Jewish Mothers

Several recent rabbinic rulings on fertility treatment dictate that a child conceived in vitro is Jewish only if the egg came from a Jewish woman.

What makes a person Jewish is their soul; the difference between the Jewish soul and other human souls is the Jewish soul is Benia Bekorim/First Born as mentioned many times in the Torah. The first born is chosen by God–every family has one.

To be first obligates further responsibilities; it is why the Jewish People are obligated to 613 Commandments while the rest of the world is cool with God if they do the Seven Commandments of Noah. This original human soul passed through 26 generations from Adom, the first human, until Moshe took the Jewish People from the womb of Egypt and became a people.

The soul given to the Jewish People was in the form a blessing transmitted through the Three Fathers: Avraham, Yitzchok and Yaakov later called Yisroel/Israel. The four wives of Yisroel bore twelve sons who are progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Today only the tribe of Levi is recognized and the rest of the Jewish People are simple called Yiroel/Israel.

Who has a Jewish soul is determined by the mother; if the mother is Jewish then the child is Jewish–born with the obligation of 613 Commandments.

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.