Jewish Excommunication: How and Why.

23 Menachem Av 5786

Establishing courts of justice is a Divine command that obligates the entirety of humanity, but Jews are supposed to set the example.  Without some system of justice, the world breaks down into pure chaos and it is the innocents who suffer the most.

Rule is supposed to be established from top to bottom, but justice is carried out from the bottom up, starting within the local communities, with appeals rising upwards as needed.

It begins with each one of us.  If a predator is known to live among us, the first thing our instincts tell us to do is put up a barrier between us, our loved ones and them.  Distance them.  We don't invite them in or just ignore the threat they pose to us.  Beyond that it becomes the responsibility of the community.

Despite the fact that the anti-Torah regime that rules in Eretz Yisrael has legalized what the Torah forbids, there is still the possibility of acting at the individual, as well as the local communities, level in order to "remove the evil from your midst."

This phrase appears first in this week's parashat Re'eh (Devarim 13. 1-.6, 13 - 16)...

The entire word that I command you, that shall you observe to do; you shall not add to it and you shall not subtract from it.

If there should stand up in your midst a prophet or a dreamer of a dream, and he will produce to you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes about, of which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us follow gods of others that you did not know and we shall worship them!" - do not hearken to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of a dream, for Hashem, your God, is testing you to know whether you love Hashem, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.  

Hashem, your God, shall you follow and Him shall you fear; His commandments shall you observe and to His voice shall you hearken; Him shall you serve and to Him shall you cleave.  And that prophet and that dreamer of a dream shall be put to death, for he had spoken perversion against Hashem, your God, Who takes you out of the land of Egypt, and Who redeems you from the house of slavery, to make you stray from the path on which Hashem, your God, has commanded you to go; and you shall destroy the evil from your midst.

...If, in one of your cities that Hashem, your God, gives you in which to dwell, you hear, saying, "Lawless men have emerged from your midst, and they have caused the dwellers of their city to go astray, saying, 'Let us go and worship the gods of others, that you have not knkown'" - you shall seek out and investigate, and inquire well, and behold!  It is true, the word is correct, this abomination was committed in your midst. You shall....

As far as I can tell, this phrase appears only in Sefer Devarim and this is the first instance.

• Devarim 13:5:   Regarding false prophets trying to turn people away from God.
• Devarim 17:7:   Regarding individuals who worship other gods.
• Devarim 17:12: Regarding anyone who refuses to listen to the judge or priest.
• Devarim 19:19: Regarding a malicious witness who plots against another.
• Devarim 21:21: Regarding a stubborn and rebellious son.
• Devarim 22:21, 24: Regarding sexual immorality and violations of marriage laws.
• Devarim 24:7:   Regarding kidnapping a fellow Israelite to sell them

Remember, we are not responsible for things we have no power or opportunity to do, but we are most assuredly held responsible for what we are capable of doing but fail to do.

No death penalty can be applied without the Sanhedrin and in the absence of the Beit Hamikdash.  But, cutting an individual out of the life of the community, ignoring him and acting as if he no longer existed could serve the same purpose.  And this is precisely the tool that Jews used in the Diaspora to deal with people who posed a spiritual threat to their communities.  Like, it was the least that they could do.  

(Jewish Encyclopedia)  EXCOMMUNICATION (Hebrew: Niddui, Herem)

The highest ecclesiastical censure, the exclusion of a person from the religious community, which among the Jews meant a practical prohibition of all intercourse with society.

...Although developed from the Biblical ban, excommunication, as employed by the Rabbis during Talmudic times and during the Middle Ages, is really a rabbinic institution, its object being to preserve the solidarity of the nation and strengthen the authority of the Synagogue by enforcing obedience to its mandates.

...The Talmud speaks of twenty-four offenses punishable by excommunication.... 

First on that list is Humiliating Torah Scholars and the Punishment of Excommunication.

The Rambam (Chapter 6 of Hilchot Talmud Torah) states: “It is a grave sin to degrade Torah scholars or to hate them. Jerusalem was only destroyed once people humiliated Torah scholars, as the verse states (Divrei Ha’Yamim 36), ‘And they mocked the messengers of G-d and despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of Hashem rose up against his people till there was no remedy.’” This means that the people would mock those who studied the word of Hashem, i.e. Torah scholars, and this caused Hashem great anger until He eventually allowed for Jerusalem to be destroyed.

The Mishnah (Sanhedrin 90a) states: “The following individuals do not have a share in the World to Come: One who says that the Resurrection of the Dead is not derived from the Torah, that the Torah is not from Heaven, and an apostate.” The Gemara (ibid. 99b) states that both Rav and Rabbi Chanina explained that “an apostate” refers to one who degrades Torah scholars. Thus, one who humiliates Torah scholars has no share in the World to Come.

If one humiliates a Torah scholar and then two witness come before a Bet Din and testify that this was the case, Bet Din publicly excommunicates the individual and he charged with a heavy fine. According to the letter of the law, if a Torah scholar is degraded by an individual, the Torah scholar himself may place an excommunication on the guilty party and the excommunication takes effect at which point the entire nation who may not be Torah scholars like the one who placed the excommunication to treat the excommunicated party with the appropriate laws, such as not counting him as part of a Minyan and not sitting within a four Amot radius, until the Torah scholar forgives the individual and releases the excommunication.

Utilizing the Niddui or Herem is a real and valid (Torah-based) and effective way to "remove the evil from your midst."  It can't be that for 22 years, "Evangelical" Chr*stians with the declared goals of 1) "making the two one" (i.e. Jews and gentiles) and 2) spreading their evil cultic religion from a "base of operations" established inside a Jewish "religious" community with the hechsher of its rabbi, will continue any longer without some kind of denial from the righteous Jews among them,  

The obligation and the responsibility begins from the target and spreads outward.  It requires action from the residents of Har Brachah and failing that, then their closest neighboring communities.  And whomever is the senior rabbi to the one over Har Brachah or the Av Beit Din for that area should be petitioned to act.

The goal is that the Jews will understand the gravity of what they have allowed to be perpetrated and the severity of the punishment awaiting them if they don't repent and they will remove the evil (HaYovel/Israel Guys) from their midst.

Refusal to act is not an option.  The sword is already at the neck.

Kindred Spirits

22 Menachem Av 5786 

Still learning, still growing, driven by the search for Torah Truth...

Zionism & The Israeli State is the Most Powerful,

Dangerous and Treacherous Idolatry Ever for Jews

See my previous blog posts on this subject...

Beware the "Judeo-Chr*stians"

Like Mixing Oil and Water

The Knitted Kippah

The Other Side of the Coin

See also: The Poison Fruit of Religious Zionism (Judeo-Chr*stianity)

"Just Asking..."

21 Menachem Av 5786

A comment was submitted which posed the following... 

...focus more on encouraging us to break out of the them vs us paradigm, to work towards real solutions.

...Instead of blaming, can we find a way forward where we can change something in ourselves, to break the paradigm that has us all trapped pointing fingers at others, instead of doing something ourselves, to improve the situation?

So there are two separate issues to address here.  It's very important to me to get this right; to ensure that my efforts have not gone in vain.  I'll try to be more succinct.

If you live in Israel, you can't have missed the constant reference to the "conceptzia".  It comes from the English word concept...

Definition:  A concept is an abstract idea, a general notion, or a mental picture of what something is and how it works. It helps us group similar things together and understand the world around us.

The concept upon which the Oslo Accords were based, along with everything that followed out from it, up to and including not just the Simchat Torah Massacre, but up until this very day and what is coming immediately upon us, was a false "conceptzia."  Most intellectually honest people can admit that now.

But, there are other false conceptzias out there like ahavat chinam is the solution to sinat chinam or the State of Israel is already the messianic kingdom so all that's left is to build the Temple, or that unity comes before everything else.  None of these concepts has any basis in Torah, they are child-like wishful thinking.  The questions that plague me are...

How do you unwash the brainwashed mind?

How do you convince people that the Torah already has all the answers and convince them to pay heed to it?

These are the "real solutions," but "breaking people out of the them vs us paradigm" is not part of any solution, it's at the heart of the problem.

Separation is the key to Redemption.

The Torah is full, full, full of examples:  Creation began with separation and it ends with the birur separation.  Those who did not sin with the Golden Calf were called to separate from those who did, the people gathered around Korach were commanded to separate themselves from him and his family and supporters or go down with them.  The Maccabim called for those loyal to Hashem to separate from the Hellenists.

In my blog posts, I've identified some serious misconceptzias and a solution to go with it.  A "first step" - separate from the sinners so you don't share their fate.  

Did you know that the meforshim say that those who stood by and watched the celebration of the Golden Calf and said nothing against it were considered as guilty parties?

Herem is the Torah-mandated way to wake sinners up to the facts of life.  And it is in everyone's power to separate themselves from evil-doers.  You've just been brainwashed to believe just the opposite.  

You tell me, how do we undo all these disastrous anti-Torah concepts in the minds and hearts of otherwise righteous Jews?  Anyone??

Living With the Unthinkable: The Mental Failure of This People

20 Menachem Av 5786

Basically, the National Religious (Religious Zionist) public cries out to their Chareidi brothers in anger,  "Our sons are dead and dying while yours sit safely in yeshivah.  To be fair and equal, your sons should be dying right alongside ours!!!"

What a failure in thinking!  Instead, let's dismantle the cult of child sacrifice that has taken hold in our Land in the name of Zionism and choose a leadership that will defeat the enemy, win the war and stop this wanton murder of our children via the war machine that is lining the pockets of the 'Elites'!!

Yes, the State of Israel IS GUILTY of killing children, just like the world says.  But it's NOT the children of Gaza, it's not the children of Lebanon, it's the Jewish children of Eretz Yisrael.

When will we wake up to our reality?!!

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Israel’s Central Elections Committee is preparing emergency procedures to safeguard voting in the event of missile fire or other security disruptions on Election Day, according to a report in i24 News.  (VOTING UNDER FIRE: Israel Drafts Emergency Election-Day Procedures)

There is no shame in Israel.  The fact that this can be published as if it's a given that we will live continually under threat demonstrates it.  The very people and philsophy they follow like an alternative religion are responsible for bringing us to this situation and yet they court your vote with the understanding that they have no power to arrange peace even for the span of an election cycle.

When will we decide enough is enough?!!

The New Waller Mission: Spread Judeo-Chr*stianity to the World from the Zionist State

19 Menachem Av 5786

The deadly game of "friendship" with practitioners of avodah zarah - building their "Base of Operations" in "the heartland" of the Jewish nation.  Idolatry was always a problem for Samaria.  Some people just can't seem to get it.  Jews are always their own worst enemy.

Excerpt from Zac Waller's website (Part One: The Fire at Chavat Gilad):

"...It is named for Gilad, the eldest brother of our dear friend Rabbi Yonadav Zar of Har Bracha, a man who has taught our volunteer groups for years and continues to bless us in our work at Israel Lighthouse."

Another HaYovel - Israel Guys -
Waller Family Ministries project...

Israel Lighthouse For The Nations

You have to first understand that Chr*stians - like Zac Waller and his ever growing extended family -  believe that Israel failed in this Divine mission itself and the duty to be "the light to the nations" passed to the followers of the false messiah.  The Greek Testament says so explicitly (Google Acts 13:47).

Quoting from Zac's website...

We can not ignore this darkness any longer. That’s why we are launching: Israel Lighthouse for the Nations.

In a world darkened by political upheaval and moral confusion, Israel Lighthouse exists to equip Christians to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness through authentic discipleship, raising up torch-bearing servant-leaders who bless Israel and illuminate the nations.

Projected Impact:

• Israel-Aligned Christians will be equipped with an identity that they can stand firmly in and pass to successive generations.

• All Christians will gain access to a solid, structured, pro-Israel theology.

• The body of Messiah will be invited to walk a path of repentance from replacement theology and Christian antisemitism.

• Hardcore Christians will actively advocate for Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria.

• Christians and Jews will engage in respectful and productive theological dialogue.

• Families and communities will be built up by adopting a Bible-based moral standard.

• A global network of Zionist Christians will emerge who are engaged in bringing God’s literal, physical kingdom to earth.

​ Action Plan

2025

• Incorporate Israel Lighthouse as a US non-profit
• Share the vision and raise funds
• Build online platforms
• Set up a base of operations in Israel

2026

• Produce a six week small group study
• Develop curriculum and resources in partnership with Christian and Jewish educators
• Launch Israel Lighthouse online courses
• Develop partnerships with universities, seminaries, and churches

2027

Launch full online course list

Pilot on-ground courses in Israel

2029

Offer full course catalog on-ground

Publish resources for existing Christian entities

2035

Establish Israel Lighthouse Centers internationally

Example Courses

The Israeli/Arab Conflict

Christian Anti-semitism

Hebraic Worship

The Torah (Morality)

The Prophets (Redemption)

The New T. (Zionism)

Hebraic Thinking

Intercession for Israel

Eschatology

Geography of Israel

Blessing Israel

Ecclesiology

AND MANY MORE!!!

About the Founder: Zac Waller

Zac Waller is a worshiper, a husband, a father, a mentor, a leader, and a shepherd—called by God to raise up torchbearers from the nations.

...At thirteen, Zac gave his life to the God of Israel and committed to follow Yeshua with all his heart. That commitment led him far from the hollows of Tennessee to the vineyards of Samaria, where he first set foot on the Mount of Blessing in 2004—and never looked back.

Among the ripening grapes of Har Bracha, Zac heard the call loud and clear: the land was awakening, Israel was rising, and the nations were invited to be part of it. Within a few years he was appointed Director of HaYovel, and quickly promoted to Executive Director. Under his leadership, more than 3,000 volunteers from 33 nations came to work the land, love the people, and draw closer to God.

Though building out a business with many unique challenges was invigorating, God began to slowly move Zac out of business leadership into a spiritually shepherding role of teaching and ministering to staff and volunteers. He taught every other week at the ministry base, gave Bible lessons to volunteers, led the men's bible studies for the staff team, and would often lead worship.

His original songs like Israel, You’re Not Alone and Restoration, continue to stir hearts around the world. He also brought Torah teachings through The Heartland Connection podcast, authored the devotional Christians Meet Israel, co-wrote Facing Jerusalem, and developed deep relationships with Orthodox Jewish pioneers in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.

Zac is a student of God's Word and a lifelong learner, currently studying toward a Master of Divinity at The King’s University. He has also completed nine courses through Torah Resource Institute, with studies ranging from Christology and philosophy to rabbinic literature.

Zac is married to Becca. Together, they are raising nine children — five lionhearted boys and four radiant daughters — in the mountains of Samaria. Their home is filled with prayer, laughter, and music.

Through Israel Lighthouse, Zac is continuing the journey he began in the fields of Tennessee and the vineyards of Samaria—equipping Christians to love God’s Word, bless God’s people, and shine God’s light to all nations.

Sorry, Zac, but you are yourself too steeped in the darkness of the world's largest cult to recognize the light when it actually shines on you.  You will only lead your followers to perdition.

You clueless, useless Shomroni Jews had better wake up quick before all of the Land burns beneath your feet.  It's a miracle that the neighboring Arabs have not attacked before now. 

This has been building for 22 years and we have been sounding the warning for 20 of those years.  You can see for yourself what it has become in that time and the plans they have for the future.  Either you stop them and gain the merit, or HKB"H will stop them and you will suffer their fate alongside them, r"l.

The "Base of Operations" for this missionary activity and center of avodah zarah on holy soil is doomed - one way or another.  Maybe the entire yishuv of Har Brachah needs to be put in herem by the rest in an effort to bring them to teshuvah and make an example.  

This is the easiest and least painful way of bringing people to their senses.  What are you waiting for?!!!   

Wake up!!  This is an abominable sin and betrayal of the covenant.  It won't continue to be tolerated.  Judgment is at the gate!!!