Repost: By the Way, To Begin The Discussion On Yeshua...

As I've made clear before, I believe Yeshua to be Mashiach. I do not find (for a lack of a better term) a One-in-Three, "Three In One", Pluralunity, or Trinity G-d to be in conflict with the Shema-- after all, both "Eloheinu" (from "Elohim") and "Echad" indicate plurality and unity-- e.g., "And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'" In that context, I believe "us" to be G-d the Father, G-d the Son, and G-d the Holy Spirit. As for as P'rushi tradition, I see nothing wrong with it so long as it does not conflict with Tanakh. In the CJB Translation of the New Testament, from Romans 14: "5 One person considers some days more holy than others, while someone else regards them as being all alike. What is important is for each to be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes a day as special does so to honor the Lord. Also he who eats anything, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; likewise the abstainer abstains to honor the Lord, and he too gives thanks to God."

First Part Of My Rough Draft Of My Final Latin American History Paper

Santo Domingo de Guzmán as Ciudad Trujillo and Its Legacy Thereas

To state the least, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina inevitably and indelibly changed Santo Domingo de Guzmán and the rest of the Dominican Republic. From the Trujillista coup in 1931 to Trujillo’s justifiable murder on May 30, 1961; the Dominican Republic and Santo Domingo—then known as Ciudad Trujillo—received wounds from which will they will never heal, and the scars of those wounds which will never fade—at least not in this lifetime. At least according to Mario Vargas Llosa (among others[1]), “Generalissimo” Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was a brutal, narcissistic, pedophiliac, and Self-Hating-Black[2] man who was perhaps-severely OCD or vain in regards to appearance, not good at being a dad, unfortunately skilled in abusing his training that was acquired with the U.S. Marines, and fiercely patriarchal.

Beginning by examining Trujillo’s ethnic self hatred and racism, one may well quote Vargas Llosa’s obviously-well-researched La Fiesta del Chivo (The Feast of the Goat)[3]. According to Vargas Llosa’s historical fiction novel, Trujillo unequivocally had exchanges such as this:

Hieratic and theatrical, the Generalissimo raised his hands and showed them to his guests:

“For the sake of this country, I have stained these with blood… [t]o keep the blacks from colonizing us again. There were tens of thousands of them, and they were everywhere. If I hadn’t, the Dominican Republic would not exist today. The entire island would be Haiti, as it was in 1840. The handful of white survivors would be serving the blacks. That was my most difficult decision in thirty years of government, Simon.”[4]

            His Black mother, Julia Molina de Trujillo, did not know that her son despised his maternal heritage to that extent, if she knew at all. She also probably had no idea that her son became just like his dad, and his sons became like their dad in turn:

Did she recognize him? Doña Altagracia Julia Molina was ninety-six years old and her mind must be like soapy water in which dissolved…She had always been a very good woman, this illegitimate daughter of Haitian immigrants to San Cristóbal, whose features he and his siblings had inherited, something that never failed to mortify him despite his great love for her. Sometimes, however,…he would think, mockingly: [Dominicans are] licking the ground for a descendant of slaves.” How was the Sublime Matriarch to blame for the black blood that ran in her veins? Doña Julia had lived only for her husband, Don José Trujillo Valdez, an easygoing drinker and womanizer…Congenitally frugal, Doña Julia would have continued to live in the modest little house…where the Generalissimo had been born and spent his childhood, or in one of the huts where her Haitian ancestors had died of hunger.[5]

            As stated, Rafael Trujillo became like Don José instead of Doña Julia, and his sons in turn became like him. As Don José was not a good dad, he was not a good dad; and his sons reflected that:

[“]The great mistake of my life has been…my children. Have you ever seen disasters like them? Their only horizon is booze, pesos, and fucking. Is there one of them capable of continuing my work? Isn’t it a shame that…Ramfis and Radhamés are playing in Paris instead of standing at my side?”[6]

            Trujillo imposed suffering on himself and his family within Ciudad Trujillo and San Cristóbal due to his racist self hatred and addictions to alcohol and sex. Trujillo imposed suffering on the rest of the Dominican Republic by starting with his heinous rapes of girls, including Urania Cabral. Urania Cabral partially describes her forced encounter with Trujillo as follows:

“Let’s go up, beautiful,” he said, his voice somewhat more thickened. “We’ll be more comfortable…I don’t enjoy being brutal to girls. I like them to enjoy it, too…”

“He was seventy and I was fourteen,” Urania specifies for the fifth or tenth time. “We were a mismatched couple…The grandfather and the granddaughter on their way to the bridal chamber.”[7]

            But since the time of Urania’s recounting was in1999-2000—2000 being when Vargas published La Fiesta del Chivo—; Urania must have been younger than 14—since she claims to be 49[8]—and was perhaps, at most, 11 years old. Urania was not the only victim of Trujillo’s pedophilia. Among other victims was 17-year-old Yolanda Esterel.[9] Yolanda must have been treated the same way as Urania was treated by the vain, appearance-obsessed, and perhaps-severely-OCD Trujillo[10]:

He looked at her with surprise and hatred, as if she were a malevolent apparition. Red, fiery, fixed, his eyes froze her. She couldn’t move. Trujillo’s eyes ran over her,…darted to the bloodstained spread, and glared at her again. Choking with revulsion, he ordered:

“Go on, get washed, see what you’ve done to the bed? Get out of here!”

…

“Get out, get out,” he said in a strangled voice. “Tell Benita to bring fresh sheets and a spread and clean up this mess.”

Trujillo had a U.S. Marine as an accomplice in all his brutal, narcissistic, pedophiliac, self-hating, vain, and fiercely-patriarchal work and bad parenting—and one would think that the 2012 Cartagena, Colombia scandal with the U.S. Secret Service was just as bad until he or she met this accomplice of Trujillo.[11] That accomplice was Simon Gittleman.  

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[1] Though Czarnecki relies mostly on Vargas Llosa’s well-prepared work

[2] Mother Julia Molina de Trujillo had Haitian blood.

[3] Vargas Llosa, Mario. The Feast of the Goat. Translated by Edit Grossman. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001.

[4] Vargas Llosa 164.

[5] Ibid. 284

[6] Ibid  120

[7] Ibid. 394

[8] Ibid. 398

[9] Ibid 281-282

[10] Although to be fair to OCD sufferers (Czarnecki herself included), Czarnecki does not really want to credit Trujillo with having OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) in any way, shape, or form

[11] Unless the Colombian prostitutes were underage and forced into prostitution, in which case Cartagena-Gate would be just as bad as Trujillo’s dirty work. After all, both scandals involved betrayal and treason against the United States by government and military personnel. 

Composed From Tweets and Facebook Statuses: Yad L'Achim, And Other Self-Hating Jews And Anti Semites....

I'll never get why some Messianic Jews dread groups like Yad L'Achim-- what can man do to us that G-d hasn't planned since before time? Meanwhile, I actively call for parties like Likud & Yisra'el Beiteinu to stop supporting & enabling groups like Yad L'Achim. I even once called & confronted Yad L'Achim in New York. They're just abusive control freaks. Don't let 'em get to you (Here, I'm talking to people like my friend who got mad at me for saying that she is Messianic. She doesn't want Yad L'Achim to know & attack her.).

I should clarify that I am talking about fellow Messianic Jews across the board, me sadly included, when I say that I'll never get why some Messianic Jews dread groups like Yad L'Achim. I get afraid. (I-- even I-- get dreadful of everything of rejection to persecution.). I was abused and persecuted by my Self-Hating-, Non-Messianic-Jewish dad. I've been there, done that, and come to realize that I'm going to get persecuted almost daily if not daily. But I'm not afraid of my faith or what people will do to me because of it-- not if I don't want to be, for "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." I'm even making aliyah if G-d wills, and I'm going to have a Hell of a time as a Patrilineal, Messianic Jew with a disability. 

I know that Yad L'Achim is dangerous, but Yeshua stated clearly, "But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake." (Luke 21:12) I've received threats from people in the same vein, including Anti Semites. By the way, remember that Antimissionaries (Countermissionaries) and Anti Semites are ultimately in the same vein.

By the Way, To Begin The Discussion On Yeshua...

As I've made clear before, I believe Yeshua to be Mashiach. I do not find (for a lack of a better term) a One-in-Three, "Three In One", Pluralunity, or Trinity G-d to be in conflict with the Shema-- after all, both "Eloheinu" (from "Elohim") and "Echad" indicate plurality and unity-- e.g., "And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'" In that context, I believe "us" to be G-d the Father, G-d the Son, and G-d the Holy Spirit. As for as P'rushi tradition, I see nothing wrong with it so long as it does not conflict with Tanakh. In the CJB Translation of the New Testament, from Romans 14: "5 One person considers some days more holy than others, while someone else regards them as being all alike. What is important is for each to be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes a day as special does so to honor the Lord. Also he who eats anything, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; likewise the abstainer abstains to honor the Lord, and he too gives thanks to God."

Composed From Yesterday's Tweets: Religion and Politics

Let's go over Right and Left one more time: Rightists want freedom, Leftists want restriction, and G-d states to be neither Right nor Left. ""Therefore you shall be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left." As if G-d didn't know about politics: search "right left" on Bible Gateway. Nonetheless, Yeshua does say, "I could wish you were cold or hot." (Rev 3:15b). So, we do need to lean Right or Left. So given Deuteronomy 5:32 and Revelation 3:15-16, we need to not be Far Right or Left but certainly need to have convictions.

Happy Israeli Independence Day

Today is Iyar 5, 5772. HaChodesh L'Iyar was sighted on April 22 at 7:24, according to Nehemiah Gordon. So, the P'rushim were, once again, a little off in celebrating Yom Ha'Atzma'ut-- they celebrated Yom Ha'Atzma'ut early. But to be fair, they at least celebrated the Day of Independence for Israel. 

Is Matrilineal Jewishness Valid? The Answer Is...

Yes, but not because of the P'rushim is Matrilineal Jewishness valid. I should've at least saved my posts from one group that I was in with Asher Romero ben Israel and Adam Klein (who is not Nehemia Gordon's friend, as he stated, and clearly not my friend-- on his own volition), because I'm so damned lazy and don't really want to rewrite what I already wrote (Maybe I'm more depressed lately as well, thus more lazy. Anyway...).

First, let's begin with B'resheet 17:19-21:

¹⁹ Then God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.²⁰ And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.²¹ But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.”

We see that Yitzhak had to have Sarah-- not anyone else-- as his mother and Avraham-- not anyone else-- as his dad (which is why, incidentally, I believe that some Kara'im argue that both parents must be Jewish in order for the child to be Jewish). We also see that Yitzhak was the first Yehudi:

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. ²³ But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, ²⁴ which things are symbolic. For these are the^[d] two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— ²⁵ for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— ²⁶ but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. ²⁷ For it is written:

“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children

Than she who has a husband.”^[e].

Yitzhak was "born of the promise". We see that in this way, Yitzhak was the first Jew and that Patrilineal Jewishness is as valid as Matrilineal Jewishness. But let's get back to Matrilineal Jewishness. We've seen so far that the contribution of the mother cannot be left out (thus part of why I stated that  I believe that some Kara'im argue that both parents must be Jewish in order for the child to be Jewish). The contribution certainly was not left out in the cases of the young Dani of Mitzrayimi parentage, Hiram the king of Phoenicia and Huram his dad(? See Wikipedia for the dispute on this.), and Timothy HaYavani:

• ^"10 Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp. ¹¹ And the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed; and so they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) ¹² Then they put him in custody, that the mind of the Lord might be shown to them. ¹³ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴ “Take outside the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him." The P'rushim use this, but only to attempt to invalidate Patrilineal Jewishness; thus, they don't use this for the right reasons. 
• "So he said, “What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Cabul,^[a] as they are to this day." Here, Hiram calls Shlomo "brother" because " ³ Now King Solomon sent and brought Huram^[a] from Tyre. ¹⁴ He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze worker; he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill in working with all kinds of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and did all his work. " Hiram also blessed G-d. "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, for He has given King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and understanding, who will build a temple for the Lord and a royal house for himself!"
• Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, theson of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was Greek. ² He was well spoken of by the brethren who were at Lystra and Iconium. ³ Paul wanted to have him go on with him. And he took himand circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region, for they all knew that his father was Greek. ⁴ And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees to keep, which were determined by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.

One more quick example; which is not Scriptural, nonetheless valid: Geraldo Rivera's daughter Sol. Are we to say that she is not Jewish because her dad's paternal granddad was a Spaniard and his paternal grandmother a Taino Native American? Is Sol then only a Spaniard of Taino and Jewish descent? To rule out Lillian Friedman Rivera's contribution and Erica Levy Rivera's contribution (which, by the way, makes Sol a Matrilineal Levit) would be entirely unfair and unpractical, especially since Sol is 3/4 Jewish.