The Scapegoat

In all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as "world opinion" and once again the world's oldest story is being played out before our eyes: The Jews are being scapegoated again.

The origin of the scapegoat is found in the Torah/Teaching where on the holiest day of the year Yom HaKiporim/Day of Atonement a goat is sent out into the wilderness to die; the goat of Azzazel, hinting to the jagged cliff that the goat is thrown over, is destined to a hideous type of death.

The scapegoat in the Torah was meant to appease the Satan for a moment so the Jewish People could pray unencumbered. This strange commandment was performed only during the time of the Temple, but the idea of the scapegoat has been usurped by the nations who have chosen the Jewish People to scapegoat their wrongs.

The political ambitions of the west for more than a century to control the Middle East along with the Christian religion who accuses the Jewish People of killing god have purposely caused enmity between brothers–the Jewish and Arab Peoples. Out west they would say, The Jewish People are the pissing post between two cowboys.

The Cabala teaches whatever exists in holiness also exists in the profane. The Torah sacrificed an animal for the sake of the people while the world is willing the sacrifice a people for the sake of politics.

God’s Brain

Michelangelo’s depiction of the human brain and brain stem appears to be drawn on the neck of God in a panel high on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The reason why the Sistine Chapel was commissioned by the Vatican to be painted by Michelangelo was because the people were ignorant and could not read; an illustration was substituted though it clearly states in the beginning of the Ten Commandments: do not make an image of God from the forms of heaven or earth.

This atrocious act of hubris perpetrated by the Church has inspired many by the pure artistry, but to think there is some kind of message embedded within the art is alluring. What did Michelangelo mean by depicting the brain of God in the neck?

The Cabala uses the human anatomy as a guidepost through creation separated in four sections like the human body; the head, torso, limbs plus soul provide the format for spiritual understanding known as the Four Worlds–three of body and one of soul. Matter and spirit have form, but God has no form.

The Cabala explains how cognition is an extreme contractive form of the light; the neck is the most contractive part of the body called Mitzar/Confinement. The brain of the emotions arise in the neck in the form of external cognition through which the heart is inspired.

Sailing into Trouble

The beleaguered BP chief executive, Tony Hayward, attended a yacht race after a hostile interrogation by a US congressional committee on the Gulf Coast oil spill.

The congress is taken a well-worn path forged originally by the Nochus/Serpent who entangled the first human being by persuading the woman to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad. When God asked man why he ate the man blamed the woman–the snake took that example transforming into the Satan/Oppose.

The opposing force in creation stems from the Serpent who entices; the congress enticed the oil companies to drill, made inadequate regulations with lax oversight and when there was an accident became outraged at the oil company. So it is with the soul.

The foreign impulse called Yetzer Hora/Bad Picture Maker purposely tries to ensnarl the human being then gives witness against the soul when life has ended and judgment is pronounced. The human being is so familiar with the Yetzer Hora that the meticulous accounting of one’s errant deeds appears traitorous.

What BP did was criminal but what the Congress does is hypocritical–it is hard to know which one is worse. The human soul has an excuse; neither governments nor corporations have souls. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says in the end God will slay the Yetzer Hora.

Death by Execution

Ronnie Lee Gardner, the convicted double-murderer executed by a firing squad in Utah in the predawn hours Friday, died in a manner that even the state that killed him no longer wants to use.

The death sentence is frequently invoked throughout the Torah making it appear as if for the least mistake involving the 613 commandments one can die. Heaven is very strict, an angel can not do more than one task at at time and changes names according to the task–they have no freedom of will.

The Torah is perfect and the heavens expect perfection; the angles don’t understand human compulsion–but this gives God the opportunity to be compassionate. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor relates, before God created the human being the angels warned: they will cause God anger and God responded, so I will show mercy.

Death was not just a decree from heaven, even the courts had the right to put people to death, but it is taught in the Talmud-Book of Law, if courts put to death more than one person in 70 years then the courts were considered to be murders.

There are four methods of killing: strangulation, decapitation, falling and fire. The courts are commanded that death must be without pain since the four methods were designed to correct the blemish made in the YHVH, the Four Letter Name of God.

Earth Birth

An extremely long stretch of low solar activity in recent years has scientists baffled and scrambling for better forecasting models for the sun.

For a hundred years scientists have been watching the very predictable 11 year cycle of the sun; like the moon, half way through the cycle the sun reaches maximum sun spots then declines over the next 5.5 years. At the end of 2012 when the Mayan calendar ends the sun will reach full-sun status.

However, the sun has been acting up and not cooperating with human predictions leading scientists to discover new, longer cycles of the sun going back 6000 years to the beginning of the Hebrew calendar–coinciding with the earth moving into the galactic horizon on December 21, 2012.

The Mayan calendar which ends on December 21, 2012 began in the year 666 of the Hebrew calendar whose sum 18 makes the the word Chai/Life. The 666 refers to the life force that brings about conception–December 21, 2012 is the due date of earth birth happening in galactic proportions.

These last very hard hundred years are called in the Talmud-Book of Law Chevli Meshichai/Birth Pangs of Moshiach–being lined up with the center of the galaxy on December 21, 2012 is full dilation. Now is the time the world must come together and push.

Palestinian Speak

Israel has announced it will ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Both the Palestinian Authority and the Islamist group Hamas dismissed Israel's announcement, calling for a full lifting of restrictions.

God insisted that Jewish People live together with the Palestinian People 3500 years ago; a hundred years ago a famous cabalists made the following observation concerning the basic nature of the Palestinian. The Rebbe was not speaking politically, but intrinsically.

The Rebbe writes, The Palestinians are happy just to hang around and laugh, saying vain and stupid words that have no point other than to openly express their heart; similarly, on the spiritual side the Palestinians can open the essence of their soul and be happy for no reason.

Every people have traits that can be used for good or bad because every trait is double-sided. In the Talmud-Book of Law the Movai HaPalestiat/Open Alley is related to the Palestinian People whose words are always blowing through the streets. The Torah is called Torat Emet/Teaching of Truth. So why would God want these two people living together?

Opening one’s soul and being happy just to do the commandments of God is considered the greatest of joys and the highest of service. Obviously, God wants the spiritual traits of both peoples together–unwarranted happiness combined with the study and fulfillment of the commandments.

God Burns Cross

Monroe, Ohio: fire officials set damage at $300,000 after lightning struck burning down a 62-foot-high Jesus Christ "King of Kings" cross adjacent to the Solid Rock Church.

Divine intervention is metered out from the heavens and there are many instances throughout the Torah relating such stories, but in modern times these events are called accidents–there is insurance. God is referred to as Zion/Rock because God always was and always will be.

Everything about this complex is strong: the name Solid Rock, the number 62 related to the essential animal and the cross a symbol of the previous world Tohu/Chaos where the animal derives its strength; but, the Midrash-Book of Metaphor points out the weak letters of the Hebrew alphabet are those with only one leg, like the cross.

The Cabala teaches how the Seven Kings of Tohu broke and died seeding our world with life in the form of spiritual letters as reflected in the various forms of DNA; The seven attributes lined up one behind the other beneath the triangle of the head forming the cross.

When God goes out to war God goes out alone; God is forever at war with the idol and the arrogance of man. When God displays anger the world suffers. God wants the good deeds of human beings towards each other and towards the world.

Blood of Life

More than one third of the life-saving blood donations worldwide are made by people under the age of 25, the United Nations World Health Organization announced June 14 on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day.

The human being is called with the general name Adom which can be broken down into Aleph/1; Dom/Blood–the oneness of the soul is in the blood. Murder is called Shikfit Domim/Spilling Blood–the opposite is giving blood to save lives.

It is taught in the Talmud-Book of Law that the soul is invested in the blood, it is one of the 613 Commandments to the Jewish People to cover the blood of an animal after slaughter as a sign of respect. It is also a commandment not to drink blood.

The body is infused with soul from the brain which has very little blood thus able to receive the fire from the soul translating fire into electrical impulses and chemical reactions sending messages to the heart. Life depends upon the heart passing the soul through the blood to the limbs of the body.

The Cabala considers the heart and the lungs to be one–the blood is in the left side and the air in the right side, together they receive the fire from the soul after being diffused through the brain. Blessed are the youth who willingly give their soul to the sick.

The Wet of Mars

A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder scientists.

The Torah is divided between the revealed part of the Torah, meaning the law and the hidden part of the Torah, meaning the Zohar-Book of Secret plus the Cabala, key to the Zohar. In the revealed part of the Torah Mars is called Meadom/Red Maker but in the Zohar, Mars is called Ztia/Dry.

A planet can only be dry once it is wet, but the scientists using the earth as their model have theorized a wrong conclusion. The water was within Mars. According to the Cabala the symmetry and nature of the planets replicates the the Tree of Life, the Ten Sefirot/Lumminaries; the supple earth with a core of molten lead sporting blue, white and green corresponds to Chesed/Kindness, the forth sefira.

Mars is red corresponding to Gevorah/Severity, the firth sefira. Mars has no atmosphere because the core is made from ice as explained in the beginning of the Zohar-Book of Secret. On earth when we hit the rock fire in the form of sparks are emitted, but on Mars when you hit the rock water comes out.

The previous world Tohu/Confusion is identified as Mars where the vessel broke seeding our world with life.

The Apology

June 13, 2010

The Pope apologized for the sexual abuse scandal saying, We beg forgiveness from God and from the persons involved, promising to do everything possible to ensure such abuse will never happen again.

For crimes against God one merely has to ask forgiveness and God who is all merciful will forgive, but crimes against people even God can not forgive. Jewish Law provides some guidance in how to achieve forgiveness from the individual by confronting the victim directly and specifically enumerating the crimes perpetrated by the priest.

The victim has the right to refuse the apology causing the perpetrator to do further introspection and after waiting an appropriate amount of time asking again for forgiveness; after three attempts the perpetration is not required to ask again.

A public show of apology can be helpful in the process, but without direct negotiations with each individual victim the public apology is only a vain display of arrogance. The Church fearing humiliation wants to apologize then move on, but this systemic thousand year problem of priests abusing children requires major change not a general apology.

One of the commandments common to all people in the world is the protection of animals–children are compared to animals because they are defenseless, easily manipulated and hurt. If the individual does not forgive the Church neither will God–as a result the Church will fall and die.

Sailing With God

Abby Sunderland a California teenage sailor attempting to circumnavigate the world was rescued when her boat capsized in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Abby was quoted as saying, God was implicit in her life and her dream to sail around the world. In the Talmud-Book of Law asked the question–who is a Chasid? The term Chasid/Exemplary Person is disputed amongst the Rabbis as to the nature of the Chasid.

Some say the Chasid could not be one who drives donkeys because they are renowned for drinking and fighting; others say perhaps those who drive camel because they are for long periods of time without water–but, all agree a Chasid is a sailor.

Being on the sea is the most ephemeral of experiences; it is where we meet God in the incidences of life, but out at sea incidences never stop. The enormity of the ocean and smallness of the craft make for a perfect setting to engage God.

What God wants most of all is to have a relationship with the human being; when we dream of the precarious is when we dream to be close to God–those who carry our their dreams, whether they reach their goals or not, are heros. In Hebrew Hero is Gebor/Strong; to engage God one must be strong.

Illegal Plants

The seven richest countries consume 84% of the world's supply of legal opiates. For the estimated 10 million people who are suffering from untreated pain, relief is often found only on the black market, or in death.

It is explained in the Cabala how life growing on the surface of the earth is indicative of new essential energy entering into the world; the Talmud-Book of Metaphor says, a blade of grass can not germinate until a star beam touches the plant with instructions to grow.

Astronomy assures us there are more stars in the sky than there are blades of grass on the earth, but the government has intervened between the plant and the human imposing tight restrictions. The beastly government has imposed his will between the human and the vegetation resulting in world pain.

There is much we learn from plants, like how longevity is linked to the depths of the roots and how migration of seeds happens through the natural interaction with animals and birds. The beasts of the forest ravage the land, but the human animal is the worst. How can plants be illegal?

There is no plant, piece of earth or animal which is illegal in the Torah–what is illegal is how we used the earth, the plants and the animals. Our environment is polluted through the greed of the governments providing war to the populous.

Year of the Priests

Thousands of Roman Catholic clergy are in Rome to mark the end of the church-designated "Year for Priests." But the celebrations are overshadowed by the worldwide clerical sex abuse scandal.

In the Torah the priests who worked in the Temple in Jerusalem were called Cohanim–an inherited post dating back to Aaron brother of Moshe who brought the Jewish People out of slavery to become a free nation. Aaron was the first priest and his brother Moshe was the first and only celibate.

Fifty days after leaving Egypt the Jewish People arrived at Har Sinai/Mount Hatred and there received the Torah/Teaching. A few days before the giving of the Torah all the people were commanded to separate man from woman–a prohibition removed afterwards from everyone with the exception of Moshe, to his wife’s dismay.

According to the Torah Moshe was closer to God than human had achieved, therefore Moshe was forbidden any other preoccupation or connection. The Cohanim until today trace back to Aaron whose purity was unequaled, yet the law of the priest is they must marry if they wish to work in the Temple.

Christianity has exploited the Torah and her ways to give birth to religion which arrogantly demands respect for their dogma which has no basis in Torah or any other tradition. Who dares to celebrates the Year of the Priest?

The Urians

The UN Security Council has voted in favor of fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor teaches, During the last days before Moshiach the Arab People will become very strong, but then they will fall and Persia will be predominant until Moshiach arrives. The type of Islam practiced by the Iranian Shiites focuses on Moshiach; the word Iranian mean Aryan.

The people of the world 4000 years ago called them Urians because they had been sent forth by their father, Avraham who had come from Ur Chasdim/Fire of Chasdim. The ancient city of Ur in Iraq is where Avraham first stepped foot on this earth from the planet Mars as hinted at in the name Ur Chasdim.

Avraham was famous plus having come from the Tower of Babel built on Mars brought to the earth a new language. The Cabala says, Avraham knew the 22 movements of the mouth from which he fashioned Arabic for his son Ishmael, Hebrew for his son Yitzchok and then sent his other children off to the East with Sanskrit. Linguists can trance the Indo-European language back to a small tribe of Urians.

All interested parties in resolving the conflict in Israel have in common Moshiach–the Christian West, the Muslim Mid-East and the Jewish People.

Where is Home

June 8, 2010

Longtime White House scribe Helen Thomas fired after declaring that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Germany and Poland.

There is no Hell and there is no Palestine, but there are anti-Semites; the Zohar-Book of Secret says, the eyes and ears are open to the world, but the mouth works only from free will. What is hidden in the heart is revealed through the mouth.

Helen Thomas said what many people think-the Jewish People are not indigenous to the Middle East, which is not true. Though Palestinians are not Arab they are on the most part Muslim. Billions of Muslims against 15 million Jews, half of which are in Israel.

In the long history of the Middle East there was never a Palestine; 2000 years ago after destroying the Temple in Jerusalem and scattering the Jewish People into the diaspora Rome changed the name of Israel to Palestine in remembrance to our ancient enemy–but, it was only in name and never in governance.

Ignorant intellectuals like Helen Thomas muddy the waters. The Jewish People have a genetic fingerprint and it is not from Europe. If the Arab People would accept the Jewish People as brother there would be no problem in sharing the Middle East and no need for violence.

The Uncelebrated

June 7, 1929 Vatican City became a sovereign independent State. Vatican City is approximately 110 acres with a population of around 800 and is ruled by the Bishop of Rome–the Pope.

Premier Mussolini destined to become the fascist leader of Italy during World War Two represented King Victor Emmanuel; it had been a five month process from the signing of the treaty until the deliverance of the deed plus a check for 39 million dollars. There is no celebration on this day.

What is interesting is the dates of the treaty and the day that Mussolini came to the Pope fall on significant days in the Hebrew calendar. February 11th was the first day of the new moon of Adar, the month in which a great miracle was made for the Jewish People; the new moon of Adar begins the time of happiness.

June 7th of that year was the second day of Shavuot when the giving of the Torah is celebrated; the second day is celebrated only in exile. It is in the incidences of time where God is seen and deeper understanders can occur.

The Jewish and Roman Peoples are forever tied together as the Torah says, As Rome rises Israel falls and as Israel rises Rome falls; these two twin progenitors of peoples, Yaakov and Esau, who struggled out of the womb continue until today.

Aging Happiness

A large Gallup poll has found that by almost any measure, people get happier as they get older, and researchers are not sure why.

The Bal Shem Tov, Jewish mystic 250 years ago, taught how children and grandparents have a natural affinity since they have a common enemy–the parents. Children are naturally happy as are the elderly, the years in between are filled with aspirations trying to attain happiness.

The Torah/Teaching explains how the child has recently come from the soul and elderly are going back to the soul, the middle age is full of striving for more. Many save for their old age only to find things do not suffice– the power of the soul is more alluring.

The Cabala explains how the power of the soul derives ability from staring into the OreAinSof/LightWithoutEnd from where she was hewn; the OreAinSof/LightWithoutEnd is a reflection of the Creator–seeing is pleasure. The child still sees heaven and the elders begin to remember.

What is happiness and why is the most productive part of life the most unhappy? The Torah teaches, we go down to go up; the most down time is the time away from the soul–furthest from heaven. The way the soul gets closer to God is through coming down to the earth to perfect physicality.

Food for Politics

Commandos boarded the MV Rachel Corrie cargo ship as it made its way to the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the Israel-imposed sea blockade.

Rachel Corrie was the name of the young woman from Seattle who tried to stand up against an Israeli bulldozer losing her life–pointless as this ongoing conflict. The name Rachel is famous in the Torah for being one of the four wives who produced the 12 Tribes of Yisroel/Israel.

Rachel is buried just outside of Bethlehem where it says she cries for the Jewish People living in exile–even in Israel the Jewish People are in exile. Since the beginning of the Jewish nation politics has been her downfall. Politics caused the people to wander 40 years in the wilderness and it was politics that caused the earth to open and swallow the camp of Korek–a family amongst the holiest of the tribes.

Politics is the art of posturing, a thing embellished by Rome then exported throughout the world; politics is the science of the lie. Dovid who built Jerusalem was beloved by God because he was not a politician–Dovid means Beloved.

The Cabala explains how Rachel represents true speech and proper action; Rachel means Lamb and it also means Soft. The softness has gone out of the world, the lamb has nowhere to pasture and Rachel cries.

The Jewish People

Using sophisticated genomic analysis, scientists have probed the ancestry of several Jewish populations. This study shows that although the Jewish people experienced genetic mixing with surrounding populations, they retained a genetic coherence.

The Jewish People are a people–one of the two Semitic Peoples, Arab and Jewish. People who claim Jewish is a religion are unaware that there is no word in Hebrew for religion, the word Dat/Law is used instead. Being a people held together by DNA instead of some common theology is far more stable.

From the inception of the Jewish People 3500 years ago Gerim/Strangers were allowed to join with the Jewish People accounting for other genetic strains, but the Jewish DNA remains unchanged.

The Ger Ztadik/Righteous Stranger assumes the obligation of the 613 Commandments written in the Torah. The Ger Tashav/Dwelling Stranger are those who wish to live and learn from the Jewish People while remaining obligated only to the Seven Commandments of Noah. The Jewish People are required to bring both types of Jewish converts into the community and treat them properly for we were also strangers in a strange land.

Jewish Law corroborated by the Cabala traces Jewish through the soul–the first born of human souls passed on through the mother. The DNA is expressed in the body but the soul is expressed through the Torah.

Almost Perfect

With two outs in the ninth inning the first-base umpire erroneously called the Cleveland Indians’ Jason Donald safe on a close play at first base preventing Detroit’s Armando Galarraga becoming the 20th pitcher, and third in the last four weeks, to throw a perfect game.

There has never been three perfect games thrown in one year and now there were almost three after the first third of the season. Perfection like truth has three levels: lips, mouth and breath. Similarly a perfect game in baseball requires the pitcher, the players and the umpires all to be perfect.

The idea of perfection seduces the human spirit because perfect is whole; wholeness in Hebrew is termed Shalom/Peace. Seeing perfection in any part of life brings peace to the world. The public is infuriated at the official who was imperfect in his call and later apologized, but the players understand the game is one of perfection.

The game of baseball is metaphoric to life on earth where God pitches and we catch, but there always seems something between the person and God trying to hit the thing away and score a run against us; there are errors and bad officiating–there is the home team advantage and there are times you are away.

The Cabalistic Tree of Life can be drawn out to look like a baseball diamond; the batter, the tenth player who turns towards the other nine is a perfect replica of how the Ten Sefirot function.

Form vs Substance

Google's alleged transitioning of its employees away from Windows-based systems out of concerns for security which resulted in the theft of intellectual property shows on a vulnerability in Internet Explorer.

The difference between Microsoft and Macintosh is emblematic of a deep spiritual divide which is transitioning in our time from substance to form. Microsoft language is letter-number oriented while Macintosh is iconic based. The Torah prophesied a future visual language of world-wide proportions.

Science informs us as to the particularization of matter in the same way the Cabala teaches concerning the spiritual hierarchy of creation made of ethereal substance, but what we see is the form not the substance. Earth at her lowest level is but dust and ashes–where we came from, where we are going.

The form is temporal like a bubble upon the stream and all creation before God is like a bubble embedded within the light of creation. The world is bogged down with particulars whose value is the coin of the realm redeemable in silver, gold or the promise of governments.

The human being naturally sees form before the surprise of substance, yet within substance is buried a deep pleasure; but substance can be stolen whereas form is forever changing. In Cabala this is referred to Kly/Vessel and and Ore/Light; light seeks the proper vessel.

Brotherly Love

Israel faces intense international condemnation and growing domestic questions after a raid by naval commandos killed nine people on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza.

The laws of war as defined in the Torah provides an escape for those trapped to encourage peace through negotiations; Israel has always been judged on a higher standard than the rest of the world and the Jewish People have accepted that standard to make ourselves better.

When we fall, we fall a long ways. It was only 60 years ago when the British were taking the same actions against the Jews trying to makes their way to Israel; force as a deterrent only infuriates those being ruled–Israel must not fight a war against the entire Middle East, it is unthinkable.

It says in the Torah that all the ways of Torah/Teaching are ways of Sholom/Peace. Sholom also means Complete because without peace nothing is complete. The dream of love and peace from the Sixties has not diminished in the heart of man, but the malignancy of politics and war has increased many fold.

The Torah teaches that the greatest love is between brothers and it is during times like this that needs to be remembered and understood that the Jewish and Arab Peoples are brothers coming from one father Avraham 4000 years ago.