THE CABALA OF MORALITY

The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have rejected a compromise on birth control coverage and said they would continue to fight to receive free contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans, without direct involvement or financing from the institutions.

The bishops are quoted saying, All the other mandated preventive services prevent disease, pregnancy is not a disease. What is a disease is pedophilia; ironic, those who turn their backs on priests sexually abusing children are the same ones who insist on the moral imperative.

Even worse than this, if anything could be worst than this, is the hypocrisy employed to make their case – morals; morality falls under the general umbrella of ethics. Everyone is equally obligated in ethical behavior whereas morals are personal acquired habits.

Ethics allows societies to function – despots have no ethics and those who want to hold ethics hostage to their moral standard are themselves immoral in their certitude. The basis for Jewish ethics is found in the Mishna/Learning, father to the Talmud-Book of Law.

Peirky Avot/Ethics of the Fathers written over 2000 years ago says, Know you come from nothing and you will return to nothing but in the future you will be required to give accounting for how you spent your days in this world before God, The Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Marijuana and Money

San Francisco, CA (AP)— A state legislator is reviving the debate about legalizing marijuana as a way of raising money for cash-strapped state and local governments.

It is amazing how fast morals change when money is evolved; the ban on marijuana itself is illegal and placing good citizens in jail for the crime of growing and possession is cruel and unusual punishment. The cost of marijuana is already exorbitant because of the dangers involved in growing the plant against the wishes of the government, but the cost will get even higher if a $50 tax per ounce is applied. The same government which has been trying to eradicate the plant and the people who use it is now willing to make it legal as long as they get their cut—no thanks.

The Torah counts cannabis as one the eleven spices burned to God in the Temple, noting the plant’s good fragrance; the Cabala adds that fragrance is the highest of our senses connected to the third eye—the place of knowing. The gematria of Smoke/Ahsun is 420, the present price for an ounce of good herb.