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This was quite unexpected. When we set out to critique the rabbis and start a new, and unique, communication with God, we didn't realize that we would see such a large following or such a brutal backlash. Sure, faith healing and miracle working was in there. Judaism has a long tradition of miracle working - there was Elijah, who outcompeted the priests of Baal in a sacrifice and drew down fire and rain from the heavens, Moses, through which God split the Sea of Reeds, Honi the circle maker, who nudged God to provide rain through his making of circles, and the inventor of the Golem of Prague, who used the Divine Name and a pile of clay to make a robot. We like to think of ourselves as unique, though.
Who but us would descend into utter filth, among the creeping maggots and the bloody timbers of the ill and impoverished, and strive to bring the touch of God to the sick? The Rabbis, the Pharisees, were no help. They were too busy arguing over narrow points of law and wining and dining to care about the poor and the tempest tossed. Before he was said to have turned water into wine, I saw Yeshua slogging through a pile of shit, fleas nipping at his every contour, trying to reach a bunch of lepers in a shantytown, skin falling off their feet, a putrid odor around everybody. I was pretty impressed. When I asked why he did that, Yeshua gave a typical Yeshua response, saying that anyone with a couple of ears ought to listen and mentioning that the poor, the odorous, those missing limbs, the starving, the filthy, the vomit-streaked, those struggling for life, were the people to be prioritized, rather than machers and decisionmakers. Of course, the bigwigs didn't like that. But quite a few people loved it.
While we saw what we were doing as a mitzvah, the Sanhedrin was more skeptical. The situation got worse when our movement got politicized. Rome saw us as a threat to Rome, and the cohenate (priesthood) saw us as a threat to them. Rumors that Yeshua was the Messiah, or, even worse, God, didn't help the situation. (Which is why I find it interesting that my boyfriend wound up getting worshipped as God "the son" by some 57% of the world's population, and, even more, that pictures of him on a cross, crown of thorns on his head, wearing naught but a loincloth, bloodied all over, should be their chosen depiction of him.)
Mind you, we had our lighter moments. You'd be surprised how good the guy was in bed. **laughs** But we never had a formal marriage, and his "official" students were all men, a vain attempt to save face in a rather chauvinist society. Respectable rabbis were male, hired male students, and it was the men who got to be high priest. So, of course, having officially female "disciples" was out of the question. The Popes are doing a disservice by using this as an excuse to deny women the Catholic priesthood, in a world where standards of respectability ar
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