Which probably goes a long way toward an explanation for the statement made by Solzhenitsyn which surprised me:
Posted on 10/30/2018 12:38:49 PM PDT by southernindymom
I seriously want to know, why do so many hate the Jewish people? I know they have since Bible times, which even reading it, I still don't get it. Any insight would be appreciated.
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You catch on fast! LOLs to your post -- you read my mind.
Scapegoats
The star of Remphan was eight-pointed, and was made to worship the pagan goddess Ishtar. It wasn’t six-pointed. Not the same.
Fake news didn't start in this century. It was fake news then, and it's fake news now.
Sadly, I heard this prejudicial and unscriptural cliché when I was a kid in the 50s, and had to figure it out and put it to rest after I was born again in adulthood.
Except for that Prophet killing all the Jews of Medina thing.
The existence of any Jew anywhere is proof of the Presence of God.
Besides, there's this:
A logo (abbreviation of logotype,[4] from Greek: λόγος logos "word" and τύπος typos "imprint") is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name it represents as in a wordmark.
Jew (Yehudi):
יהודי
yud hei vav dalet yud
God (YHVH):
יהוה
yuh hei vav hei
The Maharal tells us that the design of the hei is comprised of a dalet and a yud. The dalet is composed of one horizontal line (signifying width) and another that is vertical (signifying height), which together represent the physical world, the world of materialism. The yud (the detached left leg) represents G-d, and thus spirituality. The Maharal teaches us that just as the dalet and the yud come together to form the hei, so, too, one has an obligation to imbue and sanctify the physical world with spirituality and G-dliness.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137077/jewish/Hei-The-Deed.htm
The wordmark of God, God's logo, the Divine Presence, the Shekhinah: "Jew":
יהודי
יהוה
A dalet plus a yud is the letter hei, but a lot of commentaries that say that the name of God is never mentioned in the Megillah. ?!
It would be funny if the "unpronounceable name" of God turns out to be something obvious like Yehudi, especially because it's the God-haters and deniers who can't stop talking about those... Jews.
And Brunswick stew and chess pie...
So, by this logic, all white people today are responsible for the abuses of chattel slavery in the pre-Civil War era.
Jealousy. Plus people tend to tread on the good of heart.
No, that’s just an excuse.
Because of the role that they believe that G_d obligated them to (as “his chosen people”), the Jews hold themselves to a higher intellectual standard than other peoples. Because they mustn’t give to G_d anything less than their best effort. So they always probably have been intellectually superior to the non-Jews around them. And since they were often forbidden from owning property, they were forced to make their living chiefly through intellectual pursuits, like lending money. And when they get bested by a Jew in a business deal, most people find it easier to console themesleves that they were cheated than that they were outsmarted.
But Jews didn’t have it nearly so bad until non-Jews got the idea that they were worshiping the Talmud. The Talmud is essentially a scholarly analysis of the Torah. It was written in part to provide clarity on the Torah’s instructions on how a proper Jew should live in the form of interpretations of the Torah written by learned men.
The problem with the Talmud is it was written by men. And Jews are so reverential to the Talmud that to non-Jews it is indistinguishable from worship. So long as they were seen as worshipers of the Torah, Christians and Muslims were more accepting of them because both their holy books derived from the Jewish holy book. If their holy book contained the word of G_d, then so must the Jewish holy book have contained the word of G_d. So they tended to cut the Jews more slack because they were fellow “people of the book.”
But the Talmud was the word of man. And if they worshiped a book written by man, they could no longer be considered fellow “people of the book.” If they worshiped the Talmud then they were as pagans and worthy of revile.
So Christians and Muslims misunderstanding of the role of the Talmud, which was a book that Jews wrote to help themselves learn how better to adhere to the words of G_d in the Torah, caused a fundamental rift between them and the Christians and Jews.
But it was easier to do because the Jews always were so bent on remaining separate from non-Jews. Which aroused suspicion among non-Jews. And the the less intellectual types could never grasp why the Jews were so successful, and preferred to attribute their superiority to cheating or witchcraft.
Obviously that should have been the Christians and the Muslims.
You summed it up nicely.
Plato (born 427 BC) saw the merchant as a loathsome person and argued that no citizen should ever engage in commerce.
Protestant Reformation Theologian, Martin Luther (1483-1546), in his book, "On the Jews and Their Lies", recommended placing axes, shovels, and hoes into the hands of Jews and making them earn an honest living through their labor on farms like everyone else.
Throughout the Middle Ages, Christian Church authority kept Jews out of farming and out of most professions and crafts.
This left the Jews little alternative but to engage in banking and trade, which their own religious culture regarded highly already.
Not surprisingly, as merchants who made a profit, their gain was usually seen as everyone else’s loss.
Hatred of Jews became intense and ubiquitous.
Which probably goes a long way toward an explanation for the statement made by Solzhenitsyn which surprised me:
It’s not that simple...it’s not just hating Jews per se
It’s more specific to the time of blaming Jews for specific behavior which may have a kernel of truth or even more than a kernel but that kernel gets exploited by bad politicians and rulers and can run from inconvenience to horrific genocide like with Hitler thought as he did...
Sometimes as scapegoats or focus points by very bad people like Hitler who had his own personal hatred folks can speculate as to why
Stalin purged Jews to consolidate his own power and strip theirs in the Soviet Union since many Romanoff hating Jews had been early Mensheviks and later Trotskyites....Stalin purged everyone he deemed a threat
The fact Jews are blamed for killing Christ is more an excuse for madmen than causative though I’m sure it’s been used a lot
More causative is the fact Jews tend to exist outside total assimilation and do well like that and tend to concentrate in urban power centers since outside the antebellum south few have been granted rights to or inclined towards agrarian pastoral pursuit
In past centuries Jews dominated money lending for many reasons
Today they dominate media and entertainment no question of that and given the tilt of their views they make enemies which often leads to a broad brush which at least here on Free Republic is inaccurate
Just paying attention we have a lot of Jewish conservatives here...and most are pretty right on even about culture stuff say a southern baptist would take for granted...it’s more than the usual 2-3% here...6-10% is my guess
This sad occurrence has had Jewish Freepers I never knew were Jewish saying “hey I’m Jewish “
It’s just more complicated than simple random hatred for simply being Jewish
Not many folks want any of this like last Saturday, it’s unspeakably horrific and so pointless ....the work of Satan....yes I’m aware there is an irony there
I heard Mark Levin on this today and I thought he handled it well.....very well especially since he’s under attack as an instigator of the far right which is ridiculous
and he broadcast the words of Rabbi Wolpe...a self professed liberal and the rabbi and an “elder”...not sure the term....of the stricken temple and all spoke very eloquently in my view and were gracious towards Trump even under wilting fire from leftist Jews and non Jews
I might do a thread on Wolpe’s words...
Further thoughts .....why on earth were they not armed...of all folks ....Jews please use your second amendment rights
There is evil in this world...HE walks our dirt trust me......recall the maniac who shot up the Amish little kids school ....HE exists in our spiritual world peering into out hearts and minds window looking for opportunities like this
Today an evil man was killed in I assume retribution in prison in West Virginia ....Satan worked through Whitey Bulger no question
Today there seems to be a pattern of shooting up worship houses and not just Jews though for sure that was this Neo Nazis intent
Just in the past year in Texas and Tennessee two churches shot up where the perp intended on targeting them because of who went there
You go to worship
Put that little pistol in your wife’s purse...if you need it at least you’ve got a chance
I noticed when this happened many here were concerned with the optics wondering if a rightie did this
I was like screw the optics this is horrible ...unarmed innocents at a bris or naming ceremony gunned down like cattle .....including we find out later an old couple and a woman who’d survived Poland in WWII
like the atrocity at Sandy Hook you just wonder how can someone do that
If this maniac wanted to fight then take the fight against folks that matter ...
Nope this was the work of a sick coward.
Like McVeigh blowing up a building of innocents he knew had a day care in it and killed I think 15 infants meanwhile Lon Horuchi is enjoying retirement just fine
I guess it’s terroism as well come to think of it
As you can see God loves and God hates. God is doing the choosing. Joseph had 2 Gentile kids and Jacob adopted Joseph's kids as his own. This is absolutely critical for Christians as we have also been adopted into God's family. All Jacob's descendants are "Jews". Esau was from the same mother and father, but he is NOT in God's family. To cut to the chase, God elected people through David all the way to Mary so Jesus could be born of a virgin. The Jews are God's chosen. They are neither better or worse than the rest of the world, but they are blessed by God. All covenants went through them and the oracles were given to them. If the Chinese were chosen, they would celebrate Passover.
The New Covenant given through the sacrifice of Jesus was given to anyone that chose to love the God of the Bible. You will read many here, I'm sure, (but I haven't read all of them) Some would say the Jews killed Jesus so I hate them. Jesus said, If you don't eat my flesh and drink my blood, you can have no part in me. What He is saying is if your sins didn't kill Jesus, you can have no part of His sacrifice because you are Self Righteous. The Jews killed Jesus because God willed it before the foundation of the world. Rome actually executed Jesus, but we get into a circular argument deciding this question. Jesus said No one takes His life, He laid it down for us.
Now lets get back to the corrupt flesh(DNA) back with Nimrod and Canaan land. While the Jews were slaves in Egypt for 400 years, the Nephilim were populating the Promised Land, God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When Moses brought "Israel" to Canaan, They sent spies into the land. 2 said let's roll, but 10 said NO WAY. The 10 said they were "grasshoppers in their eyes and they devoured the inhabitants( cannibals). These 9-12 ft giants ate people. But one cluster of grapes to 2 men with a pole to carry. They had edited the DNA of the animals, people, and plants. They taught the women witchcraft and spells. God gave the Jews the ability to defeat the giants. They knocked over stone walls around Jericho with a shout. They put the singers in front of the army and defeated several armies without losing a man.
God has separated the world into two groups. Wheat and chaff. Nations are divided into sheep and goats. In the Last Days called "Jacob's Trouble( Jacobs God given name is Israel) The spirit of Esau, or Edomites, will persecute God's family, the Jews, including the Gentile children adopted into the Jews. You need to realize Christians are spiritually completed Israel. many Christians act like God divorced the Jews, but God does NOT break covenant,...ever! Some will use verses from Hosea, but they missed the whole point of Hosea having to go find his prostitute wife and buy her to bring her home. The church has NOT taken the place of the Jews, but is the wife of Jesus. God was "married" to The Jews when Moses came down from Mt Sinai with the Commandments. The Jews were "branches" broken off the Vine so we could be "grafted" into the Vine. Scripture tells us ALL ISRAEL will be saved. The church will be raptured, but others will be left behind to endure the Antichrist wrath. He will have the Edomite Spirit. He will be an Assyrian. You may be surprised at who hates God. Psalm 2 is God laughing at these armies coming against God's people, the Jews in the Last days. Revelation speaks of the 144 thousands from the Tribes of Israel( No, they aren't Jehovah Witnesses), will be sealed with the Holy Spirit and preach the Gospel to the world. Zeph 3:13 says the Jews will get the gift of tongues in the Last Days. Zech 8:7-8 speaks of gathering together the "lost" Tribes back to Israel. Zech 12:10 says the Jews will realize Jesus was the Messiah and repent. There will be a 200 million man army sent against Israel by the nations of the world and Jesus will come back and destroy all of them with a word from His mouth. The blood will be as high as a horses eye in the Jezreel valley for 184 miles( 1600 furlongs).
When Jesus comes to rule and reign for 1000 years, he will return Sabbath worship to the 7th day instead of the pagan day of sun worship, Sunday. He will also decree that everyone with have to come to Jerusalem on Tabernacles or they will get no rain and get plagues. If your church doesn't teach Leviticus 23, you might ask why? Christmas is a pagan day, and of course Easter is a pagan day. Sunday sabbath was introduced by the pagans in Rome and is in no way sanctioned by the Scriptures. The same people changed the calendar so you would NOT know when God was going to do what He told us He will do. Trumpets will be the day the church is Raptured. Atonement will be Judgment day for the World. And Tabernacles will be the time Jesus comes to reign and rule for 1000 years. The "Eighth day will be the beginning of eternity in Heaven with God.
The question isn't really "Why" are the Jews hated, but it is a "tell" that they are evil and are anti Christ. You can be a church member that pays tithes and reads the Bible, but hates Israel and be as lost as a goose. Genesis 12 says if we bless Abraham( Israel) then we will be blessed and if you curse Israel you will be cursed. I don't think the vast majority knew how close we are to being cursed when Obama left Netanyahu waiting in the White House. We need to remember Israel is our brothers and sisters. We all have family members that we don't always care for, but we need to always come to their aid or suffer the consequences coming your way from God. If you read Revelation God wins and He brings His family with Him.
There will be people that will be left behind when the last Trump blows. Many will be sitting in pews when it comes. hating your brother shows you don't belong to Jesus. Jesus came as a Jew, lived as a Jew, and died as a Jew. The Jews are His people. We MUST be adopted. The Jews are NOT cut out of anything. They will be saved just as a Christian is, by having faith in their Messiah. Christians need to remember our sins died on the cross and faith is what saves. We all look at people and judge their sin. Jesus is the Judge. We were ALL where a new Christian was at some point. The more faith we are given, the less sin we will commit. Jesus will judge the Jews just as we will be judged, we can't judge God's plan. Even Jews have atheists and they have worshiped idols at one time or other, but just as some blacks and Hispanic's are atheists, we must pray and spread the Gospel. Why would a Christian hate anyone? (answer,...they aren't a Christian and have a spirit of Esau in them)
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