I am currently stuck on the moon in a telepathic hold, and I have no idea how to get out of it. Luna is almost done charging her attack.

“I am giving you 10 seconds, Noah. If you can get out of this, you will be safe. If you can’t, well, I hope we don’t come to that!” Nightmare Moon says, laughing.

10 seconds, huh? I have gotta think of something really quickly! I tried using my magic again, to no avail. I vaguely remember reading about a Kabbalistic formula that allows for teleportation, so I recited it, and I tried to teleport outside of Nightmare Moon’s range.

“Huh, where did you go, love?” Nightmare Moon says, realizing that nobody was in her hold.

“Over here, boss!” I say, trying to catch my breath.

“Ah, very good, child. I am quite pleased with your progress. Our bout is over, for now. Fear not.” Luna says, dissolving her attack.

“Okay, so what do we do now?” I ask Nightmare Moon, who just laughs.

“Remember that thing you told me about with Din Rodef earlier? Elaborate on that, Noah.” Luna says, using magic from her horn to teleport the both of us back to her lunar citadel.

“Well, it’s in Sanhedrin,” I say, summoning that volume of the Talmud from my chambers.

CANTERLOT: EQUESTRIA

While I was fighting Nightmare Moon on the lunar surface, Twilight Sparkle spent the past few hours doing some reading about Earth, trying to figure out why Luna wanted to kidnap someone from Earth, and where they could have been abducted from.

“Princess Celestia, I have a question,” Twilight asks her teacher. Celestia walks over to Twilight and nods. “Yes, Twilight, what is it?” Celestia replies.

“I just wanted to know if you have been to this universe that Nightmare Moon most likely kidnapped this kid from?” Twilight asks her teacher, with her eager thirst for knowledge eager to be quenched.

“Yes, Twilight, I have been to this reality. It is rather primitive in nature, and the people that live there are very dull and spend most of their time doing nonsense.” Celestia said, scoffing at the mere thought. “I went there a few times, and the people there seemed rather obsessed with me, bordering on the insane. I decided it would be best to not go back.” She added.

Twilight looks through a book of different races and cultures that live on Earth and finds a page that piqued her interest.

“Uh, Princess Celestia, What are Hebrews?” Twilight asks, pointing to a picture of a family of humans wearing traditional Hasidic clothing.

“Uhh, Hebrews are a race of humans that invented the idea of there being one God, rather than multiple gods. They are silly people, like all humans.” Celestia said to her student, before realizing that something might be aloof here. “Wait a minute! I just remembered that Luna must have saved that Hebrew man Abraham 3500 earth years ago! She must’ve tired her essence to that man’s progeny, and picked a perfect descendant to be her ward.

“Twilight, I have some bad news. I think we have determined what race Luna abducted this child from. She might not look like it, but my sister has a very complicated relationship with these people and tied her essence to their prime ancestor. She must have picked the ideal progeny from the Hebrew race to be her ward. I don’t know as much about Hebrews as my sister does, but they are very gifted in the occult and use highly advanced magic. I strongly advise caution when encountering one, Twilight.” Celestia says sternly.

“Okay, let me do some more reading about these “Hebrews”, Twilight says, combing through Celestia’s library looking for books more specifically relating to my people. For the next 12 hours, Twilight read nonstop, trying to find any information that could be used to help Princess Celestia defeat her sister and restore harmony to Equestria. One of the more peculiar pieces of information Twilight found pertains to their didactic method of analyzing texts. “Princess Celestia. Why don’t we learn like this? It seems like a more ideal method of conveying and retaining information. These “Hebrews” have been doing this for millennia, and they still seem to be doing just fine.” Twilight asks her teacher, who takes a gander at the page Twilight was looking at.

“Well, the problem is that these people seem to hone this talent on only one book, rather than on everything. No wonder other humans find them silly!” Celestia says to her pupil, who seems unphased by this statement.

“These people are so interesting! They don’t work one day out of seven, they have 613 rules, don’t eat pork and shellfish, and make up a disproportionate amount of Earth’s geniuses. Why do you find them silly, Celestia?” Twilight asks her teacher, confused by her teacher’s potential prejudice towards this particular race of humans.

“Well, I have a complicated relationship with Luna, and anything that can be of use to her is extremely dangerous, even if it is a young teenager. I would strongly advise against contacting this human. Your safety could be at risk!” Celestia warns. Twilight usually is not one to defy orders from anyone, let alone Princess Celestia, but she is so interested in the new knowledge she has acquired over the past 12 hours, that she might do something drastic. “I am going on a field trip, Celestia. I am going to Earth to see these “Hebrews” close up. Maybe I can find some more stuff out about them, teach them the magic of friendship, maybe?” Twilight says, looking for a spell to teleport her to my reality.
“I mean, even if I say no, you are already dead set on doing this, so you have my blessing. Just travel safely!” Celestia says to her pupil, who activates a multiverse portal, walking through whatever trials Earth might have for the young unicorn mare.

EQUESTRIA’S MOON:
“Anyways, the Din Rodef isn’t the only thing you can use to overthrow a monarch, boss.” I explain to Luna, showing her the margins in my Talmud.” Luna looks closely at my texts for a moment and then thinks about what to say.

“Please, Noah. Call me Luna, or Nightmare Moon. No need for such formalities! I told you that already!” She says, noticing that the Golem woke up again, awaiting new orders.

“Before you tell me your second idea, your Golem woke up and wants orders, Noah. Please tell it what to do.” Luna tells me. I turn around and notice the golem.

“Okay, Mr. Golem, I want you to go to Equestria and survey the area for our conquest!” I command the golem. The golem transforms from its humanoid form into a lunar white pegasus and flies off towards Equestria, eager to survey the area.

“Very clever, as always! I knew I picked the right pupil.” Luna says, complimenting me.

“Anyways, Maimonides further elaborates on the Din Rodef, saying that one who doesn’t kill the pursuer is as if he is the pursuer himself! (Rambam, Hilchot Rotzei’ach 1:6,7)”

“Fascinating, so, basically, you are telling me that we have every legal recourse to instill a coup in Equestria, and not doing so would be as if we were Celestia herself?” Luna asks me, to which I nod in approval.

“Excellent! While we wait for your Golem to come back, I need you to keep working on your esoterica. You’d be surprised how much your Kabbalah tradition has that could be of use to us!” Luna says.

“Well, I know that a person has a body and a soul, so astral projection might be possible? One minute, let me try something!” I say, closing my eyes and trying to meditate for a few minutes. I feel something, possibly my soul, leave my new equine body, and begin to float around the castle foyer.

“Woah! I didn’t know I could do that!” I exclaimed, a bit worried that I could see my own body, meditating there in serenity.

“Indeed you can, Noah. In this state, you can sense more spiritual forces, like Shaidim and Angels. I must warn you, though, that if you remain detached from your body for too long, you will not be able to go back, even though I gave you immortality. I gauge you have around an hour in astral form each time you use it. Use it sparingly, Noah.” Luna says, using magic to put my astral form back into my unicorn body. I open my eyes, and everything seems normal. I can move my hooves again, and my tail. Yep, back in my body, alright.

Luna’s eyes quickly widen, realizing that something must be amiss. “Noah, my love. I sense something odd. It seems my sister must have sent her pupil to your reality to try and learn about your people. I cannot allow this. I will be sending you back, temporarily, to Earth, so you can meet this pupil of hers yourself and mitigate the damages. What is cool about this is that I will be sending you back in human form, but you get to keep your magic! Obviously, you will return, correct?” Luna says, her magic aura emanating from her horn.

“Yeah, sure, I like you anyway, I like smart people or ponies. Friends stick together.” I say as Luna sends a magic beam towards me, enveloping me in lunar energy. I feel my hooves turning back into hands, and my body becoming more bipedal. Noah is back! I look and see if Luna gave me my old clothing, and she did! My tzitzit and blue polo shirt are back, and they are dry cleaned (Luna you give good service)!

When the energy dissipates, I notice that I am not in Monsey, but somewhere else. I am a bit disoriented at first, but I eventually realize where I am.

I am in G-d’s happiest place on Earth: Israel, more specifically, Jerusalem.

“Let’s go find a rebel pupil.” I think to myself, trying to figure out where this student of Celestia might be.

Author's Note

AUTHOR’S NOTE

GLOSSARY:

Shaidim: (Hebrew: שֵׁדִים‎) are spirits or demons in Jewish mythology. However, they are not necessarily equivalent to the modern connotation of demons as evil entities.
Tzitzit: Ritual fringes that Observant Jewish men and boys wear.