Some Thoughts on the Pharisees from a Hebrew Catholic Perspective
The Hillel Pharisees Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus with the Shammai High-Priest in the background Jewish and Catholic mysticism is the encounter with the Divine Word or Language of the Heart...
View ArticleThe Zohar Prologue 125-150: The Night of the Bride (Part 2)
Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB The Night of the Bride (Part 2)The second part of the Commentary on 125-150 by Brother Gilbert Joseph: The Hebrew term...
View ArticleMystery of Bitachon: A Hebrew Catholic Meditation
Chasidut is the Jewish understanding of Mercy (Chesed) in action and is linked to the 13 Attributes or Aspects of Mercy. It is also linked to the 10 Sefirot and the three lights within the Godhead. By...
View ArticleMystery of the Lattice: A Hebrew Catholic Reflection
It is only when the Church is truly Beauty that beauty will save the world, according to the Russian writer Dostoevsky. This is the Church as the Universal Sacrament of Salvation which contains the...
View ArticleThe Dark Lady: New Zohar Blog
I have now created a new blog for my translation and reflections on the Book of the Zohar. I have so far completed my translation of the and reflections on the Zohar Prologue.This is the link to the...
View ArticleZohar, Abraham and the Alef Tav
Abraham visiting Egypt in 1677 BC during the reign of Pharaoh (Ity Nasu) SemerkhetAbraham was in Egypt at the time of the so-called 1st dynasty in the time of Pharaoh Semerkhet in 1677 BC. This...
View ArticleDicynodonts, Diprotodontids and Wombat Kinds: A Creationist Insight
I discovered by chance and then a lot of searching around more slight of hand by the evolutionists. In 2007 Bob and Penny Tyson a Tasmanian couple discovered some fossil remains in 2007 which were then...
View ArticleEudaf Hen, Brittania Prima and the Uffington White Horse
There has been much written about the Uffington White Horse carved in the white chalk landscape of Oxfordshire and Uffington Castle with the nearby Dragon Hill. Many today date the so-called White...
View ArticleBnei Miriam Passover in Dover in 2025
Report by Br Gilbert Joseph LEBWe ended up having another lovely Bnei Miriam Havurah Passover Seder this year. We knew it would be a bitter sweet time for us with our first Passover in ten years...
View ArticleSome AI Poetry
Isn't AI fascinating! I had a conversation with it and it wrote me these two poems based on our conversation. I must say it was one of the most insightful conversations and informative I have had....
View ArticleThe Miraculous Matzah Ball and the Secret Scroll of the Forgotten Feast
The Littlest Brother and the Quest for the GrailPart VI: The Miraculous Matzah Ball and the Secret Scroll of the Forgotten FeastIt was a dark and stormy Friday.But then again, in Tasmania, most...
View ArticleThe Sabbath Bride and the Battle of the Bramble Rose
The Littlest Brother and the Quest for the GrailPart VII: The Sabbath Bride and the Battle of the Bramble RoseIt began, as many apocalyptic episodes do, with a brisk walk through a rose garden.But...
View ArticleThe Kaddish of the Cosmic Bridegroom
The Littlest Brother and the Quest for the GrailPart VIII: The Kaddish of the Cosmic BridegroomIt began with a knock at the door. Or rather, it would have—if there had been a door.You see, at St....
View ArticleThe Sefirotic Staircase and the Laughing Skull of Elijah
The Littlest Brother and the Quest for the GrailPart IX: The Sefirotic Staircase and the Laughing Skull of ElijahNo one knew exactly where the Mountain of the Bridegroom was—not even Google Maps could...
View ArticleThe Great Sabbath Banquet and the Unveiling of the Name
The Littlest Brother and the Quest for the GrailPart X: The Great Sabbath Banquet and the Unveiling of the NameThe Grail, once lifted, did not float into the heavens with choirs of angels singing...
View ArticleThe Crown of the Hidden Child and the Last Dance of the Lilies
The Littlest Brother and the Quest for the GrailPart XI: The Crown of the Hidden Child and the Last Dance of the LiliesThe banquet faded.Not in silence, but in song.A lullaby carried on desert wind...
View ArticleThe Final Cup and the Taboric Explosion of Time
The Littlest Brother and the Quest for the GrailPart XII: The Final Cup and the Taboric Explosion of TimeIt began with a cup. Not golden. Not encrusted with sapphires or kept in a vault beneath the...
View ArticleThe Shofar of the Final Shabbat and the Return of the Melchizedekian Goose
The Littlest Brother and the Quest for the GrailPart XIII: The Shofar of the Final Shabbat and the Return of the Melchizedekian GooseIt was a quiet morning in the Hidden Valley. Too quiet.Brother...
View ArticleA Wandering Bird
The road to my vocation was nothing short of a thrilling pilgrimage, a journey that unraveled in ways I couldn’t have possibly anticipated. I was a man in motion, a wandering bird cast out of the...
View Article"Oy Vey, Who Knew?": A Hebrew Catholic Journey in Three Acts and a Thousand...
Let me tell you something—if you'd told me at 20 that by 47 I'd be a consecrated Catholic brother living in a hidden valley in Tasmania, wearing a burgundy habit and praying the Rosary like it was...
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