The chosen people
This week I went to the aquarium with my married daughters and grandson.
Me and daughter #2 ended up waiting half an hour for the perenially late daughter #1 to arrive, so in the meantime, we sat on a wall chatting – until two big coaches pulled up.
The doors opened, and out came tens of disabled teenagers, and tens more not-disabled teenagers, who were looking after them. It was a mixture of physically and mentally disabled teens, and some of them were really not easy to look after.
I watched in awe, as the not-disabled teens, including a lot of 17-18 year old boys, literally ran themselves ragged, pushing the wheelchairs, dealing with ‘Dennis’, who was a mentally disabled teen in a wheelchair who kept yelling stuff at strangers and trying to wheel himself into the road, and generally, going all out to give the disabled teens a great day out.
God, who is like your people?! I thought to myself.
The news and the antisemites like to focus on all the rotten fruit in the Jewish barrel, but the truth is, the barrel is full to bursting with such kind, selfless, generous fruit.
Where else, would you see a bunch of teenagers devoting a day of their time to helping disabled teens like this, for free?
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All this connects into the idea we are starting to explore more here on the blog, about how the xtians have gone all out to try to debase Jews, and to make us think of ourselves as ‘evil’ and the ‘sons of satan’ – for the best part of 2,000 years, already.
Why?
Because xtian theology teaches that God got angry with the Jews for not ‘accepting Yoshki as the messiah’, then destroyed the Temple and exiled the Jews – and then, started over again with the ‘NEW Testament’, or ‘Brit Hadasha’, as they call it in Hebrew, the ‘new covenant’, where God supposedly kicked the Jews into touch and took the Christian church as His new ‘chosen people’.
God forbid.
I will put the more ‘academic’ flesh on these basic bones in a different post, but for 2,000 years, xtian theology has been about trying to ‘prove’ that God rejected the Jews, and made the xtians the new ‘chosen people’.
This is the basis of the Pope’s claim to be God’s elect on earth, btw, – he’s the ‘chosen’ amongst the ‘chosen’.
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Bottom line, as we started to discuss, xtian idealogy is fundamentally ‘anti-Jewish’.
I’m deliberately not using the term ‘antisemitic’, as it just serves to cloud the real problem. The real problem is that Christianity is anti-Jewish, and particularly, anti-Judaism. And while they tried to co-opt Tanach by calling it the ‘Old Testament’ and tying themselves in knots trying to decipher all our biblical prophecies in a way that suits themselves, even the ‘best, most philosemitic’ xtian hates what they call ‘rabbinic Judaism’ – i.e. the Gemara, or ‘Oral Torah’.
Where the ‘antisemitic’ Catholic church just kept trying to burn the Talmud, literally, the so-called ‘philosemitic’ evangelicals put every effort into turning Jews away from the gemara, and following the rabbis.
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The following passage comes from a book called ‘The Old Paths’, a devastating, learned critique of the Gemara that was put out one of the London Jews’ Society’s main missionaries in 1836, called Alexander McCaul:
“They [the rabbis] must know that these laws about milk and butter, and the art of slaughtering, cut off many a poor Jew from the last refuge of the destitute – the poorhouse. Many a one who is now starving with his family, would be glad to have the relief which the parish provides, but he dare not accept of it…
By forbidding Gentile meat, milk, cheese and bread, [modern Judaism] has consigned hundreds to starvation. There are at this moment numbers of individuals, if not families, pining away in want, who wants could be relieved, if the oral law did not interpose its iron front, and pronounce starvation lawful, and help from Gentiles unlawful; and yet their brethren, who pride themselves upon their benevolence and humanity, leave them to perish, and suffer the system to remain that it may be a curse to coming generations.”[1]
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McCaul was meant to be a so-called ‘philosemite’, a lover of Jews.
His daughter Elizabeth was married to the evangelical British consul of Jerusalem between 1845-1863, James Finn. Finn – also a card-carrying missionary and part of the London Jews’ Society – was also described as a ‘philosemite’. Yet, all these so-called ‘philosemites’ hated the Talmud, and hated authentic, Torah Judaism, because they understood that the gemara, and the respect for the Sages, is what was keeping Jews jewish, and out of the nets of the missionaries.
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Over time, the missionaries started to adopt a new strategy of dealing with the Jews.
They realised that most Jews were NEVER going to become ‘xtians’ in the full-bodied sense of turning their back on all of their Jewish traditions. So, that’s when the missionaries came up with the idea of ‘Jews for Jesus’.
You might think this is a modern development, but back in 1813 in London, the LJS already had a ‘Hebrew-Christian’ church in Kentish Town called the B’nei Avraham, that encouraged its Jewish members to circumcise their children, but still believe in Yoshki.
That initial experiment didn’t work so well, but they’ve been refining the same idea over the last two centuries, and now, it’s a much more slick operation of ‘Hebrew messianics’.[2]
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Why should we care about all this?
Why should we care, that xtian doctrine is ‘anti-Judaism’, anti-Jews?
That the Catholic and Russian Orthodox church doctrine still holds by ‘saints’ who called the Jews ‘the children of the devil’, and canonised laws and theological principles on that basis?
Why should we care, that Protestant reformers like Martin Luther, who taught that the Roman Catholic church was corrupt, still retained a strong hatred for Jews and Judaism, after he realised that the Jews still weren’t interested in converting even to his ‘reformed’ version of xtianity?
What’s the big deal, that large and influential groups of evangelicals developed a doctrine talking about the ‘Christian Dispensation’, where all the Jews have to be ‘restored’ to Eretz Yisrael before Yoshki’s second coming.
And the kicker is, whichever Jews refuse to convert en masse, after they’ve been ‘restored’, will be slaughtered, as irredeemiably ‘evll’.
Why should we care?
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Because, it’s the xtians of all stripes – Edom – who hold the political, economic and military power in our world.
And even though today, it seems that the xtian religion is on the wane, what’s really happening is that the ‘xtian wrapper’ has just increasingly been pulled away from the anti-Torah, anti-God, anti-Jews doctrine that was always at its core.
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The bottom line is, that xtian doctrine is based on the foundation that the Jews are no longer God’s ‘chosen people’, and that the xtians replaced us.
It’s as anti-Jewish, antisemitic, as anything could possibly be.
It’s why the Jews have been demonised, persecuted, expelled and slaughtered, for the last 2,000 years.
It’s honestly laughable, how modern antisemites like to pretend that the few rotten Jews in the barrel (who sadly hold very public and high-profile positions) are the ones that got the world into the terrible state it currently is.
The world looks like this, because xtianity went against the Torah, went against God, and taught that ‘Jesus’ should be worshipped instead.
They turned the Torah on its head.
Even now, they are still trying to use the Tanach’s own prophecies to further their own ends, and to destroy the Jews, under the guise of ‘philosemitism’ and ‘xtian zionism’, and being ‘friends of the State of Israel’.
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The word ‘State’ should be underlined in that sentence.
The catholics and eastern orthodox hate the ‘State’, as well as hating Jews and Judaism. In that respect, they are being more honest.
The evangelicals love the ‘State’, because they created it to ‘fulfill prophecy’, and it’s their tool par excellence to:
- ‘Restore’ the Jews to Eretz Yisrael, so the prophecies about Gog and Magog can happen as described, ahead of Yoshki’s ‘second coming’.
- Convert the Jews en masse – by pulling them away from authentic ‘rabbinic Judaism’, and the Gemara, and then replacing it with ‘messianic Judaism’, where you can still do your pesach seder, just, you believe the messiah already came, and it’s Yoshki (God forbid).
- Spark off ‘Gog and Magog’ itself.
- Kill any pesky Jews that still insist on remaining authentic, Torah-observant Jews, after all the above has happened.
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This is not my ideas, or my speculation.
This is the religious doctrine motivating many of the evangelical groups who are supporting Israel.
This is what Trump’s ‘evangelical base’ is all about.
This explains to you, why Nefesh b’Nefesh got started with a $2 million grant from the IFCJ, why we have constant wars and terror in Israel, why missionaries are invited in by the hundreds and thousands, why the IDF lets missionaries come and talk to soldiers on the bases (whilst banning Breslov…) – and most of all, it explains why we have the leaders we have.
They were hand-picked, a long time ago, to carry the ‘political zionism’ project forward.
And that process began with Herzl.
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Remember, evangelicals hate catholics, and vice-versa.
That’s the real power-struggle going on behind the scenes.
The different bits of ‘Edom’, trying to get all the pie for themselves.
All the while, blaming the Jews, the real ‘chosen people’ for all the bad and evil in the world.
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That will do for today, I know it’s a lot to take in.
But it starts to explain a lot, doesn’t it?
Not least, why the Edomite-media insists on ‘demonising Jews’ any way it can, and trying to convince us all that Jews, and the Torah, and ‘rabbinic Judaism’ are bad and rotten…
They want us to hate ourselves, and to believe the lie that God stopped loving us, and ‘choosing us’, two thousand years ago.
That’s why you almost never hear stories about ‘good Jews’, and especially, ‘good rabbis’[3].
BH, it’s really time that changed.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] McCaul, The Old Paths, p. 211, quoted in David Ruderman’s book, Missionaries, Converts and Rabbis.
[2] Today, the LJS is still going, and is now called the Church’s Ministry Among Jewish People (CMJ). Go check out their Wiki page HERE, you’ll learn a lot…
[3] And especially, the ‘good rabbis’ who are standing at the head of the Jewish people, spiritually, like Rav Eliezer Berland.
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PS: The Bnei Avraham included some very prominent Anglo-Jews-for-Jesus, including MOSES MARCUS, the converted grandson of Gluckl of Hameln.
Gluckl was a matriarch of the GOLDSMID clan.
Yes, those same ‘Goldsmids’ that still pop up today, and who have a lot of interesting members, including the Bad Baal Shem of London’s ‘best friends’ (who both died violent deaths in very strange circumstances, with one of them committing ‘suicide’ on the grounds of a masonic lodge…)
While the official line is that the ‘Bnei Avraham’ forerunners of Jews for J was disbanded two centuries ago, the CMJ (the modern name of the LJS) recently ‘celebrated’ their 200 year anniversary:
(From HERE, dated 2013)
The recent 200th year anniversary of the Beni Abraham was celebrated in Christchurch, Spitalfields in 2013, by CMJ. It marks the occasion of on of the first Messianic groups, or Hebrew Christian brotherhoods, of modern times.
And here’s a screenshot of Frey’s memoirs, describing the first members:

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There is nothing new under the sun…

bs”d
wow, Rivka. That is stunning. Please continue
Thanks, Alizah. I really appreciate the feedback.
“By forbidding Gentile meat, milk, cheese and bread, [modern Judaism] has consigned hundreds to starvation”
There’s a מדרש that has קרח saying something similar.
ONLY THOSE WHO LIVE IN ISRAEL KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE DAY IN AND DAY OUT, EVERYONE ELSE JUST NEEDS TO KEEP PRAYING THAT THE MADDNESS WILL SOON END. THEN
“On Edom I will cast my shoes” this is Leah’s shoe with which they crush Edom. ”
https://www.shuvubanimint.com/66091/
Great, now we’re getting somewhere. Yes, it’s time to readjust our focus to the innate intrinsic goodness of every authentic Jew/Yehudi. Bravo, Rivka!
“Authentic: Born of a Jewish Mother (& grandmother), or Convert via recognized Rabbinic Court.