This is what it is like to be Irish and Black Colonizers – both, the still subjugated fools of British settler Colonialism upon Indigenous peoples’ lands worldwide! So very sadly indoctrinated that you literally think the Indigenous Jewish population is “the colonizer” and the post-WW1 Arab settlers upon Israel and Kurdistan lands are the “indigenous”. No such thing as (wannabe) Arab aboriginals in Southwest Asia! Jews come from Judea, Ireland and African Americans! Yes, Judea, not Africa, not Europe! Kurds come from Kurdistan, not Europe, and Arabs are the post-7th century CE Colonizers from the Arabian south!
Jews have had a nonstop 3,800 year presence upon our Southwest Asia Indigenous land of Israel – despite every attempted ethnic cleansing of our people from our land by SWANA regional (BCE) and global Arab/Muslim European/Christian Colonizers of Indigenous peoples’ lands worldwide (CE). Yet, despite having retained our native Jewish presence – nonstop – upon our Canaan land of Israel, Jews are the ONLY Indigenous people on planet Earth who are accused by the world’s Colonizers of having “colonized” our own ancestral land. No one else’s land, just our own!
This is the Arab/Muslim and European/Christian racistly insane hatred for the only Indigenous people upon planet Earth that CANNOT be forcibly assimilated – no matter what – nor outright Arab-European Nazi exterminated from existence. 3,800 years later, and Jews Indigenous to the land of Israel are forcibly decolonized, yet again (since 1948), and self-sovereign for the 4th time in our Canaan people’s history, despite the vitriol hatred of the Arab-European colonized world. We Jews are light unto all still surviving Indigenous peoples worldwide!
Just a reminder to the Muslim, Christian, and Marxist Colonizers of planet Earth: Judaism, Judah-people-ism, is the ethno-religion of our Southwest Asia Indigenous people. The last surviving people of Canaan, now self-sovereign since 1948. We Jews of the land of Israel are the last surviving speakers of a Canaan Indigenous language, who still speak to this day our Canaanite Hebrew language as our people’s living language, and we still 3,800 years later absolutely refuse to worship other peoples’ gods and practice their religions. Especially so, if it is that northern Aegean created Colonial “Jesus Christ” idol, the Christian reincarnation of the Bull god Ba’al (the golden calf)!
When a Colonizer feels threatened by your question, he deletes and blocks you, rather than answers! This Shaun King did today! We are still asking the question:
“Seriously, Shaun King ? Why should this even concern you? What is your obsession over how people view you? With posts like this one, you present yourself as being no different than that narcissistic pitiful hate filled man Donald Trump. Don’t be a Trump, Shaun! And STOP supporting post-WW1 Arab settler Colonialism, occupation, and terrorisms upon Southwest Asia Indigenous peoples’ lands of Israel and Kurdistan. Encourage these racistly violent Arab land-squatters, who self-named themselves “Palestinians” in 1964, to allow Indigenous Kurds and Israelis to peacefully and securely decolonize amongst your post-WW1 created Arab Colonial nations of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq!”
Sara Azeem – “I would’ve just ignored him… people who support you would support you anyway.. why give your haters the satisfaction of a reaction?”
We keep asking the same thing from this U.S. citizen of Colonial “America”! We wonder if he realizes down deep that Colonial “Palestine” does not really exist (a USSR-Arab nations 1960’s invented fiction). Easily verifiable historical facts really influence, when actually researched!
Hanan Al Falastiniya – “What in the name of insanity is wrong with people??”
European and Arab Conquistadors for the oppression of this planet Earth under their Colonial gods of Christ, Allah, and Marx are ALWAYS fighting with each other – at our still surviving Indigenous Peoples’ expenses! What is wrong is Arab-European settler Colonialism. You don’t see Indigenous peoples anywhere on planet Earth occupying other peoples’ lands (only our ancestral own!), nor blowing themselves up or burning themselves up in some kind of extreme acts of self-victimizing martyrdom – for your Colonial religion and nationalism.
Sharlee Hainesworth – “Your biggest downfall [Shaun King] will be you always feeling the need to respond to the haters….”
Is he really getting hate, or creating the image of it? Self-flagellating racist Donald Trump is making the same laments. … The only difference, Shaun King hasn’t been sued, if his enemies are indeed real.
Alex Mcinerney – “Ireland supports palestine forever and always,we know more than most what occupation and genocide is because of our history with it from Britain. We will never stop supporting you🇮🇪❤️🇵🇸”
Ireland is still the foolish subject of the British Empire. We recently wrote on this very subject! There is a very big difference between Arab Conquistadors and Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel) fighting for control over the land to decide whose version of peace reigns supreme (Arab Colonial “Palestine” or fully decolonized Jewish Israel) – and – successfully colonized and oppressed Irish subjects of the British empire fighting each other along Colonial Christianity sectarian lines (Catholics versus Protestants), while the British watch with glee over their self-oppressing Irish victimhood! The Irish have no clue about Southwest Asia, and this is why they side with the Arab Colonizers – rather than siding with the Indigenous populations (Jews, Kurds, Balochs, Assyrians, etc!).
Do share with him that we posted this! #shaunking Grassroots Law Project
Why is it that Jewish Voice for Peace JVP is afraid of Indigenous Israelis proving easily verifiable historical facts in replies to those who comment? How can you be Jewish when you hate Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel) so much, that you must monitor your JVP chapters’ posts for real Jews who are correcting all the antisemitic lies that JVP grifts upon? Then, delete every historically factual comment and block the profile/page posting these comments. Not in our Indigenous Jewish people’s names, Colonial JVP!
Seema Mazhar – “Where did Jews migrate to? What was written on Golda Meir’s passport? The world sees your lies about being indigenous to Palestine.”
Jews were forcibly – but only partially – ethnically cleansed from our land of Israel by European and Arab Conquistadors, and we have been terrorized and chased to every continent and island of this planet Earth by Christians and Muslims, because we refuse to accept your Colonial gods, languages, and governments for us. Migrate? LOL! All Jews that return to the land of their ancestors and those who continue to live in the Arab and European colonized diasporas are Indigenous to Southwest Asia. Easily verifiable historical facts never change, just because Arab-European Colonizers want to believe in mythic self-justifying revisionisms on history.
Kishwar Umar – “Adam Lasky, peace for boths sides. No more killings, stop the violence, and we Arabs will say “release the hostages.” It should be an eye for an eye.”
For there to be PEACE, then these UNRWA funded Arab Conquistadors need to allow Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel) and Indigenous Kurds to peacefully and securely decolonize amongst your post-WW1 created Arab Colonial nations of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. We Israelis and Kurds will continue freedom fighting for the liberation of our Southwest Asia Indigenous peoples’ lands, so long as we remain Arab-European occupied and terrorized!
Elżbieta Skorek – “Thank you, Jewish people protesting Israel, you are true Jews. I love you brothers and sisters, we are human before anything.”
We Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel) feel sorry for the successfully colonized Jews in the USA who support this post-WW1 Arab settler Colonialism upon the Southwest Asia Indigenous lands of Israel and Kurdistan, who self-named themselves “Palestinians” in 1964 to deny Indigenous Israeli and Kurdish peoples peaceful and secure decolonization amongst the post-WW1 created Arab Colonial nations of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. It is time to end this UNRWA funded racistly anti-Indigenous Arab settler occupation and terrorisms upon our SWANA Indigenous peoples’ lands! Flag of the Arab “Palestinian” post-WW1 Colonizer of Southwest Asia Indigenous peoples’ lands —> 🇵🇸
Seema Mazhar – “Ben Gurion speaks about the use of power to expel, and then Nakba? Ring any bells?”
Please, do NOT erase the Middle East and North Africa half of the Jewish people’s history, Arab-European Colonizers!
The mother of modern Zionism was Gracia Mendes Nasi, who built the first modern Jewish community in Israel in 1558. The father of modern Zionism was Rabbi Yehuda Bibas, the scion of Moroccan rabbinical royalty, who traveled across Europe in 1839 to encourage Jews to make aliyah and reclaim Jerusalem. It was Jews Indigenous to Judea and Samaria and Jews who returned from Colonial Iraq and Yemen after Arab violence upon Jews and Jews who had already returned from the European diaspora that restored our Jewish land and waters sovereignty upon the land of Israel in the EARLY 1800’s in preparation for Zionism, decolonization from Arab-European settler Colonialism upon the Levant and Southwest Asia regions.
So, because we Indigenous Jews were decolonizing, the Arabs invaded Southwest Asia with the British and French during WW1 to divide the SWANA Indigenous lands of Israel and Kurdistan into the Colonial Arab nations of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. This post-WW1 militarized British-Arab occupation of the land of Israel caused MENA Jews to smuggle in weapons into the “Palestine Mandate” to fight the Arab-European Colonial occupiers of the land of Israel. For near two decades, 5,000 MENA Jewish women and men freedom fought against the over 100,000 British-Arab troops for the liberation of Israel. During the 1930’s, the Arab settler occupiers of “Palestine” (only foreigners call the land of Israel “Palestine”) joined the German Nazi party, trying to spread the European Holocaust upon Jews throughout the Middle East and North Africa. In 1948, we MENA Jews successfully decolonized our SWANA Indigenous nation’s land!
The Jewish people are the Indigenous people of Judea-Samaria, the Canaan land of Israel. We are the very last surviving people of Canaan. All Jews by halachot (our Indigenous Judean people’s laws) are Indigenous Jews of Judea-Samaria, no matter what continent or island diaspora that Jews return to Israel from. No Arab is indigenous to Judea-Samaria. Both Arabs and Europeans are the historic Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands. Easily verifiable historical facts really do matter, except to anti-Indigenous Colonial racists!
Shame on you anti-Indigenous racists for Colonial Allah, Christ and, now, Marx ruling dominionism upon all Indigenous Peoples’ lands worldwide! Israel freedom fights for the liberation of Israel and Kurdistan from your UNRWA funded crimes against Indigenous humanity!
May the neighboring Indigenous Kurds, who are also occupied by this post-WW1 created Arab “Palestinian” Colonial occupation and whom Arab Palestinians call “second Israel”, have their Zionism, too, and in our lifetime!
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!
If Arab “Palestinians”, Turks, and Iranians lay down their anti-Indigenous racism and weapons, there will be peace upon the lands of Israel, Kurdistan, Balochistan, and Assyria. Flag of the Arab “Palestinian” post-WW1 Colonizer of Southwest Asia Indigenous peoples’ lands —> 🇵🇸 You know, the lands of Israel and Kurdistan!
Right, Jewish Voice for (Colonial) Peace from those pesky still unassimilated Indigenous Jews (and Kurds, Balochs, Assyrians, etc!) who are freedom fighting against the Arab/Muslim and European/Christian Conquistadors of planet Earth – all for Indigenous peoples’ secure and peaceful decolonization amongst your Colonial Arab-European racistly violent anti-Indigenous supremacist nations?!
The last JVP chapter that hasn’t deleted all our comments and blocked our Indigenous Israeli voice yet, Jewish Voice for Peace Austin . You will know that they have when the blue (bold) on their name turns to just black print.
Snapshot: Reynolds Journalism Institute rewards Arab Palestinian HAMAS photojournalist with prestigious award documenting rape, kidnapping, and murder!
Reynolds Journalism Institute has just rewarded Arab Palestinian HAMAS for their photojournalism of their own crimes against Indigenous humanity! The first place award of their oldest photojournalism award for their Photo of the Year (POY) competition being given to the Arab Palestinian HAMAS’s AP photographer Ali Mahmud – who accompanied the terrorists on October 7 and documented them committing depraved atrocities and crimes against Indigenous Israelis, mostly young women, children, and the elderly – this itself is an indifferent USA crime against Indigenous humanity itself!
Like the Arab Palestinian HAMAS terrorists who gang-raped, chopped body parts off of living victims, burned babies to death before their parents, decapitated heads, and kidnapped stripped, raped, and abused teenage girls to parade through GAZA, etc (depravedly etc!), these Arab Palestinian HAMAS photojournalists who documented it all for their leaders need to be standing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with any still living Arab Palestinian terrorists for HAMAS – not receiving awards for their crimes against Indigenous humanity!
Say her name! Indigenous Israeli Shani Louk ….
“Joy Reid , perhaps you should learn our Jewish ancestral literatures from we Indigenous Jews. The “sin” of the people of Israel in erecting the image of Ba’al to worship Y-HWH is the same “sin” you Christians engage in every time you pray! Y-HWH is a jealous god, so you do not put the image of another god before Y-HWH’s face. In other words, “in the name of (Ba’al/Jesus/etc)…” is an act of idolatry before Y-HWH and is forbidden for our Indigenous Judean people to do.
Oh, and also, ever since Colonial Christianity was established in the Aegean north, Christianity as a matter of Colonial doctrine has been and still is depravedly evil towards the Indigenous peoples of planet Earth. You only care about your Colonial own or your successfully colonized! Arabs, since Islam, have been and still are depravedly evil towards Indigenous peoples. Jesus of Mark and Matthew was a devout Torah observant anti-Colonial Zionist seeking the defeat of the “Beast”, the Roman occupiers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands! Paul the heretic invented the un-Jew-ed Jesus the (gentile) Christ that Christians worship as “God” in the flesh (Ba’al).” – Tsefan Josef
For we Jews who are Indigenous to the Land of Israel, what has been going on politically in the United States over the last two Presidential elections greatly reminds us of the story of Saul and David within our Jewish ancestral literatures. Allow me to explain, Jews and non-Jews alike!
There is, presently, a new obsession in the United States of Colonial “America” by “Liberal” or “Progressive” Christians over Donald J Trump’s newest grift to his followers, the fundamentalist Evangelical Christians and White Nationalists. He is selling a Trump approved “Holy Bible” to pay for his legal expenses, so that he doesn’t have to pay for his own life’s expenses.
Both “grifters” and the unregulated “filthy rich” can relate to Donald J Trump’s behaviors. But, this is NOT the subject of this post! Let us step back 3 thousand (plus) years in time to a similar kind of political event, that occurred upon the Indigenous Jewish people’s land of Canaan Israel.
There is a story in our Judean people’s ancestral literatures about King Saul and King David, and how these two leaders became the leaders of the people of Israel. And this story is informative to how we still surviving Jews in this world will respond to present worldwide political-motivated historical events. Shall we explore further? Are you still reading, citizens within this Colonial Allah, Christ and, now, Marx dominated world?
The teaching of the difference between King Saul’s character and King David’s character in our ancestral Jewish literatures is the following:
King Saul – modest in nature, but was born with an angry heart. Hence why the bad spirit of G-d entered King Saul to use him to try to kill sheppard boy David over the intimate sexual relationship between Saul’s son, Jonathan, and David.
According to our Jewish ancestral literatures, our Judean G-d drove him mad with rage, to the point of King Saul cursing his wife’s womb for bearing forth Jonathan and to the point of seeking to kill David.
King David – now, he was truly extravagant to a fault! A lover David was – a lover for some G-d of the land of Israel AND for some women and men, who got chastised for dancing naked outside the castle, and who was even extravagant – at times – in his viciousness while doing war against Y-HWH’s enemies.
Now, let’s get to the moral of these ancestral characters and why they are within our Jewish people’s TaNaKh: G-d uses the good and bad in each person for whatever purpose G-d intends. Meaning, a modest person can become a raging evil towards others, and a narcissistic person can be the hero of the people through each good deed.
So, what does this mean in applied real life, such as what is happening in the United States between Joe Biden and Donald Trump? Joe R Biden has done great things for the USA, but has turned his back upon we Indigenous Israelis. Donald J Trump has NO interest in others, other than to grift them for his gain at their expense. But, Donald J Trump, became a tool for a “good dead” – albeit, through manipulation, of course(!) – and forced the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Thus, forcing the United States of Colonial “America” to take a literal physical stand for Southwest Asia Indigenous peoples’ land rights! This was further emphasized with him – again, being manipulated and used – to force the Colonial Arab world to complete the Abraham Accords with Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel).
THINK DEEPLY UPON THIS: From an evil man, a set of good deeds occurred! Much like how King David is a HERO of the Jewish people, just Donald J Trump has NO relationship with King David’s G-d of Israel. His Christian followers worship him, like most Christians worship “Jesus Christ” (just another Ba’al statue upon this planet Earth, for us Jews!). Donald is trying desperately to pawn to northern Aegean-created Colonial “Jesus Christ” followers, for votes by the ignorant amongst, of course!
King David would bring out the Ark – if he were actually alive in our day and age, in all his excess as a human being, and if he were still King of Israel – and wage war against BOTH the Arab “Palestinian” Conquistadors upon the Land of Israel (the modern Philistines, aka “Palestinians “) AND their United States and Russia handlers.
Arab-European Conquistadors who are DELIBERATELY abetting the present Arab “Palestinian” terroristic and violent occupation upon eretz yisrael! It’s a DAMN SHAME that President Joe Biden of United States has sided with the survival of occupying Arab Palestinian HAMAS for political election reasons! But, we Indigenous Israelis still implore the United States of Colonial “America” to STILL VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS IN 2024!
AGAIN, if you were NOT paying attention at this point: We Indigenous Israelis still IMPLORE the United States of Colonial “America” to STILL VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS IN 2024!
When you hear traditional Jews tell a non-Jew that they have an inherent right to the land of Israel, because “G-d [Y-HWH] gave us this land”, this is NOT a religious statement – like it is with Colonial Christianity and Colonial Islam. For a traditional Jew (an Indigenous Jew) to say that “G-d gave us Jews this land”, this is an Indigenous people’s declaration before the non-Jewish world of relationship with a geographical location of land and an Indigenous acknowledgement of our vassal treatied land obligations with the true owner of our land.
The reason there is no PEACE upon this planet Earth amongst humans, is that those touched by Empire-ism, Imperial- ism, and Colonial-ism don’t understand our Indigenous peoples’ words when we speak to them! Because they are descendants of those who have appropriated, pillaged and, in self-righteous absolutism, violently conquested and occupied other peoples’ lands – or- are the truly successfully colonized formerly indigenous of these lands (who are now the proselytizing Colonizers themselves!)… they assume that the words we say as still surviving Indigenous peoples means what they are taught to enforce upon this planet Earth.
Wrong! When a Jew says that “G-d gave us this land of Israel”, he or she is NOT speaking “religiously”, like the worldwide Arab-European Colonizers for Colonial Allah and Christ. We are speaking a foundational fact about the origin of our Jewish Indigenous people with our statement! Land-god Y-HWH and the people of Israel is a reality upon this planet Earth – that is formed literally in the BCE Canaan lands of Southwest Asia. Had we Jews not had our foundational event in Moab, and established ourselves north and across the river in “Canaanite” (Phoenician) land and survived regional conquests to assimilate us, then this world would never have known about the peoples of Canaan.
Seriously! The last surviving people of Canaan, who still speak to this day our Canaanite Hebrew language, would not have existed during the Greco-Roman conquests for Europeans and Arabs to form the CE (A.D.) period Colonial religions upon! Christians want the land of Israel, because heretic Paul taught the Aegean north to embrace a new kind of god for the gentiles [Jesus the “Christ”], a new pure theological based “religion” that usurped European peoples’ ancestors and ethno-religions. Muslims want the land of Israel, because Mohammed to the south usurped Arab people’s ancestors and ethno-religion, having been influenced by Christianity’s Colonial appropriation of Southwest Asia Judean people’s culture and ancestral literatures.
If there is ever to be PEACE upon the Indigenous lands of Southwest Asia, we need – as a human race – to accept this historical reality and to fully recognize that Jews, the surviving Indigenous people of Canaan Judah-Israel, really are a separate people from Christians (adherents to a Colonial religion) and Muslims (also, adherents to a Colonial religion). We Jews do not want to convert the world, only Christians and Muslims (and, now, Marxists, too!) want to do this. The literatures of our Canaan Judean people and our inherent passed down l’dor v’dor (generation to generation) cultural teachings is that, one day, Israel will live in secure and self-sovereign peace upon our land – with our peaceful and loyal (Zionist) non-Jewish citizens.
And REGARDLESS the land-god(s) that foreign non-Jews worship upon their lands, these goyim are welcome to peacefully stand before Y-HWH in our Jewish land of Israel with us anti-Colonial Indigenous Jews! Only the Jewish people, the vassaled treatied people of Israel, are forbidden to stand before our “G-d”, Y-HWH, with the words “in the name of” coming from our mouths. You don’t need to convert from your Indigenous ethno-religion and land gods to stand before the Jewish god of Y-HWH, so says our ancestral scroll of D’varim! In fact, we Jews welcome diversity amongst humans, because our Y-HWH demands this. It is post-Middle Ages CE pure religions that demand otherwise.
For those who are Jewish or think that they are Jewish, prove this post wrong with our Jewish halachot! I am ready, we Jews are ready to wrestle with you, because – for Jews – it’s ALL about halachot! Not about “faith” (Colonialism), not about “theology” (Colonialism), not about…. It’s all about “continuity” for an Indigenous people upon this planet Earth, until “land and skies are no more”!
Rabbi Ysoscher Katz shared, “I’ve shared this story in the past but I love it so much that I can’t stop myself from repeating it—in honor of Shushan Purim.
(Isn’t that the message of the reading the Megillah, that when we love a story we repeat itover one over again, knowing that each time we’ll find something new which we have missed the previous time we read it.)
So here goes:
The Story Surrounding the Question: May a Woman Write a Megillah?
As I have mentioned before, every halakha, besides being behaviorally proscriptive, is also historically significant. Its evolution always tells a story; our story.)
The story about the kashrut of a megillah written by a woman is quite interesting. It involves: backpedaling, sleuthing, generational conflict and, finally, some first-principle ethnic discrepancies.
1) BACKPEDALING
The chassidisher rebbe, Avnei Nezer (1838-1919) was asked (OC 516) about this and he doesn’t equivocate. He proclaims that it is absolutely invalid. After arguing emphatically for its invalidity he concludes: “I wish I felt this certain about my other chidushim as I feel about this one [that a megillah written by a woman is absolutely invlaid].”
Well, that emphatic certainty did not last too long. A mere two teshuvot later (OC 518), he does a 180 and completely changes his mind, accepting the validity of a megillah written by a woman. He writes “The Sefaradi Posek, Chida, believes that it is kosher and it behooves me to make every effort to justify his opinion. In fact, he’s correct, and Ramabm agrees with him too.”
(Neither teshuva is dated so it is hard to know how much time passed by between when he thought it was unequivocally invlaid to when he changed his mind and saw no problem with it.)
2) SLEUTHING.
R. David Oppenheimer has a lengthy teshuvha on the topic (Nishal David, OC 30), which as it happens, he wrote on Purim day. The impression one gets from reading the teshuva is that he is merely interested in the issue as a hypothetical. It is a question his creative mind thought of and he decided to explore it.
After a lengthy back and forth, he comes to the emphatic conclusion that a woman may write a megillah. He claims that in fact the first kosher megillah was written by a woman; by queen Esther.
Well, some sleuthing reveals that there was nothing innocent or hypothetical about this inquiry. R. David Oppenheimer wasn’t merely flexing his intellectual muscles. This was a very practical question for him. His daughter Sarah was a soferet. She wrote a megillah on her own and he wanted to know whether it’s valid. After looking into the question he concluded in her favor, that his daughter’s megillah is as kosher as if it were written by a man. This “hypothetical” teshuva in fact was about his daughter.
This little tidbit comes to us from one of his contemporaries. Rabbi Meir Perels, a dayan in Prague, wrote a book on Megilat Esther and in it he reveals the story behind Rabbi Oppenheimer’s teshuvah.
It turns out that after R. Oppenheimer’s daughter, Sara, wrote the megillah, her father turned to his colleague, Rabbi Perels, for a psak. He inquired whether his daughter’s megillah was kosher.
Rabbi Perels’ answer was an emphatic No!
Disappointed, and refusing to take no for an answer, Rabbi Oppenheimer decided to explore the question himself and not rely on the opinion of others. His own research led him to disprove his colleague’s conclusion and show that his daughter’s megillah is absolutely valid!
The above mentioned teshuva is the product of his attempt to prove his colleague wrong regarding the megillah written by his daughter. While he leaves out the name of his interlocutor, it was none other than his own daughter, Sara the soferet.
3) Family intrigue.
Rabbi Perels emphatically disqualified such a megillah but his great great grandson, R. Eliezer Fleckles, after mentioning his grandfather’s rejection of such a megillah, disagrees with his zeidy and sees no reason why such a megillah should not be kosher.
4) Ethnic (Sefardi/Ashkenazi) Divide.
While Ashkenazi poskim seem to be hemming and hawing about this issue, Sefaradi poskim, for the most part, never had any doubts. It was always clear to them that the issue was gender neutral, that the gender of the sofer/et is immaterial. Men and women, both are allowed to write the megillah.
Already in 1724, the Chidah saw no reason why the gender of the sofer/et should matter. Many Sefaradi poskim followed in his footsteps.
Quite a story indeed. Proving once again that if we dig deep enough, the halakhic discourse teaches us much more than what we may or may not do. It also tells us the stories about how those decisions came about. In addition, it also reveals much about the lives of the poskim who grappled with those questions. They tell tales of nuance, complexity, and intrigue.
(Below: the first megillah known to be written by a woman scribe: Stellina the daughter of Menahem, from Venice, in 1564)
We were about to say the answer is an obvious one for Sephardi and Mizrahi, despite the more contentious debates amongst the Ashkenazi.
In the 15th century, Miriam, the daughter of Benaya the Yemen scribe, was renowned for her skills as a soferet. In one sefer of the Torah, she famously quoted Bamidbar (Numbers) 12:11 to reference herself at the end of the book, asking forgiveness if any errors are found for she copied this Taj while nursing a child. And, Asnat Barazani was a Torah scholar who lived in 16th century Kurdistan (the part that is Colonial Iraq today).
And, despite the debates among Jews within Europe, there were several notable female scribes. For example,… Paula dei Mansi, the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Anau of Verona the scribe, 13th century Rome. And, as referenced by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz, Estellina daughter of the Katzin Menahem, son of the Rosh Katzin Jekutiel, 15th century Venice, copied the Megillah Esther.
And we haven’t even begun to address the numerous Torah and Talmud scholars from the Temple periods to the present day who were women, who have contributed to the teaching of our ancestral literatures and to creating legal precedence regarding issues of halacha.
Interesting. We were especially intrigued with “how to read your Bible like Jesus”. The law and prophets ONLY, as made clear in the Book of Matthew, by both Jesus (and his disciples who wrote the two books of Mark and Matthew after his death and “disappearance”)? 🙂 The scroll of Ketuvim had yet to be compiled for full Jewish/Israeli mental consumption, so another hundred years for this.
You probably don’t know that Jesus the Jew of Nazareth chanted these scrolls to his students in the Southwest Asia Indigenous Judean people’s musical notes. True? For example, this week’s “Prophets” passage (seriously, now – imagine Jesus the Jew of Nazareth with his students and followers sitting around him and intently learning from their proto-rabbi)….
Ezekiel 36
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