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  1. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord.

    The idea that the paschal lamb represents a pagan deity such that slaughtering it is a service to God appears to go squarely against the very basics of what a Jewish sacrifice always represents elsewhere throughout the Tanakh. In the argument of the Shelah, the slaughtering of the passover lamb...
  2. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord.

    There's reason to believe that notwithstanding the parallel the Shelah draws between the paschal lamb and the Gospel's lamb of God (both of which are slaughtered as a Jewish response to idolatry and blasphemy), nevertheless, it seems highly likely that the Shelah's brilliant theologoumenon never...
  3. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord.

    It wasn't pre-Israelite circumcision I was unfamiliar with. It was merely the way you were framing it. We did a thread here a few years ago, Menarche as Men's Archetype, that discussed the universal anthropological nature of circumcision as a mythological form of male menstruation. The last few...
  4. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord.

    Yes. Which is why it's pertinent that Rabbi Horowitz is reading the paschal lamb as a demonic lord being sacrificed for the sake of Israel's preparation for entry into the promised land. This is the Gospel message in brief. In the Jewish epistle Toledot Yeshu, Jesus' miraculous powers are...
  5. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord.

    The Jewish concept of tum'ah and taharah (ritually unclean versus clean) is part of an elaborate and important system of theological thought and action. It's purpose and meaning is found within that system of thought and action. I'm not familiar with this? According to the Shelah, the lamb...
  6. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord.

    The purpose of the Passover sacrifice is first and foremost to demonstrate G–d's superiority over all other deities both in Heaven and on earth. This is important; G–d had endowed many agents with different powers, and the impression that there were a number of primary sources of power in the...
  7. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Lamb of God Demonic Lord.

    The Shelah is a consummate scholar who demonstrates mastery in every aspect of rabbinic learning, to wit, halakah and talmudic jurisprudence, homiletics and biblical exegesis, philosophy and ethics, and above all else the esoteric traditions known as Kabbalah. Horowitz combines an extensive...
  8. John D. Brey

    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    On the last first, there's a whole testament where a person dead for days retorted a report. On the NDE, the point was that under anesthesia, nothing is experienced. But in some cases where added to the anesthesia is the heart stopping, the heart stopping being something that should enhance the...
  9. John D. Brey

    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    She might wanna stick to unleavened bread Pesach or no Pesach. John
  10. John D. Brey

    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    The anesthesia's affect doesn't stop the heart, or brain, from functioning. It merely stops you from experiencing what's happening. When the anesthesia wears off, you're none the worse for the experience. There's reason to believe that when the heart stops, and the brain dies, something...
  11. John D. Brey

    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    . . . 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. Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz, Shney Luchot Habrit, vol. 2, p. 723. John
  12. John D. Brey

    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    The incomparable Terry Gross interviewed a brain surgeon (Theodore Schwartz) just last week. As he pointed out, yes, our consciousness is solely the result of neurons firing in the brain. And yet, as experiments have shown, the conscious part of our existence is like a guppy swimming in the...
  13. John D. Brey

    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    As a great Christian philosopher/poet (Bob Dylan) said you can always go back but you can't go back all the way. John
  14. John D. Brey

    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    John
  15. John D. Brey

    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    Far be it from me to frighten you more, but the idea of eternal unconsciousness is like a walk in the park compared to the truth of the matter. You see, the problem is that absolutes and relatives mix less well than husbands and mother-in-laws. If, when a person dies, they will be eternally...
  16. John D. Brey

    Immaculate Menses: Gospel of the Torah (Numbers 19:1-2).

    Without the existence of the evil smelling seed of the serpent, and the organ through which it comes, reproduction isn't based on binary gender. It's only after the rise of binary gender, Adam and Eve procreating, that sexual reproduction (with emphasis on the fleshly serpent and the poison in...
  17. John D. Brey

    Seeking any information about a historical Essene sect called the Notzrim

    I might be going out on a limb, no pun intended, but the Jewish tradition @Maninthemiddle seems to be addressing might be based on Zechariah 6:12-13: And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The Branch; And he shall grow up out of his...
  18. John D. Brey

    Immaculate Menses: Gospel of the Torah (Numbers 19:1-2).

    Earlier, Rabbi Horowitz also related the covenant of circumcision (brit milah) with correcting the original sin in the Garden: If Adam and Eve had not allowed themselves to be seduced into sinning [having phallic-sex], all seed would have been holy seed [clean rather than unclean]. The whole...
  19. John D. Brey

    Immaculate Menses: Gospel of the Torah (Numbers 19:1-2).

    Are you aware that the red heifer's dung was included in the salvific elixir? John
  20. John D. Brey

    Immaculate Menses: Gospel of the Torah (Numbers 19:1-2).

    Part of good isagogics is interpreting a text in the zeitgeist or milieu in which it was written. Betrothal in the ancient world often occurred before a young maiden had reached menarche. John
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