BANKERS AND MAIDS

Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, the former chief of Egypt’s Bank of Alexandria, was arrested in New York City Monday night for sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

What is the worth of money? Paper money has no intrinsic worth unless backed by silver or gold; gold has a long history of value because it is a malleable metal that does not tarnish – silver is harder, tarnishes and is less valuable.

The value of paper money, a promise issued by governments trillion of dollars in debt, wheels power through investments taking place at breakneck speeds around the world. Maids are required to clean up after the bankers who have become famous for their assaults.

Investments are like the bugs that surround the earth, if they all fell to the ground at one moment, they would be miles high; Perhaps, bankers feel as if they are doing the world a favor keeping everything afloat and deserve special pampering? Money inspires ego.

When the transparency of glass is coated with a thin layer of silver it produces a mirror that reflects the self; when you see yourself you see nobody else. The Cabala describes the individual as unique – it is through uniqueness that equality is realized.

MEMORIAL DAY

At least 259 women say they were raped by Muammar Gaddafi’s militiamen. "First they tied my husband up," one woman wrote. "Then they raped me in front of my husband and my husband's brother."

What is the connection between sex and war? Soldiers for thousands of years have been raping women as a spoil of war; if war is Hell to a man then rape is Hell for a woman – there is no spiritual Hell, a place where souls suffer forever – Hell is here.

One commonality between sex and war is neither is logical; animals fight for domination but not to kill; Even more ironic, is how death in war promotes life through rape. Rabbi Akiva famous in the Talmud-Book of Law says, Love is the main Torah generality.

Love in Hebrew is Ahava made from the word Hav/Give, the letter Aleph in the beginning makes it, I Give; hatred and war is I Take – taking lives, forcibly taking women. American soldiers are trained to curb their killing and to respect life.

The Torah teaches, In the end the lion will lay down with the lamb; the Cabala explains that the lion will remain a lion and the lamb will remain a lamb, but war and rape will end. While honoring the perpetrators of war it is also needed to remember the victims of war.

The Scapegoat

In all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as "world opinion" and once again the world's oldest story is being played out before our eyes: The Jews are being scapegoated again.

The origin of the scapegoat is found in the Torah/Teaching where on the holiest day of the year Yom HaKiporim/Day of Atonement a goat is sent out into the wilderness to die; the goat of Azzazel, hinting to the jagged cliff that the goat is thrown over, is destined to a hideous type of death.

The scapegoat in the Torah was meant to appease the Satan for a moment so the Jewish People could pray unencumbered. This strange commandment was performed only during the time of the Temple, but the idea of the scapegoat has been usurped by the nations who have chosen the Jewish People to scapegoat their wrongs.

The political ambitions of the west for more than a century to control the Middle East along with the Christian religion who accuses the Jewish People of killing god have purposely caused enmity between brothers–the Jewish and Arab Peoples. Out west they would say, The Jewish People are the pissing post between two cowboys.

The Cabala teaches whatever exists in holiness also exists in the profane. The Torah sacrificed an animal for the sake of the people while the world is willing the sacrifice a people for the sake of politics.

God’s Brain

Michelangelo’s depiction of the human brain and brain stem appears to be drawn on the neck of God in a panel high on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The reason why the Sistine Chapel was commissioned by the Vatican to be painted by Michelangelo was because the people were ignorant and could not read; an illustration was substituted though it clearly states in the beginning of the Ten Commandments: do not make an image of God from the forms of heaven or earth.

This atrocious act of hubris perpetrated by the Church has inspired many by the pure artistry, but to think there is some kind of message embedded within the art is alluring. What did Michelangelo mean by depicting the brain of God in the neck?

The Cabala uses the human anatomy as a guidepost through creation separated in four sections like the human body; the head, torso, limbs plus soul provide the format for spiritual understanding known as the Four Worlds–three of body and one of soul. Matter and spirit have form, but God has no form.

The Cabala explains how cognition is an extreme contractive form of the light; the neck is the most contractive part of the body called Mitzar/Confinement. The brain of the emotions arise in the neck in the form of external cognition through which the heart is inspired.

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.

Death by Execution

Ronnie Lee Gardner, the convicted double-murderer executed by a firing squad in Utah in the predawn hours Friday, died in a manner that even the state that killed him no longer wants to use.

The death sentence is frequently invoked throughout the Torah making it appear as if for the least mistake involving the 613 commandments one can die. Heaven is very strict, an angel can not do more than one task at at time and changes names according to the task–they have no freedom of will.

The Torah is perfect and the heavens expect perfection; the angles don’t understand human compulsion–but this gives God the opportunity to be compassionate. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor relates, before God created the human being the angels warned: they will cause God anger and God responded, so I will show mercy.

Death was not just a decree from heaven, even the courts had the right to put people to death, but it is taught in the Talmud-Book of Law, if courts put to death more than one person in 70 years then the courts were considered to be murders.

There are four methods of killing: strangulation, decapitation, falling and fire. The courts are commanded that death must be without pain since the four methods were designed to correct the blemish made in the YHVH, the Four Letter Name of God.

Earth Birth

An extremely long stretch of low solar activity in recent years has scientists baffled and scrambling for better forecasting models for the sun.

For a hundred years scientists have been watching the very predictable 11 year cycle of the sun; like the moon, half way through the cycle the sun reaches maximum sun spots then declines over the next 5.5 years. At the end of 2012 when the Mayan calendar ends the sun will reach full-sun status.

However, the sun has been acting up and not cooperating with human predictions leading scientists to discover new, longer cycles of the sun going back 6000 years to the beginning of the Hebrew calendar–coinciding with the earth moving into the galactic horizon on December 21, 2012.

The Mayan calendar which ends on December 21, 2012 began in the year 666 of the Hebrew calendar whose sum 18 makes the the word Chai/Life. The 666 refers to the life force that brings about conception–December 21, 2012 is the due date of earth birth happening in galactic proportions.

These last very hard hundred years are called in the Talmud-Book of Law Chevli Meshichai/Birth Pangs of Moshiach–being lined up with the center of the galaxy on December 21, 2012 is full dilation. Now is the time the world must come together and push.