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  1. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    To be brutally honest, I don't see how people can't see the seemingly clear symbolism. If the phallus is the tree of life, and to some extent it is, and if it's adulterated with the fruit of death (senescence) and it is, then how difficult is it to take the Jewish theologumenon whereby the tree...
  2. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    I took the statement on your avatar as a sexual innuendo. John
  3. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    . . . What was that Kamala said: You didn't fall out of a coconut tree you know. :) John
  4. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    Did you ask him if there might be a better way to keep the blood from spilling on the ground than sucking it with the mouth? You know, like wrapping it in a towel or immediately bandaging it or something like that. Fwiw, Rabbi Hirsch points out that Jewish rituals are never, ever, about mundane...
  5. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    This doesn't completely unadulterate the mohel. Which is to say metzizah isn't a direct parallel to the Eucharist yet. The reason metzitzah isn't a direct parallel to the Eucharist (yet) is that the blood of the Eucharist represents the blood of one conceived through the blood of circumcision...
  6. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    Is that a hunch? Because I suspect I've studied circumcision more intently than anyone your likely to meet, and I don't recall anything about not letting the blood land on the ground as part of the ritual or the symbolism? The quotations note, correctly, that the contrast is between the blood...
  7. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    Heart and all? John
  8. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    Here's a couple quotations I've carefully cherry picked for you. :) Several new practices placed special emphasis on bloodshed. After performing metsitsah, sucking blood from the circumcised penis, the mohel would spit some blood into the cup of wine from which he would place drops on the...
  9. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    Why not dissect the first paragraph in the thread: The primary claim in the paragraph above is that "blood" originally symbolizes everlasting life, and then, after the original sin, it comes, so to say, to symbolize "death." When it's unadulterated from the original adultery, i.e., the...
  10. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    Dear forewarned, forelorned, and foreskined reader: While typically I ignore drive-by fruitings like the one tossed out the car window by our dear friend @dybmh, in this particular case the drive-by provides what a popular meme refers to as a "teachable moment." In the process of refuting some...
  11. John D. Brey

    The Unadulterated Mohel.

    In this context, transforming "blood" (death) into a symbol of everlasting life (John 6:53), is less a naked transformation, and more a reformation, since truth be told, "blood" is the original symbol and source of everlasting life. Prior to the original sin where it gets adulterated, watered...
  12. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    Why can't it, like one of the primary topics of this thread, i.e., "yesod," represent both? The phallus is the tree of life (its fruit was required for each of us to become alive). It's also the tree of death (biologists tell us prior to the rise of phallic sex organisms were all immortal). And...
  13. John D. Brey

    Is Jesus portrayed in the Gospels as Anti-Torah?

    Matthew 16:24-25. John
  14. John D. Brey

    Is Jesus portrayed in the Gospels as Anti-Torah?

    He was recruiting for martyrs. Are you a martyr? John
  15. John D. Brey

    Is Jesus portrayed in the Gospels as Anti-Torah?

    Where can I find this Toledot Yeshu that didn't come way later? I'd love to read it. John
  16. John D. Brey

    Is Jesus portrayed in the Gospels as Anti-Torah?

    For you and me, today, sure. But if you want to follow Jesus, in the first century, prior to his crucifixion, you better be willing to martyr all your worldly hopes and dreams and suffer with the Lord. Jesus was trying to spare the weekend-warriors from something he knew was coming, but that...
  17. John D. Brey

    Is Jesus portrayed in the Gospels as Anti-Torah?

    Matthew 10:37-38. John
  18. John D. Brey

    Is Jesus portrayed in the Gospels as Anti-Torah?

    Are you condemning all the wonderful young Jews who died horrible deaths in the holocaust or any of the other pogroms directed against often righteous Jews? Many wonderful Jews have died young, and from violent deaths similar to Jesus. Are they all tossed aside along with Jesus for having not...
  19. John D. Brey

    Is Jesus portrayed in the Gospels as Anti-Torah?

    There's an extra-biblical epistle written by opponents of Jesus that proved many of the points found in the Gospels and Apostolic writings even more effectively than the canonical texts: Toledot Yeshu. John
  20. John D. Brey

    Is Jesus portrayed in the Gospels as Anti-Torah?

    The same question could be asked about Israel as a nation. In the Tanakh, Israel is the apple of God's eye. They're the "chosen" ones. Israel is, as a nation, what Christ is, as an individual person. Israel will rule the nations. No weapon forged against them will succeed. Those of us who...
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