Chabad Came to Newtown
The
extraordinarily unjust, race-based, two-tiered legal system inherent to
Judaism and its "Noahide laws" is laid out in the Babylonian Talmud:
"A
non-Jew is put to death on the basis of a decision given by one judge
[no jury], and on the basis of testimony given by a single witness, and
even if he was not given a proper warning prior to the commission of his
offense. He is put to death on the basis of testimony and a decision
given by a man but not on the basis of testimony and a decision given by
a woman, and the man who testified or decided against him can even be a
relative.
"A Jew can only be put to death by a court of
twenty-three judges, and on the basis of the testimony of two male
witnesses who are not disqualified from testifying on account of
kinship, and after being properly warned against committing the
transgression. But none of these rules apply in the case of a non-Jew."
(Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57b, Steinsaltz edition, vol.18, page 110)
Rabbi Yisroel Deren and his wife Aviva Deren, Chabad shluchim (agents) of
Stamford, traveled to Newtown, reportedly at the invitation of a 'Noahide' (see article below)
'Noahide' David Egorov, Chabad Rabbi Yisroel Deren, President Barack Obama, Chabad Rabbi Sholom Deitsch backstage at the Newtown High School ecumenical prayer vigil, December 16, 2012
President Obama receives Noahide prayer booklet from Chabad-associated 'Noahide' Davide Egorov at Newtown High School, Decemberi 16, 2012
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Driving Home From Newtown
By Aviva Deren
Until
this weekend I had never heard of Noah Pozner or of his family. But
Noah’s father, Lenny, has a friend, and the friend had heard of us and
called.
“They need you. You can speak to them, you can relate to them. Come, please come.”
There
isn’t much to say to a request like that. I knew why we had been
called. It was not only because my husband is a compassionate and caring
rabbi who has brought comfort to so many hurting people. We were being
asked to help because as bereaved parents ourselves, several times over,
perhaps we had something more to offer—if only to be evidence that it
is possible to breathe after the breath has literally been knocked out
of you. With much trepidation, I traveled with my husband to the house
where the Pozners were. I walked in with a prayer on my lips that
whatever we say will bring comfort, and not, G‑d forbid, add to the
unbearable burden these people were already carrying.
We were
brought to a quiet room, away from the hustle and bustle, to speak with
Noah’s family. I found myself listening to a brokenhearted mother
describing her little boy, Noah, one of the first-graders at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in
Newtown,
who was the youngest of the victims in the shootings last Friday. Those
are, and should remain, private conversations, the kind of
conversations that no one should have to have, ever.
What I do want to share are some thoughts that came to me as the day wore on.
Noah.
The themes of the biblical story kept playing in my mind. Noah. Someone
described in the Torah as a tzaddik, a righteous person, “complete.”
All of humanity is considered to be his descendants, bound in a covenant
with G‑d, to partner with Him to create a world of peace and harmony,
of justice, goodness and kindness. The almost universal symbols of
peace, a dove and an olive branch, trace back to Noah and his story.
Lenny’s
friend is not Jewish, but he is passionately committed to the Noahide
Code, the covenant that the Torah teaches was entered into by G‑d and
Noah after the Flood, a covenant that binds G‑d and Noah’s descendants
for all time. These universal commandments are the antecedent of any
formal religion. The Noahide code is based not on clergy or houses of
worship, but on the covenant between the Creator and humanity, the
foundation for all human endeavor. Seven principles, seven commandments,
that if they were implemented would bring about a virtual utopia of
human existence.
“Noah loved rainbows,” his mother is telling
someone. Rainbows! The sign of G‑d’s promise never, ever to bring a
flood on the whole world again. A symbol of healing, promise, and
optimism.
We have moved to the high school, where the president
is going to meet with each of the families. Governor Malloy and his
wife, Cathy, come into the room first. The governor speaks gently with
each family member. He embraces my husband warmly, turning to the
family—“This is my very good friend.” They speak briefly about how we go
forward after this overwhelming tragedy. The governor asks my husband
to be in touch within the next 24–48 hours.
The president enters
with no fanfare or even an announcement and, without being told to do
so, everyone rises. I am moved to tears watching him with these
grief-stricken people. The power of this gesture is immense; he truly
does convey the sense that the whole country is mourning alongside these
anguished families. The way he bends down to speak with Noah’s twin
sister, the way he comforts the grandparents and gently joshes the
teenage siblings, the way he makes a point of saying, as he did later,
that “we will be with you,” not just now, but for the long haul. The
president met privately with every single family, and took time to speak
at length with each bereaved parent.
Noah’s family did not stay
for the vigil; we left the high school with them and the caring,
close-knit circle of family and friends that surround them so tightly.
On the way home, we listened to the president.
I found his speech
stirring, and even more than that, heartfelt. There was an authenticity
in this speech that one does not often encounter in public life. In my
opinion, the speech was simply magnificent. I hope that every classroom
in our country will study those words and figure out how to translate
them into real life. I hope that adults will hold those same
conversations. Most of all, I feel that his words were a call to action
to all of us, to access the best within us individually and as a
country, to really, truly, once and for all do what has to be done so
that our world is a place where things like this can never happen again.
To take those words of “never happen again” out of the fairy tales and
put them where they can make a difference.
Late in the afternoon
it hit me: We need a flood! Not, G‑d forbid, a destructive flood—we’ve
had more than enough of that. What we need is a good flood—a flood of
kindness, of caring, of compassion, of goodness, of warmth, of
benevolence, of support, of reaching out. There are, thank G‑d, enough
of us on this planet to make sure that not one human being ever feels
lost. We need a flood of connections. Not just the trickles that come
from time to time, but everywhere, all the time.
We need to be at
least as aware of the ecology of human behavior as we are of the
ecology of the physical resources of the planet. It has to penetrate all
aspects of our world—the worlds of business, the media, education,
culture, science, the arts, medicine—we need a flood, a good flood.
Every single one of us has to know that we can make a difference, and we
need to put serious thought to how we can best do that. “Noah’s Flood”
could take on a whole new meaning.
My husband made a suggestion
to the president, that in the effort to draw good from the unfathomable
evil that occurred we should offer a “moment of silence” at the
beginning of each school day. This “moment of silence” will allow those
children who want to pray the opportunity to do so; it will foster
discussion between parents and children of the spiritual values they
hold dear as a family. This suggestion was first made years ago by the
Rebbe, who always held the clear vision of a world perfected by the
partnership of G‑d and human beings.
And here, Mr. President, if I
may respectfully offer one change—no, make that one addition—to your
words. Yes, G‑d has taken them home. But now it’s time for the rest of
us to make sure that G‑d’s home is right here on earth, to make sure
that we, all of us together, bring heaven down to earth.
And
Newtown
will then forever be known as the place where light triumphed over
darkness, the place where the healing of our aching world finally began
for real.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Evil Came to Newton/Newtown
Adam
Lanza's paternal grandfather Peter S. Lanza lived on Newton Rd. in
Plaistow, New Hampshire. Lanza was a member of the Sons of Italy lodge
which was founded by an immigrant from Palermo. Like the ADL of B'nai
B'rith lodge, the Sons of Italy labor to portray a clean image of
Italians. Similarly however, contradictions to that image do emerge.
Palermo
Lanzas controlled both the New York and San Francisco ports for the
mafia. Joseph "Socks" Lanza was a capo for the Luciano/Genovese crime
family who controlled the longshoreman's union and Fulton St. fish
market in New York City and cooperated with Naval Intelligence during
WWII.
Adam Lanza's paternal grandfather was a usurer as is his
father and brother. His mother was a trader at John Hancock in Boston,
his grandfather Peter S. Lanza was also a trader for John Hancock, his
father a V.P. in the tax-evasion department of the banking/weapons
manufacturing/media conglomerate, G.E. whose weapons kill children
worldwide who do not receive week-long televised vigils from G.E's media
wing (NBC).
Also of interest, Lanza business with, The Jews in Sicily, Volume 13 Notaries of Palermo: Part Four
Purported
never-published writings of Isaac Newton have recently surfaced which
have him stating his disbelief in core Christian doctrines and belief
that one only need obey the talmudic 'Noahide Laws' to achieve
salvation.
It's reported that these writings were covered up for
centuries because of their scandalous nature. They were bought at
auction by the homosexual philojudaic banker John Maynard Keynes whose
economic theories continue to plague us. He is said to have been
fascinated by these writings:
http://books.google.com/books?id=mvbTBHyaP8sC&pg=PA133&dq=isaac+newton+noahide&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sfPVUMTBErGJ0QGwuIDQBw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=isaac%20newton%20noahide&f=false
Isaac
Newton may have gone mad from mercury poisoning. As an alchemist he
believed it necessary to experience the taste of the substance. Invoking
alchemy, the establishment tells us that
Newtown must be a catalyst for change.
At the crossroads of the old village of Newtown
is a Hiram Royal Arch Lodge #18 (18 signifying Judaic 'life' in
Kabbalah see HERE). It's said that, "The Royal Arch stands as the
rainbow of promise in the Ritual" of Royal Arch Masonry
(see:
Builder Magazine: A Journal for the Masonic Student, Joseph Fort
Newton). The rainbow figures heavily in Noahidism; it appeared after
Noah's flood, 7 colors, seven 'Noahide laws.' There was a menorah
prominently displayed in this lodge's front window.
Royal
Arch masonry is concerned primarily with the rebuilding of the Temple
in Jerusalem. Isaac Newton heavily occupied himself with the study of
the architecture of Solomon's Temple.
The
theme of Noah's flood is that God punishes a sinful world with a great
catastrophe and then begins a new era/dispensation. Rabbis and their
collaborators often use calamities as justification for declaration of
new eras/dispensations.
A Rabbi Shaul Praver figured heavily in
media coverage. He intoned the ecumenical prayer vigil which featured a
speech from President Obama centered around the message that because of
the
Newtown terror event, "we must change."
At a community prayer meeting the day before, Rabbi Praver invoked the rainbow and said "we need to change everything":
Telling
his congregants that the “culture of violence” would have to change, at
a community prayer session on Saturday, Rabbi Praver said, “We live in a
culture of violence. All of our culture is based on violence and we
need to teach the kids about the ways of peace. We need to change
everything.
Rabbi Praver said, “Life is not happening on the other side of the rainbow. We are on the other side of the rainbow.”
http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2660:jewish-funeral-held-for-boy-killed-in-ct-massacre&catid=110:national&Itemid=293
The Judaic boy that Rabbi Praver represents is named Noah.
Following
the 9-11 terror event Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times wrote an
editorial proclaiming the 'Noahide Laws' to be "the world's only hope"
in avoiding a catastrophe of biblical great flood proportions.
Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has said, "Without the 'Noahide Laws' humanity would dissolve in a blast of nuclear explosions"
www.chabad.org/centers/default.../Lubavitch-of-Bucks-County.htmLubavitch of Bucks County - 25 North State Street Newtown, PA 18940-2026 USA Rabbi Yehuda Shemtov.
Just found your blog good stuff...really interesting. Original, fresh material. If you have a FB check this out.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.108801025966272.11650.100005091250950&type=3
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.113184182194623.16565.100005091250950&type=3