The Money Fuckers

Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.

Money like pornography is the lowest common denominator–a manufactured exterior expression that has nothing to do with essence. Money might sparkle and gleam but its true worth is only in its metal. It was Nixon who took us off the gold standard replacing it with a promissory note from the government.

Money like pornography is used for quick transactions and whenever there a transaction there is always peripheral spinoffs that stimulates the economy; when the economy is sluggish the money managers encourage transactions and when a relationship is sluggish people turn to pornography. Money and sexual exploitation are the two sides to coin of our country.

In the Torah people and land are considered valuable; they were the currency and each had a regulated worth in silver allowing people to be sold–it was called slavery. In the Talmud-Book of Law are outlined many laws concerning the proper treatment and obligation of the master to the slave which include taking care of his family and giving him work suited to him.

The Cabala considers money, Kesef/Silver related to the word Kesofta/Unbridled Desire; society needs to be tempered with laws and prohibitions so desire can be spontaneous and free.

In Praise of Fasting

Economists at the World Bank predicted on Sunday that the global economy and the volume of global trade would both shrink this year for the first time since World War II.

There are seven fast days scattered throughout the year commemorating different events in the Jewish calendar; today is the fast of Esther just prior to the holiday Purim. As the economy shrinks and the Jewish People fast is a good time to remember the positive attributes of having less. It is not really necessary to make the economy grow, but to stabilize the economy.

The Torah commands that the Land of Israel needs to rest every seven years and the Talmud-Book of Law says the First Temple was destroyed and the Jewish People exiled to Babylon because they did not sufficiently rest the land. The seventy years of exile which ended in Persia as celebrated by reading the story of Purim from the Book of Esther.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says eventually the entire world will rest the land for seven years, but before we can rest the land first we must rest the economy.

Everyone should know by now, more is not better.

Greed Verses Responsibility

The president has promised "the sweeping change that this country demanded when it went to the polls in November.”

The epicenter of the disease eating at America is being confronted head on; the fight between those who have sold their soul for a buck and the rest of us is about to unfold. Though the people of America voted for this change, those unwilling to give up their addiction to money are in opposition to the will of the people. These same people who insisted that we go to war against the will of the world now insist on making war against the President and the people.

In the book Raishith Chochma/Beginning of Wisdom is written that God loves every human being; centuries later when asked how to love God, the Bal Shem Tov replies, by loving what God loves. The Creator loves all of creation. Our responsibility from the very beginning of human history when God told Adom to watch over the Garden of Eden is the nurturing of life no matter the cost.

The President and the New Moon

President Barack Obama spoke to the joint houses of Congress, the American People and the world last night at the advent of the New Moon.

The month of Adar in the Hebrew calendar coincides with the beginning of spring; according to the Talmud-Book of Law when the month of Adar begins happiness increases. The new moon of each month is considered a holiday because it is a time of transition called Maled/Birthing when the moon is completely without light. In the birth process the most difficult part of the birth is called transition. All transitions are difficult, but with the proper guidance the needed process can happen without much trauma.

This propitious time of the new month was utilized by the president to address the inhabitance of the world announcing spring is on the way. In the Hebrew calendar which is regulated by the moon, there are four New Years one for each season; in the fall is the New Year for the earth called Rosh HaShana, the winter and summer celebrate the new year for the trees-water and the New Year for the animal-fire in the summer. The New Year for the human-air (speakers) happens in the spring and celebrates freedom.

TashPaz

President Obama is traveling today to Denver, where he is set to sign the $787-billion stimulus package

The numbers 787 translated into Hebrew letters reads TashPaz; Tash means weak and Paz is a type of find gold. Gold though heavy is not hard; gold is easily malleable and does not erode or oxidize thus utilized for art. Since this metal is easily recognizable and somewhat rare it has been used since antiquity as the coin of the realm. Paz/Fine Gold is without the natural impurities and thus worth even more than ordinary gold.

TashPaz/Weak Gold indicates that gold alone cannot fix the problems of America and the world without the wisdom and honestly to administer the money properly. We have come a long way since “It’s the economy stupid” until the present time when “It’s a stupid economy, stupid.”

It is the human being who must be serviced by the economy and not the other way around.

G7 in Rome

The Empire of Rome has six heads: the Coin of Rome; the Sword of Rome; the Technology of Rome; the Religion of Rome; the Government of Rome; and the Road to Rome. There are six days in the week fashioned upon the Six Days of Creation and the Seventh Day being the Day of Rest—the Shabbat. Therefore the G-7 meeting in Rome has deep cabalistic significance.

The Talmud-Book of Law refers to the exile of the Jewish People as being the exile of Rome also known as Edom/Red indicating severity. The Jewish People are intrinsically tied to Rome through Esau twin brother of Yaakov progenitor of the Twelve Tribes of Yisroel. In the blessing given to these twins is the prophetic statement: as one rises the other brother will fall. In the end, the lion will lay down with the lamb.

The G-7, seven indicating the Day of Rest, meeting in Rome, perhaps is a sign that Rome is getting ready to lay down with the lamb instead of lying to the lamb.

Work

In a bleak report on Friday, the Labor Department said that almost 600,000 jobs disappeared in January.

Change happens through difficulty. Work in Hebrew is Avoda, an Eved is a slave and the spiritual work in the physical world is also called Avoda along with the work done in Temple by the Cohanim—the holiest of the Jewish People. The jobs being lost are the jobs least needed by society so new jobs can be created; all transitions are difficult; when a women is about to give birth it is called transition.

There are 600,000 letters in the Torah and there are 600,000 Jewish Souls that make up the singular Jewish Soul as taught in the Cabala. 600,000 is a lot, but it indicates the shifting of the American Soul in a new direction. Everything is about work.

The Power of the Purse—888

WASHINGTON — A group of conservative Senate Republicans vowed Thursday to vote against an $888 billion economic stimulus package when it comes up for a vote in the Senate.

The 666, the 777 and the 888 are all significant numbers in the Torah/Teaching. The number 666 has to do with sexuality as seen in their sum 18 which written out in Hebrew makes the word Chai/Life. The 777 is the number signifying death as lamented by Lemech seventh generation from Kine; Kine killed his brother Hevel and was slain by accident seven generations later by Lemech who says he is the 777 and God makes him into the Angel of Death as related in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor. The number 888 is indicative of a moment—the Talmud-Book of Law teaches a moment is 1,888 part of a second. Eight is also known in many cultures as indicating infinity.

The significance of all this to the budget is unclear, but interesting. In the Cabala eight is indicative of Keter/Crown the place where essence resides in the form of Pleasure and Will. To truly fix a problem one must go to the source and affect the essence.