Jews’ Origins and Sects
Introduction
– The Jewish nation is weak, broken, and incompatible.
– They suffer from all kinds of dispersion and conflict, whether it is a religious, ethnic, or ideological conflict.
– Jews have come from different parts of the world.
– Some Jews are religious; others are secular.
– Some of them have left-wing ideology, and others have right-wing ideology.
Ethnic Backgrounds
– The Ashkenazi (Western Jews)
– The Sephardi (Eastern Jews)
– Falash Mura (Eastern Jews)
The Ashkenazi
– The word “Ashkenazi” refers to Jews migrated to Palestine from the western countries in 1948.
– They follow strict traditions of their own. Also, they only take teachings from the Old Testament and the Talmud.
– The Ashkenazi claim to be descendants of Prophet Noah, PBUH, but in fact they are the descendants of the Khazars who took refuge in Europe.
– Those Khazars became financially extremely powerful and provided support to the European colonial projects.
Prominent Ashkenazi figures:
– Golda Meir; the Israeli Prime Minister in 1969
– Albert Einstein; the founder of the Relativity Theory
السفارديم (اليهود الشرقيون)
– The word “Sephardi” refers to Jews migrated to Israel (the occupied Palestine) from eastern countries, like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the Arab Peninsula, and many others.
– Most of them follow the Sephardi traditions.
– The first to be called “Sephardi” are Jews in Andalusia (Spain and Portuguese).
– They migrated after the fall down of the Islamic regime in Europe and other places.
-They have their own institutions and ways of worship.
– Compared with the Ashkenazi, it is noted that their population and money have decreased.
– There are a lot of differences between them and the Ashkenazi.
Eastern Jews:
– The Falash Mura (African Jews)
– Indian Jews
The Falash Mura, Eastern African Jews:
– African Jews who are believed to be Judaized by some Yemeni merchants or by other ways.
– They have their own language.
– They have some copies of the Old Testament books written in their Abyssinian language.
Jewish Sects:
– It is hard to see Jews united.
– For a long time, they’ve been divided into different groups and sect. they’ve been very hostile that they shed their own blood.
Some prominent Jewish sects:
– Conservative Jews
– Reform Jews
– Orthodox Jews
– Also, there are Jewish religious ideological movements.
– Like the Kabbalah and the Hasidic movements.
Conservative Judaism
– The movement of Conservative Judaism was established in the US.
– It is one of the most important Jewish religious movements in the world.
– They believe that they are the heirs of the Rabbinic Judaism as a whole, and that Judaism will evolve and have an impact on the events of the coming age.
-Therefore, they call themselves the “re-interpreters of Judaism”.
– These sects show real discrepancy. They believe that Judaism, despite being scattered around the world, unites, while at the same time they disagree on basic issues, like the Revelation, God, and rites. They couldn’t succeed in having one agenda. The Jewish Divinity College in the US is considered the central platform of Conservative Judaism.
Reform Judaism
– Reform Judaism started to spread by German Jews who at first gave up on the restrictions of the Talmud.
– They accepted to regard a person with a non-Jewish mother as a Jew.
– In general, they have certain regulations of their own. This sect has adopted liberal principles.
– They haven’t given much regard to the issue of returning to Palestine or building the Temple.
– Also, they called upon other nations to change their canons, arguing that they are inconsistent with the spirit of the age.
– Reform Jews are the ones who called for reforming Islam.
– The principles of this sect have changed after the emergence of Zionism and penetration of the Jewish Reformers.
– At that time, the national Jewish demands and the ideas about the Holy Land appeared again.
The Orthodox Jews, the Haredi
– A strict religious Jewish sect that abides only by the Jewish law, and refuses to open up to other cultures.
– They fear that these cultures may affect their cohesion. Also, they believe that they are God’s Chosen People.
– Haredi women wear hats or wigs, to hide their hair, except in front of their husbands.
– Their definition of a Jew is a person whose mother is Jew or has converted to Judaism in accordance with their law, i.e. at the hand of an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi.
– Also, they get special treatment by the Zionist Entity; they do not work and the state gives them money, that’s why they bully other Jews.
– They prefer not to be called “Orthodox”, because this word is associated with Christianity.
The Kabbalah
– This group follows the Kabbalah principle, which says that a person goes through consecutive stages, which are: asceticism, worship, getting close to God, then the adherence and the unification with God, so that they become one Entity.
– After that the ascetic become THE God, and would have full control and free desires, and the right to act with no regard to the concept of good and evil.
– This involves the use of magic and sorcery, in order to persuade more people, and this is called “Pantheistic Mysticism”.
– The Kabbalah believe that the real Torah was written using white fire, and that’s why it is hidden in white pages can’t be read by human beings.
– The world has significantly been affected by the ways of their magic and sorcery, that their ideas appear in movies.
– Some celebrities around the world follow the Kabbalah principle.
Hasidism
– Hasidism is an extremist Jewish Orthodox ideology resulted from the influence of the Kabbalah ideas, the villagers’popular heritage in Eastern Europe, and the ideas of some grass-roots religious Christian groups.
– They believe that the Rabbinic Judaism is formalistic, doctrinal, and soulless, so they have followed the Kabbalah principle regarding this matter.
– These people underline that Jews must return to Palestine and love the Holy Land, and they’ve gone easy on implementing their law.
– This group is divided into sub-groups, because of the existing conflicts and disputes. Some of these sub-groups are:
– Buff
-Belz
– Gabad
-Brusilov
– Munkacs
The Samaritans
– They are independent Jews dogmatically and regarding their Book.
– They believe that their origins go back to thousands of years before the current Judaism. They live on Mount Gerizim in Nablus (Shechem).
– Also, they believe that the Oldest Hebrew temple was on that mountain, but prophet David closed it after making Jerusalem his capital, and prophet Solomon built the Temple in the city.
– Moreover, they believe that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine.
-They speak Arabic, and are persecuted by the Occupied Entity.
– They consider themselves the holders of the Torah and the ones who follow its teachings.
– Yet, they believe that prophet Solomon betrayed them when he built the Temple in Jerusalem.