Giving the Soul

A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population.

There is a thing about sports more than watching the perfection of the performers; it is the competitiveness of sports which gives it its edge and those who play the sport do so with the forgone knowledge to the dangers of the sport–it is part of the sport.

In the Torah/Teaching this attribute is called by the term Maserit Nefesh/Giving Soul–relinquishing one’s own life for a higher purpose. Life is not about how long you live but how well you live, what you do in your life.

The soul is attached to the body on a mission from God like a player in a game who is asked to give more than his part–to give the soul, to give up the life. What is the reward for giving up life? There is none because the act causes closeness with God which eradicates all vestige of person or soul.

During Yom Kippur is read the story of the sons of Aaron who brought a strange sacrifice to come closer God and were consumed by the fire.

The Middle Way

NYT–As if it were not complicated enough, the debate over health care in Congress is becoming a battlefield in the fight over abortion.

People like to say that pregnancy is either you are or you are not, but that is not true–there is a middle way corroborated by both science and Torah. The law of the Torah from the very beginning of talmudic teachings is the child begins 41 days after conception and science notes a sudden change in the embryo at 41 days.

The Cabala explains how there must be a space between the soul and body in order to allow the transference of essence into form. The sun can only deliver his light by breaking the oneness of light into individual photons. Even the light from God undergoes a similar process.

The Four Letter Name of God YHVH which portrays the past, present and future as one is interrupted by the Name Elohim the basis for nature; within nature is replicated the YHVH from the four divisions in the heavens to the four elements–the human being is the final manifestation of the YHVH imbued with freedom of choice.

The forty days from conception of a child is when the woman is allowed to chose whether or not to have a child without it being an abortion.

Lions Win

The Detroit Lions were able to run onto the field in celebration of their first win in 20 games. This was the Lions' first regular-season win since Dec. 23, 2007 as they snapped a 19-game losing skid.

There is a spiritual significance in all things in their time, some are more obvious than others like the NFL Detroit Lions who averted 20 loses in a row on the eve of Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement for the Jewish People. Winning on the 20th is significant since the number 20 refers to Keter/Crown as reflected in the power of will and the power of pleasure–the two essential forces of the human soul invested in the body as a crown that surrounds.

Coming on the eve of Yom Kippur is also significant since the ten days between Rosh HaShana/New Year and Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement are days of Royalty when God is crowned by the people accepting the judgement of the King. Yom Kippur ends with the fifth and final prayer as the sun declines on the holy day called Nilia/Locking extolling the Creator as King.

After Nila we go back to calling God Ail/Kind instead of Melech/King. Lions are the symbol of kindness in the Torah and is often embroidered into the cloth covering of the Torah–two lions with crowns on their heads.

Yom Kippur

In 2009 Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement) begins at sundown on Sunday September 27 and ends at nightfall on Monday September 28.

Yom Kippur is a celebration stemming from God’s forgiveness 3500 years ago after the Jewish People built the Golden Calf at the giving of the Torah 50 days after leaving the slavery of Mitzriam/Egypt. During those fifty days the Jewish People went from eating bread from the earth to eating bread from the heavens, Mana; water ran out of a rock forming 12 rivers to quench the thirst of the 12 tribes who they travelled in a cloud.

After having spent forty days and forty nights on the mountain called Sinai/Hatred, Moshe returned for another set of forty days and nights without water or food until God agreed to forgive the Jewish People and instructed Moshe to return to the people to tell them then return to the mountain for another forty days and forty nights which ends this evening with Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement.

The prescriptions for this day includes fasting fro food and water for the purpose of approaching an angelic state; all pleasures of the flesh are denied on this day–even sleep is not permitted for those who are able.

At the end of the day the last prayer, called Nila/Locking, the doors of the Ark are opened indicating there is no separation between creation and the Creator.

Disciplining Children

American children whose parents use spanking for discipline have lower IQs than those who aren't spanked, a new study finds.

I once had two teachers, one was old and the other young; when I married and began having children I asked my teachers, what was the trick to raising children? The young one said, Don’t scream at your children because screaming does no good; sometimes if the child is really bad you might have to give a little hit, but the main thing is to love the child. When I asked my teacher who was old he said: Don’t hit your children because hitting does no good, sometimes if the child is really bad you might have to scream a little bit, but the main thing is to love the child.

God is the parent and we are the children. God does not hit us and God does not scream at us–God loves us and all of creation.

The Bal Shem Tov, Jewish mystic 250 years ago, said to a man who asked, how to love God? The Bal Shem Tov responded saying: love what God loves.

Moon Water

The molecules and hydroxyl—a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom—were discovered across the entire surface of earth’s nearest celestial neighbor, the moon.

It is known in the Torah that the Noah’s Flood came from outside the earth’s atmosphere; called the Waters of Tohu/Chaos they are compared in the Midrash–Book of Metaphor to a wet dream which covered the earth in a veneer of water about 30 feet deep.

The Cabala explains that the water came from Mars coming to the earth over a period of centuries, watched by the inhabitants of earth arriving in the year 1666. Since this water came from the planet Mars known to the ancients as Ztia/Dry it had to pass the moon–the reason why the back side of the moon, unlike the front side, is without distinctive features. Since this water had not been commanded during the Six Days of Creation to seek depth it therefore covered with a veneer.

The recent discovery on the moon is physical proof of the flood.

The Torah is a blueprint to the methods and the design of creation because within the design of creation is the message of the Creator. God being neither physical or spiritual speaks through creation to creation.

An Articulate Leader

The United Nations Security Council, with President Obama acting as chairman, unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday morning aimed at increasing deterrents for withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. “We must demonstrate that international law is not an empty promise, and that treaties will be enforced,” he said.

The Cabala teaches that during the ten days between Rosh HaShana and Yom Kipur are built the ten levels of Malchut/Royalty; it is during this time God is referred to as Melech/King–the final judge. These ten days correspond to the Ten Sefirot, the cabalistic atom from which all things are comprised also known as the Tree of Life.

The human body is the ultimate expression of the Four Letter Name of God YHVH which is the source to the Ten Sefirot formed in three triangles melding male and female energies through intersecting lines, but the tenth is a circle, the mouth–she is woman. The attribute of woman is speech; speech is what differentiates between the human and the animal.

The last American administration brought brutal force to world politics and pushed the world to the brink; the new administration has shown the wisdom of patience, dialogue and conciliation to the world table in an articulate manner from the lips of America’s president.

During this time is read in the Torah how all the people are gathered together from ten levels from the head until those who collect the wood and bring the water–stating we are all equal before God.

Justice to All

Ahmadinejad's latest visit to New York comes not long after his most recent allegations that the Holocaust was a lie.

The world should take this opportunity to have a global court made from judges throughout the world so the Jewish People can present evidence and eye-witness accounts; those who question the validity of the evidence can bring proof to their claims.

Having courts of law is the last of the Seven Commandments given to the human being from Noah over 4000 years ago; in our time of world participation over world problems no doubt should be left to fester breeding more doubt. Denying justice to the Iranian president is consummate with denying the Holocaust.

In the Torah there is no question that does not deserve an answer based on logical and evidential truth; logic and proof is the foundation for Torah and the Koran–why not take the opportunity to convene a court and put the Holocaust on trial?

The Cabala teaches the greatest act one can do in this physical world is to turn bad into good; above the abode in heaven where dwells Rabbi Shimmon author of the Zohar-Book of Secret is a sign: enter here only those who have turned bitter into sweet.

Mars Revisited

The widespread idea that Mars is red due to rocks being rusted by the water that once flooded the red planet may not be correct. Recent laboratory studies show that red dust may be formed by ongoing grinding of surface rocks.

The planet Mars figures notably into the the Torah’s concept of creation being the previous world from where our earth was seeded with life; in the Torah Mars is called Tohu/Chaos because life accrued in a manner coinciding with Darwin’s theory Survival of the Fittest–everything wanted everything.

It was a world-wide feeding frenzy that led to the end of life on Mars. The Egyptians, the first civilization on the earth prayed to the planet Mars; the underground world they envisioned was the internal world of Mars–all of the six planets out from the earth support internal life as is detailed in the Zohar and Zohar Chodesh–Book of Secret.

The earth and Mars, the blue and red planets are direct opposites; on the earth decay is buried in the ground while on Mars waste is excreted to the surface–Mars is red because she is the world representing the fifth sefira of the Ten Sefirot, also known as the Tree of life, called Gevorah/Strength. The color red is the color of Gevorah.

The blue earth is the color of kindness, mixed with the red life from Mars which runs in our blood comprises compassion–green.

Fast of Gedaliah

The Fast of Gedaliah is an annual fast day immediately following Rosh Hashanah instituted by the Jewish Sages to commemorate the assassination of Gedaliah Ben Achikam, the Governor of Israel during the days of Nebuchadnetzar King of Babylon destroyer of the First Temple.

Jewish fast days are akin to animal sacrifice where the blood and the fat of the animal was sacrificed on the alter; by not eating, the fire of the body burns the flesh for nourishment–our sacrifice to God for what transpired over 2500 years ago. It is during this time we cry out to God asking, “Turn your ears, open your eyes and see our desolation.”

The Fast of Gedaliah is not for the destruction of the First Temple where the animal sacrificed brought down pillars of fire in the form of a lion, but for the way the Jewish People acted after the destruction by assassinating their own leader. Five hundred years later the Second Temple was destroyed and now after 2000 years of exile–for the first time the majority of Jewish population lives within the borders of Israel.

The Jewish People are coming home as prophesied. The Jewish People are constantly being tested and criticized for our return, not to see if we are pure, but to help us to be better.

The Third Temple Cometh

Researchers have discovered an unusual kind of meteorite in the Western Australian desert and uncovered where in the Solar System it came from. The researchers' network of cameras takes a single time-lapse picture every night to record any fireballs in the sky.

It is written throughout the Oral Tradition in the Talmud–Book of Law, Midrash-Book of Metaphor and Zohar-Book of Secret about how the Third Temple will descend from the heavens; instances are recorded of the heavens opening and people witnessing angels chipping away from the diamond pillars, making them smooth in preparation of being planted on the earth.

With astronomers watching every portion of the heavens it will be hard to miss the Third Temple slowly making its way to the earth at the behest of Moshiach within the next 230 years to fulfill the ancient prophesies. Many signs have already come from the heavens and many more will be revealed in the future, but none of this can happen until the Third Temple is begun here on earth–on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Given the climate of the Middle East that may seem unlikely, but the truth is that beginning has already begun for almost 1500 years ago when the newly formed Muslims built the Dome of the Rock, which is not a Mosque, but rather a tribute to the Jewish Prophets Dovid and his son Shlomo who built the First Temple.

All that is needed is recognition.

Rosh HaShana/New Year

Rosh HaShana is the Jewish New Year occurring ten days before Yom Kippur. Together, Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur are known as the Days of Awe in Hebrew.

The forty-eight hours of Rosh HaShana are considered to be one day as are the two hemispheres inside the head is considered to be one brain; actually there are three major sections of the brain, the third being the cerebellum at the back. The middle of the forehead corresponds to Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement; Rosh literally means Head–the Head of the Year.

All bodily functions begin in the head; similarly, all events for the coming year are already taking shape inside these two days that celebrate the beginning of human history on planet earth–the birth of Adom/Adam 5770 years ago. It is during these two days that the blessings of God saturate the earth.

The Jewish People commemorate this day by sounding the Shofar/Ram’s Horn; the commandment of the Shofar in the Torah is related to Avraham/Abraham who at the moment before slaying his son Yitzchok/Issac he saw a ram in the thicket and sacrificed the ram instead–3800 years later the Jewish People sound the shofar to remind God we are the children of the father and son ready to sacrifice themselves for God.

The Cabala explains the reason time is circular because “The end fits into the beginning and the beginning fits into the end;” Rosh HaShana represents the point of connection between end and beginning–each completed cycle makes a new ring in the crown of creation worn by the Creator.

It is during these ten day between Rosh HaShana and Yom Kipur that we call God Malech/King as we ask for God’s blessing.

May the world be blessed with peace.

Iran Denies Holocaust

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust was a "myth" as he addressed the annual Quds Day rally in Tehran on Friday, reiterating comments that sparked outrage around the world.

Apparently the phrase he used was the Zionist pretext for the State of Israel, calling it a myth; it was unanimously agreed that he was speaking about the Holocaust, but what if he was not? What if he was speaking about the Torah?

The Holocaust is not mentioned openly in the Koran but the Torah is greatly lauded and many of the same stories from ancient times replete with the same personages are repeated along with the story of how the Land of Israel was given by God to the Jewish People to perform the 613 Commandments.

The making of the State of Israel was only done to conform to the powers of the world who regulate themselves according to the ways of Rome who destroyed the Temple and cast the Jewish People out into a 2000 year exile–but, with God help we have survived.

As real as is the Holocaust so is the Torah–which is the real pretext for the Jewish People living on the the Land of Israel.

Peter Paul and Mary

Last night brought the news that Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary, at age 72, has passed away. Travers was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004, but only recently stopped performing.

This trio of idealists was the soul of our nation taking us through the the tremulous times of the sixties; for fifty years singing the soul of America. The trio is no more, the feminine part of the soul has arisen into heaven along with that beautiful, evocative voice.

It says in the Torah that the angels in heaven can not begin to sing until the human being sings first; the Cabala adds the simile that water is compared to the Torah and wine is compared to the secret of the Torah; oil is compared to the song of the Torah–oil floats above them all. Water nurtures growth, wine brings out pleasure, oil supports fire–light is the essence of the soul.

The number fifty indicates forever as it says in the Torah a Jewish slave will be forever, but is released every fifty years for the Yuvol–Final Earth Rest; 72 is the highest number related to the YHVH Four Letter Name of God indicating the completion of the human soul within the body. Fifty and seventy makes 120 the full number of years for a human life as prescribed in the Torah–there are two numbers left over, Peter and Paul.

A Time of Judgement

A United Nations report that accuses Israel of committing war crimes during its offensive against Hamas in Gaza is "dangerous" and legitimizes terrorism, Israel's deputy foreign minister said Wednesday.

It states in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor it is better to be judged on earth than in heaven because earthly judgement has room for compassion whereas heavenly judgement is strict beyond comparison; only compassion from God can mitigate the heavenly judgement. Besides God, one’s self is the most important judge.

On the eve of Rosh HaShana/New Year 1939 the German army invaded Poland resulting in the beginning of World War II and the slaughtering of six million Jews; now 70 years later on the cusp of Rosh HaShana/New Year 2009 the United Nations disputes Israel’s claim to self-protection for the over six million Jews who live in Israel. Israel has always been held to a higher standard of moral behavior which she has accepted upon herself to be an example to the nations.

The ten days between Rosh HaShana/New Year and Yom Kipur/Day of Atonement are called Yomim Norim/Days of Awe–it is during this time that God is referred to as King because the king in this world is the final arbiter in the process of judgement.

During the days just before the Rosh HaShana/New Year are recited special prayers called Slichot/Forgivenesses to enter into the holiday in a state of spiritual clarity.

Bush Shoer Released

The Iraqi journalist who threw a pair of shoes at President Bush was released on Tuesday after serving nine months. "I'm not a hero," he said, "but when I saw the war criminal Bush, I wanted to show my resentment–after six years of occupation, this killer came to my country smiling and bragging about victory."

The shoe figures prominently in the Middle East in both the Jewish and Arab traditions; by the Arabs considered it an insult to show the bottom of one’s shoe; in Torah it is considered a disgrace to go without shoes. Spiritually shoes are considered filthy, having tread upon the earth and thereby require the washing of the hands before prayer; the Arabs take off their shoes before they pray.

Spiritually speaking there is an angel whose job it is to tie the earth with the heaven; the angel’s name is Matatron also known as Sandalar (like in Sandal) because the shoe connects heaven to earth through the medium of the human being standing erect with head in heaven and feet on the ground. On Yom Kipur/Day of Atonement coming up soon the congregation goes without shoes a sign of no interruption between the Jewish People and God.

The Iraqi shoe slinger who took down the president has served his time for breaking the law yet there remains a spiritual significance to what he did. In the Talmud-Book of Law is written about finishing a process with Maka B’Patesh/Hammer Hit–it was this last hit of humiliation which ended the ancient prophesied War of Gog and Magog.

the Dogman

An audio message purportedly by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been released on an Islamist website. The message comes just two days after the US marked the eighth anniversary of the 11 September attacks on America.

In the preface to the Zohar-Book of Secret is mentioned Baladen saying: he is not a human being but an animal–the dog who comes after the lion. In the First Temple built by Shlomo HaMalech/King Solomon there were many miracles recounted in the Talmud-Book of Law; on the alter where animals were sacrificed a lion would appear in the form of sparks and eat the flesh of the animal, but if one did not merit to see the miracle instead they would see a dog crouched on the edge of the alter.

In the Torah/Teaching the lion is greatly praised while the dog is an example of an animal eating its own vomit. Other world leaders have also compared themselves to lions like Nebakanezer King of Babylon who destroyed the First Temple 2500 years ago. Saadam Husein compared himself to Nebakanezer and also compared himself to a lion. The dog is obviously Baladen or in our time Ben Laden.

It is known that each person’s name is prophetic since the soul comes in through the name, Osama/And the Poison; Ben Laden/Baladen–the dog man.

A Hairy Solution

A new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, believes its teenage inventor Milan Karki, 18, who comes from a  village in rural Nepal.

Hair figures prominently in the Cabala which traces the transference of light from sublime heights through thin lines of illumination called Shairot/Hairs. There are two types of hair that protrude from the head: the hair of the head and the hair of the face, the beard.

It is said that the hair of the head is the Posalot/Dregs of brains released through the hair; the beard hair is different in its texture resembling pubic hair and being attached to the face in what the Zohar-Book of Secret calls the 13 points of the beard corresponding to the 13 degrees of compassion.

The number 13 is the gematria of the word Echud/One and yet the hair is in two parts: the outer perimeter of the hair surrounding the hollow inside of the hair. Hairs are little transmitters of pleasure, the reason for body hair, particularly pubic hairs to aid sexual pleasure.

Therefore, it is not at all surprising that hair would also have the properties conducive to to transferring physical light to be used on the earth.

Hermaphrodite

The controversy over gender row champion runner Caster Semenya deepened today–after reports claimed sex swap tests have shown she is a hermaphrodite. South African gold-medallist Semenya, 18, has both male and female organs, it was claimed.

The famous statement in the Torah that God created Adom (human being) male and female is interpreted by the Midrash-Book of Metaphor as being hermaphrodite–the perfect human being. The first human was able to be impregnated from within, Semenya, a women harbors two testicles within.

Rosh HaShana /New Year is the holiday celebrating that first creation 5770 years ago; Rosh HaShana is celebrated this year beginning Friday night–this two day holiday corresponds to the two hemispheres of the brain male and female.

The first human being was male with female within; man’s inability to identify women caused God to split them in two; Semenya is the opposite: women without and male within–perhaps this is reflective of the coming 1000 years denoted as the Thousand Years of Woman when peace will reign supreme. A picture of Semenya reveals a beautiful women with slightly masculine features.

The Cabala maintains that beauty is only found in the mixing of different types like one would mix color; the ultimate mixing is of male and female the building blocks of creation.

Hubble’s New Eyes

According to NASA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe.

Ironic that this is happening a week before Rosh HaShana the Jewish New Year which begins a new decade denoted by the letter Aiyin/70 which means Eyes. The Torah explains that sight is not only receiving and processing the light, but also a light comes out from within the eye to merge with the incoming illumination.

This process of sight is a replication from the first light of creation called Adom Kadmin/First Form which was light produced by two movements called Noti V’Lo Nuti/Incline and Not Incline; this primordial inclination of going out and going in produced two types of light called Ore Yasher/Straight Light and Ore Chazer/Returning light the source of the the light which fills the worlds known as Mamale/Filling and Sovev/Surrounding whose physical manifestation is AC/Alternating Current.

The straight light is what is seen and the returning light is how we see the light, how we understand what we see. The number seventy also has relevance to sight made of these two lights because seven is the culmination of six–the six days of the week find conclusion in the seventh, the Shabbot.

Obama Vows

Admitting he is not the first, but vowing to be the last president to deal with Health Care in America President Obama is determined to fix this century old problem.

In the Torah vowing is considered to be an innate resource of every human being called upon during times of duress. Vows are believed without question, but a vow is more than a promise as demonstrated by the similarity to the words in Hebrew for Shavoa/Vow and Savoia/Satisfied.

Satisfaction is a type of pleasure that accompanies reaching self-imposed goals. It is pleasure that lures in us the higher expectation that satisfies to the depth of the soul. Pleasure is counted as the inner aspect of essence by the Cabala; pleasure commands will, the other side of essence–essence drives the human being even beyond logic.

The president usually mild-mannered and conciliatory was combative and forceful, so is the power of the vow. Marriage is a vow, military service is a vow, but vowing to change Washington is a combination of the two–the commitment to hold together but also the obligation to fight for what is right.

Being president is a tricky business, like the head bird flying at the point of the V needs to part the invisible wall of air so the ones behind can follow.

Wall, Man and Ape

An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind, experts say. The wall is built of enormous boulders, confounding archaeologists as to how ancient peoples built it.

Avraham, patriarch to the Jewish, Arab and Roman Peoples lived during the building of this wall; in fact, his grandson Yaakov built a monument in that place by melding rocks into one as the Written Torah relates in the story of Yaakov and his dream about how the angels were going up and coming down.

The Talmud-Book of Law explains the angels of Israel who accompanied Yaakov went back to heaven and the angels of the rest of the world met him as he journeyed forth into the world. When Yaakov got to his destination there was a boulder upon a spring which he lifts off to the amazement of the onlookers as if he is uncorking a bottle.

Instead of confounding archaeologists these discoveries should open the eyes of the world to the truth of ancient times populated by giants and people of renown. The academic rendering of human history contends a slow ponderous meandering from ape to man; this errant, philosophically damaging attitude becomes less viable with each discovery.

The Cabala relates the human form to the Four Letter Name of God YHVH which when the letters are arranged vertically makes the stick figure of a human being.

the Palin Revenge

President Barack Obama went forward with a controversial speech to students nationwide Tuesday, preceding it by advising young people at a suburban Virginia school to ``be careful what you post on Facebook. “Whatever you do,” he told them, “it will be pulled up later in your life.”

In heaven where every word and act is recorded the greatest punishment is one of shame; on the earth things are hidden making it easier to have freedom of choice–there is no freedom of choice in heaven because there is too much light in heaven.

Ironically, politicians who are notorious liars are suddenly being expected to be without a blemish; the president is snubbed when he wants to address the children; advisers have to resign because they harbor opinions that make people in power uncomfortable.

This pernicious disease of the mouth that minority is engaging is meant to inflict chaos into order–the last burning embers of the Bush regime. The Torah/Teaching suggests, when faced with those who jeer and distort it is best to go in and become stronger–do what is right.

The Cabala explains it is possible to be stupid for God and it is a good thing–to be crazy for God takes one beyond the rational boundaries but to be stupid for the sake of revenge and power, the Sarah Palin baiting game, is just nuts.

The Labor of Weaponry

The United States expanded its role as the world’s leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, according to a new Congressional study released today–Labor Day.

Ironic it is to see such a report on the day set aside to honor labor. It has been over 50 years since President Eisenhower warned America against the Military-Industrial Complex; it seems the warning went unheeded.

More than any other nation in the world America is representative of the entire world–the great melting pot of cultures and peoples living peaceably together; yet, the purveyor of arms is not surprisingly the provoker of wars. Each bomb that drops has the fingerprint of every American.

One’s spiritual path in ancient languages was invariably described as Work; in Hebrew the name for Work is Avoda taken from the word Eved/Slave. Engraved above the gate to the entrance of the Auschwitz Death Camp was the motto: Work will set you free.

There are two types of slavery one of oppression and the other of submission. Serving God is a lifelong work as it says in the Talmud-Book of Law, there is much work, the boss (God) is screaming and the workers (the human being) are lazy.

Working for God to make creation better is rewarded with life; working for man is rewarded with death.

The Dogma of Religion

An acute struggle is emerging within the Hamas movement, which rules this coastal Palestinian strip, over the extent and nature of its Islamist identity. Guardians of religious morality have sought to impose their views in recent months.

Neither religion or dogma is mentioned anywhere in the Koran or the Torah; religion is the means by which individuals exploit the Book for a hidden agenda: war, money and power. Dogma is the tool that manipulates unsuspecting vulnerable human beings by authority of religion; the assertion of the dogma restrains natural human development for malevolent purposes.

Both the Torah and the Koran are meant to be debated for the purpose of revealing the depth of the exact text transmitted to the earth through prophesy; showing respect for individual freedom of choice to interpret the text, the diverse opinions and viewpoints allow for unity. By personalizing the text one can maintain a personal relationship with the Creator.

The purpose of authority is to establish boundaries of strictness and leniency–to include most opinions. Those whose extreme perspective is outside of the authority resort to dogma for an implacable unsustainable attitude meant to enslave the populous.

The Zohar-Book of Secret and the Cabala key to open the Zohar reveal the intricate process of how the light pervades the heavens filtering into the earth delivering spiritual justice–one can only hope that their karma runs over their dogma.

The Law of the Land

The Bush administration, in its efforts to protect the country after 9/11, acted in ways at odds with the Constitution  according to the San Francisco Federal Court that found John Ashcroft, then-attorney general, violated the rights of U.S. citizens by ordering arrests on material witness warrants when the government lacked probable cause.

America never had a monarch, instead establishing a state based on law derived from logic rooted in the constitution with safeguards to insure against manipulation. It is one of the Seven Commandments given to the human being 6000 years ago and transmitted through Noah to establish courts of law; the law of the monarch does not fulfill that requirement of the Mitzvah/Commandment from Noah.

The upside of the monarch is he who made the law can change the law by extending mercy. During the ten days between Rosh HaShana/New Year and Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement we call God, King and accept upon ourselves the Law of the Torah. Also during these ten days we ask God for mercy; the rest of the year is blessed from these ten days beginning September 19.

The Cabala explains how Rosh HaShana means the Head of the Year because the head controls the body; Yom Kippur is the day that Moshe brought down the Ten Commandments and the people were forgiven–Law without compassion is not justice except for those who administer the law, to them there is not mercy.

MJ Buried

Nearly two months after Michael Jackson’s death more than 200 family and close friends attended him to the final resting place.

Jewish Laws demands the body be buried as soon as possible because the time between death and burial is a transitional time before the soul raises into heaven; it is during this time the dead and the living converse–after the soul enters into heaven a process of forgetting begins. As it happened Michael Jackson had a long transition period perhaps because there were so many people who needed to say goodbye.

It is noted in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor that the people mourned longer for Aaron who was the first Cohen/Server to God than they did for his brother Moshe who had received and transmitted the Torah even though both brothers had sacrificed themselves for the good of the Jewish People.

The Talmud-Book of Law explains that Aaron was called Ruduf Shalom/Peace Runner because he would run to make peace between couples having an argument. Moshe brought the Law from the head, but Aaron brought the Love from the heart. The Cabala explains how the head is higher meaning closer to the heavens but the heart is closer to God.

Music opens the heart to God, thank you Michael Jackson.

Worlds Without End

Antimatter galaxies and dark matter have long haunted physicists' theories, but no instrument in orbit has had the power to confirm or deny their existence. Now a $1.5 billion cosmic ray detector scheduled for launch in 2010 could usher in a new era.

The Cabala is replete with references to worlds that shine and worlds that do not shine; the Midrash-Book of Metaphor says in the beginning creation did not know if God wanted the light or the darkness until God said of the light–it is good. Since division and equality are inherent in creation it only stands to reason that much of the universe has yet to be detected.

The scientists reason that only four percent of existence “shines.” Four is an interesting number since God’s Four Letter Name YHVH is responsible for the four elements, the four directions and the four divisions in space; leaving the other 96 percent unseen–similar to how icebergs reveal only a small part of their mass.

The world is full of similes because the human being is also made in the form of the YHVH making all creation to be a representation of ourselves thus throwing suspicion upon our theories.

It is important to look at science from the standpoint of knowledge gleamed from the ancient wisdom written by masters who understood the story and metaphor of life; going beyond the four into the 96–Epha/Where is the gematria 96.javascript:void(0)

The Internet

It was 40 years ago today that computer scientists at the University of California established a network connection between two computers, creating the very first node of what we now know as the Internet.

The Sixties were a transition period spirited by the Baby Boomers born at the end of WWII riding a wave of peace and love inherited by the Beatniks, clarified by the Hippies whose demise was celebrated in the famous Woodstock debacle of three days in the mud.

Out of the Sixties came the Yippies a radical political offshoot which morphed into the Yuppies which culminated with the Dinks–double income no children.

At the same time that freedom and love transitioned into money and greed technology had a more secretive advance. The internet initially was developed secretly over the years as a governmental tool to help control the masses but the secret leaked out.

It was prophesied thousands of years ago that when Moshiach would arrive the entire world would know at one time. Until recently people expected a miraculous event, but instead the internet was born. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says Moshiach will arrive Behereft Ayin/In Blink of the Eye; the Cabala adds–the coming decade, beginning in a few weeks, is denoted by the letter Ayin/70 which means Eyes.

Fire and Water

As if the raging wildfires near Los Angeles weren't bad enough, there's a new frightening twist: fire tornadoes; hurricane Jimena sent tourists fleeing Tuesday as it bore down on Mexico's Baja California.

The heavens in Hebrew is called Shamiam a collaboration between the words Ash/Fire and Miam/Water. The earth is dependent upon the heavens to produce water to grow the crops, air to circulate the seeds and the warmth of fire to make things grow but if the heavens become angry thrashing the world with winds that whip up the seas and fires with tornadoes then the heavens destroy instead of create. Extreme weather is like a sickness overtaking the body, causing pain and suffering–requiring sometimes months to recover.

Recently the Pope tried to pin global warming and extreme weather on atheists, intimating that the heavens were angry because people did not believe in God. There are few atheists in the world but lots of religious people and if the heavens are angry it is probably at the religious people–no one sees the atheists out there making war.

The Ten Commandments speaks of other gods because there is no word in Hebrew for religion; there are no words for religion in Arabic or Sanskrit either. The Cabala compares Torah/Teaching to water which comes from a high place but does not lose her purity upon the earth and the Law is compared to fire–the proper mix produces peace.