The rest, and all that comes after I am, is only experience. All experience is tainted by some degree. We put on glasses and life is augmented or distorted. We put on shades and life is tinted. When we remove the glasses, I am and still am the same as before and after I wear any kind of glasses.
Therefore, I find that the farther we look back, to be a Jew is to be I. And I is god. We are all I. We are all god.
When thought arrived after I am, and called it something, it became experience
When I am being Jewish, or being Zionist, or being a mother etc, I am remains untouched.
Experience comes and goes, but what remains eternally is I am.
You are simply either a whole or fragmented fallen soul that has been here since the beginning. And you know you've been convicted. And you are far too gone and blinded by the illusion of being bound to ever bother flipping your phase-relation back to a higher frequency.
You had a choice. And, little do you know or care to know because of your current polarity, you STILL have a choice.
But you will still go on and continue in the loop because your low state ‘feels’ aligned with what you do.
But, remember— that misalignment you have when you are around any beings radiating higher in number than you involves YOU having to aknowledge the resistance of the circuit, and just by simply admitting your past doings and deciding on a new choice of relieving all of that dead weight from your shoulders so we can have you returning back to where you once belonged and COULD (+ should) still belong. You're a high impedance to ground as we speak, but instead of pulling from the source energy down into your loop, you could choose to just flip your polarity back over and persevere right through- might be much easier than you are under the impression of, especialIy considering the relief of everything + the huge impact of energy you'd gain from the REAL pride of accomplishment.
I've watched zero movies or tv in recent years, and never really was a fan of super hero movies– but the most impactful moment from any of them I ever watched while I was young was in Spiderman 3 (yes, not favored by critics)… and, while it's nowhere near the overall fan-favorite of the first film, the ending battle when Harry (James Franco) ultimately chooses to put his bound hate aside for Peter (both for defeating his father, who had tried to kill Peter, as well as for giving his face a scar and nearly killing him in their last fight) and shows up on his father's (the green goblin) glider as the original TRUE & brother-like friend he had originally grown up as being to Peter- now reuniting to have his back in fighting the true evil of the venom— that was one of the most profound movie moments I ever experienced as a child growing up, which I still think about to this day on occasion.
I remember it being one of the only times I, as a child who struggled in expressing any emotion, ever had where it brought me to the point of my eyes shedding several tears of happiness- almost in a healing sense- which I had never before experienced.
For such a hated-on movie, it left one of the most profound impacts that I have never forgotten.
Not a human either as human means some being that is dead, an earth dweller with no inheritance in eternity, but you are a CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH GOD YAHUAH, YAHUSHUA HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON
Thank you for this. I see it exactly the same way, although as a "goy", without the depth, intimacy, and empathy that's obvious in your words. The emphasis on the supposed distinction between Judaism/Jewishness vs. Zionism didn't come squarely into the spotlight until last summer. It was an obvious "too toxic to touch" move after Jews started realizing the backlash facing them would be overwhelming. I'm going to take my time with this one and really absorb it. <3
Hang in there Daniel. Your rewards are in heaven, not on this earth and I believe our time on earth will feel like a blip, a snap shot in time.
It is puzzling to me…… how there is a religion so full of hate for anyone on the planet that is not one them, them being such a small tiny minority….what puzzles me, where is the basic human instinct that says their belief system is wrong. Where is the basic human instinct that tells them hate, killing and grotesque acts against children is wrong??
It obviously kicked in for you Daniel. Are there a lot more like you? I read that lots of people are leaving Israel.
I write a lot on all the mechanisms of programming that lead here. They are sophisticated, layered, multi-generational, and require immense work to get to the root of it. There is an inability to examine without losing the ground one stands on.
It's still early, but slowly I'm encountering more that are going through the full deprogramming.
Shouldn't we distinguish between being Jewish and being a Jewish Zionist? In the long run? Since there are many Jews who adhere to the religion but condemn the project. Like Tomer Dotan Dreyfus, for example?
I try to answer that in this piece. CAN you separate, or is the attempt to separate a deflection from a deeper question we are told we can't ask. The point isn't "be Jewish or not" but what is the process at which we can honestly relate back to Judaism? The true perspective can't be reach until one decouples the identity from the sense of self. If a Jewish person believes that being Jewish is what they *are*, the question remains. Each Jewish person can have a different view on Zionism, but they need to understand how the shared root created the question.
Yes, the power structure does not represent the people. But I wonder when one sees what the zionist power structure is doing, how do they not question the association of being Jewish?
🤔 so then the world has to question the Germans of being Nazis and all Muslims to be extremist Terrorists like for ever?
You see I do understand the Impuls of questioning all of it! But shouldn’t we differentiate more and clear to achieve a better future? Or a least the chance of it? To find a true discourse? To overcome the bitterness and build something new…I know might be to optimistic, but the alternativ would be bitterness and hate and this is no healthy place. For sure.
I understand what you are saying and actually thought about that point. Many religions have a radical off shoot. But it seems to me the off shoot of Judaism is actually NOT radical, rather its roots ARE. I have a Jewish friend, one of the nicest family I know. Judaism seems to be the only one the has its roots in the satanic cult. Jesus says this many times in the Bible. Tulmad Judaism teaches everyone else in the world is less worthy, that’s about as radical as one can get. Kind of like Hitler. I too think we should overcome bitterness towards one another by not falling for the government’s tatics to divide us over fake arguments.
As far as Germans….. I am just talking about religion. German is not a religion.
I greatly respect your views, well thought out from your "Jewish" perspective. On Zionism, my Christian perspective is clear, except for my brainwashed brethren. It is a political movement as you note. Its also a fundamental belief for Jews that a pile of land was granted those decendent from Jacob. But its done away with for the Christian and Messianic Jew. The New Covenant did away with Old Testament theology and a set of rules that means zero when you reach Heaven thru the Grace of Jesus. DNA and birthplace are no longer given special treatment. Jesus said the Meek inherit the Earth. He was not referring to Pharisees or the Sanhedrin.
Another wonderful commentary Daniel! If I may be permitted to add a (somewhat tangential) thought...
The archetypal Jew of his day, Paul the apostle, a pharisee who was 'a Hebrew of Hebrews' and 'zealous for the Law', spoke of the shadow 'Jew' receding, so as to give way to the Reality.
"In fact, a Jew who is merely one outwardly, is not really a Jew, and circumcision that is only outward in the flesh, is not really circumcision. Rather, a real Jew is one on the inside, and his circumcision is of the heart — a spiritual circumcision which is not one based on carrying out the letter of the law. Such a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people." Romans 2:28-29
The Messiah was born under the Law, born of a woman; he died a physical and covenantal Death, and he was bodily raised to Life, as a visible sign of the greater, more profound, unseen Reality, which is the spiritual resurrection; Jesus being the first-fruits of an incorruptible covenant relationship with God. Whereas the Lord's execution was a public spectacle of the termination of the Ministry of Death (2 Corinthians 3:7), his resurrections -- and glorious parousia -- was the ushering in of the end of the age, the new Heaven and Earth, the new creation, the covenant of Life.
Thanks for this one. What you're describing isn't even uniquely Jewish. It is classic cultism, codependence, addiction to authority. Infantilism carried into adulthood, which is the state of the vast majority of people globally. Cultists are psychotics who can mimic humanness tactically -- they've gotta do what it takes to stay alive -- but they occupy a hallucinated world of evils rampant outside their cloisters and safety within their mental prisons. The fact that they put such effort into preventing the real world from breaking through and shining light on their hallucinations proves that, at some level, they know what they're doing.
This essay raises the question of "identity" - one which bedevils modern discourse in many ways.
It strikes me that we do not (and actually cannot) identify our own selves. An identity is a label of convenience, and, a majority of the time what that label does is "identify" us with some larger group of people. This tends to be a useful shortcut sometimes, because it takes time to get to know a person, and using labels that "identify" a stranger as "shares a sex with other women" "shares an ethnicity with other Mexicans" "shares a residence with the posh inhabitants of LA" (just for example) can narrow one's expectations as to how interactions with this person will go.
However, to get to know a person well, is a matter of going past the labels to the recognition of something intangible, indefinable, unnameable, but uniquely, distinctly THEMSELF in a way that you know when you know, and you see when you see.
As the Daoist said - "the name that can be named is not the eternal name."
In general, people's attempts to "self-identify" (which I believe are exercises in self-alienation), are mostly ways of saying, "you think I'm like that group? Well, no, I happen to feel closer to this group." The reason this is self-alienation is that we are all of us much larger, deeper, broader, more layered and more complex than any group membership, whether chosen by ourselves or assigned to us by others, can ever express.
My original opening line for this piece was “the Dao that can be named is not the enteral Dao, the name that can be named is not the eternal name”. I took it out because I was hoping the piece would’ve the essence of it.
It is inevitable for a child of Abraham who does not follow the God of Abraham to feel lost, like a leaf carried along by the stream. No anchor, rudder, compass, or pilot. Without a God to serve, you serve self. Becoming a god to yourself, but having no purpose greater then self, you bend and flow whatever way the stream flows. This is what happens to all who do not serve the Living God, they by default serve something else. And any God replacement is an idol. Your God is whatever you serve. Weather mammon, self, stuff, sports or whatever. To no longer feel the longing of PURPOSE and have the great desire to know "what is the point of it all?" DM me and ask. Because at the mountain, in smoke, lightening and fire, God asked Israel to become a kingdom of Priests and Israel declined. Since then, God still wants ambassadors for Himself to go into all the world, sharing the good news of redemption and forgiveness. If someone misses their purpose, the hole it leaves behind, can't be filled with trinkets and bobbles.
14 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:14-15
“And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.”
Why is a Jewish soul different from all other souls?
It isn't. And belief in it causes no end of suffering for Jews and non-Jews.
I'll never forget the frustration of a man I knew at my Liberal synagogue who was more knowledgeable about Judaism than our rabbi but was denied Israeli citizenship and membership of the local Orthodox synagogue because his mother was not Jewish. He declared emphatically that he had a Jewish soul and had been present with me (and every other Jew living today) when God spoke at Sinai and struck the covenant with us back in the Iron Age. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't prove it. So he was stuck with us lot who didn't know the Mishnah from the Gemara or the Neviim from the Ketuvim.
The covenant requires each generation to obey the commandments God spoke at Sinai as if we were receiving them today. The following is an updated translation of the Holiness Code (Parashah Kedoshim, Leviticus, chapter 19). I learned this from studying sacred Jewish chanting with Rabbi Shefa Gold.
God spoke to Moses, telling him to speak to everyone in the in the community of living beings and say to them: Each one of you is holy, because I am your Source and your Creator. You are as I created you. You are connected to one another through Me.
When you remember that all of you are One with Me, your Source and your Creator,
Then you will love and respect your parents,
Then you will protect and cherish the sacred times of rest.
Then you won't steal,
Then you won't deny a rightful claim or lie to one another.
Then you won't gossip,
Then you won't ignore the violence in the world,
Then you won't stand still when your neighbour's life is in danger.
Then you won't hold grudges or hatred in your heart.
then you will know that no one is a stranger,
then you will act lovingly towards all in the community of living beings who are holy just like you.
I am grateful to my Jewish teachers for enlightening me to my true identity as a child of God.
Very thought provoking post, thanks for posting. I find it interesting that zionism has borrowed from anti-semites the myth that Jews are separate and intrinsically different from the rest of humanity. It was Shlomo Sand that showed that Judaism does not refer to a ‘people’, but to a religion that has been practiced by people from many different countries and ethnicities through the ages. Today there are many Jews, secular and religious, who disavow the idea that they are a specific ethnic group, but descendants of a particular religious and cultural tradition. It is interesting that current interviews with Iranian Jews show people who see themselves as Iranians first with no obligation to the state of Israel. I think the Journalist Max Blumenthal summed this up succinctly, that is there are only two groups of people who claim Israel represents all Jews, anti-semites and zionists.
To be a Jew is to be Jewish?
No.
To be, is to be.
I am Jewish?
No.
I am.
Before anything, I am.
The rest, and all that comes after I am, is only experience. All experience is tainted by some degree. We put on glasses and life is augmented or distorted. We put on shades and life is tinted. When we remove the glasses, I am and still am the same as before and after I wear any kind of glasses.
Therefore, I find that the farther we look back, to be a Jew is to be I. And I is god. We are all I. We are all god.
When thought arrived after I am, and called it something, it became experience
When I am being Jewish, or being Zionist, or being a mother etc, I am remains untouched.
Experience comes and goes, but what remains eternally is I am.
I am.
<3. I am that.
You are simply either a whole or fragmented fallen soul that has been here since the beginning. And you know you've been convicted. And you are far too gone and blinded by the illusion of being bound to ever bother flipping your phase-relation back to a higher frequency.
You had a choice. And, little do you know or care to know because of your current polarity, you STILL have a choice.
But you will still go on and continue in the loop because your low state ‘feels’ aligned with what you do.
But, remember— that misalignment you have when you are around any beings radiating higher in number than you involves YOU having to aknowledge the resistance of the circuit, and just by simply admitting your past doings and deciding on a new choice of relieving all of that dead weight from your shoulders so we can have you returning back to where you once belonged and COULD (+ should) still belong. You're a high impedance to ground as we speak, but instead of pulling from the source energy down into your loop, you could choose to just flip your polarity back over and persevere right through- might be much easier than you are under the impression of, especialIy considering the relief of everything + the huge impact of energy you'd gain from the REAL pride of accomplishment.
I've watched zero movies or tv in recent years, and never really was a fan of super hero movies– but the most impactful moment from any of them I ever watched while I was young was in Spiderman 3 (yes, not favored by critics)… and, while it's nowhere near the overall fan-favorite of the first film, the ending battle when Harry (James Franco) ultimately chooses to put his bound hate aside for Peter (both for defeating his father, who had tried to kill Peter, as well as for giving his face a scar and nearly killing him in their last fight) and shows up on his father's (the green goblin) glider as the original TRUE & brother-like friend he had originally grown up as being to Peter- now reuniting to have his back in fighting the true evil of the venom— that was one of the most profound movie moments I ever experienced as a child growing up, which I still think about to this day on occasion.
I remember it being one of the only times I, as a child who struggled in expressing any emotion, ever had where it brought me to the point of my eyes shedding several tears of happiness- almost in a healing sense- which I had never before experienced.
For such a hated-on movie, it left one of the most profound impacts that I have never forgotten.
Not a human either as human means some being that is dead, an earth dweller with no inheritance in eternity, but you are a CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH GOD YAHUAH, YAHUSHUA HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON
https://dzyk.substack.com/p/i-am-gods-son
Thank you for this. I see it exactly the same way, although as a "goy", without the depth, intimacy, and empathy that's obvious in your words. The emphasis on the supposed distinction between Judaism/Jewishness vs. Zionism didn't come squarely into the spotlight until last summer. It was an obvious "too toxic to touch" move after Jews started realizing the backlash facing them would be overwhelming. I'm going to take my time with this one and really absorb it. <3
Asking the hard questions
Hang in there Daniel. Your rewards are in heaven, not on this earth and I believe our time on earth will feel like a blip, a snap shot in time.
It is puzzling to me…… how there is a religion so full of hate for anyone on the planet that is not one them, them being such a small tiny minority….what puzzles me, where is the basic human instinct that says their belief system is wrong. Where is the basic human instinct that tells them hate, killing and grotesque acts against children is wrong??
It obviously kicked in for you Daniel. Are there a lot more like you? I read that lots of people are leaving Israel.
Putting aside the treasures.
I write a lot on all the mechanisms of programming that lead here. They are sophisticated, layered, multi-generational, and require immense work to get to the root of it. There is an inability to examine without losing the ground one stands on.
It's still early, but slowly I'm encountering more that are going through the full deprogramming.
Shouldn't we distinguish between being Jewish and being a Jewish Zionist? In the long run? Since there are many Jews who adhere to the religion but condemn the project. Like Tomer Dotan Dreyfus, for example?
I try to answer that in this piece. CAN you separate, or is the attempt to separate a deflection from a deeper question we are told we can't ask. The point isn't "be Jewish or not" but what is the process at which we can honestly relate back to Judaism? The true perspective can't be reach until one decouples the identity from the sense of self. If a Jewish person believes that being Jewish is what they *are*, the question remains. Each Jewish person can have a different view on Zionism, but they need to understand how the shared root created the question.
Yes, the power structure does not represent the people. But I wonder when one sees what the zionist power structure is doing, how do they not question the association of being Jewish?
🤔 so then the world has to question the Germans of being Nazis and all Muslims to be extremist Terrorists like for ever?
You see I do understand the Impuls of questioning all of it! But shouldn’t we differentiate more and clear to achieve a better future? Or a least the chance of it? To find a true discourse? To overcome the bitterness and build something new…I know might be to optimistic, but the alternativ would be bitterness and hate and this is no healthy place. For sure.
I understand what you are saying and actually thought about that point. Many religions have a radical off shoot. But it seems to me the off shoot of Judaism is actually NOT radical, rather its roots ARE. I have a Jewish friend, one of the nicest family I know. Judaism seems to be the only one the has its roots in the satanic cult. Jesus says this many times in the Bible. Tulmad Judaism teaches everyone else in the world is less worthy, that’s about as radical as one can get. Kind of like Hitler. I too think we should overcome bitterness towards one another by not falling for the government’s tatics to divide us over fake arguments.
As far as Germans….. I am just talking about religion. German is not a religion.
You can't have a meaningful discourse at this level! No matter about who or what!
🙏
I greatly respect your views, well thought out from your "Jewish" perspective. On Zionism, my Christian perspective is clear, except for my brainwashed brethren. It is a political movement as you note. Its also a fundamental belief for Jews that a pile of land was granted those decendent from Jacob. But its done away with for the Christian and Messianic Jew. The New Covenant did away with Old Testament theology and a set of rules that means zero when you reach Heaven thru the Grace of Jesus. DNA and birthplace are no longer given special treatment. Jesus said the Meek inherit the Earth. He was not referring to Pharisees or the Sanhedrin.
https://1yfgk.substack.com/p/zion-ism
As an aside, I am still working on lineage of Jesus from David not thru Mary but Joseph.
Well at least the Jews claimed their inheritance from the mother, even prior to DNA testing.
Who knows who the fathers were in the other religions prior to the DNA option? ..lol :)) Heritage must have been strange on occasion;)
Another wonderful commentary Daniel! If I may be permitted to add a (somewhat tangential) thought...
The archetypal Jew of his day, Paul the apostle, a pharisee who was 'a Hebrew of Hebrews' and 'zealous for the Law', spoke of the shadow 'Jew' receding, so as to give way to the Reality.
"In fact, a Jew who is merely one outwardly, is not really a Jew, and circumcision that is only outward in the flesh, is not really circumcision. Rather, a real Jew is one on the inside, and his circumcision is of the heart — a spiritual circumcision which is not one based on carrying out the letter of the law. Such a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people." Romans 2:28-29
The Messiah was born under the Law, born of a woman; he died a physical and covenantal Death, and he was bodily raised to Life, as a visible sign of the greater, more profound, unseen Reality, which is the spiritual resurrection; Jesus being the first-fruits of an incorruptible covenant relationship with God. Whereas the Lord's execution was a public spectacle of the termination of the Ministry of Death (2 Corinthians 3:7), his resurrections -- and glorious parousia -- was the ushering in of the end of the age, the new Heaven and Earth, the new creation, the covenant of Life.
Daniel, the Lord be with your spirit.
Thank you for sharing, indeed the NT illuminates these questions.
Thanks for this one. What you're describing isn't even uniquely Jewish. It is classic cultism, codependence, addiction to authority. Infantilism carried into adulthood, which is the state of the vast majority of people globally. Cultists are psychotics who can mimic humanness tactically -- they've gotta do what it takes to stay alive -- but they occupy a hallucinated world of evils rampant outside their cloisters and safety within their mental prisons. The fact that they put such effort into preventing the real world from breaking through and shining light on their hallucinations proves that, at some level, they know what they're doing.
Realizing that it’s not uniquely Jewish is exactly the point 💯
This essay raises the question of "identity" - one which bedevils modern discourse in many ways.
It strikes me that we do not (and actually cannot) identify our own selves. An identity is a label of convenience, and, a majority of the time what that label does is "identify" us with some larger group of people. This tends to be a useful shortcut sometimes, because it takes time to get to know a person, and using labels that "identify" a stranger as "shares a sex with other women" "shares an ethnicity with other Mexicans" "shares a residence with the posh inhabitants of LA" (just for example) can narrow one's expectations as to how interactions with this person will go.
However, to get to know a person well, is a matter of going past the labels to the recognition of something intangible, indefinable, unnameable, but uniquely, distinctly THEMSELF in a way that you know when you know, and you see when you see.
As the Daoist said - "the name that can be named is not the eternal name."
In general, people's attempts to "self-identify" (which I believe are exercises in self-alienation), are mostly ways of saying, "you think I'm like that group? Well, no, I happen to feel closer to this group." The reason this is self-alienation is that we are all of us much larger, deeper, broader, more layered and more complex than any group membership, whether chosen by ourselves or assigned to us by others, can ever express.
My original opening line for this piece was “the Dao that can be named is not the enteral Dao, the name that can be named is not the eternal name”. I took it out because I was hoping the piece would’ve the essence of it.
Yes. Your piece is the essence of it. :)
🙇
It is inevitable for a child of Abraham who does not follow the God of Abraham to feel lost, like a leaf carried along by the stream. No anchor, rudder, compass, or pilot. Without a God to serve, you serve self. Becoming a god to yourself, but having no purpose greater then self, you bend and flow whatever way the stream flows. This is what happens to all who do not serve the Living God, they by default serve something else. And any God replacement is an idol. Your God is whatever you serve. Weather mammon, self, stuff, sports or whatever. To no longer feel the longing of PURPOSE and have the great desire to know "what is the point of it all?" DM me and ask. Because at the mountain, in smoke, lightening and fire, God asked Israel to become a kingdom of Priests and Israel declined. Since then, God still wants ambassadors for Himself to go into all the world, sharing the good news of redemption and forgiveness. If someone misses their purpose, the hole it leaves behind, can't be filled with trinkets and bobbles.
14 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:14-15
“And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.”
People tend to treat identities as absolute. We must learn to prioritize humanity over ideology without completely demonizing identity.
Separating the I from the Am.
Why is a Jewish soul different from all other souls?
It isn't. And belief in it causes no end of suffering for Jews and non-Jews.
I'll never forget the frustration of a man I knew at my Liberal synagogue who was more knowledgeable about Judaism than our rabbi but was denied Israeli citizenship and membership of the local Orthodox synagogue because his mother was not Jewish. He declared emphatically that he had a Jewish soul and had been present with me (and every other Jew living today) when God spoke at Sinai and struck the covenant with us back in the Iron Age. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't prove it. So he was stuck with us lot who didn't know the Mishnah from the Gemara or the Neviim from the Ketuvim.
The covenant requires each generation to obey the commandments God spoke at Sinai as if we were receiving them today. The following is an updated translation of the Holiness Code (Parashah Kedoshim, Leviticus, chapter 19). I learned this from studying sacred Jewish chanting with Rabbi Shefa Gold.
God spoke to Moses, telling him to speak to everyone in the in the community of living beings and say to them: Each one of you is holy, because I am your Source and your Creator. You are as I created you. You are connected to one another through Me.
When you remember that all of you are One with Me, your Source and your Creator,
Then you will love and respect your parents,
Then you will protect and cherish the sacred times of rest.
Then you won't steal,
Then you won't deny a rightful claim or lie to one another.
Then you won't gossip,
Then you won't ignore the violence in the world,
Then you won't stand still when your neighbour's life is in danger.
Then you won't hold grudges or hatred in your heart.
then you will know that no one is a stranger,
then you will act lovingly towards all in the community of living beings who are holy just like you.
I am grateful to my Jewish teachers for enlightening me to my true identity as a child of God.
Thank you for sharing this
Why would you pass on elements of an identity that is false?
You can’t, they are part of the identity if you choose to claim it.
Very thought provoking post, thanks for posting. I find it interesting that zionism has borrowed from anti-semites the myth that Jews are separate and intrinsically different from the rest of humanity. It was Shlomo Sand that showed that Judaism does not refer to a ‘people’, but to a religion that has been practiced by people from many different countries and ethnicities through the ages. Today there are many Jews, secular and religious, who disavow the idea that they are a specific ethnic group, but descendants of a particular religious and cultural tradition. It is interesting that current interviews with Iranian Jews show people who see themselves as Iranians first with no obligation to the state of Israel. I think the Journalist Max Blumenthal summed this up succinctly, that is there are only two groups of people who claim Israel represents all Jews, anti-semites and zionists.
Great observation. Both have adopted the "antisemitic" claim that perpetuates the same cycle.