The words “Fear not” or “Be not afraid” are written in the Torah over twenty times. We see the same refrain at least thirteen times in Psalms. There are twenty-six opportunities to read these encouraging words from the Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah—not to mention the other, thirty-plus times we are commanded: “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today.” (Exodus 14:13) The Torah’s brilliance is highlighted by the fact that we are not only instructed not to be afraid, but we are also told: “Do not be discouraged.”
Is that asking too much of us, weak and stiff-necked as we are known to be? Even the most faithful, the most courageous person, may stumble and lose their way. Fear is a natural component of our DNA— and not necessarily a bad emotion. After all, we need to be alert and aware of our surroundings. Discouragement, as we are told in this post, is another matter. We lose faith, we lose hope—we become overwhelmed.
The whole world is one long narrow bridge, so it is essential not to make oneself afraid. “
Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav
Given the times, our community needs to reflect on our past and be inspired. More than ever, women today need to acknowledge: We are standing on the shoulders of giants! We need to emulate their strength, courage, and compassion and match it with our own. We need to remember who we are!
What is the worst thing Satan can accomplish? To make a person forget that he or she is a child of God.”
Rabbi Shelomo of Karlin
My book, “From Meidelach to Matriarchs: A Journal~ Jewish Women of Yesteryear to Inspire your Today” showcases one hundred women. Women from various eras. Women from diverse backgrounds. Women with different political opinions. Women of Valor. I share a brief snippet of each individual’s history and then provide prompts or questions for the reader to consider. This is a safe space for the reader to jot down their thoughts.
Each vignette is fascinating in its own right, rich in historical and social detail, however, what I loved and appreciated the most, and I believe is the true value and achievement of this publication, are the questions posed in the journaling section, encouraging the reader to think and reflect, and to analyze the historical and contemporary issues related to each story.”
Hilary Welland Miller, Jewish Inspiration at Your Fingertips
I encourage you to read this book. Use it as a resource. Use it help you focus your thoughts, your prayers, your goals and aspirations.
The time set aside for some quiet contemplation is for you, alone—don’t worry what others think or how your opinions might not fit in with the crowd.
I see this journal as an opportunity for spiritual growth. It is an opportunity to resonate with those that came before us, to take the baton forward and to symbolically stand alongside the women that paved the way. It is a reminder that, each day, we are given an opportunity to do better—to live better.
The many sins most people commit are not great crimes. The great crime is that we are all capable of change/reform every day and we do not do it.”
Rabbi Simcha Bunam of Pzhysha
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Mirta Ines Trupp~ Author 
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I guess I hadn’t realized “Fear Not” and “Be Not Afraid” was used repeatedly in the Bible. Amazing. The Lord certainly knows how prone to fear we are.
I’m working my way through your book, learning about a new lady every day. Very inspiring. I had heard about a few of the ladies, but most of them I’m new to. I’ll be doing a review once I’m finished! 🙂
Many were new to me too! Their history is
an extraordinary testament to what we can accomplish. It really hones in on the concept of not being afraid or discouraged. Thanks, Veronica, for your continued support and interest.
Stop and consider: According to the Apostle Paul, Goyim not under the law. The Torah commandment of Moshiach, a key part of Jewish law. What distinguishes between Roman statute laws from Jewish common laws? No Xtian priest or pastor has ever asked or considered this fundamental question. Yet Xtianity assumes that its Gospels narishkeit holds a lock and key monopoly over the Torah commandment law known as Moshiach! LOL What a total joke. Can’t have your cake and eat it too. Can’t not be under the Law and at the say time declare absolute expertise over a key Torah commandment. Just that simple.
The Talmud by stark contrast learns the Torah commandment of Moshiach to the Baali T’shuva. What Torah commandment defines a Baali T’shuva? The commandment to shoo the mother bird from off sitting upon her eggs. How? Torah law delves primarily into tohor middot. Notice the noise new testament never once considers this key subject. For a Cohen to do service in the Mishkan the Cohen had to stand “tohor”. This word, a completely alien term to Goyim. Why? Goyim not under the Law.
To shoo the mother bird away from her eggs, a tohor middah. Another strange alien term to Goyim, for the exact same reason: Goyim not under the Law. Middah means “measure”. As in the judicial concept of justice: Measure for Measure. Judicial justice not important to Par’o of ancient Egypt and equally not important to any European courtrooms, who never held the Church accountable for its many war-crime guilts against Humanity.
The commandment of Moshiach qualifies as a tohor time-oriented commandment. Another alien term to Goyim for the same identical reason: Goyim not under the Law. All tohor time- oriented commandments stand upon the foundation of “fear of Heaven”. Meaning a person has to intend to dedicate holy to HaShem a tohor midda. In the case of shooing the mother bird from off her clutch of eggs, the midda dedicated holy to HaShem, the tohor midda of not inflicting unnecessary pain upon the mother bird.
What example of a rabbinic mitva/commandment perhaps best exemplifies this midda? Kosher slaughtering of animals. By the law learned in the Talmud kosher slaughter of animals learns from the slaughter of sacrificial animals dedicated unto the altar. What fundamentally separates the animal flesh burnt upon the altar in Jerusalem from butchering meats for consumer consumption? The first thing the Cohen throws upon the altar “the living blood” of the sacrificial offering. This means the Cohen had to cut the carotid artery which runs parallel to the thorax wind-pipe.
The common butcher does not require this ‘living blood’, which squirts out of the wound due to blood-pressure produced by that the beating heart of the sacrificial animal. Hence the Talmud on laws for butchering meat does not directly mention cutting the carotid artery, b/c the butcher does not require this ‘living blood’. Nonetheless, a sage in the Talmud, rabbi Yechuda, teaches that a person with “fear of Heaven”, ((the foundation of all tohor time-oriented commandments)), should cut the carotid artery. Why? Because not cutting this artery, the animal can live for some time there-after its throat gets cut. As a slaughter house rav, I personally have witnessed cattle getting up and walking around due to the failure to cut the carotid artery.
Not causing unnecessary animal suffering, a tohor midda learned from shooing the mother bird away from her clutch of eggs, this tohor midda defines the reason why Rabbi Yechuda of the Gemara warns butchers to, despite not requiring, needing, nor wanting the living blood of the slaughtered animal, nonetheless, to cut the carotid artery of the animal so that it dies immediately, like 2 seconds after, its throat being cut.
The concept “tohor time-oriented commandment” learns from Moshe going to Egypt. Recall that Moshe opposed going to Egypt! Moshe went to Egypt as a “baali t’shuva”. What defines a “baali t’shuva”? That a person arouses to address a current national crisis afflicting the Jewish people at that moment in time. The Torah anointed Pinchas “Moshiach of War” in the war fought against Moav and Midian & Bil’am the prophet.
The failure of the church abomination to learn the Torah commandment of Moshiach from Torah sources, proves that that false religion as an utter counterfeit of alien Roman origins. The Gospels, written after all in Greek – not Hebrew or Aramaic, the common languages spoken by the Jewish people at that time! The Romans, based their pantheon of Gods upon the Greek Gods of mount Olympus; Romans commonly spoke the language of the Greeks, something like Czar Peter the Great spoke French, as did all his court. The God-father of JeZeus and Hercules, an identical mythical story.
Hence, the tohor time-oriented commandment of Moshiach stands on the foundation of “fear of Heaven”; and “fear of Heaven” most essentially requires the dedication holy to HaShem of some specific tohor midda. Like as found in the tohor time-oriented commandment of shooing the mother bird away from sitting upon her eggs. The Torah commandment of anointing a baali-t’shuva Moshiach, the tohor time-oriented commandment of anointing a person dedicated to save Israel during a time of national crisis.
Hence Rabbi Akiva considered Bar Kochba as moshiach. Alas the Bar Kochba revolt collapsed. But this does not change the facts on the ground. Jews confronted the Romans in a national crisis and anointed a General to fight the Romans. Just as Moshe anointed Phinehas to fight the war against Moav and Midian/Bil’am. Phinehas anionted eish Moshiach milchamah, the messiah anointed for war.
Israelis who criticize the scholarship failures made by the Reshonim (950 -1400 CE).
The study by means of בנין אב/precedents, it opens a person’s eyes how the different mesechtot of Gemara interweave together; how the Mishna of one mesechta intermeshes with the language of other Mishnaot.
This makes the study of the Talmud as the Primary, and the study of the Reshonim rabbinic commentaries – secondary. Rabbinic Judaism errs because it reverses the Primary/secondary relationship, just as these rabbis fail to understand how the Gemara makes a משנה תורה\re-interpretation of the k’vanna of the language of its Mishna. The boot licking brown-nose “Psycophant” behavior & scholarship practiced by Auchronim Talmudic “scholars” toward the Reshonim, whom the former worships the opinions of the latter, like gods placed upon a pedestal.
Their disgraceful טיפש פשט(bird brained) of ירידות הדורות qualifies as a National Jewish scandal. Perhaps the best example of this Psycophat behavior: the RABaD’s statute law criticism of the Rambam’s statute halachic perversion. His “criticism”, it compares to counterfeit money printed illegally, then laundered by other criminals; something like criminals bringing stolen goods to a pawn-shop. The impact of his “criticism” had a direct impact upon Rosh ben Asher, author of the Tur statute halachic perversion of the Talmud.
Another example of the distortion of learning the Torah & Talmud into box-thinking assimilated statute codifications, the impact that the Rambam’s Sefer-Ha’Mitzvot made upon the scholarship of the French Baali-Tosafot, S’mag, and later upon the sefer ha-Chinuch.
These latter Reshonim altogether abandoned Rabbi Akiva’s chiddush (unique teachings) which defines Torah sh’baal peh (Oral Torah) as פרדס. The sefer baal ha’turim ha’shalem (a commentary made upon the Chumash) his grasp of רמז (hint) totally distorted. The Baal Ha’Turim limited this key concept of פרדס kabbalah only to the numerical value of words. It ignores the רמז concept of pregnant words: words which contain other words. The ignorance of ben Asher, his failure to bind רמז together with פשט to interpret Aggadah, its משנה תורה on prophetic mussar from NaCH sources – an utter disgrace to the Jewish people.
These errors by key Reshonim “influencers”, the destruction to משנה תורה Oral Torah scholarship, far surpasses the error made by the false messiahs of Sabbatai Zevi, and Yaacov Frank. The errors made by the latter directly influenced the rise of Reform Judaism after Napoleon up-rooted the Catholic church war-crimes as established by the 3 Century Ghetto illegal imprisonment of Western European Jewry.
Errors in scholarship not limited to the Jews. It amazes me that Jews can readily see the termite-like corruption within the catholic church and Luthern protestantism. But fails to weigh and consider that this same termite-like rot within the wood “furniture” of Judaism!
A terrible matter for a Talmudic scholar of fame to make a gross error in scholarship. But far worse for down-stream scholars of reputation to equally fail to correct the errors made by earlier generations by scholars of great reputation. This latter error directly resembles the perversions of the false messiah movements in Yiddishkeit, secretly influenced by the new testament abomination counterfeit messiah belief system.
The Torah defines faith as: צדק צדק תרדוף (justice justice pursue). Not chasing after some obtuse belief system of theology like the Xtian Trinity or strict Monotheism of the Muslim “church”. Justice: a lawyer never interrogates a witness by asking: “””What do you personally believe?”””
The scholarship of משנה תורה\common law/ as different from assimilated Roman statute law as the pursuit of justice to make fair restitution of damages inflicted upon others – from faith as defined as a personal belief in Gods. The Rambam’s 13 principles of faith, never once mentions the pursuit of justice!
This collapse of understanding the משנה תורה of Talmudic scholarship, wherein the Talmud serves as the model for a restored Israeli common law lateral Federal court system, when Jews return and & reconquer our Homelands, this collapse of knowledge concerning common law, its directly responsible for the Orthodox gross distortion – its condemnation of Zionism in the 1920’s and ’30s.
When scholars of reputation make fundamental errors in scholarship, this “action” compares to a stone hitting the tranquil waters of a pond. Impossible to stop the ensuing ripple effect. Hence another metaphor for ירידות הדורות – ripple effect. The latter describes: ‘domino effect’ precisely.
Herein concludes my introduction to the two בנין אב precedents of עירובין to our Gemara of .ברכות ט. The Reshonim scholarship failed to lead Israel out of g’lut. Post Shoah scholarship needs to ask the fundamental and most basic of questions: Why did the Reshonim fail to lead Israel out of g’lut.
If we cowardly refuse to hold our shepherd-scholars to account, even as we conquer Canaan, the threat of g’lut returning, it hangs over our heads like an ax to a Turkey on Thanksgiving.
Children who through rote repetition know the Siddur by heart … know nothing at all. Failure to address the subject of the Siddur as the codification of זימן גרמא מצוות = pie in the sky, pie in your eye, nonsense/narishkeit. Why did the Israel say מעשה בראשית as their portion of Avodat HaShem when the Cohonim dedicated a sworn oath korban upon the altar? The repetition of מעשה בראשית a kabbalah סוד for the dedication of tohor time-oriented commandments which require as an absolute bear minimum — k’vanna.
The Kabbalistic term “Shekinah”, a סוד reference to זימן גרמא מצוות which require k’vanna ie blowing tohor spirits which reside within our Yatzir within our heart, as the eternal definition of “avodat HaShem” – meaning doing mitzvot לשמה.The חמץ משל teaches the prophetic mussar נמשל – remove assimilation and intermarriage with Goyim from among all Jewish communities. Herein defines the k’vanna of the 42 letter Divine Name and the purpose for counting the Omer which joins Pesach with its zivug partner Shevuoth. Clearly no person can accept the Torah revelation at Sinai while clinging to avoda zarah within his/her hearts.
What is the purpose of Mezuzah and Tefillin? Why are they important? The role of women in the Torah. Observance of time oriented tohor commandments a רשות for women. Compare rabbi Yehoshua’s opinion of תפילת ערבית. He argues that this third tefillah – a רשות. What defines רשות? The dedication of defined tohor middot holy to HaShem לשמה. Women in the T’NaCH, they define רשות expressed through the stories of D’vorah going to war against Sisera and HaDassah pleading mercy for her people before the king. Both cases represent a רשות.
Signs of the brit. Mezuzah the brit of קידושין by which a man “cuts” a brit alliance with his wife through swearing an oath in front of 10 Jews. The oath of קידושין concerns the obligations: children, and education of these children, raised to understand the oath brit faith. Tefillin, like a Sefer Torah, in that a person sits and swears the oaths sworn by the Three Avot. The two boxes of tefillin validate the oaths sworn at Gilgal and Sh’Cem, in the days of Yehoshua the prophet. The מאי נפקא מינה between the Orders of Rashi and Rabeinu Tam tefilln, remembers the oath sworn by Israel at Gilgal, as opposed to the oath sworn by Israel at Sh’Cem.
To do mitzvot regardless their origins straight from the Torah or straight from the rabbis, a רשות to do this or that mitzva with k’vanna. The k’vanna of dedicating defined tohor middot לשמה. Doing mitzvot לשמה, such a dedication of k’vanna, transforms mitzvot whether דאורייתא או דרבנן unto טהור זימן גרמא מצוות דאורייתא. To dedicate mitzvot לשמה, a רשות which learns from the obligation of קום ועושה ושב ולא תעשה מצוות neither of which requires k’vanna. Therefore the רשות מצוה of dedicating defined tohor middot לשמה, elevates any and all mitzvot דאורייתא או דרבנן to mitzvot דאורייתא.
Muslims- If I admit to the flaws and racism in Zionism, will you admit to the flaws of honor killings and misogyny?Moshe KerrZionism – Israeli nationalism. Humanity has its flaws and racism. Islam just flat out avoda zarah -worship of other Gods.
Eric Nissani
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Idolatry? I’m not a Muslim but I guess they could return the judgement back to you since most despise Zionism and Zionists.I don’t despise zionism ( most of my family is Jewish) however i recognize that israeli nationalism has problems. Although Israelis and Israel have the right to exist. What I disagree with is the jewish law of return to haaretz- prejudiced and outdated. I also disagree with the occupations that started in 1967 and I disagree with people who claim it is Jewish land first. It is Jewish and Christian and Muslim land. All deserve it equally.
Moshe Kerr
Idolatry a Xtian mistranslation (bad translation) for avoda zarah. The 2nd Sinai commandments which both Xtian and Islamic faiths rape … Monotheism explicitly violates the commandment against the worship of other Gods. Pesach approaches, the spilling of the 10 drops of wine a משל to the plagues. The נמשל of the plagues??? The Gods worshipped by Par’o and Egypt.
The avoda zarah of Monotheism in its multiple facets: (Let’s Make a Deal) Curtain #1 Xtianity with its Trinity mystery. Curtain #2 Islam with its strict Monotheism of Allah. Curtain #3 Hinduism with its multiple and or multitude of Gods. All three options – avoda zarah Av Tumah death.
The 30-year war which culminated in 1648, the same year as the Cossack pogroms in the Ukraine and Poland Catholics slaughtered Goyim & Jews living in Germany (cause they were there) because they called the cruxifics of JeZeus on the cross – an idol. And Germans slaughtered Goyim & Jews (cause they were there) in France, Spain and Italy because they adored “idols” of JeZeus on the cross and statues.
The Torah defines the 2nd Sinai commandment as: A)) assimilation to the cultures and customs of Goyim (Like as did the Jews living in Spain during the ‘Golden Age’.) B)) intermarriage with Goyim who never accept to this day the Revelation of the Torah at Sinai. [Neither the Xtian bible abomination nor the Muslim koran abomination brings the שם השם. Translating the רוח הקודש שם השם to words, duplicates the sin of the Golden Calf!
The so called 10 commandments, the Torah speaks in the language of Man. After the 2nd Commandment Israel (They ignored the warning of Moshe and had sex with their wives prior to the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Hence they feared they would die.) demanded that Moshe rise up and receive the rest of the Torah! So why the 10 commandments in the 2nd and 5th Books of the Torah?
Torah Law – Common Law. The Hebrew for Common Law: משנה תורה, the name for the 5th Book of the Book of דברים! Common Law stands upon a case comparison study of precedents. The Hebrew for precedents: בנין אב. A key set of middot in the 13 middot of Rabbi Yishmael’s logic. (After reading the korbanot in the Siddur you will see rabbi Yishmael’s 13 middot which include two references to בנין אב.) The Rambam code did not know the kabbalah of Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס. This logic system affixes to the loom of the Talmudic fabric – the warp/weft threads of halacha and aggada which intrinsically relies upon the 13 middot rules of rabbi Yishmael’s logic system/format.
The Torah defines prophesy as mussar commanded by prophets. Tumah witchcraft predicts the future. Tohor prophetic mussar applies straight across the board to all generations of Israel. Prophets command mussar they do not predict the future as the gospel roman counterfeit declares.
The koran avoda zarah, Muhammad wrote prophet about every 7th word! Yet that book of avoda zarah failed to know how the Torah defines “Prophet”.
The mesechta of בבא קמא refers to religious rhetoric as a mountain hanging by a hair. Specifically, all the Torah commandments דאורייתא ודרבנן they all hang upon the first two opening commandments of Sinai which Israel accepted and thereafter demanded that Moshe rise up the Mount and receive the rest of the Torah. (עיין הבה’’ג, in his intro to the Torah commandments he includes 100 blessings, tefillah, ner shabbat, ner Channukka, Megilat Esther etc as mitzvot from the Torah! The Rambam condemned the B’hag in his introduction to his Sefer Ha’Mitzvot!
This latter רשע failed to grasp that doing טהור זימן גרמא מצוות elevates not only קום ועושה ושב ולא תעשה commandments but all the halachot within the Talmud unto זימן גרמא מצוות דאורייתא!
Assimilated Rambam did not understand the kabbalah of Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס. Hence he organized and prioritized his codification of the halachot learned from the Talmud based upon the logic of Aristotle as explained by the Arab scholars of Aristotle’s’ logic. His perversion of Talmudic common law unto Roman statute law caused a Jewish Civil War that destroys our g’lut refugee populations across Europe and Russia to this very day!
This Torah curse known in Hebrew: ירידות הדורות. The English equivalent – “domino effect”. An idea opposite and contradictory to the Xtian dogma of “Free Will”.Publication of the Rambam avoda zarah statute halachic code 1185. That רשע died in 1205. About 10 years later the Court of Rabbeinu Yonah condemned that רשע, placed him in נידוי, and burned his statute law perversion of T’NaCH and Talmudic common law. (The T’NaCH rabbi Akiva’s פרדס explanation of the Oral Torah revealed at Horev/Sinai equally interprets T’NaCH common law through aggada sources and Midrashic sources, as it does Talmudic halacha common law/משנה תורה.)
The arrogance of the Rambam, that fool did not know that משנה תורה means “Common Law”!The flames of Jewish Civil War ie the burning of the books of Rambam in Spain in about 1230, spread to Paris France in 1242; the Goyim king of France and poop Pope burned all the hand written manuscripts of the Talmud (the printing press not invented for some 200 years into the future). In year 1290 culminated that king’s “taxation without representation” of all Jewish refugees in England. Having robbed “his” Jews of all income and wealth, the king expelled the Jewish paupers to other countries. In 1306 the king of France likewise did the same. The expulsion of the Jews of France destroyed the Rashi/Tosafot common law commentary/school which studied the Talmud as common law.
The Rambam perversion won the Civil War and prevailed over the נידוי of Rabeinu Yonah’s court. In contrast to the victory of Yechuda Maccabee over the assimilated Tzeddukim who sought to “convert” Jerusalem unto a Greek polis/city state; remembered and celebrated by the mitzva of lighting the lights of Hannukah.
Other than the Rosh common law commentary on the Talmud halachot, written after publication of the Rambam’s statute law perversion, starting with his son – who wrote the Tur, all Reshonim and Acharonim scholars learn the T’NaCH and Talmud unto this very day as assimilated Roman Statute Law. In effect Orthodox rabbinic Judaism blows out the candles of Hannukka ever year.
The Germanic kingdoms copy-cat of Taxation without Representation likewise pauperized the Jewish refugee populations scattered across all the kingdoms of Germany. German kingdoms one after another then expel the Jewish refugees from their lands. 1492 all the Jews of Spain and Portugal expelled. In 1516 the poop Pope decreed the 3 Century ghetto war-crime! A huge population transfer immediately followed. Jews fled the oppression of Western Europe to the Ukraine and Poland lands. In 1648 the Cossack revolts slaughtered some 1.5 million Jews!
Civil War, the Bain-curse of avoda zarah, imposed upon the kingdom of David following the murder of the husband of Bat Sheva by the command of the king. The first rule of Jewish governance of the lands of Israel: to prevent the outbreak of Civil War among our divided people.Common law has two basic rules which assimilated Statute law rapes and murders like as did Hamas on Oct 7th 2023.
1) Never divorce a Gemarah (its halachot) from its Home Mishna. Gemara common law makes a Case/Rule study of precedents by which to interpret the intent/k’vanna of the language of its Home Mishna.
2) Never divorce the Aggadic portions learned to the Home Mishna from its Halachic precedent Primary Sources to interpret the k’vanna of Mishnaic intent.
Eric Nissani
Interesting. You are definitely a scholar of Judaism. I posted the question originally to Muslims, as I wish to find common ground of fault within both peoples. Jews are too dominant in Israel, and Muslims are too antagonistic. But I got mixed results in that people who hate Zionism (Muslims and leftists) will continue to do so, and people who support it are usually unwavering.
Moshe Kerr
Israel: the Jewish state. For what purpose does commandments, mitzvot, & halachot serve? The opening first two commandments define the whole of the Torah. A)) Faith defined as: Following the judicial common law pursuit of justice among our People לשמה. B)) Rejecting the cultures, customs, mannerisms and ways of all Goyim in all generations who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai; who establish culture, customs, ways, and mannerism which have nothing to do with the revelation of the Torah at Sinai.
What defines the plague/Torah curse\ of antisemitism? Jewish worship of avoda zarah; the 2nd Sinai commandment. The Golden Calf serves as the classic definition from the Torah of avoda zarah. Ignorant child like reading/translating of the prophetic mussar, which the Torah commands throughout the generations “interprets” the Aggada story of the “Golden Calf”, based upon the Oral Torah revelation taught through the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס logic format. This logic system stands apart from Plato and Aristotle and Hegel’s logic formats as accepting the Torah at Sinai,,, from not accepting the Torah at Sinai; bi-polar opposites, Yes-No.
The Torah speaks in the language of Man. The metaphor of avoda zarah told through the aggada of the sin of the Golden Calf. This דרוש (comparison of Case/Law to similar but other Case/Law) known as בנין אב in Hebrew and understood in English as “precedents” which establish “Common law” judicial rulings, with the aim and purpose to resolve Jewish disputes of damages inflicted upon our people by our people.
Goyim, people/nations which do not establish law through judicial courtroom rulings but rather through statute law – Legislative and/or Executive decrees. Goyim do not accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai; not in the days of Moshe Rabbeinu and not today. Worlds of separation and distance distinguish living under the rule of our own Jewish people from living under the tyranny of Goyim who govern Jews as stateless refugee/dhimmi populations which have no rights.
The Political Zionism of Hertzl stands on the foundations of the antisemitic Alfred Dreyfus Affair of corrupt judicial injustice by vertical French “star courts” (The British infamous “star courts” validated British impressment of American sailors on the High Seas/international waters). [The difference between lateral courtrooms from vertical courtrooms: the State pays the salary/a bribe\ to the Judges and Prosecuting Attorney; lateral courtrooms the State does not pay the salary, not of any Judge of the Courts]. And the Russian pogroms which made a forced population transfer of millions of Jews from the Pale of Russia to the Golden Medina of the United States in the early years of the 20th Century. The defining transformation of that Jewish refugee “assimilation” (Golden Calf), these Russian Jews became English speaking Americans within a generation! Contrast the dhimmi 1948, & ’67 Arab refugee populations which according to the corrupt UN remain as stateless refugees to this very day.
Jewish worship of the Golden Calf דרוש resulted in a Torah curse. A generation following WWI Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power. The English imposed the White Paper in 1939, which made it illegal for Jews to flee to the Palestine Mandated territories — the opposite of the Balfour Declaration Promise made in 1917. And FDR closed the borders of America, which likewise sealed the fate of 75% of European Jewry slaughtered in less than 3 years.
The question why did the Allies refuse, a conscious Government decision made by the Allied Governments, to not bomb the rail lines leading to the Death Camps??? By 1942 both Washington, London and Rome knew of the Nazi policy: to exterminate the Jewish people.
Viewed from the perspective of the Torah: the answer to this question simple. Jewish worship of the דרוש Golden Calf! A concrete precedent of the Golden Calf; neither the Xtian Bible nor the Muslim Koran ever once brings the שם השם revealed in the First Sinai commandment. (The Greatest commandment of the Torah. The “Mountain hanging by a hair” which explains this metaphor employed in mesechta בבא קמא.)
The aggada story of the Golden Calf, Israel declared: “these Gods brought Israel up out of Egyptian bondage.”How does this clause explain avodah zarah for all generations of Man-Kind upon this Earth? אלו אלהים/these Gods\, translate the שם השם a רוח הקודש (translated into English, as Divine Presence Spirit) unto words which the lips of Man can easily frame and pronounce.
The translation of the 1st Sinai commandment Name: perverts/corrupts\defiles/rapes\humiliates/amputates etc the רוח הקודש שם השם like as does the Xtian Nicene Creed which transforms “Holy Spirit” into the Trinity God-Head. Never once do the Goyim (as expressed through the Universal God religions of Xtianity and Islam) bring within the pages of their bible and koran abominations of avoda zarah the שם השם Name revealed in the 1st Sinai commandment. Hence these theological belief systems which dictate belief in some Universal God of monotheism, ipso-facto worship other Gods — the 2nd Sinai commandment.
The Torah refers to antisemitism through the eternal דרוש commandment “remember Amalek”. The NaCH story of Purim, tells the story of Amalek. Antisemitism roars like a hungry lion whenever the Jewish people worship the Golden Calf — we assimilate and embrace the cultures, customs, manners and ways practiced by the Goyim who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai.