CABALA (KABBALAH) OF CHRISTMAS

Pope Benedict XVI is decrying the commercialization of Christmas and urging the faithful to look beyond the holiday's superficial glitter to discover its true meaning.

Christmas is as true as Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny who lays eggs; these absurd ascertains come from the inner workings of religion, based solely on dogma – a statement of belief devoid of rationality. The only thing real about Christmas is consumerism and profit.

The only reason to be a religion is to exclude others and pay no taxes on their property – dogma is the price of admission into religion. Other spiritual entities, with books of truth instead of dogma, took on the mantle of religion for the tax benefit and power sharing.

Trying to bring something good out of that which intrinsically not true is, tricky business; no wonder religion appears hypocritical and self-serving. The Torah is meant as an individual guide, a narrow bridge built on the prayers of creation to the Creator.

The Cabala explains, In every falseness there is an inner truth – the word Christ is Greek for the Anointed referring to the concept of Moshiach/Oil Pourer – a gift from God to be given to our world when murder has been erased and peace on earth is embraced throughout.

Sailing into Trouble

The beleaguered BP chief executive, Tony Hayward, attended a yacht race after a hostile interrogation by a US congressional committee on the Gulf Coast oil spill.

The congress is taken a well-worn path forged originally by the Nochus/Serpent who entangled the first human being by persuading the woman to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad. When God asked man why he ate the man blamed the woman–the snake took that example transforming into the Satan/Oppose.

The opposing force in creation stems from the Serpent who entices; the congress enticed the oil companies to drill, made inadequate regulations with lax oversight and when there was an accident became outraged at the oil company. So it is with the soul.

The foreign impulse called Yetzer Hora/Bad Picture Maker purposely tries to ensnarl the human being then gives witness against the soul when life has ended and judgment is pronounced. The human being is so familiar with the Yetzer Hora that the meticulous accounting of one’s errant deeds appears traitorous.

What BP did was criminal but what the Congress does is hypocritical–it is hard to know which one is worse. The human soul has an excuse; neither governments nor corporations have souls. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says in the end God will slay the Yetzer Hora.

Big Black Blobs

This scares everybody, the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing, an official BP executive said.

One quarter of the Gulf of Mexico is now considered polluted where no fishing is allowed. The vision of massive bubbles of oil quickly being conveyed through underwater currents in all directions–menacing black blobs–is terrifying. And nobody knows what to do.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says, At first man was created to be 120 feet tall but the angels complained saying he smelt too bad, so God made man to be six feet tall. No matter, after six thousand years man again is smelling bad as witness by the fumes escaping into the air from the evaporating oil.

The Midrash also says that in the end oil will overcome water and all the holidays will be forgotten except for Purim which celebrates that which is beyond logic; during Purim one is commanded to get so drunk until good and bad look alike. Getting drunk numbs the mind.

Moshiach/Oil Pourer will bring a new revelation from the heavens to purify the earth, but everyone knows the oil spewing up from the earth is a result of man’s desire for more things. Cleaning up the world must begin in the heart of man.

Too Fat to Fly

Director Kevin Smith says he was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank this weekend for being too heavy.

The Torah is full of stories about fat people because fat indicates pleasure; some had physical pleasure while others had spiritual pleasure–both produce fat. The Talmud–Book of Law says some Rabbis became fat from the saying the phrase Yhay Shmay Raba/God’s Name is Great.

The Rabbis of the Talmud were renown for their fat; the Papas who lived in the north of Israel making beer were so fat that cattle could graze beneath the shadow of their prodigious stomach when they came together to speak. Fat was not always good as the Torah says They got fat and they kicked.

Shumen/Fat and Shemen/Oil share the same letters because their source is essence–pleasure. Shemen/Oil is the product of contraction squeezing the essence from within while Shumen/Fat accumulates often because of inaction. The animals sacrificed on the alter in Temple in Jerusalem 2000 years ago were eaten except for the fat which was burned in the fire.

The Cabala teaches the purpose of the human being on planet earth is to partake in pleasure that is later sacrificed to God–then the fat can fly.