As A Jew, I Thoroughly Resent Any Portrayal of Jesus As Black or White

Dr. Marylin Kulik of Berkely College cites a fairly-often-used map that suggests, if not shows, that Jesus was Olive-- not Black (shakar), White (lavan), Yellow (tzahov), Red ('Adom, though 'Adam was 'Adom, but Iraqi 'Adom-- red or ruddy), or Brown (hum), but Olive (zayit). The Diaspora (HaGalut) left many of us looking all the different colors, though some of us retained the Olive complexion (including the Olive complexion in my own Ashkenazic Jewish family).

So the more that I'm becoming aware and getting closer to my Jewish heritage, the more that I resent any portrayal of Jesus as Black or White.

Some People Are Total Idiots and Mormons; And Saying That Is Being Nice...

For example, some sicko thought that he was being funny by joking that he helped a pervert commit a crime against a child-- or if he wasn't joking, he outright bragged that he was an accessory to a crime. There is nothing funny about crime, let alone any crimes-- especially certain deviance-based crimes-- against children. In fact, this person who joked about being an accessory (actually, an outright accomplice) to the crime would be brutalized by the inmates in jail or prison really quickly-- inmates don't like sexual crimes, especially any sexual-deviance crimes against children.

As Jerry Sandusky will learn and my sister told me that one inmate learned (In fact, our friend told her that he heard that the inmate was murdered, dismembered, and bagged that he was so despised.), even the hardest of criminals dislike and hate the hardest-of-the-hardest criminals.

And tzedek-- karma, justice-- does bite.

Here's Something Interesting...

So some search keywords on my blog stats turned this up:

elizabethkostka@aol.com

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covel sundbrae wedding

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geraldo rivera's producers

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Now I'm going to see if Elizabeth Kostka is a cousin. Keep in mind that Elizabeth Helen Trudniak married Paul Frank Kostka; and they had a son, Paul Frank Kostka, Jr.. I emailed her to see if we are related and will let you know what happens.

Just a Few Examples: You Might Be Antimissionary If...

1. You don't believe in Jesus.
2. You not only don't believe in Jesus, but you don't tolerate that anyone else does.
3. You've sat or you'd sit shiva even for your Anusi loved ones, or who you now consider ex-loved ones.
4. You like to pretend that Jews for Jesus (Hebrew Christians, etc.) aren't Jewish and are nothing but Pseudo-Jewish Anti Semites who know nothing about or of Jewish culture (as someone accused me of).
5. You allow anyone to believe in anyone or anything but Jesus; or if you're more extreme, only Judaism and especially not in Jesus.
6. You support groups such as Yad L'Achim, the Jewish Internet Defense Force, the Jewish Defense League, and Jews for Judaism; or on the other extreme, the Union of Reform Judaism and Central Conference of American "Rabbi"s, and the Anti Defamation League. You also support Antimissionary and other haredi and Likud, or URJ and CCAR policy.
7. You devote whole websites or sections of websites to Antimissionarism.
8. You link to Antimissionary websites.
9. You go to Messianic Jewish websites (e.g., Jews for Jesus' website) just to attack and persecute Messianic Jews.
10. Most or all of your life is devoted to being an Antimissionary.
11. You don't allow Messianic Jews and those tolerant of Messianic Jews to have freedom of speech, religion, the press, or other freedoms.
12. Your favorite sexual position is either "Missionary" by a different name or not "Missionary". (I'm sure that there are Antmissionarys like that.)
13. You sit in a yeshiva and are a haredi talmid l'talmud-Talmud Bavli, yom l'yom v'laila l'laila; and read Tanakh only in an Antimissionary way.
14. You support terrorism against those such as Ami Ortiz.
15. You burn or otherwise destroy sefirot such as full copies of Tanakh-- Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim, Brit Chadashah; and you complain about Jewish and other Christian sefirot, websites, etc. when nobody's forcing you to engage or utilize them.
16. You constantly twist out of context or have never even read-- and still twist out of context-- Brit Chadashah.
17. You blame Paul for saying that Yeshua ze Mashiach when Paul just affirmed what Yeshua said.
18. You're Abraham Foxman, Skylar Curtis, Noah David Simon, David Appletree, or any person or organization who supports them.
19. You compare every Jewish Christian to or stereotype every Jewish Christian as Pablo Christiani and Nicolas Donin; or you even you compare Jews for Jesus to the Nazis who tried to destroy all Jews, including Messianic Jews.
20. You consider Messianic Jewish websites and organizations as hate, impostor, or similar types of websites and organizations.
21.  You spit, plug your ears, usr hand sanitizer, or whatever else every time you hear the name "Jesus", see a picture of Jesus, etc.

You Can Like A Person's Product Without Liking Them...

For example; I like Craig Rivera's reporting on "Geraldo at Large", but I do not like the man. For one, he is unbelievably liberal: even on his own Facebook page, he likes such shows as "The Daily Show" and the whole of OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network). For two, he supported Barack Obama in 2008 (Don't believe me? Look it up yourself.). For three, is not friends with his own children on Facebook; and we were actually friends on Facebook for a while, but he defriended me (and I maintain my claim that we're-- however distantly related-- related until I die or get Raptured. I didn't even bring up that he and Geraldo look too strikingly like Dad and Uncle Gary-- Michelle did. Besides, we're all Jewish and from the same area-- and there was an Abe Friedman in Suwalki who posted on Ancestry.com; so we're distantly related, Craig-- get used to it. And as I said, I don't care for money just because I'm a relative. Besides, I'm so used crazy relatives; that if and when I a connection to Craig Rivera, I might laugh-- I have plenty of meshugene mispoche who aren't talking to me and others.).

As for Matt and Marcela "Mia" J. Danilowicz, I'm still boycotting and encouraging the boycotting of their products-- no matter how much I like or I'd like their products-- because they're known and confirmed family members who need to be taught that you don't get away withreating and abusing family members in any way, shape, or form.

By the way, the they-look-alike point was first made in "The Fam'ly and Parodies" album. I was joking about two uncles with cigars, and...

Not my fault that a joke about two uncles who do smoke turned into the fact that Geraldo and Craig all too look like...

And this was taken on July 22, 1989. The "Life" photo above was taken on or around April 18, 1994-- same time period, 5-year-difference.

And the baby (now 17-year-old Austin Rivera) looks like my cousin Scott (who is a year and some months younger) when he was a baby (and I sadly do not have a baby picture of Scott, although I remember what he looked like-- I was about to be six when he was born).

And distant cousins can and do often look alike-- so there you go (and Mia might always hate how she looks like Aunt Mary and Kayla, by the way, since I mentioned it; but I don't care if she likes my observations or not).

Mean But Poigniant (And Maybe Funny)

@H8ersH8enManwell

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@nealbrennan too soon? http://twitter.com/H8ersH8en/status/135427405337726976/photo/1

@H8ersH8en @nealbrennan No. Michael Jackson was a child molester who got away with pedophilia as Casey Anthony got away with murder.

(And Michael Jackson was a pedophile. That the boy was scared into retracting his statement when he clearly saw viteligo in a certain area, as he described, is sad.).

@H8ersH8en @nealbrennan However, a picture of when he was whiter would've made the point. When he was normal, he was okay, as far as known.

(But who knows what he was doing before the Pepsi-commercial set fire?)

Two Sacrifices and A Stumbling Point For Many Non-Messianic Jews

So which is or are what the korban Yeshua relates to? HaAkedah v'HaKorban Pesach or HaKorban-Haben-Melekh-shel-Mo'av? Parsha Vayera contains Parsha v'Haftarah Vayera, Bereshit 18-22 and Malakhim Bet 4. Beginning with a parsha m'Parsha Vayera:

Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
⁸ And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
⁹ Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. ¹⁰ And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
¹¹ But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”
¹² And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
¹³ Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide;^[b] as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”
¹⁵ Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, ¹⁶ and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son— ¹⁷ blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. ¹⁸ In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” ¹⁹ So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

Then m'Malakhim Bet, right before HaHaftarah:

 ²⁰ Now it happened in the morning, when the grain offering was offered, that suddenly water came by way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.
²¹ And when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to bear arms and older were gathered; and they stood at the border. ²² Then they rose up early in the morning, and the sun was shining on the water; and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood. ²³ And they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely struck swords and have killed one another; now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!”
²⁴ So when they came to the camp of Israel, Israel rose up and attacked the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they entered their land, killing the Moabites. ²⁵ Then they destroyed the cities, and each man threw a stone on every good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped up all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees. But they left the stones of Kir Haraseth intact. However the slingers surrounded and attacked it.
²⁶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not. ²⁷ Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall; and there was great indignation against Israel. So they departed from him and returned to their own land.

So, which is hakorban Yeshua? HaAkedah-Akedot or avodah zarah? Look at the differences: Yeshua is Jewish and came to save Israel. Mo'av attempted to destroy Yisra'el v'Yehudah. Yeshua offered himself, fulfilling "“My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.”"-- and only G-d can die to save others from sin. Hamelekh-Mo'avi was not offering his firstborn son for selfless reasons but to try to win a war against the Yisra'elim v'Yehudim.

Also, hakorban Yeshua was wanted by those who thought that he committed avodah zarah. "Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall; and there was great indignation against Israel. So they departed from him and returned to their own land." The original Hebrew reads, "Vaiyikkach et-benov habbechor asher-yimloch tachtav vaiya'alehu olah al-hachomah vayhi ke·tzef-gadol al-Yisra'el vaiyis'u me'alav vaiyashuvu la'aretz. פ"

'Al could mean, as one translator put it,  "upon" as in that Israel was disgusted. "Following this, such great anger came upon Isra'el that they left him and went back to their own land." So they were disgusted with the korban of haben shel hamelekh-Mo'avi.

Many Yehudim see hakorban Yeshua as parallel to the korban-haben shel hamelekh-Mo'avi. For example, "Who died on the cross? Was it Jesus-the-god, or was it Jesus-the-human? If it was Jesus-the-god, Jews don't believe that God can die. If it was Jesus-the-human, then all Christians have in the death of Jesus was a human death, a human sacrifice. Jews believe that God hates the very idea of human sacrifice."

But these Yehudim miss what Avraham said plus:

But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”
¹² And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

HaMelekh-Adonai is not just HaMelekh-Adonai; but also Adonai, and not by coincidence. Therefore, to the Antimissionaries in particular:

Romans 11:8-10

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁸ Just as it is written:


“ God has given them a spirit of stupor,
Eyes that they should not see
And ears that they should not hear,
To this very day.”<sup>[a]

9</sup> And David says:


“ Let their table become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a recompense to them.
¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,
And bow down their back always.”^[b] 

Also:

Mark 12:9-11

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁹ “Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ Have you not even read this Scripture:


‘ The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.
¹¹ This was the LORD’s doing,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”^[a]

 

 

Geraldo's Become More Religious; Let's Just Hope That It's For the Good

By the way, I got Anti-Semitically attacked for explaining this:

My explanation to Anti Semite Jackie White Snow, who subsequently had her comment removed. And Facebook just removed Carole Lynn's Anti-Semitic, personal attack against me (That was quick.).

Meanwhile, what I don't know is how good Geraldo becoming more religiously Jewish is. So, writing "God" as "G#d" on Geraldo's part may well reflect a further gravitation towards Far-Left, Self-Hating-Jewish (e.g., Eric Yoffe and Richard Jacobs), Union-of-Reform-Judaism Judaism. (And I give Masada2000.org this-- they show the damage of not believing that Tanakh is G-d's Word):

So, is that Geraldo is committed to Reform Judaism more necessarily a good thing considering this?

The Reform position is much more complicated. First, how do we know what God wants? Reform asserts that every knowledgeable Jew has an equal claim to a personal understanding of what God wants. Therefore, Movement-wide agreement is, in principle, not necessary nor desirable, nor probably even possible. We each (if we are knowledgeable about the tradition, if we confront it seriously and take its claims and its wisdom seriously) have the ability, the freedom, indeed the responsibility to come to a [potentially differing] personal understanding of what God wants us to do.
But if we are free to choose, what, then, is the point of Torah (and halacha)? For me, and I think for many other Reform Jews as well (though in principle it doesn't matter), it is a record of how our people, in widely differing times, places and societal circumstances, experienced God's presence in their lives, and responded. Each aspect of halacha is a possible gateway to experience of the holy, the spiritual. Each aspect worked for some Jews, once upon a time, somewhere in our history. Each, therefore, has the potential to open up holiness for people in our time as well, and for me personally.
However, each does not have equal claim on us, on me. Much of the halacha arose in societal settings where distance from the peoples in whose midst we lived was desirable. The "outside" world was dark, dangerous and threatening. That is no longer our situation. We welcome, applaud and are uplifted by much of Western culture. Portions of the halacha whose main purpose seems to be to distance us from our surroundings no longer seem functional.

This is also does become problematic especially when one considers, "Some (the agricultural laws, for instance) are no longer possible to observe. Others (the sacrificial laws, for instance) come from a social context so foreign to our own that it would be impossible to conceive modern people finding holiness in their revival."

Yet, if one is lo b'Yeshua, he or she must keep all 613 mitzvot. One either has to follow Torah-Moshe or the Brit Chadashah, which Torah-Moshe pointed to and-- where Torah Moshe does not deliberately contradict Brit Chadashah-- can be followed within the context thereof   (cf. Acts 15, Romans 7:4-25, 14; Galatians 1:6-12, 5:7-12): yeshuat cannot be found in both. The deliberate contradictions, by the way, are explained by Romans 7:4-25 and are exemplified in-- for instance-- D'varim 23:1-8; in where ahavah, rachamim, and other attributes are not shown. e.g. (Emphasis mine):

• ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. ¹² Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.¹³ Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. ¹⁵ For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. ¹⁶ If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. ¹⁷ But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. ¹⁹ For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. ²⁰ Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

• ¹ “He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the LORD.
  ² “One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
  ³ “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever, ⁴ because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia,^[a] to curse you. ⁵ Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you. ⁶ You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
  ⁷ “You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land. ⁸ The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Yezhekel 18:1-9 helps explain Romans 7:4-25 in light of D'varim 23:1-8:

 
 ¹ The word of the LORD came to me again, saying, ² “What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying:

      ‘ The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
      And the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

³ “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel.
       ⁴ “ Behold, all souls are Mine;
      The soul of the father
      As well as the soul of the son is Mine;
      The soul who sins shall die.
       ⁵ But if a man is just
      And does what is lawful and right;
       ⁶ If he has not eaten on the mountains,
      Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
      Nor defiled his neighbor’s wife,
      Nor approached a woman during her impurity;
       ⁷ If he has not oppressed anyone,
      But has restored to the debtor his pledge;
      Has robbed no one by violence,
      But has given his bread to the hungry
      And covered the naked with clothing;
       ⁸ If he has not exacted usury
      Nor taken any increase,
      But has withdrawn his hand from iniquity
      And executed true judgment between man and man;
       ⁹ If he has walked in My statutes
      And kept My judgments faithfully—
      He is just;
      He shall surely live!”
      Says the Lord GOD.
   

Given  Yezhekel 18:1-9, then, D'varim 23:1-8 points to that "sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful." So, since Geraldo is lo b'Yeshua  and has to keep deliberately-hateful mitzvot such as D'varim 23:1-8-- regardless of the Union of Reform Judaism says--, Geraldo is becoming more religious in a bad way by gravitating more toward Reform Judaism (which, as I said, his writing "God" as "G#d" may well reflect).