A so-called “trans Jew” has written a revealing essay that explains how he/she/it/they/ziz has used rabbinical techniques of interpreting “The Torah” in order to make it say what he/she/it/they wants it to say — that is, that “trans” Jews are created in the image of God:
Had you asked me 20 years ago, 10 years ago, even last year (truthfully, last month) if I’d ever quote the Torah in a piece I was writing, I probably would have (respectfully and nervously) laughed in your face.
The Torah makes me anxious because I know that it holds the potential to oppress me as a genderqueer trans Jew. And I know it informs so many Jews of their strongly held beliefs, and those beliefs directly oppress me and others. They use the Torah to justify hate and bigotry and embolden some to actively and directly harm people.
As Jewish as questioning and challenging everything is, I was never taught to actually do it. So when these particular Jews would weaponize different Torah verses and decide that their one interpretation was the Word of God, that was it for me. Fin. I never questioned it. I just took it at face value. Add the fact that I’d never really seen myself reflected in any of the stories I’d heard, and I never even saw the purpose of trying to connect to the Torah.
Still, I struggled. As I work at Keshet, a national nonprofit that works for the full equality for LGBTQ Jews and our families in Jewish life, I am constantly faced with the question of how relevant the Torah can be as I run workshops and teach about inclusion as a Jewish value. I point to our poster of Seven Jewish Values for an Inclusive Community and recite my spiel.
I have to admit that when I first started teaching this four years ago, I don’t know that I truly believed what I was teaching; I hadn’t quite internalized it yet. I was in the beginning of my healing journey with Judaism. I’d felt so deeply rejected so much of my life that I didn’t even know it was possible to connect again to Judaism in an authentic way as a queer and trans person.
One of the values from our poster that continuously stuck out to me and replayed over and over in my head was “b’tzelem Elohim,” the notion that we are made in the image of God (or the divine) pulled directly from Genesis. As the poster explains, if we see each person as created in the image of God, we can see the humanity and dignity in all people. True inclusion is built upon this foundation.
This made sense to me, yet I still had a difficult time applying it to myself.
The questions kept coming: Do I even believe in God? If I was made in the image of God, then why do I need to change my body to relieve my dysphoria and see/be/feel myself? Why do I even feel dysphoria? Was I a mistake? Am I broken? If God is real, why do humans suffer? And why do humans suffer at the hands of other Jews?
Over the last few years, I’ve been training myself to think outside the binary in more ways than just gender. I’ve been rewiring my brain to think in a both/and instead of an either/or kind of way. Either/or stops a conversation, while both/and invites expansion and possibility. If this is true, what else can be true? Is this the only truth? There must be more to the story. Can two things be true at once? It’s a lot to hold, and it’s not always easy.
I’ve never been interested in text studies. I didn’t want to dig into Torah. It felt like I’d be giving too much power and attention to this thing that I kept thinking was my oppressor. Then one day I decided I needed — and wanted — to push myself on this. I wanted to face the thing that scared me as I’d done with so many other aspects of my life.
So with my colleague Rabbi Micah Buck-Yael, a trans person who became a rabbi in part to challenge the patriarchy and help carve space for queer Jews, we started chatting Torah. And I pushed back on every single word they said.
I asked them a million questions. Even questions like: What is the Talmud really? What is midrash really? Then we started talking about the moment we are in now: on the precipice of rereading, reimagining and reinterpreting Torah and doing it through a queer lens. There are many queer and trans folks who have been queering the Torah for years, individually and through programs like Svara, while actively working to make queer Jews more visible.
Then it dawned on me: I’d been approaching Torah all wrong. It’s not an either/or. It’s a both/and. It’s not “either this verse is the law of the land or nothing”; instead I get to decide what Torah means to me. I get to choose which meanings resonate with me. And if none do, I get to create my own. If the sages and rabbis get to, why can’t I?
Maybe the concept of b’tzelem Elohim needs an update for those of us who aren’t sure we believe in God. Because whether or not we believe doesn’t change the fact that transness is holiness. I am divine. I find my strength from within and don’t need any outside sources, God included, to be my own constant, my own divinity. I was made the way I am because it’s who I am meant to be. Every move or mistake I’ve made, every lesson I’ve learned, has made me who I am, and I wouldn’t trade any of my experiences to be born any other way.
When I’m in Jewish spaces where I’m feeling on the fringes, or have moments when I’m questioning if I really belong or if anyone really, truly sees me, I can dig within and remember that I exist, therefore I am visible — even if only to myself and, ultimately, that’s what matters most. I am b’tzelem Elohim, divine and holy. And the Torah gave me that.
This writer demonstrates just how profoundly narcissistic both Jews and “trans” people are — their “biblical” interpretations in The Talmud are a reflection of their own neurosis — and have nothing to do with God.
When reading this essay, we must be aware how the writer so readily conflates the meaning of “Torah” — the first five books of the Bible — with The Talmud — the Jewish “interpretation” or deconstruction of the Torah.
Jews very often use these terms — Torah and Talmud — interchangeably so as to blur the line between God’s word and their own narcissistic and self-justifying interpretations.
The Talmud is a Satan’s book of self-justification — every word in the Talmud — one way or another — is part of an attempt to justify rebellion against God’s immutable laws.
In that sense, this “trans Jew” is no different from the revered Jewish “sages” who create their own meaning — a meaning that they themselves want to hear in direct opposition to the word of God.
Whether “trans” or not, all Jews are in active rebellion against God — they are the world’s eternal revolutionaries, and the Talmud is the blueprint that provides the justification for their attempt to overthrow God’s Law — and install themselves as the de facto rulers of the world.
One evening when I was in college, I had to spend time in the library to do research for a class. Ater a while, I become bored and started walking without any special thoughts in mind up and down the aisles . Getting to the end of the aisle, on my right almost at or near the end of the shelf I saw a set of books. I can’t remember anything special about them, like gold lettering, borders, color etc. I just noticed them and was drawn to them and picked one out of several and begin glancing through it.
I can’t remember now what I read , as I skimmed it , but I begin to feel sick, nauseated, and disgusted and put it down. It made feel vulgar or nasty, dirty or some such feeling.
‘It was the Talmud. I had never known it existed or heard of it.
Years later, when I read about it , knew it existed and what others said about it, I realized that the person, I read about who said that when he read the Talmud, he became sick and nauseated, knew and experienced the same feelings I got.
I can look back now and know that there is something evil about the Talmud that radiates out from the books to make me attracted to a book with no special appearance to make me pick it up, or a spiritual feeling made me do it to become aware of it and later know and understand it when I did learn of it.
I noticed that almost any patriot or person who writes about or exposes the Jew is criticized in some way as thought they are uneducated, prejudiced, hateful etc.
Elizabeth Dilling exposed the Jewish Talmud and I believe it was her that I read about who it was said that she was no scholar, educated , historian or some such thing.
I have looked for the Talmud in many public libraries, I’ve been in and have never seen one unless they are in areas set aside for precious volumes, historical volumes or research.
One public Library had every bound copy of Life Magazine published. One day I noticed they were gone. I asked the librarian where they were, and she said they sold them. I was looking for the pictures of the British soldiers the Jews captured in 1948 and executed by hanging with piano wire, what they love to tell us Hitler did to his enemies.
Thanks for this good article.
Now we can see the source for the current trans-faggot gender madness infection.
NOTE THIS COMMENT: It’s regarding gender and Talmud, Mishna, midrash and Jewish law codes, in a comment to an article on a jew site:
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Anonymous said… [8/3/19 09:44]
6 GENDERS IN CLASSICAL JUDAISM
This description from Trans Torah/Rabbi Elliot Kukla starts the conversation that we will continue throughout the summer:
• Zachar/: This term is derived from the word for a pointy sword and refers to a phallus. It is usually translated as “male” in English.
• Nekeivah/: This term is derived from the word for a crevice and probably refers to a vaginal opening. It is usually translated as “female” in English.
• Androgynos/: A person who has both “male” and “female” sexual characteristics. 149 references in Mishna and Talmud (1st-8th Centuries CE); 350 in classical midrash and Jewish law codes (2nd -16th Centuries CE).
• Tumtum/: A person whose sexual characteristics are indeterminate or obscured. 181 references in Mishna and Talmud; 335 in classical midrash and Jewish law codes.
• Ay’lonit/: A person who is identified as “female” at birth but develops “male” characteristics at puberty and is infertile. 80 references in Mishna and Talmud; 40 in classical midrash and Jewish law codes.
• Saris/: A person who is identified as “male” at birth but develops “female” characteristics as puberty and/or is lacking a penis. A saris can be “naturally” a saris (saris hamah), or become one through human intervention (saris adam). 156 references in mishna and Talmud; 379 in classical midrash and Jewish law codes.
Source is in the comments [@ 8/3/19 09:44]:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-unthinkable-is-happening-in-usa.html
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Frankfurt School: [Check this several part timeline link fully for more]
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Publication of The Authoritarian Personality (Harper & Row) written by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer — both Frankfurt School Marxist Jews (cf. 1944). The book’s purpose is to diagnose every non-Jewish group affiliation as a sign of mental illness. Nationalism, patriotism, religious conviction, strong loyalty to family and/or race are all signs of a dangerous and defective “authoritarian personality.” Drawing distinctions between different groups is illegitimate, therefore all group loyalties are “prejudice.” The usual double standard is at work: Group loyalty, respect for tradition, and consciousness of differences among Jews are seen as healthy, central to Jewish identity, i.e. “good for Jews.” Yet, when found in gentiles, it is diagnosed as mental illness. As part of the study, Theodor Adorno devised the F-Scale Test: What this test did was to characterize normal Gentile behavior and attitudes as pathological. Read the questions and the agenda of the cosmopolitan, Marxist Jew seeps out. More importantly, imagine how many of the traits and attitudes this test sought to identify have changed in the 50 years since it was created. America has changed–to the advantage of the Jewish minority. As MacDonald points out, “many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in The Authoritarian Personality, including idealizing rebellion against parents, low-investment sexual relationships, and scorn for upward social mobility, social status, family pride, the Christian religion, and patriotism.” This is literally because Jews attacked many traditional attitudes and commonly held views as psychologically sick. They did this not through the scientific method but rather through mutual citation within their small Jewish cliques of Marxists, Freudian psychologists and sociologists.”
http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/wolzek/HistoryofOurWorld2.html
Regarding six genders…
Firstly, there’s that jewish magick number six again. They have an obsession with six, eh. Haha
Secondly, we Christians know that the Chicken came before the Egg, but my question is: did the four of six made-up genders above come before or after knowledge? Did the jews invent them, or were they observed then doccumented? In White society, homos and trannys have existed at all times, but to the best of my knowledge, have never classified such depravitys as different genders.
Any ideas anyone?
Thank you to those who’ve replied to me, I appreciate it. I have silently read here for sometime and will continue to do so. Christ is our only hope against the evil that’s now more visible by the day. I’ve taken on board the guidance you’ve shared regarding feeling his presence. ?
…..Christ is our only hope against the evil that’s now more visible by the day……
Amen.
Just wanted to share a few thoughts about my own experience. I was a “Dispensationalist” during my days as a judeo-c.hristian. When I came to the conclusion that the Land Mass “Israel” has nothing to do with prophecy aka 1948, I studied “Preterism” as a response to dispensationalism. And to be honest, I too shared your same feelings and emotions. It was depressing to think that perhaps we don’t have “hope” in this life if Preterism has any merit. The problem with Preterism is that they are not knowledgeable as to the Jewish Question and to the True identity of Israel, so this never figures into their interpretations. So for me ……….. now I have hope that God just may intervene in my generation. How exciting is that?!!!
I am still learning a new interpretation of “End Times Prophecy”. Many knowledgeable men here at CFT to help fill in those gaps.
I pray you will stick around and reach out in Fellowship. I have a ProtonMail account if interested.
Blessings and Peace to you Jay.
Glad to help, Jay.
I think of it like this: God opens eyes and ears for a reason. As Jesus said, He who hath ears to hear, let him hear. God bless.
When a jew says ‘Torah’ , they are talking of the first books of the talmud; the misunderstanding that they refer to our Bible is part of their deception. On those rare occasions that the antiChrist does actually refer to or even quote our Scripture, rest assured it is to twist it and try to condemn us by wrongly interpreting said verse[s]. Truly did Jesus say to them that they were of their father the devil, and, when he [satan] speaks a lie he is speaking is native language…
On interpreting the Bible, since it is Easter weekend I was hanging with my normie Boomers and saw a preview for the pending Sight and Sound stage play adaptation of David.
In it, they showed a set piece of a building adorned with banners showing the “Star of David”.
Is there any evidence that this star was ever associated with David? All the memes that I’ve seen make it clear that it was not, and suggest it is the demonic star of remphan (acts 7:43), so how and when did normies get this idea that it was David’s star?
As far as I can work out the six pointed star became known as the Star of David only in the last century or so… the British Proof mark on swords, for example, is a six pointed star which is acctually two triangles interlocked: the British Proof mark is not jewish.
From what I have been able to ascertain the majority of jews were against having the “Star of David” on the israeli flag as they thought it was a bad luck sign or something, I gather. They wanted the seven candlestick holder on the flag. I read that ages ago, so may be a bit fuzzy.
I think that the “Star of David” is the Star of Remphan, too.
I muse sometimes if the five pointed star, as is used on the New Zealand, Australian, USA, and many more, flags and all throughout out hearldry is the true Star of David? Is it related to the Bethlehem star? The Satanists love to turn the pentagram upside down to subvert God, of course.
Consequently the jews have stolen the six pointed star for themselves now. If it were a purely jewish symbol why is it on many churches of old?
It is an ancient Norse Pagan and Hindu symbol. These are not Jews, they are Kazzaars. Real Jews were spread out all over the world due to their Canaanite worshiping gold bull. 95% of jews today are Kazzaar blood offspring making up the synagogue of SATAN, and they have enslaved 98% of the world with their financial chains. They print and loan money out of thin AIR, then TAX it and charge us INTEREST. I pray in יהוה name that you will set us free of these Babylonian Cretans forever, in your most holy of holy name יהוה
My understanding is that the 6-pointed star was, for most of human history, an occult symbol. Solomon, as king, participated in many forms of idolatry, to include demonology and satanism. This included the implementation of a 3D version of the 6-pointed star as a method of controlling demons (at least that what Muslim legend says).
Once the Israelites were captured by Babylon, many of the higher ups formed the doctrine/beliefs that today are consolidated in the Babylonian Talmud, a neurotic justification for NOT following the Old Covenant Law. The Talmud allows for all manner of demonology and satanic practice, to include child sacrifice, which the ancient Israelites did participate in at one point (hence God sending Babylon to destroy them). It even has rules and regulations and orders for warding off demons under certain circumstances.
The Pharisees, because they were corrupt, learned everything about the more complex Talmud instead of the Old Law. This demonology/idolatry/satanism was widespread, permitted by the doctrines of the Talmud, and pissed off Jesus regularly. Jesus called the Pharisees sons of the devil because of their routine lying, pilpul nitpicking, and placing a spiritual weight on the people all because they followed the Talmud instead of God’s Law. When Jesus visited a Pharisee in Luke 11, he refused to wash His hands. This washing was not a sanitary practice, but a superstition; demons were believed to live in people’s fingertips, so this made washing necessary before eating so as to not ingest a demon.
Going back to the 6-pointed star, it was heavily associated with Judaism for most of history after Christ because Jews regularly participated in occult practices (thanks to the Talmud). Zionists of the late 1800s, in an effort to rebrand Rabbinic Judaism in a way that Christians would approve of, labelled this occult symbol the “Star of David”.
That’s my laymen’s understanding of it. Hopefully someone can correct me on any inaccuracies.
I dont know about the early usage of the symbol, and what you say sounds reasonable/plausible, but for the last 300 years or so, it has been symbolic of/ on the crest of the house of rothschild…
Follow the trail from there. 🙂
An amusing piece, if you overlook the usual sheer gall of the Talmoodys.
Can you imagine God sweeping across the heavens and universes, looking like the clown out of IT?
Don’t you see that, Jews hate White people and Christianity but they constantly use whatever White people have done and wrap themselves in it….”God reaching out to an LGBTQ person in the style of Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam.”
So not surprised that this he/she/it/they/ziz is in New York. Another one in New York also tried to convince the world that Donald Trump was as fascist. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-word-fascist-is-perfectly-accurate-when-applied-to-donald-trump-1.4286248
To tell you the truth…they can call me Nazi, antisemite all they want but they are a bunch of disgustingly depraved creatures, living at the expense of those they love to hate, for without the Christians, they are really niente, nada. I am still trying to figure out who the God is that declared these people to be his chosen people…
The “god” that declared these “Jews” to be his “chosen people” is the Jews themselves — they appropriated the identity of the Israelite people for political and economic reasons. It’s a “get out of jail free” card, especially among their Christian dupes. That identity theft was in such a distant past that few Jews realize they are imposters. But because their identity is based on a lie, everything that follows from that deceit is a lie…..
Yip, Chesterton is correct.
As far as I can work out: Some time between Rome falling and the cult of mohammedians destroying all in their path to become the scourge of islam, the clever lot that we know of today as jews moseyed on down and resurrected a little practiced cult worship: the Babylonian Talmud. And with that came the idea of being the chosen people. With the church telling everyone that faith in Jesus was all that is required to enter the Kingdom of God, no one really took any notice of the new people calling themselves the jews.
Once again we see the psychosis of modern jewry at play.
It’s mind boggling , it truly is .
Talmud = case law against God
The jew is the quintessential motivator for any and all antichrist understandings and beliefs. Being mere beasts, they have absolutely no connection to the ‘Torah’ – neither spiritually nor physically – and cannot make heads nor tails of what it truly says. Their usurpation of an identity whose shoes they cannot fill leaves them with an identity crisis that is ‘smoothed over’ by extreme narcissism and hypocrisy.
Only Christ can break their hold on this world. Only Christ will be able to fully reveal them for the complete frauds that they are.
What happens if Christ, doesn’t come, for it can’t be ended by man alone. It horrified me that their evil hands have infiltrated the scriptures and changed words, names and meanings and spellngs. I ask Christ to teach me, help me understand truth from lies, yet I don’t feel his presence.
Jay, the question “What if?” never crosses my mind when it comes to Christ, because I have complete faith in him. I recognize the Bible to still be the Word of God, and therefore the foremost Truth, despite the efforts of man and beast to convolute both translations and understandings.
Doubting Christ from the very beginning is not the way to start a relationship with Him. Recognizing that the New Testament Scriptures are still the most historically accurate and verifiable of all ancient documents is a good place to start when WANTING to believe the words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is not he that has to prove anything to you – it is you who has to prove you are worthy of Him…
Jay, the presence of Christ is not something we can feel with our bodies or our flesh. As the Lord said, the flesh is useless, but it is the Spirit which gives life (John 6:63).
The Spirit is not something our flesh can perceive, and so the flesh is contrary to the Spirit in all ways, “For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, in order to keep you from doing whatever you want.” (Galatians 5:17)
Therefore, if you cannot “feel his presence”, it is no surprise to me, because we are wholly unable to feel it in our bodies.
Submit to the teachings of the Scripture, and pray night and day, and in so doing you will lay your life down in submission to the Holy Spirit and to Christ. Paul calls this submission to the Spirit the putting on of a new self, and being conformed to the image of the Creator (Colossians 3:10). Peter calls it being partakers of the Divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). Have a look at Colossians 3 and 2 Peter 1, and consider how being in submission to the Spirit ought to look in our lives.
Lastly, if you ask Christ for His guidance continually, day and night, every day, He WILL give you the guidance you ask for. Matthew 7,
7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what person is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf of bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11 So if you, despite being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Luke 18,
Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not become discouraged, 2 saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect any person. 3 Now there was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my opponent.’ 4 For a while he was unwilling; but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect any person, 5 yet because this widow is bothering me, I will give her justice; otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge said; 7 now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night, and will He delay long for them? 8 I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”
The Lord Jesus is trustworthy, and so His words are trustworthy.
Mate, I’d say Jesus is helping you already by opening your eyes and heart and showing you things which others are still blinded to; most people go their whole lives and never realize what you have noticed already. That is a blessing you have been given.
And, Jesus Christ will return, not because I say so, but because He said so many times. 🙂
Ironically, the Bible is handled in similar fashion these days. We approach it to make it say what we want it to say, rather than come to the Bible to allow it to speak to us.
Matthew Henry says in “A Discourse On Meekness and Quietness of Spirit”,
[Meekness] is the silent submission of the soul to the word of God: the understanding bowed to every divine truth, and the will to every divine precept; and both without murmuring or disputing. The word is then an “engrafted word,” when it is received with meekness, that is, with a sincere willingness to be taught, and desire to learn. Meekness is a grace that cleaves the stock, and holds it open, that the word, as a shoot, may be grafted in; it breaks up the fallow ground and makes it fit to receive the seed; captivates the high thoughts, and lays the soul like white paper under God’s pen. When the day-spring takes hold of the ends of the earth, it is said to be turned as clay to the seal. Job, 38:14. Meekness does, in like manner, dispose the soul to admit the rays of divine light, which before it rebelled against; it opens the heart, as Lydia’s was opened; and sets us down with Mary at the feet of Christ, the learner’s place and posture.
The promise of teaching is made to the meek, because they are disposed to learn: “the meek will he teach his way.” The word of God is gospel indeed, “good tidings to the meek;” they will entertain it and bid it welcome. The “poor in spirit” are evangelized; the Wisdom’s alms are given to those that with meekness wait daily at her gates, and like beggars wait at the posts of her doors . Prov. 8:34. The language of this meekness is that of the child Samuel, “Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth;” and that of Joshua, who, when he was in that high post of honor, giving command to Israel, and bidding defiance to all their enemies, (his breast filled with great and bold thoughts,) yet, upon the intimation of a message from heaven, thus submits himself to it: “What saith my Lord unto his servant?” and that of Paul, (and it was the first breath of the new man,) “Lord, what wilt thou have me do?” and that of Cornelius, “And now we are all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God;” and that of the good man I have read of, who, when he was going to hear the word, used to say, “Now let the word of the Lord come; and if I had six hundred necks, I would bow them all to the authority of it.” To receive the word with meekness is to be delivered into it, as into a mould: this seems to be Paul’s metaphor, Rom 6:17, that “form of doctrine which was delivered you.” Meekness softens the wax, that it may receive the impression of the seal, whether it be for doctrine or reproof, for correction or instruction in righteousness. It opens the ear to discipline, silences objections and suppresses the risings of the carnal mind against the word; consenting to the law that it is good, and esteeming all the precepts concerning all things to be right, even when they give the greatest check to flesh and blood.
If we don’t hold to these words, then we are all Talmudists in our own way.
Amen