Help! I Need Somebody (The Beetles Standard)

Hello Grafted In Reader,

Today is Friday, January 17 in my corner of blog land. Most of this post will concern a request of me to you.

Simply stated, If you are reading this blog for the first time, or the 100th time, would you please say Yes, or leave a sentence in the Post Comment?

I recently learned that there are statistics and there are statistics.

What that means is there are Google Analytics one can view for a more treu statistical report of blog readership.

The statistics easily accessed include readers maybe, and bots that crawl the web and notice a given blog. So, one can have for example, eight readers and two bots for a total of ten. Only the analytics, as I understand all this, represent a more valid picture of the readership. Hmmmm.

If you can do this at any time, or before February 15, 2025, fantastic, and a big thanks from me!

On the lighter side, Just finished a rather dramatic title, "Ends With Us", author is Colleen Hoover. It's a story about spousal abuse ending with a definite decision to do so.

Now, about to read some short stories by the late Rex Stout, mystery writer from the 20th century.

Until next visit, may God bless and keep us and allow his presence to shine on us, and shine from us to our world!

Mellow Rock,

David C. Russell,  Author

 

The Israelites (Desmond Dekker And the Aces, 1970)

Hello Grafted In Reader,

Today is January 7, 2025 in my corner of blog land. Winter is here. Some snow on walks, temps in the mid twenties and low teens, Fahrenheit, daytime, nighttime, respectively. Burr.

For reading pleasure, I am embarking on a 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis, "It Cannot Happen Here". It's 'political science' imagining democracy succumbing to a totalitarian regime. This happens over time in developed subtle ways via the author's construction. Well worth reading!

This post,(The Israelites, its title) like earlier ones from some time ago, takes a brief look at the heritage Christians are indebted to Judaism for passing on to us. I am posting an online overview concerning the First Century existence of a movement known as the Pharisees. The "church" castigates them wholly, and pictures them by behavior and expression as ignorant, uninformed, self-absorbed, self-righteous unloving claiming to serve HaShem (God).

Again, this is an overview not an exhaustive study found through the Google A.I. resource.

I would assert the Pharisees generally exemplify devotion, inclusivity, attempting to be God-fearing, sincere, not entirely misdirected as many would assert. Here is the excerpted presentation in part, thanks to Google A.I.

Off hand, also thank Suzanne J (reader) for her interest in understanding this topic in general. Let's keep learning!

The Pharisees were a Jewish social movement and school of thought in the Levant during the time of Second Temple Judaism. Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, Pharisaic beliefs became the foundational, liturgical, and ritualistic basis for Rabbinic Judaism.Pharisees

Dissolved: 73 AD

Founded: 167 BC

Headquarters: Jerusalem

Historical leaders: Simeon ben Shetach; Salome Alexandra; Hyrcanus II

Ideology: Theocracy; Oral Torah; Populism;

 

Pharisees & Sadducees | Definition, Beliefs & Differences Video

As also members of the Sanhedrin, we could think of the Pharisees as the middle-class Jewish rulers of Jesus's day. Holding jobs like merchant, they were more on the level of the masses. Yes, they too were usually wealthier, but they weren't, shall we say, out of touch with the common man.

Pharisees & Sadducees | Definition, Beliefs & Differences

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Comments welcome. Hope we meet again in the near future. May Adonai bless and keep us!

Mellow Rock,

David C. Russell, Author