A Travesty of Torah Desecration!!

This Obscenity came to my attention as the minutes closed to Shabbat Observance on Friday ....  it so Horrific, so Disgusting, so Obscene, so vomit inducing;   I'm so Sickened ~ totally filled with Indignation & Rage ~  it is as though I have witnessed a Rape.  Which I have ~ a Rape of Torah.  May these fakers die painfully and their names be forever obliterated from history .... Yemach sheimem v'zichrem!!!!
Popular Christian messianic missionary and hebraic roots teacher, self styled  "Rabbi" Ralph Messer, of Simchat Torah Beit Midrash (www.torah.tv),  wraps scandalized mega-church leader Eddie Long in a Torah scroll and crowns him as king.  "Rabbi" Ralph Messer declaring the soon-to-be divorced accused homosexual pedophile Eddie Long.  Eddie Long took in young fatherless teen boys, lavished them with expensive gifts (homes, trips, cars, jewellery, etc,) and had intimate sexual relationships with them.  When the boys brought it to court, and after initially denying the allegations, Long settled out of court for a reported $15,000,000 awarded to each party and a gag order. When this "Minister" took his place back in the pulpit, the boys were horrified and spoke out despite the agreed gag order.  This is who is to be a King of Israel????  This is who was imbibed with the ritual use of a Jewish Torah scroll???    I felt sick to my stomach it was so nauseating.   Torah is not a Toy!!!

Ha'Shem looked into Torah & created the world ... Torah is precious beyond words, and is in the Keeping of B'nei Yisrael. Only B'nei Yisrael. To usurp (incorrectly so!) the Torah in this self glorifying parody amounts to Rape of Torah.  This man desecrated a Sefer Torah,  one that survived the Shoah no less (if he is to be believed) ~ Millions of Jews died rather than desecrate Torah,  murdered in the ovens of Auschwitz  .... How much more offensive to their memory can you possibly get??

This 'Rabbi' Ralph Messer represents himself as a Jew ~ He is NOT a Jew.  He does not represent recognizable Jewish thought or practice in his (mis-) representations of the Torah or any Minhag.  This obscene material is a good reason why Jewish leaders need to temper those evangelical and prophetic flames with strict halachic borders, and to consider who these Idolators are teaching our Torah to.

I want to combat just some of the obvious lies and deliberate distortions in the video extract below ....

The Torah cover is not a "foreskin." Hyper-masculine, hyper-sexualization of the Torah reduces the Holy Torah to a problematic phallic symbol ~ Hashem's? or Long's???     Perhaps this is a Brit Milah????  It is totally a LIE.   Grammatically and symbolically, the Torah is feminine in Hebrew and is personified as "She," as in "She is a Tree of Life," in Mishlei. 3:18.  The Shekinah is the majestic presence or manifestation of Ha'Shem in this earth,  it denotes the dwelling or settling divine presence of Ha'Shem amongst his people and again is a Female presence.  The Brit Milah is a Specific covenant between Ha'Shem and B'nei Yisroel ONLY.    And no ritualistic occasion is going to confer it upon such a faker .... It is RAPE of Torah & it's teachings by garrolous goyim.

The Torah 'wrapper' is not referred to as a "belt of righteousness" anywhere I've ever seen.

The claim that "only one of great authority" is given a "finger" to touch the scroll is patently false. Any Bar or Bat Mitzvah, girl or boy, woman or man, who has completed the rite of passage, can chant the Torah according to the (minhag) custom in their congregation. Torah scroll pointers, called "hands," (yadayim), not "fingers" are common gifts and possessions in Jewish families and communities.

The claim that 90 percent of the Jews in the world have "never seen, approached or touched" Torah scrolls is utterly without foundation. The Torah is taken out of the Ark during Shabbat and other services ....  it is processed through the assembly twice where people reverence it (Her!) by touching and kissing it/Her.

The frequent references to significant numbers may be an attempt to mimic the Jewish mystical tradition of Gematria that elicits meanings from numbers and their contexts. The speaker is devising his own system without reference to any of the classical texts in Judaism, frequently by simple free- and word-association.

The point that "these"  presumably Torah scrolls are only given to "cities in need of anointing" is false. Individuals, families and religious communities own and commission Torah scrolls and keep or give them as they see fit, to synagogues, Jewish seminaries and other schools and museums.

The claim that the kings of Israel were crowned with Torah scrolls wrapping them has no foundation in Torah/Tanakh.  None.  However, the great second century rabbi Hanina ben Teradion, was however wrapped in a Torah scroll and burned alive in his martyrdom ... a conflation of 'tales' perhaps????   There is no precedent for presenting anyone, even a fictitious Israelite-ish monarch with the Torah wrapper.  None.  It is like playing to the 21st Century Crowd!!!

The donning of the Tallit, prayer shawl, is done by those who have completed their Bar or bat Mitzvah ~ whatever it was that just occurred, it had none of the requisite elements of a bat or bar mitzvah. In addition the tallit is donned by pulling it over one's head and reciting the traditional prayer, which was not done in this video.

The elevation of Long lifted in the chair by four men seems to have been borrowed from Jewish wedding festivities and has noting to do with coronation; there is no evidence of this practice among Israelite or Judean monarchs.  And the desectation of the Kohenite blessing is stomach churning.

THIS IS A SICK PERVERSION OF TORAH JUDAISM.   NOTHING ELSE.  AN ABOMINATION UNTO HA'SHEM. 

And I want this  Sefer Torah back .... my Grandfather Lubomir ben Alter Menachem, OBM.  perished in Auschwitz.   It desecrates his Torah Observance in life to have such Idolators demean it so.  Y'mach Shemo!!!!!

A Warning to Jewish Women on Facebook !!!

This is Mike Roepke. 

I am posting this here because this FRAUDSTER has had contact with a friend of mine.  A Jewish lady who shall remain nameless for now.  He is a Predator of Jewish women.  He is NOT JEWISH and he is NOT converting to Judaism as he has said in many forums both within and without Facebok.  He is pretending to be pro-Israel and has infiltrated several pages on Facebook looking for "help" to fulfill his "dream" of going to Israel.  He is looking for MONEY and perhaps a Jewish lady to legitimise him. 

These are his Facebook Pages ....    HERE    And Here .... FRAUD!!!!!!

He does not work for "Mossad" and is in fact Homeless and Jobless and Broke in the USA.  He lives in his truck and runs his Woodwork 'business' from his Truck  (see below picture of him 'working' in a Hotel parking lot in Tennessee!!!).  I wonder if the IRS know he is in fact 'working' from this location?????

My friend from FB  was in danger as this man apparently has a propensity toward violent behaviour  and the police had to be called to remove her from a dangerous situation.  Please take this seriously people.  He is right now, as we speak trawling for new victims .... who may not necessarily be female.  Jewish Men active in their communites can be called on to establish his cause and allow him to take further advantage in Eretz Yisroel itself, which is his avowed goal. 

This is his Woodwork Page .... Michael's Woodworks!    (A Scam!!!!)

Jewish Ladies ..... BEWARE !!!!!!!

Yarzeit of Binyamin & Talya .... Kahane Chai!!

Binyamin Zev Kahane Z"l, HY"D,   the son of assassinated politician Rabbi Meir Kahane,  and his wife Talya were killed in a shooting attack by arabs near Ofra in Yesha, Israel on 31st December 2000. Kahane was killed immediately while his wife was critically wounded and died later of her injuries.   Five of the couple's children who were travelling in the car were injured with them. One child, aged 4, was seriously wounded, two sustained medium injuries and two were lightly wounded.  And today marks their 12th yarzeit.  Their 6 children are being raised by Talya's younger sister and her husband in the family's home in Kfar Tapuach.

Binyamin Kahane, who was in his early 30s, was born in New York City, but emigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four,  in 1971.  An Orthodox Jewish scholar and Rabbi, like his father,  Rabbi Meir Kahane,  the founder of the banned  Kach movement, who was assassinated by an Arab gunmen too .....  in New York in November 1990.   After his death his son set up "Kahane Chai" (Kahane Lives) with the aim of continuing his legacy.  He wrote too like his Dad.  Binyamin was the author of The Haggada of the Jewish Idea, a commentary based on his father's teachings of the Passover Haggadah read at the Passover Seder. He wrote a Torah portion sheet called Darka Shel Torah ("The Way of the Torah") that was distributed for the weekly Torah parashat. He was several times scandalously convicted by Israeli courts for advocating violence against Arabs.

And today I am posting an article by Rabbi Binyamin Kahane in his honour on this anniversary day.   Given events in Yisrael this week it is 'topical' !!!


Who Respects Women ~ Rabbi Binyamin Kahane.

"The cultural war taking in place in Israel, which is one of the subjects wehave stressed for a long time now, has reached new heights. This time we aretalking about the event in Yatir Forest which was initiated by the army-preparatory schools. The moment the rabbis of the religious preparatory schools announced that they cannot participate in the event if women singers will be performing, the media geared themselves for attack.

This time they directed their vicious arrows at the “trampling of women’s honor” by the rabbis. Does the honor of women really concern them? Is there any connection at all between the prohibition in Jewish law of hearing awoman sing and the hurting of her honor? Obviously the very opposite is true. The prohibition stems from the idea to protect the honor and dignity of women, as the sages say: “So that the daughters of Israel won’t be’hefker’” (up for grabs).

But the sad part of this story is that the hellenists succeeded in portraying themselves as the protectors of the honor of women. They who fill the streets of the cities of Israel with pictures of abominations, whose very essence is the cheapening and degradation of women – they are the one stalking about honoring women? They, who over the last few years have cheapened and degraded the integrity of the daughters of Israel to such an extent that Jewish history knows no precedent? They speak of honoring women?

We have no qualms about speaking so harshly about the differences betweenthese two cultures. For we know that what is really taking place is not an argument between “religious” and “secular”, but rather a war between a handful of hellenists obsessed with western culture versus the heritage of our fathers which the gentiles never succeeded to destroy, and which Jews won’t succeed either.

Because of this, it was sad to hear one side speak so bluntly, while the religious side spoke out of the sides of their mouths. My G-d! What are you apologizing about! Nothing will convince the public more than a sticking to one’s principles and the halacha, without trying to sound “nice”. One does not have to be “religious” to oppose the drugs, violence, and pornography which plague Israeli society today. A strong and proud stance will not alienate the masses, who still seek values for their children, and know instinctively that hellenism is not the way.

Illogical compromises do not give honor to Torah, especially when the hellenists are not interested in compromises, but rather in a total crushing of Torat Yisrael."

How the NGO's Stole Christmas !!!

The Christmas season is being exploited by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to advance anti-peace agendas and to delegitimize Israel, says NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institution.  By manipulating traditional christmas songs, images, and messages, NGOs such as Sabeel, War on Want (UK), Amos Trust, and Adalah-NY continue to demonize Israel with crude, anti-semitic rhetoric.

“These NGOs have hijacked Christmas to promote their extremely divisive boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) and demonization campaigns,” says Prof. Gerald Steinberg, President of NGO Monitor.  “Manipulating religious symbols and images in this manner is deeply offensive, and clearly does not foster an environment of coexistence among Israelis and Palestinians.  These NGOs are pursuing hate-filled agendas.”

This is especially true of church groups who have totally manipulated the christmas spirit to Delegitimize Israel & to promote BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) against Israel.

Friends of Sabeel (Detroit) is selling christmas cards as a “fundraiser in support of Friend of Sabeel - North America,” one of which implies the destruction of the Jewish state by depicting a map of Israel, the 'West Bank', and Gaza as one territory filled in with the phrase “The Empire will not last!”

Adalah-NY held its annual “Anti-Apartheid Holiday Caroling” on December 17th, 2011 in front of a New York Jewellery store owned by Israeli businessman Lev Leviev.  The protest is part of Adalah-NY’s campaign targeting Leviev because he is an Israeli, and they invited activists to sing  awkward and offensive versions of traditional holiday songs. This year, the event was held in conjunction with Code Pink, whose Stolen Beauty campaign targets the Israeli company Ahava. In their lyrics, the NGOs use the “Ethnic cleansing and apartheid” blood libels, and chanted “Selling beauty creams, / Blood mixed in with mud” other inflammatory lyrics include “That beauty cream you bought her / Makes her soul disappear.”

UK-based Amos Trust is advertising its annual Bethlehem Pack, “a resource to help churches talk about the current situation in Bethlehem at carol services and christmas events.” Exploiting charged theological images to attack Israel, this text proclaims: “If J-sus was born today in Bethlehem, the Wise Men would spend several hours queuing to enter the town” and “If J-sus was born today in Bethlehem, much of the shepherds’ fields would have been confiscated for illegal Israeli settlements.”

“Linking the suffering of palestinians to christian themes revives traditional and deep seated anti-semitic theology,”  Steinberg adds.  “By employing these tactics, and grossly misrepresenting a complicated conflict, these NGOs are making peace more difficult to achieve.”

Other anti-semitic events included .....

In California,  Code Pink activists wore bridal dresses while singing carols outside a Bed, Bath & Beyond store.

Philly BDS activists sang carols against “apartheid walls.”

Sydney’s Coalition for palestine sang carols again referring to the “ethnic cleansing” libel.

Sami Awad, Executive Director of Holy Land Trust, contributes additional demonizing rhetoric to the resource packet .... “No matter where you stand in Bethlehem, you can see the effects of the cold grip of this brutal and humiliating occupation.”

Amos Trust is also publicizing a nativity scene “complete with separation wall,” highlighting the theological theme in its anti-Israel campaigns.

War on Want, which receives British government funding, continues to promote its politicized Christmas cards that depict the security barrier paired with religious Christmas images. This radical NGO also urges supporters to “donate as much as you can afford this christmas” to “Help stop bulldozers destroying Palestinian homes.”

As it did last year, the Ireland palestinian Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is promoting a number of items as “Ideal for Christmas Gifts,” including the book “Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide.” IPSC is also selling its own Christmas cards with a depiction of the three wise men at the security barrier, claiming that “Their path would be blocked by Israel’s Apartheid Wall and it’s doubtful if they would be allowed through the checkpoints.”

In messages during the holiday season, Christian organizations Kairos palestine and Sabeel employ religious themes, recalling a long history of antisemitic theology.

• The Bethlehem Call, a document published by Kairos palestine following its December 2011 conference, accuses Israel of “systematic ethnic cleansing and the geo-cide of palestinians.” In this Call, Kairos palestine, which has previously used religious language to deny the Jewish historical connection to Israel and to advance BDS campaigns, wrote .... “The severity of the Palestinian situation makes comparisons with apartheid in South Africa superfluous and almost irrelevant.” It also exploits religious themes to demonize Israel, attesting that “G-d does not take kindly to injustice and the perpetrators of injustice.” The authors also “reject calls to cease advocating and practising BDS.”
  
• Several church groups, including the United Church of chr-st, christian Church (Disciples of chr-st), and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, promoted Kairos-Palestinian’s Bethlehem Call on their websites and blogs.
  
• In Sabeel’s annual Christmas message,  Naim Ateek accused Israel of attempting to “eliminate the palestinians, denying their political rights, and stripping them of their human dignity and land.”
  
  

How 's that for Holiday Hypocrisy ?????

A Holocaust Hanukkah!

Even during the Holocaust Hanukkah was celebrated ~ The story of Hanukkah is one of perseverance and survival ~ never was this more necessary than through the years of the Shoah. This picture is taken at Belsen-Bergen Concentration Camp.

In Hebrew, the word “hanukkah” means “dedication.” The name reminds us that this holiday commemorates the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem following the Jewish victory over the Syrian-Greeks in 165 B.C.E.

In 168 B.C.E. the Jewish Temple was seized by Syrian-Greek soldiers and dedicated to the worship of the god Zeus. This was an abomination to the Jewish people, and in 167 B.C.E. the Syrian-Greek emperor Antiochus made the observance of Judaism an offense punishable by death. He also ordered all Jews to worship Greek gods.

Jewish resistance began in the village of Modiin, near Jerusalem. Greek soldiers forcibly gathered the Jewish villages and told them to bow down to an idol, then eat the flesh of a pig ~ both practices that are forbidden to Jews. A Greek officer ordered Mattathias, a High Priest, to acquiesce to their demands, but Mattathias refused. When another villager stepped forward and offered to cooperate on Mattathias' behalf, the High Priest became outraged. He drew his sword and killed the villager, then turned on the Greek officer and killed him too. His five sons and the other villagers then attacked the remaining soldiers, killing all of them.

Mattathias and his family went into hiding in the mountains, where other Jews wishing to fight against the Greeks joined them. Eventually they succeeded in retaking their land from the Greeks. These rebels became known as the Maccabees, or Hasmoneans.

Once the Maccabees had regained control they returned to the Temple in Jerusalem. By this time it had been spiritually defiled by being used for the worship of foreign gods and also by practices such as sacrificing swine. Jewish troops were determined to purify the Temple by burning ritual oil in the Temple’s menorah for eight days. But to their dismay, they discovered that there was only one day's worth of oil left in the Temple. They lit the menorah anyway and to their surprise the small amount of oil lasted the full eight days.

This is the miracle of the Hanukkah oil that is celebrated every year when Jews light a special menorah known as a hanukkiyah for eight days. One candle is lit on the first night of Hanukkah, two on the second, and so on, until eight candles are lit.

“Through the mitzvah of the Chanukah lights, we come to recognize Hashems Glory, which is elevated and magnified throughout the world. Those who are distant from holiness are awakened to return to G-d; and we attain awe of Hashem, peace in our homes, and the power of prayer. All strife and evil ...speech are nullified and universal peace spreads through all of the worlds” 
~ Likkutei Moharan I:14 ~ .

The Poem below is for Helaine Berr ...

Hélène Berr lived in Paris and actively resisted the Nazi invasion of her homeland. She attended the Sorbonne, played violin, fell in love and tried to make the best of her family's dire situation. Rather than trying to downplay her Jewish identity, she opted to wear her yellow star as a badge of pride in her heritage. Sadly, she was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 and died in the Bergen-Belsen camp only five days before the liberation. Her diary was retained by her fiance and passed on to her niece, who finally chose to publish it. In 2008, the newly-released journal touched and moved readers, causing Hélène Berr to be called "the French Anne Frank". I hope I have done justice to her memory. While this poem is not specifically about Ms. Berr, it was written in her honour to commemorate the experiences of many families in similar circumstances during that dark time.