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"Do not do like the practice of the land… in which you dwelled, and do not do like the practice of the land… to which I bring you, and do not walk in their traditions. Do My
mi•shᵊpât•imꞋ and watchguard Mykhuq•imꞋ to walk in them." (wa-Yi•qᵊr•âꞋ 18.3; see alsoDᵊvâr•imꞋ 18.9 – "Don't learn to do like theto•eiv•otꞋ of thegoy•imꞋ "; 13.1;Yᵊho•shuꞋa 23.6-8 &Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu 10).
"According to Easter (the festival to the idol-[goddess Ishtar]), the change from שַׁבָּת to [Sun-god-day], additions (see Silvester on 01.01), etc.
This merely scratches the surface. It was centuries after the death of god-day, changing Ashtoret (Ishtar = Easter) and many others. Almost any encyclopedia will confirm these basics for you.
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| Nativity Scene: Egyptian cave rock art ca. B.C.E. 3000 (Geologist Marco Morelli, Director of the Museum of Planetary Sciences in Prato, near Florence, Italy, Seeker.com, Discovery Communications) |
"Italian researchers have discovered what might be the oldest nativity scene ever found — 5,000-year-old rock art that depicts a star in the east, a newborn between parents and two animals.
"The scene, painted in reddish-brown ochre, was found on the ceiling of a small cavity in the Egyptian Sahara desert, during an expedition to sites between the Nile valley and the Gilf Kebir Plateau." 
"Before posing a date that differs from Christian tradition, it is first necessary to evaluate Christmas as the claimed birth date. There is no record until 354 C.E. of any connection between Christmas and Jesus (cf. note 1.21.1). So the first Christmas was more than 3 centuries after the death of
Other scholars cite an even later date for actual church documentation: the annual calendar published by Dionysius XIX Exiguous whose calendar was first published in 527 C.E., first establishing 03.25 as the official "Annunciation" and 12.25 as the "Nativity" ("Dionysius [19]," William Smith and Henry Wace, eds., "A Dictionary of Christian Biography," (Millwood: Kraus Reprint, 1974), I:853). Readers should compare and contrast the following analysis with the findings of Ernest L. Martin and others. See also "Easter" and The Nᵊtzârim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matitᵊyâhu (NHM, in English) note 2.2.1.
Christmas also contradicts the actual date, fixed by a number of dovetailing details that others have missed, of the birth of the historical Jew—
"The American People's Encyclopedia, under the heading "Christmas" reads, "The [Saturnalia] of the Romans and the winter festival of the heathen Britons were both celebrated about Dec. 25,th as was the later Roman festival in honor of the sun[god Mithra], which gave it the name natalis solis invicti ("birth of the unconquered sun"). This name was given a symbolic interpretation after the festival was adopted by the Christian church in the 4th century… Many customs associated with the Christmas season have pagan origins."
All major encyclopedias, and particularly the late Oxford historian (and ordained Christian minister) James Parkes (The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue, A Study in the Origins of Anti-Semitism), corroborate that even the earliest Christian Church historians conceded that Christmas and other Christian holidays (e.g. Easter and Sun-[god]-day worship) weren't adopted into Christianity until five centuries after the death of the historical
"These Chaldeans were probably Iraqis (as was Av•râ•hâmꞋ originally) or, perhaps, Iranians. 'The twelve-fold division of the zodiac was first developed by the Chaldean astronomers' (cf. note 2.1.3)
"Concerning the 'Magi,' they were a "priestly caste in ancient Persia. They are thought ot have been followers of Zoroaster, the Persian teacher and prophet…. Gradually, the religion of the magi incorporated Babylonian elements, including astrology, demonology, and magic. (The word magic is derived from the word magi.) By the 1st century [C.E.], the magi were identified with wise men and soothsayers." Darius I (B.C.E. 522-486) was "probably the first Persian king to recognize the religion proposed by Zoroaster." Akhashveirosh (B.C.E. 486-465; also called Xerxes I, son of Darius I) of gods, and subsequently (from B.C.E. 312 into the common era) "cults of foreign gods flourished along with Zoroastrianism." (NHM note 2.2.1).
NHM note 2.1.3 (commenting "magos"): "אַשָּׁף, μαγος, …astrologers… The Greek follows the earliest extant source texts. The Hebrew is reconstructed by correspondence via LXX⇒ 𝕸 (q.v.
In 2.7, EB reads לקוסמים (qo•sᵊm•imꞋ, magicians)."
Astrology was practiced by idolaters such as these magicians, however, and there is but a small distinction in Greek between αστηρ and αστρον (the latter not found in Hebrew note 2.2.1).
"Martin posits that the Magi derived from a priestly group of the Medes and Persians [i.e. the Zoroastrians] and that
A כּוֹכָב has made way from
Ya•a•qovꞋ , and a שֵׁבֶט has risen fromYi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ (
bᵊ-Mi•dᵊbarꞋ 24.17)"And you, Beit
LëkhꞋëm , ËphᵊrâtꞋ-ward, a youth being בְּאַלְפֵיYᵊhud•âhꞋ , from you יֵצֵא for Me, to be מוֹשֵׁל inYi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ ; וּמוֹצָאֹתָיו are מִקֶדֶּם, from days ofo•lamꞋ ."(
MikhꞋâh 5.2)
The term for "star" used in NHM (and the Christian Διαθηκη Καινη (NT)) is αστηρ. While this is conventionally translated as "star," the ancients didn't know of any difference between a star, a planet or a comet. αστηρ simply meant a celestial-body or celestial-phenomenon, which could be a comet, an eclipse – or, most frequently, a conjunction of planets thought to be symbolically-indicative).
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It's provable that the ancient Iranian (Persian) astrologers ("magi"; astronomers and scientists of their era) could only have been interpreting (not "following" literally) a series of three astronomical conjunctions (documented below)—because they could not possibly have been "following" a "star in the east"!!! (And, BTW, that series of 3 conjunctions, which computers calculate precisely, further enabled us to be the first ever to pinpoint RibꞋi Yᵊhō•shūꞋa's exact date of birth—documented below!)
The idea of a "following a star in the east" could only have been conceived by Europeans, for whom Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim is in the East! 
Israel and the Jews are west of Iran / Iraq, from whence the astrologers came. Look at a globe! The They didn't start out from Europe or America heading east toward Israel.
According to the record, this caravan of "magi" originated in Iran or Iraq (Persia). Had these ancient Persian astronomers "followed a star in the east" they would have wound up on the east shore of China around Hangzhou, standing on the beach looking out toward the west coast of America!!! Hiring a boat from there, the baby the Persian astronomers would have found would have been a native American in Hollywood, on the other side of the world from
"The reference in
[צֶדֶק (here described as a future offspring descending from 24.27).
"Concerning 1st century messianic expectations, one should recall the 483 years (69 of the 70 "weeks" / sevens of years; 69 x 7 = 483) prophesied by
"Though many point out that the typical year on the Judaic calendar has about 5 less days than the secular calendar, these self-proclaimed prophets who fail the criteria of
In the Hellenist (Greek) mss., αστηρ is used here rather than αστρον. Both Hellenist terms are rendered, via LXX, from the single Hebrew term כּוֹכָב, meaning either "star" (celestial body) or "celestial phenomenon" (sign). Hence, any distinction in the Hellenist Greek (and later Latin, Syriac-Aramaic and English) renderings are moot in the original Judaic Hebrew. Cf. instances in
"Both terms parallel, via LXX, the Hebrew כּוֹכָב, with the ancient scientists having no inkling of any difference between stars and planets. The distinction between αστηρ and αστρον, then, exists exclusively in the Greek. Since the LXX prefers αστηρ, not αστρον, this originally Greek (and Hellenist) preference cannot be regarded as an extra-Judaic redaction. This verse points out the recognition by the greater, extra-Judaic (Hellenist), world that this was widely regarded as a momentous αστηρ—not a new and different αστρον (cf.
NHM note 2.2.1 (commenting "asteir"): כּוֹכָב, αστηρ, …celestial phenomenon… The Greek follows the earliest extant source texts. The Hebrew is reconstructed by correspondence via LXX ⇒ 𝕸.
Like most people usually do today (even though they really know better now), the ancients didn't differentiate between stars and planets. EB reads ככבו, at NHM 2.2. Based on a secondary ms. of EB (26964), Prof. George Howard renders סבבו.
"In ancient times, there was little distinction between astronomy and astrology (the latter is
"Astrologers believed that Saturn influenced the destiny of the Jews since the Jews observed [Saturn-day], the seventh day of the week, as Ζευς ≡ Roman Iuppiter] was reckoned 'the Planet of the Messiah.' Rav Roy A. Rosenberg showed that Israeli sages long ago recognized that the Hellenists associated the planet ιε-Ζευς ≡ Iuppiter with the Hebrew name צֶדֶק, as corroborated in note 2.2.1).
"Abrabanel (1437-1508 [C.E.]) commenting on the Book of Saturn] and [ιε-Ζευς ≡ Iuppiter] occurring within the constellation of [Pisces] had messianic significance."
The Jews looked upon the Mâ•shiꞋakh as the royal offspring of Dâ•widꞋ— צֶמַח
צַדִּיק (
When the Iranian astrologers referred to "his αστηρ" they used two standard planetary references regarded widely throughout the ancient Middle East as standard symbols indicating "his" (1. kingship, 2. Jews):
the ancient planet-god, Iuppiter – kingship (i.e., Judaic messiahship): in Hebrew, the planet צֶדֶק, associated with the Ζευς by the Greeks (later Iuppiter, i.e., Zeu patær (father Zeus) by the Romans). Hence, the gentile Roman Hellenists saw a connection between the portent of the planet they knew as ιε-Ζευς and the name they expected to be the Jewish Christ-king, Iæsous.
the ancient Roman planet-god, Saturn – the Jews: in Hebrew, the planet שַׁבְּתַאי, Latin Saturnus – origin of SaturDay – hence the connection to שַׁבָּת and, thereby, the Jews. (Note that the daylight-sky god, Day, derives from the cognate Indo-European god Dyeus, from which Zeus derived). This is the same god known in ancient Persia as کـيوان, transliterated into Hebrew as כִּיּוּן (
"While excluding representations of living creatures (the zodiac), recognition of the 12 months as annual divisions signaled by 12 divisions in the heavens was evident, according to Josephus anyway, in the 12 loaves of Display Bread as well as upon the outer veil of the Beit ha- note 2.2.1).
The notion that the constellation Leo has "always been associated with the Jews," as some have asserted, has little merit by itself since most constellations can, in some way or another, be associated with nearly anything or anyone. This was not a primary or major association.
"Having identified αστηρ as a celestial phenomenon (such as a conjunction, occultation, retrogression, progression, solstice, etc.) rather than a celestial body (star or planet), NHM provides a key to unlocking the mystery of when
The signs in the heavens may be associated with remarks of the patriarchs and the history of the Jews. Martin asserts that the star Regulus, the diminutive of Rex, meaning king, and related to "regal" lies "directly between the feet of the Lion," (the constellation) and relates it to
"The association between the Ζευς ≡ Iuppiter as icons of kingship certainly] influenced Hadrian's choice of [ιε-Ζευς (Iuppiter)] as the [idolatrous Hellenist] shrine erected over the site of the destroyed Beit ha-Ζευς and] renamed Ælia Capitolina – إلياء being a pejorative name still sometimes used by Arabs (along with their synonym القدس), as Arabs (and all Muslims) are loath to acknowledge its ancient, Judaic, connection to
Celebrating Christmas is irredeemably pagan, through and through; having nothing whatsoever to do with any תּוֹרָה Jew from
The most serious violation is to support the Arab occupation of Beit
During the cold rainy winter months here in Israel, shepherds have never remained out in the Judean hills with with their flocks as described in the Διαθηκη Καινη (NT). To the contrary, the Διαθηκη Καινη (NT) description of the scene contradicts a Dec. 25th Christmas. Even the Διαθηκη Καινη (NT) description proves that the birth could only be between spring and fall.
"The Dec. 25 dating is contradicted in the earliest extant source documents underlying the Διαθηκη Καινη (NT). Lu. 2:8 reported shepherds camped-out with their flocks at the time of the birth of
The shepherds moved their campsites a few hills along every few days to permit pasturing on new hills, radiating out each day from the campsite, and moving their campsite every few days as available pasturage required. This nomadic trek ends in late autumn of each year when the flocks and shepherds work their way back to their homes for the winter.
"I have observed this practice while doing mi•lu•imꞋ (reserve duty) with the
"The time of year indicated by shepherds tending their flocks in the field (cf. Lu. 2:8) contradicts Dec. 25, and indeed the entire winter season, as a viable date.
In תּוֹרָה, we find אֲשֵׁרָה in
The Christmas tree traces back to the Hebrew term אֲשֵׁרָה, instantiated 40 times in the Bible where Christian translators have glossed over its meaning by translating the KJ/V as "grove(s)."
In the god—and, therefore, with the winter solstice in late Dec., introducing the two related Dec. 25th festivals: natalis solis invicti (the Roman "birth of the unconquered sun") and the birthday of Mithras, the Iranian (Persian) "Sun of Righteousness," whose worship was popular with Roman soldiers).
An account of the history of the אֲשֵׁרָה can be traced through
"The ancient Egyptians worshipped a god called Ra—their sun-god who had the head of a hawk and wore the sun as a blazing disk in his crown. At the solstice, when Ra began to recover from its illness (as they perceived winter to be), the Egyptians filled their homes with green palm rushes which symbolized for them the triumph of life over death." (HistoryChannel.com; [HC])
"Early Romans marked the solstice with a feast called the Saturnalia in honor of Saturn, the god of agriculture. The Romans knew that the solstice meant that soon farms and orchards would be green and fruitful. To mark the occasion, they decorated their homes and temples with evergreen boughs.
"In Northern Europe the mysterious Druids, the priests of the ancient Celts, also decorated their temples with evergreen boughs as a symbol of everlasting life. The fierce Vikings in Scandinavia thought that evergreens were the special plant of the sun god, Balder." (HistCh)
According to Christianity Today, long before Christ, Dec. 25th was widely celebrated among the idolatrous, sun-worshiping, gentiles of the Roman Empire as Natalis Invicti Solis the birthday of Hellenist Mithra (Roman Helios or Sol), the "Unconquered Sun" god:
"To [Western Christians], Christmas and December are inseparable. But for the first three centuries of Christianity, Christmas wasn't in December—or on the calendar anywhere.… December 25 already hosted two other related festivals: natalis solis invicti (the Roman "birth of the unconquered sun"), and the birthday of Mithras, the Iranian "Sun of Righteousness" whose worship was popular with Roman soldiers [the pool from within which Christianity was spawned by Paul and hatched with Constantine]. The winter solstice, another celebration of the sun, fell just a few days earlier. Seeing that pagans were already exalting deities with some parallels to the true deity, church leaders decided to commandeer the date and introduce a new festival… Western Christians first celebrated Christmas on December 25 in 336 [C.E.]…" (ChristianityToday.com).
The earliest mention of Dec. 25 as Jesus’ birthday comes from a mid-fourth-century Roman almanac-calendar of Filocalus, dating to 354 C.E., which lists the death dates of various Christian bishops and martyrs and indicates that the festival was observed by the church in Rome by the year 336 C.E., during the time of the the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine. The first date listed, Dec. 25, is marked: natus Christus in Betleem Judeae ("Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea"). It was a few years even later than that when Pope Julius I officially declared that the birth of Jesus would be celebrated on the 25th December (Encyclopedia Britannica).
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Speaking of the original—Jewish,
These Christian holidays were all idolatrous celebrations syncretized into the gentile Roman-Hellenist belief system in the centuries that followed the Roman crushing of the Bar Kokhva Rebellion, in 135 C.E. It's no coincidence that 135 C.E. was the year in which the Romans exiled all Jews from Capitolina," dedicated to the Hellenist ιε-Ζευς cum Roman Iuppiter!
Neither Easter (abandoning synagogue and PësꞋakh) where they were to be forced to eat pork on their way out (Eutychius, Patrologia Graeca—Migne 111, 11012-13 in Franciscan Catholic priest Bellarmino Bagatti, The Church from the Circumcision, p. 14.)
Contrary to Christmas stories, history records that the earliest images of Jesus, kept today in the Vatican—the same face reflected in crucifix idols, paintings and stained glass windows of churches across the world today—depict him as Helios, the sun deity (always identified by the sun rays emanating from his head… like the Statue of Liberty)! This proves that the earliest Roman gentile Christians understood Jesus not as a Jew but, rather, a minor revision to their sun-god! It also explains the origin of the 5th-century change to worship on sun-god-day and the adoption of the birthday of their sun-god—Dec. 25th… and the origin of the belief in the divinity of Jesus, by then completely divorced from the original Jewish belief of a
It gets even worse. Archeologist-historian John Romer demonstrated in a Discovery Channel documentary that the face that Christianity recognizes as Christ is actually based on the face of the great idol of ιε-Ζευς—which was sculpted from an idealized face of Alexander the Great!!! ("The Seven Wonders of the World, Part I: Jesus' Face") So anyone who worships Jesus, in addition to practicing idolatry of worshiping Isis and ιε-Ζευς, is worshiping Alexander the Great—not any Pharisee Ribi Jew from Nazareth—as a man-god!!!
Contrary to Christmas stories and carols, if the Hebrew name of the historical Jew, יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, had been transliterated into Greek like all of the other Hebrew names, the result would have been Ιοσου—anglicized to "Josou" (from which "Joshua" derived), NOT "Jesus"! Unlike any other Hebrew name ending in the Hebrew letter ע□ (aiꞋyin), however, יְהוֹשֻׁעַ was—inexplicably—given a unique ending in Greek that molded the resulting name into a form reminiscent of a portmanteau, or morph, of the Egyptian Isis, which had evolved, in Roman Hellenism, into "ιε-Ζευς", producing Iæsous. This all seems to have been incorporated in ιε-Ζευς, a contraction, in Greek, meaning "holy ιε-Ζευς"! And the English name, Jesus, has derived from the Greek ιε-Ζευς, as found in LXX.
Thus, the post-135 C.E. Christian = Hellenist-Roman image of Jesus is the arch-antithesis (i.e., what Christians refer to as "the Antichrist") of historical
"Norway is the birthplace of the Yule log. The ancient Norse used the Yule log in their celebration of the return of the sun at winter solstice. "Yule" came from the Norse word hweol, meaning wheel. The Norse believed that the sun was a great wheel of fire that rolled towards and then away from the earth. Ever wonder why the family fireplace is such a central part of the typical Christmas scene? This tradition dates back to the Norse Yule log. It is probably also responsible for the popularity of log-shaped cheese, cakes, and desserts during the holidays." (HistCh)
"Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes." (HC)
In the former Soviet Union, the tradition to install and decorate the "Yolka" (fir tree) was brought back from Europe in the 17th century by Peter the Great—from Europe's Christmas tree tradition. Thus, although this "New Year's Tree" was "secularized" in the former Soviet Union; nevertheless, it was the adoption of the same idolatrous celebration—which is prohibited by תּוֹרָה— wa-
The Turkish "New Year's Tree" is of similar origin.
"In 1846, the popular royals, Queen Victoria and her German Prince, Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News standing with their children around a Christmas tree. Unlike the previous royal family, Victoria was very popular with her subjects, and what was done at court immediately became fashionable—not only in Britain, but with fashion-conscious East Coast American Society. The Christmas tree had arrived." (HistCh)
"Christmas as we know it today is a Victorian invention of the 1860s… Caroling also began in England." (HC)
I'm concerned when propaganda displaces fact in duping Americans to a false way. The most vociferous voices about Christmas in America these days have never even looked at American history (beyond what they can find in support of their propaganda). Here's what the History Channel says about Christmas in early America:
It is not surprising that, like many other festive Christmas customs, the tree was adopted so late in America. To the New England Puritans, Christmas was sacred. The pilgrims' second governor, William Bradford, wrote that he tried hard to stamp out "pagan mockery" of the observance, penalizing any frivolity. The influential Oliver Cromwell preached against "the heathen traditions" of Christmas carols, decorated trees, and any joyful expression that desecrated "that sacred event." In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts enacted a law making any observance of December 25 (other than a church service) a penal offense; people were fined for hanging decorations. That stern solemnity continued until the 19th century, when the influx of German and Irish immigrants undermined the Puritan legacy." (HistCh)
"Most 19th-century Americans found Christmas trees an oddity. The first record of one being on display was in the 1830s by the German settlers of Pennsylvania, although trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier. The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747. But, as late as the 1840s Christmas trees were seen as idolatrous symbols and not accepted by most Americans." (HistCh)
"As late as the 1840s Christmas trees were seen as idolatrous symbols and not accepted by most Americans." (HC)
I can remember when TV hosts or news anchors used to sign off by thanking their viewers "for inviting us into your home." Whatever happened to that America? Neither radio nor TV has any right to intrude into the home, under the guise of false pretenses, with unwanted and unsolicited material, whether religious, obscene, violent, immoral in the opinion of the viewer, etc. I don't object to these things being broadcast providing they are clearly marked products with the appropriate warning labels. I'm appalled to turn on a game I've always loved and find myself and my family exposed to an adulterous whore in a towel jumping on a football player. If NFL wants to marry such immorality to their game that's their prerogative… as long as they don't use deception to bring it into living rooms. TV & radio have no right to enter a living room under false pretenses and then "desensitize" the family to adultery, homosexuality, violence and a hedonistic and materialistic Hollywood view of life. How is that indoctrination methodology so different from the indoctrination of Muslim Madrassas in Saudi Arabia and Gaza? (The indoctrination methodology is the same, only the product is different.)
I'm an American from way back. The Holland Society in New York City documents that my family, ne Van Nest (namely, Pieter Pieterse Van Nest), settled in New Amsterdam—before New York City was—in 1647. I'm also an Orthodox Jew (in good standing in the local Orthodox synagogue here in Ra'anana, Israel) who is appalled at Jews who hypocritically argue that the Kha•nuk•iꞋyâh (which is different than a Mᵊnor•âhꞋ) should be allowed on public property while Christian displays shouldn't. I condemn those Jewish hypocrites unequivocally. Worse, their assertion that the Mᵊnor•âhꞋ (or Kha•nuk•iꞋyâh) isn't a religious symbol is blasphemous, a profanation of the Name of the Almighty of Israel! Of course, the Mᵊnor•âhꞋ and Kha•nuk•iꞋyâh are religious symbols!
Furthermore, the תּוֹרָה mi•tzᵊw•âhꞋ of
Freedom of religion in America means that every home and every place of worship must be guaranteed the right to practice their religion. Religious symbols and displays must be a guaranteed right on the property of every religious place of worship and every private home—in full public view. That right must be granted to every American and respected by every American; and the laws against vandalizing such expressions must be rigidly enforced.
Whatever is decided about religious symbols on public property, all religious symbols must be treated the same in America (NOT in Israel; Israel is a Jewish state, not an American state). The idea of permitting Jewish or Muslim symbols as "secular" while prohibiting Christian symbols is bald discrimination that cannot be tolerated in America. It IS a breach of the rights of American Christians! This Orthodox Jew doesn't equivocate about it.
Conversely, however, America was founded on the principle of freedom from religious coercion. No one should be able to put unwanted religion "in your face." Placing religious symbols in public places—from parks to malls to government buildings to public schools to TV and radio—dictates that you either accept the religious coercion—from which the American Constitution is supposed to protect you—or you have to unplug your TV and radio and stay home from before Thanksgiving until after the secular New Year. That isn't freedom from religious coercion. No religious displays—not Jewish, not Christian, not Muslim, not any other—belong in the public arena. Let every church and every Christian home display all of the Christian symbols they like in full public view… as long as it's on their private property. That is the guaranteed American right to practice religion. By contrast, imposing your religion in my face, unwanted and uninvited, isn't the right of any American.
It is no less an imposition of unwanted and uninvited religious coercion "in my face" when viewers tune in the news—not a Christian or Christmas program—on Fox News Channel and are bombarded by Christians insisting on bringing their Christmas and news of their 4th-century Roman "savior" into viewers' living rooms. Discussion of Christmas has a place in social discourse; but only when the product is properly labeled. Christmas doesn't routinely belong in every social discourse. "Fair & Balanced"? What a laugher! Despite Constitutional protections against religious coercion, Americans can't escape it anywhere they go, they can't escape it if they shop, children can't escape it at school, Americans can't even escape it in their own home!
Christians scream when some thoughtless Jews seek parity, or priority, by placing
If Fox Newfotainment wants to become an affiliate of the Christian Broadcasting Network, fine. CBN can broadcast Christmas and Christian witnessing to their hearts' content. It's honestly labeled and, therefore, it's CBN's right under the Constitution. It ISN'T Fox's right when they purport to be a news broadcasting cable channel. That's false advertising and bringing their religion into living rooms through deception, no better than NFL springing a promo for a TV show about adulteresses or a "family" sit-com springing on its unsuspecting viewers a desensitization indoctrination of a homosexual interfacing with the cast as an acceptable lifestyle. "Queer Eye," while I don't watch such an abomination, has the right to broadcast because it's properly labeled. One can avoid it by simply not selecting that show. Just don't spring that crap through deception on unsuspecting viewers just because some Chevy Chase-mindset or Barbara Streisand-mindset entertainment moguls think America needs to be desensitized and indoctrinated into their brainless hedonistic and materialistic way of thinking where conflicting facts have no place.
All of the trappings of Christmas—from the calendar date to the tree to the Yule log—have clear origins in idolatry. By stark contrast, there is no precedence for any of these in the תּוֹרָה practiced and taught by historical
Christmas traditions are documented to be idolatrous, predating and having nothing whatsoever to do with the first century Pharisee תּוֹרָה Jew from
"Similarly, we need only examine this same window. In the years 3754-5 (B.C.E. 7), [Saturn] and [Ζευς ≡ Iuppiter] were in conjunction three times in the pre-dawn sky. There are several dates given for these conjunctions in various texts because there are three methods of defining "conjunction":
celestial longitude,
right ascension, and
least apparent angular separation.22
Thus, Tuckerman indicates the conjunctions according to celestial longitude as:
B.C.E. 0007.05.27,
B.C.E. 0007.10.05, and
B.C.E. 0007.12.01
Sinnot gives the conjunctions according to right ascension as:
B.C.E. 0007.06.02,
B.C.E. 0007.09.26, and
B.C.E. 0007.12.11.23
"Dr. E. Myles Standish Jr. of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Ca. indicates the dates according to least apparent angular separation as (parallel dates on Judaic calendar according to rosettacalendar.com; see also NHM note 1.18.1):
B.C.E. 0007.05.29 = Thirdmonth 3, 3754 – 47th day of the counting of the
B.C.E. 0007.10.01 = Seventhmonth 10, 3755 (as the Hebrew calendar today reflects the modern change of year beginning with the seventhmonth) – Yom ha-
B.C.E. 0007.12.05 = Tenthmonth 23, 3755 – 2 days before
"This last method is the one which the ancient astronomer-astrologers, using their naked eyes and lacking modern instrumentation, used and is, therefore, the one adopted in NHM.
With the the celestial phenomena information in hand, we may consider the astronomical computer calculations relative to the dating of the birth of
"The significance of three conjunctions and their timing is interpreted as follows:
"The first conjunction signaled the birth of
"The astrologers would have made their sightings independently, analyzed their meanings and, in following days and weeks arranged meetings together to discuss the significance. Eventually, the astrologers decided to arrange a caravan and to go to Israel to investigate the matter further and ask of the "Israeli scientists" more detailed information on the meaning of this phenomenon.
"At Moah in the central
"In her book The Syrian Desert, Christina P. Grant describes the organization of caravans in antiquity as complex operations requiring considerable managerial skills and discipline. "The principal financial backer would name a convoy commander—generally a Bedouin sheikh—who would have complete authority. Salt caravans crossing the Sahara today sometimes number as many as 1,000 camels and ancient caravans presumably numbered that many or more at times given the amount of goods being moved.
"The organizational stage, which could take months, involved mobilizing camels and drivers, assembling the goods to be transported, arranging for fees to be paid to tribes whose territory would be crossed, arranging business contracts and insurance.
"Once under way, a guide and advance guard rode several kilometers in front of the caravan. At the head of the main body, rode the convoy commander and his staff. Armed outriders guarded the flanks of the convoy from raiders. The camels would be tied to each other in line and [a number of] 'empty' [camels] would plod along at the rear as spares. If a sandstorm obliterated signs of the trail and orientation were completely lost, the leader would order a halt until nightfall so that he could navigate by the stars.
"Camp would be made an hour or two before sunset. The camels would be unloaded and the packs placed in a circle to provide a perimeter of defense. The travelers would sleep inside the circle while the guards took turns as sentries. At caravansaries along the route, apparently only wealthy travelers luxuriated inside the bathhouse and dining halls while the remainder made do in the caravan camp." (That
The meetings, discussions, planning, arrangements for a caravan, stocking provisions for the journey, the journey itself, various inquiries upon their arrival in
"There were now five weeks until the final conjunction (though the astrologers were not aware of this in advance). They would have spent a few days replenishing their provisions, afterwards walking to Beit
"They still needed to identify the right child (who was now over four months old—and definitely no longer in a manger). How would they do this? The simplest method would have been to list all of the male children in Beit
"On the eve of 12.05 (not 12.25 as Martin suggests) calculations demonstrate that they were keeping watch at the house of
The recorded sightings of conjunctions of planets with Jewish and messianic significance by the Persian astrologers (popular "wise men" or magicians) enable the calculation based on computer simulations (obtained from and corroborated with NASA, the Jet Propulsion Lab and Sky & Telescope back in 1983) several astronomical dates—including the exact date of the birth of note 2.1.4)—in spring (when shepherds are in the fields), not winter (when sheep are kept in folds for shelter from the cold winter rains, occasional hail and short, light flurries of snow).
NHM ch. 2 confirms that Herod the Great was king – still living – when
NHM note "2.0.1 … B.C.E. 7: Dating the Birth of 2.1,
"The earliest date for the birth of [RibꞋi] Yᵊho•shuꞋa is generally tagged to the death of Herod, who was still alive when [RibꞋi] Yᵊho•shuꞋa was born. [According to Josephus,] Herod died shortly after an eclipse of the moon. Martin's defense of the eclipse in B.C.E. 1, while [seeming] viable, isn't logically compelling [and, as demonstrated below, is rendered impossible by other facts]. The next earlier eclipse, in B.C.E. 4, which has been widely accepted, is the correct eclipse. Further, the celestial phenomena, which can be argued for both eclipses, is closer to the text in B.C.E. 4. (Especially readers leaning toward the B.C.E. 1 eclipse should refer to Martin's arguments.)" (NHM note 2.2.1)."
Since Herod the Great died in B.C.E. 4, and was "king" when
Furthermore, "In a sixth-century treatise on the calculation of Easter, Dionysius 'the Little' first proposed to count from the birth of Christ to avoid honouring the hated persecutor Diocletian. His idea was popularised in England by the Venerable Bede [673-735 C.E.], who added the notion of counting backwards for dates [B.C.] 'Before Christ'. However, it only gained universal acceptance among Christians in the 15th century [C.E.]." (BC/AD Dating: In the year of whose Lord?)
"The traditional date of B.C.E. 1 for the birth of and the source texts of the Διαθηκη Καινη (NT). Ancient historical records unearthed by archaeologists in 1920 seem[ed to some] to indicate that Herod's taxation census was in B.C.E. 0008. [Update 2014.05.11 correcting NHM: according to Josephus (Ant. xviii.ii.1), this taxation census occurred in B.C.E. 6-7. See the various scholarly arguments in Schürer.] Requiring all citizens to travel to the place of their birth, where their
Historians are generally agreed that the historical records of censuses indicate that
"The argument for B.C.E. 1 also leans heavily upon the dating of the census tax, which some scholars feel does not support the B.C.E. 4 dating. Lu. indicates (2.2) that this tax census, or registration, occurred during the rule of Cyrenius (Quirinius) of Syria, who was appointed in 6 C.E. Seemingly then, [RibꞋi] Yᵊho•shuꞋa had to be born prior to B.C.E. 4 [when King Herod died] but after 6 C.E. [when the B.C.E. 1 advocates date the census] – a clear impossibility [whichever census dating is applied]." (NHM note 2.2.1) The B.C.E. 1 theory is impossible!
There are however at least two solutions to this seeming intractability:
"Josephus states (Ant., XVII, xiii, 5) that when Quirinius assumed office in Syria in 0006 C.E. he already "had been consul" previously. This is also reinforced by the Lapis Tiburtinus (a 1st century Latin inscription found about 20 miles east of Rome) that indicates a still-to-be-identified proconsul of Syria who had served twice. There are many "blank spots" in the historical records of the proconsulships of Syria during this time, including the spring of B.C.E. 7. It is, therefore, quite plausible that Quirinius was serving his first term in the spring of B.C.E. 7 (an otherwise "blank" spot in the records) and was named consul a second time [12 years later] in 6 C.E. The [verse] in Lu. would then have referred not to his second proconsulship in 6 C.E. but to his first term in the spring of B.C.E. 7." (NHM note 2.2.1)
"Josephus also states that more than one ruler served simultaneously in Syria. Therefore, Quirinius may have been serving (an earlier first term)—along with one of the recorded proconsuls—during the spring of B.C.E. 7." (NHM note 2.2.1).
"We must look for celestial phenomena that satisfy these conditions. Martin's proposed date of B.C.E. 3.09.11" (Sep. 11 of B.C.E. 3) (NHM note 2.2.1) is based primarily on his mistaken claim that it coincided with Yom
A priori, the only viable date is B.C.E. 7.
This exact birthdate [is also implied] in Lu. One of the high points of a young [Jew]'s Bar-
Another consideration, not mentioned in the literature, is that 19.20.1 and 28.1.2."
Finally, "Our dating by astronomical events (cf. 2.2.1) is confirmed in that the date of conception calculated from the birth date (Sixthmonth approx. 23, 3753 / B.C.E. 0008.08.28; see NHM 1.18), where the birth date is calculated from the astronomical conjunctions, corresponds to the month stipulated in Lu. 1.26:
And in Sixthmonth, απεσταλη the
ma•lâkhꞋ , גַּבְרִיאֵל, fromËl•oh•imꞋ into a city of יְהוּדָה, the name of which is נָצְרַת."
This is nine months and a couple of weeks before the astronomically fixed birthdate of BCE 0007.05.29 [
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