"So what percentage of Jews actually reject the Talmud?"

That's a good question. An exact percentage can't be taken down or ascertained. This is because of three things:

• Even some Karaites and quite a few Messianic Jews will take parts of the Talmud that are not in contradistinction from Scripture and follow them or implement them--e.g., Hanukkah; the names of the months. By the way, the Pharisee name "Nisan" and Hanukkah both appear in Scripture.
• There are Humanistic and other Jews (e.g., Yaron Yadan) who reject Tanakh altogether because they intertwine it with the Talmud. Yaron Yadan tellingly states, for example, "The prophet Ezekiel contradicts the words of the Torah...Know that this contradiction is found even within the Torah itself, for in Deuteronomy (24:16) it is written, "Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime." The Gemara in Sanhedrin 27b reconciles the contradiction: "'visit[s] the guilt of the parents upon the children'! On those who continue their fathers' deeds." That is, the children are punished (for their parents' guilt?) when they continue to sin. See Ibn Ezra on Exodus 20:4, who went on at length about the reconciliation of contradictions." Yaron Yadan himself has the trouble of both separating the Torah from the Talmud, and separating--for instance--individual punishments and curses on the family line as a punishment to the family's partriarch or matriarch--viz. direct and indirect consequences.
• The percentage of Karaite, Messianic, and other--both Patrilineal, Matrilineal, and both-parent--Jews who reject the Talmud entirely can't be ascertained. Om an incidental-but-perhaps-related note, we can't even account for how many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust--usually only Matrilineal Jews who are more than a 1/16th or so Jewish are counted (though Scripture--e.g., Galatians 4:22-24 and 1 Chronicles 7:14--accounts that Isaac was the first Jew, and that Manasseh children were 1/16th Jewish and still Jewish).

My Resume (E-mail Me For More)

Miss Nicole V. Czarnecki

103 A_W, Erickson Hall, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle u Baltimore, Maryland, 21250-0001 u (443) 538-6482u nickidewbear@aol.com

Objective _____________________________________________________________________

To receive an internship during the 2012-2013 collegiate year, or to receive at least an entry-level job upon or shortly after receipt of B.A. in Political Science degree (with the receipt of said degree expected to occur in May 2013).

Profile ________________________________________________________________________

Born prematurely on January 23, 1990 in the Jewish Diaspora—in her case, Baltimore, Maryland—, Miss Nicole V. Czarnecki has overcome many challenges in her life. Among her challenges have been and are the challenges that she had and has had to face as a prematurely-born infant who was diagnosed with Diplegic Spastia Cerebral Palsy. Also among her challenges have been those that she had and has faced due to being a product of an interethnic (Ashkenazic Jewish and Iberian-Western European), an interfaith (Crypto-Jewish Christian and Western European Christian), and a broken-family (divorced-parent, single-mom, remarried-dad) home.

Perhaps because of her challenge-filled background, Miss Czarnecki went from wanting to be a country-music singer to focusing on being a significant figure and key player in the journalistic, political, legal, and/or cultural worlds. She determined in high school to major in Political Science when she went to college, and to become either a lawyer, a journalist (and, as she likes to say, “to be Geraldo Rivera without being Geraldo Rivera”), an analyst or a commentator, or perhaps even a public official—such as a United States Congresswoman or Senator, or (God willing) a Messianic Jewish/Jewish Christian Member of the Israeli Knesset.

In other words, she—as a Messianic Jew who has overcome many challenges and been made better for her challenge-filled background—is determined to make a political and cultural impact in the Jewish Diaspora (specifically her Diasporan birthplace, the United States of America), Israel, and—if possible—even the rest of the world. Holding a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (as of May 2013), she hopes to use her degree to make her aspired-to political and cultural affect.

Skills Summary _________________________________________________________________

u        Social networking, including blogging u        Can read, write, and speak English (Native Language) u        Can speak, read, and write some Spanish (Ancestral Language—great-three-times-granddad on maternal side from Spain; took Spanish in senior year of high school and three semesters at Howard Community College) u        Can speak some Hebrew and Yiddish, and understand some transliterated Hebrew and Yiddish (Ancestral language—relatives on paternal side were and are Crypto Jews; mainly—if not entirely—self taught/no formal or other classes taken) u        Critical thinking u        Ability to form own opinions and have understanding of why she believes what she believes u        Research and investigative skills (e.g., Amateur genealogical and historical research skills) u        Amateur photography skills u        Other skills (Please inquire in interview or by e-mail correspondence.)

Professional Experience __________________________________________________________

None—Disabled (With Diplegic Spastia Cerebral Palsy, from Birth on January 23, 1990)

Employment History ____________________________________________________________

None—Disabled (With Diplegic Spastia Cerebral Palsy, from Birth on January 23, 1990)

Education _____________________________________________________________________

university of maryland, baltimore county – Catonsville, Greater Baltimore, Maryland
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Degree, Expected to receive in May 2013    GPA: 2.75/4.0 (As of October 15, 2012)
(Expected to complete 120-121 credits by May 2013.)

"Toby Keith Heresy"...Bingo!

Some smart Googler, Yahoo! Searcher, or other type of searcher got down that Toby Keith is a heretic--for which, especially given his age and status, there is no excuse. He has the time, resources, and years under his belt to use for the purpose of looking up the important doctrine of eternal security. Nobody is forcing him to continue to go to the heretical Free Will Baptist Church--he is able, rich, and old enough to join another church; and one which does not teach that one can lose and subsequently regain his or her salvation.

The Free Will Baptist Church may as well join the Roman or another type of Catholic Church, anyway--after all, they teach the loss and possible regain of salvation; and "Catholic School Girls Rule", according to one of their most-famous members. Take from that what you will, by the way, but I find very sick (and people to whom I have talked find very sick) that a 51-year-old man who has a wife and children, and lives where only one Catholic school--a PK-8 Catholic school--is would record a song with that title.

toby keith heresy

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If "Norman, Oklahoma" on Yahoo! is Toby Keith, He'd Better Read Carefully...

I am not afraid of you. I stand by everything that I have said about you--not to mention your daughter and your son (who blocked me, and good for him--I should have never followed someone as worldly as him in the first place, anyway. By the way, I did unfollow your daughter later as well). Also, I used to be fan of yours--I used to like you; I used to respect you--no more, and not since "Honky Tonk University" came out. Furthermore, you know that if nothing that I or anyone else have said about you was true, you would have sued by now--you are not a man above that. After all, you beat up a guy instead of letting security do their job and song stole from Robert Earl Keen--even though you tweaked the lyrics--, in addition to cheating on Tricia by doing those nasty videos--e.g., "Stays In Mexico". Since looking at another woman with lust is adultery, laying with women who aren't your wives in a hammock in the way in which you were laying with them is no-question adultery.

Have a nice life--and if all of the stories that I've heard about you are true, I hope that you someday get exposed for the kind of man that you are.

   

Norman, Oklahoma arrived from search.yahoo.com on "The Nicole Factor: So I Found Krystal "Krystal Keith" Covel's Twitter Account, But..." by searching forkrystal keith covel.

I've Covered This Before, But...

After updating my Facebook statuses and tweeting (and after a nasty, Anti-Semitic comment that was made by a Facebook friend's friend), I have to re-cover why Jews killed but did not murder Jesus. The distinction involves mens rea--that is, I have to show how Jews killed Jesus (no mens rea) & how gentiles murdered Jesus (mens rea).

The distinction is important because we Jews honestly thought that we were righteously administering the death penalty. Gentiles, on the other hand, knew that Jesus was innocent, riled up misguided Jews, murdered Him, and then blamed the Jews for murder.In other words, we had to kill our Passover sacrifice whereas gentiles knowingly participated in the murder of a Just Man.The problem for Jews is when we knowingly & blatantly flout our Passover sacrifice. Most--e.g., Paul--did and do not intentionally do this. In fact, Paul writes down that he did what he did in ignorance (cf. 1 Timothy 1:12-17), whereas Pilate even washed his hands of the Blood.

To begin, I quote the Anti-Semitic comment:

Nicolaas Prinsloo · Friends with [a friend]

I believe the jews our actually jews but I'm also reminded that it is the jews who crucified our Lord and for years these jews have been making up propaganda (beliar)... 
I believe in the tribes of Israel... History repeats itself!

What Nicholas meant by "crucified" is "murdered"--and Nicholas is absolutely wrong. "Kill" is different from "murder". I don't mind saying that Yeshua had to die for my sin because: 1) Not that He actually had to, but He chose to. 2) Who else could die for me sin but me or G-d? 3) The Lamb had to be killed--you just don't have a Passover sacrifice to partake of without a Lamb being killed. What the Romans meant by "kill", though, as you pointed out, was murder--which, as you also pointed out, we didn't do. The Romans murdered Jesus and deliberately perverted "murder" into "kill". 

The Romans were just as sneaky as Pilate--they knew that Jesus was innocent. "When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it.”" (Matthew 27:24) Pilate deliberately riled up a misguided crowd then blamed them for murder.


Even the Talmud, meanwhile, admits that we killed Jesus, that we saw to Jesus' death--it does not say that we murdered him. Why? Because we thought that we were fulfilling the mitzvot to kill a bad guy--e.g., Deuteronomy 13. Actually, the Talmud states, "Ulla retorted: 'Do you suppose that he was one for whom a defence could be made? Was he not a Mesith [enticer], concerning whom Scripture says, Neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him?36 With Yeshu however it was different, for he was connected with the government [or royalty, i.e., influential].'" (Sanhedrin 43a) We were blinded by the Veil of Moses (which was supposed to take effect like that) and the Talmud. So, we had no mens rea.

But we do have His blood on our hands, but in a way to cover us--not to hold us guilty for murder. "And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children.”" (Matthew 27:25) We were misguidedly saying, "Look; we don't mind that we killed a guy for apostasy"--we honestly thought that we were doing righteousness and earning merit with G-d. So, that's why the Scriptures say: " eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God." (Romans 2:7-11). So, we're in trouble if we flout our Passover sacrifice if and once we know better; the gentiles are in trouble for murder--and how'd you like to have answer for murder if you didn't admit that you're guilty of it? By the same token, what benefit do you get out of flouting your Passover sacrifice?

Paul even writes down that, like many fellow Jews, he didn't know better and honestly thought that he was doing right (cf., as aforementioned, 1 Timothy 1:12-17) It's a paradox--we aren't guilty of murder, but we're guilty of being ignorant if we've heard that Yeshua was our Passover sacrifice and we flout that, anyway (cf., e.g., Romans 10:2:3-4, 14-21).

In conclusion, when gentiles (and even fellow Jews) state that "The Jews killed [viz. "murdered"] Jesus!", we need to say that, "Of course, we killed our Passover sacrifice--how absurd is that the Romans blame us for murder when sacrificing a lamb is not murdering it?" After all, Yeshua stated, "“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”" (Luke 23:24)

By the way, this puts Pilate in a different light, doesn't it? Think about why Pilate really wanted to release Yeshua to the Jews:

¹³ Then Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, ¹⁴ said to them, “You have brought this Man to me, as one who misleads the people. And indeed, having examined Him in your presence, I have found no fault in this Man concerning those things of which you accuse Him; ¹⁵ no, neither did Herod, for I sent you back to him;^[c] and indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by Him. ¹⁶ I will therefore chastise Him and release Him” ¹⁷ (for it was necessary for him to release one to them at the feast).^[d]

¹⁸ And they all cried out at once, saying, “Away with this Man, and release to us Barabbas”— ¹⁹ who had been thrown into prison for a certain rebellion made in the city, and for murder.

²⁰ Pilate, therefore, wishing to release Jesus, again called out to them. ²¹ But they shouted, saying, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!”

²² Then he said to them the third time, “Why, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. I will therefore chastise Him and let Him go.”

²³ But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests prevailed.^[e] 24 So Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they requested. ²⁵ And he released to them^[f] the one they requested, who for rebellion and murder had been thrown into prison; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

He wanted them to eventually murder Yeshua and be blamed for murder--he wanted to look innocent and not release Yeshua right away. He had even been warned. Also by the way, the envy of the Jews was an inadvertent sin--and what does one do for inadvertent sin? He or she offers a sacrifice and/or flees to a city of refuge.

Flee to the Passover Sacrifice and High Priest who is Yeshua, and into the fold of the New Jerusalem. 

Bible Literalism

To begin, not everything in the Bible is literal--some things (such as creationism, the Flood, the burning bush, and the Exodus) are literal. Some are figurative. Being a Jew (as I am and if you are a Jew--given that the person for whom I originally wrote this is Jewish), you might be familiar with the figurative, "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." (See http://karaite-korner.org/tefillin.shtml). In context, the verses are "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."

Now could you write all of Torah (even all of Tanakh) on your doorposts and gates? Sure; but that would take time, effort, and resources. Even tefillin and mezuzot don't contain all the words of Torah (See http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/272660/jewish/Making-Tefillin.htm and http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/278460/jewish/Guide.htm.). Others are obviously similies, metaphors, and symbolisms--which could fall into the figurative category. Now, did every word of Tanakh literally come from G-d's mouth and finger? Yes (cf., e.g., Exodus 31:18 and Deuteronomy 9:10). But as I said, not everything in the Bible is literal--for example (and I ran out of characters in the original answer), "I am the rose of Sharon, And the lily of the valleys." Is Song 2:1 literally saying that he's a bunch of flowers? No. 

I Saw This Earlier Today, But...

Now I have time to share this:

   

Madison, Wisconsin arrived from google.com on "The Nicole Factor: So Great-Grandma Czarnecki Was Jewish After All.." by searching for is czarnecki a jewish name?.

10:36:55 -- 13 hours 28 mins ago

    

Longmont, Colorado arrived from google.com on "The Nicole Factor: Part Six of My Stage32 Submission" by searching for francis a. “red” czarnecki.

10:03:30 -- 14 hours 1 min ago

What an impact that my blog is making! Furthermore (unless just some relative, family friend, or whoever else changed his or her location online, is on vacation, moved, etc.), what an impact Granduncle Red made! Granduncle Red's is the kind of life that I want to live--I grant that he got Grandaunt Judy (then Judith Ann Thomas) pregnant outside of marriage, was an alcoholic, etc.; but he literally gave up his baseball scholarship to do the right thing by marrying his then-pregnant girlfriend, and he was known and remembered by all who knew him as a nice and righteous man.

Granduncle Red aspired to be famous baseball player, too--and he could have been one--, but he knew that doing righteousness and making an impact was far better than being famous. Francis "Red" Anthony Czarnecki, June 21, 1940 - July 9, 1985--zichrona l'bracha.