We sent out the following mailer with a link to The Key for Israel and the Jew:
How perplexing are Israel and the Jews to the world! No one, Jews especially, knows how to solve the problem of contention with, and hatred of, the Jew. There are those, like Hitler, who think extermination is the answer. There are those, like Muhammad, who think bullying into submission is the answer. They are wrong. God, the Savior of Israel, has the true answer, and He has given it to us to give to you. While this letter is addressed to the Jews and the nation of Israel, it is meant for everyone to read and, whosoever will, to share with Jewish friends and acquaintances, and with whoever professes a love for the God of Israel.
Paul Cohen
David’s response:
How perplexing are the mission of Israel and the tragedy of uneducated Jews to the world! No one, Jews especially, can ignore the scriptural prescription (Deut. 4:1-6) to solve the problem of contention with, and hatred of, the Jew. There are those agents of Divine retribution, like Hitler, who promote extermination as the answer. There are those, like Muhammad, who preach bullying into submission as the answer. They are wrong to think their actions are at cross-purposes with God, the Savior of Israel, who has taught Israel the true answer, and He has a special place in Gehinnom for all who preach lies to His people.
While your letter was addressed to the Jews and the nation of Israel, it is hoped that the you, Paul, the original author, will read and, if you open your heart to the truth, to share your repentance from the nazarene blasphemy, the source of two millenia of uninterrupted bloodshed, mayhem, and idolatry, with Jewish friends and acquaintances, and with whomever professes a love for the God of Israel.
THE KEY FOR JEWS SEARCHING IN OTHERS’ BACKYARDS [link defunct]
Paul’s reply:
David,
It is written in the Jewish Publication Society Bible:
"He that giveth answer before he heareth, it is folly and confusion unto him" (Proverbs 18:13).
You answer us without knowing or addressing what we have actually said and without any true knowledge of where we stand. Read what we have written, not just in The Key for Israel and the Jew, but in all the writings and correspondences in Israel and the Jew.
Get your mouth and fingers out of reflex-action mode, and deal with the facts and reality, or continue to show yourself a jackass who brays for the whip.
You say "the nazarene blasphemy" is "the source of two millennia of uninterrupted bloodshed, mayhem, and idolatry." Obviously, as a citizen of the United States, you show no recognition for the fact that the founders of this country had great respect for the "Nazarene," and on account of Him, gave you a safe place to live from the pogroms, forced conversions, and genocidal intentions of Hitlers and religious tyrants like the pope and others.
Having despised the goodness of God in giving you refuge, that refuge will surely be taken from you. Now you will see His wrath as you have not before, and so will all those who think and behave as you do. He is finished winking at such ingratitude, and at your blasphemy. Watch and see.
David’s response:
David,
It is written in the Jewish Publication Society Bible:
"He that giveth answer before he heareth, it is folly and confusion unto him" (Proverbs 18:13).
You answer us without knowing or addressing what we have actually said and without any true knowledge of where we stand.
As do you. Look in the mirror!
You bring not only embarrasment to yourself but HUMILIATION to the generations who brought you into this world.
The Founders were an odd lot, many of the most influential were Deists and philanderers, according to the contemporary fashion.
Read what we have written, not just in The Key for Israel and the Jew, but in all the writings and correspondences in Israel and the Jew.
Thanks for the links. They confirm my first impression of arrogance and ignorance. Are you familiar with the languages of the Scriptures, Hebrew and Aramaic? A simple reading of many of the original verses as mistranslated through the Septuagint accounts for much of the confusion.
Have you checked your lineage? Perhaps you are not actually a descendant of the humble Abraham and Aaron after all, despite your name. In which case your disaffection from the Truth is not tragic, but typical.
With luck the kernels of true wisdom which are so transparently attacked in your literature will ultimately have a positive impact on your adherents.
May the Creator of the Universe have mercy on all His children, for "…as Thorns make ruddy Roses pick’d more dear, each bloody Prick’s a Badge of perfum’d Heaven…"
DS
Paul’s reply:
"But the ungodly, they are as thorns thrust away, all of them, for they cannot be taken with the hand; But the man that toucheth them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place" (2 Samuel 23:6-7 JPS).
David Shapero, you tell us to look in the mirror, as though we don’t know or understand you, but we know much more about you than you can imagine. We are not ignorant, of you, or in what we speak from the God of Israel.
No matter what Bibles you use or languages you speak, you are no different from your murderous fathers who, though they had the most accurate of Bibles and knowledge of the language therein, persecuted the prophets and crucified the Holy One of Israel.
Because you have contemned our words given of Him to speak, you will suffer the consequences. God is fed up with your willful ignorance and arrogance. There is no more time for Him to suffer fools.
David’s response:
I notice you do not answer my direct questions,
"But the ungodly, they are as thorns thrust away, all of them, for they cannot be taken with the hand; But the man that toucheth them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place." (2 Samuel 23:6-7 JPS).
although you did pick up on my sonnet fragment
David Shapero, you tell us to look in the mirror, as though we don’t know or understand you, but we know much more about you than you can imagine. We are not ignorant, of you, or in what we speak from the God of Israel.
No matter what Bibles you use or languages you speak, you are no different from your murderous fathers who, though they had the most accurate of Bibles and knowledge of the language therein, persecuted the prophets
false prophets deserve death
and crucified the Holy One of Israel.
Ahem, this was the Romans, I believe.
Unless it’s all a mistake, anyway…as it appears from Josephus, an eyewitness of the Destruction of Jerusalem.
His detailed descriptions of Pontius Pilate, John the Baptist, the Sanhedrin, the High Priest Caiaphas, Crucifixion by Roman soldiers, curiously overlook the life, teachings and mission of your aforementioned Crucified One except this briefest of paragraphs, a notorious forgery:
“Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct to this day.”
—Antiquities, Book XVIII, Chapter III:63-64
A cursory comparison with the complex, long-winded paragraphs about relative trifles which precede and follow makes the sad truth obvious.
Because you have contemned our words given of Him to speak, you will suffer the consequences. God is fed up with your willful ignorance and arrogance. There is no more time for Him to suffer fools.
That puts you in a very delicate position.
DS
Paul’s reply:
Between my letters to you and the ones I sent you in the Uri Yosef correspondence, I have answered all your questions and more. It is not my fault that you are not responsible or honest enough to see and admit it.
You say or insinuate that your fathers only killed false prophets. You are grossly ignorant of the Record against you and your fathers, or worse yet, a purposeful liar. Yes, it is the latter. You claim to be a "rabbi" who knows the Bible in its original language, so what else could be happening except you deliberately deny the things written in the Bible?
The Record shows that your fathers embraced the false prophets they should have stoned and stoned God’s prophets they should have embraced. You prove your lineage by continuing in this tradition of your fathers and in their blood guiltiness for the murder of the Anointed of God.
We will see how well it goes for you. This will be posted on our site so that all can be witnesses of your claims versus ours. You are not mocking man, but God and His Law.
Here is a portion of the Record against you (and you tell us, David, what it says that is so different in your Hebrew Bible):
2 Chronicles 36:15-17 JPS
(15) And the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by His messengers, sending betimes and often; because He had compassion on His people, and on His dwelling-place;
(16) but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.
(17) Therefore He brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man or hoary-headed; He gave them all into his hand.
2 Chronicles 24:20-21 JPS
(20) And the spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said unto them: ‘Thus saith God: Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, He hath also forsaken you.’
(21) And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 18:20-23 JPS
(20) Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn away Thy wrath from them.
(21) Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and hurl them to the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
(22) Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
(23) Yet, LORD, Thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from Thy sight; but let them be made to stumble before Thee; Deal Thou with them in the time of Thine anger.
Psalms 69:4-28 JPS
(4) (69:5) They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are many; should I restore that which I took not away?
(7) (69:8) Because for Thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.
(8) (69:9) I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
(9) (69:10) Because zeal for Thy house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproach Thee are fallen upon me.
(10) (69:11) And I wept with my soul fasting, and that became unto me a reproach.
(11) (69:12) I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them.
(12) (69:13) They that sit in the gate talk of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.
(13) (69:14) But as for me, let my prayer be unto Thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time; O God, in the abundance of Thy mercy, answer me with the truth of Thy salvation.
(20) (69:21) Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am sore sick; and I looked for some to show compassion, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
(21) (69:22) Yea, they put poison into my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
(22) (69:23) Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, let it become a trap.
(23) (69:24) Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to totter.
(24) (69:25) Pour out Thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of Thine anger overtake them.
(25) (69:26) Let their encampment be desolate; let none dwell in their tents.
(26) (69:27) For they persecute him whom Thou hast smitten; and they tell of the pain of those whom Thou hast wounded.
(27) (69:28) Add iniquity unto their iniquity; and let them not come into Thy righteousness.
(28) (69:29) Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Deuteronomy 31:16-21 JPS
(16) And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Behold, thou art about to sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go astray after the foreign gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake Me, and break My covenant which I have made with them.
(17) Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day: Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
(18) And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evil which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
(19) Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach thou it the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.
(20) For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten their fill, and waxen fat; and turned unto other gods, and served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant;
(21) then it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their imagination how they do even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.’
And whom shall I believe, the Messiah, Who is in agreement with the Scriptures, or you, the liar and hypocrite He addresses here?
Matthew 23:29-36 MKJV
(29) Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
(30) and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
(31) Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets;
(32) and you fill up the measure of your fathers.
(33) Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
(34) Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city;
(35) so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.
(36) Truly I say to you, All these things shall come on this generation.
The Jews in Christ’s day, though lying about their culpability, at least admitted the prophets were killed by their fathers, whereas you now deny that such ever happened. You have surpassed your fathers in lying, of which you are no doubt very proud, so perverse you are. Of Jewry, you are the bottom of the barrel.
As for Josephus, I hadn’t brought him up, and I do not need his testimony (or fraudulent additions to his testimony) to know the truth from God. You tell me, just what ancient heathen sources are you using to verify the Tenach? Do you have Philistine records that prove the existence of Samson? Or Egyptian records that prove the existence of Moses?
"A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are the snare of his soul" (Proverbs 18:7 JPS).
Or in language you seem to prefer: You are hoisted on your own petard.
What I see with you, David, is a cockroach who has been feeding himself on the garbage without fear, but now the owners have come home, the light has been turned on, and the feast is over. You are finished.
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We witness the ungodly and unjust hatred for Jews everywhere and consider there is something important going on. We are also in awe of the marvelous historical developments and events, knowing very well, by God’s grace, that man cannot do what has developed concerning the Jews at any time, perhaps especially in this last century. Here is a letter of promise to God’s chosen in the flesh, based on His faithfulness and awesome power:
“I, even I, am He Who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass; and have forgotten the LORD your Maker, Who stretched forth the Heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth…?” (Isaiah 51:12-13 HNV)
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“Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts” (Proverbs 21:2 HNV).
Israel, come hear the Word of God, and let your hearts be revealed; know the Truth and be reconciled to Your Father. It is time. Of what value is it to continue in darkness, not knowing Him and His heart towards you, Who has loved you from days of old and draws you with lovingkindness?
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Israel, your God knows and sees what you suffer. He is not remote, unfamiliar, or unaffected by what is happening with you. There is a reason for your predicament, however, a reason that holds the key to the solution for all. There is an answer from God, which you need to hear and know.
The Key for Israel and the Jew
Jews, you have tried everything to be at peace, to have dialogue with, and to appease, the world. You have tried everything, and nothing has worked, because you lacked the simple solution. Here is the key for Israel, the Jew, and the whole world.