THE CABALA OF WAR

The Pentagon announced last week that the military would now allow women to serve in jobs that would bring them closer to combat.

There is a very pragmatic reason why women are rarely let into combat – seeing a woman injured demoralizes a man more than seeing his male counterpart hurt. The root to this disparity is found in the primal sexual competition between the sperm trying to reach the egg.

The few thousand eggs a woman is born with are limited in number due to the woman’s inability to produce new cells; whereas the sperm of the male is without limit – the melding of finite and infinite produces a vehicle able to drawn down spiritual life into a physical body.

The Cabala explains, the bigger the vessel the less the light but the smaller the vessel, like the tip of a lightening bolt, the greater the light. The odds of one to infinity compels the male to protect the female; Rape is rampant in war because the sperm becomes energized.

The essential nature of men and women are distinctly different and war is no place to seek an egalitarian compromise. Men kill to protect the women and children because they are the future. The hope of all parents everywhere is for the children to live in secure peace.

God and the Law

President Obama had authorized the use of force if Capt. Richard Phillips was believed to be in danger, so U.S. snipers fired when the pirates aimed an automatic rifle at their hostage.

In the Torah is written the laws of the Rodef/Chaser and the Nedef/Chased—the obligation on the witnesses is to stop the Chaser at any cost even if it requires killing him. The Torah is concerned with justifying killing prior to inquiry, in this case it was more than chasing it was kidnapping.

In the Torah there are delineated three types of Law: Chuckim—laws that have no apparent reason; Adut—laws from witnessed events; Mishpot—laws of an obvious nature. The reason why these obvious laws are written into the Torah is to encourage humanity not only to do what is right out of logic, but also right before God.

As is seen in nature God created a devouring world, but the human being is distinguished through our premeditated thoughts melding justice with compassion.