#Passover 2024 / Time for Exodus from Zionism (Naomi Klein)
#Zionism is a "false idol" that has betrayed core #Jewish values of justice, emancipation, and liberation and turned the biblical story of the “Promised Land” into a justification for "colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing and genocide" against Palestinians. Naomi Klein calls for liberating #Judaism from the #ethnostate of Zionism, which wants Jews to live in perpetual fear.
“HAPPENING NOW: #Police are arresting hundreds of American Jews with [Jewish Voice for Peace and other Jewish advocacy groups] as they hold an emergency #Passover seder at [Senator Schumer’s] doorstep demanding the US stop arming and funding the Israeli government as it carries out a #genocide.” #protest#FreePalestine#NYC#Democrats#Israel
We cannot talk about Passover, a holiday celebrating Jewish liberation, without talking about the extreme violence and dispossession carried out against Palestinians at this very moment in the name of the Jewish people.
I’ve translated below the words of Simon Assoun, who organizes with me as part of Tsedek!, a collective of decolonial Jews in France. Simon’s words exactly convey my feelings at this time.
Happy Passover Earth Day when Jews celebrate the dramatic geophysical events that convinced the pharaoh to free them and that even in the face of persecution and oppression by the fossil fuel overlords, we shall endure and overcome. #passover #earthday
#Passover 2024 / Debunking the Conquest Narrative (Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg)
The conquest narrative has been used to falsely portray #Jews and #Palestinians as inherently opposed ethnic/racial groups, when in reality they share common ancestral roots in the region.
Debunking the conquest narrative is important to undermine the sense of divine entitlement or mandate that has been used to justify violence and land theft against the indigenous inhabitants of the land.
#Passover 2024 / Israel’s Engineered Famine in Gaza, Special Report
Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, has published its report about the severe famine in the Gaza Strip. The organization notes that the dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society has been accelerating in recent months. The authors state that considering the shocking data and horrific testimonies about the famine, it is painful to understand that Israel is guilty of this crime, which is something unimaginable in the 21st century.
As Jews around the world begin to celebrate the festival of #Passover tonight, they’ll open up thousands of different editions of the Haggadah, the guide to the ritual feast.
The curator of a Judaica library looked through their collection of hundreds of Haggadahs to highlight three of his favorites – including this groundbreaking edition published in Amsterdam in 1695.
"... the new testament clearly sets Easter in a traditional context with pessach ..."
The New Testament says no such thing. Easter is a pagan holy day that merely coincides with the unleavened bread in some years. Easter is a very ancient rite of the solar worship cults. And the New Covenant commands no observance of any holy days, and in fact states as a commandment not to burden any brother to observe any holy day or feast:
Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand [.....]
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
- - - (Romans 14)
Easter is the holy day of idolators. The New Covenant says we are not to regard the holy days of idols. The Apostles warn us repeatedly to abstain from idolatry and, 'flee fornication' which means spiritual fornication with false gods. The New Covenant says that whether or not one wishes to regard the holy days of Moses is a personal matter and one should not be judged on account of this, since the law of Moses is passing away and giving way to a new law of the Spirit rather than the letter.
The Church lies about Easter. The Bible itself tells us all about Easter. It is the worship of the god-man Tammuz AKA Horus, and his Mother Ishtar, AKA Isis.
Easter has NOTHING to do with passover. That is just a lie told by the apostate church religion. It merely coincides with Passover in some years. Rome has tried to change the calendar to try to make the various days of Easter and Passover coincide as much as possible:
"And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time."
"... change times and laws ..."
Ezekiel chapter eight prophesied this idolatry of the Church:
"Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
"... they worshipped the sun toward the east ..."
That is your Easter sunrise service right there. This is the truth about the Easter sunrise Mass. It is idolatry, and God hates it, and God calls it an abomination.
To see what the Bible says about Easter, and how the Church is lying to you, read this article:
From the beginning of the day of 15th (sunrise) = 04-03 06:00 to
the last evening hour of the 21st = 04-10 05:59, right before a new day begins.
The 1st and 7th days are #HighShabbat days. No work like any other #Shabbat days.
Remember, a day (24-hour period) begins at sunrise or 06:00 (for easy reckoning), and ends until the next sunrise or 05:59 (for easy reckoning).
We observe the Feasts of YHWH because he commanded these, not because of rituals men told us to. It is fine if you stick to pure Torah instructions or if you want to add traditions, it is between you and The Most High. Just make sure you are not doing it as a ritual, otherwise, it is legalism. Do it because you want to obey The Most High. It was YHWH who commanded these, not men, and definitely not the Pharisees.
It's still colonialism, but Epstein was witness to the dispossession of Palestinian peasants from their land by Jewish land purchasing practices, and in his speech to the 7th Zionist Congress in Basel in 1905, he advocates for an ethical and inclusive approach to the Zionist settlement, recognizing the rights and humanity of the Arab population, and promoting a path of coexistence, cooperation, and mutual understanding between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.
...[ We devote attention to everything related to our homeland, we discuss and debate everything, we praise and criticize in every way, but one trivial thing we have overlooked so long in our lovely country: there exists an entire people who have held it for centuries and to whom it would never occur to leave.
Author Ehud Ben Ezer [...] From my understanding, the issue that troubled Yitzhak Epstein was the manner in which lands were acquired from the #Druze tenant farmers in the Metullah area (now the Rosh Pina moshav). He opposed the violent expulsion of the peasant farmers from the lands they had worked for generations, despite it being a difficult process accompanied by hatred and a desire for revenge from the displaced Druze.
Epstein supported an approach of coexistence and cooperation between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. He criticized the violent way in which the Metullah lands were acquired and called for closeness and mutual respect between the two peoples, as he tried to implement in the Rosh Pina moshav where he taught, in an attempt to expose his students to Arab culture.
In his speech "The Hidden Question," he presented his firm stance against the expulsion of Arab peasants from their lands, and called for mutual respectful relations, learning about Arab culture, and cooperative agricultural methods that would benefit both sides.
"צל הפרדסים והר הגעש: שיחות על השתקפות השאלה הערבית ודמות הערבי בספרות העברית בארץ־ישראל מסוף המאה הקודמת ועד ימינו / אהוד בן עזר - פרויקט בן־יהודה." 25 Apr. 2024, benyehuda.org/read/25465.