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"Confession is good for the soul," mate (radarmark), and may your soul be bettered. On the other hand, please do make your self-imposed exile brief because, as I see it, you do not "troll" and are usually a voice of both reason and compassion on this board. By the way, I may have stumbled into...

Tweaking on the details here, but that should be read: to oppose Ben Masada's opinion (not his person), to disagree with him, is to be anti-Jewish and worse, anti-Semitic. During the reign of G.W. Bush, it occurred to me, at one point, that the new definition of anti-Semitism, as it appears in...

Hi (patient) Bananabrain, It’s been so long since we’ve talked that, when need be, I will quote the two of us. With a difference being, in this case, that, unlike the Mayans, it can be established that the Jews had direct contact with the Egyptians: ergo, the Exodus from Egypt...

Too late to edit typographical error. Should be "anti-Jewish," clearly.

We are kith and kin.

Gee, Ben, it was right there, in the opening sentence of the little tourist brochure: “Jews have sought since antiquity to be buried on the Mount of Olives, where according to the Bible (Zech. 14:4) the resurrection will begin when the Messiah comes.” I know it is scriptural. That is why I...

Hi Radarmark, Thank you for asking. It is a continuation of what we have discussed above and elsewhere. In terms of the "internal" church, the parousia of Jesus continues. I am guided by this fascinating verse in 1 John 3:2: “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear...

Hi Ben, Thank you for the brief excursus into Replacement Theology you provided. It was somewhat informative, but highly flawed. At any rate, I found this bit amusing: Let me guess: those are the same Interfaith Scholars who consider the entire New Testament and Christianity in general...

Hi Ben, Well, he was, according to some (Acts 24:5) reports, the ringleader of a sect of the Nazarenes, or, perhaps more accurately, Nazarim, which sect grew up and were later called Christians at Antioch, by the way. As I see it, one ought to expect a great deal of trouble from that sect...

Hi Saltmeister, Allow me to clarify your position. Are you suggesting that Paul did not write the Epistle to the Galatians? As Ben pointed out elsewhere (and on this point I concur), the idea is clearly -if analogically- expressed there.

Grief, a strange beast, comes prowling and demands to be domesticated, but always defies the attempt.

Well, in keeping with the scriptural reference, I could have said, "Ben, Ben, why persecutest thou me" (and signed it St. Paul), but that might have been a bit presumptuous of me. Anyway, I don’t understand why you find the idea of “Replacement Theology” so irksome. As I read it, the idea of...

"Ben, Ben," Servie asks, "why kickest thou against the cactus," or, in the words of the King James Version, the "pricks?" :D Serv

Hi Ben, I think, despite the fact that Imam John Hagee is safely restricted to the precincts of the Court of the Gentiles, he functions as a shameless temple prostitute for Israel. I think he should preach in a g-string; that way his gig would be so to speak exposed for what it is. And...

I think, on the contrary, it is in diaspora, but deeply occluded.

Hi Ben, Exactemente! Now if only we could schedule you, Sunday next, to be the guest speaker at AIPAC’s man in the pulpit, John Hagee’s synagogue, we might finally have done with the “two equally valid and simultaneous Covenants” theory which he and his battalion of like-minded Christian...

Addendum: I was bumped from the network yesterday, just as I posted the above, and was unable to cite a source. Here is another translation. Please note Chapter Eleven.

I don’t have my copy of Jacob Minkin’s book at hand, but I did a Google search on the parts of it that I recall, more specifically the part where Maimonides says King Messiah will “fight the battles of the Lord,” which, to me, sounds like some sort of jihad, and found this, which is close to...

Sorry, Ben, but are you saying that Maimonides did not refer to an individual when he referred to the expected Messiah? If you are saying that, I read him (Maimonides) differently. He gave specific criteria by which the "true," as he saw it, Messiah would be identified, and those criteria, it...

The question Freud tried to answer, even if not to everybody’s satisfaction, was why Moses had instituted an Egyptian practice of male circumcision among the Israelites. Being, as he was, a rationalist, I think the fact that the practice predated the Exodus was convincing enough to him that it...