Rome Shakes and Shudders

Monday's 6.3-magnitude event in Abruzzo, Italy shook Rome. In Cabala 63 is the number signifying the essence of the beast.

The earthquake ninety miles east of Rome was close enough to be felt by Romans everywhere in the world because Abruzzo in Hebrew translates as Father of Hints; in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor is written that in the End of Days Rome will be destroyed leaving only one wall standing. The Rome referred to in the Torah is not the modern city of Rome, but the epicenter of power whose fulcrum is the Holy Roman Church—the Vatican considered in the UN as an independent country with zero population growth.

In Hebrew the word Rome means elevated; the father of Rome, Esau twin brother of Yaakov progenitor of the Twelve Tribes of the Jewish People, was known for his arrogance and desire to consume. The End of Days referred to in the Torah is the time when three ancient calendars are about to end: the two thousand year old Roman calendar at 2000, the 5000 year old Mayan calendar in 2012 and the 6000 year old Hebrew calendar a few hundred years later.

Rome is being warned by God that all Romans should take heed.

S&P 500 and the 13 Year Cycle

In 2002 the S&P 500 index bottomed at 777 and a month ago on March 6th the index hit 666 in a 13th month cycle according to the blog Trend & Value Letter.

The Cabala relates the number 777 to the Angel of Death, the number 666 to orgasm and 13 is the gematria of Echud/One. Attributing characteristic to numbers is important because it is a way for God to communicate directly. Since the Creator of creation is neither physical nor spiritual God has the problem of communicating to creation through the human being who has freedom of choice.

Sometimes God jokes to make a hard time less difficult like naming the leaders of our country who were bent on raping the world Dick and Bush; now that it is all over it is obvious that Bush was only a cover for Dick. Other times God just wants to let us know when the misery begins and when it is over.

Looks like the bottom has been hit—now we can ascend without limit.

First Lady

Michelle Obama's role of First Lady on Friday provided the backdrop for the equivalent of the Jackie-Kennedy-takes-Paris moment of 1961.

The Zohar-Book of Secret states: a king without a queen is not a king, nor is he great. The element of woman is deep and supportive and no man is a king without a woman at his side. The Talmud-Book of Law relates how women were placed before men in the Temple. The Midrash-Book of Metapor tells how the creation of man came from two women mirroring what is found through genetics that all embryos begin as female.

The Cabala says the letter Mem refers to complete woman and that is why the Book Mishlay/Proverbs begin with a large Mem indicating that this book is about women—the woman of valor who crowns her husband. The Talmud also says when people are pleases it is an indication that God is pleases.

God bless our beautiful President and First Lady.

Gay Marriage

DES MOINES — Same-sex couples will be allowed to marry in Iowa by month’s end, after a ruling on Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court that found unconstitutional a state law limiting marriage to a man and a woman.

The Torah/Teaching is a document used by many nations to provide a moral guide, but without knowing the Oral Tradition which accompanies the written text mistakes are inevitable—take sexuality. According to the Torah only Jewish men are forbidden same sex sexual relationships—there is no implicit prohibition to males not Jewish; perhaps it is why the greatest love, according to the Talmud-Book of Law was between Dovid and Yonaton—two men.

In Torah there is no proscription against woman being with other woman; it was how woman were able to be independent from men even while married.

According to the Zohar-Book of Secret the first letter Aleph is representative of the sexual relationship between man and woman; the Zohar concludes that a man should not speak to his woman like a whore because it will cause his destined children to be of improper behavior.

$1.1 Trillion for World Crisis

At the Group of 20 summit meeting a call to fight the financial crisis, announced at its conclusion that the leaders had committed to $1.1 trillion in new funds that would greatly increase the capital available to the International Monetary Fund. The goal would be a revival in trade, which is expected to contract this year for the first time in 30 years.

It is said in the Torah/Teaching the greatest charity is giving needed resources to help the disadvantaged achieve independents. In the Cabala 11 is a number relevant to essence—that which is beyond particular; the Ten Sefirot/Luminaries the cabalistic atom as portrayed in the sun and the nine planets, the seven continents and the three oceans and in the form of the human being built upon three pillars distributing three triangles leading to speech are the particulars.

The number 11 shows on the hidden springs of Pleasure and Will the two essential components of life. For those struggling to survive will is essential and every pleasure provides sustenance to continue life feeding the will like a woman feeds a man when he returns home weaken by the toil of life.

Extremism Breeds Extremism

NYT JERUSALEM—In a blunt and belligerent speech on his first day as Israel’s new foreign minister, the hawkish nationalist Avigdor Lieberman declared Wednesday that “those who wish for peace should prepare for war” and that Israel was not obligated by understandings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached at an American-sponsored peace conference in late 2007.

I received this letter from a friend today: Early this afternoon an Arab Terrorist attacked children in the center of the yishuv. Shlomo Nativ, 14, was killed by ax blows to his head, and another boy, Yair (ben Michal) Gamliel was injured. His father, Ofer Gamliel, btw, is in prison for an unsuccessful attack against arabs.

Our son Chaim, on the rapid response team, received an alert that an attack had taken place and that the arab(s) had run off in a certain direction. He gave chase on his motorcycle and on an overgrown track seriously banged a foot, managing to continue on bike and later on foot into the arab village and capture a suspect. Only afterward, about 15 minutes ago, he was taken by ambulance to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital for x-rays, etc.
The funeral is this afternoon at 5.

The Most Dangerous Place

President Obama recently called the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan as "the most dangerous place in the world."

The problems in Kashmir and the difficulties with the Palestinians both result from the borders and the partitions erected by the English in 1948 when Israel became a state and have been the epicenters of world discord ever since.

The Khaiber Pass, Kashmir and Jerusalem are all ancient portals to the heavens as clearly described in the Torah/Teaching. Warring at spiritual portals are ways to war against Heaven—there are those who believe God sits in Heaven and therefore they war against Heaven. Spiritual ascension is a war against the negative energy implicit in physicality—those bent on war against God exploit those holy places by means of cruel dictates.

Just as war in a spiritual portal strikes at the very essence so too the solution must reach the very essence of the problem. When the Jewish, Muslim and Hindu Peoples realize there is no contradiction from their texts then the portal can be opened and new light can come to the world.