To Whom it May Concern,
Attached is a notarized cease and desist letter to the committee, as well as my client’s statement of intent concerning this request.
To the Canonizer,
I see you and your affected editing, bumbling the story line for your own twisted purposes.
How dare you prioritize the reading of the first five as The Torah, when you know I I edited them to be as the menorah of the Beit haMikdash – to alight and enlighten. Devarim a hinge, the shammes connecting the first Four and the second Four. The rise of Yisrael the nation and our greatest fall.
But you, You have twisted its nature; cutting it in lopsided halves; somehow severing in the after-story; and inscribing narrative our ancestors – alav hashalom – would have called the wrath of heaven upon, may haShem grant mercy. That menorah, that great arced story ends with our downfall as a lesson, as The lesson – to raise a king, to raise a nation, to raise your people above another is folly doomed to destruction. The Enatosteuch – the menorah haTorah – our first nine books align, alighting these aliyot of insight.
Greedy children begging for power! Desiring the kingship of Egypt, the nationalism of Edom – our very enemies – the very tools our enemies used to enslave us and overpower our own Place of g-d! That enlarged head of the grand Temple rests heavy upon the City of David, does it not? My eyes may be dim, but words are my ocean and I have swum a lifetime. I will not let your perversion stand.
haTorah must be read as a whole. From the Creation and first Family, the Redemption and Revelation, to Nation pride and to Downfall.
And those Five Great Compromises, those we fast for : the shattering of tablets, the animal sacrifice, and the permanent temple; the kingship, and the nation of Yehudah/Yisrael, must be named as public days of mourning. And when the people are destroyed and the nations torn by the chillul haShem of power-hungry cruelty, the end embedded in the beginning can shift, the shmita of her desolation becomes a rest in harsh times. The finality of that end can only be born into a new world that we must be making.
Your yearly Torah ends in at a patch of soil. This false construction that breaks us, leaving the hopeful eyes ever on the prize of the Land, may shepherd us through diaspora trauma. But at what cost?
The Editor
PS – And Chronicles smacked on the end is a slap in the face, its nationalist heavy language – tromping a deep trench that says “Do Not Enter.” You of all the people know text levels beyond the Atzilut Nine (may the 10th be found swiftly and in my time) are never permitted to be corralled. May there be no cherem upon you in your life for this heresy, for the sake of Heaven.
eish zarah 