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  1. John D. Brey

    Exegeting Isaiah 11:1.

    . . . Perhaps he's not, if we rely on incomplete English renditions. A more accurate translation from the Hebrew would read: And there shall come forth an asexual shoot חטר [hoter] out of the coppiced stump גזע [geza] of Jesse. A Nazarene נצר [nazar] will grow out of his roots שרשי [sores]...
  2. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    What to our untrained eyes often looks like "incongruity," is always, where the scripture is concerned, merely something beyond our exegetical pay grade. Revelation 5:6 is a case in point since Rabbi Samson Hirsch says that Isaiah's description of Messiah ---as found in chapter 11 ---perfectly...
  3. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    A ram is used for a peace offering. A peace offering is offered on the same altar after the korban offering. Isaac is supposed to be the korban offering, after which Abraham spies the ram he offers as a peace offering to celebrate the korban offering of Isaac. But Isaac isn't really offered...
  4. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    Kunta Kinte? Alex Haley's Roots chapter 53, paragraph eight. John
  5. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    Connecting the korban peshat (Passover lamb), and the lamb at Isaiah 53:7, with Abraham's claim that God will provide himself the lamb (Genesis 22:8), lends itself to the idea of seeing Hashem in the sacrifice of a particular lamb of God even before Abraham aborts Isaac's sacrifice and names the...
  6. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    I bet I can convincingly disprove any such aspect. John
  7. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    I can appreciate your feeling the idea is bizarre. But the context for that idea, so far as this thread is concerned, relates to the discussion concerning the difference between the natural brain functions (to include, as you note, the entire biology of the body, since the brain is merely a...
  8. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    To say Abraham presciently peers forward to Isaiah 53, which is where the "arm of the Lord" (called a "lamb" in 53:7) is sacrificed by God (53:10), implies something the Jewish sages, to include the kabbalists, are wont to forego having to entertain since the idea of God's "arm" being made flesh...
  9. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    In my opinion, we have to be careful to distinguish between cases where the truth is extremely complex and counterintuitive versus the case where elites are attempting to foster a particular ideological prejudice by eliminating the possibility of making determinations based on binary logic. This...
  10. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    Since Isaiah's suffering servant is clearly anthropomorphic (and not a sacrificial animal), Isaiah 53 appears (retrospectively no doubt), to parallel the Akedah, since once again we see a righteous person (the suffering servant) being subject, ala Isaac, to a divinely-authorized (53:10) human...
  11. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    Many of the activities of the unconscious brain/mind affect what's presented and able to thereafter be decided on by the conscious subject. So in that respect freewill, like freedom itself, isn't free. John
  12. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    Pretty strange thought experiment. The semantics seem to break down since if the universe started out compact and tiny and expanded from there, the "there" would seem to be the point of origin. John
  13. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    Why? Do you know something I don't? Are they going to eliminate chapter 53 from the book of Isaiah in future printings of The Living Bible? :) John
  14. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    I think our eyes will render it pretty similar. It's what we do with it from there. John
  15. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    Are you positively sure you've actually read Isaiah 53? . . . You could be forgiven for mistaking Alex Haley's Roots, chapter 53, for Isaiah 53. It happens all the time. :cool: John
  16. John D. Brey

    Lionizing Lyin Eyes.

    You really have drank the Kool-Aid haven't you. :) David warns us in the Psalm not to indulge in excessive joys. It is not given to the righteous to experience so much joy in this life. . . In this world only the wicked experience true joy. Shney Luchot Habrit, vol. 2, p. 723. The Lord is...
  17. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    John
  18. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    This point is crucial where the quotations that started the examination are in the crosshairs of the statements above since if Professors Wolfson and Green are correct that the Jewish kabbalists are trying to divest Christological symbols of their Catholic garb and redress them as the mystical...
  19. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    All we like sheep have gone astray . . . the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. . . He's brought as a lamb to the slaughter. Isaiah 53:6-7. Isaiah Horowitz (the Shelah), whom many consider one of the greatest Jewish kabbalists in history, quotes Nachmanides paraphrasing Maimonides...
  20. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    Central to Isaiah chapter 53 is the concept of the suffering servant. The idea of the suffering servant could be considered ground-zero concerning the centering-message (the transcendental-signifier) of the entire chapter. This makes the concept of the suffering servant of the utmost importance...
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