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My favourite sin of Lashon Hara

I am thinking of turning it into a parlour game or a drama documentary. The object of the game would be to see how long a person can go without committing Lashon Hara. I was once told I should be Head of BBC Light Entertainment.

http://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Lashon_Hara

http://rabbisacks.org/tazria-5774-price-free-speech/

Tazria and Metsora, are about a condition called tsara’at, sometimes translated as leprosy. The commentators were puzzled as to what this condition is and why it should be given such prominence in the torah. They concluded that it was precisely because it was a punishment for lashon hara, derogatory speech.

Evidence for this is the story of Miriam (Numbers 12: 1) who spoke slightingly about her brother Moses “because of the Ethiopian wife he had taken.” God himself felt bound to defend Moses’ honour and as a punishment, turned Miriam leprous. Moses prayed for God to heal her. God mitigated the punishment to seven days, but did not annul it entirely.

Clearly this was no minor matter, because Moses singles it out among the teachings he gives the next generation: “Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt” (Deut. 24: 9, and see Ibn Ezra ad loc.).

Oddly enough Moses himself, according to the sages, had been briefly guilty of the same offence. At the burning bush when God challenged him to lead the people Moses replied, “They will not believe in me” (Ex. 4: 1). God then gave Moses three signs: water that turned to blood, a staff that became a snake, and his hand briefly turning leprous. We find reference later in the narrative to water turning to blood and a staff turning into a serpent, but none to a hand that turns leprous.

The sages, ever alert to the nuances of the biblical text, said that the hand that turned leprous was not a sign but a punishment. Moses was being reprimanded for “casting doubts against the innocent” by saying that the Israelites would not believe in him. “They are believers the children of believers,” said God according to the Talmud, “but in the end you will not believe.”[3]

How dangerous lashon hara can be is illustrated by the story of Joseph and his brothers. The Torah says that he “brought an evil report” to his father about some of his brothers (Gen. 37: 2). This was not the only provocation that led his brothers to plot to kill him and eventually sell him as a slave. There were several other factors. But his derogatory gossip did not endear him to his siblings.

No less disastrous was the “evil report” (dibah: the Torah uses the same word as it does in the case of Joseph) brought back by the spies about the land of Canaan and its inhabitants (Num. 13: 32). Even after Moses’ prayers to God for forgiveness, the report delayed entry in the land by almost forty years and condemned a whole generation to die in the wilderness.

Why is the Torah so severe about lashon hara, branding it as one of the worst of sins? Partly this has deep roots in the Jewish understanding of God and the human condition. Judaism is less a religion of holy people and holy places than it is a religion of holy words.

I wonder if it would amuse Orthodox and Ultra Orthodox rabbis to cite and describe the number and nature of daily Lashon Hara committed in this piece by the obviously Reform Stephen Games about the Ultra Orthodox rabbis who make up 75% of the Dayanim at the London Beth Din.

https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/how-chief-rabbi-has-sold-off-us-autonomy-1.19393

https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/31964

Email explaining my reasons for wishing to convert to Orthodox Judaism

Sent: Monday, 23 April 2018, 17:04:30 GMT+1
Subject: For the attention of Dayanim Abrahams, Binstock, Gelley and Simons

Dear Rabbis Abrahams, Binstock, Gelley and Simons

You may find my application for conversion a little unusual.

I am applying directly to each of you because I fear that any attempt I make to get a Letter of Recommendation from my local Orthodox rabbi will be unsuccessful.

While I have met Rabbi Sacks twice and have a Facebook friend who is a rabbi, I suspect no Letter of Recommendation from them will be forthcoming either.

I believe the reasons are because I am a nationalist and a political activist. While I have advocated nothing that would offend against the Noahide laws, the general attitude towards me seems to be that of deep wariness.  This may be to do with a series of gun and flag photographs found online that I imagine would offend Jewry but which I hasten to assure you were intended to identify myself with nationalism so that I can make the following points:

1)  If Judaism is divine ethno-nationalism, then Islam must be divine civic nationalism.

2)  Christianity is idolatrous and offends against the third Noahide law, while Islam satisfies all seven.

3)  Jews have a religious duty to remind the gentile when his laws fall dangerously below the minimum moral standards of the Noahide laws because it is part of their tikkun olam.  Secular Koranism more than satisfies these standards. thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/secular-koranism.html

4)  Because of rising antisemitism, Jews are understandably fearful of saying anything to provoke the gentile.  However, once I become an Orthodox Jewess, I will be able to throw myself in front of the bullets shot by outraged gentiles intended for Jewry on your behalves as one of you in an act of Kiddush Hashem.

5)  While acutely aware of the obvious idolatry of Christianity for so many centuries, I do see that you could not for obvious reasons quite bring yourselves to point this out to Christians when they took their religion seriously in fear that it would provoke their customary violence and intimidation. In any case, you cannot now bring yourselves to point this out the Post-Christian in the current atmosphere of rising antisemitism now that he no longer believes in anything other than sex and drugs and rock and roll as well as gay marriage and transgenderism.

6)  It has been said that Islam is "Judaism Lite". If this is so, then Secular Koranism is intended to be "Islam Lite" and, with this in mind, I conceived of Secular Koranism.  Secular Koranism is not a belief system, but a legal system that guarantees freedom of belief with https://quran.com/2/256, would make it unconstitutional to tax a citizen more than a flat rate income tax of 20% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khums, shame immoral women who produce illegitimate offspring and then badly parent the next generation of unemployable criminals with https://quran.com/24/2 and is intended to restore patriarchy which will not be too difficult once good moral men and women who want to properly parent their legitimate offspring co-operate with each other with a view to drawing a line very firmly under so many decades of degenerate culture.

It is my considered view as a rational and moral woman that feminism that produces the sexual immorality that is undermining Western civilisation, and I would like this matter highlighted and publicised in my campaign to promote the Noahide laws among gentiles with the assistance and support of what I hope will become my Kehillah Kedoshah.

To this end, I thought the quickest way would be to write to you individually in the hope that you will believe me to be a suitable candidate for conversion after meeting me and then write each other Letters of Recommendation on my behalf.

I trust my blog https://radicalisedrabbi.blogspot.co.uk/ will display what little knowledge of Judaism I have so far managed to acquire.

Yours sincerely

Claire Khaw

Claire Khaw the Therapist to Jews and gentiles, men and women, atheists and monotheists, the old and the young, plebs and patricians

4:00  Henry Makow
6:00  If you believe in the Abrahamic God, obey His Commandments.
7:00  Know thyself and know thine enemy. The enemy is within. The greater jihad is the struggle with oneself.
11:00  The simple bargain between God and Man: obey His laws to be good and safe
12:00  Pleasing oneself
13:00  The "Bibble"
14:00  Self-help books
16:00  "Porn man"
18:00  The mask we put on will slip one day anyway.
19:00  Avoidance of truth is the procrastination of pain.
20:00  Prayer
21:00  Humility is the avoidance of self-destructive narcissism.
23:00  The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
26:00  Applying our principles
31:00  The right goals in life
33:00  God is not just a fleeting feeling but a lifestyle choice of following His laws.
34:00  Liberalism
35:00  The tyranny of our own expectations of ourselves
36:00  Happiness cannot be pursued directly.
37:00  Spirituality is the reward we get when we are following God's laws correctly.
38:00  Jordan Peterson's marriage
39:00  Belief in God and following His laws is evidence of long-term thinking.
40:00  Disposable relationship
41:00  Uncertainty as to God's existence
43:00  Jay goes from assuming God's existence to doubting it in the same video.
44:00  Jay seems to think God is his intermittent experience of pleasure.
46:00  Why are we here?
54:00  Is it useful to believe in God?
55:00  What are the rules?
56:00  Cherry-picking
57:00  Religion and the current political orthodoxy of liberalism
58:00  Theocracy, structure and discipline
59:00  Diversity is weakness?
1:00:00  Loss of status of the white heterosexual man
1:01:00  Why governments won't address long-standing social problems
1:02:00  It is the nature of the matriarchy to destroy the patriarchy.
1:03:00  A victim must be found.
1:04:00  Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson, Enoch Powell
1:05:00  Does the government know what it is doing?
1:06:00  Harry Truman did not manage to stop the buck-passing of representative democracy.
1:07:00  Theresa May and Barack Obama
1:08:00  Divide and rule
1:09:00  The accountability of a Caliph leading a one party theocracy
1:09:30  Egalitarianism
1:10:00  What happens when conviction politicians are not rewarded
1:11:00  Liberal name-calling
1:12:00  The Today Programme is propaganda for politicians.
1:13:00  Singapore's next Prime Minister (probably) gives remoaners a dressing down on the Today Programme and also some well-meant advice
1:16:00  The Wolfson Prize  https://www.capitaleconomics.com/wolfson-prize/
1:18:00  The Macron strategy to power
1:19:00  Count Dankula

Melanie Philips on antisemitism

Jews being more right-wing would make them less unpopular because God would bless them for upholding the Noahide laws

The Chosen People are the aristocrats of humanity with the noble duty of enforcing the Noahide laws

Jews are a microcosm of humanity. They are also the aristocrats of humanity because they have been around longest, and are more ancient than the Chinese, apparently.

http://rabbisacks.org/greatness-jewish-watch-rabbi-sacks-remarks-2017-olami-summit/

We’ve been around twice as long as Christianity, three times as long as Islam. I remember when I was Chief Rabbi, I used to, part of the British Commonwealth used to be Hong Kong until we had to give it back to the Chinese. When I went there under Chinese rule I had a meeting with the Beijing appointee of Hong Kong, Mr. Tung Chee-hwa, the first governor, Chinese governor of Hong Kong, a lovely man who loved and admired Judaism. He said, “Rabbi Sacks, we Chinese knew Jews have been around for a long time. We’ve been around 5,000 years. You’ve been around 6,000 years. What I always wanted to know is what did you do for the first thousand years before you had kosher Chinese takeaways?” I said, “Mr. Tung for the first thousand years we just complained about the food.”

You can recognise the status of an aristocrat without assuming that everything he does is right, and hold him to higher standards too.

Jews represent the Hare, the gentile the Tortoise.

Having set moral standards for gentiles with their Noahide laws, Jews are now obliged to remind them of it. 

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-noahide-laws/

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last leader of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism. Schneerson wrote:

We must do everything possible to ensure that the seven Noahide laws are observed. If this can be accomplished through force or through other kinder and more peaceful means through explaining to non-Jews that they should accept God’s wishes [we should do so]…Anyone who is able to influence a non-Jew in any way to keep the seven commandments is obligated to do so, since that is what God commanded Moses our teacher (“Sheva Mitzvot Shel Benai Noach,” Hapardes 59:9 7-11, 5745)

https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1691120/jewish/Transcript-Chief-Rabbi-Sacks-Highlights-Rebbes-Inspiring-Charge.htm  Rabbi Sacks tells us of how he spent 72 hours nonstop on a Greyhound bus from New York to Los Angeles just to meet Rabbi Schneerson.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-seven-noachide-laws

In view of the strict monotheism of Islam, Muslims were considered as Noachides whereas the status of Christians was a matter of debate.

It is no surprise then that Christianity is now kaput after the Americans quarantined that defective religion from their state and when the British lifted the prohibition against denying the Trinity in 1813. Clearly, in an age of universal education, liberal permissiveness and the pill after the Sex Revolution, it was inevitable that the post-Christian would have thrown out the morality of Christianity with the absurd bathwater of the Trinity.

Now that fornication is encouraged with sex education from the age of 4 and bastardy normalised, degeneracy is now widespread. If religion was once the opium of the masses, extramarital sex is now their new behavioural addiction.

Toxic masculinity = male criminality

Feminism = fornication

Fornication = unmarried mothers

Unmarried mothers = badly-parented illegitimate offspring

Bastardy = criminality

Higher criminality and lower educational standards = national and racial degeneracy and the decline and fall of your civilisation

Rabbi Sacks expressed concern about how never married single mothers casually conceived and casually gave birth to illegitimate offspring they negligently parented and just as carelessly abandoned to the care system to be sexually abused. This was completely ignored by the political classes.

Keith Joseph also pointed out how the British were destroying their "human stock" by tolerating bastardy and never married single mothers but for his trouble had his place as Prime Minister-in waiting taken over by Margaret Thatcher, which established the our matriarchy.

The matriarchy which established itself in 1974 is spreading her wings and legs ever wider.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wintour-and-watt/2010/nov/25/conservatives-davidcameron

Obviously, much stronger medicine is required. I have done my bit as a member of the world's second most ancient races. If this is not enough and Rabbi Sacks still remains silent about our rotten culture and stinking matriarchy as well as refusing to come to the support of Rabbi Aaron Bassous against Ofsted so that he and his kehillah kedoshah do not have to end up seeking sanctuary from gay marriage in Iran, then it means I will have to convert to Orthodox Judaism to save the Jews from their collective sin of cowardice and chillul Hashem.

It really is disgraceful that things have come to this, but there we are.
http://radicalisedrabbi.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/rabbi-bassous-calls-all-jews-with-flame.html

Will the London Beth Din stop me from doing this by rejecting my application and 50 quid application fee?

https://www.theus.org.uk/article/conversion-2

Cost
The cost of the Beth Din’s time in dealing with conversions is heavily subsidised by the United Synagogue. Conversion candidates are asked to pay a nominal administration fee of £50 when the form for admission to the Jewish faith is completed by them (see paragraph 4 of “Conversion Process”) and a further £120 at a later stage. 

If Rabbi Sacks really doesn't want to speak up because he wants to continue receiving prizes from the neocons he is always hobnobbing with, then perhaps he will write me a Letter of Recommendation for the Beth Din so I can speak out against the immoral women that now rule the Western world as an Orthodox Jewess. I realise that men with anything to lose are afraid of antagonising these malicious immoral women in case they are accused of a historic sexual offence and then be found guilty in the kangaroo court of public opinion before it ever gets to trial. I intend to be the Lady Protectress of these poor white frightened men who have so lost their male solidarity that they cannot get it together to co-operate with each other to shoo the feminazis out of public life like hens back into their coops.