הרצאה עוצמתית ביותר! 'קדוש, קדוש, קדוש' ישעיהו ו - הרב טוביה סינגר - Isaiah 6 Rabbi Tovia Singer 

Hi Rabbi Singer - Chanukah Sameach! I heard you weren't feeling well, and am remembering you in my prayers for a refuah shelaimah!! Just a question: I may have missed something or misunderstood, but I was just wondering how Yotam could be a sinless man, while Ecc. 7:20 tells us that there is nobody who does not sin. Thanks!

RabBi Singer, can i ask? What does "Echad" really means? Does it mean "ComPound" like the christian said when they justify their tRinity?

@@janishart5128 there are bro.. like zecharia and his wife, they are Sinless..

@@PhantomNites sure, but jesus is not God..

@@nu-nisamiracle2401 If you don’t believe in Jesus the messiah and the New Covenant scriptures, then I can understand why you don’t believe that. Regardless of anything else, it’s amazing how Jesus is in Old Testament. That’s all I’m here to say.

A question to Rabbi Tovia Singer & all???? Moved by lust at the sight of her, King David called for Bathsheba to be brought to him and slept with her. David committed adultery with a married woman called Bathsheba, wife of Uriah. what's more, David murdered Uriah by proxy by ordering all of Uriah's comrades to abandon him in the midst of battle, so that he ended up getting killed by an opposing army. The Prophet Nathan was sent by God and warned King David. well, Torah verses clearly say that both URIAH and DAVID Blessed by GOD. Well, the question is, if Uriah, David and Bathsheba go to heaven. To whom will Bathsheba be given? Is Jesus a bastard? In the discussion Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi said that he had proof to prove that Jesus had a biological father! But he has not yet made it public! Why?

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@@thomasmattson2389 for it to be first born means exactly that born all the children of Israel are born and the almighty God of Israel clearly says that his chosen people are his first born son so the almighty God is saying clearly it's Israel the people who are his first born son please read it yourself in the scriptures 👍

@textontelegam.ToviaSinger מה זה? קבוצת טלגרם באנגלית?

@@Shai-eg6ew אין בדרך כלל תרגומים לעברית לרוב זה לשפות זרות. את התרגומים של הרב טוביה סינגר יש קבוצת יהודים צדיקים שמתרגמים

@@thomasmattson2389 Baruch HaShem, and good wishes to you, friend.🕎🕊️💞

A question to Rabbi Tovia Singer & all???? Moved by lust at the sight of her, King David called for Bathsheba to be brought to him and slept with her. David committed adultery with a married woman called Bathsheba, wife of Uriah. what's more, David murdered Uriah by proxy by ordering all of Uriah's comrades to abandon him in the midst of battle, so that he ended up getting killed by an opposing army. The Prophet Nathan was sent by God and warned King David. well, Torah verses clearly say that both URIAH and DAVID Blessed by GOD. Well, the question is, if Uriah, David and Bathsheba go to heaven. To whom will Bathsheba be given? Is Jesus a bastard? In the discussion Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi said that he had proof to prove that Jesus had a biological father! But he has not yet made it public! Why?

A question to Rabbi Tovia Singer & all???? Moved by lust at the sight of her, King David called for Bathsheba to be brought to him and slept with her. David committed adultery with a married woman called Bathsheba, wife of Uriah. what's more, David murdered Uriah by proxy by ordering all of Uriah's comrades to abandon him in the midst of battle, so that he ended up getting killed by an opposing army. The Prophet Nathan was sent by God and warned King David. well, Torah verses clearly say that both URIAH and DAVID Blessed by GOD. Well, the question is, if Uriah, David and Bathsheba go to heaven. To whom will Bathsheba be given? Is Jesus a bastard? In the discussion Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi said that he had proof to prove that Jesus had a biological father! But he has not yet made it public! Why?

@@bitmasricco5699 Technically, David and Batsheva didn't commit adultary. Berfore a soldier of the army of Israel went out to war, he conditionally divorced his wife and remarried her upon his return. In case he didn't return and was lost in battle, the wife was free to remarry. In this case, King David was Batsheva's 2nd husband. However the prophet Nathan told King David that what he did was wrong and would be punished for it. Adultery is when a married woman has intercourse with someone, man or 'god', not her husband. A child of adultery is a bastard. This is to further intimidate the woman from committing this sin that will affect her innocent child because of her. A child of rape is not a bastard. To claim she was raped a woman has to have cried out, and people would have heard. If she is in a place of no other people, like the woods, it is assumed she cried out and her claim of rape is believed. Mary did neither, didn't scream, didn't claim rape. Therefore, it was concentual and adultery. .

It's happening in other rabbis' channels. The christians are desperate.

The Rabbi has no control over which ads YT decides to put on his videos. .

How does this belong to Isaiah huh?

I'm not Jew by birth unless there's something Idk yet but may also never know about my mother's maternal grandmother's real identity. So I'm technically Noahide in a nation of what you say. It's an interesting situation. Don't think it's easier. Nope. I'm wished Merry 🎄 just like you. I sit out on Halloween, etc. My Chanukia is in my window. My community is 2500. They had a Christmas parade. I say happy Chanukah when wished Merry 🎄. You can at least say "I'm Jew" even if you won't. Happy Chanukah dear soul.

Many of the 613 can't be kept outside of Israel and many can't be kept before moshiach comes, many are only for men or for women. Take away those you can't keep because you aren't in Israel the moshiach hasn't come and you aren't a woman. The remainder aren't that difficult to keep it you want to

Once a person is Jewish in body and soul, by being born or converted as such, he/she is automatically a permanent member of the eternal Sinai covenant, and God will never change that. Jews are commanded to live in Israel. Also, I really want to thank you for the sincere question. It should be a warning to Gentiles who rush to convert to Judaism.

You need to realize (and MANY people don't realize this - I didn't used to be aware of it, until I learned from the Rabbis) that each individual Jew is not required to keep all 613 commandments, since some are only for men, some only for women, some only when there is a Temple standing, some only in Israel, etc. The 613 are observed by Jews as a collective people. This knowledge should make it much simpler for you to follow the 613 commandments. I would advise your to discuss your situation with an Orthodox or a Chabad Rabbi, who will advise you how to proceed on your spiritual journey. May Hashem continue to bless and guide you!! Happy Cnahukah!!

Thank you all for answering the questions that are on my mind. You have really been of great help. I will definitely take your advice. Love you all my spiritual brothers/sisters. Chag Sameach! ❤️

No. Rabbi Singer is an Orthodox Rabbi.

There are facts of which you are willfully ignorant. *First of all,* NO FURTHER SCRIPTURES were given to mankind by God after Mt. Sinai, which makes "Christianity" a false, pagan, man-made, blasphemous religion that preaches AGAINST what He said to us in the ETERNAL (i.e. STILL in effect and binding TODAY - a LIVING document!) Hebrew scriptures He gave to us at Mt. Sinai. *Second of all,* NOWHERE did God EVER tell us that we need to be "saved", NOR did He tell us that He requires HUMAN BLOOD (a purely pagan ritual that God ABHORS!) as atonement for our sins. You are working from a corrupt, bastardized "Christian Bible", that in NO way represents the ETERNAL words God gave to us at Mt. Sinai, therefore, what you said is spoken in profound ignorance, just like the "blind guides" who REFUSED to learn the original Hebrew scriptures and have taught you nothing but blasphemous, pagan LIES!! PLEASE buy a HEBREW Bible (says "Stone Edition TANACH" on the cover) so you can see for yourself what God ACTUALLY said to us at Mt. Sinai. Also extremely helpful to you, would be Rabbi Singer's books "Let's Get Biblical - Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?". PLEASE avail yourself of these extremely spiritually valuable resources, and leave the false, pagan, man-made religion you so desperately cling to. .

Sure ..always...except for the rebels and secular who need repentance. G-d is not happy for partial good...he expects all to conform to his will. So its always the unrepentant that causes all the pain and problems for the nation...people like jesus...a jew who became a heretic...of those we speak!

@@anonymousanonymous-qx7mv So it's still a work in progress? And could your opinion of Jesus be coloured by the Christian official version that was decided upon?

@@mullahosk585 no its decided because he abandoned G-d and his laws and dragged millions down with him...believing in a false G-d

No, not really! Man is HUMAN, and is therefore prone to sin. He is always free however, to confess his sin to God, repent of that sin (i.e. promise never to repeat the sin), and ask God for His forgiveness. Something that Christianity refuses to believe or research, is that, EVERY . SINGLE . TIME that the Jewish people repented of their sins, God took them back - EVERY . SINGLE . TIME! And He's STILL doing it today!

@@mullahosk585 my opinion is formed by the divine bible that G- d gave us at Mt Sinai. The Christian bible is a real screwed up, bad, copy paste that means nada zero zilch to me. Its like reading humpty dumpty. Has no place in a jews life

Gospels? Heck no!

Thats the biggest oxymoron!

@@V_George so go bow down to your dead idol and leave us alone! Why are you preaching? We could care less about what you say, do you not get that? Tissue paper gospels...

@@V_George , troll, seriously, seek help. Your hatred of Judaism is a medical condition called anti-semitism.

@@anonymousanonymous-qx7mv Heck you and stupid inherited ideas

By the way. I love your speeches Rabbi

Also you are looking thinner. That's good. I wish you great health.

About 10 times larger Also the ideas if antisenotivism literally,have their roots and are found in the NT So not hated and way bigger and with alot less intergebtational trauma symptoms.from Christianity our by far largest source of persecution over the last 2000 years

@@AlienForce_1 Many would be alive.

@Saul Isreal wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Christian nations right? I wasn't asking how large the Jewish population would be. I was asking about Isreal itself.

Messianics are Christians. That is a christian denomination who,just,fraudebtly use the title jew like jews for jesus.

Unfortunately still lots of unobservant jews!

Bearing false witness against your neighbor is not a mitzvah. Messianics believe Hashem (not Baal) took flesh in the person of the rabbi Jesus (Yehoshua) of Nazareth.

@@bobobobfellerann4765 messianics are just Christians and believe what Christians do. All fundamentals are Christianity. BT and jesus. Must some rabbinical.customs on the fringes to try and deceptively,convert jews like jews for jesus. This Ishtar false witness. They are a christian denomination. Fraudently using our name and trying some.rabbinical.customs on the.fringes dont make you a jew

@@saul2491 I agree with you to some extent. The "Messianics" have a Protestant Christian interpretation of St. Paul's letters that represents a threat to the Jewish people. Jews need to follow the letter of the Torah with regard to circumcision and intermarriage. Their very existence depends on it. St. Paul CAN be interpreted from a perspective consistent with this truth, but I've seen no indication that the Messianics have done so. Therefore I regard them as akin to a cancer that threatens to destroy the Jewish people. But they definitely acknowledge the "God of Abraham" as the one and only true God. Calling them "Baal worshipers" or "idolaters" is a slanderous defamation and it's a sin against Hashem and the Torah. God's word is truth. It need not be defended with lies.

This plate, which is from the first Protestant Bible published in Spanish, shows the Mercavah, or chariot of Jehovah, which appeared to Ezekiel by the river Chebar. The prophet beheld four strange creatures (E), each having four heads, four wings, and brazen hoofs like those of a calf. And there were four wheels (F) filled with eyes. Where the cherubim went the wheels went also. The space between the cherubim and the wheels was filled with coals of fire. Upon the top of the chariot was a throne, upon which sat the likeness of a man (H). Ezekiel fell upon his knees when he beheld the Mercavah surrounded by a whirlwind of clouds and flames (A, B, C). A hand (K) reached out from the clouds and the prophet was ordered to eat of a scroll which the hand held forth. According to the mystics, the wheels supporting the throne of God represent the orbits of the planets, and the entire solar system is properly the Mercavah, or chariot of God. One of the divisions of the Qabbalah--that dealing with the arts and sciences of those planes which are under the heavens--is called the Mercavah. In the Zohar it is written that the celestial throne or Ezekiel's vision signifies the traditional law; the appearance of a man sitting upon the throne represents the written law, Philo Judæus in describing the cherubim upon the Ark of the Covenant declares that the figures are an intimation of the revolutions of the whole heavens, one of the cherubim representing the outer circumference and the other the inner sphere. Facing each other, they represent the two hemispheres of the world. The flaming sword of the cherubim of Genesis is the central motion and agitation of the heavenly bodies. In all probability it also represents the solar ray. p. 126 [paragraph continues] When broken in two the stone is שת יה, which means "the placing of God."(See Pekudei Rakov, 71, 72.) Again, Temurah may consist of a simple anagram, as in the English word live, which reversed becomes evil. The various systems of Temurah are among the most complicated and profound devices of the ancient Rabbins. Among theological scholars there is a growing conviction that the hitherto accepted translations of the Scriptural writings do not adequately express the spirit of the original documents. "After the first copy of the Book of God," writes H. P. Blavatsky, "has been edited and launched on the world by Hilkiah, this copy disappears, and Ezra has to make a new Bible, which Judas Maccabeus finishes; * * * when it was copied from the horned letters into square letters, it was corrupted beyond recognition; * * * the Masorah completed the work of destruction; finally, we have a text, not 900 years old, abounding with omissions, interpolations, and premeditated perversions." (See Isis Unveiled.) Prof. Crawford Howell Toy of Harvard notes: "Manuscripts were copied and recopied by scribes who not only sometimes made errors in letters and words, but permitted themselves to introduce new material into the text, or to combine in one manuscript, without mark of division, writings composed by different men; instances of these sorts of procedure are found especially in Micah and Jeremiah, and the groups of prophecies which go under the names of Isaiah and Zachariah." (See Judaism and Christianity.) Does the mutilated condition of the Holy Bible--in part accidental--represent none the less a definite effort to confuse the uninitiated reader and thus better conceal the secrets of the Jewish Tannaim? Never has the Christian world been in possession of those hidden scrolls which contain the secret doctrine of Israel, and if the Qabbalists were correct in their assumption that the lost books of the Mosaic Mysteries have been woven into the fabric of the Torah, then the Scriptures are veritably books within books. In rabbinical circles the opinion is prevalent that Christendom never has understood the Old Testament and probably never will. In fact, the feeling exists--in some quarters, at least--that the Old Testament is the exclusive possession of the Jewish faith; also that Christianity, after its unrelenting persecution of the Jew, takes unwarranted liberties when it includes strictly Jewish writings in its sacred canon. But, as noted by one rabbi, if Christianity must use the Jewish Scriptures, it should at least strive to do so with some degree of intelligence! In the opening chapter of Genesis it is stated that after creating light and separating it from darkness, the seven Elohim divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. Having thus established the inferior universe in perfect accord with the esoteric teachings of the Hindu, Egyptian, and Greek Mysteries, the Elohim next turned their attention to the production of flora and fauna and lastly man. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. * * * So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, * * *." Consider in thoughtful silence the startling use of pronouns in the above extract from "the most perfect example of English literature." When the plural and androgynous Hebrew word Elohim was translated into the singular and sexless word God, the opening chapters of Genesis were rendered comparatively meaningless. It may have been feared that had the word been correctly translated as "the male and female creative agencies," the Christians would have been justly accused of worshiping a plurality of gods in the face of their repeated claims to monotheism! The plural form of the pronouns us and our reveals unmistakably, however, the pantheistic nature of Divinity. Further, the androgynous constitution of the Elohim (God) is disclosed in the next verse, where he (referring to God) is said to have created man in his own image, male and female; or, more properly, as the division of the sexes had not yet taken place, male-female. This is a deathblow to the time-honored concept that God is a masculine potency as portrayed by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Elohim then order these androgynous beings to be fruitful. Note that neither the masculine nor the feminine principle as yet existed in a separate state! And, lastly, note the word "replenish." The prefix re denotes "back to an original or former state or position," or "repetition or restoration." (See Webster's International Dictionary, 1926.) This definite reference to a humanity existing prior to the "creation of man" described in Genesis must be evident to the most casual reader of Scripture. An examination of Bible dictionaries, encyclopedias, and commentaries discloses the plural form of the word Elohim to be beyond the comprehension of their respected authors and editors. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge thus sums up the controversy over the plural form of the word Elohim: "Does it now or did it originally signify plurality of divine being?" A Dictionary of the Bible, edited by James Hastings, contains the following conclusion, which echoes the sentiments of more critical etymologists of the Bible: "The use of the plur. Elohim is also difficult to explain." Dr. Havernick considers the plural form Elohim to signify the abundance and super-richness existing in the Divine Being. His statement, which appears in The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopædia, is representative of the efforts made to circumvent this extremely damaging word. The International Standard Bible Dictionary considers the explanations offered by modern theologians--of which Dr. Havernick's is a fair example--to be too ingenious to have been conceived by the early Hebrews and maintains that the word represents the survival of a polytheistic stage of Semitic thought. The Jewish Encyclopedia supports the latter assumption with the following concise statement: "As far as epigraphic material, traditions, and folk-lore throw light on the question, the Semites are shown to be of polytheistic leanings."

Various schools of philosophy, both Jewish and Gentile, have offered explanations erudite and otherwise of the identity of Adam. In this primordial man the Neo-Platonists recognized the Platonic Idea of humanity--the archetype or pattern of the genus homo. Philo Judæus considered Adam to represent the human mind, which could understand (and hence give names to) the creatures about it, but could not comprehend (and hence left nameless) the mystery of its own nature. Adam was also likened to the Pythagorean monad which by virtue of its state of perfect unity could dwell in the Edenic sphere. When through a process akin to fission the monad became the duad--the proper symbol of discord and delusion--the creature thus formed was exiled from its celestial home. Thus the twofold man was driven from the Paradise belonging to the undivided creation and cherubim and a flaming sword were placed on guard at the gates of the Causal World. Consequently, only after the reestablishment of unity within himself can man regain his primal spiritual state. According to the Isarim, the secret doctrine of Israel taught the existence of four Adams, each dwelling in one of the four Qabbalistic worlds. The first, or heavenly, Adam dwelt alone in the Atziluthic sphere and within his nature existed all spiritual and material potentialities. The second Adam resided in the sphere of Briah. Like the first Adam, this being was androgynous and the tenth division of its body (its heel, Malchuth) corresponded to the church of Israel that shall bruise the serpent's head. The third Adam--likewise androgynous--was clothed in a body of light and abode in the sphere of Yetzirah. The fourth Adam was merely the third Adam after the fall into the sphere of Assiah, at which time the spiritual man took upon himself the animal shell or coat of skins. The fourth Adam was still considered as a single individual, though division had taken place within his nature and two shells or physical bodies existed, in one of which was incarnated the masculine and in the other the feminine potency. (For further details consult Isaac Myer.) The universal nature of Adam is revealed in the various accounts concerning the substances of which he was formed. It was originally ordained that the "dirt" to be used in fashioning him was to be derived from the seven worlds. As these planes, however, refused to give of their substances, the Creator wrenched from them by force the elements to be employed in the Adamic constitution. St. Augustine discovered a Notarikon in the name of Adam. He showed that the four letters, A-D-A-M, are the first letters of the four words Anatole Dysis Arktos Mesembria, the Greek names for the four corners of the world. The same author also sees in Adam a prototype of Christ, for he writes: "Adam sleeps that Eve may be formed: Christ dies, that the Church may be formed. While Adam sleeps, Eve is formed from his side. When Christ is dead, His side is smitten with a spear, that there flow forth sacraments to form the church. * * * Adam himself was the figure of Him that was to come." In his recent work, Judaism, George Foote Moore thus describes the proportions of the Adamic man: "He was a huge mass that filled the whole world to all the points of the compass. The dust of which his body was formed was gathered from every part of the world, or from the site of the future altar. Of greater interest is the notion that man was created androgynous, because it is probably a bit of foreign lore adapted to the first pair in Genesis. R. Samuel bar Nahman (third century), said, when God created Adam, He created him facing both ways (דיו פרעופים); then He sawed him in two and made two backs, one for each figure. The Zohar holds the concept of two Adams: the first a divine being who, stepping forth from the highest original darkness, created the second, or earthly, Adam in His own image. The higher, or celestial, man was the Causal sphere With its divine potencies and potentialities considered as a gigantic personality; its members, according to the Gnostics, being the basic elements of existence. This Adam may have been symbolized as facing both ways to signify that with one face it looked upon the proximate Cause of itself and with the other face looked upon the vast sea of Cosmos into which it was to be immersed. Philosophically, Adam may be regarded as representative of the full spiritual nature of man--androgynous and nor subject to decay. p. 127 [paragraph continues] Of this fuller nature the mortal man has little comprehension. Just as spirit contains matter within itself and is both the source and ultimate of the state denominated matter, so Eve represents the lower, or mortal, portion that is taken out of, or has temporal existence in the greater and fuller spiritual creation. Being representative of the inferior part of the individual, Eve is the temptress who, conspiring with the serpent of mortal knowledge, caused Adam to sink into a trancelike condition in which he was unconscious of his own higher Self. When Adam seemingly awoke, he actually sank into sleep, for he no longer was in the spirit but in the body; division having taken place within him, the true Adam rested in Paradise while his lesser part incarnated in a material organism (Eve) and wandered in the darkness of mortal existence. The followers of Mohammed apparently sensed more accurately than the uninitiated of other sects the true mystic import of Paradise, for they realized that prior to his fall the dwelling place of man was not in a physical garden in any particular part of the earth but rather in a higher sphere (the angelic world) watered by four mystical streams of life. After his banishment from Paradise, Adam alighted on the Island of Ceylon, and this spot is sacred to certain Hindu sects who recognize the old Island of Lanka--once presumably connected with the mainland by a bridge--as the actual site of the Garden of Eden from which the human race migrated. According to the Arabian Nights (Sir Richard Burton's translation), Adam's footprint may still be seen on the top of a Ceylonese mountain. In the Islamic legends, Adam was later reunited with his wife and after his death his body was brought to Jerusalem subsequent to the Flood for burial by Melchizedek. (See the Koran.) The word ADM signifies a species or race and only for lack of proper understanding has Adam been considered as an individual. As the Macrocosm, Adam is the gigantic Androgyne, even the Demiurgus; as the Microcosm, he is the chief production of the Demiurgus and within the nature of the Microcosm the Demiurgus established all the qualities and powers which He Himself possessed. The Demiurgus, however, did not possess immortality and, therefore, could not bestow it upon Adam. According to legend, the Demiurgus strove to keep man from learning the incompleteness of his Maker. The Adamic man consequently partook of the qualities and characteristics of the angels who were the ministers of the Demiurgus. It was affirmed by the Gnostic Christians that the redemption of humanity was assured through the descent of Nous (Universal Mind), who was a great spiritual being superior to the Demiurgus and who, entering into the constitution of man, conferred conscious immortality upon the Demiurgic fabrications. That phallic symbolism occupies an important place in early Jewish mysticism is indisputable. Hargrave Jennings sees in the figure of Adam a type of the lingam of Shiva, which was a stone representative of the creative power of the World Generator. "In Gregorie's works * * *," writes Jennings, "is a passage to the effect that 'Noah daily prayed in the Ark before the Body of Adam,' i.e., before the Phallus--Adam being the primitive Phallus, great procreator of the human race. 'It may possibly seem strange,' he says, 'that this orison should be daily said before the body of Adam,' but 'it is a most confessed tradition among the eastern men that Adam was commanded by God that his dead body should be kept above ground till a fullness of time should come to commit it פדככאלאועto the middle of the earth by a priest of the Most High God.' This means Mount Moriah, the Meru of India. 'This body of Adam was embalmed and transmitted from father to son, till at last it was delivered up by Lamech into the hands of Noah.'" (See Phallicism.) This interpretation somewhat clarifies the Qabbalistic assertion that in the first Adam were contained all the souls of the Israelites. (See Sod.) Though according to the Aurea Legenda Adam was buried with the three seeds of the Tree of Knowledge in his mouth, it should be borne in mind that apparently conflicting myths were often woven around a single individual. One of the profound mysteries of Qabbalism is that set forth in the Notarikon based upon the letters of the name Adam (ADM). These three letters form the initials of the names Adam, David, and the Messiah, and these three personalities were said to contain one soul. As this soul represents the World Soul of humanity, Adam signifies the involving soul, the Messiah the evolving soul, and David that condition of the soul termed epigenesis.

Gazing about him, Adam finds himself in a radiant place, in the midst of which stands a tree with flashing jewels for fruit and entwined about its trunk a flaming, winged serpent crowned with a diadem of stars. It was the voice of the serpent that had spoken. "Who art thou?" demands the Adam. "I," the serpent answers, "am Satan who was stoned; I am the Adversary--the Lord who is against you, the one who pleads for your destruction before the Eternal Tribunal. I was your enemy upon the day that you were formed; I have led you into temptation; I have delivered you into the hands of evil; I have maligned you; I have striven ever to achieve your undoing. I am the guardian of the Tree of Knowledge and I have sworn that none whom I can lead astray shall partake of its fruits." The Adam replies: "For uncounted ages have I been thy servant. In my ignorance I listened to thy words and they led me into paths of sorrow. Thou hast placed in my mind dreams of power, and when I struggled to realize those dreams they brought me naught but pain. Thou hast sowed in me the seeds of desire, and when I lusted after the things of the flesh agony was my only recompense. Thou hast sent me false prophets and false reasoning, and when I strove to grasp the magnitude of Truth I found thy laws were false and only dismay rewarded my strivings. I am done with thee forever, O artful Spirit! I have tired of thy world of illusions. No longer will I labor in thy vineyards of iniquity. Get thee behind me, rempter, and the host of thy temptations. There is no happiness, no peace, no good, no future in the doctrines of selfishness, hate, and passion preached by thee. All these things do I cast aside. Renounced is thy rule forever!" And the serpent makes answer: "Behold, O Adam, the nature of thy Adversary!" The serpent disappears in a blinding sunburst of radiance and in its place stands an angel resplendent in shining, golden garments with great scarlet wings that spread from one corner of the heavens to the other. Dismayed and awestruck, the Adam falls before the divine creature. "I am the Lord who is against thee and thus accomplishes thy salvation, " continues the voice. "Thou hast hated me, but through the ages yet to be thou shalt bless me, for I have led thee our of the sphere of the Demiurgus; I have turned thee against the illusion of worldliness; I have weaned thee of desire; I have awakened in thy soul the immortality of which I myself partake. Follow me, O Adam, for I am the Way, the Life, and the Truth!" EH HEH YEH YHVH ELOHIM YHVH ELOHA VE DA’ATH SHAIDAI EL HAI