Youtube: Esther and the King starring Joan Collins, Richard Egan, and directed by Raoul Walsh.
Posted on 02/28/2018 5:40:55 PM PST by SJackson
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Youtube: Esther and the King starring Joan Collins, Richard Egan, and directed by Raoul Walsh.
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And it has been spoken that Mordecai will once again prevail and Haman will be hanged (according to Kim Clement’s prophecy). LORD, let it be. Amen.
Blah, blah, blah. The same old foreign press: “he’s vulgar, horrible, I hate him and will jump up and down on a bed to prove it or hold my breath until I turn purple, but he’s doing good things despite himself.”
They can all go to hell!
The closest thing to enmity between Trump and Jews is the statistical likelihood that the latter will side with secular leftists — and Trump’s constant tweet barrage against these leftists.
But any serious bible student isn’t surprised.
His past had been more vulgar than his present. That’s what the writer is getting at.
Buzz off.
And anyhow he also has his Democrat past to blame it on :-)
You don’t listen very well, do you?
Hey songwriter, try reading sometime.
He is vulgar, at least was. The article certainly isn’t about proving he’s horrible.
You don’t read very well or even understand Jewish lore do you?
Marm ought to know as a Christian about sin-to-salvation stories. Which are in both Jewish and Christian bibles. It’s like some people don’t want to hear the “sin” part.
The story seems to be following a Christian pattern with Trump, in which evil is recognized as possessing an ultimately independent existence from humanity. That’s why no literal Haman figure, though he’s appointed then fired a number of parties who did wrong and didn’t pan out.
As personally a Christian, I don’t see the need to iconize Donald Trump to watch him yield his sinful self more and more to the goodness of God, and in turn exhort America in an according way. Parallels to bible stories illuminate timeless principles.
Since there is no literal Haman here to flout, could we have some Trumpentaschen to celebrate? (Cookie MAGA caps!)
Indeed!
Now time to...
If Purim is indeed Trump’s holiday, it shows he has very superficial understanding of the Christianity he professes to believe.
According to Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, “The Jewish Holidays,” p. 189. He says, “The spirit of Purim is best captured in the Talmudic dictum, ‘It is the obligation of each person to be so drunk as not to be able to tell the difference between ‘Blessed be Mordechai’ and ‘Cursed be Haman.’” The roles are switched, in other words, at Purim they become Haman.
He says, p. 108, that Judaism lives by the Torah all year, but at Purim, “all inhibitions are swept away, the one day in the year “we can let out our repressed feelings as we overturn all the rules, even turning the Torah itself upon its head.”
It is Judaism’s Mardi Gras, he says. When “everything is topsy-turvey, and a Mardi Gras spirit runs wild.,” p. 187.
This drunken holiday of mockery and masquerade (Rabbi Strassfeld’s words) does not square with the Christianity Trump professes to believe.
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