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I’ve read passages from the Talmud. There is some evil stuff in there, much like the hadiths in Islam. Alarming stuff!

READING THIS NOW 📖

✨🕎✨ Paul Levy (Hebrew name: Pasach Yisrael Ben Tzvis Levy) and his 2007 book Jewish & Israelite Kingdoms: The Foundational Jewish Kingdoms of World Civilization with the Complete Story of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.

Levy, born in Calcutta’s Jewish community and later living in the U.S., wrote this as a comprehensive, illustrated overview of Jewish history through the lens of ancient kingdoms. The book aims to fill “gaps” in common knowledge of Jewish history, addressing questions like the fate of the Ark of the Covenant and whether there was only one ancient Jewish kingdom in Israel.

Key Structure and Summary

The book is divided into two main parts:

• Part One: Major Ancient Jewish Kingdoms
Levy discusses nearly a dozen ancient Jewish kingdoms (beyond the well-known biblical ones), arguing they formed foundational contributions to world civilization. This includes kingdoms in the Land of Israel and others elsewhere, presenting a broader view of Jewish political entities from earliest times to later periods. (Exact list not fully detailed in sources, but emphasizes multiple beyond the standard biblical narrative.)

• Part Two: The Lost Ten Tribes
Traces the history of the Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel from their settlement around 1550 BCE until the Assyrian conquest in 721 BCE. It explores their exile, subsequent migrations, histories, and proposed modern locations/descendants.

The book is described as accessible, beautifully illustrated, and appealing to both Jewish and non-Jewish readers interested in biblical roots (including connections to Christianity, Islam, and even Shinto). It’s praised for its vast scope across years and continents but is not an academic scholarly work—more popular history with a focus on traditional and expansive interpretations.

Thank you sharing that with me. It looks amazing. I’ll definitely check that book out.

I spoke about this at church several months ago. Didn’t know how it would be received but I felt people needed to hear truth in The Bible and not tradition, who true Israelites are in the New Covenant, Israel-Palestine, ect

People just do not realize this. The historic Israel is not the Israel of today

Yes, who is he? I’d love to hear his story, and would love to hear more from him.

No, I had to learn to be one

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It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

Excellent!