Happy 420

April 20 has long been an unofficial day of celebration for marijuana fans, an occasion for campus smoke-outs, concerts and cannabis festivals.

Ahsun/Smoke in Hebrew has the gematria, the numeric value of the word (based on each of the 22 letters having a designed value) the Aiyin/70, Shin/300 and Nun/50 equal 420; also it is taught in the Cabala that the word Ashun/Smoke is an acrostic for Olam/World; Shuna/Time and Nefesh/Soul—creation is but smoke. There is no prohibition against drugs in the Torah and marijuana was one of the ingredients used in the Temple to make the incense.

The right to free expression stems from the right to free thought—all peoples have aids to help them see beyond the physical reality to conceive of thoughts yet unthinkable.

Columbine's 10th Anniversary

There were no speeches at the vigil on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School.

In the Talmud-Book of Law says there is nothing to say before the dead; in the Cabala ten is completeness and it is interesting to note that the shooting at Columbine High School which so shocked the nation happened just as the war in Kosavo began—President Clinton went on national TV to announce to Americans that we do not solved our problems through violence. Since then there has been nothing but war—the war of the hypocrites. What started in murder has ended in murder, but now is a new time.

It says in the Talmud-Book of Law that Moshiach will come when murder is eradicated. Murder is one of the crimes equally held by both the Jewish People in their 613 Commandments and the other peoples of the world through the Seven Commandments of Noah. The Rabbis say that even shaming a person is a type of murder—that is why blood rushes to their face.

The Pig in Politics

(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he’s “gravely concerned” about U.S.-born journalist Roxana Saberi, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage by an Iranian court after a closed-door trial last week.

One of the ways the nations speak to one another is through the imprisonment of foreign nationals under trumped up or irrational claims—each nation expresses outrage, yet each is guilt of what they abhor.

This piggish behavior was recently mentioned in the Torah/Teaching portion always following Passover. The Torah point out that only one animal in the world possesses the outer sign of a kosher mammal, cloven hoofs, but not the inner sign of multiple stomachs—the pig. This trait is characteristic of the hypocrite—denouncing an action they themselves commit.

The administering of justice through courts of law is one the Seven Commandments given to Noah after the flood; these Seven Commandments are applicable to every person and each nation before the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

1906 Remembered

San Francisco celebrated a memory that will not die with a small ceremony and a big cheer for two survivors of the 1906 fire and earthquake.

The San Francisco earthquake, the largest earthquake ever recorded happened in the year 5666 of the Hebrew calendar. The number 666 which adds up to 18 Chai/Life is a point of culmination in each of the six cycles in the six thousand years of human history upon planet earth. In 1666 as recorded in the Torah/Teaching the flood happened.

This final thousand year period is known as the thousand years of Sod/Secret relating to the sex which broke open in San Francisco 103 years ago. Also, one week before the beginning of 5666 Einstein published his famous equation of E=MC squared; in this same year Picasso discovered cubism—science plots creation in a cube; the Ten Commandments were given in two cubes; the Kaaba in Mecca is a cube.

A hundred years later, brought on by the hurricane Katrina in 5766, the Roman Empire began to fall—never to arise again.

Obama Goes South

At the fifth Summit of the Americas, Latin American leaders are expected to press President Obama on the global economy and U.S. policies on Cuba and on drugs.

In the Cabala is noted the fact that most of the world’s population exists in the north and that two-thirds of the world is made of water—these sages did not know this from science, but from an intricate understanding of creation. They explain how this world is the second in a series of seven worlds and being second means Gevorah/Severity which is located in the north.

There are seven worlds, likened to the seven continents, which relate to the seven emotions, the lower segment of the Ten Sefirot; it is wildly accepted within the Torah that the emotions ultimately are more important than mind.

Surrounding the Shema Yisroel proclaiming God’s omnipresence in creation, before and after, is the word Ahavta/Love You. Be sure, the president will not be judged by his intellect as he travels south, but by his emotions.

The Cabala of Baseball

“Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.” Yogi Berra, widely quoted for his Yogi-Isms will throw out the ceremonial first pitch Thursday afternoon to open the new Yankee Stadium.

There are many cabalistic inferences to the game of baseball particularly the arrangement of the nine positions plus the batter which looks like the Ten Seferot known as the Tree of Life and the four bases corresponding to the Four Worlds of creation Atzilot/Close; Briah/Creation; Yitzira/Form; Asiya/Action.

To transverse all the bases is called a home run where you return to where you began; similarly with life—we come from a very pure place and will return to that place after life if our at bat was successful.

Not everyone can hit a home run and most of us depend upon others to knock us in. In heaven there are crowds of people cheering us on throughout our lives, booing when we make mistakes, but holding out hope until the end.

Yogi Berra, who is 83 years old (83 in Hebrew is Paz/Fine Gold personifies the game of baseball, a game which teaches a lot about life; my personal favorite of Yogi’s teachings is, “When you come to the fork in the road, take it.”

Moshiach’s Meal

Passover concludes with a final meal dedicated to Moshiach who must appear before the next 230 years—the expiration of the Hebrew calendar. In the year 5666/1906 a great Rebbe in Russia asked his students to drink four glasses of wine because the Four Alephim/1111 was coming into the world. A hundred years later the 111th Congress and the president as head Aleph/One comprise the 1111; the four cups of wine makes its difficult to continue.

The 1111 refers to the four parts of the brain pictured in the four compartments of the Tephilin worn on the head during prayer. The year 666 is significant because it infers the climax of the thousand years of Ysod/Secret when all the secrets of the world are being revealed; a week before the year 5666 began Einstein published E equal MC squared and Picasso discovered Cubism as the earth shook beneath San Francisco from where the truth comes forth.

According to the Talmud-Book of Law at the end of Moshiach’s meal a cup of wine is passed between the ancient elders until it reaches Dovid who says, I will take the cup of salvation and cry out to God.