God-fearing Jews have ZERO issue with “Merry Christmas”.
And religious Jews today, most definitely see the irony of godless Jews celebrating a holiday which condemns their own assimilation/betrayal.
Also, fwiw, Chanukah is a foreshadow of the massive Antichrist persecution coming on the Jews and Christians. The future wannabe god-emperor won’t try to pull a Book of Esther/Hitler style genocide. He will let you stay culturally Jewish or culturally Christian but you will be forbidden to worship God - i.e. worship Satan’s puppet or starve; take the 666 or lose your head. Even the “Abomination of desolation” mentioned in prophecy is foreshadowed in the story of Chanukah.
The Hanukkah menorah is not a symbol of a Biblical occurrence. Hanukkah is a man-made Talmudic tradition intended for self-idolatry. It represents the victory not of the Maccabees over the pagans, but of the selective memory of the rabbis over history. Hanukkah is an enduring commitment to the dark racial and religious conceit of the rabbinic Zionists, disguised as holiday light and cheer for all, and as such it is a kind of abbreviation for and summation of the strange god of self-adulation which is the central idol of the votaries of Orthodox Judaism, and the central violation of the First Commandment of Exodus 20:3.
Hanukkah is Talmudism’s principal means for pushing the religion of the Talmud into the civic life of our nation in December, at a time when Christianity, has its traditional Nativity scenes, which are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square, in favor of menorah lightings, “Sanny Claws” and the collective jingle of cash registers. The lower Jesus, Mary and Joseph are made to descend during the Christmas season, the higher the Menorah and the Judaic self-worship it represents rises.
In last week's news we learn that Congress has authorized the removal of the statue of Chief Justice Roger Taney (1777 to 1864) from the Capitol. The Memory Hole-ing is little more than virtue-signaling in light of the fact that the icon of Rabbi Moses Maimonides remains. Who is Rabbi Moses Maimonides? His "Guide of the Perplexed" (vol. 2, Univ. of Chicago Press, Shlomo Pines uncensored translation) teaches — that black people are subhuman (midway between the ape and the human). This statue remains in a place of honor in the Capitol -- and will probably remain there so long as the existing Republican and Democratic sycophants remain in office.
Maimonides' doctrine caused untold misery for black people in the antebellum South. This Talmudic "guide" is a bona fide handbook of hatred and homicide toward Christians and gentiles in general.
Jesus did not celebrate "Hanukkah". There was no "Hanukkah" at Jesus time. The word 'Hanakkah' comes from neo-Hebrew and was first recorded in 1890–95. Originally instituted as a feast "in the manner of Sukkot (Booths)", it does not come with the corresponding obligations, and is therefore a relatively minor holiday in strictly religious terms. But, in America it has attained major cultural significance, as I mentioned before. It competes with, and is leveraged to diminish Christ Mass.
I think you are referring to the the 'feast of dedication'; also called, 'feast of lights', to which Jesus showed the pharisees He was the light to be celebrated when He said, "I and my Father are one." When Jesus went to the Temple of Herod; this desecrated temple of Solomon, we find:
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
24 Then came the 'pharisees' round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 22-30
What did the pharisees do in response to Jesus' spoken truth? They picked up stones to stone Him. From this, it certainly shows Jesus did not "celebrate" the feast of dedication because they did not believe in Him, but instead upheld their self-worship.
Hanukkah begins on Christmas Eve. It is the pretext to force society to abandon Christmas celebration and observe the nebulous "holidays" instead.
The god of Judaism is self-worship. Society is prevented from celebrating the Gospel of Love so Judaism, which is not Hebraism and actually a religion created in response to Christainity, can mark an occasion where 'God' celebrates them. As Michael Hoffman explains, this is an example of how the world has been colonized.
Hanukkah is Talmudism's principal weapon, after the "Holocaust," for injecting the religion of the Talmud into the civic life of our nation during the month of December, at a time when Christianity and its Nativity scenes, are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square, in favor of menorah lightings, "Sanny Claws" and the collective jingle of cash registers and credit card machines. The lower Jesus, Mary and Joseph are made to descend during the Christ Mass season, the higher the Menorah and the Judaic self-worship it represents, rises...
Correct. However, the name "Hanakkah was first used in 1890-95. And as I showed above, Jesus never celebrated [it] and used to show He was the light that was to be celebrated, in contrast to self-worship, which the feast of dedication represented. According to their own academic sources: "Jews began in the 19th century to call themselves Hebrews and Israelites in 1860". – Encyclopedia Judaica 1971 Vol 10:23. Jesus points out these pharisees were not of His sheep (Israelites). "Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an 'Israelite' or a 'Hebrew'". -- 1980 Jewish Almanac, 1st chapter "Identity Crisis". (Jewish Encyclopedia IV, 1902, p 335). This is indisputably backed up by the archaeological finds of ancient Israelites and their remains and skulls. Cranial shape and size does not change racially. The Israelite skulls were dolichocephalic (long-headed) with avg. cranial capacity of 1416cc. This is identical to modern northern Europeans. Modern day Jews are brachycephalic (round-headed) with a much smaller avg. cranial capacity of 1266cc. This fact alone convincingly proves modern Jews are not descendants of ancient Israel. "Edom is in modern Jewry" -- The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, Page 41.
“When, years before, John Hyrcanus had forced Judaism on the Idumeans [Edomites] he evidently conjectured that the new, though unwilling, converts could learn to identify their own destiny with that of his people”. -- The Jews, their History, Culture, and Religion, pg. 121.
“The Edomites were conquered by John Hyrcanus who forcibly converted them to Judaism, and from then on they constituted a part of the Jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants”. -- The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966), pg. 594, AS WELL AS in the The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977) p. 589.
"From this time the Idumeans [read: Edomites] became an inseparable part of the Jewish people”. -- Encyclopedia Judaica Jerusalem, in Volume 8, page 1147
"Jesus celebrated Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights."
You must recognize the entymology of words to understand the truth. 'Hanakkah' did not exist in Jesus time. At best, it is a forerunner of the 'feast of lights'. Regarding Flavius Josephus, you are correct in his Latin: "Antiquitates Iudaicae", to which he called the 'festival of lights'. Jesus did not celebrate the 'festival of lights', but used the occasion of furthering His ministry. Clearly, Jesus stating to the pharisees, "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 28-30, and the reaction of the pharisees picking up stones to stone him is not celebrating "Hanakkah".
Just as Judaism is not Hebraism, Jews are not Israelites, Jesus did not practice 'Judaism' or was he ever Jewish. The 'Wailing Wall' is not the remains of the temple, but the fortress wall of Roman fort Antonia. Even the historian Flavius Josephus, who lived in Jerusalem and knew exactly where Herod's temple once stood, later saw the aftermath of its total destruction, in which he stated that it was like it never existed. Every stone was removed and taken away. After the Roman defeat of the Jews, the location of the temple was lost. There was no worship at the Western wall until well after the time of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent came into power in the mid-1500s. He ordered a search of Jerusalem for it. Meir Ben Dov's book -- "The Western Wall" records how it was found. He writes:
"In the days of the king Sultan Suleiman nobody knew the location of the Temple, so he ordered a search of Jerusalem to find it.
One day, a man in charge of the search who had already given up hope, saw a woman coming and on her head was a basket full of garbage and filth.
"What is on your head?" he asked.
"Garbage" she said.
"Where are you taking it." "To such-and-such a place"
"Where are you from?"
"From Bethlehem"
"And between Bethlehem and this place are there no garbage dumps?"
"We have a tradition that anyone who brings garbage and dumps it here is performing a meritorious work"
"This must be it" said the man and ordered many men to clear out the garbage from that spot, garbage which, because of the great time that had passed, had turned the earth at the bottom. And so he uncovered the holy place. He went and told the king who rejoiced greatly and ordered them to clean and sweep (the place) and wash the Wall with rose-water."
Rabbi Eliezer Nahman Puah ( Abboth de-Rabbi Nathan (A) 31. and Medrash Bahidush, 1641 p.31a) is reported to have stated in c. 1540 that in the day of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1495c -1566), the site of the Temple was unknown and he carried out an extensive search for it. A wall was finally found beneath a public garbage heap and everyone rejoiced that the site of the Holy Temple had been found. This is the site of the Wailing Wall today!
Hannukkah is revealed in Michael Hoffman's, "Hannukah Hoax". It is a Talmudic holiday that is a burlesque of the Biblical account of the Maccabees. Hanukkah is celebrated cursorily in the Israeli state and observed in the United States as competition for Christmas, in order to symbolically assert the supremacy of Klal Yisroel (the people of Judaism) over the rest of humanity. Judaism is not Hebraism nor are Jews Israelites.
The secret of Hanukkah was disclosed by Rabbi Levi Isaac ben Meir of Berdichev (renowned as “the Kedushat Levi” after his eponymous treatise), a prominent eighteenth century halachic (legal) authority. Rabbi Meir revealed a secret known only to a few: that lighting the Hanukkah menorah does not commemorate the victory of the Biblical Maccabees.
The arcane traditional doctrine of Chazal (i.e. the “sages” of the Talmud) concerning Hanukkah is that it commemorates God’s “delight in the 'Jewish' people” themselves, and their vainglorious celebrations. The secret teaching of Hanukkah is that God supposedly provided a mythical eight days of oil not as a means of facilitating a victory, or of guaranteeing the successful completion of a sacred duty, but rather as a sign (halacha osah mitzvah), of His continuing adoration of the 'Jewish' people, which all the rest of us are supposed to emulate, as we do indeed whenever a menorah is erected where a Nativity scene is banned.
Hanukkah is Talmudism’s principal means for pushing the religion of the Talmud into the civic life of our nation in December, at a time when Christianity, has its traditional Nativity scenes, which are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square, in favor of menorah lightings, “Sanny Claws” and the collective jingle of cash registers. The lower Jesus, Mary and Joseph are made to descend during the Christmas season, the higher the Menorah and the Judaic self-worship it represents rises.
The Hanukkah menorah is not a symbol of a Biblical occurrence. Hanukkah is a man-made Talmudic tradition intended for self-idolatry. It represents the victory not of the Maccabees over the pagans, but of the selective memory of the rabbis over history. Hanukkah is an enduring commitment to the dark racial and religious conceit of the rabbinic Zionists, disguised as holiday light and cheer for all, and as such it is a kind of abbreviation for and summation of the strange god of self-adulation which is the central idol of the votaries of Orthodox Judaism, and the central violation of the First Commandment of Exodus 20:3.
Christians are the true sons and daughters of Abraham who celebrate in the public square our gratitude to Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and Sovereign of all Creation. Rejoice! “For unto you is a born a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”
"....and so many have suspected that the origins of this loved tradition is that of Saturnalia."
Quite right. I could tell you the actual history of how the celebration of December 25th came to be, but not now. I'll just say it was really a 'political' decision.
Quite right. I agree whole-heartedly with you. Interestingly, Christmas was not really celebrated in Christianity more than 100 years ago. My family does not really celebrate it for the reason you mentioned. The Saturnalia aspect is really the basis for it. A number of years ago, I recalled doing research trying to pin point when Jesus was actually born. We know from the bible that, “Mary gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped Him in cloths and placed Him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night” (Luke 2:7-8).
But shepherds were not in the fields during December. In the book of Luke, it suggests that Jesus may have been born in summer or early fall. In December, Judea is cold and rainy, so it is likely the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night. The weather would not have permitted shepherds watching over their flocks in the field at night.
There's other clues, but for a definitive date is unfortunately un-determinant. For me it isn't really important, it is His resurrection that matters most.
Sorry. You’ve been duped by Satan. The King of the Jews will throw all Jew haters into the Lake of Fire.
Scripture twisting is a very dangerous practice and “I was just following Michael Hoffman’s book” will not save you when the Lion of the Tribe of Judah shows up.
“The Jews aren’t real Jews” nonsense is a lie from the pit of Hell. Satan knows who the Jews are - he’s always known. And he goes hard against them, suckering Scripturally illiterate souls by a few out of context Bible verses. It’s how he got Eve and it’s how he tried to get Yeshua. Scripture even prophesies that the Jews as a nation would reject Messiah until His return. If Jews aren’t real Jews then what other people group, has consistently for the last 2 millennia, rejected Messiah and has been scattered to the 4 corners of the world and has been punished, persecuted and slaughtered according to the prophecy of Moses?
The truth is, in these last days, people will hate and kill their neighbors and think they are doing God a favor. Yeshua said so. He also said love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Romans explains that SOME of the Jews are enemies of the Good News for your Gentile sake. You think you’re gonna do God a favor by disobeying Yeshua???
When you give an account to the God of Israel, finger pointing at others’ wickedness won’t save you.
Sincerely, ask God to confirm to you if what I’m saying is true. Hopefully you are not too blinded by pride and hate to do it. Diligently search the Scriptures for yourself - I suggest Romans chapters 9 to 11 to begin with… add chapter 12 too for good measure.
Oh, and Chanukah occurred several centuries before the dozens of volumes of Talmud were compiled and it doesn’t always take place at Christmas time. So, yeah, Hoffman’s book debunked.
I'll accept your "sorry" state of lacking biblical and etymological knowledge. Ignorance isn't always bliss, especially when parroting misinformation that can easily be researched to find the truth. Jesus is not a Jew. This is one of the 5 falsehoods propagated by the enemies of Christianity. His genealogy is not from the line of Japeth, but Shem. Furthermore, the word 'Jew' did not exist in Jesus time and it didn't exist in any biblical texts prior to the 1600s. This word has been intermingled with the words 'Israelite', 'Judahite', 'Judean', 'pharisee', and 'Edomite' for over 400 years. It's use in the Bible is ambiguous and unfortunately needs to be deciphered for every verse that it is used. Some times it refers to the Roman province of Judea, other times it refers more accurately to Edomites. Other times it references 'Israelites".
The word 'Jew' never derived from the name Judah and certainly did not exist during the Roman times as I will explain in the following paragraph..
Rome called the region as 'Judea' from the Latin (not Hebrew) from the word 'Iudaea', which is derived from the Greek 'Idumea'; "land of Edomites" and those people of the region as 'Judeans'. From the time of conquest by Alexander the Great, the region was called 'Idumea'. The influence of the Greeks in the entire Levant was so culturally dominating that the written paleo-Hebrew was lost in antiquity. As a result, the Greek Septuagint was written in 256 BC. The international language throughout the eastern Mediterranean was koine Greek. Without records, it is plausible that Jesus may have read from the Greek Septuagint. We don't know for sure. Nevertheless, the Romans readily accepted the Greek influence existing there and added their own Latin version. The Romans simply used the Latinized version ('Iudaea') of the Greek 'Idumea'.
Much later the word Jew comes into existence in England in circa 1600s, which coincides with a wave of Yiddish immigrants coming from France and Deutschland. Originally the English term 'Jewry' referred to those immigrants coming from Eastern European people who spoke Yiddish (Ashkenazi). A French derogatory term for 'ghetto' and the Yiddish district of town was called -- 'Jeuerie'; "ghetto", from Anglo-French 'Juerie', Old French 'Juierie' or the later English version 'Jewry'. The word 'Jew' did not exist during the Roman times. Even Pontius Pilate inscribed a title in Latin on the torture stake that properly translated reads - "Jesus the Nazerene King of the Judeans".
Sooo the good Jews celebrate Hanukkah ?
Pretty sure they like it,because it allows merry Christmas to be changed to happy holidays....
True.
God-fearing Jews have ZERO issue with “Merry Christmas”.
And religious Jews today, most definitely see the irony of godless Jews celebrating a holiday which condemns their own assimilation/betrayal.
Also, fwiw, Chanukah is a foreshadow of the massive Antichrist persecution coming on the Jews and Christians. The future wannabe god-emperor won’t try to pull a Book of Esther/Hitler style genocide. He will let you stay culturally Jewish or culturally Christian but you will be forbidden to worship God - i.e. worship Satan’s puppet or starve; take the 666 or lose your head. Even the “Abomination of desolation” mentioned in prophecy is foreshadowed in the story of Chanukah.
Understood agree wholeheartedly. I read the title wrong my bad.
The Hanukkah menorah is not a symbol of a Biblical occurrence. Hanukkah is a man-made Talmudic tradition intended for self-idolatry. It represents the victory not of the Maccabees over the pagans, but of the selective memory of the rabbis over history. Hanukkah is an enduring commitment to the dark racial and religious conceit of the rabbinic Zionists, disguised as holiday light and cheer for all, and as such it is a kind of abbreviation for and summation of the strange god of self-adulation which is the central idol of the votaries of Orthodox Judaism, and the central violation of the First Commandment of Exodus 20:3.
Hanukkah is Talmudism’s principal means for pushing the religion of the Talmud into the civic life of our nation in December, at a time when Christianity, has its traditional Nativity scenes, which are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square, in favor of menorah lightings, “Sanny Claws” and the collective jingle of cash registers. The lower Jesus, Mary and Joseph are made to descend during the Christmas season, the higher the Menorah and the Judaic self-worship it represents rises.
In last week's news we learn that Congress has authorized the removal of the statue of Chief Justice Roger Taney (1777 to 1864) from the Capitol. The Memory Hole-ing is little more than virtue-signaling in light of the fact that the icon of Rabbi Moses Maimonides remains. Who is Rabbi Moses Maimonides? His "Guide of the Perplexed" (vol. 2, Univ. of Chicago Press, Shlomo Pines uncensored translation) teaches — that black people are subhuman (midway between the ape and the human). This statue remains in a place of honor in the Capitol -- and will probably remain there so long as the existing Republican and Democratic sycophants remain in office.
Maimonides' doctrine caused untold misery for black people in the antebellum South. This Talmudic "guide" is a bona fide handbook of hatred and homicide toward Christians and gentiles in general.
Jesus did not celebrate "Hanukkah". There was no "Hanukkah" at Jesus time. The word 'Hanakkah' comes from neo-Hebrew and was first recorded in 1890–95. Originally instituted as a feast "in the manner of Sukkot (Booths)", it does not come with the corresponding obligations, and is therefore a relatively minor holiday in strictly religious terms. But, in America it has attained major cultural significance, as I mentioned before. It competes with, and is leveraged to diminish Christ Mass.
I think you are referring to the the 'feast of dedication'; also called, 'feast of lights', to which Jesus showed the pharisees He was the light to be celebrated when He said, "I and my Father are one." When Jesus went to the Temple of Herod; this desecrated temple of Solomon, we find:
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. 23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24 Then came the 'pharisees' round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 22-30
What did the pharisees do in response to Jesus' spoken truth? They picked up stones to stone Him. From this, it certainly shows Jesus did not "celebrate" the feast of dedication because they did not believe in Him, but instead upheld their self-worship.
Hanukkah begins on Christmas Eve. It is the pretext to force society to abandon Christmas celebration and observe the nebulous "holidays" instead.
The god of Judaism is self-worship. Society is prevented from celebrating the Gospel of Love so Judaism, which is not Hebraism and actually a religion created in response to Christainity, can mark an occasion where 'God' celebrates them. As Michael Hoffman explains, this is an example of how the world has been colonized.
Hanukkah is Talmudism's principal weapon, after the "Holocaust," for injecting the religion of the Talmud into the civic life of our nation during the month of December, at a time when Christianity and its Nativity scenes, are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square, in favor of menorah lightings, "Sanny Claws" and the collective jingle of cash registers and credit card machines. The lower Jesus, Mary and Joseph are made to descend during the Christ Mass season, the higher the Menorah and the Judaic self-worship it represents, rises...
Correct. However, the name "Hanakkah was first used in 1890-95. And as I showed above, Jesus never celebrated [it] and used to show He was the light that was to be celebrated, in contrast to self-worship, which the feast of dedication represented. According to their own academic sources: "Jews began in the 19th century to call themselves Hebrews and Israelites in 1860". – Encyclopedia Judaica 1971 Vol 10:23. Jesus points out these pharisees were not of His sheep (Israelites). "Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an 'Israelite' or a 'Hebrew'". -- 1980 Jewish Almanac, 1st chapter "Identity Crisis". (Jewish Encyclopedia IV, 1902, p 335). This is indisputably backed up by the archaeological finds of ancient Israelites and their remains and skulls. Cranial shape and size does not change racially. The Israelite skulls were dolichocephalic (long-headed) with avg. cranial capacity of 1416cc. This is identical to modern northern Europeans. Modern day Jews are brachycephalic (round-headed) with a much smaller avg. cranial capacity of 1266cc. This fact alone convincingly proves modern Jews are not descendants of ancient Israel. "Edom is in modern Jewry" -- The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, Page 41. “When, years before, John Hyrcanus had forced Judaism on the Idumeans [Edomites] he evidently conjectured that the new, though unwilling, converts could learn to identify their own destiny with that of his people”. -- The Jews, their History, Culture, and Religion, pg. 121. “The Edomites were conquered by John Hyrcanus who forcibly converted them to Judaism, and from then on they constituted a part of the Jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants”. -- The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966), pg. 594, AS WELL AS in the The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977) p. 589. "From this time the Idumeans [read: Edomites] became an inseparable part of the Jewish people”. -- Encyclopedia Judaica Jerusalem, in Volume 8, page 1147
"Jesus celebrated Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights."
You must recognize the entymology of words to understand the truth. 'Hanakkah' did not exist in Jesus time. At best, it is a forerunner of the 'feast of lights'. Regarding Flavius Josephus, you are correct in his Latin: "Antiquitates Iudaicae", to which he called the 'festival of lights'. Jesus did not celebrate the 'festival of lights', but used the occasion of furthering His ministry. Clearly, Jesus stating to the pharisees, "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 28-30, and the reaction of the pharisees picking up stones to stone him is not celebrating "Hanakkah".
Just as Judaism is not Hebraism, Jews are not Israelites, Jesus did not practice 'Judaism' or was he ever Jewish. The 'Wailing Wall' is not the remains of the temple, but the fortress wall of Roman fort Antonia. Even the historian Flavius Josephus, who lived in Jerusalem and knew exactly where Herod's temple once stood, later saw the aftermath of its total destruction, in which he stated that it was like it never existed. Every stone was removed and taken away. After the Roman defeat of the Jews, the location of the temple was lost. There was no worship at the Western wall until well after the time of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent came into power in the mid-1500s. He ordered a search of Jerusalem for it. Meir Ben Dov's book -- "The Western Wall" records how it was found. He writes:
"In the days of the king Sultan Suleiman nobody knew the location of the Temple, so he ordered a search of Jerusalem to find it.
One day, a man in charge of the search who had already given up hope, saw a woman coming and on her head was a basket full of garbage and filth.
"What is on your head?" he asked.
"Garbage" she said.
"Where are you taking it." "To such-and-such a place"
"Where are you from?"
"From Bethlehem"
"And between Bethlehem and this place are there no garbage dumps?"
"We have a tradition that anyone who brings garbage and dumps it here is performing a meritorious work"
"This must be it" said the man and ordered many men to clear out the garbage from that spot, garbage which, because of the great time that had passed, had turned the earth at the bottom. And so he uncovered the holy place. He went and told the king who rejoiced greatly and ordered them to clean and sweep (the place) and wash the Wall with rose-water."
Rabbi Eliezer Nahman Puah ( Abboth de-Rabbi Nathan (A) 31. and Medrash Bahidush, 1641 p.31a) is reported to have stated in c. 1540 that in the day of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1495c -1566), the site of the Temple was unknown and he carried out an extensive search for it. A wall was finally found beneath a public garbage heap and everyone rejoiced that the site of the Holy Temple had been found. This is the site of the Wailing Wall today!
Hannukkah is revealed in Michael Hoffman's, "Hannukah Hoax". It is a Talmudic holiday that is a burlesque of the Biblical account of the Maccabees. Hanukkah is celebrated cursorily in the Israeli state and observed in the United States as competition for Christmas, in order to symbolically assert the supremacy of Klal Yisroel (the people of Judaism) over the rest of humanity. Judaism is not Hebraism nor are Jews Israelites.
The secret of Hanukkah was disclosed by Rabbi Levi Isaac ben Meir of Berdichev (renowned as “the Kedushat Levi” after his eponymous treatise), a prominent eighteenth century halachic (legal) authority. Rabbi Meir revealed a secret known only to a few: that lighting the Hanukkah menorah does not commemorate the victory of the Biblical Maccabees.
The arcane traditional doctrine of Chazal (i.e. the “sages” of the Talmud) concerning Hanukkah is that it commemorates God’s “delight in the 'Jewish' people” themselves, and their vainglorious celebrations. The secret teaching of Hanukkah is that God supposedly provided a mythical eight days of oil not as a means of facilitating a victory, or of guaranteeing the successful completion of a sacred duty, but rather as a sign (halacha osah mitzvah), of His continuing adoration of the 'Jewish' people, which all the rest of us are supposed to emulate, as we do indeed whenever a menorah is erected where a Nativity scene is banned.
Hanukkah is Talmudism’s principal means for pushing the religion of the Talmud into the civic life of our nation in December, at a time when Christianity, has its traditional Nativity scenes, which are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square, in favor of menorah lightings, “Sanny Claws” and the collective jingle of cash registers. The lower Jesus, Mary and Joseph are made to descend during the Christmas season, the higher the Menorah and the Judaic self-worship it represents rises.
The Hanukkah menorah is not a symbol of a Biblical occurrence. Hanukkah is a man-made Talmudic tradition intended for self-idolatry. It represents the victory not of the Maccabees over the pagans, but of the selective memory of the rabbis over history. Hanukkah is an enduring commitment to the dark racial and religious conceit of the rabbinic Zionists, disguised as holiday light and cheer for all, and as such it is a kind of abbreviation for and summation of the strange god of self-adulation which is the central idol of the votaries of Orthodox Judaism, and the central violation of the First Commandment of Exodus 20:3.
Christians are the true sons and daughters of Abraham who celebrate in the public square our gratitude to Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and Sovereign of all Creation. Rejoice! “For unto you is a born a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”
Quite right. I could tell you the actual history of how the celebration of December 25th came to be, but not now. I'll just say it was really a 'political' decision.
Quite right. I agree whole-heartedly with you. Interestingly, Christmas was not really celebrated in Christianity more than 100 years ago. My family does not really celebrate it for the reason you mentioned. The Saturnalia aspect is really the basis for it. A number of years ago, I recalled doing research trying to pin point when Jesus was actually born. We know from the bible that, “Mary gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped Him in cloths and placed Him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night” (Luke 2:7-8).
But shepherds were not in the fields during December. In the book of Luke, it suggests that Jesus may have been born in summer or early fall. In December, Judea is cold and rainy, so it is likely the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night. The weather would not have permitted shepherds watching over their flocks in the field at night.
There's other clues, but for a definitive date is unfortunately un-determinant. For me it isn't really important, it is His resurrection that matters most.
Sorry. You’ve been duped by Satan. The King of the Jews will throw all Jew haters into the Lake of Fire.
Scripture twisting is a very dangerous practice and “I was just following Michael Hoffman’s book” will not save you when the Lion of the Tribe of Judah shows up.
“The Jews aren’t real Jews” nonsense is a lie from the pit of Hell. Satan knows who the Jews are - he’s always known. And he goes hard against them, suckering Scripturally illiterate souls by a few out of context Bible verses. It’s how he got Eve and it’s how he tried to get Yeshua. Scripture even prophesies that the Jews as a nation would reject Messiah until His return. If Jews aren’t real Jews then what other people group, has consistently for the last 2 millennia, rejected Messiah and has been scattered to the 4 corners of the world and has been punished, persecuted and slaughtered according to the prophecy of Moses?
The truth is, in these last days, people will hate and kill their neighbors and think they are doing God a favor. Yeshua said so. He also said love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Romans explains that SOME of the Jews are enemies of the Good News for your Gentile sake. You think you’re gonna do God a favor by disobeying Yeshua???
When you give an account to the God of Israel, finger pointing at others’ wickedness won’t save you.
Sincerely, ask God to confirm to you if what I’m saying is true. Hopefully you are not too blinded by pride and hate to do it. Diligently search the Scriptures for yourself - I suggest Romans chapters 9 to 11 to begin with… add chapter 12 too for good measure.
Oh, and Chanukah occurred several centuries before the dozens of volumes of Talmud were compiled and it doesn’t always take place at Christmas time. So, yeah, Hoffman’s book debunked.
Much love and have a Merry Christmas!
I'll accept your "sorry" state of lacking biblical and etymological knowledge. Ignorance isn't always bliss, especially when parroting misinformation that can easily be researched to find the truth. Jesus is not a Jew. This is one of the 5 falsehoods propagated by the enemies of Christianity. His genealogy is not from the line of Japeth, but Shem. Furthermore, the word 'Jew' did not exist in Jesus time and it didn't exist in any biblical texts prior to the 1600s. This word has been intermingled with the words 'Israelite', 'Judahite', 'Judean', 'pharisee', and 'Edomite' for over 400 years. It's use in the Bible is ambiguous and unfortunately needs to be deciphered for every verse that it is used. Some times it refers to the Roman province of Judea, other times it refers more accurately to Edomites. Other times it references 'Israelites".
The word 'Jew' never derived from the name Judah and certainly did not exist during the Roman times as I will explain in the following paragraph..
Rome called the region as 'Judea' from the Latin (not Hebrew) from the word 'Iudaea', which is derived from the Greek 'Idumea'; "land of Edomites" and those people of the region as 'Judeans'. From the time of conquest by Alexander the Great, the region was called 'Idumea'. The influence of the Greeks in the entire Levant was so culturally dominating that the written paleo-Hebrew was lost in antiquity. As a result, the Greek Septuagint was written in 256 BC. The international language throughout the eastern Mediterranean was koine Greek. Without records, it is plausible that Jesus may have read from the Greek Septuagint. We don't know for sure. Nevertheless, the Romans readily accepted the Greek influence existing there and added their own Latin version. The Romans simply used the Latinized version ('Iudaea') of the Greek 'Idumea'.
Much later the word Jew comes into existence in England in circa 1600s, which coincides with a wave of Yiddish immigrants coming from France and Deutschland. Originally the English term 'Jewry' referred to those immigrants coming from Eastern European people who spoke Yiddish (Ashkenazi). A French derogatory term for 'ghetto' and the Yiddish district of town was called -- 'Jeuerie'; "ghetto", from Anglo-French 'Juerie', Old French 'Juierie' or the later English version 'Jewry'. The word 'Jew' did not exist during the Roman times. Even Pontius Pilate inscribed a title in Latin on the torture stake that properly translated reads - "Jesus the Nazerene King of the Judeans".