Katnut d'Katnut

by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB

I entered the Catholic Church some 34 years ago in 1987, the Marian Year, when I was almost 24 years old. I entered as a practicing Jew, dressed in black trousers and a white shirt with a black waistcoat, wearing kippa and tallis katan with my tztitzits showing. I also wore a tallis gadol during the Mass in which I covered my head with it during the consecration and other solemn moments of prayer or adoration of the Divine Presence. I had no intention of ceasing to be a Torah-observant Jew on becoming a Catholic, and the elderly Dean of the Cathedral, who had been my instructor, seemed to have no problem with that.

Photo at the RSL Club late in the event after half the people had already left

The synod on Synodality has been occurring in the month of October and the Pope surprised many by deciding to approve the final statement with his own authority rather than waiting and putting out a document months from now. I have managed to read through some of it and glance through the rest and contrary to the anti-Francis rhetoric there were no shocking or surprising aspects to the document.

Once again anti-Jewish people are circulating anti-Semitic and anti-Talmud distortions. One such quote they distort comes from the Talmud in Soferim 15. They say it says: Even all the best of the Goyim (Gentiles) should be killed. Here is the actual quote:

ר"ש בן יוחי הטוב שבעובדי כוכבים בשעת מלחמה הרוג הטוב שבנחשים רצוץ את מוחו 

Rabbi Simeon ben Yochai taught: Kill (Put to the Sword) the best of the Occultic star workers in time of war; as one crushes the brain of the best of serpents.

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB.

The Mystical Donkey Driver

Prologue: Verse 74

רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר הֲוָה אָזִיל לְמֶחֱמֵי לְרַבִּי יוֹסֵי בְּרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן לָקוֹנְיָא ,וְרַבִּי אַבָּא חֲמוֹי בַּהֲדֵיהּ, וַהֲוָה טָעֵין חַד גַּבְרָא אֲבַתְרַיְיהוּ. אֲמַר רַבִּי אַבָּא נִפְתַּח פִּתְחִין דְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, דְּהָא שַׁעֲתָא וְעִדָּנָא הוּא לְאִתְתַּקָּנָא בְאָרְחָן.

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB.

Engaging with Lady Wisdom

Prologue: Verse 61

בְּרֵאשִׁית. ר' שִׁמְעוֹן פְּתַח, וָאָשִׂים דְּבָרַי בְּפִיךָ. כַּמָּה אִית לֵיהּ לְבַר נָשׁ לְאִשְׁתַּדְּלָא בְּאוֹרַיְיתָא יְמָמָא וְלֵילְיָא, בְּגִין דְּקָדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא צַיֵּית לְקָלְהוֹן דְּאִינוּן דְּמִתְעַסְּקֵי בְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, וּבְכָל מִלָּה דְאִתְחַדֵּשׁ בְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, עַל יְדָא דְהַהוּא דְּאִשְׁתַּדַּל בְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, עָבֵיד רְקִיעָא חָדָא.

Bereshit.

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB.

The Mystery of Lady Wisdom and the Key that Opens and Shuts

Prologue: Verse 40

בְּרֵאשִׁית, רַבִּי יוּדָאי אֲמַר, מַאי בְּרֵאשִׁי"ת, בְּחָכְמָ"ה, דָּא חָכְמָ"ה דְּעָלְמָא קָיְימָא עֲלָהּ לְעָאלָא גוֹ רָזִי סְתִימִין עִלָּאִין. וְהָכָא אִגְלִיפוּ שִׁית סִטְרִין רַבְרְבִין עִלָּאִין, דְּמִנְהוֹן נָפֵיק כֹּלָא, דְּמִנְהוֹן אִתְעֲבִידוּ שִׁית מְקוֹרִין וְנַחֲלִין לְעָאלָא גוֹ יַמָּא רַבָּא.

In this blog post I put a number of my posts about matriarchal lineages. This is an area that is often overlooked or hidden in the Patriarchal histories.

Judeo-Roman Amazon Davidic Queens of Cadodu and Calalus

In North America there was a Kingdom or Empire which was west of the Kingdom of Alleghania and Appelachia and the Principality of Ragheallachia but east of the Calalus Kingdoms.

In this blog post I brought together a number of posts that I have written where I mention the Permian Flood boundary from a Hebrew Catholic Creationist perspective. I do not write to "proselytise" those who accept the evolutionary and uniformitarian worldview but for those like myself who do not acept it and want to understand biology and geology from a Creationist perspective.

In this blog post I have put a selection of blog posts I have done on Genetics and the Lost Tribes of Israel from a Creationist perspective. I also run a facebook page on the Lost Tribes of Israel and Genetics. I have written much more on this than the articles I have selected for this post on my different blogs.

Were the British Israelites Wrong?

I have always been fascinated with the fate of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel since I was a teenager.