john was born around Passover....
Jesus was born 6 months after that.
First, I'd like to thank you, Cupid, for acknowledging that this "ancient tradition" comes from 12th century Kaballists. That may be a minor detail, but it's a big improvement for you. Things like this will be appreciated as long as you don't backslide.
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Kaballah means "receiving."
Something you struggle to do.
FWIW, I don't mean that in a harsh way.
I tell you this because I hope it will help you refine yourself and grow.
LOL
A Rabbi who denies his own esoteric insights is pretty funny.
What is "received"of course is the teachings which are thus held by kabbalists to define the inner meaning of both the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible, תַּנַ"ךְ‎ ) and traditional rabbinic literature,...
"The origins of the actual term Kabbalah are unknown... other terms have been used in many religious documents from the 2nd century up to the present day, the term "Kabbalah" has become the main descriptive of Jewish esoteric knowledge and practices.
Do you remember when I said this to you?:
"I also know that it is a mistake to extend an olive branch to you for a number of reasons. You don't value honesty, so innately, you don't value loyalty either. So you are quick to turn your back on people for the slightest disagreement. Secondly, you will see kindness for weakness and take that opportunity to be an aggressor. And thirdly, you want to lash out at me, anyway, for always calling you on your bluffs.
So, I'm not going to extend an olive branch to you. "
You don't know HOW to receive and, as such, you have not received. Having not received, you cannot know, and have no right to claim to know, what it is that is given.
If I ever have sympathy enough to offer you an olive branch again, I suggest that you take it.
Cupid, you aren't interested in truth or intellectual honesty.
Otherwise you wouldn't continue ad nauseum that bacteria are plants or that there are 7 of this and 12 of that while you purposely leave out the rest.
Your POV is implausible and irrespective of facts.
The readers here all know, and have already established that you aren't a person to go to to learn something. Your conclusions aren't trustworthy. Even when you are on the right track or saying something grounded in established fact you can't help yourself but to ruin it by sticking in a non-fact or to abuse the language to poke in bare assertions, as if they will go unnoticed and then accepted as fact.
Let me be clear, here. by "olive branch" I wasn't talking about compromise. I was talking about kindness and mutual respect as long as your responses are worthy of those things. There is no compromise here. You have to completely give up on the lying.
Jesus was born on March 27th, 4 BC when the star in the east (Venus) appeared over Bethlehem during an eclipse. And yes, it was the start of the Jews holy year.... according to scripture, Jesus was born at a time of year when shepherds watched their flocks by night IN THE FIELDS :-
Luke 2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
- just as in those times flocks are kept INDOORS in Winter in the Holy Land ... in other words the fact that the shepherds and flocks were in the fields at night PROVES it was LAMBING time in the Spring when Jesus was born , not mid-winter ...
the LAMB of God was born at the start of the holy year still kept by Israel as set out in scripture for all who realise there is but ONE God of all men, not many gods of the many sects and denomination decreed by men, not God ... because there are countless differences in traditions of men we know they must almost all, perhaps all , be wrong, the bible PROVES they are indeed all wrong , none keep the right days ...
the irony about Xmas though is that Jesus never had an annual birthday anyway, that is a pagan astrological [Babylonian] tradition not kept by Israel ... just see how far human religious tradition has strayed from the truth of scripture ...
Let Jesus have the last say on this, what did he say folks who followed him truly should keep in memory of him ?
Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
NOT a weekly ritual, but the annual celebration of Passover :-
Matthew 26:18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
so the LAMB of God [was born and] died in the Spring, at Passover , not at Xmas , nor at Easter... and so very few indeed do what Jesus said was the only way to remember him ...
Jesus was lamb of God sacrificed for the few who follow him in this world [Matt 7:13-14] so that the many can be saved later [Rev 7:9-10] who are destroyed in this life [Matt 7:13] ... that is why his followers celebrate his death at Passover as he asked, it is the meaningful way to do so which he himself chose for good reason... those who disovbey him as Lord obviously cannot rightly claim he is their lord ... a 'lord' is someone whom one obeys, as Jesus also said clearly ... we see that few already obey Jesus as Lord and that this too was destined to be true, prophesied ... but know then what it means for the countless many who keep Xmas and Easter and harvest festival , adapted pagan god memorials, in place of the memorial days proclaimed by God for His purpose in the few ...
Jesus was born on March 27th, 4 BC when the star in the east (Venus) appeared over Bethlehem during an eclipse. And yes, it was the start of the Jews holy year.
And Venus, also called the Dayspring, appeared over the hill country of Judea six months earlier when John the Baptist was born. It was the start of the Jews secular year.
LOL. The wise men were astronomers, and astronomers follow the stars by observing and charting them. By observing Venus for years, they knew that Venus always appeared near the sun, and they knew that a solar eclipse was coming up on the first day of the Jew's sacred calendar, and they knew Venus would be visible over the Holy Land. And stars do not rest in their path across the sky. Venus passed over Bethlehem in a few minutes, but it may have appeared to the naked eye to hover over what is now the Church of the Nativity. The wise men were probably the calendar keepers from the Qumran community east of Jerusalem. Anyone further east would have no interest in the birth of the Jew's Messiah.How long did the star lead the Wise Men and where did it rest ?
Wrong. March 27th, 4 BC was five days before the death of Herod. And Josephus said that on that day Herod went mad following an eclipse and killed 300 innocents including his own son prompting Caesar to say "I would rather be one of Herod's swine than one of his sons."Interpreter, the wise men were Magi. That means they were both astronomers and astrologers. They might well have been interested in the birth of a king of Judea. They might well have known about and been interested in matters involving the Jews' Messiah. After all, they studied all sorts of matters and the Jews were part of Babylonian history. They were also neighbors. Many Jews live in Mesopotamia in those days. Nonetheless, the story of the Magi is highly suspect. Herod would have assigned spies to follow them. And so, he would have known where to find Yeshua and who his parents were. There is no mention of the so-called slaughter of the innocents in any known historical account other than the Gospel of Matthew. Most likely, it never happened. If it did occur, why was it not mentioned in the other gospels?....