductive Oral Torah reasoning. And how much more so which separates inductive logic from foreign deductive Greek logic models.
The Rambam had a clear understanding of the Hebrew and Arabic languages and the shared similarities between the two languages. But he did not know shit about rabbi Akiva’s 4 part פרדס logic format and his Yad Chazaka and Moreh Nevukim both replaced פרדס logic with Greek deductive logic as the basis of the Order of his texts. Order plays a crucial role in logic. Hence the Jewish Prayer-book called siddur. Both GOD and DOG share the same exact three letters. But their order arrangement communicates two completely different ideas. All logic systems, whether פרדס or syllogism stand upon the foundation of Order. However just as DOG and GOD have a different Order of letters so too and how much more so the Order of פרדס logic does not compare to the Order of Greek syllogism logic.
Herein the best, most clear explanation, that expresses the wisdom of the Torah. Torah common law learns through the logic of comparing similar Case/Rule judicial rulings and NOT BY simply reading the words on a page of the T’NaCH or Talmud. Without active participation of פרדס logic skills, utterly impossible for any person to understand Torah common law. Much less discern the fundamental distinctions which separates T’NaCH/Talmudic judicial common law from Greek & Rome Legislative statute law. Making this fundamental distinction compares to observing the mitzva/commandment of shabbat which separates like as does t’rumah from chol, between forbidden מלאכה/work from forbidden עבודה\work. If a person fails to make this essential distinction between the two opposing sets of “work”, that person has never kept the mitzva of shabbat a single day in his entire life.
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