Attended My First Jewish Funeral

It really bothered you that much?

Who knows? It’s a Jew thing. Was the guy a good person?

Not disturbing at all.

Also something I should be allowed to claim as well without being accused of being racist.

They have had so many "homes" so to which one do you think they were referring?

I went to one in Ellick a few years ago. I don't remember any homeland references. The female rabbi was also an operatically trained soprano from Los Angeles.

Ellick has two synagogues, located a few blocks apart and they really, really don't like each other.

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I’m curious if this was a cultural affinity for the place or perhaps something hardcoded in the DNA?

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In ancient Canaanite religion, and the religions evolved from Canaanite mythology such as the Israelite religions (say from around 1000BC to around 300BC) the high God and creator of all had 70 sons with his wife Asherah/Athirat. He broke up with people groups on earth into seventy nations and gave each nation to one of his sons. The high God - El Elyon - gave the Israelite people to his son Yahweh (Deuteronomy 32:8-9) as an inheritance. Elyon didn’t just give the people to Yahweh but the land too. Only on that land the Israelites occupied did Yahweh have power an authority.

Examples:

2 Kings 3
Yahweh takes the Israelites, Judahites, and Edomites (Edomites were Yahwists too) to conquer Moab, but the god of Moab, Chemosh, defeats Yahweh and his army coalition. (Also see the Mesha Stele in the Louvre museum which tells of the battle from Mesha’s perspective.)

2 Kings 5
The Syrian army leader, Namaan, was healed in Israel and subsequently takes two mule loads of Israelite soil back home with him. Only on Israelite soils could Yahweh be worshipped.

1 Samuel 26
David is exiled by Samuel, and David exclaims he is being forced to worship other gods. By leaving Israel and being on land that was the authority of the other gods, David had no choice but to worship the gods who had authority over the land he was in.

Exodus
The Israelites couldn’t worship Yahweh in Egypt. They had to leave and go worship Yahweh in the wilderness. The Israelites had to leave the land that was the authority of the Egyptian gods to be able to worship Yahweh.

Psalm 82
This was wishful thinking by an exiled Jew in Babylon. He longed for the day he would be able to worship Yahweh in Babylon. He longed for Yahweh to usurp his divine brothers’ authority over the nations given to them by El Elyon and take all the nations and their lands for himself. Then the Jewish author in Babylon would be able to worship Yahweh anywhere.

Judges 11:24
Jephthah, the judge who slaughters his daughter as a sacrifice to Yahweh for Yahweh securing victory for him in battle, tells the Ammonites he’ll possess the land given to Yahweh while they can possess the land given to Chemosh their god.

2 Kings 17
The king of Assyria sends settlers to Samaria and they don’t know how to worship Yahweh, who was given that land as his inheritance. Since they aren’t worshipping the deity of that land correctly, Yahweh sends lions to attack them. So the king goes out to find an Israelite priest who can show the settlers how to worship the crazed deity who inhabited that particular land so as to ward off lion attacks.

So the land of Israel they believe was a special gift from their deity, and there’s a special connection of Israelite soil to their deity. While modern Jews believe Yahweh has authority of the whole world and they reject the idea of Yahweh having a father, mother, and brothers (from the religion theirs evolved from) the idea that Israelite soil is connected to their god has persisted.

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are you an idiot or something?

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Yes hes one of the biggest ones to ever grace the poliboard

Trinidadians have this saying "his bellyband is buried deep".

Its a reference to he will always be a part of Trinidad no matter where he lives.

I think thats kind of cool.

They aren't "American" and will never assimilate. All their politicians in office serve another country; all of our politicians that pledge fealty to them do it for their money.