Thursday, November 30, 2023

Under Noahide Law, to deny free will is blasphemy: Book Review, The Rainbow Covenant

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 Are you a determinist?  Do you take the scientific position that free will does not exist?  Well, you may find that that is illegal as blasphemy under Noahide Laws.

This means that every idolatrous statement, every idea of multiple gods, or no God, or that "God has abandoned the earth," is blasphemous, as well as idolatrous. So is the idea that man has no power to choose between good and evil — i.e., that God denies man free will.

If a man lacks free will, if he is just the plaything of circumstances and not actually responsible for his actions, he cannot truly exist in God's Image. Nor can there be a just punishment for those who do evil, nor any just reward for those who do good.

Falsehoods like those are not merely contrary to what God has told us in His Torah. Any statement, dogma or religion that denies human free will must end by denying that the God of love, the God of Israel, is a true and just and holy Being. (Dallen, 2003, p. 242-243)

SOURCE: Dallen, Michael E. (2003). The Rainbow Covenant. Light Catcher Books & The Rainbow Covenant Foundation.  

Monday, November 27, 2023

Popular Jewish influencer says Palestinians break the Noahide Laws so can't live in Israel

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Salvador Litvak is a popular Jewish influencer who runs a website and Facebook page called "The Accidental Talmudist".  According to Litvak, the Palestinians break every single one of the Noahide Laws and so have no right to live in Israel.  He says the way to remedy this is for Jews in Israel to become more religious so god expels the people from the land.  The real question is how would these people be expelled from the land?  The first time the Jewish god used the Jews to get rid of the Canaanites, what makes us think that this would not be used the second time? If Jews were more religious they themselves would have to pick up the mantle of throwing out the Palestinians or even killing them, this would not likely be divine intervention. 


 https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/365498/the-torah-path-to-peace-in-israel/

The Torah Path to Peace in Israel

God promised at the outset that He would never abandon us, but He also said we would lose the land if we stopped observing the commandments of Torah, the mitzvahs.

Salvador Litvak

November 22, 2023

On October 7, 2023 the world was shaken by the Simchat Torah Massacre in Israel. I believe it’s no accident that the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust occurred on Simchat Torah, the day on which Jews rejoice in the gift of Torah: the first five books and the cornerstone of the Bible. King Solomon said, “The Torah… all of its paths are peace.” (Proverbs 3:17.) So we must ask, how could such a war break out on that day? How could so much violence and worldwide antisemitism be unleashed on that day?


Since neither diplomacy nor combat have produced a lasting and secure peace in Israel, let us examine the Torah path to peace in the Holy Land.


Perhaps it’s a message that we need to try something different. Since neither diplomacy nor combat have produced a lasting and secure peace in Israel, let us examine the Torah path to peace in the Holy Land.


The Jewish claim to the land in question is rooted in Torah. The Jewish nation that was established there 3300 years ago resulted from a war of independence against Canaanite tribes notorious for sacrificing their children to propitiate idols of wood and stone as well as other acts of barbaric violence. As recorded in the Bible, God does not tolerate such practices in the Holy Land, so He gave it instead to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — the Children of Israel — who had been enslaved in Egypt for hundreds of years. There is no way the Jews could have escaped Egypt or won that war without God’s help.


The Torah functions as the Jewish lawbook. It could have opened with the first laws given to the Jewish nation as it emerged from slavery in Egypt (see Exodus 12:1). It opens instead with the story of Creation to teach that the same God who created the world can and will allot the lands of the world as He wishes.


God demanded one thing from the Jews in return: Adherence to the commandments of the Torah. The Torah functions as the Jewish lawbook. It could have opened with the first laws given to the Jewish nation as it emerged from slavery in Egypt (see Exodus 12:1). It opens instead with the story of Creation to teach that the same God who created the world can and will allot the lands of the world as He wishes (Rashi).


It doesn’t matter that later generations didn’t “sign the contract” like the Jews who emerged from Egypt. Every Jew is commanded to live a Jewish life. The reward is peace, both external and internal; hence “all of its paths are peace.” 


God promised at the outset that He would never abandon us, but He also said we would lose the land if we stopped observing the commandments of Torah, the mitzvahs. Jewish sovereignty over the Holy Land lasted for 1,000 years. Take a moment to think about how established America seems after 250 years, and then reflect on the nation of Israel which stood for 1,000 years. Sadly, our adherence to the mitzvahs and the spiritual level of the nation kept declining until God fulfilled both promises: we lost sovereignty over the land and yet, God never abandoned us. Despite rabid antisemitism and violent persecution in every generation, Israel lived on – the only landless nation to perform this feat for 2,500 years. Every other nation that lost its land – and there are hundreds of them – became extinct. Many Jews and non-Jews alike believe this miraculous Jewish survival is strong evidence that God and the Bible are true.


And then another miracle: after 2,500 years of Jewish longing and daily prayer for the restoration of Israel to the Holy Land, it finally happened. But it did not happen in a vacuum.


During those 2,500 years, the land passed from one colonizing empire to another: Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk, Ottoman and British, to name a few. It was the Romans who named the region Palestine 2000 years ago as an insult to the Jews, because we’d fought many ancient wars against the neighboring Philistines. 


The modern Zionist movement began in the late 19th century when the region had lain desolate for centuries. Mark Twain observed during this period, “There is not a solitary village … for 30 miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride 10 miles, hereabouts, and not see 10 human beings … Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince …  Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land? …Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies.”


Jews began purchasing land in the Palestinian region of the Ottoman Empire because even that parched, hardscrabble land was better than the pogroms and massacres Jews suffered every few years in Europe. They bought wasteland acres from locals thrilled to suddenly find a buyer, and they engaged in the back-breaking labor of reclaiming those acres from the desert. 


As their orchards and farms began to bear fruit, Arabs came from neighboring Syria, Lebanon and Egypt to work in the fields and provide services to the growing population. Many of these people would later be called Palestinian Arabs. Some Arabs already lived there, just as some Jews had always lived there, but both groups expanded rapidly as the Jews returned from Europe, Africa and the Arab nations, as well as Asia and America.


As the two populations multiplied in the 20th century, the British colonizers who’d replaced the Ottomans after World War I had a difficult time controlling them. Full-scale riots broke out in 1929 after Arabs massacred 133 Jews in Hebron. A plan emerged for Britain to leave the land of Israel and cede sovereignty to the Jewish and Arab populations – a 50/50 land split between them. 


It was in this context that the original two-state solution was born. However, due to the furious protest of the Arabs, they received 80% of the Holy Land while the Jews were given 20%. These countries came to be called Jordan and Israel. For the radical Palestinian Arabs, however, 80% wasn’t enough. 


The radical Palestinians didn’t refuse the two-state solution because there were more of them than the Jews, nor because they had more history in the Holy Land, nor because they had a stronger archeological claim. They had none of these things. They refused because they considered it a stain on their honor to have a Jewish nation in the midst of the Arab Muslim world.


When the State of Israel was created by the United Nations in 1948, five Arab nations immediately attacked, and Israel miraculously survived. The pattern was repeated in 1956, 1967 and 1973. Each time Israel was attacked, it grew stronger. The Arab nations respected that and made peace with Israel, but the radical Palestinians shifted their attack from armies to guerillas to terrorists. Ever hoping to establish a peaceful solution, Israel repeatedly offered the radical Palestinians their own country in the West Bank and Gaza. 


The radical Palestinians refused the two-state solution over and over again because one of those states would be Israel. So they proclaim, “Free Palestine from the river to the sea!” In other words, they demand that the ancient homeland of the Jewish people be free of Jews. Every Palestinian leader has repeated and pledged this goal. It is the reason Hamas was created, spelling out its mission clearly in its founding charter (see Hamas Covenant 1988). It is the same reason Arafat refused a Palestinian state when it was offered to him in the West Bank. 


There is a map which is typically offered by pro-Palestinian activists, showing the encroachment on a Palestinian state by the Jews. This map is misleading for two reasons: 1) there never was a Palestinian state. Depending on the era, the land in question was either Israel or a region of some larger empire. 2) Israel represents a tiny sliver, less than 1/100 of the land mass of the Arab world. To say that radical Palestinians have no place to go in the Arab world is ludicrous. Jews have no place to go in that world. In fact, when Israel was created, nearly a million Jews were expelled from the surrounding Arab nations. They had only one Jewish nation in the world to welcome them. If a Palestinian seeks to relocate to a nation that speaks his language and practices his religion, he has more than 30 countries to choose from, and a land mass so large it encompasses the curvature of the earth.


As for the radical Palestinian lie that Israel is a racist, apartheid state, one has only to visit Israel to see the truth. Two million Israeli Arabs — 20% of Israel’s population —   live, work, vote and hold office in Israel. The difference between this group and the radical Palestinians is that the Israeli Arabs accept the existence of Israel and live in peace alongside their Jewish brothers. In fact, they enjoy more civil liberties there than their Arab brothers in the Arab nations where gays are persecuted, there is no free press, and women are systematically exploited. Israelis are also black, brown, Asian, Christian, and Muslim, and they’re all equally free.


Now let us examine what the Torah says about who is permitted to live in the land of Israel when the Jews have sovereignty there. The word “permitted” is important because it presupposes that a person wants to live among the Jews, rather than kill them. This person is known as the “ger toshav,” the resident stranger.


The ger toshav is permitted to live among the Jews provided he commits to live in peace with them, and he accepts upon himself the seven commandments which obligate all humans according to Torah (Avodah Zara 64b). Known as the Noahide Laws, these commandments form the basic legal code of humanity (Sanhedrin 56a). Israeli Arabs live by these laws. 


The radical Palestinians violate every single one:


1. Pursue a just society. They wage a campaign of terror against Israel and their own people in order to attract international aid, which they use to fund continuing terror and the vast personal fortunes of their leaders. The radical Palestinian justice system is thus entirely corrupt.


2. Do not curse God’s name.  They behead babies, burn elders, rape women and kidnap children in the name of God.


3. Do not commit idolatry. The radical Palestinians sacrifice their own children in the name of their religion – a cult of death.


4. Do not violate sexual prohibitions.  The radical Palestinians raped countless women in the October 7 attacks and have always used rape as an instrument of terror.


5. Do not murder. They murdered 1400 Israelis in the October 7 attacks, in addition to all the Israeli civilians who’ve been killed in previous terror attacks, and they murder their own people by using them as human shields.


6. Do not steal. The radical Palestinians routinely steal the massive aid sent by sympathetic nations to enrich their corrupt leadership.


7. Do not tear a limb from a living animal, and how much more so a human being. The radical Palestinians beheaded babies on October 7 and regularly dismember Israelis with terrorist bombs.


For all these reasons, the radical Palestinians have surrendered their right to live in the land of Israel. The practical question is who will take in these violent, brainwashed people who refuse to live in peace even when they have their own territory in Gaza, a place within which Israel has maintained no force or control since 2005? Why is it that no Arab nation will step up to receive even a portion of the radical Palestinians? One answer is that when Jordan tried to absorb some of them in 1970, the radical Palestinians immediately attacked their host (see Black September, also known as the Jordanian Civil War) and sought to topple their government. 


This practical question of there being no willing host is an important one, but if the Arab nations who speak the same language and practice the same religion as the radical Palestinians won’t take them in because they’re too dangerous, why on earth should they be permitted to live among Jews, whom they’ve promised again and again to kill?


They answer is, they’re not permitted. People who do not want to live among Jews in peace are not permitted to live among Jews, period. And the history of the Holy Land demonstrates that people who do not live by the Noahide Laws, the basic laws of humanity, are eventually expelled from the land as God promised in the Torah. 


And now we’ve arrived at the crux of the matter: The Torah path to peace in Israel requires more Jews to do more mitzvahs. If the Jews want to maintain sovereignty in the land when the land ejects the radical Palestinians, the Jews everywhere must live by the Torah. The more Torah we learn and the more commandments we keep, the sooner peace will come to the land, and the more lives will be saved.


Say thank you to God for your health and the blessings in your life. Pray for the blessings you need, and pray for others who need those blessings too.


So visit or call your parents. That’s a commandment. Visit or call someone who is ill. Turn off your phone on Shabbat. Better yet, keep Shabbos! Light candles. Learn Torah. Support an organization that shares Torah with the world. Pray for peace. Say thank you to God for your health and the blessings in your life. Pray for the blessings you need, and pray for others who need those blessings too. All of these are Torah commandments.


If enough of us learn Torah, keep the commandments and cry out to God in prayer, the Holy Land will eject the people who reject Torah, and peace will remain for all those who desire peace.


May we learn more Torah, keep more commandments, bring peace sooner, and save more lives!


Salvador Litvak is a writer-director based in Los Angeles. His next movie is “Guns & Moses,” a thriller about a Hasidic rabbi who investigates a series of murders, starring Mark Feuerstein, Neal McDonough, Dermot Mulroney and Christopher Lloyd. 


As the Accidental Talmudist Sal shares authentic accessible Torah with a worldwide audience. Learn Torah now at accidentaltalmudist.org 

Friday, November 24, 2023

Convicted terrorist Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League, gave a speech at a Noahide conference and his brother promotes the Noahide Laws.

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Rabbi Meir Kahane was a radical Zionist who promoted terrorism through his Jewish Defense League.  Rabbi Kahane gave a speech at a Noahide conference in 1990. The conference was led by early Noahide pioneer Vendyl Jones, which shows how mainstream Kahane's presence was. Meir Kahane's brother Rabbi Nachman Kahana (different spelling for some reason) also promotes the Noahide Laws. Violent Jewish criminals back these laws, what does that tell you?


Rabbi Meir Kahane 1990 Speech to the Bnei Noach
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Lawmaker calls to correct Israel’s Biblical mistake: Failing to drive out Arabs, as commanded in Numbers 33

You shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land; you shall destroy all their figured objects; you shall destroy all their molten images, and you shall demolish all their cult places.

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 Lawmaker calls to correct Israel’s Biblical mistake: Failing to drive out Arabs, as commanded in Numbers 33


MK Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of the right-wing Religious Zionist Party, raised hackles when he spoke from the Knesset podium last Wednesday. Smotrich spoke in defense of a bill that would revise the current immigration laws in order to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel.


Ben Gurion should have gotten rid of the Arabs

“Yes, Jewish, with a Jewish majority,” he said. “With security for the citizens of the State of Israel.”


 After being heckled by the Arab MKs in attendance, Smotrioch responded to the Arab MKs, calling them “enemies”.


“I’m not talking to you — anti-Zionists, terror supporters, enemies. You’re here by accident because [Israel’s first prime minister David] Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job,” he said.


Smotrich was referring to a letter written by David Ben-Gurion, then head of the executive committee of the Jewish Agency, to his son Amos on 5 October 1937. The handwritten text is difficult to decipher and heavily redacted by Ben Gurion. Scholars are divided as to whether Ben Gurion calls to “Expel the Arabs” or precisely the opposite. 



Knesset member Bezalel Smotrich at a conference in Lod on July 22, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Bad beginnings

Rabbi Nachman Kahana agreed with Smotrich, emphasizing that the new Israeli state did err when allowing the Arabs to stay.


“It’s like buttoning up a shirt,” Rabbi Kahana explained. “If you get the first button wrong, everything that comes after will be worse.”


“The country began on the wrong foot,” Rabbi Kahana explained. “Ben Gurion and his government ignored the Halachot (Torah laws) as well as the spirit of the Torah. The spirit of the Torah as seen from the beginning of the Bible to the end is that the Land of Israel is for the Jews.”


Rabbi Kahana cited a verse from the Book of Numbers as the basis for what the State of Israel should have done:


Speak to B’nei Yisrael and say to them: When you cross the Yarden into the land of Canaan, you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land; you shall destroy all their figured objects; you shall destroy all their molten images, and you shall demolish all their cult places. Numbers 33:51-52


“The laws of non-Jews living in the land of Israel deal with this. Any non-Jew in Israel must have the Biblical status of a ger toshav. He has to declare before a beit din (rabbinic tribunal) that he will keep the Seven Noahide laws which include the prohibitions against idolatry and also against murder. It is up to the bet din to accept or reject them.”


“But even if they are accepted by the bet din, there can only be a limited number of non-Jews and according to Halacha, they must be watched over. There used to be a military government that watched over the Arab towns but that ended by order of Ben Gurion in 1963. Now, there are Arabs taking over Judea and Samaria, non-Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Bedouins taking over the Negev, and even illegal immigrants from Africa taking over Tel Aviv.”


“The solution may come when there is a great threat to Israel, like Iran. Then all these non-Jews will run away. That is what the Arabs who lived in Israel did in 1947. It could be that we need all these people to help build the country up. But the country is built up now and they aren’t necessary and these people hate Jews.”


“People scream that this sounds racist. But they don’t say anything about the Arabs ethnically cleansing the Jews, or the Palestinians planning to kill all the Jews and leaving a few alive for our brains. The Torah is racist. God chose the Jews. But God isn’t racist. He created all the nations. Racism is not a bad word. Israel is for Jews and Arabia is for Arabs. The Jews have to keep the Torah and the non-Jews have their laws as well.”


Mixed reviews from the other side

Smotrich’s comments were widely decried by the Arab MKs. 


Aida Touma-Sliman of the Joint Arab List said, “Think of how every Arab citizen feels when such a statement is said casually in parliament. How does a young man or woman feel when the right threatens a second Nakba?” 


Nakba, literally ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, is the term used to describe Israel’s War of Independence in 1948 by people who wish to see Israel destroyed. 


Ironically, Sotrich’s comments were praised by Asa Winstanley, a pro-Palestinian London-based journalist, in an article in the Middle East Monitor (MEMO). While describing Israel’s 1948 victory over seven invading Arab armies as “a genocidal act of ethnic cleansing”, Winstanley went on to praise Smotrich, preferring him to the left-wing Israelis who support a two-state solution.


“Smotrich’s words were hateful,” Winstanley wrote. “But they, at least, had the benefit of a certain honesty and candour. I would take that over the lies of the so-called ‘liberal’ and ‘socialist’ Zionists any day.”


Winstanley noted that, unlike Smotrich who is labeled a “right-wing extremist” by the mainstream media, Ben Gurion, who led Israel in the 1948 war, was left-wing and, while young and living in Russia, was a socialist who claimed to be inspired by Tolstoy. 


“Indeed, Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, claimed to be a socialist,” Winstanley wrote. “But his ‘socialism’ had nothing to do with the brotherhood (or siblinghood) of mankind. Palestinian Arabs were not only excluded from his twisted version of socialism but were actively boycotted, expelled, rounded up, and murdered.”


Winstanley refers to Ben Gurion’s letter. 


“Much like other sectarian apologists for war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide, Zionist fanatics alternate between denial that the crime [Israel’s victory] took place, and justification of the crime.”


“I would still take Smotrich’s openness about his racism any day, as opposed to the liberal Zionist lies about only wanting ‘peace’ and a so-called two-state ‘solution’,” Winstanley concluded. “The effects are the same, but the fascists are just more upfront about it. At least it has a clarifying effect. Zionism – of any variety – is racism.”


The legislation proposed by the coalition was introduced by MK Simcha Rotman, also representing Religious Zionist party. The proposed legislation is aimed at changing the Law of Return and revising Israeli immigration policies. It aims to limit and restrict immigration to Israel, and provide the state with greater capabilities in deporting those in the country illegally, as well as limit the eligibility for temporary residency, permanent residency and citizenship.



Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Rabbi says only Noahide Law, not intellect, can save the world from Hamas, Torah allows destroying Hamas

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The Rabbis are losing no time in using the current Israel-Gaza conflict (Fall 2023) to promote the Noahide Laws. Rabbi Yoseph Janowki, who is a Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi and prolific promoter of the Noahide Laws, says that the Noahide Laws are needed now to save the world, and not human intellect, which he says was the method of the Nazis. He believes the Torah condones the current war against Gaza. 

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/make-no-mistake/

Make no mistake


Yoseph Janowski

The aftermath of the attack by Hamas, when many on the left justified the attack, has shocked people, especially Jews who had considered themselves closely aligned and close friends with others on the left. Now that these former friends are supporting Hamas and condemning Israelis and Jews, it has been a stunning awakening.

When Eli Wiesel first talked to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he told the Rebbe that he doesn’t know how, after the holocaust, one can still believe in G-d, The Rebbe replied, that he doesn’t know how, after the holocaust, one cannot believe in G-d.

The Germans were so sophisticated in philosophy, ethics, the arts etc. How could they murder millions of innocents? Their mistake was, that they relied on their intellect, and were not subservient to G-d. Their intellect told them that it’s not ethical to murder humans, but their intellect rationalized, that certain people aren’t considered human. Had they been subservient to G-d, then “do not murder” meant exactly that.

The Nazis made a mistake.

Hamas made a mistake.

The extreme (left and right) who are supporting Hamas, and who rationalize that the end justifies the means, are making a mistake.

Only belief in G-d and obeying His commandments, can save the day. G-d told Moses at Mount Sinai, to tell all nations to obey the seven Noahide laws. This includes the law to not murder.

Otherwise, if people rely on their intellect, then, like the Nazis, intellect can justify the worst atrocities.

(The Torah allows killing someone who wants to kill you. Which is why Israel is determined to eradicate Hamas.)

May we very soon see the complete Redemption with Moshiach, when the entire world will know G-d, so that the nations make no mistake when it comes to obeying His commandments.

So that the world will be peaceful.