{"id":1622,"date":"2024-01-12T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2024-01-21T08:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T08:27:49","slug":"dvar-torah-indigenous-stories-and-indigenous-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/2024\/01\/12\/dvar-torah-indigenous-stories-and-indigenous-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"D&#8217;var Torah Indigenous Stories and Indigenous Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judaism, Judea-people-ism, is the ethno-religion of the Canaan Jewish people of the land of Israel (Judea-Samaria). Judaism is not a \u201cfaith\u201d religion, like Colonial Christianity and Colonial Islam. A correct understanding of our Canaanite Hebrew language, our words and ancestral stories, and the history of our SWANA Indigenous people really does matter, folks! This is why we seek to share and to teach our Torah with others. We do this in the form of d\u2019var Torah Indigenous stories on our Indigenous Judean ways. Here is our most recent d\u2019var, \u201cwords\u201d \u201cteaching\u201d, from last week\u2019s parashah, followed by a very brief history lesson for non-Jews and, then, a link to many more Jewish Indigenous stories on a separate page. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_212057078.jpg?resize=1024%2C682\" alt=\"D'var Torah Indigenous Stories that explain the role of the mashiach, messiah, in Judaism\" class=\"wp-image-1624\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_212057078.jpg?resize=1024%2C682 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_212057078.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_212057078.jpg?resize=768%2C511 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_212057078.jpg?w=1080 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does the story of Moses teach us about the mashiach, the \u201cmessiah\u201d? A question for Jews and non-Jews. Anyone ready for a d\u2019var Torah, a word of Torah, a teaching?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no concept of \u201coriginal sin\u201d in the ethno-religion of the Jews, and there is no specific theology beyond that of showing \u201clove\u201d for the G-d of Israel through wrestling with our Indigenous Judean people\u2019s halachot\/mitzvot, our Jewish laws\/obligations. Jews do not need a single savior figure for our people, and non-Jews often misunderstand what the role of the mashiach, a messiah, is in Jewish ethno-religious culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without the yetzer ha\u2019ra, the inclination to do bad\/evil in this world, there would be no way for humans to know how to embrace the yetzer ha\u2019tov, the inclination to do good in this world. We humans would be just like all other nefesh chayim, living breathing-creatures, upon this planet Earth \u2013 indistinguishable from other species in our individual and social behaviors as a primate species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is what the Torah teaches the Jewish people of the land of Israel. The role of the mashiach, the \u201cmessiah\u201d, for the Jews is: to lead us into harnessing the yetzer ha\u2019ra and using it to bring upon this planet Earth the yetzer ha\u2019tov amongst humans. There is a time for war and there is a time for peace. There is time to wipe out the name of Amalek from our lips and the lips of others, and there is a time to teach about Amalek so that human history no longer repeats itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This last Shabbat, we Jews listened to the chanting of Parashat Shemot, the matter (or affair) of names, in our Canaanite Hebrew language. Within this set of stories, we Jews remembered a child born to a Levite woman, who rode in a basket down the Nile, was raised by the daughter of Pharaoh, who killed an Egyptian slavemaster and became a shepherd in Midian, and married a Midianite woman who was the daughter of a Midianite priest. Oh, yes, he was also afflicted with a strong studder!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One who is thinking about Moses would hardly imagine that this story is a story about a mashiach. The first mashiach, a messiah, to lead the Jews and Egyptians through their yetzer ha\u2019ra and into their yetzer ha\u2019tov, an age of peace between powerful Egypt and enslaved Canaan. But, with the help of his Israelite brother Aaron and sister Miriam \u2013 all three together established the leadership for the Jewish people\u2019s salvation \u2013 Moses was able to harness his yetzer ha\u2019ra for the sake of yetzer ha\u2019tov amongst multiple peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It doesn\u2019t matter who you are in this life, Y-HWH respects every \u201cgood deed\u201d \u2013 mitzvah \/ \u201csacred obligation\u201d \u2013 that you fulfill. You can be filled with a born hate for life and you can be born with the inability to love and sympathize with others. But, if you are willing to listen to that voice \u2013 in this story talking from a flaming bush \u2013 and are willing to fulfill mitzvot \u2013 sacred laws on ethical living that perpetuates piku\u2019ach nefesh, \u201csaving of a life\u201d (especially victimized human life, but all breathing creatures\u2019 life, the literal meaning of \u201cnefesh\u201d in Torah!) \u2013 then, regardless your personal state of \u201csin\u201d in this life, Y-HWH sees you! And, has only asked you to do this much in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now,\u2026 If you \u201clove\u201d the Creator of life, even if you cannot identify personally with the emotion \u201clove\u201d, then you will fulfill the mitzvot \u2013 the mitzvot that saves lives victimized by oppressors who care not about Torah. Even Trump did a \u201cgood deed\u201d \u2013 fulfilled a mitzvah unknowingly \u2013 when he moved the USA embassy to Jerusalem, the capital city of the Indigenous Israelis \u2013 Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BUT, don\u2019t vote for him in 2024, PLEASE, USA citizens! He is an evil self-centered Adolf Hitler type of man, and he will lead you into World War 3. He is not a mashiach for any people and \u2013 please, may ha\u2019Shem forbid(!) \u2013 is the harbinger for the 2nd multi-continent Shoah (Holocaust) for Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snapshot above: Yetzer ha\u2019tov and yetzer ha\u2019ra \u2013 humans, like the Creator of life, are both good and bad \u2013 and this is good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zionism is the most successful Indigenous peoples\u2019 land back movement, so far, in modern human history! One of the following versions of the Exodus story explains why this is so!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232119392.jpg?resize=1024%2C436\" alt=\"D'var Torah Indigenous stories of Exodus - 1st Story\" class=\"wp-image-1638\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232119392.jpg?resize=1024%2C436 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232119392.jpg?resize=300%2C128 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232119392.jpg?resize=768%2C327 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232119392.jpg?w=1080 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to understand Jews, then you must properly understand our Indigenous stories. For example,\u2026 How many \u2018Exodus from Egypt\u2019 stories are there in our Canaanite Hebrew language Jewish Torah? Do you know the answer? If you said \u201cone\u201d, then you are very wrong about this! Remember, Torah is a battle between two gods for the minds of Jews. But, interestingly, in this part of our Torah, there are three Exodus stories. Each story has its own purpose and teaching, and all stories blended together spans a thousand years of Indigenous Jewish thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do we Jews mean by this? Well, let\u2019s get to studying the present parashot that Jews are engaged in at this time of year \u2013 the story of the exodus from Egypt. Remember, every year, we Jews recite or listen to the recitation of our Canaan-originating Jewish stories in the original Canaanite Hebrew language of our people of Israel. So, let\u2019s start listening here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part 1 of 3 D\u2019varim (Stories)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The oldest version of our Exodus story tells a tale of the Judean land god, the storm god Y-HWH, doing battle with the Egyptians to impress upon them his superior might, so that the Egyptians will know the god of the Jews. This story is short and to the point about how Y-HWH overcomes the Egyptians in battle, after the people of Israel sneak away from Egypt and the Pharaoh\u2019s army is closely following from behind to bring them back to Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this story, Pharaoh has made the royal decree that every son born shall be thrown into the Nile and every daughter kept alive. This is where Pharoah\u2019s daughter finds Moshe (Moses) and raises him as her own, he eventually kills an Egyptian as an adult, flees for his life, and becomes the adopted son of a Midianite priest, having married Ziporah. From here, a cherub of Y-HWH appears to Moshe in a flaming bush, and Y-HWH warns Moshe that he is on sacred ground. Moshe takes off his shoes, and Y-HWH informs Moshe that he is seeing the suffering of the people of Israel in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Y-HWH admits that he already knows that the Pharoah of Egypt will not allow the people of Israel to go, so he will put out his personal hand, strike Egypt with his power, and they will let the Jews go. Then, a little bit later, Y-HWH realizes that Moshe is uncircumcised and seeks to kill Moshe for this. Ziporah becomes the unheard mashiach (messiah) of this story, for she had the wherewithal to save Moshe\u2019s life by circumcising their son. After this, Moshe and Aharon demanded, in the name of Y-HWH, that Pharoah let Moshe\u2019s people of Israel go to celebrate an Indigenous Judean festival in the wilderness. Pharoah asks, \u201cwho is Y-HWH, that I should listen to his voice? No!\u201d This was the end of all discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the people of Israel fled from Egypt. And, Y-HWH, riding upon a cherub that is surrounded by a densely thick cloud, guides the Jews by day towards their home, and by night with a pillar of fire, because the Egyptians are pursuing them. When the time was right, Y-HWH navigated his cloud from before the people of Israel to behind the people, clouding the path of the Egyptians. This is when Y-HWH brings a powerful Eastern wind to separate the Sea of Reeds to create a dry land escape path for the people of Israel to run across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Egyptian army fought through the darkness and columns of fire that Y-HWH had thrown at them, but was now fatally vulnerable within the dry ground of the sea of reeds, between the wind separated columns of water. The Egyptians declared, \u201cY-HWH is fighting for the Jews against us, we need to flee!\u201d They turned around and fled. But, too late! Y-HWH covered the Egyptians with the waters of the sea of reeds, and the people of Israel saw Egypt dead on the seashore. They celebrated their survival with an Indigenous foundational song!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232153466.jpg?resize=1024%2C436\" alt=\"D'var Torah Indigenous stories of Exodus - 2nd Story\" class=\"wp-image-1639\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232153466.jpg?resize=1024%2C436 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232153466.jpg?resize=300%2C128 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232153466.jpg?resize=768%2C327 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232153466.jpg?w=1080 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part 2 of 3 D\u2019varim (Stories)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The youngest version of our Exodus story tells a tale of the Judean high god, Elohim, exerting absolute control over all transpiring events, allowing absolutely zero \u201cfree will\u201d of choice for both the Egyptians and the people of Israel. In all Jewish Elohim stories, the high god is a dictator \u2013 in both the verbal instructions and the decision making sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this story, the children of Israel have been very fruitful in their birth rates, thus Egypt oppressed them with the hard labors that were within Egyptian society. The children of Israel groaned under their labors, and Elohim heard them and remembered the covenant with his people. So Elohim spoke to Moshe (Moses), revealing that he is Y-HWH who appeared as El Shaddai to Avraham, Yitzhak (Isaac), and Yaakov (Jacob).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elohim instructs Moshe to tell the children of Israel that he will bring them out from under Egypt\u2019s oppression and bring them to their Canaan Judean people\u2019s land. Moshe instructs the people as commanded, but the people do not listen under their physical and emotional stress. So, Elohim tells Moshe to speak to Pharoah directly, and tell him to let the children of Israel go from his land. But, now, Moshe objects, because he badly studders and does not believe that Pharaoh will listen to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elohim declares to Moshe that he has made Pharoah see Moshe as a god and Aharon (Aaron) as Moshe\u2019s prophet. This is where Elohim reveals his plan: Moshe will speak what Elohim commands, Aharon will speak to Pharoah, and Elohim will harden Pharoah\u2019s heart to multiply Elohim\u2019s signs and wonders to all of Egypt. From here begins the making of magic and charms between Moshe\u2019s Aharon and Pharoah\u2019s magicians. And the more they traded signs and wonders, the more Elohim hardened Pharoah\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually, Aharon\u2019s magic was more powerful than that of Pharoah\u2019s magicians, and Elohim hardened Pharoah\u2019s heart even more. At this point in our Exodus story is where Elohim has Moshe and Aharon command the children of Israel to pack up, as if fleeing, and make a festival meal with a mark on their front door post. The children of Israel did so, and Elohim came through Egypt with the maschit \u2013 a demon that slaughters \u2013 to slay all firstborn throughout Egypt. Only homes with the mark on them will be spared, for Elohim will guide the maschit away from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elohim commands the children of Israel to leave Egypt, and they do so. Elohim now strengthens Pharoah\u2019s already hardened heart, so that Pharoah pursues Israel out of Egypt and towards the sea with Egypt\u2019s entire army \u2013 all for Elohim\u2019s glory against Pharoah before all of Egypt, so that they will know the name Y-HWH. At the sea, Elohim divides the waters, creating a dry path for the children of Israel to cross. Then, Egypt\u2019s army pursues onto the dry seabed and is swallowed by the divided waters. Every member of Egypt\u2019s army perished by drowning, and Egypt now knows Y-HWH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232219516.jpg?resize=1024%2C436\" alt=\"D'var Torah Indigenous stories of Exodus - 3rd Story\" class=\"wp-image-1640\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232219516.jpg?resize=1024%2C436 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232219516.jpg?resize=300%2C128 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232219516.jpg?resize=768%2C327 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240118_232219516.jpg?w=1080 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part 3 of 3 D\u2019varim (Stories)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The longest version of our Exodus story (and it is very very long!) tells a tale of the Judean land god, the Elohim Y-HWH, being surprised by the Egyptian Pharaoh and the Egyptian citizens\u2019 responses to his demands that the people of Israel be allowed to return home to their Canaan land of Judea and Samaria. And, unlike the two previous versions of G-d that control the action by physical might or by dictating words, this version of G-d prefers to work through others, behind the scenes, to perform his glorious works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this story, a new Pharoah has taken rule upon Egypt, one who did not know Joseph. He noticed just how many there are in the numbers the children of Israel that are upon the land of Egypt. Fearing that we Jews would side against Egypt in a time of war, the Pharoah had his CEOs, his \u201ccommanders of the work-companies\u201d, deplete the number of Jewish workers with numerous labor projects. Note, manual labor of the Egyptian kind can easily lead to deaths when workers are overworked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the dismay of the Pharoah, though, the more he worked the children of Israel, the more the Jews multiplied in their numbers of birth to meet the construction needs of the Pharoah\u2019s work companies. Inciting his own Egyptian people towards hatred for the children Israel, the king of Egypt (the actual term for Pharoah that is used in this version of the story) instructed all the midwives delivering Jewish children to kill any male newborn, thus allowing only the female children to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The midwives refused to obey the Pharoah\u2019s command. When summoned to explain, they justified themselves by calling the people of Israel an \u201canimal\u201d species thus, by the time the midwives arrived to deliver babies, the Jewish women had already given birth. The Pharoah accepted the excuse, and the midwives were significantly blessed by Elohim for sparing Jewish lives. Thus, the children of Israel grew very powerful in numbers in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is where the story shifts radically to an introduction of Moshe (Moses), who is shepparding the flock of his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. As Moshe drove the flock to the far side of the wilderness, he arrives upon Horeb, which is the Mountain of G-d (Sinai is another name for this mountain). Moshe hears Elohim call to him from inside a burning bush. Elohim says that he is the god of Moshe\u2019s father and the god of the patriarchs, and Moshe hides his face in fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elohim instructs Moshe to go face the Pharoah, for Elohim sees the Jews\u2019 suffering, while knowing that Elohim is beside him when facing the king of Egypt. Note, in this version of the Exodus story, Elohim Y-HWH has no physical form, and appears within very specific animated objects. Elohim instructs Moshe to bring the children of Israel to Horeb, after Pharoah has let the people go. Moshe asks how he should introduce Elohim to the children of Israel. Elohim instructs him, tell them \u201cI am who I am\u201d who has sent you, Moshe, to the Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moshe doubts the voice of G-d coming from the burning bush. So, Elohim tells Moshe to drop his staff. And, before Moshe\u2019s eyes, the staff turns into a snake (a significant Southwest Asia to North Africa divinity symbol)! Moshe fled from it in fear. Elohim tells Moshe to grab its tail and, when Moshe does this, snake becomes a staff. The proof of miraculous acts continue, until Moshe is convinced of his divine Indigenous calling in life. Moshe, now convinced, pleads that he is heavy of mouth and tongue and would not make a good spokesperson for the children of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elohim Y-HWH\u2019s anger flares at this point, over Moshe\u2019s insolence, for Elohim already knew Moshe\u2019s impediment. He explains to Moshe that Aharon, the Levite, who will speak for him, is already on the path toward Moshe, who is the Cohen. When the two unite, they went to the people of Israel and showed Elohim Y-HWH\u2019s signs and wonders before the people. And the Jews believed in these signs and wonders, asking to go on a trip outside of Egypt to make sacrifice to Y-HWH, lest he strike against them rather than Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pharoah summons Moshe and Aharon and asks why they have released the children of Israel from their labors to the king of Egypt. In anger, the Pharoah commanded his taskmasters to increase the burden upon the Jews to prevent them any time for festivals. And Elohim Y-HWH now reveals his plan to stress the Pharoah, until he releases the children of Israel and allows them to leave Egypt. With every visit to the Pharoah, Moshe and Aharon, demand that Pharoah let the Jews go from Egypt to serve Y-HWH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With every plea that Moshe and Aharon makes on behalf of the children of Israel, Elohim Y-HWH increases the burdens upon the Pharoah and his Egyptian people. Plagues of all sorts! Elohim Y-HWH is determined to win this battle of the wills. The Pharoah is beginning to make concessions for relief,\u2026 \u2013 (unfortunately, in this ancient Indigenous story, it\u2019s not a few \u201chostages\u201d, but just false promises of release!) \u2013 \u2026but Pharoah still refuses to relinquish his occupation upon the Jews. \u2013 (This sounds a lot like present Arab Palestinian HAMAS terrorists, now, doesn\u2019t it?! Hello?!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elohim Y-HWH becomes backed into a corner over the Pharoah\u2019s obstinance and refusal to let the Jews go. So, he brings the maschit \u2013 the demon that slaughters \u2013 to Egypt (to occupied Gaza!) to end this standoff between evil (Colonizer, oppressor) and good (Indigenous peoples). Moshe and Aharon warn the people what to do for our survival from this divine wrath over the oppression of Indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the Jews of Israel listened, avoiding more slaughters of our people, as Elohim Y-HWH slaughters the children of the Egyptians \u2013 to our forever Indigenous dismay that life has to actually unfold this way upon this planet Earth for Indigenous peoples\u2019 survival! For this Indigenous people victory over a regional Colonizer, Elohim Y-HWH instructs the children of Israel, the Jews, to consecrate every firstborn to the service of Elohim Y-HWH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 3,800 years now, no empire, no Colonizer (Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Arab Muslim, European Christian, Turkish, Iranian, etc!) has been able to successfully fully uproot the Jewish people of Canaan Israel from our Indigenous land and our Indigenous ways. IT IS TIME to end modern history Arab-European settler Colonialism upon this planet Earth, for Colonial Allah, Christ, and Marx dominionism upon Indigenous peoples\u2019 lands worldwide!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you see for yourself the three versions of the Exodus from Egypt story in our Jewish Torah? They are expertly redacted together into one complicated, even contradictory, singular Exodus narrative about a complicated, even contradictory, Judean land god and his people of Israel. \u2026 This is why we Jews love our stories. Go study!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We Indigenous peoples worldwide demand #LandBack ! Allow us to peacefully decolonize amongst your Arab-European Colonial nations! This means no longer being an Arab-European occupied \u201cpuppet state\u201d upon our decolonized ancestral lands! We Jews, Kurds, Balochs, Assyrians, S\u00e1mi, Pueblos, Cherokee, Lakota, Navajo, Anishinaabe, Wampanoag, Taino, Cree, M\u0101ori , Kanaka o\u2019 Hawai\u2019i (Hawaiians), etc(!) appreciate your \u201ckokua\u201d (respectful assistance, help) for our Indigenous peoples\u2019 ways and land rights!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zionism is the most successful land back movement, so far, in modern human history!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">D\u2019var Torah Indigenous stories are for teaching real life history, too, not just mythic history. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_150011289.png?resize=969%2C1024\" alt=\"Pagan Roman temple challenges history of Christianity\" class=\"wp-image-1625\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_150011289.png?resize=969%2C1024 969w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_150011289.png?resize=284%2C300 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_150011289.png?resize=768%2C811 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240106_150011289.png?w=1080 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve known that pagans worshiped at their [Roman] temples in the 4th century\u201d \u2013 the temples erected to worship Roman Emperor Constantine\u2019s divine ancestors, the Flavian family \u2013 \u201cbut those findings have all been small and inconsequential. And we\u2019ve known that Christians supported the imperial [Roman] cult.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt shows the continuities between the classical pagan world and early Christian Roman world that often get blurred out or written out of the sweeping historical narratives,\u201d Douglas Boin, Spello excavations researcher, said in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we Southwest Asian peoples keep saying, Christianity was invented in the Aegean north in the 4th century CE by way of appropriation of an Indigenous Judean people\u2019s ancestral and modern (for their time!) apocalyptic literatures! The 1st century CE proto-rabbi Jesus of Nazareth that lived in Judea was, by the Gospels of Mark and Matthew (written in Koine Greek in Judea, unlike Aegean Christian books), a devout follower of Torah law (as he interpreted it) and an anti-Colonial Zionist seeking the overthrow of \u201cthe Beast\u201d, the Roman occupiers of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere was no separation between religion and state in the Roman world, and Romans\u2019 proud sense of patriotism informed all of their public activities, including their worship,\u201d Boin told Newsweek. \u201cIn an empire where people spoke multiple languages, lived across three continents, and held on to their own local traditions, the imperial cult brought people together around common ideals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/pagan-temple-challenges-history-roman-christianity-1858210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/pagan-temple-challenges-history-roman-christianity-1858210<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archaeologists\u2019 Pagan Temple Find Challenges History of Roman Christianity<br>Jan 05, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, D\u2019var Torah Indigenous stories are for teaching real life history, too, not just mythic history. For another example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monotheism was invented during this CE period of human history. For Jews, before Maimonides, we were henotheists \u2013 monolatrous to only one \u201cGod\u201d, while still recognizing the very real existence of other \u201cGods\u201d. Further, a Jew (yehudi) is a descendant of the people of Judah (yehudah, Judea). Jew is not a Roman pagan term, as some non-Jews apparently believe! Further, the people of Israel became a distinct people in Moab, then moved north and west to establish our own kingdoms, so says our Judean ancestral writings known as Torah. Correct understanding of our Canaanite Hebrew language, our words and origin stories, and the history of our SWANA Indigenous people really does matter, folks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We Jews are a SWANA Indigenous people, who have always been defined by our halachot\/mitzvot (our people\u2019s laws) regardless of our various and ever changing beliefs. Conversion is a Colonial Christian word forced upon Indigenous peoples, and to \u201cconvert\u201d into the Jewish people does not mean the same thing as in Colonial Christianity and Colonial Islam. To successfully \u201cconvert\u201d into an Indigenous people, in this case the Jewish people, you must face a community that is willing to teach you our Indigenous Judean people\u2019s ways, you must be willing to study for years and, then, if a beit din (an Indigenous people\u2019s court of law) rules that you are now Indigenous, in this case a Jew, then now you are an Indigenous person \u2013 a member of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240112_181939759.png?resize=1024%2C670\" alt=\"Jewish Indigenous Stories and Indigenous Ways\" class=\"wp-image-1626\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240112_181939759.png?resize=1024%2C670 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240112_181939759.png?resize=300%2C196 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240112_181939759.png?resize=768%2C503 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Polish_20240112_181939759.png?w=1080 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le\u2019avdah ul\u2019shamrah, to work and to guard the land, and to be wary of tza\u2019ar ba\u2019alei chayim, the suffering of animals \u2013 this is what it means to be Indigenously Jewish! These d\u2019varim, Torah words, of our people, it\u2019s not a choice, but a divine obligation upon all human beings. The rainbow was set in the skies above after our exile from gan eyden, YHWH\u2019s garden. Why then? To break the curse of drought with a flood, with the waters needed for life upon the land. If we don\u2019t sustain the Earth and her ecosystems, we will be driven from paradise. Worse, we will bring an extinction of the species\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/indigenous-stories-and-indigenous-ways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/indigenous-stories-and-indigenous-ways\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">META Description : D\u2019var Torah Indigenous Stories for a correct understanding of our SWANA Jewish Canaanite Hebrew language, ancestral stories, and history!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more blogs available on this site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/\">click here now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to the book directly below. Touch the cover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Indigenous Judaism for the 21st Century CE: This is my story as a Jew within this human world of planet Earth.\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&amp;linkCode=kpd&amp;ref_=k4w_oembed_GkbS579woBfIQR&amp;asin=B0CHL1KL2V&amp;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read this book and you won\u2019t disparage the Jewish people nor Israel ever again! This book exposes the Colonial lie of false equivalency between Jews (Indigenous Judeans of the land of Israel) and Christians and Muslims (world colonizing European and Arab religions), that have been assimilating Indigenous lands worldwide for 1,600 years in the names of Jewish ancestors. Zionism is the Jewish people\u2019s \u201cland back\u201d movement. Israel\u2019s successful full decolonization is every Indigenous People\u2019s\/Nation\u2019s hope!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judaism, Judea-people-ism, is the ethno-religion of the Canaan Jewish people of the land of Israel (Judea-Samaria). Judaism is not a \u201cfaith\u201d religion, like Colonial Christianity and Colonial Islam. A correct understanding of our Canaanite Hebrew language, our words and ancestral stories, and the history of our SWANA Indigenous people really does matter, folks! 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