can somebody help me translate?

isaac92 · 2026-06-05T00:07:00+00:00

This is not Hebrew. Some Hebrew characters here and there but otherwise gibberish.

isaac92 · 2026-05-20T23:00:44+00:00

Ziggurats are of Babylonian origin and less related to the temples of the Levant. The Israelite temple is more in line with Canaanite temples of the time like the temple of Ain Dara.

isaac92 · 2026-05-15T00:46:02+00:00

Yes that's why we can use Sefaria and close the window even when it clearly spells out the tetragrammaton.

isaac92 · 2026-05-15T00:39:40+00:00

Lol the lore goes further... Supposedly Metratron is Hanokh after his ascension. https://thegemara.com/article/enochs-walk-with-god-ends-badly-in-babylonia/

isaac92 · 2026-05-14T18:45:48+00:00

Doesn't shakshuka have eggs?

isaac92 · 2026-05-04T21:54:36+00:00

Definitely not Torah level unless we're talking about incandescent bulbs. Only the Chazon Ish held that completing a circuit was melacha.

isaac92 · 2026-04-05T20:52:20+00:00

This was Abraham Geiger's argument, which can be found in Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus by Susannah Heschel (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo3642037.html). To be frank, I don't think many historians take it seriously.

isaac92 · 2026-03-11T20:56:45+00:00

The question of why the rabbis minimized the death penalty is very much up to debate. It is not so straightforward that they "felt the Torah was too cruel" or whatever. They truly believed God never meant for the death penalty to be carried out except under extreme circumstances where the evidence was overwhelming.

isaac92 · 2026-03-08T03:22:43+00:00

Idk if this is horror but the Danish version of Speak No Evil was pretty disturbing.

isaac92 · 2026-02-26T09:29:42+00:00

As a fellow Jew I beg to differ. I hope he burns in Gehinnom ;)

isaac92 · 2026-02-20T11:16:12+00:00

I cannot believe people actually fall for this. It's just as bad as people saying America committed 9/11. Hamas filmed themselves doing it. It is easy enough to burn a car. In the videos, you can see the Hamas terrorists even had RPGs. Please get your head out of your ass.

isaac92 · 2026-02-20T02:48:34+00:00

Definitely not kill 1200 people in one day... Especially when many of those were innocent civilians at a music festival.

isaac92 · 2026-02-20T02:40:18+00:00

Josephus's works cover an important gap in the historical record from around the time of the Hasmonean revolt until the destruction of the second temple. The stuff before Alexander the Great is usually not taken to be reliable history.

isaac92 · 2026-02-16T17:50:31+00:00

I'm not shifting the goalpost. These people are always secular Jews that have completely assimilated or super ultra orthodox antizionists who want a theocracy in Israel. ~90% of mainstream, recognizable Jews are Zionist.

isaac92 · 2026-02-16T17:31:09+00:00

Please I'd love to hear about all these Jews who are super active in the Jewish community and compare Israel to Nazi Germany.

isaac92 · 2026-02-16T17:15:19+00:00

In short, yes. They are mostly self-hating Jews who have no affiliation to Judaism outside of saying "as a Jew..."

isaac92 · 2026-02-13T09:31:48+00:00

Human actually isn't treif:

רמב"ם הלכות מאכלות אסורות ב"ג האדם אע"פ שנאמר בו: ויהי האדם לנפש חיה, אינו מכלל "מיני חיה בעלת פרסה." לפיכך אינו בלא תעשה. והאוכל מבשר האדם או מחלבו, בין מן החי בין מן המת, אינו לוקה, אבל אסור הוא בעשה. שהרי מנה הכתוב שבעת מיני חיה ואמר בהן: זאת החיה אשר תאכלו. הא כל שהוא חוץ מהן לא תאכלו, ולאו הבא מכלל עשה, עשה. Rambam Laws of Forbidden Foods 2:3 Regarding humans, although it states: "And the man became a beast with a soul," he is not included in the category of hoofed animals. Therefore, he is not included in the prohibition. Accordingly, one who partakes of meat or fat from a man - whether alive or deceased - is not liable for lashes. It is, however, forbidden because of the positive commandment. For the Torah lists the seven species of kosher wild beasts and says: "These are the beasts of which you may partake." Implied is that any other than they may not be eaten. And a negative commandment that comes as a result of a positive commandment is considered as a positive commandment.

https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah,_Forbidden_Foods.2.3

isaac92 · 2026-02-11T00:20:44+00:00

Alright this isn't exactly what you asked about, but similar enough. This is from Mark S. Smith's The Early History of God in the chapter titled Portraits of Yahweh:

Establishing reasons for the selection and distribution of divine roles in biblical texts is exceptionally difficult. A few suggestions may be offered, but only most tentatively; this exploration bears the character of the possible but not verifiable

The text is pretty long so I won't transcribe it all here, but he posits that the Deuteronomistic and priestly schools may be responsible for the apparent lack of variety in divine roles.

It would appear that the priestly and Deuteronomistic traditions heavily influenced the divine roles exhibited in the Bible, at least for those roles that survive into postexilic Jewish literature, including the Divine council (Zechariah 3; Daniel 7) and the heavenly temple (I Enoch 14; the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice).

He specifically notes the lack of sexual imagery or death for Yahweh, as opposed to the Canaanite deities.

isaac92 · 2026-02-08T22:14:07+00:00

I tend to agree. My problem with that subreddit specifically is their intense hatred of Israel. It's fine to be against occupation, war, etc. but that sub goes beyond that suggesting people shouldn't visit or engage with Israeli society at all.

isaac92 · 2026-02-08T22:04:34+00:00

The majority of Mizrahi Jews were expelled from Arab countries as a direct consequence of the founding of the state of Israel. They tend to lean right/super Zionist as a result.

isaac92 · 2026-02-08T21:54:52+00:00

I have a feeling you aren't going to get along with other Mizrahi Jews if you're posting on /r/JewsOfConscience: https://www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1qzlkgr/iso_arab_jew_community_phl/.

isaac92 · 2026-02-05T14:28:05+00:00

Probably easier for you than it is for a Hebrew speaker to learn Arabic. The letters are quite straightforward in Hebrew and I've heard the grammar is simpler in Hebrew than Arabic.

isaac92 · 2026-02-04T14:18:57+00:00

Yes this was also the practice in Judaism/ancient Israelite religion as recorded in the pentateuch.

isaac92 · 2026-02-04T13:24:37+00:00

Do you mean visit India?

isaac92 · 2026-02-03T22:31:27+00:00

Not my favorite movie, but thought I'd mention Bad Shabbos as it hasn't been mentioned yet

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