The Big Buy Back

Native American tribes tired of waiting for the U.S. government to honor centuries-old treaties are buying back land where their ancestors lived and putting it in a federal trust.

A 100 years ago the Jewish People began buying back Israel from the Turks in order to establish communal lands; they were sold the worst tracts, swamps filled with malaria and other diseases–they brought in eucalyptus from Australia and drained the swamps turning them into futile fields, they reclaimed the deserts.

The Jewish People are indigenous to Israel as are the Palestinians who with their allies wanted to wipe Israel from the map. The Kurds are another indigenous people forced from the a land which today is called Iran.

Though in the American Indian belief system land can not be bought and sold according to the Torah there is a mechanism for the purchase of the immutable. Earth in Hebrew Eretz has the inner meaning of Aleph Rutz/I Run; it is known that the Native American frequently ran across this country before the white man emerged to take control.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says in the end all the world will be considered Holy Land and like the Land of Israel will be required to rest the land every seven years–a sign of respect.

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.