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The Rainbow Swastika - A Jewish Response
from cognitive dissonance.
Of course you can always accept the humbling but satisfying answer that the G-d of Israel lives. Not that we understand everything He has
done with our people, but He is apparently there - and involved. He's been keeping some very unlikely promises, in the face of some very
impressive opposition. He is not daunted by His own people's skeptism, or their outright denial of His existence. His promises include
dealing a final blow to "the wise men of Babylon" who "rule the whole earth" [never achieved until this day of global culture] and "the
daughter of the Kasdim" with her "sorceries" (Jer. 50 and 51, Isa. 14 and 47). It is noteworthy that "Helel ben Shahar", the New Agers'
"light-bearer", receives judgment from G-d as the king of Babylon (Isa. 14:3-23).
2. Restoring Your Own Jewish Spirituality
- for Observant Jews
"Have I been taught real Torah?"
You may have never questioned whether what you have absorbed is really a Jewish faith, especially if you are in orthodox circles. But since
New Agers are boasting control of the culture we have grown up in, and even penetration into the Torah community, it's time to investigate.
Is everything you have accepted about the nature of G-d and man, good and evil, based on the teachings of the eternal, unchanging Torah? Is
it based on teachings of Jewish leaders who never violated Deuteronomy 4:2 or 12:32 by cancelling or "reinventing" Torah? Does your
community believe that certain Torah commandments can be disregarded by certain rabbis or mekubalim because of their lofty spirituality?
Are your leaders teaching Torah, or are they (even unknowingly) offering a mixture of Torah and "universal ideas" from other religions? It's
true that Torah contains universal ideas, but with clear boundaries and exclusions. Of special relevance here, we are explicitly commanded
not to "inquire" how idol worshipers "serve their gods" so that we can "do likewise" for our own G-d. (Deut. 12:30) Is there anything in the
body of today's accepted traditions passing as "Jewish" that can be found in ancient mystery religions, but not in Torah? Do you even know
the Five Books well enough to answer that question?
(Isaiah 8:19-20, literal translation from Hebrew:)
"And when they say to you, 'Seek the mediums [channelers] and wizards [adepts in occult mysteries] who chirp and mutter; shall not a
people seek its god on behalf of the living among the dead?' To the Law and to the Testimony, if they will not speak according to this word:
that it has no dawn [shahar]."
In other words, do not follow those leaders who refuse to confirm the fact that this is not the "dawning of a new age" and that Lucifer is not
"son of the morning". Do not follow those who condone occult activities like communing with the dead. If you can't find such a rabbi to
teach you, then stick to "the Law and the Testimony" on your own.
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.
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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..."
http://philologos.org/__eb-trs/naJ.htm
2/26/2012