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| One after the other or simultaneously? |
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Posted by: BlueBird2 - 05-05-2025, 06:26 PM - Forum: Hebrew Language Forum
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As I was flipping through the Bible, I came across a prophecy in the book of Daniel that I had read long ago. Back then, I heard someone on youtube say that the Hebrew grammar suggests the four beasts appear simultaneously, not one after the other, as is usually translated and interpreted. That was years ago, and I've forgotten who it was and how he explained it.
Is anybody familiar with the grammer and can say whether it is clear wheather these beasts appear simultaniously or one after another? (The list in the following verses could also refer to beasts that exist at the same time, as one says: the first dress is red, the second dress is purple, etc.) Thanks!
Here is the text in Daniel 7:3
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo...pter-7.htm
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| How much free will do we truly have? |
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Posted by: Searcher - 04-22-2025, 06:49 AM - Forum: Judaism General
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I know that Judaism is a bit big with a person, whether Jew or gentile, having free will to make their own decisions and whether if they decide to follow the scriptures and rules in the Torah.
By this extension, how much free will do we truly have in our lives that makes up on whether if we are choosing to accept or reject different beliefs and rules in our lives?
This has sort of weighed on me for a few reasons. I’m a gentile thus live as such, but sometimes I wonder on whether if it would’ve been better had I taken more time to look into Judaism and made the effort to join in. But I feel like it wasn’t destined, especially now that I can’t just get up and leave the current life I have since if I were to decide to convert then that would mean to leave my family behind. But what if I had made the effort and joined? When looking at some family tree information, it is possible that there could have been some Jewish ancestors (but not where it held up on the maternal line, which means that I wouldn’t be Jewish even if it’s been verified that these ancestors were Jews.) Would have converting really been the choice I made, or something more predetermined that has me compelled to learn more about Judaism in the first place? Sort of like epigenetics but more in the sense that information was passed through some generations.
I guess by that extension, if a person is called to Judaism then was it truly their choice? Especially if they feel called on doing so?
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| 1.8 billion ways for the E.U. to massage its anti-Semitism |
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Posted by: Robert - 04-16-2025, 04:36 PM - Forum: Israel
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Prior to the Hamas-led attack on Israel of October 7th, 2023, Gaza is a place where most people live off international aid, quite apart from the other significant sums of money given to Fatah (aka "Palestinian Authority, the").
Gaza also produces rather little (e.g. some agricultural produce, scrap metal, exhausted batteries).
Gaza's two main production items:
(the first of which is discussed anon) while other main product is conflict.
Quote:'[...] the Palestinian ["Palestine" - Gaza and in Judah and Samaria ("West Bank")] ratio of exports to GDP was a modest 0.6% for 2023. [...]'
Extract source:
https://www.worldstopexports.com/palesti...0-exports/
In Gaza most people live off international aid, quite apart from the other significant sums of money given to Fatah:
Quote:'In 2020, 77 percent of households in Gaza received aid (compared to 10 percent in the West Bank), the majority of which came from UNRWA[9] and was concentrated on food and cash assistance (78 and 57 percent, respectively).[10] [...]'
(See webpage for citations.)
Extract source:
https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journa...001-en.xml
The barbarian [by reference to the Hamas-led massacre of October 7th, 2023] Hamas regime is then, kept artificially in existence by European and Arab countries, by way of "humanitarian" aid mostly via Fatah. Fatah which pays a reward pension ("pay for slay") for terrorism against Israeli Jewish civilians. I can only assume it is kept in existence by those countries in the hope the Palestinian Arabs will destroy Israel and expel or murder its indigenous Jews.
Quote:'[...] 04/14/2025
EU pledges €1.6 billion in new aid for Palestinians
The European Union has announced a three-year financial support package for the Palestinians worth up to €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion).
"We are stepping up our support to the Palestinian people. €1.6 billion until 2027 will help stabilize the West Bank and Gaza," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote on X on Monday. [...]'
Extract source:
https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-eu-ple...e-72237121
Quote:'[...] How are we helping?
In 2024, the European Commission has significantly increased its humanitarian assistance to Palestine, allocating €237 million in humanitarian aid to vulnerable Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
In 2025, the Commission announced an initial €120 million in humanitarian aid to vulnerable Palestinians. [...]'
Extract source:
[Note: Each year this webpage's stated payments are replaced with the new years payments!]
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-ai...lestine_en
'There is no proper E.U. auditing as to how E.U. “aid” to the Palestinians is spent, and both the E.U. and the Palestinians are well-aware of this:
Quote:'The new 2013 report of the Court [European Court of Auditors] reveals that $2.7 billion in direct aid [foreign aid given by the European Union] to the Palestinians between 2008 and 2012 could not be accounted for and appeared to be lost. In addition, EU investigators who visited Jerusalem and areas on the West Bank were unable to obtain information or speak to Palestinian officials about corruption in the areas they controlled.'
Extract source:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/...ities.html
Common sense dictates a logical-connection between these prodigious sums of "humanitarian" aid and increases in conflict against Israel by the Palestinian Arabs. Logically any sums received can be used for conflict or can "free-up" other sums for conflict. In effect it constitutes a "pay for slay" policy by countries which are institutionally anti-Semitic. The targeting of European Jews has simply been substituted by the targeting of Israel, by way of the "Palestinian" Arabs, yet while the paying (via the E.U. Commission) E.U. countries relieve their guilt by annually marking a Holocaust Memorial Day!:
Quote:'[...] international aid organizations and many countries kept on sending money to Gaza, purportedly for humanitarian aid. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, raises money for Gaza through its Web site, with payments going through WorldPay (part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group ), the Arab Bank PLC in Gaza and HSBC in Amman, Jordan. Those funds come in addition to UNRWA's annual budget of $400 million.
The $7 billion to $10 billion that the Palestinian Authority has received since 1993 has come from the European Union, the U.N., the U.S., Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries. France alone has sent more than $3 billion. This influx of cash has done little to advance the development of a viable Palestinian state or of peace in the region. Rather, it has helped to fuel the Palestinian leadership's terrorist agenda, and kept the Palestinian people oppressed and disenfranchised. [...]'
Extract source:
"Where Hamas Gets Its Money", Jan 16, 2009:
https://www.forbes.com/2009/01/16/gaza-h...1eb2d57afb
In a France 24 English news report a Gaza Palestinian Arab lady was interviewed. It was reported she had lost her two adult sons in the conflict (since October 2023); the circumstances of their deaths were not explained.
With a smile she explained that Gaza would produce: many more babies.
Quote:'[...] the Gaza Strip’s population of roughly 1.8 million has an unusually large proportion of children. Figures for 2013 from Index Mundi, the internet source of country data, show that that 43.5 per cent of the population is aged 14 or under [https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/comp...mographics]
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Pedersen [Jon Pedersen of the Fafo Institute, a centre for demographic and social research in Oslo, Norway], says that a sense of duty to expand the population is a factor that can’t be dismissed. “There have been statements from Hamas urging women to have more children to create a larger army,” he says.'
Extracts source:
https://web.archive.org/web/202503260503...-so-young/
Palestinian Arab children are prepared for conflict by being indoctrinated in hatred and falsehood, through their Palestinian education system, specifically their textbooks:
Quote:'[Major heading:] “9. European Parliament resolution of 29 April 2021 with observations forming an integral part of the decisions on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019, Section III – Commission and executive agencies (2020/2140(DEC))
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444. Is concerned about the hate speech and violence taught in Palestinian school textbooks and used in schools by UNRWA [“United Nations Relief and Works Agency”]; is concerned about the effectiveness of UNRWA’s mechanisms of adherence to UN [“United Nations”] values in educational materials used and taught by UNRWA staff in its schools, which contain hate speech and incitement to violence; [...]'
Extract source:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc...64_EN.html
I have discussed the latter in more detail, with examples, here:
"How the Palestinian Education System perpetuates conflict":
https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/forum/show...29#pid7529
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Posted by: Mvpenn8 - 04-12-2025, 01:09 PM - Forum: Judaism General
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Hello everyone,
I realize that this is a contentious topic, and I anticipate opposition—but request you to remain open-minded and to read this.
We have learned for decades now that 6 million Jews were systematically killed by the Nazis by means of almost exclusively gas chambers in death camps like Auschwitz and Treblinka. Not just is this account accepted but mandated by law in many countries, dissent being the equivalent of hate.
But I have ended up raising serious questions about a lot of details in this account.
Not out of disrespect—because history needs to be open for questioning. And when some part of history is off-limits to discussion, that's when we need to question it the most.
Ask yourself:
- Where is Hitler's explicit, clear command?
- Why are there so many of the supposed gas chambers post-World War II rebuilds?
- Why are no Red Cross accounts of the time written that include the term "genocide"?
- Why are some "survivor" accounts inconsistent, or subsequently proved to be untrue?
- Why is the number "6 million" being published in newspapers well before WWII has even begun?
I am not disputing that Jews were persecuted. I am disputing that there is a premeditated, industrial murder of 6 million by gassing and that **the evidence is historically, logistically, and forensically questionable**.
I'm not asking you to surrender. I'm asking you to debate. Be prepared with your sources, and I'll be prepared with mine. If truth indeed is on your side—why fear the debate?
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| PAschal lamb sacrafice and the 3d Temple |
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Posted by: COmentator - 04-09-2025, 12:46 PM - Forum: Israel
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https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover...wadays.htm
Modern attempts to reveive the sacrafice Wikipedia
In 2007, a group of rabbis including Adin Steinsalz and other members of the New Sanhedrin Council supported by the Temple Mount Faithful identified a Kohen who was a butcher, made plans for conducting a Passover sacrifice on the Temple Mount, and petitioned the Israeli High Court of Justice for permission. The Court sided with the government and rejected the request, holding that such an event would inflame religious tensions and would threaten security. The incident was a successor to a series of earlier attempts by various groups to perform such a sacrifice, either openly or by subterfuge.[4][5]
In 2008, the animal rights group Let the Animals Live (Tnoo Lachayot Lichyot in Hebrew) founded in 1986,[6][7] sued the Temple Institute, claiming its conduct of a practice Passover sacrifice demonstration would constitute animal cruelty. An Israeli court rejected the claim.[8]
In 2016, Jewish activists pushing for a third temple in Jerusalem attempted to ascend the Temple Mount carrying baby goats intended to be used as Passover sacrifices on Friday afternoon, as they do every year. Jerusalem police detained ten suspects in the Old City for interrogation, and seized four sacrificial goat kids. Among those arrested were Kach activist Noam Federman, who attempts to make the sacrifice every year, and Rafael Morris, an activist in the Temple Mount Faithful movement.[citation needed]
The annual attempt to ascend the Temple Mount to perform the sacrifice in 2022 spawned widespread rumours of Jewish extremists supposedly planning to enter the Al-Aqsa Compound, where Jews are heavily restricted from entering and Jewish prayer is forbidden, inciting a riot which ultimately led to the 2022 Al-Aqsa Mosque storming"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_s...nd%20matzo.
In conclusion I can only comment when the 3d Temple appears
There will be two reactions
Devout Jews will start the sacrafice again
There will be a howl of rage from those whose deepest fear has come about...the 3rd Temple is evidence of the existenceof the L-d; it will be going to be permenent and Jews will worship there
the ulitmate purpose of Israel
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_c...Heaven.htm
Articles on the 3rd Temple 
https://israel365news.com/tag/third-temple/
https://israel365news.com/408294/once-ag...s-triumph/
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