THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

My rabbi, right or wrong.
Have you been taught not to scrutinize what the sages taught for possible error? Have you
been taught that your rabbis cannot be in error? (Infallibility was an old Catholic doctrine, if
you please, and even they only applied it to the Pope!) If a leader you admire is following
after something forbidden by Torah, do you feel obligated to follow him into it, or to stand on
Deuteronomy 13? If false teachers of Torah were not possible, the Prophets would never
have warned against them (see Ezekiel 34, Jeremiah 2:8, Zephaniah 3, Isaiah 28:7-14, etc).
Speaking of the Prophets, do you really believe that their words are from G-d, that "all his
words" given through the Prophets "are truth and righteousness", as the Haftarah blessing
says? Have you ever taken time to study the Prophets, or are there entire passages of "truth
and righteousness" which you've never even read once? Perhaps you been taught that the
sages and rabbis have veto power over the Prophets - did you ever think to ask how that is
possible if "not one" word of the Prophets "will turn back and return empty"? What will you
do if you don't get an answer: stay or leave?
3. Restoring Those Around You
Educate the Jewish people to distance themselves from all groups which herald the New
Age, and to disassociate themselves from all unJewish teachings.
Our main strength in this regard is: what are we lacking in our Tenach that we would need to
supplement it with these foreign teachings? The Dalai Lama's challenge must be, and can be,
answered.
Why would Jews need a teaching about "karma" to pay for sins, when we can have
Forgiveness with the promise, "I will remember your sins no more"? What Jew needs
"reincarnation" when we've been promised Resurrection? Why accept the existence of evil in
G-d when we have far better explanations in the books of Genesis, Job and Psalms? Which
"channeler" has a track record anywhere near that of our own Prophets - and why are our
people so ignorant of those amazing Jewish prophecies? (Israelis will know what I'm talking
about; the old saying is still repeated by secular Israelis: "Anybody who lives in Israel and
doesn't believe in miracles is just not being realistic....")
It is not enough, however, to say we don't need NA; we must disassociate ourselves from it in
order to avoid the Divine judgment which NAers are destined to reap for their alliance with
those eternal losers, the rebellious Hierarchy. Since the New Agers agree that Babylon, the
chief guardian of the "ageless wisdom", has never ceased to exist spiritually, the following
prophecy is quite as relevant for today as when it was given to the physical kingdom:
(Jeremiah 51:5-7, literal translation from Hebrew:) "For Israel has not been widowed, nor
Judah, of his G-d the L-rd of Hosts, though their land is filled with guilt more than with the
Holy One of Israel. Flee out of Babylon, and let every man save his life [or soul]; do not be
cut off in her iniquity; for it is a time of vengeance to the L-rd, a wage He will pay to her. A
cup of gold is Babylon in the hand of G-d, making all the earth drunk; nations have drunk her
wine; therefore nations will go mad [yithollelu - interestingly, same root as Isaiah's helel, "the
shining one" who fell from Heaven]. Suddenly has Babylon fallen and is broken..."
The rest of that chapter is very interesting as well. Israel is commanded, in addition to leaving
physical Babylon, to specifically "flee from the Kasdim" (Chaldeans); these were the elite