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Sunday, 18 December 2016

CHRISTMAS/HANNUKAH UPDATE: 2016

To be honest, I just wanted to share this glorious portrait of a reindeer with you all! It enlarges to Wallpaper size if you like it as much as I do.

Do you remember all those discussions regarding the establishment of  humongous (always graceless, ugly ornamental) menorahs around the globe over the past decades ~ the fuss over their being lit and promoted over the traditional customs of the people whether they be of Christian or Nordic origins? Consider this comment below, before moving on too far in this short post:
“Every synagogue we Jews build in a Christian country is a finger of scorn we point at our hosts; a sore finger we stick into their eyes, like the leering of a senile old woman who does all sorts of foul mischief before you, and feels safe in the knowledge that you will not lay hands on her for fear of contamination.” ibid., pg. 

I offer you all due apologies for bringing this seasonal material back to the forefront so late but, listening to Dennis (aka "The Fetch" aka "The Troll Slayer") Fetcho reminded me that I have been somewhat lax in my duties. Yes, much of this information is dated but it is always good to refresh your memory of what we are still dealing with on a daily basis.

Dennis does a spirited and educational live 3 hour show on Saturday mornings on Intel Radio, one I try to never miss. Yesterday he began a new way of reaching the public by videotaping as he went along and then posting to YouTube. I hope you approve, I most certainly do. Please, listen to the broadcast; let me know what you think! 

I present here one of Dennis's excellent and insightful (in)famous rants. The first part of this video is a continuation from earlier in the programme in which Dennis speaks of Hannukah and its true relevance to true Western civilization. He does move on to other topics after awhile, but I have never felt a minute listening to Dennis to be wasted. His Hannukah material is simply NOT to be missed!

Dennis makes reference to "lipstick on a pig". To those references I dedicate the two following images found on a Talmudic anti-Christian site that also traces the celebrations of birthdays to pagan origins and therefore evil ~ another celebration of life and love to be terminated in the future when, they believe, the Noahide Laws will be in place over us all. These graceless uncompromising people are serious but I would like to believe this setback we see going on at the time to be positive signs that at least an iota of common sense might be returning along with our maligned traditions. 

They do all they can to dim the bright light that is the Human Spirit and it is to our glory that we have lasted so long under such an intense and determined onslaught by these agents of darkness. I would like to believe things are shifting for the better but remain somewhat restrained in such a hopeful prognosis. There is simply too much going on on too many levels for anyone to know where we are headed yet. 

Interestingly, this year Hannukah begins on Christmas Eve, the night upon which righteous rabbis the world around gather to mourn the birth of Christ.

"They really do tear toilet paper. The reason is a bit convoluted: Observant Jews do not tear anything on the Sabbath as they consider it a form of "work." As such, they either don't use toilet paper on Saturdays (opting instead for pipe-clogging tissues) or pre-rip toilet paper before sundown on Friday. (Author: I reluctantly confess, this is something I was exposed to while growing up the son of an Orthodox rabbi.) Since Jews were not allowed to study Torah on Christmas Eve, the rabbis still wanted the community to be doing something, um, productive. So they suggested people spend the time pre-ripping toilet paper for the entire year. I wish I was joking but, alas, I am not."
(Since reading Torah is forbidden on Christmas Eve, some rabbis do not even sleep for fear of dreaming about the Torah!)

So how the heck will these folk deal with what the more urban Jews, the commercial types, deal with Hannukah this year when it falls on Christmas Eve?  I giggle at the idea of how uncomfortable they must feel...   


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Meanwhile, here are my meager offerings from Christmas Seasons past: 

MERRY CHRISTMAS: OFF WITH YOUR HEAD! Pt 1

MERRY CHRISTMAS: OFF WITH YOUR HEAD! Pt 2


MERRY CHRISTMAS: OFF WITH YOUR HEAD! Pt 3


MERRY CHRISTMAS: OFF WITH YOUR HEAD! Pt 4

http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.ca/2011/11/merry-christmas-off-with-your-head-pt-4.html

 

2012 UPDATE: THE WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS: REFLECTIONS ON HANUKKAH, CHRISTMAS, AND "NITEL" 

http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.ca/2012/12/2012-version-war-against-christmas.html  

 

THE "SECRET" OF HANUKKAH 

http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-secret-of-hanukkah.html

 

With so little respect for their own political religious rituals as shown below, can we really be surprised that they think so little of ours?

 





 
 Menorah made from bombs dropped on Gaza

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS 2009: REFLECTIONS ON HANUKKAH, CHRISTMAS AND "NITEL NIGHT"

Excuse from the Editor: I have been receiving complaints from a few people lately to have images removed from my blog for one reason or another. Of course I am happy to comply. Who am I to quibble if an artist decides to change their politics and wish to be pulled from the fray? It is hardly worth arguing and potentially having the blog taken down and all that research disappear. 

Cut to the chase. I just got a notice from Blogspot about an image that was on this particular page when I originally posted it. I removed the image as requested and for some reason the page has been reposted as a new item. It isn't. I do find it interesting that, after all these years of some of the images that have been posted, with thanks by the original artist at the time, within the past month or two I have had several requests to do so.

So to the young lady who was upset about the image she posted of herself as a scantily-clad menorah that I had included here before, you may rest assured, your good name is intact and your image removed. Truly, you could just have asked me. I understand how we all do silly things when we are young. 

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It is time to update a piece I presented last year. Over the next few weeks these relevant pieces, in updated 2010 form, will appear. Now, tell me, after reading this, Can you spell Christmas envy?



The original reason for the season, the birth of Jesus Christ.

December 16, 2009

Eight years ago, when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a slightly abridged version of my first essay on the War Against Christmas, the paper offered a fair description of my argument to its readers:

“The public celebration of Christmas has been sacrificed, says Tom Piatak, to the feel-good forces of multiculturalism.”

A truly lovely Hanukkah dinner setting.

Last year, so much progress had been made in fighting back against the War Against Christmas that The Daily Beast’s Max Blumenthal was reduced to willfully misreading my essay in an attempt to scare people away from the struggle. [Who Started The War On Christmas, December 8, 2008 ]

But two things Blumenthal wrote about my essay were somewhat accurate: I did quote American Heritage’s Frederic Schwarz as calling Hanukkah the “Jewish Kwanzaa”, [Merry Chanukah, American Heritage Magazine, December 2000]and I did write that Hanukkah was among the many alternative holidays presented by “multiculturalists” as “faux-Christmases” in “order to compete with, diminish, and ultimately efface Christmas”.

A lovely German pine Hanukkah Tree.

Given Blumenthal’s singular focus on Hanukkah ~ which this year starts at sundown tonight, December 11 ~ I wondered if I had been unfair in my characterization of that festival. Is Hanukkah at all comparable to Kwanzaa, and is a desire to compete with Christmas really an important force in its celebration?



As fate would have it, an article addressing these questions appeared in my hometown newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, on December 20 last year. The article, How Hanukkah Has Become Hip by John Campanelli, noted that

“Until the late nineteenth century, the holiday was celebrated modestly in Jewish homes, with an adult male lighting candles and reciting the blessing”.



Indeed, the article, citing Dianne Ashton, a religious studies professor at Rowan University who is writing a book on Hanukkah, noted that “It’s hard to tell exactly how things were celebrated because there’s almost no record of it. Ashton found no mention of Hanukkah in old diaries and letters. Instead, they mentioned the Sabbath, Passover, and other, more significant holidays”.

Needless to say, the same can hardly be said of Christmas: even though the Puritans succeeded in suppressing Christmas for a time, both in England and parts of America, Christmas was enormously popular both before and after the Puritan interlude, with such carols as The First Nowell. “I Saw Three Ships,” “The Coventry Carol,” and “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” surviving the Puritans and being embraced by the Victorians.

Even the Jewish dog is dressed up for Hanukkah!

The whole world knows something about Christmas in 19th century London, thanks to Charles Dickens, who quotes from “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” in A Christmas Carol.
 
The impact of the Puritan interlude is also undermined by the fact that most Americans have ancestors from places where Puritanism never put a damper on Christmas. The 2000 census recording that more Americans claimed German ancestry than any other ancestry. And Germans, both Protestant and Catholic, have always celebrated Christmas with gusto.


"These are genuine Christmas carols that any Jew can sing with lusty pride and not a shred of prejudice; well maybe just a little.  Who else but a proud Jew could turn the Hallelujah Chorus into We Will Sue ya? These well-known Christmas carols when given the Yiddishe twist, often do not relate to this special birthday the majority of the world celebrates.  The intellectually creative includes Goys Rule the World (Don't ya believe it.) Order today, and get ready to laugh on the full 8 days of OUR holiday."

In fact, according to Ashton, it was the German-American zest for Christmas that was instrumental in creating the modern Hanukkah. The first concerted effort she found for more emphasis on Hanukkah occurred in the 1870s in Cincinnati where “Because of [the city’s] large German population, the traditions of Santa Claus, trees and gift giving were everywhere.”




In response, Cincinnati rabbi Max Lilienthal promised that “Our children shall have a grand and glorious Hanukkah festival as nice as any Christmas festival.” 

Ashton’s account is consistent with the one offered by Frederic Schwarz in the American Heritage article in which he termed Hanukkah the “Jewish Kwanzaa ~ an invented cultural celebration”. 

The first celebration of Hanukkah is described in the Bible I use, at 1 Maccabees 4, 35-59, but it is not found in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, since the book of Maccabees is not part of the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, as Schwarz notes,

“the tradition about one day’s worth of oil lasting eight days is not mentioned in any contemporary record. It first appeared several centuries later in the Talmud”.
Hanukkah matches, especially for the lighting of the menorah.
Because of Hanukkah’s absence from the Hebrew Bible, “many other Jewish holy days are more important from a religious standpoint ~ not just Passover, Rosh Hashanah (the New Year), and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), but also Simchat Torah, Shavuot, and Sukkot.” 

“Of course”, notes Schwarz, the reason Hanukkah now enjoys at least as much prominence as any of these festivals “is Christmas”. And in fact it took a while for the idea of Hanukkah as an alternative to Christmas to catch on. Schwarz cites an 1855 New York Times article describing how Jews “in most European countries” gave presents at Christmas, and how Jews in New York City exchanged presents at New Year’s. Writes Schwarz:

In neither of these cases was substituting Chanukah considered an option; it was simply too insignificant”.
A Jewish couple created the Meshuga Nutcracher to save their child from Christian envy one December.

Empirical evidence showing that competition with Christmas is a driving force in today’s unprecedented emphasis on Hanukkah also became available last year. As Ray Fisman noted in his article The Invisible Hand of God in Slate, Stanford economists Ran Abramitzky, Liran Einav, and Oren Rigbi concluded [PDF] that “it is competition from Christmas . . . that makes families more likely to celebrate Hanukkah”.
Among the data supporting this conclusion was a survey conducted by the Stanford economists that showed that “only 30 percent of Israelis ranked Hanukkah as a ‘top three’ festival celebrated by their Jewish classmates” while “at Stanford the figure was more than 95 percent”.
Of course, there are different ways of interpreting the fact that Hanukkah is an historically insignificant holiday now given great attention to compete with Christmas. Schwarz regards Hanukkah as “the greatest American holiday”, because it is “democratic, inclusive, and multicultural”, whereas Fisman wonders if the “outsize importance” attached to “a minor holiday largely unrelated to Judaism’s core values” is necessarily the correct response to the appeal of Christmas.
But there can be little real debate over whether Hanukkah has indeed become a “faux-Christmas”: plainly, it has.
Hanukkah Claus needs a Star of David embroidered on his jacket!
Last year I also came across, at the website of Catholic apologist Mark Shea, a 2004 article from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, discussing what Hasidic Jews call Nitel Night and the rest of us call Christmas Eve:

“According to kabbala (Jewish mysticism), on the night on which ‘that man’ ~ a Jewish euphemism for Jesus ~ was born, not even a trace of holiness is present . . . . For this reason, Nitel Night . . . is one of the few occasions when Hasidim refrain from Torah study. On this horrific night, they neither conduct weddings nor do they go to the mikveh (ritual bath)…” [For them, it's wholly unholy, by Shahar Ilan, December 24, 2004]
Of course, such outlandish ideas are far outside the Jewish mainstream, and would be completely irrelevant to a consideration of Hanukkah except for this fact: the group responsible for erecting giant menorahs in public places to observe Hanukkah is Chabad. And Chabad is run by the same Hasidic sect that observes Nitel Night.
This is a new look for the Christmas season at the Whitehouse. Thank you, Mr. Bush.
Far more mainstream, and vastly more enjoyable, was Dahlia Lithwick’s witty and intelligent analysis last year in Slate of which Christmas specials are viewed as acceptable for Jewish children. 

But Lithwick was puzzled by the popularity of Dr. Seuss’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas among her peers, and concluded that “perhaps my colleague Emily Bazelon is right, and Jewish kids like the Grinch because ‘Without the ending, the movie is the ultimate fantasy for a Jewish kid with a case of Santa/tree/carols envy ~ Christmas, canceled.’” [Oy, Hark! | A Jewish parent's guide to Christmas specials, Slate, Dec. 17, 2008]
 
Adults can be envious as well. My uncle, who lived in Manhattan, noticed some years ago flyers for a performance in December of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus at a Manhattan temple. What caught my uncle’s eye was the flyer’s description of Judas Maccabaeus as “Handel’s greatest oratorio”.
The implicit comparison, of course, was to Messiah, which was first performed in America at Christmas and has become a staple of the American Christmas, and the score of which Handel is depicted as holding in his hands at his tomb in Westminster Abbey.
Fortunately, such crabbed attitudes are in the minority. I agree with Dahlia Lithwick that “the proper non-Christian response to Christmas joy is not to try to block, suppress, or hide from it”, and Lithwick’s sentiment is, in my experience, shared by the vast majority of American Jews.
A wall hanging of the Hanukkah nut cracker.
As I wrote in my 2001 essay, “Much of the public celebration of Christmas was capable of being enjoyed by non-Christians as well as Christians, and almost everyone did enjoy at least some of it. I know non-Christians who enjoy Christmas specials, Christmas movies, Christmas music; I do not think these people are unique.” 

Indeed, American Jews have made significant contributions to the American Christmas ~ contributions that have been widely embraced by American Christians. The best selling Christmas recording of all time is Bing Crosby’s rendition of White Christmas, written by Irving Berlin, who was of course Jewish.

The driving force behind the War Against Christmas remains multiculturalism, ~ a credo embraced by those of all faiths and of none, that insists that Western culture, of which Christmas is undeniably a part, is problematic at best and oppressive at worst. 

As E. V. Kontorovich, himself Jewish, argued long ago, the public elevation of Hanukkah represented the first triumph of the multiculturalist idea in America. But the multiculturalist approval of Hanukkah is not based on an appreciation of Judaism, since, as I have demonstrated, Hanukkah has historically not been an important part of Judaism and an overemphasis of Hanukkah therefore leads to a misunderstanding of Judaism.
Is this what it basically all boils down to?
The multiculturalists approve of Hanukkah for the same reason they approve of all the other faux-Christmases they are promoting these days, including Kwanzaa, Eid, Diwali, Bodhi Day, and the winter solstice: none of these holidays is Christmas. 

And thus we have the War against Christmas ~ a War that will only be won once we again realize that there is nothing problematic or oppressive about the public celebration of Christmas, one of the crowning glories of the Western culture that gave birth to America and sustains us still.
Tom Piatak (email him) writes from Cleveland, Ohio.
And what, pray tell, is THIS?
I know there is a lot of controversy over the birth of Christ. I could tackle all of that another time. For now, I speak of how it is, not how it shoulda coulda woulda been was the world a different place. One thing I thought very interesting is, for a culture that is against Christian manifestations of their religion, whatever Christians do in red green and gold, the Jews do in blue and silver. 
For more of the latest debate on the onslaught on Christmas as it has been going for the past decade, please refer to the following links. It seems the author has been involved for at least 10 years and has built up quite a library.
WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS COMPETITION 2009: [blog] [I] [2] ~ See also: War Against Christmas 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999
THIS JUST IN!
What do we have here? A group of hirsute rabbis all dressed in red and searching for frivolous and demeaning Christmas trees?

JEWISH LOBBY WAGES WAR ON CHRISTMAS TREES
Lobby for Jewish values passes out fliers against hotels,restaurants putting up Christmas trees, other Christian symbols ahead of civil New Year, say businesses who do so risk losing kosher certification.
By Ali Galhar
Ynet
 
A new front for religious battles ~ hotels and restaurants. The "Lobby for Jewish values" this week began operating against restaurants and hotels that plan to put up Christmas trees and other Christian symbols ahead of Christmas and the civil New Year.

According to the lobby's Chairman, Ofer Cohen, they have received backing by the rabbis, "and we are even considering publishing the names of the businesses that put up Christian symbols ahead of the Christian holiday and call for a boycott against them." Fliers and ads distributed among the public read, "The people of Israel have given their soul over the years in order to maintain the values of the Torah of Israel and the Jewish identity.
"You should also continue to follow this path of the Jewish people's tradition and not give in to the clownish atmosphere of the end of the civil year. And certainly not help those businesses that sell or put up the foolish symbols of Christianity."


One man's fool is another man's Savior, Rabbi.
The Jerusalem Rabbinate also works each year to ensure restaurants and hotels receiving kosher certification from the Jerusalem Religious Council do not put up Christian symbols.

According to a senior official in the kashrut department, this is done each year consensually, but that businesses which do not meet this requirement may find their kashrut certificate revoked.
It should be noted that most of the hotels in Jerusalem and a significant part of the restaurants in the capital receive permanent kosher certification from the city's religious council.



Of course this piece means I MUST post an image of a Christmas tree!

Saturday, 3 September 2011

O BLESS THEE, OH ISRAEL


These Zionists and Jews dream of enslaving the whole world, in their secret protocols they call us Christians, directly as cattle, whom God gave, they say, the image of man, supposedly chosen ones, just so they would not be disgusted to benefit our service to them.

With devilish cunning they catch in their nets frivolous people, promise them heaven on earth, but carefully hide from them their concealed purpose, their criminal dreams. By deceiving the unfortunate one, they are pushing him to the most heinous crimes allegedly for the common good and in reality convert him into an obedient slave.

"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much alive." ~ Harold Wallace Rosenthal, a top Administrative Aide to one of this nation's ranking senators, Jacob Javits R-NY, in a tape recorded interview by Walter White, Jr., which was conducted in 1976. From the book "The Hidden Tyranny". 

THE HIDDEN TYRANY ~ THE INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD WALLACE ROSENTHAL ~ PT.2


September 2, 2011
  
Chabad “at home” in The White House

The Zionist-controlled media is heaving with anti-Islam, anti-Shari’a propaganda and incitement for racial and religious hatred. A permanent bombardment of accusations, lies and forged evidence deviously presents Islamic Shari’a as a set of rigid and cruel laws, and Islam altogether as a backwards primitive system that aims to impose itself over the entire world.

At a time of economic and social hardship, mass-opinion often swings to xenophobia. Subversive incitement to racial and religious hatred threatens social cohesion, as the vulnerable masses gradually adopt hatred and violence. Thus, instead of solving problems inherent to our time, hatred against Islam and Muslims is incited to deflect from those guilty of causing hardship.

Their “war of ideas” presented as “information” couldn’t be further from truth, as every person with slightest exposure to or knowledge of Islam knows.

Shari’a is the Arabic word for “the road to the watering place” In a religious context it means “the righteous path”.

Shari’a is not a set of Laws, but rather a Set of Principles with JUSTICE at its heart and foremost aim.
These are, the six principles of shari'a:
1. The right to the protection of life.
2. The right to the protection of family.
3. The right to the protection of education.
4. The right to the protection of religion.
5. The right to the protection of property (access to resources).
6. The right to the protection of human dignity.
With the establishment of communities with people of Islamic faith, political entities were formed, and like everywhere else in the world, a body of Civil Laws was set, with regional and local differences.

These laws are derived from the predominant moral principles carried and defined in different locations and places where Muslims live. While fleshed with human understanding and interpretation, the backbone of these Laws are sourced in major Islamic books and references, in the Qur’an, in the documented saying of Mohammed known as Hadith, and then the works of Muslim scholars past and present to allow adaptation and evolution. In essence, it contains the same influence of initial religious moral principles found in any legal codex anywhere in the world.
No, Shari’a is NOT carved in stone or set in cement. No, Shari’a by its own definition can NOT be enforced on anyone nor can following its principles be enforced on any one, let alone on non-Muslims.

Just like choosing to follow Islam can only be acknowledged and recognized when done under absolute free-will, so is following the Islamic moral principles i.e. Shari’a.

Even kindergarten children know that the Qura’nic principle “No compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256) cannot be compromised under any circumstances, because this principle of “no compulsion in religion” is fundamental to the whole Islamic philosophy.
We are insistently bombarded with the Zionist hateful incitement against Islam and while we impotently watch the barbarity of their wars setting our world ablaze whilst claiming to be the “the most civilized”  “nation” and “the only democracy” in the Middle East, the liberal freedom-loving “nation” marching at the forefront of the “heroic war” against “Islamic terror” and leading the world to prosperity, stability and peace!
Nevertheless, these hasbaric mouthpieces are utterly mute with regards to the chillingly racist and supremacist nature of “Jewish Law” known as Halacha. You would never in the wildest dreams see a programme or an article in the Main Stream Media that attempts to bring to light some accurate information about Halacha, let alone criticize it or put under scrutiny.

In the light of what had happened to Palestine and Palestinians over the past decades, and in the light of the accumulating evidence that exposes some very dark ideology that thrives amongst some Jewish communities, examining and scrutinizing what is known as Halacha (Jewish Law) is a must if we are to come close to understanding the Talmudists, their mentality, their morality and their behaviour as they continue to strangle Palestine while indulging in perpetual WARS of GENOCIDE.
But more importantly, studying the Halacha will open the eyes to that which is worse, their FUTURE PLANS for the world which terrifyingly includes waging WARS of EXTERMINATION.

Furthermore, it’s vitally important to study Halacha carefully because of the fact that the proposed Laws for the Gentiles i.e. the “Seven Laws of Noah” are already being integrated in the laws of many countries, including USA, Japan and many others with the full blessing of the highest legislative bodies of these countries:

The Seven Laws of Noah were recognized by the United States Congress in the preamble to the 1991 bill that established Education Day in honor of the birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the deceased leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
It is important to notice that while some of these Noahide Laws sound benign and innocuous at the surface, they also have far more sinister implications.

In particular, as adopted the establishment of Jewish Courts to enforce these Jewish Laws over non-Jewish citizens, is mandatory.

Even more alarming, are the rigid and cruel “sentences” these racist, supremacist Talmudists are dreaming to pronounce against any transgressor.
With our jaws dropped and mouths wide open we can watch Ambassadors sign a proclamation to observe Seven Noahide Laws and with our eyes rolling we can also discover the deep links and the intimate relationship between “Israel and the supremacist Chabad Lubavitch
 
For how long are we supposed to keep dancing around the elephant in the room while we turn our heads away pointing the finger at the “Islamist” bogeyman, pretending not to see, pretending not to know, pretending that looking or even glancing at the elephant is an irrelevant distraction, or hateful anti-Semitism!!

Furthermore, for how long are we going to tolerate the hate, racism, supremacy and calls for subjugation and/ or extermination of the non-Jews by some Jewish books, some Jewish Laws and some Jewish fanatics, who have actually already secured themselves in extremely high positions of control and influence in the world of the gentiles??
Now, I would like to invite you to a “Taster” of the Halacha, please stay seated, take a deep breath, fasten your seat belts and hold onto the arms of your chair.

I reaffirm again, that these are NOT the “protocols”; neither are they “forgery”:

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6) The obligation to destroy the seven nations living in the Land of Canaan;

7) The prohibition against allowing any one of them to remain alive;

8) The obligation to destroy the descendents of Amalek;

9) The obligation to remember what Amalek did;

Israel was commanded to fulfill three mitzvot upon entering the Promised Land:
a) To choose a king, as Deuteronomy 17:15 states:  ‘Appoint a king over yourselves;’

b) To wipe out the descendents of Amalek, as Deuteronomy 25:19 states:  ‘Erase the memory of Amalek;’

c) To build God’s Chosen House, as Deuteronomy 12:5 states: ‘Seek out His Presence and go there.’
“Amalek’s seed should be annihilated before the construction of the Temple” 

“A king should not be appointed from converts to Judaism; you may not appoint a foreigner who is not one of your brethren.’”
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 1, Halacha 4
“This does not apply to the monarchy alone, but to all positions of authority within Israel. A convert may not serve as an army commander, a leader of fifty, or as a leader of ten. He may not even supervise the allocation of water from a stream to various fields. Appoint a king over you from among your brethren.’ This implies that all appointments must only be ‘from your brethren.’”
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 1, Halacha 5:
We may not appoint a woman as king.  When describing the monarchy, the Torah employs the male form of the word king and not the female.

This principle also applies to all other positions of authority within Israel. Only men should be appointed to fill them.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 1, Halacha 6
Neither a butcher, barber, bath-attendant, nor a tanner should be appointed king or High-Priest. This is not because of an inherent fault, but because their professions are less prestigious, and the people will always treat them lightly.

A person who has served in one of these professions for even one day is disqualified for the monarchy.
‘He (the king) should not amass many wives’ Deuteronomy 17:17. The Oral Tradition states that he may take no more than eighteen wives.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 3, Halacha 8
Anyone who rebels against a king of Israel may be executed by the king.

Even if the king orders one of the people to go to a particular place and the latter refuses, or he orders him not to leave his house and he goes out, the offender is liable to be put to death. The king may execute him if he desires, as Joshua 1:18 states: ‘Whoever rebels against your command … shall be put to death.”

Similarly, anyone who embarrasses or shames the king may be executed by the king as was Shim’i ben Gera.

The king may only execute people by decapitation. He may also imprison offenders and have them beaten with rods to protect his honor. 

However, he may not confiscate property. If he does, it is considered theft.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 3, Halacha 10
He (the king) may execute many on one day, hang them, and leave them hanging for many days in order to cast fear into the hearts and destroy the power of the wicked of the earth.
The property of all those executed by the king, belongs to the king.  Similarly, all the treasures belonging to the kings of the kingdoms which he conquers become the property of the king.
A king should not wage other wars before a milchemet mitzvah. What is considered as milchemet mitzvah? The war against the seven nations who occupied Eretz Yisrael, the war against Amalek, and a war fought to assist Israel from an enemy which attacks them.

Afterwards, he may wage a milchemet hareshut, (war of aggression) i.e. a war fought with other nations in order to expand the borders of Israel or magnify its greatness and reputation.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 5, Halacha 3
The king may burst through the fences surrounding fields or vineyards to make a road and no one can take issue with him.

There is no limit to the road the king may make. Rather, it may be as wide as necessary. He need not make his road crooked because of an individual’s vineyard or field. Rather, he may proceed on a straight path and carry out his war.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 5, Halacha 4
It is a positive commandment to annihilate the seven nations who dwelled in Eretz Yisrael as Deuteronomy 20:17 states:

‘You shall utterly destroy them.’

Anyone who chances upon one of them and does not kill him violates a negative commandment as ibid.16 states: ‘Do not allow a soul to live.’ The memory of them has already been obliterated.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 5, Halacha 5
Similarly, it is a positive commandment to destroy the memory of Amalek, as Deuteronomy 25:19 states:
‘Obliterate the memory of Amalek.’

It is also a positive commandment to constantly remember their evil deeds and their ambush of Israel to arouse our hatred of them, as ibid.17 states: ‘Remember what Amalek did to you.’ The Oral Tradition teaches: Remember’ ~ with your mouths; …Do not forget’ ~ in your hearts.’ For it is forbidden to forget our hatred and enmity for them.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 5, Halacha 6
All the lands which Israel conquers in wars led by a king and approved by the court are considered as conquered by the people at large. Thus, they have the same status as Eretz Yisrael which was conquered by Joshua in every regard. This only applies if they were conquered after the conquest of Eretz Yisrael as described in the Torah.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 5, Halacha 9

It is forbidden to leave Eretz Yisrael for the Diaspora at all times except:
to study Torah;

to marry; or

to save one’s property from the gentiles.

War, neither a milchemet hareshut nor a milchemet mitzvah, should not be waged against anyone until they are offered the opportunity of peace as Deuteronomy 20:10 states: ‘When you approach a city to wage war against it, you should propose a peaceful settlement.’

If the enemy accepts the offer of peace and commits itself to the fulfillment of the seven mitzvot that were commanded to Noah’s descendents, none of them should be killed. Rather, they should be subjugated as ibid.11 states:  ‘They shall be your subjects and serve you.’

If they agree to tribute, but do not accept subjugation or if they accept subjugation, but do not agree to tribute, their offer should not be heeded. They must accept both.
The subjugation they must accept consists of being on a lower level, scorned and humble. They must never raise their heads against Israel, but must remain subjugated under their rule. They may never be appointed over a Jew in any matter whatsoever.
The tribute they must accept consists of being prepared to support the king’s service with their money and with their persons; for example, the building of walls, strengthening the fortresses, building the king’s palace, and the like as I Kings 9:15-22) relates: 

“This is the tribute which Solomon raised to build the House of God, his own palace, the Milo, the wall of Jerusalem, and all the store-cities which Solomon had… All the people that remained from the Amorites… upon them did Solomon lay a tribute of bond service until this day”

In contrast, Solomon did not make bondsmen out of the children of Israel. They were men of war, his personal servants, his princes, his captains, the officers of his chariots, and his horsemen

Mishneh Torah, Chapter 6, Halacha 4
If they do not agree to a peaceful settlement, or if they agree to a peaceful settlement, but refuse to accept the seven mitzvot, war should be waged against them.

All males past majority should be killed. Their money and their children should be taken as spoil, but neither women or children should be killed, as Deuteronomy 20:14 states: ‘But the women and the children… take as spoil.” ‘The children’ refer to males below the age of majority.

The above applies to a milchemet hareshut fought with other nations. However, if either the seven nations or Amalek   refuse to accept a peaceful settlement, not one soul of them may be left alive as ibid.  20:15-16 states:
‘Do this to all the cities that … are not the cities of these nations. However, from the cities of these nations do not leave a soul alive.’
Similarly, in regard to Amalek, Deuteronomy 25:19 states:
‘Obliterate the memory of Amalek.’
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 6, Halacha 7
When a siege is placed around a city to conquer it, it should not be surrounded on all four sides, only on three. A place should be left for the inhabitants to flee and for all those who desire, to escape with their lives, as it is written Numbers 31:7: ‘And they besieged Midian as God commanded Moses.’ According to tradition, He commanded them to array the siege as described.

[Goodness me, does that not remind us, Palestinians of what they did in 1948 and 1967!!]
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 6, Halacha 11
We should lay siege to the gentiles’ cities at least three days before the Sabbath. We may engage in battle with them every day, even on the Sabbath, as Deuteronomy 20:20 states: ‘against the city waging war with you until you subjugate it.’ Our Sages explain:  this implies ‘even on the Sabbath.’ This applies to both a milchemet mitzvah and a milchemet hareshut.
Similarly, a soldier may engage in sexual relations with a woman while she is still a gentile if his natural inclination overcomes him.  However, he may not engage in sexual relations with her and then, go on his way. Rather, he must bring her into his home as Deuteronomy 21:11 states ‘If you see a beautiful woman among the prisoners…You shall bring her into the midst of your home…’
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 8, Halacha 3
Relations with a yefat toar are only permitted while she is in captivity as the verse states ‘If you see… among the prisoners.’

This license is permitted whether the woman is a virgin or not, even if she is married, for the gentiles’ marriages are not recognized.

A number of laws are derived from the exegesis of the verse from Deuteronomy quoted above:

‘And you desire’ ~ even though she is not beautiful.
 
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 8, Halacha 10
By the same regard, Moses was commanded by the Almighty to compel all the inhabitants of the world to accept the commandments given to Noah’s descendants.

If one does not accept these commands, he should be executed. A person who formally accepts these commands is called a resident alien.  This applies in any place. This acceptance must be made in the presence of three Torah scholars.
A gentile who worships false gods is liable provided he worships them in an accepted manner.

A gentile is executed for every type of foreign worship which a Jewish court would consider worthy of capital punishment. However, a gentile is not executed for a type of foreign worship which a Jewish court would not deem worthy of capital punishment. Nevertheless, even though a gentile will not be executed for these forms of worship, he is forbidden to engage in all of them.

We should not allow them to erect a monument, or to plant an Asherah, or to make images and the like even though they are only for the sake of beauty
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 9, Halacha 3
A  gentile who  curses God’s Name, whether he uses God’s unique name or  one of His other names, in any language, is liable. This law does not apply with regard to Jews.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 9, Halacha 4
A gentile who slays any soul, even a fetus in its mother’s womb, should be executed in retribution for its death. Similarly, if he slew a person who would have otherwise died in the near future, placed a person before a lion, or starved a person to death, he should be executed for through one manner or other, he killed.
(All those aborted babies! The Jewish instigated abortion laws seem to only be used for control of goyim population? Yet gentile doctors perform these abomination as well as Jews.)
Similarly, one should be executed if he killed a pursuer when he could have saved the latter’s potential victim by maiming one of the pursuer’s limbs. These laws do not apply with regard to Jews.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 9, Halacha 10
Similarly, a gentile who engages in relations with a Jewish maiden who has been consecrated is stoned to death because of her as is the law regarding Jews.

If he engages in relations with her after she has undergone the wedding ceremony, but has not engaged in relations with her husband, he is strangled to death as is the Jewish law.
However, if he engages in relations with a Jewish woman after she engaged in relations with her husband once, he is sentenced to be executed by decapitation as if he had engaged in relations with a gentile woman.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 9, Halacha 9
A gentile is liable for violating the prohibition against theft whether he stole from another gentile or from a Jew.

This applies to one who forcefully robs an individual or steals money, a kidnapper, an employer who withholds his worker’s wages and the like, even a worker who eats from his employer’s produce when he is not working. In all such cases, he is liable and is considered as a robber.  With regard to Jews, the law is different.

Similarly, a gentile is liable for stealing an object worth less than a p’rutah. Thus, if one gentile stole an object worth less than a p’rutah and another gentile stole it from him, they are both executed because of it.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 9, Halacha 14
How must the gentiles fulfill the commandment to establish laws and courts? They are obligated to set up judges and magistrates in every major city to render judgment concerning these six mitzvot and to admonish the people regarding their observance.

A gentile who transgresses these seven commands shall be executed by decapitation. For this reason, all the inhabitants of Shechem were obligated to die. Shechem kidnapped. They observed and were aware of his deeds, but did not judge him.

A gentile is executed on the basis of the testimony of one witness and the verdict of a single judge. No warning is required. Relatives may serve as witnesses. However, a woman may not serve as a witness or a judge for them.
A gentile who converted, was circumcised, and immersed in the mikveh, and, afterwards, decided to forsake God and revert to his previous status as a resident alien is not granted permission to do so. Rather, he must remain as an Israelite in all matters or be executed.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 10, Halacha 5
It has already been explained that gentiles are always executed by decapitation except in cases when one engages in relations with the wife of a Jew or a consecrated maiden. In the latter instance, he is stoned to death.

If he engaged in relations with a Jew’s wife after they married, but before they ever engaged in relations, he is executed by strangulation.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 10, Halacha 6
A gentile who gave a Jew a blow is liable to die for causing even the most minimal damage. Nevertheless, he is not executed.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 10, Halacha 9
A gentile who studies the Torah is obligated to die. They should only be involved in the study of their seven mitzvot.

Similarly, a gentile who rests, even on a weekday, observing that day as a Sabbath, is obligated to die. Needless to say, he is obligated for that punishment if he creates a festival for   himself.

The general principle governing these matters is: They are not to be allowed to originate a new religion or create mitzvot for themselves based on their own decisions. They may either become righteous converts and accept all the mitzvot or retain their statutes without adding or detracting from them.

If a gentile studies the Torah, makes a Sabbath, or creates a religious practice, a Jewish court should beat him, punish him, and inform him that he is obligated to die. However, he is not to be executed.
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 10, Halacha 11
The Jewish court is obligated to appoint judges for these resident aliens to judge them according to these statutes so that the world will not become decadent.

If the court sees fit to appoint the judges from the resident aliens themselves, they may. If it sees fit to appoint them from among the Jews, they may.


Mshneh Torah, Chapter 10, Halacha 12
If there is a dispute between a Jew and an idolater:
If the Jew will fare better according to their laws, they are judged according to their laws. When the judgment is rendered, the judges explain:  ‘Your law obligates this judgment’ If the Jew will fare better according to our laws, they are judged according to Torah law. When the judgment is rendered, the judges explain: ‘Our law obligates this judgment’; it appears to me that this approach is not followed in regard to a resident alien. Rather, he is always judged according to their laws.
Do not presume that in the Messianic age any facet of the world’s nature will change or there will be innovations in the work of creation.  Rather, the world will continue according to its pattern.

Although Isaiah 11:6 states: ‘The wolf will dwell with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the young goat,’ these words are a metaphor and a parable. The interpretation of the prophecy is as follows: Israel will dwell securely together with the wicked gentiles who are likened to a wolf and a leopard
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 12, Halacha 5
In that era, there will be neither famine nor war, envy or competition for good will flow in abundance and all the delights will be freely available as dust. The occupation of the entire world will be solely to know God.

Therefore, the Jews  will be great sages  and know the hidden matters,  grasping the knowledge of their Creator according to the full extent of  human potential, as Isaiah 11:9 states: ‘The world will be filled with  the knowledge of God as the waters cover the ocean bed.”
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THE HIDDEN HISTORY ~ THE KHAZAR EMPIRE



This Video features Islamic Scholar Sheikh Imran Hosein explaining the connection between Khazars and Jewish faiths. Historians don't really like to talk about this subject but unfortunately for them vast body of historical evidence, much of which has come to light only in the last three to five decades is out in the open and available for investigation by anyone who wants to research it.