I am The Last Hebrew Jew and I am well aware that my saying as much awakens scorn and ridicule
in the mind of those whose very existence is the embodiment of everything I have come to vanquish.
There are many Jews, but none of them are Hebrew in the true spiritual sense of the word,
upon which I will elaborate.
The epitome of Hebrew Spirituality is manifest in the life of our Father Abraham and The Torah of Moses. Abram to whom The God of The Hebrews said, " Go and take yourself from your land, the land in which you were born and from the house of your father, to the land which I will approve. I will show you."
וַיֹּאמֶר יְהֹוָה אֶל אַבְרָם לֶךְ לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית אָבִיךָ אֶל הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַרְאֶךָּ:
The root word in Hebrew for Hebrews, ( עבר ) means to "go over" physically, and spiritually to transcend. Now the only way one can successfully achieve spiritual transcendence is to embark on a path of not only transcendence, but one of ascendance as well.
Transcendence is by its nature and the nature of the world, the means to move out of one set of circumstances by excelling, into another. This alone does not guarantee an improvement of one's lot. It is the nature of everything to fall back into chaos. No matter how extended a transcendence, if it does not manifest the quality of ascendance as well, it must come to an end and the transcendent one will fall again back into depravity and decay.
Power always corrupts and therefor so does the power of transcendence. This has been the destiny of the Hebrews who became the Children of Israel and finally The Jews. The Jews are a people of transcendence that have not yet completely acquired Abraham's attribute of complete surrender to the Will of The Lord of Transcendence and Ascendance, The Lord God of The Hebrews, the consequence of this being their pattern of ascent and then descent into spiritual depravity and moral decay. Yes, there are and have been many many examples of individual Jews who are and have been shining beacons of spirituality and moral fortitude. I speak of the Jews as a whole as Moses did, when he said,
הַלְיהֹוָה תִּגְמְלוּ זֹאת עַם נָבָל וְלֹא חָכָם הֲלוֹא הוּא אָבִיךָ קָּנֶךָ הוּא עָשְׂךָ וַיְכֹנְנֶךָ
:
" Is this what you give back (in gratitude) to God? A Depraved nation that isn't wise! After all, He is your Father Who owns you, He makes you and establishes you."
The Jews today are not a spiritually ascendant people even as they demonstrate many fine examples of transcendence in all the fields of their worldly endeavors. They excel at what they do and create new paradigms ofinnovative theory and practice in all the many realms of science, technology and the arts they participate in.
But are they a spiritual light unto the nations in the way that Abraham was to the people of his generation?
I dare say, not at all.
Spiritually, the Jews of this generation are the most lost and confused and corrupt of any there has ever been. Again, there are individuals among the Jews who are the finest embodiment of Abraham's spiritual legacy as there are among any other peoples. But as a Nation, the Jews are as lacking in an understanding heart of The Torah of Moses and The Spiritual Legacy of Abraham, as the generation that left Egypt and died in the dessert because of a lack of Hebrew Faith. As Moses tells The Children of Israel then and I say today,
וְלֹא נָתַן יְהֹוָה לָכֶם לֵב לָדַעַת וְעֵינַיִם לִרְאוֹת וְאָזְנַיִם לִשְׁמֹעַ עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה
"And God has not given to you a heart to know and eyes to see and ears to hear, until this very day."
When God calls upon Moses to send him to the Children of Israel, He introduces Himself in a number of different ways. An understanding of these different ways gives a full understanding of Abraham's Legacy and The Torah of Moses.
First let me say this.
The idea of transcendence alone means the willingness and ability to step outside the paradigms and confines of preexisting belief systems. Naturally, this is like leaving one's home as Abram was told to do. But one cannot live without some kind of shelter. As one leaves the confining structures of the past, one must create and build new structures that meet one's needs, hopefully even better than those one has left behind. What often happens then, is that those who have transcended the narrow confines of one spiritual or materiel paradigm and have created a new one, then cling to it in arrogant pride for its being their own creation. Human beings often demonstrate the quality of transcendence as regards their path of development. The incredible advances in all kinds of technology over that last 10,000 years and the spread of humanity across the planet are all consequences of humanity's innate capacity for transcendence. Transcendence, the desire to excel and break free from the shackles of ignorance and poverty, has been the motivation for great migrations of peoples across the span of history. It is what brought the Pilgrims to America. But when transcendence leads to affluence and the willingness to leave everything behind turns into an obstinate clinging to a fossilized sense of identity, based on past performance, spiritual depravity ensues.
Has humanity achieved spiritual ascendance? Are we united in a commonwealth of humanity, as custodians of the earth and all its living creatures?
Obviously not. Not Yet.
Why would such a state of affairs be indicative of an ascendant spirituality? Such a commonwealth of the family of man would mean that peoples and individuals have achieved an empathetic connection with each other, other nations and cultures, allowing each to flourish and prosper in their own way, in their own space, as a dynamic harmony of diversity.
The growing appreciation of dynamic diversity with internal harmony is the spiritual ascendance I am saying must come with transcendence, for the process of spiritual improvement to be maintained.
So God's first introduction of Himself to Moses is as follows:
וַיֹּאמֶר אָנֹכִי אֱלֹהֵי אָבִיךָ אֱלֹהֵי
אַבְרָהָם אֱלֹהֵי יִצְחָק וֵאלֹהֵי יַעֲקֹב וַיַּסְתֵּר משֶׁה פָּנָיו
כִּי יָרֵא מֵהַבִּיט אֶל הָאֱלֹהִים
"And He said, "I am The Lord of Your Father, The Lord of Abraham, The Lord of Isaak and The Lord of Jacob and Moses hid his face because he was too awed to look at The Lord."
God tells Moses something Moses is not meant to transcend, that being God's Identity as The Lord, The Master, of Moses's father as well as The Lord of Jacob, his father Isaac, and Isaac's father, Abraham. Whereas Abraham was told to transcend his homeland with its beliefs, to leave the house of his father with its idols and false gods, Moses is told to adhere to the God of His Father and The Fathers of his nation. Which means he must let go of his father in law Yitros ideas of God and transcend them, and cling again to the Lord of his Father.
Just as Abram became Abraham in a process of ascendance he learned as he aged, so Moses was yet to understand himself, how to achieve ascendance and as he is told, he will only truly know if its The Lord of his fathers that sends him, when he comes back to this mountain and ascends it to receive the Torah.
And then God tells Moses the secret of Ascendance that Moses does not yet understand and won't until he has brought The Children of Israel back to Mount Sinai and ascends it to receive from the Jealous God, The Consuming Fire, His Torah.
יד וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים אֶל משֶׁה אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה וַיֹּאמֶר כֹּה תֹאמַר לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶהְיֶה שְׁלָחַנִי אֲלֵיכֶם
"And The Lord said to Moses, " I Will Be Acknowledged as What I Will Be!" and He said," So you will tell to The Children of Israel, "I Will Be" has sent me to you."
The Lord will be acknowledged as what he Will Be by Moses, but not by the Children of Israel and that explains the difference in how God introduces himself to Moses and how Moses is to introduce Him to The Children of Israel!
טו וַיֹּאמֶר עוֹד אֱלֹהִים אֶל משֶׁה כֹּה תֹאמַר אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהֹוָה
אֱלֹהֵי אֲבֹתֵיכֶם אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם אֱלֹהֵי יִצְחָק וֵאלֹהֵי יַעֲקֹב
שְׁלָחַנִי אֲלֵיכֶם זֶה שְּׁמִי לְעֹלָם וְזֶה זִכְרִי לְדֹר דֹּר:
"And the Lord also said to Moses, This is what you will say to The Children of Israel, יהוה "God", The Lord of your fathers, The Lord of Abraham, The Lord of Isaac, The Lord of Jacob, has sent me to you, this is my name forever and this is how I am remembered for "a generation that dwells.'"
"A generation that dwells" is one that remembers The Lord of Their Fathers. If they don't remember, Moses is to tell them, they won't dwell very long.
Now God introduces for the first time His Name, the not to be pronounced but only contemplated name יהוה which means The Creator Of The Ever Evolving Present Becoming The Future. יהוה is What Will Be What Will Be, meaning the future will surprise and confound you and will stretch and break any idea you try to contain יהוה with, in The Future I Will certainly severely test your faith, but I am always never the less, The Lord of Your Fathers, The Lord יהוה God of The Hebrew Prophets as told of In The Hebrew Bible, The Lord of Israel!
And then it all comes together in how this Lord יהוה God is to be presented to Pharaoh, how He is to become known to the nations, as well as the nature of the people who are to be called by the name He has given them, Israel.
ח וְשָׁמְעוּ לְקֹלֶךָ וּבָאתָ אַתָּה וְזִקְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶל מֶלֶךְ מִצְרַיִם וַאֲמַרְתֶּם אֵלָיו יְהֹוָה
אֱלֹהֵי הָעִבְרִיִּים נִקְרָה עָלֵינוּ וְעַתָּה נֵלֲכָה נָּא דֶּרֶךְ
שְׁלשֶׁת יָמִים בַּמִּדְבָּר וְנִזְבְּחָה לַיהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ:
"And they will listen to your voice- and you and The Elders of Israel will come to The King of Egypt and you will all tell him יהוה The Lord of The Transcendants has occasioned us, and now, please, we will go three days journey in the dessert and we will make alters to יהוה our Lord."
The word "occasioned" is carefully chosen. It means "to make happen".
It means God יהוה is the cause of this occasion. It is He who has us come to you. You are about to get to know Him and His Awesome Power.
They do not call God יהוה the Lord of Their Fathers because that had no historical meaning yet like it does today. They call Him the Creator of The Becoming Now, an ancient and understandable concept of God and they also call Him, The Lord of The Transcendents, for the Hebrews becoming Israel are nothing if not a nation of transcendence. In every sense of the word The Jews break out of the past confining structures of the mind, of economics, of all kinds of dire straights and narrow thinking, their God is The God of Transcendence, a God who makes of them as Himself in His saying I Will Be What I Will Be.
The only trouble, is that they don't cling to Him as their Lord. They don't want to hear His Voice and obey His Commands. They transcend all confines but they credit their own wisdom and strength and then they cling to their wealth and refuse to leave the comfort of their materiel possessions and then they don't endanger their reputations by raising their voice against corrupt leaders. They begin to worship the work of their own hands, their accomplishments and worldly rewards.
When shown signs of Divine Intent, they call it chance and coincidence. They call those who declare "God speaks to me!" crazy and they even have a saying that since the destruction of their temple, God only speaks to the insane!
They ignore as did King DAVID HIMSELF, what God said to HIM, through the Auspices of The Hebrew Prophet Natan, about His not needing to Dwell in any kind of permanent structure. They ignore that King Solomon, who built the unneeded temple and enslaved the people as they were to complain themselves after his death, broke every injunction concerning the behavior of Kings given by Moses.
The Jews ignore all this, ignore what Moses says of them and to them and compete with each other, who is wiser and richer and of greater political influence. This is how they behaved then and this is how they behave today.
They tell Moses, "You go and get The Word of The Lord for us! We don't want to hear His Voice!"
Now that was what Abraham was always willing to do. To listen and obey whatever God told him to do. This is the reason that his life just got better and better, until he was completely satisfied with all he had experienced and acquired spiritually and materially. Even after his corporeal death, his name was to ascend and ascend in reknown and respect. Magnified and Glorified, like the name of GOD יהוה Himself. Listening directly to The Lord, The God of Israel? This is what Moses wrote that The Children of Israel were unwilling to do. They wanted Laws and Doctrines, they begged for a corporeal King, they built a stone temple after their God had told them a mobile tent would suffice. Why a mobile tent? Because it is easier to transcend in a tent than a stone palace and temple like Solomon built!
40 years in the dessert was a time of transcendence and a time of ascendance. Moving to Israel has always been called an ascendance for Jews. Outside of The CAMP, There was a Mobile Tent of Occasion where Moses spoke regularly to God Himself. The Spirit of God יהוה was with them. They lived in temporary dwellings, Sukkoth, lived on their faith regarding food and clothing and everyone did as they saw straight in their own eyes, but it worked. They came to keep the Sabbath and were of a single heart, because they strove to listen to God's Will from them, within.
The period of obedience was short lived. Cycles of ascendance and descent into depravity are the very stories of the Hebrew Bible.
And now I,
The Messiah,
Son of David, am Here.
Like a Consuming Fire,
my coming now
marks the initiation of a Holocaust,
one that will burn to ashes
The Gods of Stone and Wood
my people worship
in the stone temples of their hearts.
We all need One God,
with One Name,
and One Torah.
The God of Art
And His Torah
as taught
by jmr a light.
Art for Art's Sake!
is becoming 
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November 11, 2017
A Catastrophic Tragedy. Maybe Not!
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Jonathan Michael Robbins
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יונתן מיכאל רבינס
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