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THE ORIGINS OF JUDAISM, JONATAN ALDER

The book focuses on when Judaism began to be practiced, what is commonly known as Orthodox Judaism – of the Pharisees – the rites, rituals and traditions of the Babylonian Talmud.  He starts out by defining the “Torah” to be the Babylonian Talmud, and then later writings of what I’d call “Modern Judaism”.  He terms what came before in the history of Judaism to be “Hebrews” and “Hebraism”.  From his Youtube interview on MythVision, it was noted that the narrative history of the Hebrew Scripture “Torah” (books of Moses) is certainly not what is told therein, two proofs being the archeology does not match the historical narrative of the Torah, second, the Torah itself is inconsistent – if I dare not say “contradictory.” 

The first example of this is noted in the Preface; page ix, about when the Passover was practiced again – and evidence it was earlier is non-existent.  Both the Talmud and Torah provide instructions about commemoration of the Passover, and in Matthew, the passion week takes place during the time around the Passover.  Was it “since the days of Solomon” (2 Chronicles 10:26); or was it “Since the days of the judges who judged Israel nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah” (2 Kings 23:22, and 1 Chronicles 35:18); or was it “from the days of Joshua son of Nun to that day” (Nehemiah 8:17)?  These are obviously testifying against themselves.  They cannot all be right.  It is possible that one is right.  It is possible they are all wrong, and that it was invented, as there is nothing about it in the 3000 year old ‘Valediction of Moses’ (“V”).  If we allow the prophets to speak, it appears the prophet after Nehemiah has God scolding them for their harsh treatment of their wives, which should scream to us all that Ezra/Nehemiah did not do the will of God, but were obviously false prophets – and if so, should not be ‘Scripture.’

The main point that needs underlining from the above is that Jews view the writings of the Rabbi in the Talmud to be the “Torah”, whereas when Christians hear “Torah”, they are talking about the opening books of their bibles, the “Five Books of Moses.”  Many Hebrew scholars will tell that the books have reason to believe they were developed later and were not written by Moses – so we should all be careful to not place too much importance on them, as current Christians have done since Bibles started being printed – 1400’s – as very few had access to them before this, and the primary holders of the “Scripture” for Christians were the Orthodox and Roman churches of antiquity – and Rome exerted the most influence to prevent the people from being able to hear or read them for over 1000 years.  The protestant reformation was built on the writings of Paul, as can be observed by the writings of the main players: Martin Luther, and John Calvin.   Only recently have people started to look deeper and identify problems between Jesus and Paul.  My focus has noted that the problem is deeper – we have four contradictory gospel accounts, and it appears to me that the evidence that matters most – the words of God and Jesus and the harmony therein – shows Matthew is the best account, and it needs to have corrections made because it was also obviously altered over time.  It dates to before 40 CE in the Hebrew, but by 800 it was rejected.  Jerome (350 AD?) reportedly read both the Greek and the Hebrew, but he selected the Greek – which I firmly believe was a great error.  If Jerome had interest to tell the truth on Jesus – this would have been easy to do had he just compared what was said in a gospel to see if that is what the Hebrew Scriptures said – the simple test of the supposed ‘Bereans’ in Acts, to go back and see if what someone said was so – or not.

My interest in this study is to better understand the reliability of the “Bible” we have today. If we look at the forest, it’s easy to see that the forest has grown around a reported historical event that God gave instructions at Mount Sinai.  “V” tells a short historical narrative that differs from what is in our current bibles.  The Ten Decrees instructions were the Covenant Standards – the Decrees, Blessings, and Curses.  There is nothing in them that should be considered “rites” or “rituals” or “traditions.”  All of them are about how we live our life and treat our fellow humanity to be based on very reasonable, sound, observable, just,and doable Standards – cause and effect – not “faith” or “belief” – but who will observe the Teachings of God to do them?  The Standards reflect what should be basic human nature of what most everyone would call a ‘good person’ – to be honest, kind, and respect justice and to be mindful of how we treat our fellow and our family.  Only the Seventh Day commemoration to set it apart and do no work on the day might fall outside this definition.  It is also the broadest, as it included rest for the land on seven-year cycles, as well as debt forgiveness every seven years.  There were seven sevens, 49, and there was to be a Jubilee year that freed or returned certain things as identified, and it also relates to charging interest, which was considered a mortal crime until some rich Jews partnered with the Roman Catholic Church into Banking interests – then it was no longer a sin, in the 1400’s.  See books by Michael Hoffman at revisionisthistory.org  If the Jewish Banking interests were true, Elohim said there is one Law for all – the Ten Decrees.  Should it be OK to murder those who are not your “brother”?  Is it OK with Elohim that Jews can kill, steal, enslave, oppress, lie, cheat, deceive, or use trickery towards others because God said they can?  Is it OK with God for Jews to bribe witnesses, blackmail, murder or any such evils towards others who are not against them because they are “Jews”?  If there is “One Law” for everyone, as Elohim said to start with – then Elohim was not freeing the “multitude of nations” from Egypt, and then preserving them to Mount Sinai with Israel, to which at the same day the Covenant was given, EVERYONE PRESENT ratified the Covenant with Elohim!  Not just the Jews.  I used to marvel at the Exodus 20 telling of the day, and then how it almost immediately switched thought to discuss slaves – and by now I’m confident that Elohim said no such thing.  He was freeing everyone from Egypt who desired to be set free to serve Him alone and then be taught how to live a blessed and good life – not a life of slavery and oppression.  Modern Pharisee Judaism has completely lost her way since their fore-fathers had Jesus (Joshua 2) killed.  They had “that prophet” of Deuteronomy 18 killed!

Having read “THE VALEDICTION OF MOSES”, it is easily seen that prophets were sent to Israel to tell them of their evils and warn them of impending Judgment.  The charges of the prophets did not match the Covenant Standards currently in the Hebrew Scriptures – both the Masoretic Text of 900 CE, or the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible that is currently dated to about 200 BC – 70 AD, is as good a record as possible for the days of Jesus (5BC-30AD?).  The “V” account almost perfectly matches the charges the prophets made against ancient Israel.  Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible shows significant alterations have been made since Jesus’ days, but records from Judaism and Christianity show that both have significant changes in the Masoretic Text and LXX.  Isaiah alone has almost 1000 variances.  Evidence is mounting up against past beliefs and assumptions about the ‘bible’ being the inerrant and Holy Spirit Inspired word of God.  How much of it remains worth-while? 

“V” Standards are so obvious that I question God ever said they had never been given before – it appears the Standards are largely based on ‘human nature,’  and could witness that mankind was created in His image.

Given that there are those of all nations who have readily found Jesus to be one of the, if not the, greatest teacher about life and morality in the known history of mankind – even non-believers having much good to say about his teachings – and that his teachings in the Sermon on the Mount reflect the Teachings of God in the Covenant Standards – that alone is proof that far too many have ignored those teachings and come up with their own “rituals, rites, and traditions” that have nothing to do with anything Jesus or God taught!

What is to become of us if we refuse to repent of the lies we’ve all been told are the inspired words of God, but were provably altered and mishandled by those before us?  If we are not active to DO what we have heard in the Sermon on the Mount – there is a great fall – and Jesus offered no hope to those who were not “doers” of “these words”.  Can you find a Church near you that will dare tell that single truth of Jesus and stand upon it and proclaim it?  I haven’t, and I’ve been looking for decades.  When I’ve tried to share this truth – I’ve been shunned and scorned for not believing Paul told the truth.  The lies of Paul only have power for anything if you believe they must be true because they are in our “Bible”.  This study about the records in the Hebrew Bible proves Jews and Christians have given false testimony of the word and ways of Elohim Almighty and His Anointed One.

Back to the book, scholarship dating back as far as 1804 posed proof and reason that the Torah books of Moses were not developed until after the Babylonian captivity return.  Later scholars till about 1900 continued the studies and basically concluded the religion of Judaism was unknown until the time of Ezra/Nehemiah.  Through scholarship and historical knowledge the shift between ancient Hebraism and modern Judaism was dated to 444 BC.  The event is well documented in Nehemiah 10:1.  Immediately before this is a brief rnn-down of the history of Israel and her rebelliousness, then it clearly states they came up with their own covenant and lists all the signatories involved directly!  Open your eyes.  Read it to comprehend and understand what came thereafter was not based on what it was before.  And so it continues on to this day, but the Oral Torah’s started with the Babylonian Talmud, and was then followed by the Jerusalem Talmud, to which they have now added “The Beginning of Wisdom (divining, numerology, and astrology), and the Zohar, which is perhaps the most evil of them all.  Along the way many evils were spoken of the main characters of Bible fame, pretended knowledge that defies common sense to have such meticulous records of conversations to justify their pathways – these are nothing but Rabbin invented and perhaps demon inspired mythology.  They are totally devoid of the obvious wisdom and purity and truth that is easily discerned when Elohim spoke.  (See “V”)

I’ve heard others, such as Trey Smith of “God in a Nutshell” showing how ancient religions developed from the children of Noah as they spread out – the similarities, the need to aggrandize their own “brand” of the “story” or myth, and how it graduated from Assyria, Babylon, and on to Egypt, each being grander than what came before.  It is acting in the same manner to have the fallen Hebrews invent a counter story to pretend superiority to others and then view themselves finally as the only real humans or “the chosen people” of God – everyone else being little more than an animal without a human soul or intelligence, as found today in the guiding mythology of Rabbinical Judaism.  What came before was then altered and hidden behind ritual, rites and traditions forced upon the masses by Rabbinical rule… not God.  As the Psalms say, God is upright, pure and true in all His words and ways – and the Rabbi pretended to invent issues that they were the ones wise enough to discern – which is to lie against Elohim, because He said His teachings are very near to us – in our heart and mouth – that no one needs to send off somewhere to tell them what God said.  It’s right there in the Covenant Standards for all to see and observe! (V)  One example is the multitude of Rabbinical Law for the Sabbath – one simple Decree was turned into 500 pages of minutia, the least of which could be how far one can walk on the Sabbath.  I have little doubt that God would have commanded stoning someone to death for picking up some twigs – the story does not fit the gracious character of the justice of Elohim that can be found elsewhere in scriptures, just as talking about slaves after setting them all free together to serve Him. (Exodus 21 narrative)  Another to consider is if God told Noah it was OK to eat of any of the animals after the Flood – why would He tell Judaism that some of them were abominations or evil?  Given the Covenant Standards – He certainly had nothing such to say to them about such a vital topic – and I have every reason to believe this is a later invention of Judaism and their story telling nature.

This puts a whole new light on the subject, as scholarship for over 200 years has been bringing up reasons to know some things are not as we’ve been told to believe, as the material and textual evidence supports what we have has been corrupted – it is NOT the inerrant words of God at all!  For me, the biggest indicator before “V” is the harshness of Ezra/Nehemiah regarding the foreign wives all being divorced – when this violated past practices, and what Elohim had decreed.  Then we have a prophet coming along soon afterwards to say God viewed what they did to the wives of their youth was evil.  Many Christians may not be aware that Ezra and Nehemiah are not in the Prophets section of the Hebrew Bible, but in the “Writings” section – useful information at best.

So it began, and as with Christianity, someone stepped in and demanded they have authority – when God and Jesus said or asked for any such thing! (see the story of Gideon, and what Jesus taught in Matthew 23)  The Rabbi must think themselves as important as the Pope, and I suspect it was the Jews who partnered with Rome to have Jesus killed used their monies to gain access to authority in Rome to derail the truth and obscure the goodness of God almighty and blame the lies they fomented on “Christians.  It is historical fact that usery used to be a death penalty crime (related to justice and just measures and the Sabbath principle of rest – debt cancelation on 7 year cycles – no compound interest).  Even Rome considered usury a crime punishable by death – until wealthy Jews partnered with the Roman Pope for banking interests in the 1400’s.  (See “The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome” by Michael Hoffman.    revisionisthistory.org

What is needful beyond Matthew?  What good in the other books is not already included in Matthew? Where in Matthew does Jesus teach mysteriously, as apocalyptic literature does?  (Revelation) Regarding the end times, prophesies against Israel and the Temple, or that there would be a long time until his return (kingdom parables).  What is needed is return to Matthew to grasp the disciples records of what he taught therein.  Time wasted on a variety of “interpretations” of Revelation and the contradictions between gospels, or the contradictions introduced through Paul has done nothing but result in divisions and spending peoples’ energies on confusions, opinions, mysteries, and possible lore, rather than coming to realize we’ve all been lied to through what we have been forced or told to believe, or be banished from Churches, or burned at the stake! 

It’s hard to just report on the book because of my disgust for all the lies I was propagandized with – it’s 70 years of injustice and lies for me, but that is little to compare to the lives lost for trusting in lies, or lives that could have been so much better if people had just shut their own mouths instead of having the gaul to think they could do better than what was before.  Thank God there are still people who dare to speak up about their observations in seeking to fully appreciate the teachings of Jesus and God the Father. Neither sowed bad seed.

The real “Crime” of “Christianity” is repeating the sins of the Judaizers who preceded them in twisting the simplicity of the Teachings of Elohim.  The greater “Crime” against God and mankind is Zionism, because it dehumanized all non-Jews with a pompous flair of smugness and conceit.  Now killing innocent children is equated to killing Terrorists – because the Rabbi say they might grow up to be terrorists – you save your life by killing the innocent!!!  If a Rabbi imagines something to be – then it is so – because the value a Rabbi as an equal to any of the true prophets of God, but they also fail to judge their Rabbi by the same God given rules God to know whether someone speak on His behalf – or not.  (Deut. 4, 12, 13 and 18)

Given the evils and lies of Judaism, and the Zionist control through their tools, there is a great need for people to see them in the same light that Elohim said He does.  In fact, we all need to see ourselves in the same light of His words of life!  They chose death, we can see the fruits of this death abounds today.  Will you choose life – or not?  Only you can decide.  It’s not like we can choose neither life or death – we are on this planet today so you can decide your future – God has shown us what is good – it still shines from the pages of our corrupted Bibles – but we have to be discerning to be able to tell the truth from lies – which is the value of the Teachings of Elohim and the Teachings of Jesus before they were altered.  This journey has been nothing but going back to see if what someone claims is so – or not.  And this is the value of being willing to consider scholarship from those outside our specific Church – as there are thousands of different “faith fellowships” that each have elements of it.