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Colour coded details of our beloved TaNaKh:
1. Torah = History & Law, 2. Nevi’im = The Prophets. 3. *Ketuvim = all other Writings.
*The Ketuvim - Includes, Poetical
books - Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the Megillot, or Scrolls - Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations of
Jeremiah, Ecclesiastes, and Esther, prophecy of Daniel, and history
of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles I & II.
Please Note: Some alterations
or (additions) have been made relating to ‘Names’ and ‘Attributes’ of אֱלֹהִים - Elohim (God), having been corrected
like it once was pre the “Masoretic Text”.
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Remember the following truth from our beloved Torah!
“Ye shall NOT ADD TO THE WORD which
I command you, NEITHER SHALL YE DIMINISH FROM
IT, that ye may keep the commandments of אֱלֹהֵיכֶם יְהוָה - the LORD your Eloleichem,
which I command you”. Davarim - Deuteronomy 4:2. (JPS-1917).
However, what have both priests and
rabbis of the past done, they purposely made grave and evil changes! Thus, they
have both added as well diminished from our beloved Scriptures. If you want proof just visit and
read Psalms Chapters 53 and 56 and you will note that they
removed the blessed Name יְהוָה (7 times in each of these two
Psalms) from the Hebrew and placed אֱלֹהִים in it place that
originally had יְהוָה. They then they removed the LORD,
and replaced it with God in the translations. The most ancient
texts which I have personally read (having also been an archaeologist), it obviously did have His actual blessed Name in the
Ivrit, etc! Read Deuteronomy chapter 4 and verse 2
shown above once more. They, and all rabbis
who went along with their lies have been and will be severely punished!
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When did we the “Hebrews” and “Israelites” suddenly become “Jewish”, and who did that?.
With Rabbi,
Dr. Reuven Ben Avraham-Goossens, PhD.
Introduction:
Today we are known as Jews, but in the Torah/Tanakh, we were only known as ‘Hebrews’ and ‘Israelites’. So who are we really? ‘Hebrews’, ‘Israelites’, the ‘Children of Israel’, or the ‘Jewish people’, ‘Jews’? Could this disparity of labels be the reason for our identity crisis we face in our nation today?
In the Torah, Avraham was identified as the first of the ‘Ivrim’ - עברים, or ‘Hebrew’ as it is translated into English. Every generation thereafter continued to cherish that name and identity as heirs to Avraham’s faith. To be a Hebrew implied one’s loyalty to יְהוָה - the LORD’s, strength in the face of danger and perseverance in the face of numerous challenges generation after generation. The term itself was derived from the word for “passing” ie a people passing through lands on their journey to a home.
At this point in time there was no reference
of ‘Israelis’ or the worst name ever given ‘Jews’, two of the
most common nomenclatures used in today’s modern society. However, if we follow
Avraham’s genealogy, we find the root of the word Israeli, is Isaac
Avraham’s son and Jacob his grandson, whose name was later renamed ‘
Let us read Genesis. 32:28-29, first in Hebrew then in English: (JPS-1917 version of the Torah).
וַיֹּאמֶר
אֵלָיו,
מַה-שְּׁמֶךָ;
וַיֹּאמֶר, יַעֲקֹב
וַיֹּאמֶר, לֹא יַעֲקֹב יֵאָמֵר עוֹד שִׁמְךָ-כִּי, אִם-יִשְׂרָאֵל: כִּי-שָׂרִיתָ עִם-אֱלֹהִים וְעִם-אֲנָשִׁים, וַתּוּכָל
“28. And He said unto him: ‘What is thy name?’
And he said: ‘Jacob’. 29. And He said: ‘Thy name shall be called no
more ‘Jacob’, but יִשְׂרָאֵל -
And now we will read Genesis 46:1: (Again the JPS version as per the above:
וַיִּסַּע יִשְׂרָאֵל וְכָל-אֲשֶׁר-לוֹ, וַיָּבֹא בְּאֵרָה שָּׁבַע; וַיִּזְבַּח זְבָחִים, לֵאלֹהֵי אָבִיו יִצְחָק
“1 And
Since that time
Following the lineage further, we find that
the root of the word Jew comes from another of our forefathers’
direct descendents. The Hebrew noun “Yehudi” (“Jew”
in English) is derived from the name
As I said, originally the word was referred
to only of members of the tribe of ‘
The first reference to “Jews,” however, only appears in the Purim story when Mordechai is introduced as “HaYehudi”, ‘the Jew’ and we know well who that evil one was! But we are and will always be, according to אֱלֹהִים - Elohim having only the names which He gave us; and that certainly does not include ‘Judaism’!
The change
in the name reflects a massive change in the people of
Flash forward several hundred years, in 70 AD, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and in 134 AD the Romans attacked again and many of us, the Hebrews were killed, enslaved and in due course dispersed to surrounding countries including Europe and North Africa. Since this time, ‘Judea’ was renamed ‘Palestine’ by the Romans for the explicit purpose of disassociating our beloved land from us its original people, but which was then ruled by the pagan ‘Byzantine Empire’, the ‘Islamic Empire’, the most evil of all those slaughters the vile ‘Christian Crusaders’’, then the ‘Mamluk Empire’, the ‘Ottoman Empire’, and finally the evil ‘British Empire’, who hated us, having memories of those monster’s, the crusaders of course!
However, suddenly we were called “Rabbinic
Judaism” as rabbis suddenly took charge and sadly altered parts of our beloved
Tanakh. Later they dropped the rabbinic part, and worldwide we became known as
Jews, etc. Due to their plain stupidity, these men changed our blessed אֱלֹהִים - Elohim given names, which is, and will always
be ‘Hebrews’ and ‘Israelites’.
Tragically, again and again, we Hebrews were labelled as an ‘enemy’, a ‘threat’, by the goyim who ‘persecuted’ us and driven us out of many regions culminating in the tragic ‘Holocaust’. Despite the countless difficulties, we the Hebrew people maintained our identity, never dispossessing ourselves of our beloved ‘faith’, ‘identity’, ‘community’ or ‘remembrance of Zion’, ‘Judea’ and the ‘Land of Israel’ in our thousands-year old exile in so many foreign lands!
In conclusion:
In regard to our name, no matter what, we are still the people from the 12 tribes, and thus our title should still be a ‘Hebrew’ as well as being an ‘Israelite’! We are not all Judeans, thus that name is in error! We should be proud of our original names, only humans (those mystical and occult Kabbalistic rabbis) kept on changing things to suit them, and it is now time to return to our אֱלֹהִים - Elohim’s blessed given heritage, which was never ‘Judaism’ as that was a man made change, which they had no right to change our two beloved titles given by our beloved יְהוָה - the LORD, בָּרוּךְ שֵׁם קָדוֹשׁוֹ - ‘Baruch Shem Kadosho’ - ‘Blessed be His Holy Name!’ Amen.
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Elohim, blessed be He, said the following through a number of our
prophets...
“Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith צְבָאוֹת- יְהוָה- the LORD of
hosts” Mal’a’chi - Malachi
3:7. (JPS).
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