Shabtai Tzvi

The stupidity of antisemites - Part II

W.G.H

Today, I’d like to once again use the stupidity of antisemites to learn something. You know, when antisemites are asked to provide any kind of supporting proof, or back their venom up with facts, they struggle. Well obviously. Antisemitism is a mental illness. How can you base that on any reasonable argument?

So they struggle, but they do not stop. They simply resort to tactics. There are quite a few tactics they employ, and today I’d like to both demonstrate one of these, as well as easily defuse it with… you know… facts.

I had the misfortune of having yet another Candace Owens related post, popping in my Facebook feed. I have to say, even after all this time, I still find myself amazed at the stupidity and extreme shallowness of that person. Every single time, she’s able to come up with a new kind of stupid that makes the previous one seem like the musings of a genius.

I won’t even go into the pure evil that woman constantly displays, when smearing and slandering Erika Kirk. A widow of a murder victim. That alone is enough, in my book, to explain who candace is.

There’s always this mystery – is Candace evil because she is the type of conniving, sophisticated, calculated villain? Or is she doing that because she’s actually stupid Then, I hear one of her antisemitic gems, and there’s no question about it. It’s the latter.

Now, to the specific piece of uneducated nothing salad she recently dished.

I saw a post about her, participating in an episode of Russel Brand’s podcast. Reportedly, Candace spoke – among other things – about the evil Jews. Shocking, I know. She hardly ever mentions us. But it’s as good a time as any, to take her word salad and use it to cook up a nice healthy meal of decency and meaningful insights.

Here is a report of some her comments in the conversation with Brand:

Candace went on Russel Brand’s podcast and said that Shabtai Tzvi was a “homosexual psychopath” who “believed in incest as a sacrament”- Jews like Freud figured out that this was a whole Jewish movement to create psychopaths based on Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah. She said “They have always had a tremendous amount of power, because they believe that evil is OK, the doctrine of evil. You must lower yourself and commit the most depraved acts of evil to prove that evil doesn’t exist- then you can ascend in society. This seems to be the guiding philosophy of people in Israel....”

Let’s talk about Shabtai Tzvi, shall we? Whatever she wants to say about him, is A-OK with me. Know why? Because no one, in Jewish history caused more damage to Judaism than him. I can’t think of a single Jew, who had anything resembling the kind of devastating impact on the Jewish nation, as Shabtai Tzvi had.

Now, Candace assumes – and she does so correctly – that very few people will bother checking who this Jew was. So, she says his name, in context of Judaism, and proceeds to describe him correctly as evil. Mission accomplished.

She then piles on, with some more names like Freud, drops the keywords “blood” and “Satan” and rambles on, further mentioning “Kabbalah”.

That is the tactic.

See, Candace hopes – and unfortunately with some valid foundations, that people are simply lazy, or otherwise uninterested in challenging the “data” she presents. She assumes – again, correctly – that most of the people who listen to her won’t think of anything she says in any kind of context, other than confirming their pre-existing animosity towards Jews. These absolute morons like to throw the word “Talmud” around. Candace added “Kabbalah” into the mix.

“Hey, dude. Do you believe in the Talmud?”

Only someone who has absolutely zero knowledge of Judaism, can ask such a stupid question.

“Do you know what the Talmud says about this or that?” Yes, I actually do. But you don’t seem to.

They throw these questions, having never learned it themselves. Then, if one makes the mistake of engaging in a discussion about what the Talmud says or doesn’t say, they will bite hard on their mouth piece, and keep throwing punches, basing their ridiculous arguments on something they heard a 14 year old podcaster say once.

Listen. You have no idea what the Talmud actually is, let alone what it says and more so what it means. You have even less of an idea about Kabbalah. You are absolutely clueless, and when a Jew hears you speak about this, it makes you look like a complete moron.

I recommend you don’t.

from wikipedia - a moron

Candace does not like critical thinking, and her listeners won’t know critical thinking if it pops up in their cool aid. That’s ok. That’s what I’m here for, I guess. Not to argue with an obvious liar, who wouldn’t care what I have to say.

I’m here today to talk about the false messiah, Shabtai Tzvi. Perhaps we can gain something positive, on the back of antisemitic drivel.

From wikipedia - Shabtai Tzvi

Born on August 1^st, 1626 in Izmir, then part of the Ottoman empire, Shabtai Tzvi, as the custom throughout Jewish history, studied Torah under a certain Rabbi. Tzvi experienced some unclear sex related trauma at a young age, which left him physically deformed, and very likely emotionally damaged. This emotional damage had no doubt accompanied him throughout his life, as evident in spouts of depression and mania.

Around the age of 20, he studied Kabbalah, and used to practice isolation and some forms of self-torment. Shabtai Tzvi did not in fact learn Kabbalah as written by the two major authorities on the subject, Rabbi Moshe Cordoveiro and Rabbi Isaac ben Shlomo Loria. In fact he objected to Rabbi Loria’s interpretation – which is quite the vanity.

from Wikipedia - the grave of Rabi Loria

So far did Tzvi stray, that he formed his own radical view of the Torah, as interpreted by the Zohar. In that view, he claimed there were two God-like entities. He somehow came to the conclusion that the Zohar – and by proxy, the Torah – permitted or indeed ordered to sin in the name of God.

This of course clashes with two of the biggest no-nos in Judaism.

One is the singularity of God. We refer to God as the indivisible one. A one that cannot be divided into fractions. His view of two separate entities is in direct breach of the first commandment.

The other, which is considered a severe sin – Using God’s words to sin. It is quite literally breaking the second commandment. This is the very definition of taking the Lord’s name in vain.

I mention this upfront, just to make one thing clear – There is absolutely nothing Jewish about Shabtai Tzvi’s preaching and practices. Shabtai Tzvi Hallucinated that he was appointed the Messiah, and behaved in that way. Under this guise, he started uttering God’s holy name aloud – something that until today is not allowed.

His reasoning for this immoral behavior (which will only get worse in the following years) was that the Talmud says that in the days of the Messiah, this name would be spoken freely. And since he was the Messiah (In his mind), he said it.

He was chased away from one town to the next, but kept practicing his extremely un-Jewish habits. He celebrated Passover, Sukkot and Shavout – three separate holidays in which Jews went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in one night. Sitting in the Sukkah, he conducted the Passover Seder as well as reading the Shavuot Tikkun.

He used to knowingly sin, and preceded his sinful acts with a blessing he bastardized.

I won’t go into greater details, just reiterate – Shabtai Tzvi took the Lord’s name in vain, performed sins in the name of the Torah and preached his poisonous views to anyone who’d listen.

Another fraudster, Natan of Gaza, who heard of this “new messiah” served as a prophet to him, convincing him that he – Natan of Gaza – received a separate revelation that Tzvi was indeed appointed.

Many of the Jews in the diaspora received communications from Natan of Gaza, and in their hopes for the coming of the Messiah, fell under the spell of Shabtai Tzvi’s messages.

Very few Rabbis resisted and acted against his blasphemous preaching, and so a whole messianic movement was born, mostly due to the hardship the Jews were under, as well as their generational longing for redemption. Jews in Europe excused their dire existence by reasoning that these are the Messianic days, when it’s the darkest before the dawn that was to come. Around the world, Jews sold their belongings and practiced self torment and prayer for Shabtai Tzvi, to come and get them back home to Israel – that is the 17^th hundred, mind you.

In 1665, Shabtai Tzvi returns to Izmir, to the cheers of many. What followed were clashes, including physical violence between his supporters and critics. Tzvi slept with his two wives, removed limitations imposed by the Torah, and appointed “kings”. He also planned to remove the Sultan from his throne and reign instead of him.

In 1666, The Ottoman sultan had enough and had Tzvi arrested and sent to be imprisoned in Gallipoli. That did not stop Tzvi, who continued to sin and behave like a king of kings.

One cannot overstate the severity of Shabtai Tzvi’s deviations from Judaism, and the impact he had, on the nation in that regard. After some accusations were made about Tzvi, in connection to attempts to work against the Sultan, the Sultan summoned Tzvi to him and gave him two options:

• Be killed

OR

• convert to Islam

Surprise, surprise – Tzvi converted to Islam and received the name Basha Kapigi, and was paid well by the Sultan.

The Jews around the world, and especially in Europe were shocked. The self proclaimed Messiah became a Muslim. Some followed in his foot steps, as part of their indoctrination. Others sunk into depression and eventually converted to Islam or Christianity.

It was a blow, so hard that limitations were put on the study of Kabbalah – until very recently in modern history. For large portions of the religious population, these limitations are still in place.

This is perhaps the most severe implication, as generations upon generations of Jews were prevented from learning a crucial part of Judaism, in fear of “losing their minds” like Shabtai Tzvi.

Great scholars like Rabbi Moshe Haim Lutzato, had to study Kabbalah in secret, write about it in codes and hints and even bury some critical work at the threat of banishment or worse.

All because of Shabtai Tzvi.

Ever since Shabtai Tzvi, antisemites around the world – Yes, candace, you’re not even the first – used him as “evidence” that Jews are evil.

This period in our history, likely set the Jewish nation back generations, cost many losses in lives and put a barrier (in some places until this very moment) between Jews and one of the most important books in Judaism – The Zohar.

This is but a surface level discussion of the damage caused by the wicked false messiah Shabtai Tzvi.

Let us fast forward back to our times, and to the obsession of people like Candace Owens.

See, antisemites can’t present a coherent, reasoned, rational justification for their Jew hatred. They can’t admit that they simply hate Jews because of flaws in their own personality. So they resort to pointing out all of the evil Jews in the world.

Let me help you, Candy. Here are some more evil Jews – Berny Madoff, George Soros, Ehud Barak, Hell… Jeffrey Epstein. I’m sure we can come up with quite a few more evil Jews if we put our minds to it.

The thing is, Candace… Nobody ever claimed there were no evil Jews… of course there were. There still are. Among the approximately 15.5 million Jews in the world, I bet you can list a couple of hundreds. That still doesn’t constitute even a single percent of the population.

The very same exercise can be done about any group of people.

It’s totally meaningless.

Let me ask you, Candace. Do you know what the Talmud says? Do you even have a clue what’s in the Zohar? Have you ever read the bible? Because, listening to your vile and evil speeches, one can only conclude you never opened the holy book once in your life.

Rabbi Akiva was asked to summarize the Torah in one sentence. The sentence was “Love thy neighbor as you love yourself.” If one has to crystalize what The Torah, the Talmud, The Zohar and other central Jewish texts say in one word, that word would be - love.

Because God is love, and the Jew’s whole purpose in life is to work hard to resemble his creator. That’s it. All we are required to do, is adopt – to the best of our finite ability – characteristics we associate with the infinite. So picking and choosing the Jews who did the exact opposite of what Judaism asks of its people, and naming them “The Jews”, doesn’t only not prove your point. It makes ours.

Shabtai Tzvi broke every rule in the book. Madoff stole and lied. Epstein was a satanic sinner. They are not “Judaism” in any way, shape or form, whether they were circumcised, had a Bar Mitzva or kept kosher.

I share your disdain for these so-called Jews. Exactly because they represent everything the Torah, the Talmud and the Zoher warns against.

Yes, I know it’s quite the cur-fluffle, Candace. Facts and reasons are simply not part of the arci-texture of your arguments. It had what we call, a donkey’s Bo-rioll. So you either have it compart-mented, or turn to the makaburr….

I didn’t find anything in the Talmud about liking, sharing, subscribing or even pledging via Ko-fi, but these will go a long way in expanding the reach of this Jew’s substack.