Lieben Dank, @Bubbles 🙏

Die bildungsoroentierte Laienbewegung der Pharisäer, denen auch Rabbi #Jehoschua, griechisch #Jesus nahestand, bewerte ich eher positiv. Frau Feldman löste sich von den #Satmar, einer extrem anti-israelischen, haredischen #Sekte. Sinnigerweise richtet sie digitale Anwürfe heute auch gegen deutsch-jüdische Identitäten, die zeitgleich von israelischen Rechtsdualisten attackiert werden. Insgesamt gelingendes Zusammenleben triggert leider auch identitäre Ablehnungen.

In what remains imo the deepest reflections in the field of Holocaust #Theology[1], #Satmar Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum reminds us that we were exiled from #Yerushalayim not because of Roman antisemitism, but as a punishment by G-D for becoming the perpetrators of שנאת חנם (shinayt khinaym, baseless hatred) as sovereigns. Our entire religion after #SecondTempleJudaism is predicated on an eventual messianic return, which was never really about a return to the land where the children of Yishroelites once lived, but a return to a life where we're no longer defined by hate, either as perpetrators or as a dispersed minority religion. Which is precisely why Rabbi Akiva tells us that in the messianic everything is as it is now -- yet different; if you believe you're waiting for a return to a place rather than redemption, that is placing your will in the place of the will of HaShem, and it is always ultimately peace and mutual respect for the stranger that is willed by HaShem. The messianic is not a state in Palestine, but the universal recognition of HaShem as the singular sovereign, the surrender of the world to divine law. Thats the whole of our Toyrah HaKoydesh, the rest is just exegesis.

Satmar Rebbe elaborates on this by demonstrating that the #Zionist project is in fact Avodah Zarah (usually translated as "idol worship" but really its more "serving the obscure"), the practice of the "avodei hakovachim" (star worshippers) where Zarah in the Talmud is evoked specifically in discussions of how to conduct one's self in relation to the Roman and Babylonian empires. "Star worshippers" was literal (and a telling analogy; even if you serve the highest being that appears in your world, you're still serving things rather than the ineffable truth of the Name). Teitelbaum shows, through a comparative study of the invented language of Israeli Hebrew, that it is in fact a vehicle for the Romanization of Hebrew, a kind of deep imperial strategy to replace the symbolic apparatus of our lashoyn hakoydesh and its entire universe of meaning with the language of war, nationalism (goyish) and hatred.

And to what effect? Satmar Rebbe tells us that the tachlis of the state is to ensure the lives of the population remain in perpetual danger in order to methodically affirm the necessity of its military apparatus wrt to protection. And that has been so-called #Israel's entire game since day 1.

[1] To which I would include #Agamben's #HomoSacre, which is great