Shlama lookh — Peace be unto you!
The Aramaic words of Yeshua — re-explored for personal awakening and world peace
Welcome!
The purpose of this website is to support, promote, and accelerate repairing of the self and world. It is particularly directed to those affected by any one and all of the Abrahamic faiths (primarily Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) or by cultures that draw from same.
Here, through exploring the native Aramaic words of the man known as Eshoa, Yeshua, Joshua, Iesous, Issa, Jesus, J.C., we re-establish and celebrate the continuity of wisdom traditions from the Near East.
Since the languages at the heart of the three Avrahamic religions are all Semitic, words often share common “roots,” (i.e. a two or three letter core which carries the essential meaning). By exploring these roots, we find that the essential messages at the heart of each faith are the same.
From this perch, we can then regroup from all the distortions, interpretations, extrapolations, etc that have affected us personally, societally, and globally.
The Aramaic words of Mar Eshoa (teacher or lord Jesus) were translated into Greek, then Latin, then German, then English, each time sculpted by the understanding of the translator, and perhaps adapted by the person paying for the translation. So we get something else…not what this key figure said. Thus today Jesus (whom I prefer to call Eshoo, like sneezing) is arguably the most loved, hated, worshipped, misunderstood, divinized, demonized person in human history. Today his name is a swear word, as well as a name of God. Go figure. Time to reboot from the roots! His full name in Hebrew Yahoshua can mean “Beingness restores!” All right then!
Can we use the words of our spiritual ancestors in their native tongues to help us affect our own healing? For our hearts? Our minds? Our relationships, our communities, our continents, our earth, our ancestry, and our descendants? We experience this to be so, and so gratefully we offer links to websites, authors, video and audio resources for exploring:
- What Eshoa (Jesus) might have meant when he spoke in Aramaic
- Jesus’s Jewishness and his place among the hundreds of other notable Jewish teachers and rabbis
- Very high regard within Islam of Issa (Jesus) and Maryam, his mother
- Inclusive Christians who explore the Christ as the awakened consciousness available to us all
- Peace activists and social-justice workers seeking models for how to change the world
- All refugees from established faiths looking for a deeper, more vital connection with their own self, Soul, or Source
For myself, consolidating these explorations and offering them to my fellow humans and descendants is my way of saying “I love you, and want what helps me most be yours as well, when and if it suits your palate.”
b’shlama, b’shalom, salam — with peace, in peace, through peace
— rhm