Chol Hamoed (literally, The weekdays of the holiday) are the intermediate days of Passover in the spring and Sukut in the fall; they are the days sandwiched between the beginning and end holy days of both festivals.
Passover is seven days long because it took seven days to leave the slavery of Egypt and become a nation. Freedom to the Jewish People means they were free to serve the Creator – slavery means, work come first. Freedom in our time means, free to make money and acquire wealth.
Being enslaved by the physical world prevents people from being free in the spiritual world; without spiritual freedom life is purposelessly confined – the meaning of the word Mitzriam/Egypt is Confinement. To become a nation the Jewish People required confinement.
The seven days of Passover is a metaphor for the birth process ending with the splitting of the sea and the drowning of those who attempted to restrain the birth – the 210 years of slavery was a long pregnancy but when the time came nothing could prevent the birth from happening.
These two seven day holidays, Passover and Sukut, are differentiated by food; during the seven days of Sukut anything can be eaten but only in the Sukah but during Passover one can eat anywhere but must eat matza – the holiday of Sukut represents sex while Passover is the birth.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
THE CABALA OF PASSOVER
After centuries of slavery, Passover, referring to the way in which God passed over the homes of the Israelites during the night while killing the Egyptian first born, the last of the Ten Plagues was being visited upon the Egyptians.
The Cabala explains, God went against God’s own kind nature by killing the first born of the Egyptians to free the Jewish People, therefore commanded the Jewish People to go against their own nature by learning the Torah daily during every spare moment day and night.
Even now, 3500 years later, freedom from slavery and oppression requires war, death and suffering – the latest example being Syria. The Torah teaches, The only freedom is the teaching of God; without God being part of the equation one goes from one oppression to another.
God freed the Jewish People from slavery so they could receive the Torah and the 613 Commandments 50 days later on Har Sinai/Mountain of Hatred; the Talmud-Book of Law explains, By giving the Torah to the Jewish People caused hatred from the nations to be put upon Yisroel.
Every Passover the Jewish People reenact the process of freedom through eating the Matza and drinking the four cups of wine corresponding to the four future exiles: Babylon, Persia, Greek and Rome. The 2000 year Roman exile is prophesied to be the last exile before Moshiach.
The Cabala explains, God went against God’s own kind nature by killing the first born of the Egyptians to free the Jewish People, therefore commanded the Jewish People to go against their own nature by learning the Torah daily during every spare moment day and night.
Even now, 3500 years later, freedom from slavery and oppression requires war, death and suffering – the latest example being Syria. The Torah teaches, The only freedom is the teaching of God; without God being part of the equation one goes from one oppression to another.
God freed the Jewish People from slavery so they could receive the Torah and the 613 Commandments 50 days later on Har Sinai/Mountain of Hatred; the Talmud-Book of Law explains, By giving the Torah to the Jewish People caused hatred from the nations to be put upon Yisroel.
Every Passover the Jewish People reenact the process of freedom through eating the Matza and drinking the four cups of wine corresponding to the four future exiles: Babylon, Persia, Greek and Rome. The 2000 year Roman exile is prophesied to be the last exile before Moshiach.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
THE CABALA OF CHAMETZ
Chametz is the antithesis of matzah, the unleavened bread eaten on Passover to recall the haste in which the Jewish People left Egypt, and the humble faith by which redemption is merited.
In the Hebrew language the difference between Chametz and matzah are two letters that look similar to a house – two sides and a roof; the Hey of matzah has a little window at the top whereas the Chet in Chametz has no window – one is full of air while the other is empty.
The air pumps up the flour to become bread but the matzah is flat without air; the matzah is baked from beginning to end within 18 minutes – before the natural yeast becomes active. Bread is more substantial than matzah, but for one week a year only matzah is eaten.
The Cabala explains, Bread signifies ego while matzah represents humility; but, before the matza can be consumed first the Chametz must be destroyed by fire. On the day before Passover the house is checked with a candle to insure no Chametz remains before the holiday begins.
The Cametz is searched for at night then burned in the day along with one’s ego and arrogance because it was not from the greatness of the Jewish People that they were freed from slavery but from the kindness of the Creator who gave this 3500-year-old eternal commandment.
In the Hebrew language the difference between Chametz and matzah are two letters that look similar to a house – two sides and a roof; the Hey of matzah has a little window at the top whereas the Chet in Chametz has no window – one is full of air while the other is empty.
The air pumps up the flour to become bread but the matzah is flat without air; the matzah is baked from beginning to end within 18 minutes – before the natural yeast becomes active. Bread is more substantial than matzah, but for one week a year only matzah is eaten.
The Cabala explains, Bread signifies ego while matzah represents humility; but, before the matza can be consumed first the Chametz must be destroyed by fire. On the day before Passover the house is checked with a candle to insure no Chametz remains before the holiday begins.
The Cametz is searched for at night then burned in the day along with one’s ego and arrogance because it was not from the greatness of the Jewish People that they were freed from slavery but from the kindness of the Creator who gave this 3500-year-old eternal commandment.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
THE CABALA OF FIRE
Scientists say they have new evidence that our ancestors were using fire as early as a million years ago by taking the form of ash and bone fragments recovered from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.
The Torah teaches, Adom, the first human who was created on the sixth day of creation, brought darkness into the world before the sun set, but because the next day was Shabbot/Day of Rest and Light, did not discover fire until night fell at the end of the next day, beginning at night.
The Cabala teaches, The first man, though created from earth, was transported as a fire being to the Garden of Eden, beyond the planet Pluto separated by the Kuiper Belt. The next 120 years, the Adom made his way back to the earth where the original crude human beings still dwelt.
Because time is not incremental but circular, these earthly humans appeared to have lived a million years; at the advent of this fire being clothed in flesh, the original crude human disappeared. With the advent of modern man came the extinction of the Neanderthal man.
The Torah speaks on many levels because the human being exists on many levels – body and soul. The combination of body and soul, the crude human with the fire being, produced modern man and women. The inaccurate time sequence of the scientist is based on time being linear.
The Torah teaches, Adom, the first human who was created on the sixth day of creation, brought darkness into the world before the sun set, but because the next day was Shabbot/Day of Rest and Light, did not discover fire until night fell at the end of the next day, beginning at night.
The Cabala teaches, The first man, though created from earth, was transported as a fire being to the Garden of Eden, beyond the planet Pluto separated by the Kuiper Belt. The next 120 years, the Adom made his way back to the earth where the original crude human beings still dwelt.
Because time is not incremental but circular, these earthly humans appeared to have lived a million years; at the advent of this fire being clothed in flesh, the original crude human disappeared. With the advent of modern man came the extinction of the Neanderthal man.
The Torah speaks on many levels because the human being exists on many levels – body and soul. The combination of body and soul, the crude human with the fire being, produced modern man and women. The inaccurate time sequence of the scientist is based on time being linear.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
THE CABALA OF EMBARRASSMENT
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband.
About 13 million people are admitted each year to the nation’s jails – 13 is the gematria of Echud/One; the Talumd-Book of Law states, If more than one person was put to death in seventy years, the courts were deemed murderers. Embarrassment is considered a type of death.
America imprisons more people per capita than any other country in the world, even though the constitution forbids illegal search or seizure – plus, a ban against cruel and unusual punishment. Words that sound good but actions speak louder; in Torah Law there are no prisons.
The Torah teaches, If the court finds the litigant guilty, the law expunges the person through a penalty of money, servitude or hitting. Anyone who has suffered the humiliation of jail would far prefer being whipped over being jailed because embarrassment is punishment.
If the guilty person is so afraid of pain that he soils himself in anticipation of the whipping, the penalty is forgone – considering instead, the humiliation enough of a punishment. In America, naked humiliation is part of the punishment, even for the most minor infraction.
About 13 million people are admitted each year to the nation’s jails – 13 is the gematria of Echud/One; the Talumd-Book of Law states, If more than one person was put to death in seventy years, the courts were deemed murderers. Embarrassment is considered a type of death.
America imprisons more people per capita than any other country in the world, even though the constitution forbids illegal search or seizure – plus, a ban against cruel and unusual punishment. Words that sound good but actions speak louder; in Torah Law there are no prisons.
The Torah teaches, If the court finds the litigant guilty, the law expunges the person through a penalty of money, servitude or hitting. Anyone who has suffered the humiliation of jail would far prefer being whipped over being jailed because embarrassment is punishment.
If the guilty person is so afraid of pain that he soils himself in anticipation of the whipping, the penalty is forgone – considering instead, the humiliation enough of a punishment. In America, naked humiliation is part of the punishment, even for the most minor infraction.
Monday, April 2, 2012
THE CABALA OF WATER
A stunning new animated video produced by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimating the circulation and climate of the Earth showcases the flow of the world's ocean currents swirling in a captivating splendor.
According to the Torah/Teaching, four elements make up the physical world: fire, air, water and earth derived from the Four Letter Name of God YHVH; though science has identified more than a hundred elements present in the earth, our perception tells us a different story.
We see and feel fire, we breath and intuit air while water and earth are more visceral. In the beginning of creation these four elements were layered according to heaviness: fire went up, air spread out while water covered the earth making terrestrial life impossible.
As a result of the Creator commanding water to seek depth, which is opposite from the nature of water to cover, water froze upon the surface instead of freezing from the center like all other elements. Water freezing on the surface instead of the center has saved aquatic life.
The water from the flood, which came from beyond the Earth 1666 years later, covered the earth in a veneer snuffing out life without having to inundate the oceans. The Cabala identifies water as the substance of life – moved by air, warmed by fire then absorbed into the earth.
According to the Torah/Teaching, four elements make up the physical world: fire, air, water and earth derived from the Four Letter Name of God YHVH; though science has identified more than a hundred elements present in the earth, our perception tells us a different story.
We see and feel fire, we breath and intuit air while water and earth are more visceral. In the beginning of creation these four elements were layered according to heaviness: fire went up, air spread out while water covered the earth making terrestrial life impossible.
As a result of the Creator commanding water to seek depth, which is opposite from the nature of water to cover, water froze upon the surface instead of freezing from the center like all other elements. Water freezing on the surface instead of the center has saved aquatic life.
The water from the flood, which came from beyond the Earth 1666 years later, covered the earth in a veneer snuffing out life without having to inundate the oceans. The Cabala identifies water as the substance of life – moved by air, warmed by fire then absorbed into the earth.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
THE CABALA OF PURPOSE
New revelations in science have shown what a strange and remarkable universe we live in; the illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
The most important question of our time is, How large is the universe? This abstract, existential question is rooted in purpose – if the universe started in a Big Bang, going on forever, then purpose has no place in creation; but, the Torah has a different explanation.
According to the Talmud-Book of Law, The Creator yelled at the universe, shortly after creation, Di/Enough and thereby made a limited universe with a meaningful design. The Zohar-Book of Secret describes creation as being engraved within the Hard Light – the limit of creation.
If the universe is without limit, then, as has been explained by scientists, all happenings would eventually be repeated over and over again rendering creation a senseless, spontaneous happening without purpose or direction. Such theories minimize the human experience.
The expanse of creation can be calculated by squaring the 365 days of a year times the 2000 years God played with creation before saying Di/Enough; the sum, 266,450,000 is the approximate elapsed time, required for the stars to blink on, according to scientific theory.
The most important question of our time is, How large is the universe? This abstract, existential question is rooted in purpose – if the universe started in a Big Bang, going on forever, then purpose has no place in creation; but, the Torah has a different explanation.
According to the Talmud-Book of Law, The Creator yelled at the universe, shortly after creation, Di/Enough and thereby made a limited universe with a meaningful design. The Zohar-Book of Secret describes creation as being engraved within the Hard Light – the limit of creation.
If the universe is without limit, then, as has been explained by scientists, all happenings would eventually be repeated over and over again rendering creation a senseless, spontaneous happening without purpose or direction. Such theories minimize the human experience.
The expanse of creation can be calculated by squaring the 365 days of a year times the 2000 years God played with creation before saying Di/Enough; the sum, 266,450,000 is the approximate elapsed time, required for the stars to blink on, according to scientific theory.
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