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  1. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    I don't know. Personally, I would include all the Jewish sages I quote, Rabbi Samson Hirsch, Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz, Nachmanides . . . and all like them (which would include some of our Jewish brothers and sisters here in the forum). John
  2. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    For the sake of uniting the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shekhinah by means of that hidden concealed One: Blessed is YHVH forever. . . [We emerge] through the coupling of [Malkhut with] Tif'eret, whose ejaculator is "Zaddiq the foundation of the world." From [this union] the souls fly forth...
  3. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    A student of the kabbalah would instantly notice that the sefirot related to Adam Kadmon have been turned over. Left is right, and right is left, so that a truth usually left out, is now righted. If the work of the righteous is to right wrong . . . one down . . . a million left. John
  4. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    . . . Question to fellow readers. What's the difference between quoting a small portion of a passage, versus "cherry picking"? . . . Second question to fellow readers. Do you understand why the Supreme Court disallowed making judgments based on motive? Hint: the distinction between reading...
  5. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah: Circumcising the Divine Phallus.

    Ben Bag Bag said: Turn it over, and [again] turn it over, for all is therein. And look into it; And become gray and old therein; And do not move away from it, for you have no better portion than it. Pirkei Avot 5:22. John
  6. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    . . . Your new avatar sounds like lyrics from another Captain and Tennille song? :tearsofjoy: John
  7. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    11 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying...
  8. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    My point was that Hosea is a part of the "my people" destroyed for lack of knowledge. And I'm sure Hosea wasn't the only one of the "my people" who wasn't lacking knowledge. In other words the "my people" (those lacking knowledge) is a generalization speaking of a large swath and doesn't...
  9. John D. Brey

    What is your response to the question asked by those seated at the Pharisee's table?

    Being as concise as possible, my first response is that the Pharisee's question would likely fit the responsa given (in response to Jesus' statement) that might come from any religious body of the time. John
  10. John D. Brey

    What is your response to the question asked by those seated at the Pharisee's table?

    While I don't necessarily agree with you, this is the sort of response that's at least useful in that it has something to fact-check and respond to. For myself I would say in this world all truth is garbed in the fore skene of what on the outside looks like internal inconsistencies. The...
  11. John D. Brey

    What is your response to the question asked by those seated at the Pharisee's table?

    Could you be more concise with what you mean by saying the New Testament didn't exist at the time of the report? Do you have a report of the goings on external to, and older than, the New Testament? John
  12. John D. Brey

    What is your response to the question asked by those seated at the Pharisee's table?

    I don't get it? Your interlocutor offered no opinion or commentary on the question the Pharisees rendered. Which seem to imply that you find the question the Pharisees rendered problematic such that even putting the question in the hearts or mouths of the Pharisees has to be bashing them. The...
  13. John D. Brey

    Who Or What Is Israel?

    . . . And yet the scripture seems clear that so far as Israel is concerned, there will always be a remnant according to grace that's not rejected. Would Hosea be included in the verse he himself wrote (4:6)? John
  14. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah and The Divine Phallus.

    Abraham was told about the impending birth of Isaac being itself a sacrifice, since Abraham had already sacrificed himself when he performed circumcision on his own body. Shenei Luchot HaBerit, Torah Shebikhtav, Vayera, Torah Ohr, 57. In a round-about way, the Shelah is reiterating in his own...
  15. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah and The Divine Phallus.

    G-d referred to the original seduction practiced by the serpent on Eve in Paradise which is the reason that nowadays the origin of man is the proverbial טפה סרוחה "evil-smelling drop of semen" familiar to us from the saying of Rabbi Akavyah in Avot 3, 1. If Adam and Eve had not allowed...
  16. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah and The Divine Phallus.

    One of the interlocutors in this thread has repeatedly poo pooed the arguments in the thread and implied the examination and examiner is false and fallacious. The statement quoted above proves that to be partly correct since technically speaking the Shelah doesn't actually, explicitly, say...
  17. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah and The Divine Phallus.

    [We emerge] through the coupling of [Malkhut with] Tif'eret, whose ejaculator is "Zaddiq the foundation of the world." From [this union] the souls fly forth. For the living God is in our midst. Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz, Shney Luchot Habrit, The Great Gate, p.1, in Miles Krassen's translation of...
  18. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah and The Divine Phallus.

    What you're calling flattery is a two-edged sword since though nothing is more true than that kabbalists hide the glory of their examinations by means of the way they discuss them (something you noted throughout this thread). Nevertheless, equally true is that they use what most folk consider...
  19. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah and The Divine Phallus.

    Your statement lends itself to the correctness of @dybmh pointing out that true kabbalism, and kabbalists, hide glorious truths by means of the manner and topic of the dialogue and discussion where these profound truths are discussed, or else the writing where they're examined. They do so such...
  20. John D. Brey

    The Holy Shelah and The Divine Phallus.

    This is cut and pasted from message #17: Sefaria doesn't yet have this section of Shney Luchot Habrit translated into English. And since I don't yet posses Rabbi Eliyahu Munk's English translation (though I'm working on it), I got the translation out of Miles Krassen's book on the first section...
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