Encounter With Zoar

Meeting with Zoar from the depths of history: Let's manipulation and fraud Zoar has visited us again and this time it has done in the company of two young couples who wanted to present and tell us your story. The names of these four young men were: Dinah and Shechem and Zimri Cozbi. Zoar, unlike previous encounters was with a face according to the seriousness and importance of the subject that he planned to share with those we had gathered to listen. His presence with us was part of a program that aims to present facts incomprehensible and unacceptable brutality that marked the lives of innocent people, which have had to endure the requirement of their whimsical and artful interpretation of the provisions of "letter of the law? of humiliation, in the name of the LORD, have given ground to the elementary principles of the human condition. For us to better appreciate the fact that I will narrate, he says, Zoar, it is necessary that we place ourselves in the historical context in which they have occurred and we analyze the personality and behavior of the protagonists. As you know, continues to Zoar, I'm not Jewish, so I have no responsibility for the support positions that tend to justify attitudes, which when exposed, to wound the sensibilities of those concerned to defend the moral integrity of the descendants of this as particular human group, and I say, not ethnic group of people, because being Jewish is but one of the various branches of Semitic origin.

What I will present are facts confirmed by the historical record, however, I must say, that have been registered, does not mean that does not involve how much resource was available to mask its severity, using the application of narrative techniques designed to justify and minimize the maximum effect. exposure and impartial investigation of the events, forces me to do without all mysticism, supra intentions of giving human parts of moves in the chess board, where the gods play at will in the future of humanity. The degree of participation of the divine in human actions, which are part of this story continues to Zoar, is subject to the degree of sensitivity and understanding of each one of you. Jacob's story is the story of "a mom's baby?, The son of a soft and delicate unscrupulous mother, who longed to be a mother all his life, and to become so, in his middle age, remember that twins conceived contracted a psychopathy that have led to a refusal to conduct one, Esau, and overprotection on the other, the weaker, its cuddly, Jacob.

We all know the history of deceit concocted by Rebecca, the mother of Esau and Jacob, with the intent to deceive his was old and nearly blind husband, Isaac, through a scandalous fraud, which could only be consummated with the complicity of unscrupulous Jacob his dear and tender. Scripture says: "Now when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said, My son. And he answered: Here I am. And he said, Behold, I am old, I know the day of my death. Here, then, now, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go into the field and hunt game for me, and make me savory food as I like, and bring it, and eat, that I may bless thee before I die. And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son, and Esau went to the field to hunt game and bring it. Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, Bring me venison and make me savory meat, to eat, and bless thee before the LORD before I die.

And now, my son, obey my voice as I command. Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats, and I will make them savory meat for thy father, as he likes, and thou shalt bring it to your father to eat, that he may bless thee before his death. And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth. Maybe I will feel my father and I have him as a deceiver, and will bring a curse upon me and not a blessing. And his mother said: My son, your curse be upon me: only obey my voice and go, fetch me them. Then he went and took, and brought them to his mother and his mother made savory meat, such as his father loved. And Rebekah took goodly raiment of Esau her elder son, the beautiful, that she had at home, and put them on Jacob her younger son and covered his hands and part of his neck where he had no hair, the skins of kids; and gave the savory meat and the bread she had prepared, into the hands of her son Jacob. Then he went to his father and said, My father.

And Isaac answered: Here am I Who are you, my son? And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn, I did as you told me now arise, sit and eat of my venison, that you bless me. Then Isaac said to his son, How is that as soon found her son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me before. And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near now, I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my son Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father, who felt him and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are Esau's hands. And do not, because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau, and blessed him. And he said, Art thou my son Esau? And he said, I am. 27: 1 to 24 Zoar says, could continue with the reading of the biblical story, but I think it is necessary to dwell more, the statement is material enough to make the following findings: The story shows an almost theatrical audacity, an absolute lack of scrupulous in respecting fundamental values ​​in everything it does to morality and decency that should govern social behavior.

Rebecca's image is that of a woman not only a bad mother, in the sense of showing a feeling of privilege and notorious contempt for the other, but also is an unfaithful wife who conspires against the wishes of her husband, about to mount a farce that shows a complete lack of respect for an elder, who is deceived in his good faith, when it appeared that almost on the verge of death. Rebecca weigh on charges that surely one day have to answer for them. To the charges of fraud, conspiracy, infidelity and embezzlement, which are ilevantables, you could add that of apostasy, it has deceived no less than one of the Patriarchs anointed by the Lord himself. You may say, as surely all Judeo Christians have been quick to argue that Rebecca acted inspired by Jehovah, to ensure the right of his youngest son to the blessings that would otherwise go to his brother Esau, who did not would be worthy to receive. Now, I reflect, says Zoar, if Isaac was able to make a blessing, it is obvious that he was also able to receive his revelations from God, the argument advanced age is not valid, because if the Lord was able to conceive Sarah in their old age, I see no reason not to keep good communication with Isaac in spite of his age.

Also, and I think most importantly, I refuse to believe that the Lord allows mounting a grotesque farce by deception to ensure the achievement of His divine purposes, everyone knows that the deceiver, the father of lies is only one and surely that is not Jehovah, who is able to mount a fraud is a fraud, a deceitful liar who lies and is not trustworthy and is able to trick your husband who is a representative of God, which can guarantee offer that will not do the same. This argument we consider to be strong enough to take as unacceptable justifications for Rebecca in the courts of any country, any culture, anywhere in the world, anywhere outside of this planet, and I dare say that neither the court of heaven itself.

As for his son Jacob, in addition to the charges of fraud, conspiracy, conspiracy, theft by deception, we should add a total lack of scruples to the point of mentioning the Lord himself as an assistant in the search for parts his brother Esau hunting was to bring his father. His father showed that there was a plain old, blind, and stupid cunt, he asked more than once his identity, to obtain confirmation about misleading the usurper, the response of his unfaithful son, consolidated fraud and deceit. Jacob acted with cynicism and cowardice, to the point that once had to flee consummate fraud and a scoundrel for not having to face the righteous wrath of his brother. Again, as so often, one resorts to trickery and deceit serious is that you add divine sanction, as if the values ​​of righteousness and justice are not more than a mere set of words in the game of capricious gods policy . The cowardice and hypocrisy have been a constant in behavior of Jacob, abound in the Biblical references to this clear, there is a popular saying: "that shows just one button? so I'll use a few episodes of his life to help me make clear this.

Remember that these four young men bring with me and because of them that I mentioned these facts, relevant to consider that when we talk about them we can better understand the experience that live. If not for this reason, I honestly do not waste my time talking about Rebecca and her son Jacob. Speaking of values, we evaluate this story from the scriptures: "Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah and Rachel said to Leah, 'Please give me the your son's mandrakes. And she answered: Is it little to have taken my husband, but you have to take my son's mandrakes? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes Therefore, when Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to him and said, Go in unto me, for I have hired the truth, for the my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. ? 30: 14 to 16 I will not dwell on comments, simply mention it to illustrate the personality of Jacob, this time, the great patriarch was allowed to rent as if it were a mere sexual object, when we are told that the family is the base of the great religions, it takes a great load of fanaticism to get along this principle to the conduct of the great patriarchs, is like squaring a circle.

Jacob was always fearful and cowardly, here is a passage of scripture that paints it in all its dimensions, see "Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau came, and the four men with him, then handed him (Jacob ) children among Leah and Rachel and the two handmaids. And he put the handmaids and their children (who were also his children), then Leah and her children, Rachel and Joseph last. And he passed before them and bowed to the ground seven times, until his brother arrived. But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him and wept. And he looked up and saw the women and children, and said: Who are these? And he said, are the children God has given your servant. Then came the servants, they and the children and bowed. Then came Read with your children, and bowed, and after came Joseph and Rachel, and they bowed. And Esau said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, found grace in the eyes of my lord.

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; be for you what is yours. And Jacob said, I pray thee not, if I have found favor in your eyes, take my mind because I've seen your face, as if he had seen the face of God, as pleased with me that you received. Take, I pray, my mind that I brought, because God has mercy, and everything here is mine. And he urged him, and Esau took it. And Esau said, Come, come, and I will go before you. And Jacob said, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and I have flocks and herds, and if the overdrive them one day all the flocks will die. Go now, my lord before his servant, and I gradually go to the passage of cattle that goeth before me, and the passage of the children, until you come to my lord to Seir. And Esau said, Let me now leave you to the people who come to me. And he said, why do this? Let me find grace in the eyes of my lord.

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.? 33: 1 to 16 Reading disclaims additional comments, the guilt complex of Jacob is so notorious that he doubted the intentions of his brother Esau. That is the hidden reason, to put forward women and children, to use praise, his servile inclination and yours. The behavior of both brothers on this occasion, we can draw valuable conjectures personality of each, is not it? It is important to retain, as an aid to better position themselves in one of the stories we tell these kids later, reading the following passages: "Then Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram, and camped before the city. And he bought a part of the field, where he pitched his tent at the hands of the children of Love father of Shechem for a hundred pieces. ? Genesis 33: 18 to 19 remember that what we are doing is a story of real events, events that no one doubts, the value judgments we are making are strictly personal, you know each draw their own conclusions.

The last sample of the button we said at the beginning of this talk, we considered important to show the possibility of some aspects of the behavior of characters who have been greatly favored by those who have evaluated the consequences of their actions. It is too evident, that historians, when making the statement of facts, have resorted to frivolous excess and permissive behavior by attempting to justify the actions of his proteges, when the objective analysis leads us to censorship, it is best to protect protagonist, with the invaluable help of their gods. What we prayed consciousness, is the worm of the divine mandate, we are told that the ways of the gods are not those of man, that compliance with the purposes specified in the dogma, amply justifies the procedure adopted. Everything is accepted by the obedience, the fair, the agreement, the impunity enjoyed the blessing of heaven, and those who suffer the consequences of their actions, which have been massacred, raped, killed by the invading xenophobia Insane , is cursed by the sin of other values, and of course what is not ours, it's not like we are, is not worthy of consideration.

Another of the characters he has to intervene in the lives of these young people is called Jacob's son Judah. History tells us that Judah left his brothers and went to the house of a man called Hira Adullamite. While living there he met a woman the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua, and reportedly took it and came to it, a fancy way of saying she had sex with her. Over time she conceived and bore a son who was named Er. This woman conceived again and gave Judah a son named Onan, and some time later, say something like five or six years, returned to conceive another child whom they named Sela. It had been several years and was living in Quezib Judah, his eldest son, Er, was already of marriageable age so that Judah saw fit to seek a wife, without further ado, I got a woman named Tamar. As Er, apparently was not a well-behaved, it is said that he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to the biblical account it kills him.

As was customary in those times, the childless widow should be taken by one of his brothers to give offspring, Judah said to Onan, verbatim: "Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her and raise up seed to thy brother.? 38: 8 Now Onan, who it appears had a head to think for himself, he wondered why it should raise offspring for his brother, just musing led him to improvise a very original method of contraception, which was that every time they had sex with his wife and sister, took care to pour on the ground the flow of sperm. This attitude also displeased the Lord and according to the scriptural account of him, too, as well as Er, took his life. Against this background Judah spoke to his daughter and asked to be patient, his other brother, Shelah, was still very young in order to meet these necessities of great people, the demand for that is to pass the double widow at her father and when the time comes to send her to look. So, it took many, many days, so many that Tamar began to distrust the intentions of his father, he, Judah had by then widowed and the scriptures tell us to comfort the shearers up with his friend, the Adullamite Hira.

As ever need someone to go gossip, I was told Tamar that her father's widower went to the shearers and walked through an area called Timnath. As the story from here on out may sound a bit strong, says Zoar, I prefer to resort to the sacred records to be read directly, says Tamar ... "Then she took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered with a veil, and wrapped herself, and stood at the entrance was openly by the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him per woman. When Judah saw her and thought she was a whore, because she had covered her face. And he turned aside to her, and said, let me come to thee, not knowing it was his daughter, and she said, 'I'll come in unto me? He said, I will send thee a kid from cattle goats. And she said, give me a pledge until you send it. And Judah said, What pledge shall I give thee? She said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in your hand.

And he gave it, and it was her, and she conceived by him.? 38: 14 to 19 is very interesting to the poetic form of the story, says Zoar, the lyricism with which he says the mischief of Judah and the resource used by his daughter-reaching move, the head of one of the twelve tribes of Israel , everything is justified. Tamar gets to put his uniform widow, and Judah, who had asked his friend to seek Adullamite women and gives the kid in order to retrieve his clothes, unable to find it gave up. After about three months of that episode, the gossip, the ones that never fail to make certain comments began reached the ears of Judah, records exempt from these facts any comments, says: "It happened that after three months was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot, and certainly she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and be burned. But she, when brought forth, she sent word to his father: the man, whose these are, I'm pregnant. He said, Look now who are these, the signet, cord and staff.

And Judah acknowledged them, and said: She is more righteous than I, because I have not given to Shelah my son. And never met her. It happened while giving birth, behold there were twins in her womb. It happened when she gave birth, which took the one hand and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. But getting him to stick his hand, behold his brother came out and she said, What hast thou broken! His name was called Perez. Then came his brother, who was in his hand a scarlet thread, and called his name Zara. And bunting, red, nothing more is said of the lives of these children grandchildren of Judah. Zoar does not elaborate on other details, no mention is made by the simple argument to sully the good name of such distinguished characters, the reason that we are referring to them is because they have a special responsibility in the events that have marked the lives of these young people today with me. As you can see, the canon, the yardstick actions of the sons of God does not have the same length for some than for others.

The bonfire is lit to burn who can do nothing to prevent this, the gods have lost the war, his prophets have lost their voice, we can only hope, comforts us and guides us, the same star, which once announced, tidings of great joy for all, absolutely all the children of God. "Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings before my eyes, cease to do evil, learn to do good, seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, saith the Lord, and let us reason together: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. ? 1: 16 to 18 In this talk I have my mouth dry, the better that we take a break, a glass of clear, cool water will warm me, then smile and sing, life is beautiful and full of opportunities, no matter how or when , all of creation belongs to us, no one like you, who replace you there, wherever you go your light will shine forever. Thank you, thank you very much.