The Party of Light

Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party is a political earthquake that will have far-reaching consequences for a host of policy and political issues.

In the American political arena the major parties Democrat and Republican represent the two diverse perceptions of our country–one from without and with from within. The Republican traditionally looked at the country as a whole that interfaced with the rest of the world, while the Democrats excelled in the demographics of the country looking at the welfare and rights of the individual.

The reason this political system has successfully evolved is because it mirrors creation made of two light called Sovev Kol Olomim/Surrounding Light and Mimulai Kol Olomim/Filling Light--an inner light and a peripheral light.

The inner light nourishes life while the outer light holds creation in the infinite care of the Creator. Whenever human endeavor strives to mirror creation success is inevitable.

The End of the Beginning

President Barack Obama Marks 100 Days in Office.

One hundred is significant since it is a number built from ten; ten is fundamental to life in our solar system made from the sun and nine planets; the earth made of seven continents and three oceans; and the human being with ten fingers and ten toes–a hundred is ten times ten.

The Talmud-Book of Law establishes 100 as being death as it says in the Mishna at 90 you are bent and 100 you are dead–what has ended is the beginning. Met/Dead and Ashun/Smoke share the gematria of 420 which refers to the previous world (Tohu/Chaos-Mars) which was built from six times seven equalling 42 as taught in the Cabala.

The chaos inflicted upon the world by those who pray to Mars is beginning repair by those who wish to fix this world and make it right.

Dylan Releases 33rd

Bob Dylan prophet of our times for over fifty years has released his 33rd album; fifty is considered forever in the Torah as in a slave who sells himself forever goes free after 50 years and 33 is also famous.

The release of the 33rd album comes precisely two weeks before the holiday known as Lag Bomer the 33rd day of counting the omer. The 33rd day of the Omer is famous because it is when Rabbi Shimon ben Y’Choi author of the Zohar-Book of Secret 2000 years ago passed away.

Rabbi Shimon instructed his students to celebrate at his passing because he was going back to his essence–this day is celebrated throughout the world with dancing and fire.

In Cabala 33 is known as deep of the deep after that begins the process of illumination; as Bob says in his new album–I feel a change coming on.

Water at the Ends of the Universe

ScienceDaily (Apr. 26, 2009) — Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date. The water vapor is thought to be contained in a jet ejected from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a far off galaxy.

In the story of creation as related in the Torah/Teaching the only thing which is really created is the human being, everything else including the animals existed previously--the four elements were arranged in their place and the animals were called out of the earth.

The Cabala explains how water existed before fire in a state of ice so cold that it precluded movement; only when movement occurred was there fire and matter along with the concept of time and space. Water is the symbol of unity, the nature of water is to hold together.

At the end of the holiday of Succoth in the fall it is said a drop of liquid, likened to a drop of sperm, is released from the frozen light which exists beyond creation, called OreAinSof/LightWithoutEnd, giving life to creation.

Swine Flu

In a briefing at the White House, the acting head of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Richard Besser, confirmed a 20th case of the flu, this one in Ohio.

Pigs are omnivores, and despite their reputation for gluttony, they are generally social and intelligent animals. In a sense pigs are the closest animal to the human being supplying animal parts for those in need like the former vice president. The pig in Hebrew Chazir means Return as it says in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor in the end the pig will return to become kosher.

Rome who destroyed the Second Temple and dispersed the Jewish People throughout the world are portrayed in the Talmud-Book of Law as a pig with a golden rig through his nose; the pig is pulled by the nose and the gold is what he smells.

Our society has built an economic system based on consumerism or for better words, gluttony. By cutting waste at government levels sets an example for the populous.

The New Moon

The Jewish year revolves around the moon and tonight is the first night of the second month a very prestigious time--the day when the First and Second Temple’s construction began; it is also when the Jewish People entered into the wilderness.

The Twelves months of the Jewish calendar correspond to the Twelve Tribes of the Jewish People--this month is the tribe of Yiscicar symbolized by the ox. This northern tribe was known for their ability to sit and study--their were renown for their understanding of the transits of the stars and the regulating of time.

This time, today has an added importance since the holiday of the new moon coincides with the counting of the Omer whose number is 17 gematria Tov/Good--known as Tiferit Sheba Tiferit/Beauty of Beauty when all things are good.

The Center of War

ROME, April 24 (RIA Novosti) -- The first round of Russian-U.S. consultations on a new strategic arms reductions treaty began in Rome on Friday.

It is well known and explained in length in the Cabala how a thing can only be fixed from the essence--the essence of war is Rome. The blessing of Rome, “To live by the sword” given to Esau father of Rome has spent his last. Esau is the twin brother of Yaakov progenitor of the 12 Tribes of the Jewish People.

There are two aspects of Rome--the military and the royalty who have wrapped themselves in the religion of Rome; it is the religion of Rome which has always given direction to the military since the time of the first crusades. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor predicted 2000 years ago that the last King of Rome would be called Irom/Naked because of the embarrassment brought upon his people--Bush in Hebrew means embarrassment.

It is a very good sign that peace is being negotiated in the epicenter of war.

The Bigger Apple

Apple Inc.'s second quarter net income of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 a share, compared to $1.05 billion, or $1.16 a share posting revenue of $8.16 billion, up from $7.51 billion in the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 2.22 million Macintosh computers the company sold 11.01 million iPods during the quarter, iPhone units sold were 3.79 million, a 123 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.

Numbers only have meaning when related to words; in Hebrew each letter has an accompanied number so each word has a sum—called gematria. Numbers are indicators that by themselves mean nothing. Even those things which exist beyond the scope of numbers are only a fraction of creation.

The apple which is famous for the creation story has the Name of God implicit within its form through the intertwining of the Y/10, H/5, V/6, H/5, in the form of ten seeds in five pockets, a stem which looks like a Vav and five petal flower on the bottom of the apple representing the final Hey/5.

The YHVH, the Four Letter Name of God is the first representation of the Creator wanting to express kindness in the world, according to the Midrash-Book of Metaphor.

Another World

We’re getting closer to finding an Earth-like planet out there in the universe. Spanish astronomers announced the discovery of the smallest exo-planet found to date, located 30 light years from earth.

It says in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor that God created endless worlds, but these worlds have little to do with the earth embedded in our solar system. The Talmud-Book of Law cautions against pursuing pointless knowledge and in the Gemora called Chagiga/Holiday Offerings where is discussed how creation came into being through a weave of light lines, says do not try to understand before creation or after creation—these other worlds are within creation.

The question is what is the purpose of this discovery and others like it? If it is to show that our potent universe can produce life spontaneously thereby exempting the need for a Creator then the discovery is meaningless, but if the discovery leads to greater awe of the Creator then it is a beautiful piece of knowledge.

Racism and Israel

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on Monday used the platform of a United Nations conference in Geneva on combating racism to disparage Israel as a “cruel and repressive racist regime.”

What makes a person Jewish is their soul. The Jewish Soul according to the Midrash-Book of Metaphor existed prior to creation and promised the Creator to receive the Torah and do the 613 Commandments; the Creator in turn promised to bring Moshiach by the year 6000—the present date is 5769.

The difference in the souls created afterwards as part of creation and the Jewish Soul that preceded creation can be seen in the Seven Commandments of Noah and the 613 of the Torah. The human body like the Earth can be divided in to seven sections; the 613 are divided 365 positive and 248 negative commandments corresponding the inner workings of the body as portrayed in the outer seven orbits around the sun—365 earth days and 248 earth years the cycle of Pluto, the outer planet.

The majority of Jewish People, for the first time in 2000 years live once again in Israel—the Promised Land. The Jewish People are not a race and not a religion, what makes us Jewish is our soul with the obligation of the 613 Commandments many of which can only be done on the Land of Israel.

Happy 420

April 20 has long been an unofficial day of celebration for marijuana fans, an occasion for campus smoke-outs, concerts and cannabis festivals.

Ahsun/Smoke in Hebrew has the gematria, the numeric value of the word (based on each of the 22 letters having a designed value) the Aiyin/70, Shin/300 and Nun/50 equal 420; also it is taught in the Cabala that the word Ashun/Smoke is an acrostic for Olam/World; Shuna/Time and Nefesh/Soul—creation is but smoke. There is no prohibition against drugs in the Torah and marijuana was one of the ingredients used in the Temple to make the incense.

The right to free expression stems from the right to free thought—all peoples have aids to help them see beyond the physical reality to conceive of thoughts yet unthinkable.

Columbine's 10th Anniversary

There were no speeches at the vigil on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School.

In the Talmud-Book of Law says there is nothing to say before the dead; in the Cabala ten is completeness and it is interesting to note that the shooting at Columbine High School which so shocked the nation happened just as the war in Kosavo began—President Clinton went on national TV to announce to Americans that we do not solved our problems through violence. Since then there has been nothing but war—the war of the hypocrites. What started in murder has ended in murder, but now is a new time.

It says in the Talmud-Book of Law that Moshiach will come when murder is eradicated. Murder is one of the crimes equally held by both the Jewish People in their 613 Commandments and the other peoples of the world through the Seven Commandments of Noah. The Rabbis say that even shaming a person is a type of murder—that is why blood rushes to their face.

The Pig in Politics

(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he’s “gravely concerned” about U.S.-born journalist Roxana Saberi, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage by an Iranian court after a closed-door trial last week.

One of the ways the nations speak to one another is through the imprisonment of foreign nationals under trumped up or irrational claims—each nation expresses outrage, yet each is guilt of what they abhor.

This piggish behavior was recently mentioned in the Torah/Teaching portion always following Passover. The Torah point out that only one animal in the world possesses the outer sign of a kosher mammal, cloven hoofs, but not the inner sign of multiple stomachs—the pig. This trait is characteristic of the hypocrite—denouncing an action they themselves commit.

The administering of justice through courts of law is one the Seven Commandments given to Noah after the flood; these Seven Commandments are applicable to every person and each nation before the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

1906 Remembered

San Francisco celebrated a memory that will not die with a small ceremony and a big cheer for two survivors of the 1906 fire and earthquake.

The San Francisco earthquake, the largest earthquake ever recorded happened in the year 5666 of the Hebrew calendar. The number 666 which adds up to 18 Chai/Life is a point of culmination in each of the six cycles in the six thousand years of human history upon planet earth. In 1666 as recorded in the Torah/Teaching the flood happened.

This final thousand year period is known as the thousand years of Sod/Secret relating to the sex which broke open in San Francisco 103 years ago. Also, one week before the beginning of 5666 Einstein published his famous equation of E=MC squared; in this same year Picasso discovered cubism—science plots creation in a cube; the Ten Commandments were given in two cubes; the Kaaba in Mecca is a cube.

A hundred years later, brought on by the hurricane Katrina in 5766, the Roman Empire began to fall—never to arise again.

Obama Goes South

At the fifth Summit of the Americas, Latin American leaders are expected to press President Obama on the global economy and U.S. policies on Cuba and on drugs.

In the Cabala is noted the fact that most of the world’s population exists in the north and that two-thirds of the world is made of water—these sages did not know this from science, but from an intricate understanding of creation. They explain how this world is the second in a series of seven worlds and being second means Gevorah/Severity which is located in the north.

There are seven worlds, likened to the seven continents, which relate to the seven emotions, the lower segment of the Ten Sefirot; it is wildly accepted within the Torah that the emotions ultimately are more important than mind.

Surrounding the Shema Yisroel proclaiming God’s omnipresence in creation, before and after, is the word Ahavta/Love You. Be sure, the president will not be judged by his intellect as he travels south, but by his emotions.

The Cabala of Baseball

“Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.” Yogi Berra, widely quoted for his Yogi-Isms will throw out the ceremonial first pitch Thursday afternoon to open the new Yankee Stadium.

There are many cabalistic inferences to the game of baseball particularly the arrangement of the nine positions plus the batter which looks like the Ten Seferot known as the Tree of Life and the four bases corresponding to the Four Worlds of creation Atzilot/Close; Briah/Creation; Yitzira/Form; Asiya/Action.

To transverse all the bases is called a home run where you return to where you began; similarly with life—we come from a very pure place and will return to that place after life if our at bat was successful.

Not everyone can hit a home run and most of us depend upon others to knock us in. In heaven there are crowds of people cheering us on throughout our lives, booing when we make mistakes, but holding out hope until the end.

Yogi Berra, who is 83 years old (83 in Hebrew is Paz/Fine Gold personifies the game of baseball, a game which teaches a lot about life; my personal favorite of Yogi’s teachings is, “When you come to the fork in the road, take it.”

Moshiach’s Meal

Passover concludes with a final meal dedicated to Moshiach who must appear before the next 230 years—the expiration of the Hebrew calendar. In the year 5666/1906 a great Rebbe in Russia asked his students to drink four glasses of wine because the Four Alephim/1111 was coming into the world. A hundred years later the 111th Congress and the president as head Aleph/One comprise the 1111; the four cups of wine makes its difficult to continue.

The 1111 refers to the four parts of the brain pictured in the four compartments of the Tephilin worn on the head during prayer. The year 666 is significant because it infers the climax of the thousand years of Ysod/Secret when all the secrets of the world are being revealed; a week before the year 5666 began Einstein published E equal MC squared and Picasso discovered Cubism as the earth shook beneath San Francisco from where the truth comes forth.

According to the Talmud-Book of Law at the end of Moshiach’s meal a cup of wine is passed between the ancient elders until it reaches Dovid who says, I will take the cup of salvation and cry out to God.

The Dog in the White House

The incoming presidential pup is slated to debut at the White House later today. Bo was named after Bo Diddley the great blues musician of fifties.

In Hebrew Dog is Calev a word made from two words: Col/All, Lev/Heart; it is a common cliché that dog is man’s best friend. In Perek Shira a compilations of verses attributed to animal souls, quotes the dog as saying (Tihilim/Psalms 95/6) Come prostrate, and bend the knee before God who made us.

The Torah is adamant that all of creation is alive and speaks before the Creator, most are regulated by their nature and speak only what is in their mouths to speak, but the human being has what the cabalists call the 22 movements of the mouth which corresponds to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

The ability to speak, to articulate thoughts from the endless possibilities hidden within the mind fed by the soul, is what makes us elevates us beyond our fellow creatures. Perhaps the importance of having a dog in the White House is to deliver the message to the President, bow the knees Barack in Hebrew means Knees) and remember who created us.

God and the Law

President Obama had authorized the use of force if Capt. Richard Phillips was believed to be in danger, so U.S. snipers fired when the pirates aimed an automatic rifle at their hostage.

In the Torah is written the laws of the Rodef/Chaser and the Nedef/Chased—the obligation on the witnesses is to stop the Chaser at any cost even if it requires killing him. The Torah is concerned with justifying killing prior to inquiry, in this case it was more than chasing it was kidnapping.

In the Torah there are delineated three types of Law: Chuckim—laws that have no apparent reason; Adut—laws from witnessed events; Mishpot—laws of an obvious nature. The reason why these obvious laws are written into the Torah is to encourage humanity not only to do what is right out of logic, but also right before God.

As is seen in nature God created a devouring world, but the human being is distinguished through our premeditated thoughts melding justice with compassion.

Christians without Crosses

JERUSALEM (AP) — Christians prayed at an ancient church and sang in a garden outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City as they marked Easter Sunday in the city where they believe Jesus was crucified and resurrected.

The Easter story is the worse blood libel ever perpetuated against a people—there is not even one substantiated piece of evidence that this gruesome story ever happened. Great historians like Josephus, Pliny and Philo write in great detail about this time period, but not one word about Jesus or the cross. In the end the story of Jesus and the cross is as fictitious as the eggs produced by the Easter bunny.

According to recent studies at the University of Jerusalem this story has been the cause of hundreds of millions Jewish deaths. If Christians wish to meld together with the other spiritual traditions that scatter the earth they must relinquish the cross, the Easter story plus the promise of Hell and Armageddon.

A world-wide inquiry into the credibility of this story has produced not one thread of evidence rendering this horrible story a hate crime against the Jewish People and all peoples.

Passover and Easter

Canarsie Courier:The springtime holidays for Jews and Catholics — Passover and Easter — occur simultaneously this year. Despite being a quirk of the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars, these celebrations bring to mind the principal themes of renewal and hope.

The reason why these two holidays always fall close to one another is because even though the Roman calendar is affixed according to the sun, for this holiday they use the moon which regulates the Hebrew calendar.

The difference in the sun and the moon is significant. The sun is always on while the moon is in constant flux; similarly these two peoples have reflected the sun and the moon—the Roman Empire after 2000 years of rule is beginning to set while the Jewish People have wandered the earth constantly adapting.

The holiday of Passover celebrates the birth of the Jewish nation and going forth in freedom to serve the will of the Creator bringing forth Moshiach, while Christianity celebrates the cruel crucifixion of their savior.

There is nothing even remotely similar between Passover and Easter.

Passover in White House

President Obama and a collection of guests celebrated Passover Thursday evening with what White House officials believe to be the first Passover Seder dinner hosted by an American president.

Have a black family in the White House celebrating the Jewish Passover which commemorates breaking the bonds of slavery 3500 years ago is a beautiful metaphor. The metaphor speaks to a higher truth that can not be articulated, but by a picture.

For the Jewish People Passover is the historical point when the people became a nation and fifty days later received the Torah. The counting of the Omer during these seven weeks separates between the servitude of man in Egypt to the servitude of God through the Torah/Teaching.

The Cabala introduces the idea of the seven emotions which require purification during this time—the first day is known as Chesed Shaba Chesed/Kindness of Kindness—a good day for the Presidential Seder.

Torah Central

From the time the Torah was received by Moshe on the mountain named Sinai/Hatred it was divided into weekly sections finishing the Torah each year—that practice continues until today. Today’s portion in the Torah, which is also the first day of Passover, begins with Drash-Drash two words denoting inquiry. Between these two words is the center of the words in the Torah; tomorrow the center of the Torah letters is denoted by a large letter Nun/50 in the world Nachus/Serpent. Two thousand years later the people who composed the Talmud known as Divri Sofrim/Word Counters eventually, after millennium of exile developed the language of the Cabala.

It is on this day also that the announcement of Tal/Dew was made throughout the Jewish world. Though the seasons are divided into four, there is yet another division between rain and dew. The beginning of spring, on the first day of the seven day holiday Passover announces dew; six months later at the end of the other seven day holiday Suchot is announced rain.

During Passover you can eat anywhere, but no leaven; during Suchot you can eat what you wish, but only in the Sucha—a small temporary dwelling erected for this seven day period.

Sun Renewed Passover Eve

Every twenty-eight years the sun returns to the place in the heavens where it was in the fourth day of creation when the celestial bodies were solidified in their orbit; there is a blessing accompanying this event acknowledging the Creator as having Oseh Maasa Berashith/Performing the Acts of Creation. The fundamental difference between the profane and truly profound is in the acknowledgment that the Creator is in the world and not the product of a spontaneous Big Bang, but rather the intricate design and constant creation of the Creator.

God who is neither physical nor spiritual, allowing God to be everywhere all the time to everything and to everybody, chose the heavens as vehicles of communications to the earth; having this 28 year cycle happen hours before the celebration of Passover which is the holiday of the spring rejoicing in the freedom of humanity as told during the Passover Seder of how the Jewish People were released from slavery and brought out into freedom as a nation is a shout from the heavens.

In this extraordinary time of world-wide change, the correcting of the 30 hour a year fraction is significant; in Hebrew is the Lamed—a large letter towering above the other letters is known as the connection between the heavens and earth. This special time is what is called in the Torah, End of Day; when the next 28 year event happens the 6000 year Hebrew calendar will have only 300 years left.

Rome Shakes and Shudders

Monday's 6.3-magnitude event in Abruzzo, Italy shook Rome. In Cabala 63 is the number signifying the essence of the beast.

The earthquake ninety miles east of Rome was close enough to be felt by Romans everywhere in the world because Abruzzo in Hebrew translates as Father of Hints; in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor is written that in the End of Days Rome will be destroyed leaving only one wall standing. The Rome referred to in the Torah is not the modern city of Rome, but the epicenter of power whose fulcrum is the Holy Roman Church—the Vatican considered in the UN as an independent country with zero population growth.

In Hebrew the word Rome means elevated; the father of Rome, Esau twin brother of Yaakov progenitor of the Twelve Tribes of the Jewish People, was known for his arrogance and desire to consume. The End of Days referred to in the Torah is the time when three ancient calendars are about to end: the two thousand year old Roman calendar at 2000, the 5000 year old Mayan calendar in 2012 and the 6000 year old Hebrew calendar a few hundred years later.

Rome is being warned by God that all Romans should take heed.

S&P 500 and the 13 Year Cycle

In 2002 the S&P 500 index bottomed at 777 and a month ago on March 6th the index hit 666 in a 13th month cycle according to the blog Trend & Value Letter.

The Cabala relates the number 777 to the Angel of Death, the number 666 to orgasm and 13 is the gematria of Echud/One. Attributing characteristic to numbers is important because it is a way for God to communicate directly. Since the Creator of creation is neither physical nor spiritual God has the problem of communicating to creation through the human being who has freedom of choice.

Sometimes God jokes to make a hard time less difficult like naming the leaders of our country who were bent on raping the world Dick and Bush; now that it is all over it is obvious that Bush was only a cover for Dick. Other times God just wants to let us know when the misery begins and when it is over.

Looks like the bottom has been hit—now we can ascend without limit.

First Lady

Michelle Obama's role of First Lady on Friday provided the backdrop for the equivalent of the Jackie-Kennedy-takes-Paris moment of 1961.

The Zohar-Book of Secret states: a king without a queen is not a king, nor is he great. The element of woman is deep and supportive and no man is a king without a woman at his side. The Talmud-Book of Law relates how women were placed before men in the Temple. The Midrash-Book of Metapor tells how the creation of man came from two women mirroring what is found through genetics that all embryos begin as female.

The Cabala says the letter Mem refers to complete woman and that is why the Book Mishlay/Proverbs begin with a large Mem indicating that this book is about women—the woman of valor who crowns her husband. The Talmud also says when people are pleases it is an indication that God is pleases.

God bless our beautiful President and First Lady.

Gay Marriage

DES MOINES — Same-sex couples will be allowed to marry in Iowa by month’s end, after a ruling on Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court that found unconstitutional a state law limiting marriage to a man and a woman.

The Torah/Teaching is a document used by many nations to provide a moral guide, but without knowing the Oral Tradition which accompanies the written text mistakes are inevitable—take sexuality. According to the Torah only Jewish men are forbidden same sex sexual relationships—there is no implicit prohibition to males not Jewish; perhaps it is why the greatest love, according to the Talmud-Book of Law was between Dovid and Yonaton—two men.

In Torah there is no proscription against woman being with other woman; it was how woman were able to be independent from men even while married.

According to the Zohar-Book of Secret the first letter Aleph is representative of the sexual relationship between man and woman; the Zohar concludes that a man should not speak to his woman like a whore because it will cause his destined children to be of improper behavior.

$1.1 Trillion for World Crisis

At the Group of 20 summit meeting a call to fight the financial crisis, announced at its conclusion that the leaders had committed to $1.1 trillion in new funds that would greatly increase the capital available to the International Monetary Fund. The goal would be a revival in trade, which is expected to contract this year for the first time in 30 years.

It is said in the Torah/Teaching the greatest charity is giving needed resources to help the disadvantaged achieve independents. In the Cabala 11 is a number relevant to essence—that which is beyond particular; the Ten Sefirot/Luminaries the cabalistic atom as portrayed in the sun and the nine planets, the seven continents and the three oceans and in the form of the human being built upon three pillars distributing three triangles leading to speech are the particulars.

The number 11 shows on the hidden springs of Pleasure and Will the two essential components of life. For those struggling to survive will is essential and every pleasure provides sustenance to continue life feeding the will like a woman feeds a man when he returns home weaken by the toil of life.

Extremism Breeds Extremism

NYT JERUSALEM—In a blunt and belligerent speech on his first day as Israel’s new foreign minister, the hawkish nationalist Avigdor Lieberman declared Wednesday that “those who wish for peace should prepare for war” and that Israel was not obligated by understandings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached at an American-sponsored peace conference in late 2007.

I received this letter from a friend today: Early this afternoon an Arab Terrorist attacked children in the center of the yishuv. Shlomo Nativ, 14, was killed by ax blows to his head, and another boy, Yair (ben Michal) Gamliel was injured. His father, Ofer Gamliel, btw, is in prison for an unsuccessful attack against arabs.

Our son Chaim, on the rapid response team, received an alert that an attack had taken place and that the arab(s) had run off in a certain direction. He gave chase on his motorcycle and on an overgrown track seriously banged a foot, managing to continue on bike and later on foot into the arab village and capture a suspect. Only afterward, about 15 minutes ago, he was taken by ambulance to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital for x-rays, etc.
The funeral is this afternoon at 5.

The Most Dangerous Place

President Obama recently called the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan as "the most dangerous place in the world."

The problems in Kashmir and the difficulties with the Palestinians both result from the borders and the partitions erected by the English in 1948 when Israel became a state and have been the epicenters of world discord ever since.

The Khaiber Pass, Kashmir and Jerusalem are all ancient portals to the heavens as clearly described in the Torah/Teaching. Warring at spiritual portals are ways to war against Heaven—there are those who believe God sits in Heaven and therefore they war against Heaven. Spiritual ascension is a war against the negative energy implicit in physicality—those bent on war against God exploit those holy places by means of cruel dictates.

Just as war in a spiritual portal strikes at the very essence so too the solution must reach the very essence of the problem. When the Jewish, Muslim and Hindu Peoples realize there is no contradiction from their texts then the portal can be opened and new light can come to the world.