Christianity is an oral tradition. II

   Christians believe that Jesus came to full fill the law.  What ever that means?  They say that he kept the law perfectly and full filled every commandment.  I will show that this is erroneous.  The first law of the Torah given to man kind in general is the commandment to reproduce and have progeny.  This is mentioned in Genesis 1:28.  It is known and admitted by Christians that Jesus did not marry and did not have children.  Unless he sired children outside of wed lock he did not have children.  Therefore he did not even full fill the very first positive commandment in the Torah.

    There is another problem with this idea that Jesus full filled the Torah.  Of the 613 laws in the Torah, some apply to males, females, Kings, Priests, children and Levites.. ect.  So we can see from this that it is literally imposible for any one man to keep all the laws in the Torah.  It was not meant for one man to come along and keep all the Laws in the Torah.  Unless Jesus was a man, woman, ect. all at the same time he could not keep the Torah.  You might say, "well we don't mean the entire Torah but the obligation that was relative to him.  He was a perfect human being and he kept his part of the Torah".  So how could he relate to a women who has to be unclean every month because of her cycle?  Part of the acertation of Christians is that God came into a body, or became a body so that he could relate to us.  It was neccasary that he be tempted like we are.  As a matter of fact, there is an acount of Jesus going into the desert to be tempted by the Satan.  Never mind that it is impossible for God to be tempted.  He could not be the redeemer of the Jewish women because he could not be tempted in the same areas as women.
      What kind of idiots does the christian god think that humanity is.  Here is a being who is all powerful, who became a man to suffer humanity, only to prove that he was God by doing miracles and showing mastery over nature, ultimately raising himself from the dead.  So if he was God he can not be tempted he is too powerful for that.  If he could actually sin and be weak enough to be fooled into sinning than he is clearly not God.  A god man is not a creature that I can relate to on any level.
        The whole idea of God becoming a man is Christian idea not to be found anywhere in the Hebrew scriptures.  The Christian imagines them to be hidden in layers of the text.  In illusions, they see Avraham offering up his son on the alter as God himself offering his son Yeshu.  They see the suffering of the Jewish people as a whole the suffering of Yeshu.  They see the life of Yoseph to be similar to the life of Yeshu.  All of this is very creative interpretation.  On a plain sense level if you sat down a child who just learned to read and had him read the "Old Testament" he would never ever come up with such a fantasy as Christianity.  The Oral Law to Jews is known as the interpretation of the written law.  There for Christianity claims that their interpretation of the "Old Testament" which happens to be the "New Testament" is the correct interpretation.  Jesus said that the whole bible is speaking about him.  Matter of fact John said that he was the word of God in flesh.  So we see that this interpretation is an oral tradition that was latter written down.  So you see a Christian believes that all the righteous people of the "Old Testament"  were waiting for Yeshu.  So that would mean that Christianity is really the religion of the "Old Testament".  John8:56 Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and saw it, and was glad.  It is essential to understand what Christianity thinks of itself.

Kosher Jesus= Jumbo shrimp: they are both oxymoron.

          I am not going to comment on the book or the author.  Kosher Jesus immediately causes a short circuit. It seems to be a state of cognitive dissidence.  Jesus did say, "this is my flesh come and eat", but even human flesh is not kosher.  If the idea is that Jesus is some how to be accepted by Jews to be benign than I have to say that it could not be farther from the truth.  Jews can never forget the havoc that Christianity has wreaked on the world at large and especially on the Jewish people. 

Two thousand years of shedding blood in the name of that man, by his followers, has put a serious damper on the spirit of the Jew towards this man that is now given the label as kosher. So as you can imagine there has been an uproar among the Jewish community at large.

There are some things about Jesus or Christianity that can be deemed kosher or redeemable. They are those things that Christianity has stolen from Judaism and called there own. It is no secret that Jesus was a Jew. It might have been ignored for centuries but now there is a new found passion to know more among truth seeking Christians and they are digging for the Hebrew roots of Christianity as they call it. So it is a logical conclusion that if Jesus was a Jew and he taught from the Jewish scriptures than it would behoove any serious student to study the material that he taught. Thus the "old testament" which is actually the Jewish scriptures are part of their bible. ( It is interesting to note that even though it is called "old" as opposed to the "new" it is placed before the new testement in position, meaning if you were to read in order you would read the "old" first. Also it is much greater in volume. So if we were measuring as a way to judge importance. Something that comes first in order at least in quantity it can be seen as superior meaning that there is a symbiotic relationship between first and the second, the first is the cause and second is the effect. Although you can never get to the second without the first but that is not true the opposite way. You can never reach the level of second unless there is a first. From this strain of thought you can see how the old testament is not reliant upon the new but the other way around.)

I truly believe that is why we are seeing a huge support for Israel among the evangelical crowd. Now days with all the tools we have you can just Google it and you have a wealth of information at your finger tips. The days of ignorance are over there has been an explosion of knowledge and people are getting smarter. No longer can the pastor, preacher, or priest get away with misinforming his followers.

Yeshu is an acronym for "let his name not be remembered". This is how the sages of the Talmud felt about Jesus. Rambam amongst the greatest of our sages of whom it is written on his resting place for "Moshe to Moshe there was none like Moshe", Meaning from Moshe Rabeinu to Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon there was no one like these two. He had this to say about Jesus, ""Even Jesus the Nazarene who imagined that he would be Messiah and was killed by the court, was already prophesied by Daniel. So that it was said, “And the members of the outlaws of your nation would be carried to make a (prophetic) vision stand. And they stumbled” (Daniel 11.14). Because, is there a greater stumbling-block than this one? So that all of the prophets spoke that the Messiah redeems Israel, and saves them, and gathers their banished ones, and strengthens their commandments. And this one caused (nations) to destroy Israel by sword, and to scatter their remnant, and to humiliate them, and to exchange the Torah, and to make the majority of the world err to serve a divinity besides God."[45]


Nonetheless, Maimonides continued,


"But the human mind has no power to reach the thoughts of the Creator, for his thoughts and ways are unlike ours. And all these things of Jesus the Nazarene, and of (Muhammad) the Ishmaelite who stood after him – there is no (purpose) but to straighten out the way for the King Messiah, and to restore all the world to serve God together. So that it is said, “Because then I will turn toward the nations (giving them) a clear lip, to call all of them in the name of God and to serve God (shoulder to shoulder as) one shoulder.” (Zephaniah 3:9). How is this? The entire world had become filled with the issues of the anointed one and of the Torah and the Laws, and these issues had spread out unto faraway islands and among many nations uncircumcised in the heart, and they discuss these issues and the Torah's laws. These say: These Laws were true but are already defunct in these days, and do not rule for the following generations; whereas the other ones say: There are secret layers in them and they are not to be treated literally, and the Messiah had come and revealed their secret meanings. But when the anointed king will truly rise and succeed and will be raised and uplifted, they all immediately turn about and know that their fathers inherited falsehood, and their prophets and ancestors led them astray." (Hilkhot Melakhim 11:10–12.)
      This can not be ignored.  Rambam says clearly that this man caused the majority of the world to worship a different god.  He also caused much suffering to Israel.  Are we as Jews creating a sense of empathy for this Rebel of our people.  Who would dare come to argue that he was kosher?  Kosher means fit.  Is that an adjective that can be used to describe this man?  Rambam says he was delusional, a stumbling block, an outlaw.  I think I will side with Rambam I know his credentials.
      You see if you want to you can look at what was written about Jesus in the new testament and see a completely different Jesus than the one that Christians portray.  You might see a Jesus that encouraged Torah observance.  It is possible that you could teach that Jesus was a good Jew.  You could teach that he was a great Rabbi who spoke about spiritual things that were misunderstood physically.  I did that when I considered myself to be a messianic Jew.  The messianic movement is starting to phase into a Torah observant lifestyle while maintaining a belief in Jesus as the messiah.  In reality though they are still Christians in Jewish clothing.  What it inevitably always comes down to is the oral Torah.  We have a tradition that goes all the way back to the very first man Adam.  Adam didn't have an earthly Father or Mother for that matter.  That would have put him much greater than Jesus.  That tradition tells us that only part of the revelation of truth was written down.  The rest of it was passed down from parents to children and teacher to student.  I believe that tradition is still being revealed every single day.  We are learning new insights on how to apply an eternal law to our current time.  There is still more to come, but like a chain it is all linked together, and when one link is shook they all shake.  If you believe the sages and those that were much greater than us then you see that Jesus is certainly not kosher.
         It could be that in a desire to sensationalize ideas sometimes we embellish with words.  It was our Father Yaakov that sent a gift to Easav knowing he wanted to kill him.  Now a days they are not killing us with the sword instead they are killing us with money.  It is well known that the struggle for Jews in America was how to make a living.  Many employers did not want to hire some one who took Saturday off.  It was such a concern for many that they began to assimilate.  No service is done for Christians by telling them that their messiah is Kosher.  From what I saw of the reviews it seems that this is not the focus of this book entirely.  I can not speak about the book because I have not read it.  On the contrary, we need to speak loudly now in our days while they are not chopping our heads off for saying it.  Jesus is not kosher, messiah, or God.  The new testament is an erroneous document.  To worship a human being as the creator is considered to be idol worship according to the Torah their old testament.  It is the Jew that is supposed to be a light unto the nations.  So that they should see the truth of the Torah.  If Christians were successful in proselytizing all Jews.  Jews as a people would cease to exist in a few generations.  It is specifically because Jews have held on to their Torah so tightly that has insured their continued existence.  Through inter marriage the Jewish identity would be lost.
         Jesus is as treif (torn, not fit) as a cheese burger.  Take it from a Jew who used to be a christian.   Christianity is a religion that will not last and we are seeing the metamorphosis in front of our very eyes.   As honest Christians are becoming more educated about their religion more and more are realizing like my self that they have inherited lies.  They too will be among those who mentioned in the prophecy of Zechariah 8:23  Thus said HaShem, Master of Legions:  In those days it will happen that ten men, of all the (different) languages of the nations, will take hold, they will take hold of the corner of the garment of a Jewish man, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you!'  So we see why HaShem allowed Jesus and Christianity to happen because they will hear.  Now is the time and those that know the truth and have the truth.  Now is the time Mashiach is coming Bimhayra V'yameinu!

Keeping the Law

   Christians believe that Jesus came to full fill the law.  They say that he kept the law perfectly and full filled every commandment.  I will show that this is erroneous.  The first law of the Torah given to man kind in general is the commandment to reproduce and have progeny.  This is mentioned in Genesis 1:28.  In Jewish law this commandment is called the "great" commandment.  The whole purpose of Judaism is to be passed on from Father to son, and teacher and student.  It is known and admitted by Christians that Jesus did not marry and did not have children.  Unless he sired children, and it was not recorded. He did not have children.  Therefore he did not even full fill the very first positive commandment in the Torah.

    There is another problem with this idea that Jesus full filled the Torah.  Of the 613 laws in the Torah, some apply to males, females, Kings, Priests, children and Levites.. ect.  So we can see from this that it is literally imposible for any one man to keep all the laws in the Torah.  It was not meant for one man to come along and keep all the Laws in the Torah. The Torah was only meant for the nation of Israel.  It takes all of the different people that I mentioned above to keep the Torah completely. Unless Jesus was a man, woman, ect. all at the same time he could not keep the Torah.  You might say, "well we don't mean the entire Torah but the obligation that was relative to him.  He was a perfect human being and he kept his part of the Torah".  So how could he relate to a women who has to be unclean every month because of her cycle?  Christians claim that Jesus' supposed life, death, and resurection is an atonement for our sins.  Part of the acertation of Christians is that God came into a body, or became a body so that he could relate to us.  It was neccasary that he be tempted like we are.  As a matter of fact, there is an acount of Jesus going into the desert to be tempted by Satan.  Never mind the fact that God can not be tempted.  Only some one who has an inclination to sin can be tempted.  God who is all powerful can not be tempted.  In the new Testament it says in Hebrews 4:5  For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weakness, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, like we are, but did not sin.   He could not be the redeemer of the Jewish women because he could not be tempted in the same areas as women.  He was never tempted in the area of the priest hood.  He was never a Father.  He didn't have children to raise.  He simply could not relate.  Again you may say," well the relation was that he was human."  You christian also say he was God in flesh.  You say he changed water into wine, walked on water, and raised the dead.  What kind of relation do we have to someone like that.  Every time he gets into a difficult situation he just pulls out his, I'm God card.  It's fixed you can't win.  What kind of God says to his people, " I want you to do x,y, and z."  knowing full well that you can't do it.  Only, to step up and say here, let me show you how it's done.  I am God of the Universe I can do anything, you are limited man you could never do what I could do.  Yet we see in the New Testament Jesus encouraged people to keep the law.  So witch is it?  This is what you call putting a stumbling block in front of the  blind.  You know he can't avoid it but you do it any way.  That is cruel.  That is how Christians portray their God.  He knows we can't keep the law and we will fall and then when we do he punishes us.  Or can we?  Is it possible for a person to keep the law.  God gave the law to man.  It is a christian idea mentioned in Corinthians that God does not give us any thing we can't handle.  He expects us to succeed and will help us succeed.  So we see there is a contradiction in christian thought.  Witch is it?
    Job did not sin, and God even testified of it.  God said to Satan that Job was, a pure and straight man, feared God and fled evil.  A righteous man, a man with out sin is a real possibility.  Judaism believes that God gave us the Torah to show us how to become righteous.  That if we work on our selves really hard and listen to what God tells us that we will achieve this.  The Torah is our righteousness.  It shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God Duet. 24:13.  King David also it is said of him that he kept all the commandments of God except in regards to Urijah I Kings 15:5.  Noah also it is recorded that he was righteous and pure in his generation Gen. 6:9.  So we see that it is possible to keep the Law.  Not only that but God expects it.

Christianity is an oral tradition.

      Most scholars agree that the oldest manuscript of any of the gospels is Mark.  Mark is believed to have been written around 90 A.D.  That is approximately 60 years after the death of Jesus.  So that would mean that for 60 years Mark's gospel was transmitted orally if at all. Also Mark was not even one of Jesus' twelve disciples. There is another oral tradition that Mark was the rich young ruler that came to ask Jesus how to inherit eternal life, then later shows up in the garden of Gesmity.  Mark is said to be a disciple of Peter but everything that I have just mentioned is oral tradition.  As a matter of fact the gospel it self does not name it's author.  It is even oral tradition that Mark wrote it.
       Why are the oral traditions of the church divinely inspired and 100% true and accurate?  Yet the Jewish sages who spent there entire life studying night and day, with holding from them selves sleep and many pleasures of this world completely made up lies.  The twelve disciples were unlearned men, this we know from the gospel accounts.  They were what Jews call an "am ha aretz" literally a man of the land, a simple person.  Fisherman, they most likely did not know how to read and write Hebrew.  Obviously, all the gospels were written in Greek.  When every holy book up to this time was written in Hebrew, the holy tongue.  Further proof of this is that Mark quoted all of his Torah from the septuagent.  A purposefully mis-translated translation of the Hebrew Tanak into Greek.
        In Judaism we have a clear path laid out for us of the channels of wisdom that was passed down from teacher to student who became a teacher to another student of the explanations of the Torah.  This chain has never been broken.  This chain does not contain any chritsian. So where did they learn their explanation from?  Their answer is Jesus.  Since in their view he is God in flesh in the person of Jesus he therefore know what the Torah means and is able to teach it.  Unfortunately, their antinomian view of the Torah, Prophets, and writings creates a god that is untrustworthy, and changes his mind.
         If a person will just read the entire Tanak they will be struck be how much the Torah itself is talked about.  In every book it is mentioned.  All the prophets begged the Jews to keep the Torah.  Encouraged them through example and modeling correct behavior that would merit HaShems blessings.  The writings, David the King, sweet Psalmist of Israel 119 is devoted through the form of an acrostic to his love of the Torah and study of it.  Malichi believed to be the last book written by the prophets in the last chapter two verses from the end says remember the Torah of my servant Moshe.  
          Suddenly  God's plan for man kind is revealed after so many years of concealment.  Hidden in the Hebrew text were illusions to the idea that God would incarnate himself into a man.  Ha Ha Ha jokes on you Jew.  God hid his plan from you so you could beat your head against the wall trying to keep this Torah which was never meant for you to follow in the first place.  God gave you something you couldn't keep and then he punished you severely when you don't.  What kind of just, fair, gracious God is that?

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     The Oral Torah is the key to unlocking all the mysteries and nuances of the written Torah.  With out the key all the treasures of the Torah, it's understanding, applications are out of reach.  With out the Oral Torah one is only left to postulate.  The Torah says a man is commanded to put the Torah on his arm and between his eyes.  In Duet. 6:8.  In 6:6 Moshe said that it should be on our heart.  We see from this that there are two different commandments here.  One that seems to be spiritual, " put it on your heart".   One that is physical, a specific place, on the arm and between the eyes.  No details are given.  How do we bind the Torah on our arms?  The entire Torah, or part of the Torah?  With glue, string, or tattoo?  What arm, right or left?  What if a Man has no arms?  Where between the eyes?  Directly between the eyes?  Unless you have the oral Torah, once again you are only left with conjecture.  Christianity gives no alternative.  Christianity has either no answer or a very poor answer to the above questions.  Instead they only try to destroy the oral Torah by saying that it is the invention of men.  Their remedy for this quandary is to cast aspersion on the authenticity of the oral Torah.  There fore releasing from obligation.
     Christians agree that the written Torah is the Jew's, we own it.  It is our possession.  Given to us as a gift from above through Moses.    This why in the Torah you will find it called the Torah of the creator and the Torah of Moses.  This is telling in and of itself.  Is there two Torahs?  One of the Creator and one from Moshe?  Yes!  It is the same Torah.  The Torah of the Creator and the Torah of Moshe are the exact same Torah.  This is trying to tell us something.  On one hand it is the Torah of the Creator.  The Torah that was heard and witnessed by 600,000 Jewish men not including women and children.  The Torah that we know undeniably came from heaven.  On the other hand it was given to us by the Creator's most trust worthy servant, the most faithful in all his house, the humblest man on the face of the earth Moshe Rabeinu [our teacher].  Which is it Torah of man or Torah of the Creator or both?  It is ironic that most secular people use the same argument even to counter Christian claims.  The scriptures were made by man, not inspired by the Creator.  At some point there has to be an acknowledgement of those that are more capable.  I would not go to a mechanic to get brain surgery.  The same way I would not go to a Minister, Pastor, or Preacher to interpret the Torah.  It is most likely that he won't even speak or be able to read the language, which was my personal experience 100% of the time.
        In the next post I will show how Christianity is counter productive in their argument against the validity of the oral Torah.  Also how Christianity itself is an oral tradition.  I will show how Jesus actually kept certain aspects of the oral Torah and encouraged others to do the same.

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     The Torah, foundation of all three religions was given to the Jews in a language that they spoke and understood.  This language is given the accolade of holy.  The holy tongue is Hebrew.  The sages teach us that this language specifically the Torah is the language of creation.  In the Torah there is a commandment that was given to the Jews on Mount Sinia.  This is the prohibition of profaning the Name of the Creator.  We are not aloud to use the name commonly or glibly.  The sin of chillul HaShem (profaning the name) is so great that we do not ever pronounce the name as it appears in the text.  Every one who reads Hebrew has seen this name countless times and can tell you that it is the name of the Creator.  The name of the Creator, is Yud, Heh, Vav, Hey.  Three different letters of the Hebrew Aleph-Beis (alpha bet).  Our Sages also tell us that really the entire Torah is one name of the Creator.  It is forbidden for a Jew to erase even one letter, or for that matter to make even the slightest defect in any of the writings of the Torah.  The Creator, Torah, and Israel are eternal never to fade, of vanish away.
      Hebrew is a language that is made up of 22 letters.  These letters have names , numerical value , and some have two forms.  Then there are vowels and marks that instruct on cadence and tone.  Through the combination of these we have the Hebrew language.  Hebrew is the garment of the wisdom of the Torah.  The letters are the vessels in which the ideas are contained.  If these vessels are broken the thought is not communicated properly.
        In the Talmud Mas. Shabbat 31a.  there is a story about a potential convert to Judaism and his exchange with the two leading Rabbis of his day.  These two Rabbi happened to be the famed Hillel and Shamia.
" Our Rabbis taught: A certain heathen once came before Shammai and asked him, "How many Torohs do you have?" "Two," he replied" 'the written Torah and the Oral Torah' I believe you with respect to the written, but not with respect to the Oral Torah; make me a proselyte on condition that you teach me the written Torah [only]. [But] he scolded and repulsed him in anger.  When he went before Hillel, he accepted him as a proselyte. On the first day,  he taught him, Alef, Beth, Gimmel, Dalet; the following day he reversed [them] to him. 'But yesterday you did not teach them to me thus, ' he protested. ' Must you then not rely upon me?  Then rely upon me with respect to the oral [Torah] too.
       This illustrates perfectly the nuance of the Oral Torah.  Just to read the Torah properly with all the right meaning takes a vast knowledge of the Oral Torah.  A Torah scroll is not written with vowel or cantilation marks.  In order to understand what the Torah says literally you must know the Oral Torah Perfectly.  The Oral Torah is the explanation of the written Torah.

Intro Judaism vs. Christianity

     There are three major religions in our times, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Of these three Judaism is unique and stands alone.  Judaism is unique in that it is older than the other two, and to this fact the others agree. Judaism can be considered the mother of both of the other religions.  Both Christianity and Islam defer to Judaism in that it is the oldest revelation of the Creator's will for man kind.  Both Christians and Muslims believe that Moses is a prophet.  That he spoke to the Creator.  That he was given revelation of truth contained in the books of the Torah and given and entrusted to the Jews to keep.
     So the obvious question is, "Why do they disagree"?  Basically, both Christianity and Islam believe that the Jews own the Torah.  They believe that Moses who was a Jew from the tribe of Levi, the son of Israel, wrote the Torah.  They also believe that it was written in the language of the Jews.  The main ascertainment is that, we the Jews, don't understand it.  Could you imagine, one day you write an unbelievable novel.  You spent countless hours planning.  You come up with all the story line an unbelievable plot.  You think about all the characters, their history and background.  You think of the perfect setting and time frame.  Finally, you publish it.  It opens up on New York Times best seller list as number one.  Then a thousand years later some one comes along and tells the relatives of the author that, "he wrote a good book but".  Let me tell you what he really was trying to say.  Oh and by the way did you see all the illusions in the text.  See you thought it was saying this but in all actuality he was really trying to say this.  Really!?!  In Jewish circles you might hear, "What Chutzpah".  Chutzpah is a Hebrew word that means brazenness.  I think you would probably laugh and be just a little bit offended by such pompous arrogance.
        We must take a serious look at the Torah.  We must answer the questions of who, what, where, when, why, and how.  I think any body who is humble enough to acknowledge truth will have a life changing experience if they are honest with them selves and the facts that all agree upon.  We will explore this in detail in the future.