THE CABALA OF 45

A new study suggests that memory, reasoning and comprehension can start to slip as early as age 45; it was previously believed that cognitive ability does not decline before the age of 60.

The age of 45 is commonly known as mid-life crisis when the individual suddenly begins to question the meaning of life, having lived four and a half decades. The 22 letters of the Hebrew are each designated with a value; 45 makes the word Mah/What – what is life's purpose?

The Cabala explains, Chochma, the name for the power of the right side of the brain, can be broken down into two words: Choach/Power and Mah/What – the power to question. For the first 45 years the human being knows what is what but after that he wonders – what is what?

The righteous people are said to bring the Power of What into the earth while the rest of the world brings the power of Baan/52 into the world; 45 is the gematria of Adom/Human and 52 is the gematria of Behama/Animal – when the animal arises, the human descends then merges.

By losing mental acuity, the ego becomes reduced, forcing the person to question their ways and their deeds; the dissolution of the ego allows death to come without pain. Beautiful is the world provided by the Creator, making each stage of life crucial to living.

The Pig People

The Catholic Church is working against the interests of child abuse victims in state legislatures around the country; through lobbying, the church has blocked measures intended to widen the legal window for victims to file lawsuits against hidden predators.

The two Semitic Peoples directly from the seed of Avraham, Arab and Jewish, circumcise and refrain from eating pig; in stark contrast the Roman People eat pig and are uncircumcised. This basic difference more than any philosophical or religious debate cuts to the core issue separating our peoples.

It is explained in the Torah/Teaching that the pig is the only animal in the world which displays one sign of a kosher animal, cloven hooves, but not the interior sign of multiple stomachs; because of this anomaly, being the only animal displaying the outer sign of kosher but not the inner sign, the pig exemplifies the hypocrite.

The animal side of the human being is manifested in many different forms but none as despicable as the hypocrite. In Jewish Law one who steals outright is not punished to the degree as one who masks their intentions.

The blatant indecency by the Church during their long history of hypocrisy where celibacy is a feign for the most despicable acts against children finds the Church repenting with one hand and covering up with the other. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says eventually the pig will become kosher when God circumcises the heart of man.

Win or Lose

Baseball’s San Francisco Giants pitcher Jonathan Sanchez facing the San Diego Padres for just the second time since he no-hit them last July throw a one hitter and lost 1-0.

After 29 games during a 52 year history the team lost after holding the opponent to one or less hits; the Giants had six hits but failed to score. What does it mean to throw the same game, win one and lose one?

From a Torah prospective these numbers and events are interesting because 52, which is twice the number of the YHVH, is called in the Cabala Baan the composite of the two letter making the number 52; Baan is the spiritual essence of the animal, Mah/What-45 is the spiritual essence of the human–there are 29 books, including the Five Migalot/Scrolls, in the Torah.

The animal soul conducts the movements of the body as the Torah says, The soul is in the blood–referring to the animal soul of Baan. The minute movements required to hit a ball going a hundred miles an hour or to throw a ball that fast at a small target requires the body to be a perfect vehicle for the soul; the slightest errant thought or erratic movement can mean disaster.

The Talmud-Book of Law says, If God does not stand with us, no matter our strength or agility, we can stand alone.

Political Passover

When Passover begins at sunset on Monday evening the first family and about 20 others will gather for a ritual that neither the rabbinic sages nor the founding fathers would recognize.

The commandment of Passover is only to the Jewish People but the story and the idea of freedom that the holiday embodies is for all people all the time. What separates the human from the animal is our free will, directing our own lives, when freedom is threatened we turn into animals.

America is always touted as a free country from our very beginning; people come to America to be free, but what is free? The Torah implicit in the Ten Commandments was Cheresh/Engraved into sapphire; the Rabbis say don’t read Cheresh/Engraved but Cheresh/Free because the Torah makes one free.

There are 613 commandments in the Torah for the Jewish People who are obligated to perform through which freedom is obtained. When the 613 is connected to the Seven Commandments of Noah obligated by the rest of peoples of the earth makes the gematria 620 Keter/Crown.

The President as Commander and Chief protects the freedom of America where free choice is celebrated–when we chose to acknowledge the Creator than we are free. For the first family of our country to be partaking in Passover is a way of crowning the Creator at the highest level.

Heel of the Soul

Humans are among the few animals that step first on the heel when walking. Most mammals walk and run on the balls of their feet. Ungulates like horses and deer run and walk on their tiptoes.

Our time is denoted by the phrase, Akev Moshicai/Heel of Moshiach because the first part of the body to hit the earth is the heel of the foot. The human being is designated as Mahalech/Walker as opposed to the animals who run to catch food–the human being walks to a destination.

The heel is considered the lowest and most insensitive part of the body; it is taught in the Cabala the heel of the soul is affixed in the brain responsible for the constant unabated thinking that goes on inside our heads. One could assume that the soul of the animal comes in toe first–thus the essential difference of our kind.

The Talmud-Book of Metaphor mentions a few people who went beyond walking and were called Rutzim/Runners. The great Rabbi Akiva was a runner as the Talmud explains if you put Rabbi Akiva in one corner of the room to pray he would eventually end up at the other end from repeated bows and prostrations.

Few human beings ascend to the level of Runner, only those with dogged determination who never stop.

Pluto Shines

NASA has released the most detailed set of images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images show an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world that is undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness.

This tiny world with three moons whose long elliptical orbits stretch far into the Kiber Belt is no longer deemed a planet because of its distance and smallness. In the Cabala the tenth is considered Malchut/Royalty corresponding to the mouth with the three parts of speech the lips, teeth and tongue.

Speech is the quality which separates the human being from the animal–our ability to articulate thoughts into words. Even though the soul enters in to the body through the right hemisphere of the brain it has to complete the circuit of the entire body before exiting the mouth as words.

The Cabala teaches how life exists on earth and the six out worlds from earth even though Pluto was only discovered within the last hundred years.

The first two human beings Adom/Adam and Chava/Eve according to the Torah were formed on the earth than brought to Gan Aden just beyond the Kiber Belt, but after being rejected for eating from the Tree of Knowledge found themselves on Pluto where the Kiber Belt looked like many swords preventing reentry to Gan Aden.