Rabbi Ishmael on the sons of Ishmael

Menachem Ali & Eric bin Kisam

It is worth to mention that some Jewish classical exegetical text such as Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer פרקי דרבי אליעזר which is attributed to a first century jewish sage, a well known tannaite Rabbi Ishmael Eliezer ben Elisha who went by the title Kohen ha-Gadol /the great high priest contains several references which prophesied the building of Temple by bnei Yishmael, (the sons of Ishmael), in the Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer final chapter ie. 30 ¹, he list 15 things of what the son of Ishmael will do in the holy land at the End of Days, one is of particular interest:

Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer chapter 30

Hamishsha ‘ashar devarim ‘atidin bney Yishmael la’asot be eretz be acharit hay-yamim…Veyegederu peretsot chumot beyt hamiqdash veyibenu banin biheykal

Rabbi Ishmael said:

The sons of Ishmael will do fifteen things at the end of days…. They will rebuild the breaks in the wall of the beyt hamikdash (Al Aqsa ² or bayt al maqdis) and build a building in the heiykal (the central sanctuary of the Holy Temple)

Son of Ishmael refer to the Arabs in the Book of Genesis and in Islamic traditions too muslims see themselves as the progeny of prophet Ishmael. Considering the 600 years gap between the era of Rabbi Ishmael Eliezer and Islamic era of the prophet Muhammad, I find this passage astonishing. Could the return and rebuilding of the third Temple in Jerusalem has actually been fulfilled by the caliph Umar ibn Khatab on the Temple Mount (in 692 CE) by the building sanctuary to muslims known as Masjid Al Aqsa or bayt al maqdis. Of course many do jews do not recognize it that’s why because of this some speculates that some of the writings in Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer was composed around the beginning of the 8th century CE not the 1st century.

Regardless I find the idea that bnei Yishmael ie the arabs/muslims were the ones who actually rebuilt the third Temple are fascinating, think about it for a moment the divine scenario on the building of beyt hamikdash or bayt al maqdis in Jerusalem, it’s amazing how everything​ fits together.

  1. The First Temple was built by Salomo ben David ham-Melech ‘aleyv has-shalom, from an Israelite, descendant of Yaʿqūb (Jacob) bin Isḥāq (Isaac) binʾIbrāhīm‎ (Avraham) in the 10th century B.C.E. until 597 BCE following the destruction by the Babylonians.
  2. The Second Temple was built by Herod, a bney Edom, descendant of Esau, the elder son of Isaac, hence Esau bin Isḥāq (Isaac) binʾIbrāhīm‎ (Avraham) in 20/19 B.C.E untilRoman Emperor Titus destroyed the Temple in 70 CE.
  3. The Third Temple was built by the caliph Umar ibn Khatab, RadhiAllahu’anhu, who himself was a bnei Yishmael (the sons of Ishmael) from Quraish tribe descendant of Qedar bin Ismā’īl (Ishmael) binʾIbrāhīm‎ (Avraham) in 638 C.E. and it will remain there until the end of days

God Knows Best.

Notes

(1)

pirkei de rabbi eliezer 30
Published by Jerusalem: Eshkol J. Weinfeld & Co

(2)

The sanctity of of the holy sanctuary in Jerusalem is firmly established in the holy Qur’an 17:1. God says:

سُبْحَٰنَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَسْرَىٰ بِعَبْدِهِۦ لَيْلًۭا مِّنَ ٱلْمَسْجِدِ ٱلْحَرَامِ إِلَى ٱلْمَسْجِدِ ٱلْأَقْصَا ٱلَّذِى بَٰرَكْنَا حَوْلَهُۥ لِنُرِيَهُۥ مِنْ ءَايَٰتِنَآ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْبَصِيرُ

Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al- Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing. (Sahih International)

Answering Itzhak Shapira's "Kosher Pig"

Itzhak Saphira

Written by Menachem Ali

Shalom ‘aleychem
Assalamu ‘alaykum

Baruch Atta Adonai Eloheynu Melech ha-‘olam, Elohey avoteynu ha-rishonim asher bara ha-shemayim ve ha-aretz.

Dear all

An Israeli Jewish Messianic Rabbi wrote a book ” the Return of the Kosher Pig: the Divine Messiah in Jewish Thought ” by (Rabbi) Itzhak Shapira (Maryland, USA: Messianic Jewish Publishers) to prove the divineship of Yeshu ha-Talui as the divine Messiah. He is a leader of Messianic group which so called Messianic Judaism.

” It is a fraudulent group of Evangelical Christians who disguise themselves and their rituals as Jews, to fool and trick ignorant Jews into the PURE IDOLATRY OF CHRISTIANITY. They are a well-trained group of charlatans, and are sadly too successful in their deceit. Definitely the work of Shaitan -Satan”, Avi Ibrahim said.

(Rabbi) Itzhak Shapira claimed that Yeshu ha-Talui is the divine Messhiah and G-d Himself, as HaShem in our rabbinical references. But after reading his book, I read many data in a speculative analysis and full in the paradigm of selected judgment. Even, he really corrupted the rabbinic texts, out of context. It is the first problem in the academic tradition.

The second, he claimed that B’nei Yishmael worshipped other god, the god of pagan, and crazy, his name is ALLH, not G-d of B’nei Yisrael, YHWH baruch Hu.

The Semitic scholars such as Philip K. Hitti in his book ” History of the Arabs: from the Earliest Times to the Present (New York: the Macmillan Company, 1951) proved that
He is the Owner of two dialects who is only ONE. All rabbinic references proved that ALLH and YHWH is similar and the same, neither begets, nor was He Begotten לא ילד ולא ילד

Surely He is the ONE and ONLY ONE G-d, G-d of our forefathers, HaShem habbore. In Arabic dialect, ALLH is called Al-Ism al-A’dzam (The Great NAME) as well as in Hebrew dialect, YHWH is called Ha-Shem (The NAME).

Rav Saadia Gaon ben Yosef al-Fayyumi zichrono livrachah, in his Targum Judeo-Arabic which so-called Chamesh Megilloth Sefer Ruth 2:12 יהוה אלהי ישראל he linguistically wrote as follows: אללה אלאה אסראיל (ALLH Ilahu Isroil). ALLH is not a translation of YHWH in Arabic, but the name is a dialect of YHWH in Arabic. Arabs called Him as the Great Name (Al-Ismu al-A’dzam), and Hebrews called Him as the Name (Ha-Shem).

Rav Saadia Gaon ben Yosef al-Fayyumi zichrono livrachah, in his Targum Judeo-Arabic which so-called Chamesh Megilloth Sefer Ruth 2:12 יהוה אלהי ישראל he linguistically wrote as follows: אללה אלאה אסראיל (ALLH Ilahu Isroil). ALLH is not a translation of YHWH in Arabic, but the name is a dialect of YHWH in Arabic. Arabs called Him as the Great Name (Al-Ismu al-A’dzam), and Hebrews called Him as the Name (Ha-Shem).

In his presentation via Youtube, he always refers to Sefer Ha-Galui. It means that he regards the Sefer is an authoritative work, written by the Gaon. In his book Sefer Ha-Galui, Rabbi Saadia write that his belonged to the noble family of Shelah son of Yehudah the 4th son of Yacov and counted among his ancestors Rabbi Hanina Ben Dosa (1st century CE). In 923 CE. he went to the rabbinical center of Torah in Babylon, joining the Talmudic academies of Pumbedita and Sura. He spent six months at the important Torah center in Aleppo – Syria – where he wrote his work ABTIDA’ KALAMNA (Ten Commitments), Arabic written with Hebrew letters which so called the Judeo-Arabic. To this day, this book is yearly read by Aleppo Jews on the holyday of TU BiShvat. The great Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Chaim, the ” Ben Ish Hay ” praised Rabbi Saadia’s commentary which so called Targum ha-Tafsir be Aravit Chamesha Chumshe Torah in Judeo-Arabic warmly in his book of Halachot (part 2 parshat Ki Tetze, Hilchot Talmud Torah, item 25): ” …. and here in our town of Baghdad there is the Commentary of Rabbi Saadia on the Torah in Arabic. It includes many points very well clarified in the Arabic language and in order to understand the precious diamonds of his commentary and there he gives an example.” Ibn Ezra also stated in his commentary on the book of Genesis 2:12 ” the Gaon has acted for the glory of G-d by translating the Torah into the language of Ishmaelite and into their script so that no one can say that the Hebrew Torah contains words that nobody understands.” Even, the famous commentator Rashi in his commentary on Sefer Shemot 24:12 referred to Rabbi Saadia Gaon as Rabbenu Saadia (Our Teacher Saadia).

If (Rabbi) Itzhak Shapira reject Rabbi Saadia Gaon, he exactly rejects all of his references, including Ibn Ezra’ work and Rashi’s commentary. I think he will be a scholar, and not a pseudo-scholar.

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Answering Itzhak Shapira’s “Kosher Pig”

Itzhak Saphira

Written by Menachem Ali

Shalom ‘aleychem
Assalamu ‘alaykum

Baruch Atta Adonai Eloheynu Melech ha-‘olam, Elohey avoteynu ha-rishonim asher bara ha-shemayim ve ha-aretz.

Dear all

An Israeli Jewish Messianic Rabbi wrote a book ” the Return of the Kosher Pig: the Divine Messiah in Jewish Thought ” by (Rabbi) Itzhak Shapira (Maryland, USA: Messianic Jewish Publishers) to prove the divineship of Yeshu ha-Talui as the divine Messiah. He is a leader of Messianic group which so called Messianic Judaism.

” It is a fraudulent group of Evangelical Christians who disguise themselves and their rituals as Jews, to fool and trick ignorant Jews into the PURE IDOLATRY OF CHRISTIANITY. They are a well-trained group of charlatans, and are sadly too successful in their deceit. Definitely the work of Shaitan -Satan”, Avi Ibrahim said.

(Rabbi) Itzhak Shapira claimed that Yeshu ha-Talui is the divine Messhiah and G-d Himself, as HaShem in our rabbinical references. But after reading his book, I read many data in a speculative analysis and full in the paradigm of selected judgment. Even, he really corrupted the rabbinic texts, out of context. It is the first problem in the academic tradition.

The second, he claimed that B’nei Yishmael worshipped other god, the god of pagan, and crazy, his name is ALLH, not G-d of B’nei Yisrael, YHWH baruch Hu.

The Semitic scholars such as Philip K. Hitti in his book ” History of the Arabs: from the Earliest Times to the Present (New York: the Macmillan Company, 1951) proved that
He is the Owner of two dialects who is only ONE. All rabbinic references proved that ALLH and YHWH is similar and the same, neither begets, nor was He Begotten לא ילד ולא ילד

Surely He is the ONE and ONLY ONE G-d, G-d of our forefathers, HaShem habbore. In Arabic dialect, ALLH is called Al-Ism al-A’dzam (The Great NAME) as well as in Hebrew dialect, YHWH is called Ha-Shem (The NAME).

Rav Saadia Gaon ben Yosef al-Fayyumi zichrono livrachah, in his Targum Judeo-Arabic which so-called Chamesh Megilloth Sefer Ruth 2:12 יהוה אלהי ישראל he linguistically wrote as follows: אללה אלאה אסראיל (ALLH Ilahu Isroil). ALLH is not a translation of YHWH in Arabic, but the name is a dialect of YHWH in Arabic. Arabs called Him as the Great Name (Al-Ismu al-A’dzam), and Hebrews called Him as the Name (Ha-Shem).

Rav Saadia Gaon ben Yosef al-Fayyumi zichrono livrachah, in his Targum Judeo-Arabic which so-called Chamesh Megilloth Sefer Ruth 2:12 יהוה אלהי ישראל he linguistically wrote as follows: אללה אלאה אסראיל (ALLH Ilahu Isroil). ALLH is not a translation of YHWH in Arabic, but the name is a dialect of YHWH in Arabic. Arabs called Him as the Great Name (Al-Ismu al-A’dzam), and Hebrews called Him as the Name (Ha-Shem).

In his presentation via Youtube, he always refers to Sefer Ha-Galui. It means that he regards the Sefer is an authoritative work, written by the Gaon. In his book Sefer Ha-Galui, Rabbi Saadia write that his belonged to the noble family of Shelah son of Yehudah the 4th son of Yacov and counted among his ancestors Rabbi Hanina Ben Dosa (1st century CE). In 923 CE. he went to the rabbinical center of Torah in Babylon, joining the Talmudic academies of Pumbedita and Sura. He spent six months at the important Torah center in Aleppo – Syria – where he wrote his work ABTIDA’ KALAMNA (Ten Commitments), Arabic written with Hebrew letters which so called the Judeo-Arabic. To this day, this book is yearly read by Aleppo Jews on the holyday of TU BiShvat. The great Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Chaim, the ” Ben Ish Hay ” praised Rabbi Saadia’s commentary which so called Targum ha-Tafsir be Aravit Chamesha Chumshe Torah in Judeo-Arabic warmly in his book of Halachot (part 2 parshat Ki Tetze, Hilchot Talmud Torah, item 25): ” …. and here in our town of Baghdad there is the Commentary of Rabbi Saadia on the Torah in Arabic. It includes many points very well clarified in the Arabic language and in order to understand the precious diamonds of his commentary and there he gives an example.” Ibn Ezra also stated in his commentary on the book of Genesis 2:12 ” the Gaon has acted for the glory of G-d by translating the Torah into the language of Ishmaelite and into their script so that no one can say that the Hebrew Torah contains words that nobody understands.” Even, the famous commentator Rashi in his commentary on Sefer Shemot 24:12 referred to Rabbi Saadia Gaon as Rabbenu Saadia (Our Teacher Saadia).

If (Rabbi) Itzhak Shapira reject Rabbi Saadia Gaon, he exactly rejects all of his references, including Ibn Ezra’ work and Rashi’s commentary. I think he will be a scholar, and not a pseudo-scholar.

.