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Pardes: An etude in Cabbala
Cabbalistic explanation of connection between the War in the Middle East, Globalisation, Fall of Dollar and Rise of the Jews
192 pages, Paperback
Published April 12, 2005
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Israel Shamir
22 books9 followersA leading Russian Israeli writer, is a champion of the "One Man, One Vote, One State" solution seeking to unite Palestine & Israel in one democratic state. Shamir's work and that of his contributors speaks to the aspirations of both the Israelis and the Palestinians seeking an end to the bloodshed, true democracy and lasting peace.
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February 5, 2017
This book complements well the other books I have so far read on the "Jewish problem". Shamir states that the horrible hatred towards gentiles which Israel Shahak attributes to Judaism isn't shared by most Jews. That is an important clarification to receive. Still, this book paints a picture of a movement of Jewish supremacism / exceptionalism that is extreme to the extent that the world surely has seen nothing that can compete with it in ferociousness and hatred for everything non-Jewish (in fact, this ideology only considers Jews to be human beings. What the rest of us are is unclear, but we're not human, for sure…).
The book expounds the Jewish mode of perceiving and acting on the world from four cabbalistic levels, money, discourse, politics and religion, which is important, especially for those who follow the vulgar Marxist model of the world where you may simply "follow the money" and everything will unfurl before you. Not so. You need to dig all the way down to the religious world-view, which delivers the premises even for non-religious Jews (the author explains clearly in the book how that all works out). The conclusion the author makes about the Jewish / Zionist project is nothing other than astounding. The operative goal is nothing less than total world control with Jews only having civic rights, everyone else will be dumbed down slaves who will even have been dispossessed of any opportunity to follow a religion of their own, except for some kind of Jewish-derived cargo cult (like Caribbean Voodoo) which would perhaps (not unlikely) be the cult of "Holocaust" which acute observers already will perceive has accrued many of the characteristics of a crude religion.
One important perspective which the author to my satisfaction clearly displays is how Judaism is categorially inferior to Christianity, how it clung to all the facets which Jesus denounced about it and by the same token shut itself off from the possibility of experiencing and realizing the holistic and advanced humane concepts imbued in the teachings of Jesus Christ. In fact, Jews have created a religion with a glass ceiling which effectively bars them from ever getting in touch with the divine. Worship of God becomes an act of observing a large and complex set of rules rather than aiming to realize the source spirit of the entity from which these rules are believed to originate. In fact, Jews worship the Jewish tribe rather than God. I suppose anyone not a Jew can see the insanity in such a project.
I have two points of criticism towards the author and the book. The first is the absence of any discussion of the would-be worldly power of the Cabbalistic elite hierarchies. Even though the book centrally references the Jewish Cabbalah the author shows no deep level of understanding of its metaphysics, or metaphysical validity at that. I have studied the Cabbalah, and I believe that a valid perception of the basic concepts and metaphysical structures of this complex cosmology is needed in order to be able to assess its strengths and weaknesses. As it is, this book latches on to some aspects of the Cabbalah teachings, validly, I'm sure, but the author appears not aware of it as a tremendously powerful toolkit for jumbling metaphysical concepts and what's more, for working on the material realm. Had he held such awareness, that would have necessitated some discussion, or at least an explanation of why they are not being discussed at all in this book.
My second contention with this book and the author is its dogmatism with regards to the validity of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Sure, you do not need to go terribly deeply metaphysically in order to prove the point that Judaism is a very primitive religion and bluntly dualistic even. But just as I have challenged Alexander Dugin on the same grounds, I find Israel Shamir's omission to declare his own religious fundamental precepts regrettable and diminishing the authority of his voice. Simply leaning on the religious authority of some religious organization, be it the Russian Orthodox Chutch in the case of Dugin or some chuch, I haven't apprehended just which, in Shamir's case, is unsatifactory. I completely reject the notion that such a matter belongs in the private sphere, that is, in the case of people expounding their partly religiously based criticisms of groups and trains of ideology. This is a flaw and it is an important one because it cements the notion that peak religious discourse, except when contained to forums dealing specifically with such matters, could be appropriately relegated to Church or other religious institutional authority.
The book expounds the Jewish mode of perceiving and acting on the world from four cabbalistic levels, money, discourse, politics and religion, which is important, especially for those who follow the vulgar Marxist model of the world where you may simply "follow the money" and everything will unfurl before you. Not so. You need to dig all the way down to the religious world-view, which delivers the premises even for non-religious Jews (the author explains clearly in the book how that all works out). The conclusion the author makes about the Jewish / Zionist project is nothing other than astounding. The operative goal is nothing less than total world control with Jews only having civic rights, everyone else will be dumbed down slaves who will even have been dispossessed of any opportunity to follow a religion of their own, except for some kind of Jewish-derived cargo cult (like Caribbean Voodoo) which would perhaps (not unlikely) be the cult of "Holocaust" which acute observers already will perceive has accrued many of the characteristics of a crude religion.
One important perspective which the author to my satisfaction clearly displays is how Judaism is categorially inferior to Christianity, how it clung to all the facets which Jesus denounced about it and by the same token shut itself off from the possibility of experiencing and realizing the holistic and advanced humane concepts imbued in the teachings of Jesus Christ. In fact, Jews have created a religion with a glass ceiling which effectively bars them from ever getting in touch with the divine. Worship of God becomes an act of observing a large and complex set of rules rather than aiming to realize the source spirit of the entity from which these rules are believed to originate. In fact, Jews worship the Jewish tribe rather than God. I suppose anyone not a Jew can see the insanity in such a project.
I have two points of criticism towards the author and the book. The first is the absence of any discussion of the would-be worldly power of the Cabbalistic elite hierarchies. Even though the book centrally references the Jewish Cabbalah the author shows no deep level of understanding of its metaphysics, or metaphysical validity at that. I have studied the Cabbalah, and I believe that a valid perception of the basic concepts and metaphysical structures of this complex cosmology is needed in order to be able to assess its strengths and weaknesses. As it is, this book latches on to some aspects of the Cabbalah teachings, validly, I'm sure, but the author appears not aware of it as a tremendously powerful toolkit for jumbling metaphysical concepts and what's more, for working on the material realm. Had he held such awareness, that would have necessitated some discussion, or at least an explanation of why they are not being discussed at all in this book.
My second contention with this book and the author is its dogmatism with regards to the validity of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Sure, you do not need to go terribly deeply metaphysically in order to prove the point that Judaism is a very primitive religion and bluntly dualistic even. But just as I have challenged Alexander Dugin on the same grounds, I find Israel Shamir's omission to declare his own religious fundamental precepts regrettable and diminishing the authority of his voice. Simply leaning on the religious authority of some religious organization, be it the Russian Orthodox Chutch in the case of Dugin or some chuch, I haven't apprehended just which, in Shamir's case, is unsatifactory. I completely reject the notion that such a matter belongs in the private sphere, that is, in the case of people expounding their partly religiously based criticisms of groups and trains of ideology. This is a flaw and it is an important one because it cements the notion that peak religious discourse, except when contained to forums dealing specifically with such matters, could be appropriately relegated to Church or other religious institutional authority.
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