Updated: 2021.08.21
QōꞋrakh
Before dismissing the rabbis' claims of creating a gōꞋlëm as a hilarious zombie fable, however, one should take a closer look at the mindless, unquestioning subservience of their penguin-dressed Ultra-Orthodox rank-and file. Clearly, there's more than one way to create gōꞋlëm. The QōꞋrakh cult of unquestioning gōꞋlëm staked its simplistic assimilation of the Egyptian-like priestly claim in racist (i.e. genetic) supremacism; specifically, that QōꞋrakh's "purity of bloodline" (i.e. "from a good family" lineage because he, too, was a great-grandson of Lei•wiꞋ) entitled him and his male descendants, the "Chosen", to be "the Living Tōr•âhꞋ"; Interpreters—phony interpreters—having a Divine Right to religious rule—"Heaven's Gatekeepers"!
Had QōꞋrakh succeeded, then any violation of their cult-courts' Intercessory interpretations (mi•shᵊpât•imꞋ) would have displaced and superseded Tōr•âhꞋ shᵊbᵊal Pëh with their QōꞋrakh-cult (self-interpreted "Living Tōr•âhꞋ") racist and contra-Tōr•âhꞋ interpretations overriding Tōr•âhꞋ shë-bi-KhᵊtâvꞋ!
In this way, the QōꞋrakh cult would make itself the raison d'être of Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ—the (phony) "Living Tōr•âhꞋ" presuming to displace Tōr•âhꞋ shë-Bᵊal Pëh to usurp Tōr•âhꞋ shë-bi-KhᵊtâvꞋ!
The QōꞋrakh cult's claimed religious monopoly over interpretive and legislative authority—beyond being self-righteous, fanatic and racist—was a brazen and implacable contradiction—a displacement theology—of the system designed and established by Mōsh•ëhꞋ, which incorporated a division of powers between the kō•han•imꞋ officiators of religious ceremony, the Beit Din Judiciary system and the Executive. While Mōsh•ëhꞋ's system, based on Tōr•âhꞋ ë•mëtꞋ, produced ë•mëtꞋ, khësꞋëd, ra•kham•imꞋ, tzëdꞋëq and tzᵊniy•ūtꞋ (e.g., welcoming and inclusive of the eiꞋrëv rav), the fanatic QōꞋrakh racist cult of self-righteous "Living Tōr•âhꞋ" Chosenness is distinctly identified by its arrogant disdain for the common people; ever increasingly fanatic, aloof and toxic in their hate-mongering, polarizing and divisive, racist exclusivity. Fanatically stricter than thou is holier-than-thou, right? A priori, they argued, Mōsh•ëhꞋ Bën-AmᵊrâmꞋ and A•ha•rōnꞋ Bën-AmᵊrâmꞋ had no right to adjudicate Tōr•âhꞋ over them!
Israel split away from Yehudah BCE 1040 (see Melakhim-a 11.43-ch 12.). Almost 900 years later (BCE 722), Assyrian Deracination
Nearly 1,000 years later (c. BCE 600), when threatened by the Babylonians, once again, QōꞋrakh-style fanatic יְהוֹיָקִים ha-MëlꞋëkh, Dark Ages (anti-science, anti-knowledge; limiting, controlling & harshly imposing beliefs), Benei-Khoshekh cult v Benei-Or-welcoming, inclusive (eirev rav, Hileil conversions), khesed, emet, tzedeq, rakhamim, tzeniyut; determined to impose his own rule, defied the counsel of Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋū Bën-Būz•iꞋ (ha-Nâ•viꞋ) and the Babylonians. This brought down the Wrath of יְהוָׂה on YᵊhūdꞋâh (the Jews) by the hand of the Babylonians—followed by the Iranians.
Half a millennium after that, in BCE 175, Yәhō•shuꞋa Bën-Shim•ōnꞋ Jr. Bën-Tzâ•dōq′ ha-Kō•hein′ forcibly implemented the Hellenization of "Judaism", including the kō•han•imꞋ and the "Temple"; reflecting the eruption of the same internal conflicts yet again. The same inherently conflicted elements fragmented yet again, disputing the "traditional", "orthodox" authorities and interpretations of the Tōr•âhꞋ (as reconstructed by, and reflecting any assimilations of, the Babylonian-returnee Sō•pheirꞋ-kō•heinꞋ, ËꞋzᵊr•â).
This was evident in their reforming of the Beit Din hâ-Gâ•dōlꞋ as a Roman Provincial Senate, Sanhedrin, with the recomposition of its administration by Zūg•ōtꞋ, primarily between the QōꞋrakh 2.0 Hellenist Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ Nâ•siꞋ versus the Har Sin•aiꞋ-based Tōr•âhꞋ (by that time infused with both Babylonian, and pressure for some new Hellenist, interpretational tradition) as advocated by the Pᵊrush•imꞋ Av Beit Din, Hi•leilꞋ ha-Za•qeinꞋ, "the Babylonian" (who became the first Pᵊrush•imꞋ Nâ•siꞋ in BCE 28).
This milieu reflected not only the new Hellenist Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ, it also promulgated the old, Ōs•inꞋ, Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ, the authors of the DSS (though the Hellenists had seized control of the priesthood, the "Temple" and authority to "interpret" from them, dooming them to extinction). The Ōs•inꞋ were elitists who referred to themselves in the DSS as Bᵊn•eiꞋ-Ōr—and both of the other denominations of Jews (Hellenist Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ and Pᵊrush•imꞋ) as בְּנֵי-חֹשֶׁךְ.
Both streams of Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ contrasted against the Pᵊrush•imꞋ. While all streams of Jews opposed the Roman occupiers, fanatics emerged from all streams as a new faction: the Qa•nâyꞋim. Once again, QōꞋrakh-style fanatics brought down the Wrath of יְהוָׂה, this time by the hand of the Romans.
At YaꞋvᵊn•ëh, the Pᵊrush•imꞋ rabbis (via RibꞋi Yᵊhō•shūꞋa, Rab•ânꞋ Ga•mᵊl•i•eilꞋ Sr. and Yōkhâ•nânꞋ Bën-Za•kaiꞋ) decreed this to be the Ha•lâkh•âhꞋ ! The rabbis decreed that the opinion of Sadducean Beit Shamai (simply "they" or "sages" in Talmud, as distinguished from Pharisee rabbis), when it conflicts with that of Beit Hileil (particularly regarding conversion), is no mishnah. (Ber. 36b) and the Halakhah was always according to Beit Hileil, and whoever acted contrary to the views of Beit Hileil deserves death. (TY Ber. 1.7, 3b; et al.)!
phony-priest aristocrats, averring the same arrogant and hateful racist argument. Thuw, QōꞋrakh became the paradigm for the Bᵊn•eiꞋ-KhōꞋshëkh, an assimilated cult of fanatics in "Ultra-Orthodox" costume, obsessed with overthrowing the original Tōr•âhꞋ authority of Mōsh•ëhꞋ at Har Sin•aiꞋ.
Thus, the fanatic and imperious wannabe priestly-aristocratic QōꞋrakh cult served as the archetype, almost 1400 years later, of the בְּנֵי-חֹשֶׁךְ ("sons of Darkness") in the DSS of the Qū•mᵊr•ânꞋ Ōs•inꞋ.
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