Secrets Revealed: Reads Like A Spy/Suspense Novel, But Is Actual History (2005)
Yosef Yitzchak (Joseph Isaac) Schneersohn (Hebrew: יוסף יצחק שניאורסאהן) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement. About the book:
He is also known as the Frierdiker Rebbe (Yiddish for Previous Rebbe), the Rebbe RaYYaTz, or the Rebbe Rayatz (an acronym for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak). After many years of fighting to keep Orthodox Judaism alive from within the Soviet Union, he was forced to leave; he continued to conduct the struggle from Latvia, and then Poland, and eventually the United States, where he spent the last ten years of his life.
Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was born in Lyubavichi, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Smolensk Oblast, Russia), the only son of Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (the Rebbe Rashab), the fifth Rebbe of Chabad. He was appointed as his father's personal secretary at the age of fifteen; in that year, he represented his father in the conference of communal leaders in Kovno. The following year (1896) he participated in the Vilna Conference, where Rabbis and community leaders discussed issues such as: genuine Jewish education; permission for Jewish children not to attend public school on Shabbat; the creation of a united Jewish organization for the purpose of strengthening Judaism. He participated in this conference again in 1908.[2]
On 13 Elul 5657 (1897) at the age of seventeen he married a distant cousin, Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneersohn, daughter of Rabbi Avraham Schneerson of Chișinău, son of Rabbi Yisroel Noach of Nizhyn, son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Tzemach Tzedek.[2]
In 1898 he was appointed head of the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva network.[2]
In 1901,[2] with financial support from Yaakov and Eliezer Poliakoff he opened spinning and weaving mills in Dubrovno and Mahilyow and established a Yeshiva in Bukhara.[3]
As he matured, he campaigned for the rights of Jews by appearing before the Czarist authorities in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 he sought relief for Jewish conscripts in the Russian army by sending them kosher food and supplies in the Russian Far East.[3]
In 1905 he participated in organizing a fund to provide Passover needs for troops in the Far East.
During his life in Smolensk, Rabbi Schneersohn set up a collection of his family's religious books and writings. It includes texts dating back to the 16th century. After World War I, the Bolsheviks found part of the collection and moved it to the Russian State Library. Another part of the collection was confiscated by Soviet troops in Nazi Germany during World War II and moved to Russia's military archive. In 1994, seven books were loaned to the U.S. Library of Congress for 60 days through an inter-library exchange program.[13]
The books were given to the Chabad-Lubavitch library which helped to prolong the use of the books twice, in 1995 and 1996, before they finally refused to return them to Russia in 2000. They proposed an exchange for the opportunity to keep the books indefinitely, but Russia refused. In 2004 the Chabad-Lubavitch filed a lawsuit against Russia, claiming the remaining books. In 2010, an American court granted their claim, which Russia ignored as invalid.[14] In retaliation, in 2011 Russia put a ban on lending works to American museums. In 2014, Senior United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth imposed fines of $50,000 a day for Russia refusing to return the Schneersohn collection of more than 12,000 books and 50,000 religious papers. Since Rabbi Schneersohn had no heirs, Russia claims the collection is a national treasure of the Russian people. This dispute is related to the deteriorating ties between Moscow and the U.S. over the ongoing 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.[15] A Russian court ruled that the Library of Congress should pay fines of $50,000 a day for refusing to return the books.
Shroud of Turin dated by radiocarbon as XIII cy belonged to Jesus?
The reports of the radiocarbon dating of one of the most famous Christian holy objects – the Shroud of Turin,– caused a great resonance in 1988.
According to the traditional version, this piece of cloth bears the image of the body of crucified Christ and dates from the first century a.d., which is supposed to make it about two thousand years old.
However, radiocarbon datings have given a different dating: roughly 11th to 13th century a.d.
The radiocarbon analysis has been conducted in three laboratories – in
Oxford University, Arizona University, and the Swiss Technological Institute in Zurich.
A scientific work specifically dedicated to the radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin claims the linen fabric that the shroud is made of to be produced between 1050 and 1350 a.d..
The result of the Shroud’s radiocarbon analysis performed in the laboratory of the Oxford University is 1050 a.d.
The laboratories of Arizona and Zurich have given more recent datings, 1304 and 1274 respectively.
Breakthrough:Christianity. Following mutiny coused by the conflict of religious ideas Byzantine Emperor Andronicus allegedly born in 1152 in Crimea is killed (crucified) in 1185 in Jerusalem, and buried on the mountain of Beikos, Constantinople, Istanbul. Pre-Christianity transforms into Christianity with Emperor Andronicus as Jesus Christ of the New Testament.
Breakthrough:Crusades. Crusade of 1189-1192 AD and Crusade in 1199-1204 AD to Jerusalem-Constantinople were military operations under the banner of Christianity by the subordinates of late Emperor Andronicus. Byzantine Empire disintegrates. Part of Byzantine nobility flees to England and France via Venice, another part to Izrael (Russia). Avraamic Christianity begins to split into Orthodox and Catholic currents.
Breakthrough:Religious education. Due to powerful societal potential of Christian ideas, due to the increased speed of proliferation and dissemination of writing and reading, the religious literacy and education become possible and spread. Hundreds of monasteries, dozens of sects, schools, universities of religious character spring across Minor Asia and Europe.
Breakthrough:Orthodox Catholic Christian Empire. XIII cy AD - Slavic and Turkic Princes of Izrael, blood relatives and subordinates of Byzantium Emperor Andronicus recreate an Orthodox Catholic Christian Empire with Center in Great Novgorod, i.e. group of Vladimir-Suzdal-Yaroslavl-Kostroma-Moscow cities. Proto-Islam is a branch of Orthodox Catholic Christianity. Rem: Russian Czars are shown as direct inheritors of Jesus on their family tree in Annunciation Cathedral of Kremlin.
Breakthrough:Colonization of Europe. Orthodox Catholic Christian Empire colonizes and baptizes the Central and Western Europe. Note that in the European museums are kept swords, armor, decorations with Turkic, Slavonic, Arab and allegedly illegible inscriptions. Rem: manuscript Orthodox Slavonic Bibles used in royal coronation ritual are kept in the cathedral of Reims, France and Nikoping, Sweden. Rem: Helmets and armor of Russian Czars kept in Kremlin Armory bear Quran quotes.
Breakthrough:Evil Empire. Orthodox Catholic Christian Empire grows rapidly into a multiconfessional and multilingual centralized but ruthless Evil Empire with citizens strictly divided into hereditary castes: governing, civil, military nobles (Caucasians), transportation and equine relay network (Gypsies), taxation (Jews, origin of anti-Semitism), Orthodox, Catholic or Muslim clergy of common Avraamic root.
Breakthrough:Cavalry. Stirrups. XIV-XV cy AD – The abundance of horses in steppes of Southern Europe and Siberia, invention of stirrups allows shooting, saber hacking while riding. The superior cavalry armies of the Evil Empire or Great Mongolian Empire or Russ-Horde conquer and colonize Tribes, Kingdoms, Empires in most of Eurasia. Avraamic Christianity begins to split further into Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim, Mithraism and Buddhists currents.
Breakthrough:Military superiority. Due to the overwhelming superiority and mobility of cavalry troops, strict discipline, superior administration, organization and communication in the Evil Empire the colonization and control of tribal territories or proto-states was very rapid. Equine relay network run by caste of Gypsies and taxation system run by caste of Jews is set up. Blood tax', i.e. conscription of population enforced.
Durham City Council Oct 21, 2019 (with closed captions)
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Call to Order 1:31
Moment of Silence 1:57
Pledge of Allegiance 2:19
Roll Call 3:05
Ceremonial Item - Sister Cities of Durham Week 3:22
Ceremonial Item - Jamie's Dream 6:07
Ceremonial Item - Durham Youth Commission Induction 11:27
Ceremonial Item - Mammography Awareness Day 22:35
Ceremonial Item - National Arts and Humanities Month 27:58
Announcements by Council 35:06
Priority Items by the City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk 41:05
Consent Agenda 41:28
22. Consolidated Annexation - High Fox 43:59
23. Brodie Duke Warehouse Partial Repeal of Landmark Designation 48:10
24. Unified Development Ordinance Text Amendment, Tree Coverage and Landscaping Revisions (TC1800005) 1:05:21
Parks and Recreation Staff - 1:25:57
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