Is a very strange time for me. I love Hanukkah, but this year I can easily see how the Hanukkah story could be re-done to fit the circumstances of today. Let me just say right off the bat that if someone wants the shot of experimental mRNA gene therapy, I think that is their decision. But by the same token, I vehemently object to it being forced into anyone that doesn’t want it. And that’s where this Hanukkah thought is headed.
We know that Hanukkah is the celebration of the re-dedication of the Temple after it had been defiled by the Greeks. The Greeks were a nation of culture and learning. They knew their beliefs and customs were superior to everyone else. The hysterical fits abound in those absolutely unhinged over the injection like the racist Joy(less) Reid, anyone on msnbc, cnn or most any of the major #FakeNews media really are a fine example of people who know they know more than anyone else. Their opinion is the only one that counts. Or else.
The Greeks didn’t necessarily want to kill off all the Jews, they wanted to kill off Judaism. We were forbidden to observe time related events such as Shabbat and new months, as well as commandments from G-d such as the study of Torah or circumcision. Those could cost you your life. Your thoughts and beliefs would be forced into compliance.
Today we have the purveyors of panic porn that do the same thing, their belief is the only belief, and anyone who attempts to attend religious services when the ATA* 1 says you can not will be punished. Anyone who attempts to hold to tried and true means of handling a medical event will be punished. Anyone who points out the virus is 99+% survivable with treatment, real treatment like the Zelenko protocol or Ivermectin will be punished. Anyone who points out anything contrary to the ATA approved narrative will be punished. The side of “love and tolerance” will brook no dissent. Hysteria, denouncement and de-platforming will ensue. Your thoughts and opinions will be forced into compliance.
I’ll try to put this as delicately as I can without being crass. One of the seminal events that may well have contributed to the Hasmonean rebellion was the marriage of their sister and jus primae noctis, “first night rights.” The governor would kidnap and assault every bride on her wedding night. The whole story can be read here. I urge you to, it is not that long and very worth while. A gist of it is the Greeks continued to make increasingly tyrannical demands of the Jews and their faith which we found ways of skirting and working around. Until it came to a point where the women were forced to accept the injection of a substance into their bodies they vehemently did not want. Then the Jews went to war.
Personally I absolutely see this as a religious issue. My DNA is the way G-d meant my DNA to be, he created me with a purpose, a plan and he equipped me with the things he knew I would need to accomplish it. If he wanted my DNA different, he could certainly have made it so. In short I’m saying the G-d of heaven and earth who created all most assuredly does not need any help from Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson or any other pharmaceutical company.
A more amusing comparison is Antiochus the IV, he liked the name Epiphanes, which meant “the gods’ beloved. We called him Epimanes which means “madman”. You know, like someone who would shut down his own country’s oil production and then beg foreign countries who hate us to produce more oil and then lie to the people. Like someone who would sell of his country’s assets to a country that hates them. Like someone who would demand that free citizens be forced to take an experimental injection in clear violation of the Nuremberg code. And it may well come to force as it is in the disarmed nation of Australia where the army is going into Aboriginal villages and physically throwing people to the ground and injecting them against their will. Like a madman who would say people can’t have their job, eat in a restaurant, ride public transportation, or attend events if they can’t prove they have had the injection. Yeah, a madman like that.
As I regard the list of appointees in the Xiden regime I have yet to find one that isn’t a communist, America hater, corrupt or unhinged. The censorship of medical opinions and open discussion has never before been seen like this. The denial of medical treatment to people is unprecedented. What? Next we tell people with a fractured leg to come back when the bone is poking through the skin? This refers to people that come in the ER with Covid and rather than being given the Ivermectin protocol or the Zelenko protocol are basically sent home and told to come back if they can’t breath. We’re suppose to be in the midst of a “pandemic” with a new “variant” on the way and Xiden/Epimanes is ordering frontline healthcare workers who have worked since the beginning fired? And something I find truly frightening is I am beginning to see the discrimination in treatment towards those that are un-injected. Because that I have seen before. That pattern I do recognize.
And the plans for tyranny are just getting started. Green pass anyone? Papers please.
But this is Hanukkah of 2021, and I am seeing miracles. The OSHA mandate has been stopped and my crush (hope his wife doesn’t mind) the gallant Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, lead the charge with other states and stopped the insane decree that forced healthcare workers to be injected. And then in a blossom of goodness the royal decree was blocked nationwide.
What hubris! A madman indeed! Although he is far from the only madman running around.
But America is beginning to fight back, and I can’t think of a more auspicious time, well, maybe Independence Day. But I actually see more similarities with the conditions of the Hasmonean rebellion.
Do you wonder where Maccabee came from?
Perhaps the best known explanation is that the word “Maccabee” is composed of the initial letters of a verse the Jewish people sang after G‑d split the sea: “Mi kamocha ba’eilim Hashem (מי כמוך באילים י׳), “Who is like You among the mighty, O G‑d.”
It is said that this phrase was the battle cry of Maccabees, written upon their banners and shields.
I will leave you with the inspiring speech of Judah Maccabee as he and his little band faced a far bigger, more evil force of Seron at Beth-Horon.
Chapter 3 Book of Maccabees 1
14 So he said, “I will make a name for myself and win honor in the kingdom. I will wage war against Judah and his followers, who have despised the king’s command.”
15 And again a large company of renegades advanced with him to help him take revenge on the Israelites.
16 When he reached the ascent of Beth-horon,* Judah went out to meet him with a few men.
17 But when they saw the army coming against them, they said to Judah: “How can we, few as we are, fight such a strong host as this? Besides, we are weak since we have not eaten today.”
18 But Judah said: “Many are easily hemmed in by a few; in the sight of Heaven there is no difference between deliverance by many or by few;
19 for victory in war does not depend upon the size of the army, but on strength that comes from Heaven.
20 With great presumption and lawlessness they come against us to destroy us and our wives and children and to despoil us;
21 but we are fighting for our lives and our laws.
22 He* will crush them before us; so do not fear them.”
23 When he finished speaking, he rushed suddenly upon Seron and his army, who were crushed before him.
24 He pursued Seron down the descent of Beth-horon into the plain. About eight hundred* of their men fell, and the rest fled to the land of the Philistines.
25 Then Judah and his brothers began to be feared, and dread fell upon the Gentiles about them.
“Mi kamocha ba’eilim Hashem (מי כמוך באילים י׳), “Who is like You among the mighty, O G‑d.” Indeed.
חג חנוכה שמח
Happy Hanukkah!
1Aspiring Tyrants Association
I found it most interesting to watch portions of the Senate hearings of the people that little joe has appointed to his various positions. When a Republican Senator asked one of the appointees a question, that you know the person doesn’t like and has no intention of answering.
” Thank You SO MUCH for the question, Senator! ” ( You rotten, rat, B…..d!) “I am so glad you asked that question.” ( I wish you would die a thousand deaths.) ” Let me start by saying that like my last answer, I cannot answer the question directly, because it is a hypothetical and it would not be fair to answer questions like that, unless I had all of the pertinent information, and the context, blah, blah, blah.” ( Like you think I am ever going to answer anything you ask me, you bloated pile of garbage.) ( Oops, hope that wasn’t out loud. I wonder if it is too soon for lunch.)
“Never mind, candidate so and so, what about in your writings, when you wrote that all conservatives should be rounded up and killed with knives and then burned at the stake? Did you really mean that? And do you still think that way?”
” Thank You SO MUCH for the question, Senator! ” ( You rotten, rat, B…..d!) “I am so glad you asked that question.” ( I wish you would die a thousand deaths.)
I only wish I were kidding, but this is pretty much the way that all the hearings of the appointees that I watched went, other than the Democrat Senators occasionally chiming in to say what upstanding people the candidates were, and how lucky the nation is to have them, etc. And of course, Ted Cruz and some leader on the Democrat side had to get into a shouting match, to position Cruz for a presidential run.
I actually could not stand to watch it live, I had to go to youtube, so I could pick and choose the ones to watch, so that I at least had some warning as to what hobby horse the senator was going to ride at that point. Oh, and Rand Paul is always good for a laugh. Especially if he gets into it with either Fauci or another Senator about spending. He will never win, but he is fun to watch. Kind of like my states Detroit Tigers.
Happy Hanukkah to all, and stay safe.
Xiden has yet to ….never mind, we know Xiden decides on oatmeal or cheerios for breakfast and Ron Klain, Susan Rice, Obama and maybe one or two others are running the show. But THEY have yet to try to appoint anyone who isn’t a communist, hates America or both, is an utter moron, or has an excellent skill set when it comes to lying. Inject bleach? Really Ginger Goebbels? Sure you don’t want to circle back on that? I’m sure China feels they are more than getting their moneys worth.
I like watching Rand Paul go after Fauxci, because Fauxci wants to pull that doctor crap out and Paul is having none of it. Nor can he bamboozle Paul, I do expect him to break down in a frothing at mouth fit before long. He’s gotten away with so much for so long he thinks he is untouchable. While he may (or not) evade justice in this world, he will face G-d’s.
Sometimes we fight those battles, even though we may never win, because some battles need to be fought!
Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas 😉
“And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven.” John Locke
GOD is with us and we will be victorious in this life and the next.
Happy Hanukkah!
II Chronicles 7:13-14
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
I keep reminding him of this, often.
Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas 😉
Sheila,
This is a favorite verse of many Christians, but the problem is, most of them don’t really want to humble themselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from their wicked ways.
I remember that it used to be called the “social gospel” much like a social club that you could go to on Saturday night. It was fun, and a good place to meet people your age who had kids in the same school, or such, but as far as actually being something that changed you, and even affected your inner soul, not so much.
Sadly, 40 years ago, it was unusual to see such a thing, and we had a name for it. Today, it is unusual to see a Church where they use words like Holiness or flee sin, etc.
If you are a person who believes in Satan, and you wanted to figure out how to get the Church to leave G-d, you would not persecute the people. You would instead do what we have seen in America. Give us so much that we no longer know what it means to depend on G-d for our daily bread, not anything.
And how quickly we have seen it work, to cause us to run away from Him, as fast as we can.
My grandma played piano in church, when she was younger. I remember that while she never spoke much about religion, her life was her living sermon. One can’t even point to that with people today.
I fear that it is too late for this nation. But I pray like it is not, because of my children and grandchildren. Let’s never give up, for the sake of the next generations. For He is Faithful.
I have a different view of the Satan, rooted in the belief everything (good and evil) comes from G-d. But it’s like the king that hires a woman of low moral value to seduce his son the Prince. He doesn’t want her to succeed, but he needs to know what the next ruler of the kingdom is made of. If there is no good and evil what is there to choose from, because G-d did give man free will and choice. But he doesn’t want us to choose evil. I believe G-d can use some of those choices to hone to a fine edge our souls, and purify them.
I agree, there are many that have no interest in turning away from evil and in fact some are willing participants in the attempted destruction of America. How many religious groups are involved in facilitating the deluge of illegal aliens into the country in the name of compassion while having none for the hardworking citizens of America?
I think we probably have fairly similar ideas of what turning away from wickedness means. But for some of these woke people, the process of turning away may just start with realizing that the MSM lied to them, a lot. That what Joe says about economic recovery is very expensive, or maybe their whole injected family is now sick with the covid they couldn’t catch if they were injected per Joe. Maybe part of turning away from wickedness for some of them begins with recognizing what is good and evil. Maybe for some of the woke, it’s realizing there is a difference. But if they are starting to move in that direction, it’s a start. There are a lot of people waking up, when you have a NY BLM leader wanting to know if MAGA people will do a rally together against DeBlasio’s vax mandates….new ground is being plowed.
I think about something my Rabbi told me, 3 or 4 years ago, “G-d can do anything he wants, any time he wants”.