All Of Them Clueless

While the Arab viper grows stronger (because our mentally compromised leaders continue to feed it), and indeed grows new heads with which to bite us, the Jewish State continues to shrink and shrivel. The Arabs  kidnap our children and disappear with them into their dens, and instead of turning Fatah and Hamas into fine ash, all we hear are empty threats of reprisals, with asinine demands that the murderous Fatah corral their fellow demons. One wonders if the spirit of Chelm will compel Netanyahu to release a 1000 more terrorists as a bargaining chip for these boys.

Across the dysfunctional continuum of the Jewish spectrum, we see impotence personified. Netanyahu has the spine of a jellyfish. But we've known this for a long time. His perspective epitomises the naked weakness of the Likud, which mirrors labor in basically every regard save a few economic principles. One thing is clear. None of the current politicians have a clue about how to save these boys from the accursed Arabs.

Nor can we expect to hear an iota of Torah truth from chief rabbis whose response to tragedy is a call for Shabbat to commence 10 minutes early. What one has to do with the other is beyond me. Funny what they choose to focus on. (More localised folk suggestions have intimated that the mitzvah of hafrashat challah might be efficacious as a magical means of saving these boys.) Naturally it would be too much to expect these state functionaries  to state the Halacha outright and call for the Arabs to be thrown out. If they are incapable of stating the provocative Torah truths, then at least a call for collective t'shuvah (repentance), or an increased emphasis on ahavat yisroel (love of Jews) would at least make sense. 

Nothing will change, without an ideological revolution that wipes away the current power bases and starts the game afresh with people who fear The Almighty.  Only by following the laws of milchemet mitzvah (obligatory Halachic war) can we defeat the Amalekite Arabs. This is the obvious truth to anyone who understands Torah. Everything else is just plain rhetoric. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.

The Erev Rav's Jihad (audio)

Reflections on the mixed multitude's insidious campaign to demonize Torah in the name of "civil rights."


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The Torah Eternal (audio)

Reflections on the eternal truths of the Torah.

Shavuot: Receiving The Whole Torah

We are about to celebrate the festival of Shavuot, which marks an unprecedented event in world history. The entire Jewish nation witnessed the mass revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai, a claim that no other religion would dare to make. This revelation was passed down for thousands of years with the conviction that only a truly historical event could generate.  With the Torah comes awesome responsibility to follow it in entirety.

All of it. 

The laws of erev, Shabbat, brit milah, mikvah, lulav and etrog, along with the the provocative mitzvot that make many Jews uncomfortable. Such as the commandment to burn down an Ir Hanidachat (idolatrous town), and the obligation to carry out the brutal laws of Jewish warfare (during an obligatory war) which leave no citizens alive. The obligation to tear down houses of idol-worship and false faiths upon entering the Holy Land. The mitzvah to annihilate Amalek in total. 


The Torah doesn't come in slices. You need to take the whole pie. On the day that the Jewish nation accepts the entire Torah without distorting or corrupting it, we will ensure the coming of the true Messiah in our times. Following the manifestation of The Almighty's ultimate vengeance against the evil nations of the world, the Jewish nation (and truly righteous gentiles) will know true Torah peace.  The erev rav will be gone.


Chag Sameach.

Beitar Fans: Hooligans? Or A Ray Of Light?

The Jewish Fist Commentary:  First things first. Ignore the biased heading at the beginning of the video. (Racist chanting by Beitar...) For the fortunate few who have their heads screwed on right, the video speaks for itself.

I hate soccer. I don't understand it. How can any self-respecting physical sport have as their most basic rule, a thoroughly asinine one, which deprives players (excluding the goalie) the use of their arms? Right there, half the potential physicality of the game goes out of the window. American football. Basketball. These are real sports. (Granted, I'm biased. I come from a country where soccer is referred to as "fagball".) What can I say, soccer offends my sensibilities. Perhaps its because soccer is the preferred sport of the world's Jew-haters.

Nevertheless, I must admit, that despite my dislike for the sport, I like the Beitar Yerushalayim soccer fans, who have a reputation for being "hooligans", and "anti-Arab". Let me make myself clear. I oppose the general hellenized drive to mimic the goyim with organized sports leagues, particularly when the Jewish teams frequently compete against Arab teams both inside and outside the country.This is the antithesis of Torah Judaism. I like the Beitar fans for other reasons:

•  I like them because most of them hate the Arabs as one should hate any murderous enemy. 
• I like the fans because a great many of them refuse to honor the dead traitor Rabin with |moments of silence".
• I like that the fans would burn their own stadium to the ground if management ever signed an Israeli-Arab" to the team. 
• I like the Beitar fans because the Israeli leftists revile them. The media demonizes them. Beitar fans don't give a damn. When the dogs of Sakhnin come to town, they rise up to these Arab animals and fight for Jewish honor and power. This is a refreshing change when you consider  how screwed up the majority of the Israeli youth are, courtesy of the mandatory mind rape they endure at the hands of the Ministry of Miseducation. 

 Racists? I don't think so. Beitar fans are normal Jews who care about their survival. They don't give rat's you-know-what about PC sensibilities, or the deranged sentiments of the suicidal left. The Arabs are animals, and they aren't afraid to say it. Hooligans? We need more Jewish hooligans like the Beitar fans. We just need to redirect their energy with yahadut. May the light of the Torah reach them and guide them.

Beitar fans, I salute you. Remember the legacy of Barzel.

What Happened to Sephardic Jewry? (audio)

Tragically, Torah Judaism is plagued with the infection of superstitious, pagan, beliefs. For many (perhaps most) Ashkenazim, this may range from having distorted ideas about such esoteric subjects as "Ayin Horah" (the evil eye), a genuine rational Jewish concept but terribly misunderstood, inserting kvitlach in the kotel, and performing silly segulas that were stolen from the x-tians. Of course, there are many Ashkenazim whose views degenerate into even more obscene beliefs. This can clearly be seen in chasidic circles where the cult of worshiping Rebbes and praying to them (under the equally problematic pretext of using them as conduits) at their graves is often the norm. But as a general rule, the worst superstitious beliefs and rituals are usually found among Sephardi Jews, who by and large abandoned a legacy of intellectual Torah learning and replaced it with the superstitious rites and rituals of pagan Arabs. In the following audio, I reflect on this sad state of affairs.


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Meimad Revisited

Its been awhile since I wrote about the leftist Israeli Meimad political party, which purports to be a religious one. For those who don't know about them, Meimad is one of the most vulgar examples of Hellenism masquerading as religious Judaism. In the following video, a babbling kipah wearing British eunuch, attempts to reconcile the clash of being religious and having leftist positions. What this fools fails to understand is that the number of morons who subscribe to such nonsense, doesn't make the marriage of Torah and treif pluralism any more kosher. Another classic moment in this video clip can be seen when the head buffoon Michael Melchior offers his position on national security. According to Melchior, Iran is the only entity that poses an existential threat to Israel. Why is it that the biggest fools wearing kipot on their heads always hail from Europe?

A card-carrying Meimad member from England.

Response to a Reader

Whether or not I agree with them, I appreciate the opportunity to engage in an intelligent discussion with a reader.  In response to my latest post, "The Amuqah Idolatry", I received a comment from a reader which prompted a dialogue. In the interest of elucidating my position for other readers, I decided to include his comments (in purple) and my responses (in blue), in the form of a post.

Jesterhead45: Out of interest what is your opinion of Hitbodedut, is that something which is foreign to Judaism? - 2/11/11 

Daniel Ben Shmuel: My opinion is that I am unaware of any normative Torah source that supports this "practice." What I am aware of is the fact that contemporary expressions of "hitbodedut" often encroach into the world of paganism and primitive worship that has more in common with eastern-idolatry than Judaism. Of course I could be wrong. Perhaps you could point out some classical Torah sources (other than chasidic writings)which refer to it. - 2/12/11 

Jesterhead45 : I see where you are coming from regarding the practice of hitbodedut, though I fail to see how laying one’s cards on the table (so to speak) and speaking to G-d with complete honesty, in order to gain a clearer understanding of one's personal motives and aspirations can be considered pagan or a form of primitive worship.

Especially since one is essentially praying to G-d, talking about his or her issues to G-d and expressing one’s gratitude to G-d.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any non-chasidic sources that refer to hitbodedut though for what it’s worth I have come across a book about the practise called “In Forest Fields” by Rabbi Shalom Arush, which claims to have approbations from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef amongst other people. It would be interesting to hear non-chasidic views on the practice of hitbodedut if they exist.

Thing is, I would of thought that all Orthodox rabbis agree, or at least should agree, that the Torah is not something academic and detached but rather, a means to come close to God. That is not to say I agree with stuff like “amuqah”, it is just I fear where an overly rational anti-emotive approach to Yahadut will lead. - 2/12/11

Daniel Ben Shmuel: I appreciate you intelligent points, and your desire to have an intellectual discussion. As a result I would like to address your points in a follow-up blog post entitled "Response To A Reader." Thank you once again for providing a forum to engage in these issues, whether or not we ultimately will agree with each other. 2/13/11

My latest response: I am not denying or denigrating the right of man to call out to Hakadosh Baruch Hu at any time, and in any tongue. There is a concept of halachic tefillah which is time based, and then there is man's individual right to call out to G-d in general. (Tehillim would certainly be an expression of this, albeit on a more elevated level.) The main problem with hitbodedut is that it presupposes a false relationship with Hakadosh Baruch Hu that is based upon primitive thinking. Hashem is not "our friend" as these practitioners are wont to believe. Such childish notions (while understandable for a child) are anathema to yahadut, along with other infantile notions such as those who conceptualize G-d as a bearded old man with a kipah sitting on a throne in heaven. At the very least, such beliefs are heresy. 

I do indeed refer to the idea and actual practice of hitbodedut as a primitive and spiritually dangerous behavior. I don't know about R' Shalom Arush nor do I care to. I'm not Breslov, and I oppose their ideology, so naturally he has nothing to say to me on any matter. (I don't know whether or not Rav Ovadyah Yosef actually gave his sefer an approbation, nor would it matter to me either. With genuine respect and kavod to the gadol, he is not my Rebbe.) Again, I don't think that you can find any non-chasidic source for this practice. It was created by chasidim. I am not a chasid. I see contemporary expressions of hitbodedut as deviations from Judaism that are laden with pagan notions.

Forget about hitbodedut and try to emulate the practice of David Hamelech who used the majesty of the creation and the natural world to reflect on The Almighty. This is indeed a Jewish endeavor, because it solidifies in the mind of any true thinking person that there is a G-d.  As such, even an overnight stay in the forest can be a throughly Jewish expression and an intellectual endeavor, albeit one without the constraints of "dry intellectualism." But to enter the forest for the purpose of screaming out "Aba" like an escaped lunatic from an asylum is an entirely different matter. 

(As an aside, I want to emphasize that there is a danger anytime man approaches nature without the intellect. As the Rambam teaches us, this was the mistake of the people in the days of Enosh, who started to worship the stars as an  expression of honoring The Almighty (l'havdil). Instead of learning from nature and reflecting on the source of all creation, they deified nature and became idolaters. The native Americans  were another example. They accumulated a tremendous amount of real knowledge about the earth. They mastered the science of the interconnectivity of ecosystems, the behaviors of animals, tracking skills, and even patterns of weather. Furthermore, they respected the earth and didn't waste natural resources. The problem? They deified nature.)

I made no reference at all to an academic or detached Judaism, which I course oppose. For the Torah committed Jew, there is no such thing as "academic Judaism." That kind of nonsense is what we see in universities where they make it a practice to tear down the knowledge of The Almighty under the framework of "scholarly research" and "biblical criticism." Nor does a concept of detached Judaism exist for the Jew who is bidden to live every single waking hour as a Torah Jew. 

Overly rational? Anti-emotive? Again you are making false generalizations. There is no such thing as being overly rational. I am calling for Jews to extricate superstition from the Jewish camp and cast it away. A Jew must always use seichal to understand Torah concepts. This is not the pursuit of a secular philosopher. Yahadut requires man's full intellectual involvement, along with a commitment to advancing his intellectual development. Of course at the end of the day, since there are concepts we can't possibly understand (along with notions that the Torah prohibits us to ponder about) we are obligated to follow the mesorah. Our best efforts are always limited. Even Moshe Rabbenu had limitations. 

It is true that a Jew must have emotions. Strong emotions, but ones which are always guided and tempered by Torah. Torah can only be understood with the intellect. There is no such thing as mysticism. Abandoning one's seichal is akin to idolatry. In Judaism, emotions follow knowledge, not the the other way around. The practitioners of hitbodedut and shrine-hopping do the exact opposite. They construct (or deconstruct) "knowledge" based on primitive needs and emotions. And they are particularly dangerous, because their teachings are so attractive to misguided Jews. This isn't Judaism. It is merely a modern manifestation of the pagan drive within ignorant man that has always drawn him to the profane.

I hope this clarifies my position. I don't see Jewish superstitions and abberant practices as harmless folklore. I see it them as genuine diseases to the Jewish soul that distance people from The Creator. As a religious Jew, I feel obligated within the reach of my arm to tear down these false altars and convey true Jewish ideas. I've had enough of this shamanistic garbage masquerading as Torah.  Hakadosh Baruch Hu is "available" (so to speak) to those who search for Him. 

Feel free to continue the discussion. Have a good night.

You Might Be A Jewish Pagan If...

In this past week's portion of the Torah reading (Parshat Mishpatim), we read about the biblical prohibition of engaging in witchcraft."Thou shall not suffer a witch to live." The Torah wasn't merely referring to ancient times when men sacrificed each other to appease the gods. The pagan drive is still strong today, and there are many Jews who seek out the advice of  contemporary Jewish "witches". Naturally, I want to help out these headless chickens. So I've authored a list to aid the reader's self-diagnosis:

You Might Be A Jewish Pagan If.......

1. You wrap your head in a tallit ball during Birkat Kohanim, (the priestly benediction) out of concern  that if you see the kohen's hands, your eyeballs will explode like grapes. (As an aside, "The Jewish Fist" follows the authentic Jewish approach on the matter, which is to refrain from looking at the kohen during the benediction because it would be distracting.)
2. a) You believe that the Lubavitcher Rebbe (of blessed memory) is Moshiach. b) you pray to him.
3. "Nah Nah Nah...." Your holy mantra to keep away lewd thoughts. Or at least elevate them.
4. At the local tisch, you make it a practice to eat the Rebba's masticated "arbes"(a holy legume) to fulfill the ancient  mitzvah of shrayim.
5. You enjoy leaping over roaring bonfires at the grave-sites of Rishonim. 
6. When walking alone at night, you worry about Ashmodai ( the king of the demons).
7. When you attend a brit, you ask the mohel for the foreskin, as a segulah for parnasah (a livelihood).
8. You keep a clove of garlic in your pocket to ward off the "evil eye" and "agents of Lilith" aka women.(Some maintain that a piece of stale matzoh smeared with the jelly off a rotten etrog is also effective, but that's plain nonsense.)
9. Palm reading is important to you. But only if its done by a "holy person" who accepts credit cards for his holy work. Your definition of an apikorus: Someone who denies the merits of palm reading. 
10. You keep a giant ball of red string in the trunk of your car. 
11. You deal with "unwanted thoughts" by rolling around naked in the snow. 
12. You enjoy reading "spiritual books" which speak about "G-d's needs and feelings." As a committed pagan, you understand that tying your shoelace without proper kavanah can destroy entire worlds. 
13. As a warrior against pritzus, you spend the better part of the day thinking about seminal emissions and self-defilement. And about the army of deformed changelings that are waiting for  you. 

Diagnosis: If even one of these applies, you're a pagan. For starters, you might want to use your intellect for a change and learn some authentic Torah. Try studying the Rambam or Saadyah Gaon's "Emunah V'deot" to get your head right.

One last thing. If you believe that the author of "The Jewish Fist" warrants the ancient curse of pulsa d'nurah for writing this list, you're definitely a pagan. 

"Attempted Murder?" Of a Terrorist?

Man Charged for Trying to Kill Terrorist who Stabbed his Wife

by Maayana Miskin (Arutz Sheva)

Just over a year ago David Mizrachi's wife Tamar was brutally stabbed at her workplace near Kiryat Arba. David, who raced to the scene in his car, found Tamar's would-be killer, a young Palestinian Authority terrorist, in custody outside. In a rage, he ran over the man.

Now Mizrachi, 56, is facing charges of attempted murder. He was indicted Sunday in the Jerusalem District Court......More Israel news

The Jewish Fist Disclaimer: As a rule, I don't like posting articles from Arutz Sheva. As far as I'm concerned , there are too many questionable things going on over there. For one, they are soft (and worse) when it comes to dealing with the issue of missionaries in Israel.  This should come as no surprise when one consider the mounting evidence which suggests that they are in the pockets of American x-tians. A7 is also parve and ineffectual, and absolutely terrified of taking a true Torah stand on the important issues. They can call themselves "right-wing", but that means nothing as far as yahadut is concerned. They are a haven of "mamlachtiism" , if you will, where one finds all sorts of ideological nonsense masquerading as Judaism in their editorials and op-eds, and in the many advertisements that litter their site (40 Days Of tehilim at the kotel. That kind of pagan garbage). Of course, this is a general statement regarding A7, and it should not be taken as an attack on the author of this article, who I am sure is a fine person.

The Jewish Commentary: Attempted murder? Outrageous. David Mizrachi should be given a medal, and then another opportunity to finish off the job. Were I in charge of this madhouse, he would be given free reign to slaughter the pig who tried to murder his wife. In any manner that suited him. Personally, I would suggest a cruel and inefficient death, in accordance with the Torah's view of justice, that you show no mercy towards the merciless. 

The spiritually diseased leftists who are trying to punish David Mizrachi will ultimately face Divine retribution for harassing this poor man. Hasn't the Mizrachi family suffered enough at the hands of Arabs? Several years ago an Arab driver plowed into their son's car with his vehicle and killed him. Incidentally, they also recently lost a daughter to apparently unknown causes. (Without knowing anything about the case involving their son, I wouldn't be surprised if the Arab murderer is still burning rubber on Israel's roads. Perhaps some leftist Jewish lawyer used the "my client's foot cramped up" defense. Surely it wasn't religiously motivated?) 

Death to the terrorist, Masawa, may his name and memory be obliterated from the face of the earth. I don't know if he's still in prison, or if Bibi freed him with a few hundred other vipers as part of some Ramadan good-will gesture to Abbas. One day soon, Jewish justice will return to Israel. Men of morality will take the reigns and declare "open season" on all terrorists. And savages such as Masawa will be hunted down and exterminated, like rats carrying the plague. No leg shots. No warnings. 

Only a lunatic society would charge a Jew with the "attempted murder" of the Arab terrorist who almost killed his wife. This is the insanity we are dealing with today in Medinat Yisroel. A nation run by quislings and cowards who have the wisdom of Chelm and the morality of Sodom. May The Almighty protect David Mizrachi and his family from both the Arabs and the "erev rav" (mixed multitude). 

Written in a dying Jew's blood. 

Reflections On A Dead Missionary (audio)

A x-tian missionary was recently murdered. The fact that an Arab killed this pagan soul-snatcher should do nothing to detract from the fact that she was a wicked person who had no business being in our country in the first place. Personally, I will make a L'Chaim this Shabbat. And then I'll have another one. Spare me the grotesque portraits that the Leftist rags are painting of 'an innocent woman hiking in a Jerusalem forest'. I don't need anyone to explain to me who my enemies are. "Save me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau." That's from the only true testament there ever was.

After 2000 years of unsuccessfully trying to steal Jewish souls with the pagan cross, x-tianity finally discovered a far more successful tactic when dealing with Jews. The missionary. "Brother" Esau now preys on the most vulnerable Jews with a smile on his face and x-tian love in his heart. Here are my reflections on Judaism's authentic approach to missionaries, which explains why a Jew should rejoice whenever a missionary is killed. Judaism mourns the loss of all innocent lives, both Jew and gentile alike. But it celebrates the death of the wicked. And as I always like to say, - PC be damned! The Torah is the law eternal.

Shabbat Shalom.


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Hellenism Personified- the "Maccabeats"

I get physically ill just watching this garbage that's been circulating around the web. It's bad enough that the music is so bad, and that the effeminate singers in this "Jewish" boy-band act like a bunch of sissies. But it's much worse than that. This is hellenism personifed. Copycatting the worst elements of gentile society. Boy-bands. Pop music. Gender confusion. Role reversal. Forget about surgically attaching a piece of skin to recreate a foreskin. This is the metaphorical equivalent of cutting one's genitals off. What do we have here? A group of modern-orthodox guys wiggling and prancing about like a troupe of fairies, singing euro-trash music about Chanukah. What do these clowns know about the Maccabees? The Maccabees fought against the kinds of gentile influences that penetrated the Torah world and allowed the formation of Jewish boy-bands like the Maccabeats. And don't get me started. The yeshivish versions of these boy-bands are just as bad and un-Jewish. The difference is that in the modern-orthodox world this kind of stuff is celebrated and praised. Instead of creating the next generation of  scholar-warriors, the modern-orthodox movement is creating these types of gender challenged individuals to further skew the lesson of Chanukah and disgrace The Almighty's name on the world stage.

This is from the Maccabeats website:

Strongly committed to the philosophy of Torah u-Madda, the integration of traditional and secular wisdom, the Maccabeats perform an eclectic array of Jewish, American, and Israeli songs. Their breakthrough piece, Lecha Dodi, is the epitome of this synthesis, combining some of the most beloved words of Jewish liturgy with Leonard Cohen's meaningful and melodic Hallelujah.


I think a little disclaimer in is order, don't you?


The Jewish Fist Warning: Listening to the "Maccabeats" not only reflects a horrible taste in music, (and if you're a man, extremely low levels of testosterone), it may also be hazardous to your Jewish soul. As an aside, listening to this music before taking the battlefield may get you killed.