Washing the filth of death off of our skin, and from within
On the way to Mount Sinai, the Jews, having just been freed and coming from a nation permeated with cultic death worship, carried with them almost nothing, except perhaps the filth of slavery and the stink of near genocide. The story of their journey revealed to history the Egyptian genocidal culture of death and how that experience played a significant role in shaping our desire to be gathered from a land of dead bones — and transported to a land flowing not just with milk and honey, but with a hope of life, their lives.
The Egyptian Death Cult and its ongoing cultural need for Jew-Slavery has proven to be cyclical — in distant days with the Valley of Dry Bones — then much later in Nazi-Polish Auschwitz — and now surfacing in an ever-present stain of Phalestinian fury and savagery, which they can only quench in Jewish blood and cloak in what can only be understood in a scatalogically laced mythical intifadeh of Jewhate. And yet gallingly, some dare to call this cultural masquerades as a fate of innocent children. Dresden should come to mind when we descend into defining innocence and innocents.
From the Gates of Auschwitz to the killing and raping fields of the Nova Music Festival and to the Baby Houses of Kibbutz Be’eri: These are innocents . . . deprived of food, of shelter, of their mothers, of their lives.
Should you ever wonder about the existence of “the never-ending cycles of time” — perhaps it is time to read of the “Slaughter of the Innocents” perpetrated by a Gazan despot — see Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 2
Given where we currently find ourselves, out of Egypt and standing at the foot of Mount Sinai, it is that crucial to have a look back in time: facing history, facing ourselves, yet again.
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As the Children of Israel, on our calendar (Shavu’ot), arrive at the foot of Mount Sinai, all of this coming at a time when the Europeans, to this day, continue to expose themselves, not simply as lovers of Phalestinians, but as perennial Jew haters. To European discomfort, the Jews have managed to yet again defy the age-old and traditional European plan that has for over 2,000 years attempted to place a noose around the neck of the Jewish people and strangle out of “those arrogant and perfidious Jews” their Torah, their culture, and ultimately their lives.
That certain Jews have bought into Jewhate (even embracing this) is nothing new; many Jews even play prominent roles among the Jew-Haters of our day. We have seen this played out historically throughout time, even distantly in the Spanish Inquisition with, among others, the prominent Torquemada family. We have experienced this prominently during the 20th Century Shoah with many of the so called elite of “Jewish Council Jews” seeking to save themselves by identifying with their Nazi overlords.
Many would justify this as an attempt to save their own lives, although it has appeared in many studies as an attempt on the part of these Jews to identify so much so with their oppressor, that they hoped and aspired to be among both the culture and cliques of the oppressor.
Many will recognize “the battered wife syndrome” in this, while on closer examination, others may also recognize the ecstasy achieved with which these Jews expressed in an almost ecstatic joy in being embraced by the very people who sought their horror-laden and macabre-like death.
When a producer of a so called Zone of Interest Film stands before Hollywood’s elites and points to genocidal Zionists, it is nothing less than: “I don’t want to be *those Jews, those Zionists* — “I just want to be loved and adored by you elites and live by your adulation and yes, to be you. If I must sacrifice the memory of those who died because they were Jews, or the memory of my family, or even just, “who I am” — then it is but a small price to pay considering what I may gain by your acceptance, with the hope that in the end, you will see me as if . . . . as if I, were you.
I think we all know how this ends . . . .
It is the exact opposite of the story of Ruth — and it remains surprising that someone from the outside, from a death-cult-nation who has lost everything and who possesses nothing and yet has decided to cast her destiny with us, and with a desire for life. And all of this, along with the birth of a long-awaited baby, gave hope, through Ruth, to David, and to a rebirth of the Jewish people. It should come to pass in our day . . . Shavu’ot comes to give us that ‘Hope’ again.
*This* is what we once experienced at Sinai and what we continue to experience every Shavu’ot, to this very day.
Perhaps we ought to pay closer attention to the tangents and the similarities of the world of Sinai to the world of Ruth’s world and ours.
Am Yisrael Chai v’Kayam,
Please tune in this evening, because as always, *it is that important.”
Rabbi Seth Frisch
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Bonus reading:
Jason Greenblatt, Rahm Emanuel face off over Trump’s record on antisemitism, Israel
Where is the antisemitism coming from these days (?) . . . is it inside or is it from the outside? Some claim nowadays that it resembles a horseshoe . . . could this mean: from both sides, both ends of the spectrum bending inwards, towards each other.
here unlocked:
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/05/jason-greenblatt-rahm-emanuel-donald-trump-antisemitism-israel/?utm_source=cio
below excerpted:
HALEY COHEN
Is President Donald Trump good for the Jews? The question has been asked since his first term, when he made several high-profile moves that were widely praised in the Jewish community — moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and bringing together the historic Abraham Accords, to name a few. Now in his second term, with Trump squaring off with universities and revoking the visas of some foreign students in the name of combating antisemitism, Jews continue to debate the question. Two prominent Jewish voices put forward their arguments on Thursday night — Jason Greenblatt, who served as Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East during the first administration and, prior to that, had worked for him for 20 years, and Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff to President Barack Obama. The charged debate, held at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, was moderated by SAPIR Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens
I think appropriately … Trump said there is a serious problem and [he is] going to fight it with a heavy hand.”
