Posted on 10/13/2025 3:31:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan
It is a celebration of the human spirit, which conquers the unknown in courageous exploration.
Over the past two decades or so, we have witnessed a concerted effort by the woke educational and cultural establishment to reject traditional holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, or the 4thof July, and rewrite American history as a simplistic horror story of evil imperialist oppression. One of the worst-affected historical episodes in this regard is the European discovery of the New World.
Until recently, young children in America were taught to revere Christopher Columbus’s persistence and courage, which ultimately brought Western civilization to the Western hemisphere and led to the most successful experiment in human governance that the United States embodies.
Now, however, Columbus is “widely considered to be a despoiler of paradise, an enslaver, and a genocidal maniac.” Of course, the European explorers and settlers of the New World were not blameless, but the good they did and the values they introduced far outweighed their flaws. They are falsely accused of genocide, which was never their policy or intention. While there were violent conflicts between the settlers and some tribes, most of the casualties perished from lack of immunity to European diseases.
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
(I actually read the article, which is why I was inspired to write this post.)
Columbus = “dove”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/columba#Latin
Over the years in my many travels through dictionaries and etymologies, I’d learned that κόλυμβος — with its similar words across many languages — got pegged as a Wanderwort, because no one really knows where it came from.
Thus here’s a case of “What’s in a name?” — Columbus — because his family DNA trails really did lead back to Jews,
a people big on name symbolisms and the concept that “your name is your mission”. While that generally is in regards to a given (first) name, Columbus is the name he his known by, and then by sailing over here...
“The Vilna Gaon explicitly declares that a dove is a symbol of the human soul (Commentary to Jonah, 1). The dove is also a symbol of the people Israel (Song of Songs Rabbah 2:14), an image frequently repeated in Midrash.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doves_as_symbols#Judaism
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Wandering Jews... Genesis 12:1... a dove on its mission, departing the Ark...
🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderwort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification)
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This was worth looking up...
Today’s date:
Monday, October 13, 2025
21 Tishrei, 5786
Hoshana Rabbah
The seventh day of Sukkot is called “Hoshana Rabbah” and is considered the final day of the divine “judgment” in which the fate of the new year is determined.
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=10/13/2025
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The original Columbus Day was October 12th, because:
Guanahaní (meaning “small upper waters land”)[1] was the Taíno name of an island in the Bahamas that was the first land in the New World sighted and visited by Christopher Columbus’ first voyage, on 12 October 1492.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanahani
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Now of course the original October 12th was on the Julian calendar, which when converted to the Hebrew date was also today’s date of 21 Tishri.
I am well aware that such calendar dates are ‘reverse engineered’ based on precise lunation data, but because of that, the modern calculations do produce the precise dates, regardless of local lunar observations.
Here’s a calendar program with much data for the Hebrew years. It adjusts for the initial 1582 Julian-Gregorian switch [during Sukkot], so that October 12, 1492 = 21 Tishri 5253.
“Note on dates: Western dates until 4 October 1582 CE (18 Tishri 5343 AM) are reckoned according to the Julian calendar. Dates from 15 October 1582 CE (19 Tishri 5343 AM) are reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar.”
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/hebrew/hebrewyear_year.htm
Set it to year 5253 and scroll down to “Hoshana Rabba (Festival of Willows)”, and Bob’s your uncle.
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Irony of the Day, for those who are still with me:
In the search box that shows up at the bottom of my computer screen, there’s always some icon representing whatever-it-is that the tech system people decide deserves special attention.
Today the image is of three feathers, in cyan, red, and gold.
Hovering over... the feather symbolism... informed me that it’s “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”...
🤣 🕊️
All of this information together meant that the image and description sent my mind right over to the question everyone used to be able to freely ask before trigger-happy cancel culture swooped in for the kill:
“Dot or feather”
pintele yid
Definitions
n. Essential Jewishness; the essence of a Jew.
https://jel.jewish-languages.org/words/434
The feathers are right up there with “heads I win, tails you lose.”
😇 😉
The information in my previous post would be woefully incomplete without the other major connection to
Columbus, the dove, and the Jewish People:
Tisha b’Av
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Holy Temples Destroyed (423 BCE and 69 CE)
Both the first and second Holy Temples which stood in Jerusalem were destroyed on Av 9: the First Temple by the Babylonians in the year 3338 from creation (423 BCE), and the second by the Romans in 3829 (69 CE).
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Spanish Expulsion (1492)
The Jews of Spain were expelled by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella on the 9th of Av of 1492, terminating many centuries of flourishing Jewish life in that country.
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https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=08%2F03%2F2025
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The day of Columbus’ travels are also of noteworthy significance. It is said that he had originally planned on sailing on Tisha b’Av, but postponed his travels because the day is considered inauspicious for such ventures. Instead he began his journey on August 3rd, the 11th of Av, two days after the Jews were given the choice to convert or leave Spain. For our discerning readers, is this a fact of mere coincidence or of remarkable significance?
https://aish.com/christopher-columbus-secret-jew/
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It’s not uncommon for Jewish sources to give 69 CE as the year for the destruction of the Second Temple, even though year 70 cross-checks with historical evidences as being the “real” year.
There are multiple explanations for this which are beyond the scope of this post, but as you can see, it’s the date given at the Chabad source above.
As for the Julian date, which was the calendar in use by the Romans themselves:
July 16th.
Set to year 3829 and scroll to “Tisha Ba’ Av (Fast of Av / Destruction of the Temple)”:
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/hebrew/hebrewyear_year.htm
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Yesterday’s “Secrets of Sukkot” thread ( https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4345957/posts ) wandered into the topic of Jesus’ birthday, because that’s the time of his birth in the opinion of many Christians.
But as for Tisha b’Av, there’s this old Jewish spiritual concept, the article coming from Chabad as well:
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We are about to observe our one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-forty-first Tisha b’Av fast (written in 2011 – Ed.) since the destruction of the Second Temple. That amounts to a lot of hope and a lot of disappointment. Although Mashiach [1] could come in any moment, the Talmud declares that Tisha b’Av is the day most suited to his birth. [2] Each year our hopes rise, and each year they have been dashed.
That opening statement contains two footnotes. Here are the relevant data points from each:
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The soul of Mashiach has two dimensions. One is the enlightenment that all of creation will enjoy; and one is that there will be an individual (or a couple) that will master mind and master heart this giant planetary-scale project of coordinating all of humanity into a single, smoothly operating organism, that will run as efficiently as a person’s body.
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“And the spirit of G‑d hovered upon the waters.” (Gen. 1:2) Midrash Rabba explains that this “spirit of G‑d” hovering upon the waters is actually the “soul of Mashiach,” a term that refers to the highest possible G‑d awareness/truth awareness that human beings are capable of...
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This Tisha b’Av birthday concept is not necessarily meant to refer to a literal calendar date, but mainly intended to reflect a seamless spiritual continuity with the destruction of the Temple and the cycle of life.
Then again, the first men to walk on the Moon (symbolic of the Kingdom of David) launched on July 16th in year ‘69 in their command module named Columbia, a temporary dwelling that had a grand view of the stars.
The mission dates corresponded to “The Nine Days”, and as such the Columbia splashed down on Tisha b’Av...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Days
The dove days of summer,
because to tag back to the footnote’s quote from Genesis 1:2, the classic commentary by Rashi is right here, where he compared the Spirit of God (which is the soul of the Mashiach) to a dove:
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and the spirit of God was hovering. The Throne of Glory was suspended in the air and hovered over the face of the water with the breath of the mouth of the Holy One, blessed be He and with His word, *like a dove*, which hovers over the nest, acoveter in Old French, to cover, hover over.
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8165/showrashi/true
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Funny thing about businesses doing those “Christmas in July” events — they’re only having some innocent fun with opposite times and seasons and expectations; they’re not trying to peddle any religious beliefs about the birthday of the Messiah.
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Fans of the Apollo Program might know that the original working nickname for the Columbia command module was “Snowcone” (the LM had been dubbed “Haystack”), and here we all are at harvest and Sukkot time on Columbus Day.
Proverbs 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
If you'll consider the following (this won't take long), knowing that I am presenting the text without doctrinal bent or intent..
(although Pun-ish is my native tongue)
I asked Google,
Is "living water" code for the Messiah
AI Overview
Yes, in a Christian context, "living water" is a metaphor for Jesus Christ, the Messiah, as described in the Gospel of John. Jesus presents himself as the source of spiritual life and the Holy Spirit, which provides eternal spiritual nourishment. This is especially significant in the context of John 7:37-38, where Jesus says that whoever believes in him will have "rivers of living water" flow from within them.
Related observations of the living world:
Stone walls are alive with moss, lichen, trees that took root, and various critters.
Hills are alive with the sound of music.
Bodies of natural water are alive with fish and plants and mollusks and sailors and sea shanty songs (שיר מלחים) and so on.
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A little after minute 48 of the Sukkot video, this verse appears:
וְהָיָה בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יֵצְאוּ מַיִם־חַיִּים מִירוּשָׁלִַם חֶצְיָם אֶל־הַיָּם הַקַּדְמוֹנִי וְחֶצְיָם אֶל־הַיָּם הָאַחֲרוֹן בַּקַּיִץ וּבָחֹרֶף יִהְיֶה׃
And it shall come to pass on that day that living waters shall
come forth from Jerusalem; half of it to the eastern sea, and half
of it to the western sea; in summer and in winter it shall be.
- Zechariah 14:8
"Living water" appears 3x in the KJV.
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
John 4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
The timing of the last one is Sukkot, namely Hoshanah Rabbah:
John 7:2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand...
John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
The general idea in the interpretation worlds is that verse 38 is a synthesis of Isa 12:3, 58:11, and Zech 14:8. Yet to compare it with Zech 14:8:
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water
on that day that living waters shall come forth from Jerusalem:
מִירוּשָׁלִַם
Well, as long as it is today, take a look around in there to find the day, and the sea shell.
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