Well, My Friend's Right: Good Is Called Bad, and Vice Versa

"'This world is up side down, a Billionaire dies and all laments his death cause he gave to the world a computer, tablets phones etc.. but has you stop for a moment to think how many people have die the last minute and many passed to the eternity without the love of G-d in them? So please get over it, one human being is not more valuable than another human being, we all have been created in the image of G-d. The last time I check the most extraordinary human being who ever lived, die on a cross not far from where I am sitting, and G-d rose him from the dead, he literally has impacted humanity without ipads and iphones through out the ages... that my 
friend is awesome!'"


To be fair, as far as we all know, Steve Jobs died a Buddhist who gained the whole world yet lost his soul. Perhaps in his last days he became a Christian, or became a Christian even earlier and was just quiet about it. Still:


   
¹² “Therefore you, O son of man, say to the children of your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; nor shall the righteous be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.’ ¹³ When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be remembered; but because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die. ¹⁴ Again, when I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right, ¹⁵ if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die. ¹⁶ None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
¹⁷ “Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ But it is their way which is not fair! ¹⁸ When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. ¹⁹ But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it. ²⁰ Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his own ways.”


(From Ezekiel 33, NKJV)

"Crazy", Am I? If I Wasn't (Viewed As) Such, I'd Worry.

"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written: 

      “ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
      And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”<sup>[a]

20</sup> Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. ²² For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; ²³ but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks^[b] foolishness, ²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

²⁶ For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. ²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; ²⁸ and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, ²⁹ that no flesh should glory in His presence. (1 Corinthians 1:18-29, NKJV)"

In fact, Youcef Khanaderi has a honor in being thought crazy by his fellow Iranians, just as Stephen was thought crazy by many of his fellow Jews:

⁵¹ “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so doyou. ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, ⁵³ who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”


⁵⁴ When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. ⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, ⁵⁶ and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” ⁵⁷ Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; ⁵⁸ and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” ⁶⁰ Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. (From Acts 7)


So if I ever have to be killed like Stephen or Youcef Khanaderi, so be that I be killed. I'll have my soul, I'll have a new life, and I'll have hope in a resurrection.

I Wonder What Skylar Curtis And Others Will Do With This

Not that I agree that Jesus endorsed Kabbalah by any stretch, but  I wonder what Skylar Curtis is going to do with this, since Kabbalah is a P'rushi thing. She can scoff now, but she has to practice not suppressing and dismissing evidence as an aspiring lawyer. In this case, P'rushim endorse the Kara'i Yeshua as Mashiach; and Skylar will have to dispute these P'rushim talmidim. Item:

"Rabbi Yehoshua ben Yoseph (Jesus the son of Joseph) was the Messiah ben Joseph sent to bring the energy and Light of the Torah to the entire pagan and gentile world."


 Item:

"All the time i knew he nevet tried to install a new religion, but to teach to all the people the truth about our Creator… Thnks a lot Billy…" -commenter Rajel

More Lies From Skylar Curtis

Her blog entry "Too Funny Not To Post" is full of more lies. e.g.:

• Apparently I've got some chutzpah! My first YouTube attack. I guess I should feel honored. Also, you should know that my "gentile blood" qualifies me as a mudblood. Don't tell Delores!

I don't get what my status has to do with anything, but I never understood trolling and personal attacks in the first place. Feel free to report it to YouTube as cyberbullying, as it most certainly is for calling me "vile" and a "mudblood."

I never called her a mudblood. As a mixed-blooded Jew or "mamzerah"; I avoid calling anyone anything like that. I'm also against Jewish Supremacism.

• Since the author doesn't seem to understand the point of my post, it's this: new Jews and new soon-to-be Jews, don't be misled by this horse manure. Seek out reliable sources, and don't take halachic advice from someone without knowing where it comes from. 

I understood; that's why I responded. As I said, who is she-- a gentile-- to be telling fellow Jews not to investigate Messianic Judaism (Christianity), of which both Jews and gentiles are a part?

• That includes me, and that's why I'm very clear that I am no halachic source. And "Hebrew Christians" who are trying to convert orthodox? You're the ones who are causing today's orthodox conversion process to be hellish. Sincere Jewish neshamas who actually want to affiliate with the Jewish people are pushed and pushed and pushed away because "Hebrew Christians" hide their motives and lie to rabbis in order to secure conversions, and you know, make aliyah to Israel.
  

This whole paragraph is disingenuous and hutzpah laced on her part. For example, long before Messianic Jews got involved, the P'rushim "ravim" were making conversion to be straight from Gei Hinnom instead of allowing conversion as it had been during HaYamim Rut v'Na'omi.

So I Have the Draft of the Novel Finished

Now I have to do the pre-final draft. I can simply pull stuff from blog posts, Ancestry, etc. to fill in what I couldn't or didn't put in the first draft, handwritten. The pre-final draft will be given the Steve Jobs treatment-- i.e., typed! Remember that the novel is Great-Grandma Czarnecki's story with just names, dates, etc. imagined or used fictiously.

I Still Can't Dates Right (I Was Never Good At Math)

For one, I'm working on a novel which should actually be finished by later today (October 6, not 5th; meaning that's now... I still can't get it... Tishri.... let's see... 29/1, 30/2, 1/3... 6/8. So, Tishri 8th and thus 'Erev Lifnei 'Erev Shabbat. I'm still working on learning Ivrit, by the way. Anyway...).

When calculating the dates (since the novel is Great-Grandma Czarnecki's story up to Pop-Pop's murder of her with just names, etc. from my imagination or rendered fictiously with a few exceptions), I originally meant to set dates up by 32 years. Because of a calculating mistake, I had to change the starting date from September 26, 1881 (Pop-Pop Allen's and Great-Great-Granduncle Frank Fosko Sr.'s birthday; and Great-Grandma's "new" birthday, to symbolically unite both sets of great-grandparents and for convenience). I had to set everything up by 22 years instead, and change the starting date to 1891.

By the way, "finished by later today" means by the end of Tishri 8th. And rest in shalom, Steve Jobs-- Apple lost its core.

I Think That The Family's (Still) Shocked That We're Jewish Or That I Found Out

The idea sure scared Grandma. As I've said, let's be fair-- he mother was that koferah Mary Rusnak Gaydos. How you can believe in Jesus and follow FDR's Anti-Semitic, isolationist policy and not help relatives who wouldn't reach out to your "meshumadah" side otherwise is beyond me-- at least in some ways. Not that Janet Rozzi minds defending (in her eyes) dear old "Grandma", by the way-- what a shame that a Levit (Levite; i.e., "Levan") and Yisakharit (Issacharite; "Dov", "Bear" instead of "Donkey" ) refuses to know better; which goes for the Lavin-McMahons as well (I believe that Ally Shumack is one of them somehow; and if not, either way, she got mad.). I can tell by who un- or de-friends me on Facebook, by the way (I'll name more names if I have to. My family is not above reproach.).

As for Pop-Pop... and I don't know if he (or Grandma) knows our tribal origins; but they're sure not helping. The one clue might be Danilowicz; but that could simply be "ben Dani'el". Meanwhile, Michelle can do the gesture l'yad shel habrakha shel koheinim pretty well (She learned and picked it up from a kohein named Craig Zolotrow.).

By the way, I wanted the DNA tests from Dad, Pop-Pop, et. al. to check for kohein v'Levi DNA markers. I know that Dad is my dad, and that my murderous granddad is my granddad; and the only reason that I can stand being related to them is because I'm Jewish through them-- and as I said, what was Pop-Pop doing murdering his Jewish mother?