The ‘chametz’ stickers just came off the kitchen cupboards. The Pesach plates and cookware got washed and put back in their boxes, then back in their cupboard upstairs. The plastic table cloths were removed. We are back to ‘normal’. Whatever that is, these days. I was waiting for the ‘sea to split’ today. If that […]
The Oppenheimers
I almost called this post 'the Oppenheim Invasion'....
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In the course of trying to figure out how the Jewish community got so hijacked by corrupt ‘court Jews’ – many of whom repeatedly converted to xtianity down the generations,…
Jewish sources on Edom and Esav
I am reposting this from 5 years ago.
I actually reposted this two years ago, when I had more Trumptards trying to tell me he was the Moshiach she be Esav....whatever.
It's very interesting to keep going back to the authentic Jewish sources,…
Cognitive dissonance
I'll be honest: it's hard to write at the moment.
I have a lot of conflicting stuff going on inside myself at the moment, plus the enormous uncertainty of where is all this going, and how does it turn around, tachlis - I have started a few…
Napoleon’s Sanhedrin
Before we dive in to the next tranche of ‘real Jewish history’, let’s just do a recap of where we’ve got to, so far, in this series of masons and maskilim.
Josef II, the ‘enlightened dictator’ of Vienna, was the brother of Marie…
Coping strategies
The last couple of days, I've been feeling unusually 'stressed out'.
We could blame 'the war', 'the matzav', 'the weather' - but that's been going on for almost four months, already.
And the type of stress I've been feeling the last two…
More Masons, Maskilim – and Mozart
I went back to the Rav’s comments about the ‘benevolent despot’ and lover of Eva Frank, Josef II of Austria.
(Read that HERE.)
When I started to take a closer look at the Jewish maskilim who were in Josef II's circle, helping him to…