There is a reason that Jews do not proselytize, like adherents to Colonial Christianity and Colonial Islam. We ourselves do not fully accept post-“Medieval” period monotheism. Such non-pluralistic absoluteness is both antithetical to our Indigenous Jewish culture’s writing traditions and to our most sacred of books – our TaNaKh and Talmud. The last thing on our Jewish Indigenous minds is the idea that all people worldwide are somehow ultimately “Jew”-ish in their religious theology. Which starkly contrasts with the worldwide (almost accepted) Colonial idealism of a “Christian, Muslim, or Jew” successfully colonized world. This anti-Indigenous bias, it is against the fundamental teaching of our Canaan Judean written Torah.
Southwest Asia Indigenous peoples share similar beliefs. The Kurds believe that they were created from the sun, hence their continued devotion to sun worshipping. The Jewish scientist and poet, Carl Sagan (ע”ה), taught in the 1980’s: “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” And with Jews, our ancient Torah teaches the same thing.
The scroll of Bereishit teaches that Elohim (the high god, Elyon) created the orderly land, skies, and waters from the “astonishingly” empty and dark watery abyss of land, meaning from his primordial elements. This began with a blast of light, the separation of light from darkness, and the orderly creation of life as we humans know it (Bereishit 1:1-25). The process of this orderly creation has since been modified for Jews through a better scientific understanding of this process of evolution.
From here, Elohim (the minor gods, the “children of El”, which includes Y-HWH) created the various humans/nations upon the portion of land that each minor god was assigned by Elyon. “Let us make humans in our image, after our likeness”, “and Y-HWH formed the human (adam) from the humus (topsoil, adamah)” and breathed the “breath of life” into the human, so that the human became a “living breathing-creature” (Bereishit 1:26-28, Bereishit 2:5-8, D’varim 32:8-9 Septuagint/4QDeuteronomyj).
“בהנחל עליון גוים, בהפרידו בני אדם יצב גבלת עמים, למספר בני אלהים כי חלק י־הוה עמו, יעקב חבל נחלתו.
When Elyon assigned inheritance to the nations, when he separated humankind, he established the territories of nations, according to the number of minor gods. Y-HWH’s share is His nation, Jacob is his allotted inheritance. (D’varim 32:8-9)”
“Many Jews of the Second Temple period sought an explanation for the hardships of this world – whether political or personal, relating to disease, family trouble, sin, war or any other manifestation of evil. They found an opening for such an explanation in emphasizing the idea that the divine realm is in fact populated with multiple beings, not all of them constantly operating in the same direction and for the same motives.
While full-fledged monotheism is often at a loss in explaining the existence of evil in the world, Jewish apocalypticism depicts a cosmic drama, wherein multiple forces exert their power and the supreme deity orchestrates the entire scene. This drama helps to explain the persistence of evil in this world… Many Jews throughout history found that the description of the divine realm as inhabited by one character only is insufficient for their religious needs, and they found ways to add more characters to that realm, whether in the form of angels, divine attributes (מידות), or sephirot.”
Prof.Jonathan Ben-Dov, “Are There Gods, Angels, and Demons in Deuteronomy?”, Project TABS
The Jewish scribes that redacted our Indigenous Judean people’s ancestral literatures into a multi-voiced often conflicting singular narrative of stories only clouded the polytheistic nature of our Canaan people’s origin stories, in order to present a more national focused henotheistic Jewish worldview.
We are saddened to see that our worldwide Indigenous Peoples ways of chanting, our aboriginal flags, our cultural ways – even our tattoos(!) – are being misappropriated by pro-Colonizer “Palestinian” activists, both Arabs and Europeans WITH their successfully colonized minorities (Blacks, Jews, and now successfully colonized formerly Indigenous WITHIN Arab-European Colonial societies!). All for anti-Israel* and anti-“Jews” systemic antisemitic racism worldwide! (*- Indigenous Israelis are Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel, full stop!) Antisemitic racism is anti-Indigenous racism, full stop!
Arab/Muslim Conquistadors upon Southwest Asia Indigenous peoples’ lands and European/Christian Conquistadors upon ALL Indigenous peoples’ lands, that you have forcibly stolen for Colonial Allah, Christ and, now, Marx dominionism, listen here: Who gave YOU the right to use our flags, our Indigenous rituals and ancestral objects, our cultural ways, our tattoos, for your COLONIAL Arab “Palestinian” cause upon Southwest Asia Indigenous Israel and Kurdistan?! … Was it the worldwide Arab-European Colonizers of this planet Earth, the “United Nations” of Arab-European Colonial nations, who INSIST upon Indigenous peoples’ subjugation and assimilation planet Earth wide, and INSIST upon vilifying/demonizing genuine Indigenous peoples’ resistance?!
Indigenous Israelis will help our Kurdish brothers and sisters to forcibly decolonize themselves, as soon as we break the Arab “Palestinian” yoke of Colonialism from our land. Jin, Jiyan, Azadî (woman, life, freedom) revolution for SWANA Indigenous peoples’ equality! Easily verifiable historical facts really do matter, folks!!! … LISTEN closely….
Indigenous appropriation is a DISGRACEFUL Colonial Arab-European act that CONFLATES Colonial Arab-European identity (examples, “Palestinians”, “Americans”, “Mexicans”, “Canadians”) with genuine Indigenous identity (examples, Jews, Kurds, Balochs, Assyrians, ethnic Persians, Sámi, Igbos, Taíno, Pueblo, Navajo, Cherokee, Wampanoag, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Cree, Māori, Hawaiians, etc, etc, etc!)! Such anti-Indigenous racism has no place on any social media!
Israel, where is your G-d? Is Y-HWH still in the ruins of our 2nd Judean temple? That most sacred part of our Indigenous Jewish people’s land, where the ruins of a northern Christian Colonizer’s church sits upon, where both our Indigenous Temple and the northern Colonizer’s Church now sit in ruins, under the present southern Muslim Colonizer’s Mosque that sits upon her? If he’s not here, Y-HWH, then where is our Y-HWH “God”?
Is Y-HWH in the heavenly palace up in the firmament above, in the skies? If so, then where is he? For we haven’t seen a sighting of Y-HWH riding upon his winged armless Cherub since the “days of old”. Is Y-HWH’s palace above the blue waters that are above the skies, and Y-HWH is just too old now to travel and visit his land below? Has Y-HWH just plain grown tired of us Jews or all humans in general, like we Jews got about Y-HWH after the European-Arab attempted worldwide Shoah (“Holocaust”) that specifically targeted we Southwest Asia Indigenous Jews for extinction?!
Or is Y-HWH’s palace directly below the skies’ waters above, and still hidden from our view? As our Canaan Jewish ancestral literatures keep teaching us every single year, hidden amongst the sun, moon, and stars that are under the protective raqia, the “hammered covering” that protects like a shield (under the “firmament”). And is Y-HWH, our land’s god-King, just watching our humanity’s events, refusing to intervene for whatever reasons known only to him?! A fair question to present to all worldwide human beings of this planet Earth, that have experienced the Colonial religions’ interpretive versions of our SWANA Indigenous people’s ancestral literatures.
Israel, where is your G-d?! Is Y-HWH forever more in a place where we can no longer see him? Just speaking personally here,… As an Indigenous Jew, who is very enamored with our Judean people’s origin stories, I fully REJECT this!!! But, if this is actually so – this “where we can no longer physically see ‘G-d’” – then why show love for a “God” who no longer “shows his face” to any humankind? A “God” who no longer rides the Cherub down to our land and back up again to his palace? OR is Y-HWH in a place where we can still physically see him everyday, but we no longer know HOW to do so in this more modern age? If this is so, then in what structure is Y-HWH?! Where is our Indigenous Judean people’s land god Y-HWH?!!
There IS an ANSWER, folks! And this answer IS our Indigenous people’s genuine understanding, full stop! No, Y-HWH is not in the sanctuary, the “Temple” that is now in ruins. Nor is Y-HWH in a synagogue or in the kitchens of our Jewish homes. These are OUR communal places, our sacred grounds, to make Indigenous practice and learning a continual reality for the generations to come. All of this is only an extension of the “structure” that I’m referring to, directly above. And, no, again! Y-HWH is not in the heavenly palace high up in the skies, any more than here down on Earth.
SO, where is Y-HWH, Indigenous Jews and all non-Jews who are familiar with our ancestral writings, and those who are wondering?! According to our Jewish Torah, when read CORRECTLY in our Canaanite Hebrew language, our Y-HWH is within Elohim, like everything else. Yes, Y-HWH is the Creator of our Canaan people of Israel. And, according to our ancestral literatures, we Jews were created to work and guard eretz yisrael, the “land of Israel” – which is the land of Y-HWH. Many now call our land the Levant or Southwest Asia. And Colonial Arabs and Europeans call our Jewish land of Israel “Palestine” in devout anti-Indigenous racism. So, nevermind them!
Let’s learn Indigenous Torah history, based in our actual Indigenous people’s history upon our land of Canaan Israel, in order to understand why we Indigenous Jews are so resolute in our ways! And why we are the most targeted of Indigenous peoples upon this planet Earth in this 21st century CE, since the inventions of northern Aegean-created Colonial Christianity and southern Hejaz-created Colonial Islam, 1600 years and 1400 years ago, respectively.
Our very first origin story within our Jewish ancestral scrolls teaches that the breath of Elohim hovered over the chaotic watery land within pure empty darkness. In other words, the breath of the Creator hovered over the primordial elements that davar is formed from. Now, the first creative dvarim (words) expressed or thought was “let there be light”. It is from here that orderly dvarim (things) take shape. A land, skies, and waters. Things in the sky, things below the waters. Things upon the lands, to include the created Indigenous peoples of the land (plural on peoples deliberate!) – with their people’s various land-“God”s, by which to rule and guide them.
But, now, if you say that Y-HWH must be, THEN, in our Jewish ancestral scrolls, our books, then you are VERY CLOSE to seeing Y-HWH. Yet, sadly, you are still NOT there, yet, even yourself! Y-HWH exists in our shared DVARIM as Jews, our words and ancestral stories (and modern stories, too!)! Y-HWH is a non-physical word and a physical thing, BOTH at the same time. The entire Indigenous Jewish understanding of this reality that we humans experience is rooted in a singular foundation, the aforementioned “structure” mentioned above. Israel, where is your G-d?! The word davar means both “word” and “physical thing”, at the same time. Within davar are many endlessly intricate dvarim, the plural extension within the singular addressed here.
This is why – though our Jewish ancestors’ Torah cannot fully conceive of this in our modern age of human experience within this ever evolving universe – this is why the Indigenous Jewish people of Canaan have been able to evolve from a polytheistic-thinking people into a monotheistic-thinking people (even into an atheistic-thinking people!) – WITHOUT ever giving up either of our polytheistic or henotheistic teachings and beliefs that preceded our Jewish people’s present modernity.
And, by understanding our Indigenous-selves through ALL of these changes with ever evolving TIME – by adherence to showing “love” for Y-HWH through observance of Indigenous Judean mitzvot/halachot – we Jews have maintained a continuous non-stop derech, an Indigenous “path” upon this planet Earth. We are NOT the ONLY Indigenous peoples to ACHIEVE this incredible fate, BUT we Jews are the first to forcibly decolonize our ancestral land in this CE period of human history (due to our subjugated experience!). AND, we are MOST TARGETED for our refusal to fully assimilate into Colonial Arab-European supremacist possession of this planet Earth – (for all’s benefit, of course, ASSUMING the privileged are satisfactorily benefitting in result!).
A PATH (a “derech”) of words/things (DVARIM) that keeps us Jews successfully the vassaled Jewish people of the land of Israel (Judea, Samaria, and northern half of Colonial Jordan), the SPEAKERS of the very last language of all Canaan peoples, who are engaged in being a “LIGHT” unto ALL still surviving Indigenous Peoples of this planet Earth entire planet wide! A planet way LARGER than our ANE ancestors could even BEGIN to imagine! We Jews don’t want your “conversion”, rather we want your Indigenous ally-ship with our Indigenous Judean people’s nation! We Jews WANT to save the ENTIRE world, but we MUST learn to save ourselves first, as an extremely targeted Indigenous minority upon this planet Earth.
During the 1929 Arab settler riots targeting the Indigenous Jews of Israel, the Jews of Gaza were forced to flee the city, and that was the official end of the community, but does that mean that there was no longer a Jewish presence in Gaza? The Jews of the city were mainly Sephardim who were familiar with the Arabic language and culture.
Due to its isolation from other communities, the Jewish community of Gaza was generally a cohesive and unified collective. Former community members recalled different families celebrating Sukkot and Pesach together. Due to their extensive trade relations with the local Bedouin tribes, some of the city’s Jews lived for several months of the year near the tribes, outside the city, and even adopted some of their habits.
For example, Jewish men from Gaza used to ride horses and wear a sash with a dagger and a gun. The Jews of Gaza included prominent ancient historical figures such as Nathan of Gaza, a well-known follower of Sabbatai Zevi, and Rabbi Israel Najara, author of the liturgical poem Ya Ribon Olam.
Christian, Muslim, or Jew,… Avoid becoming antisemite (an anti-Indigenous racist)! Educate yourself further about Jews who are Indigenous to Judea-Samaria, who are indigenous to Southwest Asia. … https://blog.nli.org.il/en/gaza_final_days/
The Final Days of the Jewish Community in Gaza
It saddens us Indigenous Jews deeply that the UNRWA funded post-WW1 Arab settler occupiers upon Gaza (and what Colonial Jordan calls the “West Bank”) – self-named “Palestinians” since 1964 – have literally forced Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel) to level large parts of our ancient Judean city of Gaza in our defensive freedom fight to end Arab settler Colonialism and Arab terrorisms that are being inflicted upon Indigenous Israelis and Kurds! Never Again!
Remember, Jewish #Gaza before #GazaUnderAttack by Arab Palestinian Hamas, funded by the United Nations of Arab-European Colonial nations! The Colonial Arab-European #GazaGenocide MUST STOP! Please, #GazaCeaseFireNow – lay down your weapons and anti-Indigenous racism, Arab Conquistadors, and FREE our Indigenous Israelis that you hold hostage! The #IsraeliApartheid is a racist anti-Jew myth, so end this UNRWA funded #IsraelPalestineConflict NOW!
Snapshot above: Mazal (daughter of Shlomo Shimol) and her husband Nissim Elkayam, of Gaza. Nadav Mann, Bitmuna. From the collection of Gera postcards. Source of the collection: Dr. Shulamit Gera. The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, National Library of Israel
The Indigenous Jewish chant Bar Yochai was written shortly after the Christian Conquistadors ethnically cleansed the Jews of Israel (by mass expulsion and forced conversions) from Spain and Portugal. Sephardi Hakham Shimon Lavi (1486–1585) wrote this kabbalist piyyut (“chanted poem” guarded in “Jewish mysticism”) after settling in Tripoli, Libya. Bar Yochai is chanted without musical instruments by Indigenous Jews worldwide on Lag BaOmer, the Yom Hillula (festival day) of bar Yochai, and at home during the Shabbat meal and/or at the community’s synagogue on Shabbat day.
This 16th century CE piyyut is our Jewish people’s most prominent and most popular kabbalistic chant. And, for a clearer historical perspective,… While the Christian Conquistadors were chasing Indigenous Jews around this planet Earth, while also engaging in the very same mass expulsions and forced conversions of Indigenous peoples upon the continent that Colonial Europeans named “America”, Jews worldwide were sharing and chanting our Indigenous piyyut, Bar Yochai.
What Arab Palestinians have done to Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel)! Depraved rapings and genital manipulations on Oct 7th – NEVER AGAIN!
What Arab Palestinians have done to Indigenous Kurds! Depraved rapings, selling of Kurdish women into domestic and sexual slavery, the mass burial of Kurdish women and children while they are still alive – NEVER AGAIN!
Always remember, #BlackHistoryMonth is #IndigenousHistoryMonth and both are everyday history!
META Description : The belief in a “Christian, Muslim, or Jew” successfully colonized world is anti-Indigenous bias, it is against the fundamental teaching of our Canaan Judean written Torah.
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