Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Prospects for Peace

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a conciliatory tone as he took office Tuesday, promising to seek a "permanent arrangement" with the Palestinians and full peace with the entire Arab and Muslim world.

In his speech the Prime Minister reminded how the Jewish and Arab Peoples have had productive periods of history where they lived together peacefully—he held out the hope of a return to those days. Everyone realizes the problem is with the extremists and certainly to moderate extremes helps to lessen the tension, but a strong center is inevitable if there is to be lasting peace.

The Cabala explains how the center of all things is composed from will, the will of each side to meld together; essence is described as will—a focused line emanating from the highest spiritual level down to the very earth. It is this middle line which allows creation to exist and it is this middle line that will bring peace to the Middle East.

Between two wills is the nothing of submission that melds the two together. Islam means Submission and Yehudi/Jewish means Admission; there is no greater love than the love between two brothers because of their equality—there is a way to peace through will and love.

Monday, March 30, 2009

The Curse of the Car

NYT—The White House on Sunday pushed out the chairman of General Motors and instructed Chrysler to form a partnership with the Italian automaker Fiat within 30 days as conditions for receiving another much-needed round of government aid.

A Rebbe a century ago remarked: you should do everything at least once just for the experience with the exception of driving a car; seems the Rebbe did not like cars. Perhaps it was not the car which was repugnant to the Rebbe, but the manner in which the car is massed produced.

Henry Ford, a known anti-Semite and inventor of the assembly line, was famous for saying: why do I need to hire a man when all I need is his hand. That curse has extended into all parts of society where one can sell their brain, their ability—the thing they love most for a buck.

Now the question is whether there is enough good in this complicated dehumanizing apparatus to justify continuation.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Torture and Justice

NYT-LONDON — A Spanish court has taken the first steps toward opening a criminal investigation into allegations that six former high-level Bush administration officials violated international law by providing the legal framework to justify the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, an official close to the case said.

The seventh of the Seven Commandments given by God to the first human beings Adom and Chava and passed on to Noah before the flood is to make courts of law to administer justice. This last commandment given equally to all peoples of the earth involves four other commandments: prohibitions against murder, stealing and the protection of life both human and animal. There are many admonitions in the Torah against judges taking bribes or favoring the rich and powerful—justice must be performed without favor or even compassion.

The Cabala points out that this is the second of seven worlds which is related to the attribute of Gevorah/Severity; it is the job of the human being to sweeten the severity so we can go on to the third world of Teferit/Beauty.

Severity is sweetened by removing the essential evil who exploited this hard, but neutral attribute.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Not Kosher

Oakdale, California's annual Testicle Festival is always a place to have ball. It's common practice on cattle ranches for young male bovines to be castrated into steers, which after the initial loss, eventually makes them more docile and easier to handle. Fans of the delicacy, also referred to as "mountain oysters," come from around the state.

The Talmud-Book of Law describes how the Jewish farmers of that day would fasten a coin the animal’s testicles and a non-Jew would come along and understand that the animal needed to be castrated and here was the reward—plus you could eat them.

The reason why castration is not allowed to the Jewish People from the Torah/Teaching is because we are the Chosen People—chosen to do 613 Commandments corresponding to the 613 divisions in the human body divided 365 connecting vessels to 248 limbs which is reflected in the 365 days of the earthly years and 248 years to Pluto’s cycle around the sun.

The non-Jew has the Seven Commandments of Noah: 1) prohibition against serving idol, 2) prohibition against using God’s Name in vain, 3) prohibition against murder, 4) prohibition against stealing, 5) the obligation to make laws concerning the earth and the life upon the earth, 6) the obligation to make laws concerning sexuality, 7) the obligation the make courts of law to administer justice. These seven commandments correspond to the seven continents upon the earth.

Friday, March 27, 2009

High Waters Rising

Residents of south Fargo, North Dakota, evacuated their homes early on Friday as the Red River rose to its highest level in 111 years. The river is expected to crest by Saturday at 42 feet.

Shlomo, King of Israel son of Dovid wrote in his love poem to God called Shir HaShirim/Song of Songs, “Mighty waters will not be able to conquer my love and rivers will not inundate; if a man gives all the riches of his house with love it will be disrespected.”

Water is an often used metaphor throughout the Torah/Teaching who is compared to the water which emanates from the heavens, but does not lose her essential quality upon the earth.

Water is the sign of life and growth when administered in proper portions; the number 42 in Cabala is the essence of chaos, called Mob, refers to the previous world which was on the planet Mars. The number 111 is the Milue/Essence of the letter Aleph/1 along with being the 111th Congress of the USA.

The letter Aleph depicts the primordial splitting of the waters and 42 represents the essence of chaos; we live in a time when the essence of order and chaos do battle—in the Torah/Teaching it is called, End of Days when true order will overcome chaos.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

New Moon—New Year

The first commandment to the Jewish People at the brink of becoming a nation 3500 years ago is: the new moon of this month will be the beginning of your months—the month is called Nisim/Miracle. The spring time is the New Year for the human being with our unique ability of freedom of choice. Though most decisions in life happen out of practice reactions there are instances of choice which require forethought and intention.

Intention is the key to freedom of choice; actions are often not enough or inappropriate for the situation, but the clarity of one’s intentions can often overcome other obstacles.

It is during this month that Pesach/Passover occurs at the full moon; like the spring, this holiday celebrates birth and freedom. It is a time to reflect on one’s intention in being in this world created by the Creator; it is a time to reflect upon the meaning of life and how to plot our course to the future.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

It’s in the Numbers

President Obama traveled to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to lobby Democratic lawmakers on his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, ahead of votes in the House and Senate this week.

Thirty-six is a seminal number in Cabala which makes a science out of the interchange between numbers and letters. For example, 36 is twice 18-Chai/Life and twice 36 is 72 known as AB the highest number directly related to God’s Name YHVH. Each letter of the YHVH is giver of life and when combined together gives life to the four different forms of existence: inanimate, growing, animal and human who live within the four elements of fire, air, water and earth in the four directions upon the earth.

During these unsettled days it is appropriate to look for some sort of heavenly indication, a Simon Tov/Good Sign, for reassurance. In the Book of Esther which records the end of the first exile—the king says I will give to you up to half the kingdom. Thirty-six is half seventy-two.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Prison Deterrent

On Saturday in Oakland, California Lovelle Mixon, 26, was pulled over by two officers during a routine traffic stop. He opened fire on the officers, killing them and later fatally wounding two SWAT officers who stormed the apartment in which he was hiding.

Originally the American prison system was established as a deterrent; anyone witnessing or even hearing about such brute confinement is naturally deterred from breaking the law. But, after two centuries prisons have morphed into factories of criminality. For some, prison is how to get initiated into the gang, but for others the anger of prison dregs up all the evil inside the person then lets them lose on the streets.

In the Torah/Teaching there are no prisons, but there are Ari Miklot/Cities of Refuge where the criminals live with their families praying for the holiest man in the country to die; when the Cohen/Sever Godal/Great died the slate was wiped clean and all accused were released from the Cities of Refuge.

According to the Cabala, crime happens because holy people do not adequately perform their obligations.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Suicide’s Reward

Nicholas Hughes, the son of poet Sylvia Plath, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia Wevill, did the same. He was 47.

Suicide is the spilling of one’s own blood thereby cutting short the time given by the Creator to conduct life on earth. Life on earth is different from life in heaven where the consciousness reunites with the soul; on the earth, and only on the earth, there is freedom of choice—in the heavens too much light exists and therefore no choice.

Although suicide is prohibited in the Torah/Teaching, still there are instances where suicide is considered the proper response—for example, if one is confronted with idol worship death, it is preferable to die. But, there is a price to suicide beyond death and that is the imprint on life which is left between parent and child and even from those not directly related as seen form this sad poetic story of those too sensitive for life.

In the Cabala, in particular the Sefer Gilgilim/Book of Reincarnations, much is written about the journeys of the soul—most importantly, the impossibility of escaping this physical world or our spiritual obligation.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Holy Land in Trouble

Washington Post, JERUSALEM, March 20—A soldier involved in Israel's recent military offensive in the Gaza Strip said in published reports Friday that the military's rabbinical staff distributed material characterizing the operation as a religious mission to "get rid of the gentiles who disturb us from conquering the Holy Land."

There is no word in Hebrew or in Arabic for religion; religion is based in dogma—an immutable statement of truth that relieves the necessity for reason and thought. The problem with religion stems from those who take the authority to divine the meaning of ancient texts to substantiate actions clearly against the welfare of the earth.

God through the Torah promises the Jewish People the Land of Israel to perform the 613 Commandments. The Talmud-Book of Law states Moshiach will not come until murder is eradicated. To war over security is understandable, but to war over religious ideology is murder.

The rabbis whose job is to determine the law have ventured into politics and disgraced the Torah. It must be remembered that the original conquest of Israel 3500 years ago was only waged against the Seven Tribes of Canaan and not the Palestinians who were there from before the time of Avraham, as recorded in the Torah.

The Cabala describes these Seven Tribes of Canaan as being the seven bad emotions which the Rabbis are exemplifying through their wrongful actions.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Transparency of the President

THE PRESIDENT: It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something. The president called Tim Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, to say he was sorry. "He expressed his disappointment, and he apologized in a way that was very moving. He expressed that he did not intend to humiliate this population," Shriver said today on ABC's "Good Morning America."

The President promised the people even before becoming president that he was not perfect and would certainly make mistakes, but to hear a high official of the government make so public an apology is transparency at its zenith.

The Talmud-Book of Law records the following story. Rebbe Shimon (author of the Zohar-Book of Secret) once remarked on the ugliness of a particular man to which the man replied: God created me. Rebbe followed the man into town continually prostrating himself before the man begging for forgiveness. The great Rebbe humbled before the ugly man who refused to forgive him; when the townsfolk saw this perfidy they persuaded the man to comply.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Happy New Year

Iran played down President Barack Obama's new video message to the Iranian people on Friday, saying it welcomed the overtures but warned that decades of mistrust can't easily be erased.

The President called out for understanding based on common human values, but did not remind the Muslim community who continues warring over Israel, that the Jewish New Year is also only a few weeks away. The Torah/Teaching celebrates a new year in each of the four seasons commemorating one of the four life forms. In the fall is the new year for the earth called Rosh HaShana, in the winter the new year for the trees called Tuba Shavot when the sap begins to rise—the essence of water; in the spring the new year for the human being—Passover. In the summer is celebrated the animal and fire.

The human being is commiserate with the element of air because we have the ability to articulate thoughts into coherent speech. The basis of our ability to communicate complex ideas is the foundation of freedom of choice. As God says in the Torah, I place before you life and death, blessings (Barack) and curses have I put before you—chose life so you and your children will live.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

The No State Solution

Javier Solana, foreign policy chief for the European Union, said in Brussels on Monday that the group would reconsider its relationship with Israel if it did not remain committed to establishing a Palestinian state.

Whether called Israel or Palestine the implacable truth is this little piece of land at the end of the Mediterranean Sea is called Eretz Kodesh/Holy Land and is also called the Promised Land for the promise God gave to Avraham concerning the land 4000 years ago.

The Promised Land, like the Chosen People have both been misunderstood; both ideas have to do more with the spirit than with the substance. The land is established with exact borders to inform the Jewish People where the entire 613 Commandments can be accomplished—many of the commandments have to do with the Temple in Jerusalem or the planting and harvesting of the land within the borders.

The idea of a state, Jewish or Palestinian, is repugnant to God. The only way for peace to exist within the Semitic Peoples, Arab and Jewish, is through our books the Torah and the Koran.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Condoms AIDs Pope

NY Times editorial: Pope Benedict XVI has every right to express his opposition to the use of condoms on moral grounds, in accordance with the official stance of the Roman Catholic Church. But he deserves no credence when he distorts scientific findings about the value of condoms in slowing the spread of the AIDS virus.

Not only does the Pope skew physical evidence, but also disregards what is written in the Torah about a man spilling seed upon the ground. In the Torah the two instances of this commission results from greed and envy; plus, the preservation of life always precludes the law.

Catholics celebrate celibacy whereas the other peoples stemming from the teachings of Avraham 4000 years ago celebrate sexuality. Avraham, who the Midrash-Book of Metaphor says is the reason for creation, beseeched God saying: my life is pointless without children. Avraham is father to the Arab, Jewish peoples where celibacy is a crime against God.

Originally Chaim Vital, author of the Cabala was unable to read the writings of the Ari, father of the Cabala, because they were so sexual; the Ari responded saying, I will teach you everything and you can write it down as you wish—everything in Cabala written by Chaim Vital utilizes sexual inference—the language of truth.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The Symmetry of Creation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks.

The diversity of the atom is regulated by six quarks set in two triangles; the Cabala describes creation also resulting from two triangles known as Zira Unpin/Small Faces that correspond to the two lower triangles of the human form—the torso and the two arms; the sex and the two legs. Instead of an atom the Cabala speaks in terms of Ten Sefirot/Luminaries arranged in three triangles; the upper triangle is comparable to the head housing two hemispheres of the brain plus the illusive third eye.

These three triangles came about due to the splitting of the OreAinSof/LightWithoutEnd causing Will and Pleasure later mirrored by the two lobes of the brain.

These Ten Sefirot arranged in three triangles is the cabalistic atom related to the Four Letter Name of God YHVH. It is written in the Torah/Teaching how the first human being was made in the image of God; when the YHVH is arranged vertically the stick figure of a human being appears.

Monday, March 16, 2009

The Test of Torture

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) concluded in 2007 that US methods to extract information from prisoners at secret CIA jails as part of the "war on terror" amounted to torture.

The Torah teaches the most important element of a leader is to be a Dugma Chai/Living Example; the Talmud-Book of Law relates stories of Rabbis rebuking one another because their actions watched by their students will establish conduct for generations.

The law, no matter how specific, relies upon the moral application overseen by leaders whose integrity is beyond reproach. Arrogance is an unsavory practice.

The Cabala teaches that Moshe who received the Torah from God fell on his face before the word Emet/Truth; the Talmud-Book of Law asks, if Moshe could not stand up to truth than how can we trust the word of Moshe? The answer is simple, the only way to receive truth is through humility and that is why Moshe fell to the ground.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Presidential Religion

A recent article in the New York Times showcases the president’s spiritual advisers—five Christian pastors. The lack of any Jewish, Muslim, Buddhists or other practitioners of the spiritual world is disturbing. Just as the president invites disparate perspectives into the debate of how to fix and run the physical aspects of our country one would think the president would also invite different ethereal ideas into his spiritual development.

The integration of ideas, particularly spiritual ideas, is fundamental to real change; the segregation of spiritual ideas is as dangerous as is the segregation of the races.

The Cabala describes beauty as being the mixture between many colors—one color, insists the Cabala, is not beautiful. The president has chosen five different hues of the same color to guide him to his soul.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Freedom VS Slavery

In 2008, 3.8 million companies had fewer than 10 workers, and they employed 12.4 million people, or roughly 11 percent of the private sector work force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In the Torah slavery is one of the options available for those in need of money. There are strict laws written in the Torah about how to treat the slave and the obligations of the owner to the slave.

The slave goes free if you hurt him, meaning the owner loses the money to the slave—we call it Workman’s Compensation; the owner must provide for the slave a place to live for him and his family plus medical and sustenance. What makes the person a slave is his is not his own person.

The Torah points out if the slave loves being a slave and wants to be a slave forever, the master puts a hole through the ear lobe of the slave to signify that this is the ear that heard in the Torah that it is best to be free. Work and service are the same word, Avoda, which can also mean Slave and Worker.

To do what you love is work; to do another person love is slavery.

Friday, March 13, 2009

The Hard of the Hard

HOUSTON — Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would expand state unemployment benefits.

In Cabala the number five is commiserate with severity; there are five parts of the mouth which produce speech: the lips, the teeth, the tongue, the pallet and the throat—there are also five letters in the Hebrew alphabet which change their form when ending a word, they are known as the Five Severities. Three fives also has a meaning since one is a point, two is line and three a triangle—the first expression of unity and strength.

In Texas, known to be a hard place run by hard people where they top the states in the number of people put to death by the state has shown their true colors—the green and greed of money—by taking first from the most vulnerable.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

New Drug Czar

New York Times, R. Gil Kerlikowske, the chief of the Seattle Police Department, was chosen Wednesday to be the White House drug czar, signaling a shift in emphasis from arrest and prosecution to intervention and treatment.

In this week’s portion of the Torah/Teaching called Ke Tase/When You Take is written the laws concerning the eleven spices burned in the Golden Altar in the innermost part of the Temple. One of the eleven ingredients is Kena Bois/Cannabis. Cannabis was first recorded 4000 years ago in the Near East around the time that Avraham sent his children from Hagar to the east bearing gifts. Cannabis is part of ritual to today in India. The cabalists say the whole point of learning the secrets of the Torah is to get is hand breath off the earth—in the world that is called, getting high.

God created other harsher drugs like heroin which relieves pain and cocaine which can stave off sickness and famine. If the countries from which these drugs derive, like Afghanistan, were allow to cultivate their God-given crop the world would look much different and people would be in less pain.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Europeans Debate Castration of Sex Offenders

In an article in the NY Times asks, whether castration can help rehabilitate violent sex offenders? The practice has come under new scrutiny after the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee last month called surgical castration “invasive, irreversible and mutilating” and demanded that the Czech Republic stop offering the procedure to violent sex offenders. Other critics said that castration threatened to lead society down a dangerous road toward eugenics.

The Cabala in explaining the previous world called Tohu/Chaos, identified as Mars, notes that in Tohu there was no sexuality; the reason there was no sexuality stemmed from the nature of Tohu to accrue life without necessitating a partner—all life in Tohu grew independently. In this world, the second is a series of seven thousand year cycles on seven different worlds, sexuality is yet undefied.

Our world is called Tikun/Fixing the selfish independence of the previous world by requiring partnership achieved through a sublimation of ego into the glue of connectivity. Sexuality is the ninth of the Ten Sefirot; sexuality is more than one tenth of the human being, since sexuality is located in the center of the body and therefore is attached to the very essence—it is from that place children are conceived.

Sexuality strikes at the very uniqueness of the human being who is meant to fix this world—each human being, even the murderer, is considered in the Torah to be a small world.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Purim

The Jewish holiday of Purim is celebrated by a concluding meal that ends in drink; so much drink until, as the law proscribes, one has attain the laudable position where the blessed and the cursed appear to be the same. The world and the news look so strange from that perspective.

Monday, March 9, 2009

In Praise of Fasting

Economists at the World Bank predicted on Sunday that the global economy and the volume of global trade would both shrink this year for the first time since World War II.

There are seven fast days scattered throughout the year commemorating different events in the Jewish calendar; today is the fast of Esther just prior to the holiday Purim. As the economy shrinks and the Jewish People fast is a good time to remember the positive attributes of having less. It is not really necessary to make the economy grow, but to stabilize the economy.

The Torah commands that the Land of Israel needs to rest every seven years and the Talmud-Book of Law says the First Temple was destroyed and the Jewish People exiled to Babylon because they did not sufficiently rest the land. The seventy years of exile which ended in Persia as celebrated by reading the story of Purim from the Book of Esther.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says eventually the entire world will rest the land for seven years, but before we can rest the land first we must rest the economy.

Everyone should know by now, more is not better.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Gog and Mgog

President Obama is risking his presidency on the most ambitious remake of the federal government since Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan the fortieth president was the impetus for 26 years of deregulation of business and the dismantling of the social services. In Hebrew forty is denoted by the letter Mem/40 when used at the beginning of a word becomes causative; the first and second G hints at the two Georges while the middle letter Vav/6 represents the 42nd president.

In Cabala the number 42 called Mob is related to the previous world known as Tohu/Chaos. It was through these four presidents over 26 years who waged the prophetic Wars of Gog and Mgog. The number 26 is related to the YHVH which bring light to world; whatever there is in good is accompanied with an opposite mirrored image

The storm Katrina brought an abrupt end to the Roman Empire. In Hebrew Katrina means: Kater/Crown Na/Please—after 2000 years of Rome God was saying: give me the crown, please because your time is over.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Emissions from Space

The MAGIC telescope in La Palma (Canary Islands), observed a quasar (a celestial body that emits large amounts of radiation) emitting a jet of particles that points directly towards Earth.

In the Talmud-Book of Law is written the following story. Rebbe Yochanan was teaching how the Third Temple which is destined to come down from the heavens will have pillars of diamonds. A student asked, how is it possible to have pillars of diamonds when in the whole earth there are not diamonds bigger than a fist. Rebbe Yochanan was silent.

The student went on a trip out to sea and during the night the heavens opened up and his saw the angels hard at work sculpting the diamond pillars of the Temple. When he returned he told his teacher what he had seen. Rebbe Yochanan said, and when I told you, you did not believe? Immediately, the student acquired the ability of submission and became as the dust of the earth.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Marital Instability

The California Supreme Court appeared ready Thursday to uphold the voters' decision to overrule the court and restore the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

The fight over marriage proves that both sides have lost their way. Marriage has become a dogmatic institution where one gets rewarded through tax breaks and other initiatives for having followed the rules. One of the Seven Commandments given to the people of the earth from the time of Noah and the Flood is to make laws concerning sexuality by which a society can maintain ethical-moral stability, but to include the restriction of marriage goes too far.

The Jewish People who were chosen to perform the 613 Commandments do not require marriage and there is no stigma attached to the child coming out of wedlock. The Cabala is threaded throughout with all sorts of sexual inferences and metaphors speaks nowhere about the necessity of marriage.

In Jewish Law only the man is commanded to marry and have children, the woman is free and only marries for love.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Water on Mars

Mars appears to have had running water on its surface about one million years ago, according to new evidence.

The Torah/Teaching is full of references to Mars as the previous world from which this world was seeded with life attested to by story related of how God called out life buried in the earth. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says that it took 974 generations to produce the life in the previous world called Tohu. From the Zohar-Book of Secret it is obvious the flood also came from Mars; the tell tale signs left on the surface of Mars is proof. Mars is also intrinsic to the workings of Rome whose god is the planet Mars—god of War.

Much valuable information could be gleamed from the ancient books, but their wise words have been relegated to religion leaving room for this obstinate arrogance insisting life just appeared for no reason.

Hubris will end as the light begins.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Home Sweet Home

President Obama unveiled a foreclosure-prevention package today pouring more than $75 billion into helping as many as 9 million homeowners obtain more affordable mortgage terms.

The Cabala teaches there are four types of contractions that reveal God’s intentions: light, vessel, clothing, and home. Light and vessel are inseparable. The light cannot reveal without something to hold the light—it is the reason why the sunlight does not illuminate the space between earth and the sun; the atmosphere of the earth is vessel for the sun.

Clothes and home are peripheral; one is close to the body and the other surrounding and expansive. Clothes keep us from being naked—only the human being is shamed by nudity; the house is for protection and security.

The Talmud-Book of Law says having a home is an intrinsic desire of every human being. The Torah begins with the letter Bet/2 which translates as House. The world is home to God as the body is home to the soul.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Pluto’s Atmosphere

The ESO's Very Large Telescope exploring the ninth planet Pluto has found an unexpectedly large amount of methane in the atmosphere and much higher temperature than earlier proposed. The downgrading of Pluto and her three moons on the inner part of the Kuiper Belt from being a planet resulting from the discovery of a “tenth planet” Eris with an accompanying moon on the other side of the Kuiper Belt has been erroneously understood.

The Zohar Chodesh—Book of Secret describes the six outer planets from the earth is some detail even though Pluto was only discovered 100 years ago and the Cabala later explains how these seven worlds are representative of the seven lower attributes of the Ten Seferiot/Luminaries. The last is called Malkut/Royalty related to the ability to speak. Speech has five elements: lips, teeth, tongue, pallet and throat; Eris her moon and the three moons of Pluto represent these elements of speech.

Further proof can be gleamed from the fact that the earth and her 365 day orbit around the sun together with Pluto’s 248 year orbit around the sun equal 613, the number of commandments in the Torah divided between 248 positive commandments and 365 negative commandments.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Who Insures the Insurer?

The federal government has agreed to provide an additional $30 billion in taxpayer money to the American International Group that reported a $62 billion loss, the biggest quarterly loss in history.

Insurance is based on probability and statistics giving a false sense of security by convincing the unsuspecting worker that without the System there would be chaos. But, is it so? Perhaps the whole financial system is one big Ponzi Scheme with the government ciphering money from the people to keep it going?

All spiritual traditions teach the importance of being a good neighbor and taking personal responsibility for the environment. Justice is also a notable challenge that separates the human from the animal. Trust in the Creator is much more beneficial to society as a whole and to the individual trying to find their way in this weird world.

Trust and faith come from the word Eman/Craftsman. The Cabala explains the commonality between the two words as the second nature which arises from repeated attempts.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

The Charity of Business

Nonprofits are seeing an alarming drop in funding and increased demand for help this year, setting the stage for a complete shakeup of the sector in 2010.

In the Torah Ztadaka/Charity is called HaMitzvah/The Commandment since the concept of Ztadaka is a unifying theme of all the 613 Commandments given to the Jewish People—the Chosen People, chosen to do the Commandments. The institutionalism of Ztadaka has served an expedient end—to make non-profits big business.

The Rabbis originally opposed an institution replacing the common obligation of the individual with an expedient way of fulfilling one’s monetary obligations—giving a piece of their pie to the poor. Eventually, even the Rabbis gave in and started their own institution called religion—a concept unknown to the Jewish People, previously.

The word Ztadaka/Charity comes from Ztadik/Righteous indicating that the act of charity is only a part of the obligation while the remainder rest in the heart and the mind of the giver. It is the intention and the face to face interaction that fulfills the obligation.