No Shame, And I Am Not a Leftist...

 I can't help but think that the comparisons ofBenjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו and a certain leader of Germany are warranted. "Nationalist parties", prejudice against those who don't fit the nationalist mold, giving power to one party and its supporters, deliberately failing to distinguish between the innocent and the guilty among those who don't fit the nationalist mold, worsening the economy. PS I have no shame in speaking out against Netanyahu and Agudat Yisrael. What a shame that ben-Gurion was a von Hindenburg of his day.

So What If Jews Are "Cheap"? That's Not a Bad Thing! Why? As a Jew....

I can say that:

• "Cheap" means "inexpensive", and "inexpensive" doesn't necessary mean "bad quality". In fact, Jews as an ethnic group are few in number; so for us being few in number and "cheap", you actually get a pretty-good deal with us!
• Of course, some will say, "You know that we call you 'cheap' in a bad sense, right?" Again, "cheap" in the case of Jews really means "inexpensive"; and what's so bad about being low maintenance? 

Especially for those of us whom are religious in the traditional sense, and including if we're Jewish Christians, we ask for only the following days off per year: Rosh HaShanah (and this is combined with Yom Teru'ah if we observe the Rabbinical Rosh HaShanah; so, there's a two-in-one deal!), the first and seventh (or eighth) days of Passover, Shavu'ot, the fasts known as Tzom Tammuz, Tisha B'Av, and Aseret B'Tevet; Yom Teru'ah, Yom Kippur, the first and seventh (or eighth) days of Sukkot, and Purim, and then every Saturday (or, if we're Jewish Christians, whenever we observe Shabbat). So in that alone, we ask for only up to 52 regular days off plus up to 13 other days off—and depending on our calendar, many of those other days are often combined with the 52 regular days! That means that on average, and given that our 28-to-30-day-per-month calendar has up to 360 days a year, we ask for only 18.1% of the year off at max; and most of us don't even ask for that!

Everyone else asks for two weekend days—104 regular days already—plus holiday weeks and weekends—thus, many three-to-four-day weekends and up to whole weeks, albe often combined with some of the 104 regular days! So, at least 29% of the year versus 18.1%....and then if you do each over 365 and 366, just under 28.5% versus just under 14.3%!

We don't require much rest and relaxation, really....we're like cars that can get over one-and-a-half times to even twice the MPG for a lower price!

• And speaking of cars, what's so bad about being like fuel-efficient cars with sustainable fuel? A kosher diet is like sustainable fuel!

For those of us whom keep kosher, we, for example, leave nature's filters and other cleaner uppers alone. This means that we don't eat animals such as shrimp or—and particularly importantly for those of us such as Jewish Chesapeake Bayers—crabs and oysters—so, we're helping to "Save the Bay!". 

• Speaking of sustainability, what's so bad about being "cheap" when you're a sustainably-fueled fuel-efficient car whose drive in life is known as "tikun ha'olam"—or "repairing the world"?

By the way, if you wonder why God allowed us to lend at interest to gentiles....do you know how much it costs to keep a kosher diet, especially if we eat organic foods? Given that it actually costs us so much to be sustainably fueled and fuel efficient, we put out more than we take in just on that count! Also, most of us don't even lend—we just give! On that note, one notable example of just giving is that of Dr. Jonas Salk, whom didn't even patent the polio vaccine that he discovered—he credited his discovery to "the people"! 

In conclusion, then, I as a Jew can say that being "cheap" isn't a bad thing since it means that I'm like a low-maintenance fuel-efficient car that's sustainably-fueled at that and gives more than I take, especially in comparison to gentiles whose non-"cheap" state makes them, the environment, and life in general high-maintenance! After all, I'm the kind of "low price for a high-quality" deal, and all while Anti Semites complain about me when they themselves like to buy high-quality items at cheap prices!

PS To any Jewish car dealers: please do not sell any Anti Semites high-quality cars at low prices—they don't like "cheap" people; so, they shouldn't like the good deals that you give them on objects!

Poem: Pilate Laughed—And Ultimately Made Himself The Laughing Stock

(In other words, Jesus was murdered by an Anti-Semitic governor whom full well knew that He was innocent and wanted to try to get us to start a riot. Once we told him, "We have no king but Caesar," he went from bad to worse and made us look like we had the mens rea, which we didn't. (The longer story is as follows—and by the way, yes, I'm a Jewish Christian, in case anyone was wondering.)

He paced and paced the floor of the balcony, "[f]or he knew
"[T]hat for envy they had delivered him"—i.e., "The Jews—
"As he was aware—delivered him because of corruption
"[Dia fhthonos, "δια φθόνος"]."
Now, "fhthonos" comes from "ftheiro"
Or "φθείρω", meaning "dereliction"
Such as in this verse that everyone knows—
Or at least should know!

"All we like sheep did go astray, 
"We turned every one to his own way;
"And the LORD hath made to light on him the iniquity of us all."

Pilate was well aware that the Jews in his day
Believed that a Suffering Servant was still far away.
"We have no king but Caesar," thus they thought
Because the description and Jesus seemed to fit like naught
That could fit together. Besides, what kind of man would
Not listen to his very wife whom warned him that he should
"Have...nothing to do with that just man"—and why should she care?
Her claim wasn't even that she saw that he was innocent when she was there.
"For I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."
He apparently took it as a woman's whim
At the very least, but then again
What kind of irreligious Roman
Would be appointed a governor over a province?
Did he have no respect, no deference
For what could be taken as an omen?
After all, the Romans believed in omens and such.

Nonetheless, just as much
He did believe Jesus to be without guile
And hated him and the rest of Israel—
Or did he? In either case,
He showed a bold-faced
Anti-Semitic sentiment
Even as he did cement
A friendship with a certain Edomite named Herod—
Whom conspicuously enough was like many an Arab
Of today is, as many an Arab harbor against many a Jew
What his fathers harbored against Jacob, and Herod against Pilate, too:

"And the same day
"Pilate and Herod were
"Made friends together:
"[F]or before they
"Were at enmity between themselves."
And so, if one continiously delves
Into the New Testament, he or she will see
That a man who had no mens rea—i.e.,
A man who had no malicious intent—
And truly cared that Jesus was innocent
Would not have allied
Himself with a certain Edomite,
Much less sent him to be tried
By him. The whole time, spite
Was what drove a certain Roman governor,
Whom'd also have said, "And of Caesar:
"Do you believe that he'd approve
"That I would prosecute
"A man in whom I find no fault,
"Much less allow that someone else ought?"

Pilate also "washed his hands before the multitude, saying,
"I am innocent of the blood of this just person," though were he
He would have persevered in insisting
That the blood of a just person not be
Shed, and he instead
Treated with contempt
The very blood of the same
And even did attempt
To cast the blame
Of murder on that man's countrymen,
Of whom that man said unto
God, "Father, forgive them;
"[F]or they know not what they do."

Is this not implied when Paul is recorded
To have wished, "Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean:
"[F]rom henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles"?
Is this not implied when Paul later reported
His intent to "provoke to emulation them which are my flesh," which means
That he wanted the blood to which Pilate responded with denial
To be accepted by and cover all of Jacob, as the blood of a ram
Covered a certain son of Israel named Aharon ben Amram:
"The ram... its blood...put...upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron,
"[A]nd upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon
"[T]he thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot,
"[A]nd...against the altar round about"; so, why not all of the royal priesthood?
"[T]he house of Jacob...a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." 
"His blood be on us, and on our children", therefore
Was then not an admission of deicidal murder
But an unknownst "Hosheinu!", as Paul clarified:
"For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according
"[T]o knowledge. For they being ignorant
"[O]f God's righteousness,
"[A]nd going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted
"[T]hemselves unto the righteousness...." And as he to Timothy testified
"And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord,
"who hath enabled me, ....[w]ho was before
"[A] blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious:
"[B]ut I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."
Indeed, a record that Paul could bear and bore
From experience! And who could likewise have said
To bear Pilate such record? For every word that Paul wrote
"[N]either received it of man, neither was...taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."
And what other apostle or disciple wrote down any word that would've read
As in any way exculpatory of a certain Pontius?

By the way, some who continue to push the claim
That the New Testament states that Pilate deserved no blame
Use a story about certain Samaritans as apparent evidence
To refute it—"it" being the New Testament itself.
Maybe now, though, after reading even this
They'll pull the New Testament off of the shelf
And read it again, and not dismiss
That Pilate's subsequent treatment of the Samaritans
Actually gives credence to what it really states about his intentions—
That is, that his intentions were to make Israel look to be
A deicidal laughingstock. Incidentally,
What, I wonder, has since
Become of Pilate other than what the Scriptures reveal
About anyone whom does the kind of evil
That Pilate did? If nothing else, Pilate ended up
The very laughingstock that he tried to make Jacob,
As he took counsel against the LORD's anointed in both senses—
That is, Jesus per the first significance, and all of Israel per the second significance.

#SillySaturday and #SillySunday: Reilly Being Reilly

Long Description For My Latest Video (It’s Taking the Strength of יהוה For Me To Restrain My Full Thoughts)

It’s taking everything to keep my full feelings about this offline. Some of my feelings involve cuss words, including calling some people some not-so-nice names. Needless to say, I would love to tell some people, “Told you!” for multiple reasons. Even some kohanim have the R-YP417 group! (That was a bit of a spoiler alert in terms of when I’m covering in the video, though you can easily find what I found out. PS Andrulewiczes are kohanim, although the name was somehow originally “Andralas”; and I do not know why Andralases moved from Sefarad and the Middle East to even further into the Exile. As far as I know, Andrulewiczes, etc. probably carry a J or E group—or if it would’ve been up to my paternal grandfather‘s paternal grandmother, they certainly would, anyway.)

 I didn’t just figure out that Dad’s an Ashkenazi Levite by accident. PS:

1) Some Friedmans are known among the Jewish community to be Levites.

2) My paternal Zernetzky/Czerniecki family includes “Holubowicz” (Avraham “Wojciech” Danilowicz was the son of a Holubowicz. No record appears for him until 1819, and his father died in 1810.).

3) My mother’s DeBoy family descends partly from Peltz cousins whom sometimes used “Belz” or “Beltz”. As I once found out, cousins were not allowed to marry in what is now Germany. The prohibition against cousin marriage  was among gentiles, not Jews, as Numbers 36 does require intratribal marriages. Incidentally, I’m also still trying to figure out whether in fact, the mother of Ferdinand DeBoy was Jewish (His Lambrix/Lambrecht ancestors were; and to my shame, one of our DeBoy cousins in the Netherlands ended up being a real kapo unless he was no longer Jewish by his generation—his being a kapo which would nonetheless make him a disgusting Antisemite and a traitor to our Jewish ancestors.). 

PPS John Farrell was somehow Jewish (I still don’t know through whom); and it’s very clear to John (Peltz) and Ella (Farrell) DeBoy did not just meet each other by accident (John was a son of Ferdinand and Catherine Peltz DeBoy; and Ella Farrell DeBoy was a daughter of John Farrell. Eva Diegelmann Peltz, Catherine’s mother, could’ve been Jewish, although I would have to look more into that. ). 

Point being: my hidden-Jewish ancestors (full-blooded and mixed-blooded Jews) did not meet by accident; and I get angry when I’m accused of lying, posing, etc.—especially since I didn’t even suspect that I’m Jewish until I was 17 or 18, and I couldn’t confirm it until I was 18. In other words, for example, I would’ve never even dreamed that any of my family was connected to anything as bizarre as the Frankist movement (Even after I found out about Eva Palir Jass, the connection between her and her name honoree Ewa Frank took me forever to figure out. Susanna Jass Hajzlinszka was born to her in 1822. Also, as a foreman, I would have to look more again into to Eva Diegelmann Peltz. She could’ve even been named for Ewa Frank for all that I know.).

Lyrics That I Wrote Over (And Waited To Publish Until After) Yom Kippur

 I will fall before my King

When me to life He raises 

To His praises sing—

To sing of His graces

And renewed mercies

When I bow my knees.

(Let my life reflect your Word!

(May I do what I have heard!

(May the Fear of Isaac make

(Me to stir others awake!)

Men and women do not lay

To heart or once consider

That God takes away

From among sinners

The righteous and beloved—

Made so by His blood! 

(Let my life reflect your Word!

(May I do what I have heard!

(May the Fear of Isaac make

(Me to stir others awake!)

Woe to the mortal, for they do not cherish

That the immortal do not truly perish

If they have been made new in the Messiah

Jesus, the Exalted Above “Yehovah”—

Yes, the Word Exalted Above His Own Name

As the prophets by God’s Spirit did proclaim!

(Let my life reflect your Word!

(May I do what I have heard!

(May the Fear of Isaac make

(Me to stir others awake!)

(Jesus’ fame will be all over the Earth,

(And in Jesus will be new life and new birth!)

Partly With the Current Schedule In ‘Eretz Yisra’el In Mind, And Entirely With Tanakh In Mind

(And I’ve been musing on this for a while)

If more schools and colleges alone followed the Hebrew calendar even with secular names (e.g., Friday, Saturday, fall break, spring break):

1) Friday and Saturday: the actual weekend 

2) The whole month of Aviv-Nisan up to Rosh Chodesh Iyar: spring break 

3) Shavu’ot: school closed

4) The four weeks (with the fasts going from 9 Tamuz through 10 Av): summer break

5) The whole month of Tishri: fall break 

6) The 10th of Tevet (which Karaites and other groups share): school closed

7) Purim: school closed (for walled cities and Yerushalayim, Shushan Purim)

8) Rosh Chodesh: school closed

In other words, one month for spring break, four weeks for summer break, one month for fall break (also partly to account for the differences in observing Tzom Gedalyah), school closed on regular Shabbatot, Rosh Chodesh and other special Yamei Shabbat, and Purim. As Chanukah (with the exception of regular Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh Tevet) requires no work restrictions, there wouldn’t need to be a winter break.