Passover 5770

Next year is Jerusalem are the words that have ended each and every Passover sedar for the last 2000 years, a prayer to God to redeem Israel.

The Rambam who 1000 years ago wrote the laws to the 613 Commandments in the the Torah concluding with the laws of Moshiach; he quotes the Talmud-Book of law that the only change will be, Israel will no longer be under the rulership of worldly kings.

These three words, Next Year in Jerusalem is called by the name Nertza/What We Want; after getting free, the process of the sedar makes one free, then comes the question: now that we are free, what do we want–the Jewish People want Jerusalem, our eternal spiritual center.

The word Yerulshaliam/Jerusalem is composed two words, Yira/Fear and Shalom/Complete; the word Yira/Fear is made from the word Reih/Sight–in Jerusalem God is watching. In the time of the Temple people went “to see and be seen.” In our time all the world is watching and judging the Jewish People. Will we agree to lay asunder our holy city for the promise of political peace?

The word Shalom means both Complete and Peace; in the city of complete fear to have complete peace there must be the undivided city. Next Year in Jerusalem!

Papal Sex

Pope Benedict XVI began Holy Week on Sunday by suggesting in his Palm Sunday address that the Catholic Church would "not be intimidated by petty gossip" by the sex abuse scandals sweeping it.

One of the seven commandments issued from God to the human being through Noah and his family who survived the flood is to make laws of sexuality–making boundaries by which each separate society can operate, but the sexual abuse of child is despised everywhere in the world. To call thousands of reports of sexual abuse by the Church petty gossip is inhuman.

Children are particularly vulnerable to sexual advances because sexuality is a thing yet undefined by the human being; animals require sexuality to mate and have offspring, but the human being is sexual all the time as an expression of creativity.

Those who fight for the embryo then abuse the child are hypocrites at the highest level. The Church is not above the law of man or the Law of God and the moral bankruptcy of their pope is indicative of the whole.

The child has far more rights than the embryo according to the Torah; the murmuring of child keep the world alive according to the Midrash-Book of Metaphor; the Talmud-Book of Law says a child is like a blank piece of paper–the Cabala teaches how eternity is found in our children.

Political Passover

When Passover begins at sunset on Monday evening the first family and about 20 others will gather for a ritual that neither the rabbinic sages nor the founding fathers would recognize.

The commandment of Passover is only to the Jewish People but the story and the idea of freedom that the holiday embodies is for all people all the time. What separates the human from the animal is our free will, directing our own lives, when freedom is threatened we turn into animals.

America is always touted as a free country from our very beginning; people come to America to be free, but what is free? The Torah implicit in the Ten Commandments was Cheresh/Engraved into sapphire; the Rabbis say don’t read Cheresh/Engraved but Cheresh/Free because the Torah makes one free.

There are 613 commandments in the Torah for the Jewish People who are obligated to perform through which freedom is obtained. When the 613 is connected to the Seven Commandments of Noah obligated by the rest of peoples of the earth makes the gematria 620 Keter/Crown.

The President as Commander and Chief protects the freedom of America where free choice is celebrated–when we chose to acknowledge the Creator than we are free. For the first family of our country to be partaking in Passover is a way of crowning the Creator at the highest level.

Bush is Back

During their first joint visit to Haiti this week, George W. Bush appears to have wiped his hand on Bill Clinton's shirt after shaking hands with a crowd of Haitians.

In the Book of Shmoel/Samuel is written how the prophet announces to Shual the first king of Israel that his kingship is over; Shual grabs onto the robe of the prophet which tears–the prophet the says, That is your kingship ripping.

Bush wiping his hands on his predecessor is nothing new for the ex-president after shoveling the shit he produced to the present president. One of the questions plaguing the human predicament is how the wicked thrive while the righteous suffer. Only God knows if Bush is wicked, but he certainly did wicked things that came close to collapsing our world.

Bush in Hebrew means Embarrassment and the Midrash-Book of Metapor says the last king of Rome will be called Irom/Naked because of the embarrassment caused to his people by ransacking the treasury for the sake of his religion. Bush came to power after 2000 years of Rome when Mars to whom Rome prays came closest to the earth–henceforth forever receding.

The Zohar-Book of Secret identifies Mars as the previous world from where the animal nature is derived; animal sacrifice in the Temple was a constant reminder to sacrifice our animal nature derived from Mars–as Rome falls Yisroel/Israel rises.

Builders and Claimers

Palestinians have condemned the latest plans for more Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, announced as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ended a US visit.

Avraham 3800 years ago and the two generations afterwards, the basis for the Jewish, Arab, Roman, Aryans and Vedic Peoples, took root in the Land of Canaan. Canaan had been the fourth child of Chom who populated Africa after the flood–his fourth child had been cursed to be a slave.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says, God let the slave hold the land until the people destined to live on land arrived; among those peoples were the Palestinians who traditionally lived in the south–they were known as a hard and fierce people. The Torah relates instances of repetitive Palestinian behavior–claiming what does not belong to them–in those times it was the wells dug by Avraham and his offspring; today it is Jerusalem.

The Palestinians will always claim and the Jewish People will always built as it says in the Talmud–Book of Law, Don’t say Bunim/Children but Bunim/Builders. The Cabala connects Movey Plastine/Open Alley with people whose claims are like the wind through an open alley.

While the Muslim People point to Mecca and the Roman People point to Rome the Jewish People point to Jerusalem, eternal capital of the Jewish People.

Presidential Expletive
Prior to his signing of the historic health care reform bill into law on Tuesday President Obama was introduced by Vice President Joe Biden shaking the commander-in-chief's hand saying "You did it," Biden told his boss. "It's a big fucking deal."

The ubiquitous nature of the word Fuck, an expletive dating back to the King of England who instituted divorce called by the commoners Fornication Under Consent of the King, warrants the question as to the spiritual nature of this ignominious word.

The Zohar-Book of Secret teaches how this lower world is designed according to the structure of the higher world; the Midrash-Book of Metaphor claims that every word in the Torah, even the bad words, are Names of God. So what is the spiritual source of the word Fuck and why is it found everywhere at all occasions good or bad?

The first law of the Shulchan Orach/Set Table of Jewish Law is to always have the YHVH–Four Letter Name of God before you; the opposite of this most holy idea is the word Fuck, also four letters–the highest and the lowest merge in exclamation.

It is taught in the Cabala that true change comes from lifting the world from the lowest place, for example if one wants to move a heavy object they must place the lever at the bottom most point. The Vice President should have said, It was a fucking miracle, thank God.

The Material Girl

Madonna accompanied by her partner Jesus wrapped up her Israeli tour with a visit to the Safed tomb of Rabbi Isaac Luri father of the Cabala. At the site she sang "Lecha Dodi/Come My Beloved."

There are many laws in the Torah concerning how to conduct one’s self in a cemetery; it is known from the Cabala though the soul ascends into heaven a bit reminds with the bones of the body that resemble the YHVH–Four Letter Name of God.

According to the strict interpretation of the Torah the voice of a woman singing is considered Airva/Nakedness. One can not fault the pop star for her insensitive ignorance, but the rabbi who accompanied Madonna and Jesus to gravesite certainly should have known better.

A few years ago she made a scene at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and later almost broke her neck in a freak accident. Just as there are laws of nature with adamant repercussions so too are there spiritual laws regarding ultimate profundities like death.

The Jewish People pray at the gravesite of the righteous because it is hollowed ground, hollowed because the person buried there lived an exemplar life, giving the Creator pleasure–the essential connector. We stand at the foot of that connection between man and the Creator with awe and wonderment while praying to God. Respect in front of those who can not respond is customary.