THE SAWED-OFF HORNS COVERED-UP BY THEM JEW-SKULLCAPS
I complemented the author of a new, well-done Passover
Haggadah. As a Bible student of his in New Jersey, now Jerusalem, I felt
close enough to offer a correction for the next edition. The Pascal
"lamb" offering is referred to, but "lamb" is a common but
inaccurate error. It originates in Greek Bible spin.
The gentle, innocent lamb is a staple of the Jesus as-sin-sacrifice
narrative, and a superstar of Christian iconography. The religion about the Jew
Jesus is Gospel truth to the believer. I agree with Pope John-Paul that the two
faiths involve different covenants, more than a new one replacing an old
one. There are 100s of more important
fallacies with Hebrew Bible verses being bent out of shape, but this brief post
on baby sheep and goats is season-appropriate.
In Exodus 12:5 the Hebrew Torah specifically calls the
Passover offering (which is NOT about sin) "from the sheep or goats."
The ArtScroll English translation
correctly has it a male, yearling "lamb or kid" -- never just "lamb." The literary giant, the KJV, is pulling the
wool over the eyes of non-Hebrew readers. They are not evil liars, but scholars
skillfully performing their sacred duty of transforming a Jewish text into a Christian
one.
Baby male sheep eventually provide wool when they are
castrated (called Wethers).
Baby male goats, however, will never grow up
to provide milk. Therefore, the offered שה SeH was more commonly a yearling kid than a
lamb. With Edenic Music as Meaning, the sound of שה SeH is far
closer to עז GHaiZ (goat)
than to כבש KeBHeS (lamb).
Lambchops are the tastier meal shared by families celebrating their
imminent liberation. A small minority of the Israelites in Egypt could afford lambs,
and the more precious offering would be mentioned first.
The "Goat of God" doesn't resonate well with
Christian theology or iconography. Yearling kids look much like lambs, but they
are more aggressive, and grow up to be scapegoats. Even worse, goats are
associated with pagan idolatry and Satan-worship. Southern Georgia kids pumping gas for N.Y.
spring-breakers driving the 24-hours down to Miami have politely asked Yarlmulka
or kippah-wearing customers if they could take a quick peek at the sawed-off horns
under their skullcaps.
No competitive criticism is meant in this call for
Biblical accuracy. Judaism believes that
ethically-behaving people of all faiths merit an afterlife for their divine
soul. Damning satanic infidels to hell, and resultant episodes of genocide, are
strictly for die-hard apocalypse-fans of the defensive, Replacement, faiths.
Easter in Spanish is Pascua, in
Russian is Paskha, etc. On this day in PeSaK[H]
(Passover) week, may I inform you that turning Passover and the Pascal Lamb offering into the denouement of the Passion
Play is not as smooth as you may have thought.
Pagans had always sacrificed their most precious
possession, their begotten children, as a most powerful bribe to buy the favor
of the gods. Power and passion does not make an act moral. The Binding of Isaac
and several condemnations of the Canaanites make it very clear that the Creator
behind the Hebrew Bible detests the sacrifice of lamb-like innocent children. In
Genesis 22:12 Abraham is told not to raise his hand against the boy ... and a
ram is miraculously available instead of his miraculously-born son. This is the
anti-Crucifixion, although it is spun into the pre-Crucifixion.
We all have the freedom to believe in whatever we want.
This essay accomplished something if a reader is slightly more inclined to
believe that the religion about Jesus is an independent religion, with
far less legitimate ties to the religion of Jesus. Textual accuracy does
not allow transforming the Pesakh offering into a sanctified (instead of a
forbidden) type of lamb-like innocent human or child sacrifice. The Christian
believer has every right to exult in the alleged rising from the dead of Jesus,
and every right to know that Attis (Greece), Mithra (Persia), Krishna (India)
and Dionysis (Greece again) also did so (usually after 3 days).