THE MIDROSH

THE MIDROSH PREAMBLE

All people practicing or studying the Yehoshuai Faith must memorize The Midrosh and recite it twice daily, once on waking up and once before sleep. If you do not sleep one night still recite it once between sunset and sunrise. It is best to recite the Midrosh with your recitation of Lapri-Yay-JAH, the ritual prayer of Yehoshuai, but if that is not possible, saying them separately is still valid. 

TEXT ONE: THE SCRIVENER’S CONFESSION

1In the name of HIS Imperial Royal Majesty Yeshua the CHRIST, and in the sublime name of Jehovah GOD JAH Almighty, who is LOVE, I, Mr. Damian Westfall, confess to the world that I am a sinner. 2I am an old sinner. 3I was spiritually ill and a terrible person throughout most of my life, but by writing this book down and living it, GOD healed me of my spiritual illness so that I no longer needed to be a terrible person. 4I confess that if you believe and live out this book, your suffering and torment will end, as did mine. 5My name is Mr. Damian the Scrivener, and I wrote this book down just as GOD gave it and whispered it to me. 6Yes, I wrote this all down just as I heard it. 7MDTS. 

TEXT TWO: HOW IT IS FOR YOU, MR DAMIAN, MY SCRIVENER

1 And it will be like this: I’ll tell you things or give you text and you’ll write them down on paper and then you’ll type them up and then you’ll read them aloud into your microphone in your computer on Audacity. 2 You will listen to these recordings and memorize them. You must recite The Midrosh twice a day, along with reciting and recording three sections from POEMS FOR EARTH(PPL) or three texts from THE QUODLIBET, three of your choosing that day. 3 Once every four months, you’ll recite the entire POEMS FOR EARTH(PPL) in a 72-hour period, which you must record. 4You will write a full book of introduction to JAH’S BOOK and the Yehoshuai Faith. 5You will write a full commentary on JAH’S BOOK, and there will be seven more parts and an epilogue given to you throughout the rest of your life which you will write down and publish. 6You will write and design illuminated manuscripts of both THE QUODLIBET and POEMS FOR EARTH(PPL). 7Above all, you will write the definitive book on how to memorize and recite JAH’S BOOK, The Midrosh and the ritual prayer of the Yehoshuai Faith, which is called Lapri-Yay-JAH. 8Be happy with your work, but never forget who you once were before JAH saved you: a helpless sinner in torment, in desperate need of GOD’S LOVE, forgiveness, mercy, and healing. 9Your job as scrivener is based on a daily reprieve given to you by GOD based on your current relationship with GOD, your submission to GOD, and the obedience to doing the work given you by GOD.

TEXT THREE: THE KEY

1THIS KEY UNLOCKS THE DOOR THAT OPENS POEMS FOR EARTH AND THE QUODLIBET 2Hear and understand right now: 3GOD is not a hypocrite. 4GOD is not a bigot. 5GOD is not a white male. 6GOD is not a Republican. 7GOD is not a pedophile. 8GOD is not your birth father.

9 GOD is LOVE and TRUTH.

TEXT FOUR: THE FIVE FORMS OF THE HOLY BOOK

1Form One is the perfect and holy Book of Books as it lives in the Temple in the New Jerusalem and in JAH’S inscrutable, LOVING, and wise mind, where it thrives in absolute beauty, truth, and LOVE for all infinity. 2Form Two is POEMS FOR EARTH as JAH communicated it to Mr. Damian the Scrivener, who wrote it down just as he heard it and published it in 8 parts with a prologue and epilogue. 3Form Three is THE QUODLIBET: The 19 Texts of Holiness, which is a book containing all words from POEMS FOR EARTH(PPL) that concern ethics or GOD’S LAW (Which is LOVE) 4Mr. Damian took it from the sublime form of POEMS FOR EARTH(PPL) and adapted it to introduce people to POEMS FOR EARTH in a more familiar idiom, in a more manageable size and shape and what is more, in prose. 5This book contains the ethics of YHWH and Yeshua the CHRIST. 6Form Four is JAH’S BOOK: The Illuminated Manuscript with ornamentation, borders, calligraphy, and other graphics and illustrations.  7Form Five is JAH’S BOOK in translation from its original English to any other language or patois.

TEXT FIVE: THE SEVEN MAJOR MODES

1The Seven Major Modes are the seven major ways of engaging with or reading JAH’S BOOK, each with a different purpose. 2These modes are effective and gratifying for their own reasons, often reasons that humans can’t understand. 3In fact, we know very little about this because GOD has only made some of this clear. 4TELL THEM, MR DAMIAN, MY SCRIVENER, TELL THEM NOW THE 7 PATHS OF READING JAH’S BOOK. 5But, JAH, how do you define the words “mode” and “path”? 6IN THIS CONTEXT, MODE AND PATH DESCRIBE THE WAY ONE READS JAH’S BOOK. 7Mode One: Read it silently to yourself alone with GOD. 8This is reading THE QUODLIBET or POEMS FOR EARTH silently to yourself with just you and JAH, either reading from a physical copy or in an ePub or PDF or on Storyspace. 9-11MODE TWO: Read It Silently with Others 12In MODE TWO, you read THE QUODLIBET or POEMS FOR EARTH silently with others present. 13You and the others there can read different passages or the same, contemplating silently and then discussing with the others what all of you read. 14MODE THREE: To Read and recite aloud THE QUODLIBET or POEMS FOR EARTH alone with JAH. 15When you are alone, and you recite JAH’S BOOK aloud, JAH in CHRIST will be there with you. 16This is called “The Numinous Mode”, or sometimes it’s called “Reading Face to Face”. 17This is the truest way to read THE QUODLIBET or POEMS FOR EARTH. 18MODE FOUR is when either THE QUODLIBET or POEMS FOR EARTH are compulsively recited and recorded and listened to while memorizing the Book. 19When someone becomes imbued with a geyser of energy and passion for JAH’S BOOK and works all the time reading it, recording it, listening to it, driven by GOD to memorize THE QUODLIBET or POEMS FOR EARTH (PPL). 20This is sometimes called “The Speaker’s Fever” 21When a person memorizes the entire QUODLIBET or POEMS FOR EARTH (PPL), they are called “Speakers of the Book”. 21-22 MODE FIVE is when you perform JAH’S BOOK, for an audience or a recording, through spoken word or performance art or in ritual drama. 23MODE SIX is when you perform JAH’S BOOK for an audience or a recording by singing. 24MODE SEVEN is The Miracle. 25The Miracle is when you recite or read aloud the entire POEMS FOR EARTH(PPL) in a 72-hour period, taking few breaks only to eat, drink, smoke, go to the bathroom or sleep. 26Everything else you do during that 72-hour period must be spent recording your reading of JAH’S BOOK aloud.

TEXT SIX: WHY WE READ AND RECITE THE QUODLIBET

1Listening to yourself read or recite THE QUODLIBET, whether in sections or the entire volume, is a spiritually gratifying experience that not only enriches and rewards us, but it also makes us happy to do it. 2By doing this, it brings us to life. 3It makes us giddy. 4We become like children on Christmas Morning or a teenager in LOVE for the first time. 5This too: It stops us from sinning. 6It’s always helpful and rewarding to listen to many people recite THE BOOK in any mode that reaches you the best personally. 7Remember, recite it, read it aloud. 8If you know it, speak it. 9If you don’t have it memorized, read it aloud or even sing the words. 10These are all valid modes, but nothing is as sweet as hearing the voice JAH gave you personally recite these words that make up JAH’S BOOK. 11It is sublime bliss even if THE QUODLIBET is subordinate to POEMS FOR EARTH.

TEXT SEVEN: THE QUODLIBET (SHORT FORM)

1PART A: ANSWERED QUESTIONS, in six sentences and seven strophes. 2What is this BOOK OF BOOKS? 3This BOOK OF JAH? 4This BOOK GOD gave me? 5This BOOK I wrote just as I heard it? 6This is the BOOK that you read aloud from every day. 7This is the BOOK you memorize by reading it aloud from every day, yes! 8PART B: ONE GOD, ONE BOOK in two sentences and four strophes. 9This BOOK of GOD is the accurate book about one GOD: 10Jehovah GOD JAH Almighty. 11About Yeshua the CHRIST, the SON OF GOD who died and rose again for our forgiveness and reconciliation with GOD, who rules and LOVES in unity with HIM. 12PART C: THE WORKS in four sentences and eight strophes. 13So, LOVE GOD and LOVE all the people of the earth. 14And treat other people in the way you want to be treated. 15Forgive others, and GOD will forgive you. 16Live the 10 Rules of GOD 17and obey the 3 Rules of CHRIST 18and only submit to, believe in, LOVE, and serve one GOD: Jehovah GOD JAH Almighty, yes! 19And GOD will save you. 20PART D: THE WORDS in ten sentences and nine strophes. 21Now go and wash the feet of the world, 22and leave this place better than you found it. 23Right now, write this down or say it aloud: 24“In the name of CHRIST, I choose goodness. 24I choose truth. 25I choose LOVE; I choose GOD.” 26Praise Jehovah GOD JAH Almighty. 27JAH was, JAH is, JAH will return! 28This is the truth; this is how it is!

TEXT EIGHT: THE NINE GATES OF THE NEW JERUSALEM

1There are many acts required to maintain our faith in GOD and our LOVE for and from JAH and, what is more, to free ourselves from torment and suffering. 2This is a reprieve JAH grants us if we are daily in JAH’S BOOK, reading it aloud or saying or memorizing or copying it down. 3What is required for this miracle to grow inside us is actively studying and living out THE NINE GATES OF THE NEW JERUSALEM which are the nine subjects required to reach and receive GOD’S presence and HIS LOVE.

4GATE ONE: LOVE

5Reject hate and live LOVE. 6Reject bigotry and selfishness and live LOVE. 7Reject bitterness and the lust for revenge and live LOVE. 8Reject abuse and cruelty and live LOVE. 9Reject all forms of violence and killing and live LOVE.

10GATE TWO: JAH’S LAW (Which is LOVE)

11There are several laws discussed in JAH’S BOOK. 12The pure, true, and just law of JAH, which lives in the mind of GOD, and which HE wrote in every person’s DNA. 13Then there is The Law of Moshe, which was JAH’S LAW communicated to a person, Moshe, which Sheul Paulus Hatarsi says was only for Israel and CHRIST says was recorded erroneously. 14Then there is The Law of Yehoshuai, which is JAH’S LAW, which is LOVE and is the pure and true form of JAH’S LAW as Yeshua the CHRIST articulated and lived it. 15You can sum up JAH’S LAW (Which Is LOVE), thus: 16Submit to and obey the 10 rules of JAH and the 3 rules of CHRIST. 17The volume THE QUODLIBET: The 19 Texts of Holiness is the full elaboration and definition of these commands that make up JAH’S actual LAW, which is LOVE. 18Living this, JAH’S LAW, which is LOVE, heals us from our torment and suffering.

19GATE THREE: PRAYER

20In Yehoshuai, there are two forms of prayer: ritualized and organic. 21We need both, and both are valid, but one without the other yields nothing. 22 Talk with GOD constantly in the name of CHRIST 23and pray without cease. 24Ritualized prayer in Yehoshuai is called LAPRI-YAY-JAH and must be performed three times a day in the morning, afternoon, and night. 25Ritual and organic prayer are discussed in depth in TEXT 15 of THE QUODLIBET (C.F.).

26GATE FOUR: FORGIVENESS

27If you want JAH Almighty to forgive your sins, you must forgive all people when they abuse or hurt you.

28GATE FIVE: EMPATHY AND MERCY

29These two are one. 30They are cause and effect. 31If LOVE motivates us in all things first, we are thus required to be motivated by these two holy tools: empathy and mercy. 32Empathy and mercy enable us to live out JAH’S LAW which is LOVE and be loving and good to all the people on planet earth. 33If we do this, JAH will really bless us.

34GATE SIX: WORSHIP

35We must worship GOD throughout every day. 36Worship is any act that expresses your personal LOVE, submission, obedience, and gratefulness to Jehovah GOD JAH Almighty. 37Worship is not for JAH’s gratification, but for our own. 38The act of worshiping GOD is the primary act that enables our healing and strength from JAH.

39GATE SEVEN: GIVE TO THE POOR.

40GOD in CHRIST demands we give to the poor. 41Give 10% of your monthly income to the poor. 42When doing this, give 5% to a charitable organization and 5% directly to the poor you know or encounter in your daily life.

43GATE EIGHT: FASTING

44Jehovah GOD JAH Almighty calls us to fast regularly as purification of our souls and bodies. 45Once a month, we must fast for a continuous 24-hour period, eating no food and drinking only water.

46GATE NINE: JAH’S BOOK

47Everyone who practices Yehoshuai holds tightly to JAH’S BOOK as their holy book. 48JAH’S BOOK is many things. 49-50JAH dictated these texts to Mr. Damian the Scrivener, who wrote it down just as he heard it. 51JAH’S BOOK is a unified text comprising two volumes: THE QUODLIBET and POEMS FOR EARTH. The full POEMS FOR EARTH is in eight parts with a prologue and epilogue. 52POEMS FOR EARTH is subdivided into parts, the parts into poems, the poems into sections, and the sections into strophes. 53We as people need JAH’S BOOK as much as we need oxygen or water. 54We must stay in JAH’S BOOK and read it aloud daily and live this text out in every aspect of our lives. 55Memorizing and reciting JAH’S BOOK is one of the most important acts for any person practicing Yehoshuai.

TEXT NINE: THE SUMMARY OF CHRIST’S ETHICS

1If anything you say or do abuses or mistreats JAH, other people, yourself, animals, or the earth, don’t do it. 2Instead be driven to live LOVE.  3Let only LOVE, mercy, empathy, and goodness motivate you, as you choose CHRIST in all you do.

TEXT TEN: THE BIG PROMISE

1If you earnestly live this book, GOD will give you faith.  2And if you truly find faith in GOD, GOD will enable you to live this book.  3And with faith in GOD and LOVE for all people and living these ethics, even though you might stay poor and in pain, your personal suffering and torment will end.

4This book is a living breathing text that is imbued with JAH’S Holy Spirit and every time we read it, we engage with something far larger than we and we are filled with numinous awe. 5What is more, although reading the book silently is a potent experience reading it aloud is the truest way of engaging with the book as the big promise of the Midrosh states if we believe this book and live it out in our lives our torment and suffering will stop even if we stay poor or in pain. 6By reading this book aloud we become rewarded spiritually and our mood lifts as we are filled with words of JAH Almighty and motivated to live these ethics in all aspects of our lives.

7I must speak about what happened to me due to believing this book and living it out. 8It’s more than just that I was a lousy person. 9I’ve been deeply mentally ill for 30 years with schizoaffective disorder and OCD and PTSD and my suffering and torment has been extreme thus far in my life. 10My meds help but only so far, and I spent most of my time in suffering and torment until I was given this book and GOD grabbed a hold of me and like Aslan with Edmund, HE tore off of me my scales of self-pity, selfishness, my LOVE of manipulation, my LOVE of sin, and my utter recalcitrant nature, and HE reshaped me into a new person completely different from the awful person I had become due to my sin I couldn’t control.

11This text is potent whether believed or not. 12We never have to feel like we must defend The Quodlibet, because it defends itself. 13If people want evidence for its validity, all they must do is engage with the text by reading it aloud and they will see for themselves the potency of this, the first volume of JAH’S BOOK.

14The Quodlibet is a guide to life for everyone practicing Yehoshuai and its texts are holiness in its pure form and, what is more, are abundantly concise and beautiful in their words and form and from it comes spiritual healing and good living, choosing to live our lives in alignment with GOD.

15AMEN