Ghosting God, Ghosting Self
Day 42
“Their doings do not permit them to return to their God; for the spirit of harlotry is in the midst of them and they do not know God.”(Hosea 5:4) I am stuck on Hosea, as I have written before, because his words, his description of the actions of the Northern Kingdom, Israel, are so appropos for our times, for all different times throughout the millennia and we the people, cannot figure out how to learn from his words, from history, from our own experience! I understand it taking a while, it took me 20 years to return from my own harlotry, and I don’t understand it never taking hold, never understanding the whoring we the people are doing and rather than holding the whoremongers, the whoremasters accountable, we the people(at least some of us) worship, promote and praise the harlotry that is happening in front of us and bastardizing God’s name, Jesus’ ways!
The rockets are raining once again in the Middle East, who broke the ‘cease-fire’ first is immaterial, what is material is that Bibi and his thugs have become like Pharaoh in Egypt; causing the people of Israel to go to war while their ‘yeshiva bochers’ stay at home and study because their study is going to save Israel-BULLSHIT! He is like Pharaoh because for the past 15+ years all he has cared about is himself, his need for power, his wanting to be the ‘king of Israel’, restoring the ‘glory days of King David’. I am surprised he hasn’t claimed his lineage goes back to King David. AD MATAI, “until when” Bibi, Ben G’Vir, Smotrich et al “will you refuse to humble yourself before God?” These people and their followers promote “the spirit of harlotry” “in the midst” of the Jewish people to the extent they and their fellow perpetrators of harlotry at AIPAC and other right-wing crazies have caused the rise of Anti-Semitism, have gotten into bed with the Christian Nationalists, the Evangelicals, who proclaim their ‘love for Israel’ while teaching Jews killed Christ, Jews control the world through the banks, and other such blood libel-THESE ARE BIBI’s GOOD BUDDIES!!! “I am a Zionist” like Mike Huckabee, is the rallying cry of these ‘fine christian nationalist folk’ who then say Jews who disagree with Bibi, who believe in the original 2-State solution of the UN in 1947, are anti-zionists! WTF?
All of these so-called “religious people”, “good jews”, “righteous Gentiles” are the HARLOTS Hosea is speaking about and, like our ancestors of old, we the people are unwilling to take action, unable to stand up, fearful of our safety, as I am sure people in Congress are because the way of Bibi, the way of Trump and their thugs is to threaten, to scare, to ensure the demise of the people who stand in their way as well as their families, as Mitt Romney said in his book. They do NOT KNOW GOD, for all their holy-roller shit, for all their Bible-quoting. They are like the Rabbis of old, afraid of the prophets, afraid of the message of the prophets, afraid of losing control, afraid of being found out to be frauds, afraid of facing the consequences of their actions, afraid to face God, to face their neighbor who they abhor rather than love, afraid to face their actions through doing T’Shuvah, afraid to be seen, afraid, afraid, afraid. They are hiding their fears through wars that did not need to be started, by abandoning and blaming allies for their woes, being as cruel to “those people” as possible.
How in this era of AI, can the fascists still deny the truth of the Declaration of Independence, the promise/goal of this blueprint on this our almost 250th anniversary? “All (people) are created equal” is not a statement that is up to debate, their is no wiggle room, no amount of talmudic arguments, pilpulling, no ‘re-interpretation’ by Kavanaugh, Roberts, Thomas, Alito can change the explicit and implicit truth and meaning of this statement. And yet, the very people entrusted with holding these “self-evident” truths, near and dear, the very people who swore to uphold the laws, to defend and protect the Constittution, the People of the United States, the People of Israel are the ones violating all the principles, the hopes, the decency, the freedoms both countries were founded on and founded to ensure!
What is scarier to me, however, is that we the people in our smallness, in our own harlotry, refuse to KNOW GOD, to KNOW OURSELF, and give into the lies of another(s) and our own self-deceptions. That We the People could be lulled into electing self-centered, egotistical, assholes who are thieves, conmen, ne’er do wells, is BEYOND the BEYOND! Yet, we did! I believe one of the reasons is the Bernie’s of our time also do not heed the call of Hosea, do not KNOW GOD, they too have “the spirit of harlotry in their midst”. That anti-semitism is rampant on the left led by Bernie and AOC, support for Hamas’ terroism, raping, killing of babies on Oct 7th was condoned by them, is BEYOND THE BEYOND as well. We the People are being called by the words of the prophets to stop our harlotry and end the harlotry of elected officials.
ACTION STEPS:
Write down the ways you adhere to and don’t adhere to “all people are created equal
Do a 7 day daily inventory on how you did and didn’t give in to harlotry
GOD BLESS, STOP GHOSTING GOD and SELF, Rabbi Mark