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  1. John D. Brey

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

    And I'm a Trump supporter. Build that wall. John
  2. John D. Brey

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

    . . . They're as rare around these parts and a nice tall glass of colloidal gold. John
  3. John D. Brey

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

    Ritual uncleanness has nothing to do with being literally dirty. John
  4. John D. Brey

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

    You need priests to offer the red heifer. You need a temple or tabernacle to have priests. John
  5. John D. Brey

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

    That statement leaves a lot unexplained. What "other end"? Why is it not a good deity? Why no mikvah capablity? Mary was legally betrothed to Joseph. When she was found to be pregnant they had to start acting like a married couple for the sake of appearances. God's direction for Israel is...
  6. John D. Brey

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

    Now the interesting thing about it is that those Kohanim who were involved in preparing the ashes of the Red Heifer — in order to help their fellow Jews become pure again — became tameh. The Torah says that the mystery, the paradox, of the Red Heifer is that it purified the impure and impurified...
  7. John D. Brey

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

    Gold is unique in the sense that because of its purity, even when its burned to ash it's still gold. It doesn't, when burned, carbonize like lesser purity things. Which is why it symbolizes deity. God didn't carbonize and was thus lionized in the burning bush. Moses couldn't believe his lyin...
  8. John D. Brey

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

    Ironically, Rashi, along with various midrashim, says the red heifer is the mother of the golden calf. That's ironic in the extreme since the red heifer can't have been mounted. That means she's a virgin mother of a deity (the golden calf). She's a virgin, and her son is God. Since that's kinda...
  9. John D. Brey

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

    What's not beyond our powers of perception is the fact that the ashes of the red heifer are being called "waters of niddah." That is, they seem to be rationally and logically situated as "clean menstruation" in contrast to the fact that normal, natural, menstruation, is "unclean," and thus...
  10. John D. Brey

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

    It's important to note that the ritual uncleanness spread by contact or nearness to a corpse only symbolizes the real death that's contracted, really, not ritually, at conception. This real death-sentence isn't ritual but real. It exists in every body conceived by means of the "evil-smelling...
  11. John D. Brey

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

    Claiming the basic Christian story found in the four Gospels sets forth a meaningful rationale for the ashes of the red heifer and thus the purification that comes from them goes against the grain of the statement that's already been quoted from Nechoma Greisman: The mitzvah of Parah Adumah is...
  12. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    If brit milah is a sign, a symbol, a ritual, imbued with the most important symbolism that could ever be (as I believe to be the case), then nothing could be more misguided than to eliminate the most important parts of the symbolism, cutting, bleeding, sucking. The "foreskin" represent what a...
  13. John D. Brey

    If Peter saw Miracles, why denied Jesus 3 times?

    From my perspective, many people, likely to include Baháʼu'lláh, have what we might call a divine nature. In Judaism, the Chachamin and Chazal, i.e., the Tsaddikim, have a divine nature. But that's different than Jesus Christ who's divine nature was true deity incarnate in his physical body. He...
  14. John D. Brey

    If Peter saw Miracles, why denied Jesus 3 times?

    I like your reading. And I probably agree with it for the most part. What I would say in opposition to your parable is that the parabolic meaning can't dispense with the literal meaning. It can augment it. It can even be more important than the literal. But it can't displace it. . . . Jesus...
  15. John D. Brey

    If Peter saw Miracles, why denied Jesus 3 times?

    . . . Didn't you yourself say something about subjective interpretation? Where do you find a Greek word to interpret "corruption" in the verse? Parables are designed in a manner such that when their hidden meaning is understood it can be seen that the hidden part has a symbiotic relationship...
  16. John D. Brey

    If Peter saw Miracles, why denied Jesus 3 times?

    What order? John
  17. John D. Brey

    If Peter saw Miracles, why denied Jesus 3 times?

    Is Baha'u'llah Jesus' father? John
  18. John D. Brey

    If Peter saw Miracles, why denied Jesus 3 times?

    Matthew 14:25. John
  19. John D. Brey

    If Peter saw Miracles, why denied Jesus 3 times?

    . . . I would say Jesus is referring to himself as Christ. John
  20. John D. Brey

    If Peter saw Miracles, why denied Jesus 3 times?

    Matthew 24:5; Luke 21:8. John
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