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A keystone of the ancient faith of the Hebrew People
is condemning the worship of “images”.
This is a attitude that was incomprehendable to the Greeks and the Romans.
They could not understand a imageless faith.
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There were worlds created and destroyed before the one we are in now.
Here is one relic
Pre-Deluvian Society
The term Pre-Deluvian refers to the period before the Deluge, or the Great Flood. Our journey begins 75 feet below the surface of the ocean off the coast of Yonaguni, Japan.
‘In 1988, scuba divers led by Kihachiro Aratake discovered an enormous stone structure on the seabed off the coast of Yonaguni. The structure lay more than 75 feet below the surface. Investigation showed it was 600 feet long, 450 feet wide and 90 feet high. Ten years later, the experts weren’t so sure. The first geologist to investigate the site was Professor Masaki Kimura of Ryuku University on Okinawa. In April 1998, he discovered a structure divided into five distinct layers and decided it had to be manmade. It is easy to see why. Underwater photographs and video footage reveal a stepped, ziggurat-like monument of extraordinary proportions.
Read more on this “relic” and see images
http://godssecret.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/strange-submerged-structures-under-the-sea/
For this is what the LORD says–he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be formless, but formed it to be inhabited–he says: ”I am the LORD, and there is no other.
(Isaiah 45:18)
“The earth was formless and void”,
Genesis 1:2
The word for “formless” in Hebrew in each of these verses is “tohu”..
This seems like a apparent contradiction between Genesis
and Isaiah.
.
Isaiah tells us the earth was not created “formless” , but the 2nd verse in Genesis informs us that
“The earth was formless and void” at some point prior to the creation of Adam.
Well, what then happened ?
The sages teach that there were worlds existing before ours and these were eventually destroyed.. The history of these periods of time is not fully told in the Bible.
Something is missing out of the Biblical narrative.
There is a very famous Midrash where the
question is asked :
“What was God occupied with, before to His creation of our world. The
Midrash relates that G-d was busy building and destroying other worlds.
(Gen. R. 3:7)
Sages in the Talmud say “six thousand years shall the world last, then for one thousand years shall it remain desolate.” just as our civilization will last for the Sabbatical period of six thousand years and one thousand years of desolation, so will there be seven cycles similar to this, corresponding to a cosmic cycle of Sabbaticals and Jubilee.
Rabbi Yisrael Lifshitz, author of the commentary to the Mishna, Tiferet
Yisrael in Tractate Sanhedrin teaches that dinosaurs were creations of the prior Shemita,
Rabbi Judah b. R. Simon said: ”‘Let there be evening’ is not written here, but ‘And there was evening’; thus we know that a time-order existed before this.” Rabbi Abahu said: ”This shows that the Holy One, blessed be He, created worlds and destroyed them until He created this one, and declared, ’This one pleases Me; those did not please Me.’” Rabbi Pinchas said: ”This is R. Abahu’s reason: ’And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good’ (Genesis 1:31). This pleases Me, but those did not please Me. (Midrash Rabbah - Genesis III:7)
Rav Abahu’s description of ”worlds being created and destroyed” involves creation as we know it destroying an entity known as ”formlessness and void,” , these are the acts of the wicked, which apparently existed in a world prior to ours.
In sni luchot ha brit and Beor Esser Sefirot we learn that there was a earlier Torah existing 2000 years before creation this was hidden with the original light of the first day. This is the Torah of “Y’H”, but our Torah is only the Torah of “V’H”. From Chuchmah (Divine creativity) is Torah the preceded the creation of the world. The Torah starts from chesed (Kindness) as from here the world was created. Originally the world was created in judgment, these were the worlds that were created and destroyed. Yet this strict guiding power still interacts in this world with sadeekem (Holy people). With those who possess the soul level of “Chyah and yachidah” (Soul of Divine creative power and Soul of ultimate Divine will). These are people who have access to the ancient Torah, which is superior to the Torah that has been revealed. These people God had in mind before he created the World. As tought in sni luchot ha brit,Beor Esser Sefirot
The Sulam on Zohar Vetchanon teaches that after this world has passed and has been destroyed then will come olam haba (The world to come). Olam haba comes to a man after yom ha Din (The final Judgment day). After a sadeek (Holy Person) has passed away from this world they stand in Gan Aden Elyon (Upper Garden of Eden) till yom ha din (The final Judgment day). Then they are purified so they may enter olam haba. Those who have no merit will rise at the resurrection of the dead to be judged.
The Talmud tells us an additional 974 generations existed before this creation, but they existed in a different ”world” than ours.
The Talmud says concerning these earlier generations: The Holy One, blessed be He, arose and planted them in every generation, and it is they who are the insolent of each generation.
When someone loses balance either in their own internal composure or with things outside of themselves they lose energy. We are sparks of God. As the energies filter down to the human level, to the individual soul, they tend, for a number of reasons, to become skewed or unbalanced. This is because of the defects we cause to our souls by refusing to fulfill Divine will or doing its opposite. It’s like high voltage transformers that step electricity down to usable levels. The soul is then the interface between God and our own personal energy field. Everything there is comes from the flow of this abundance of Divine Energy. In reality all there is is energy. As such everything is one continuous substance of this Divine energy, on every plane of existence. The whole physical world is one. You and the planets are part of the same infinite ocean of matter. Just different points in the Divine energy’s configurations of distributions.
Balance is one of the foundations of nature and existence as we know it. Balance is naturally sought by all things. Whenever something in nature is out of balance natural forces arise to restore natural balance. Natural law requires balance and when humanity as a whole or part becomes unbalanced natural forces are unleashed to restore the balance.
Another operative foundational law of nature is :
To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Thus there is balance.
Every individual is responsible for maintaining a internal state of harmony in their mind, emotions and their actions. We are always seeking the proper and natural state of inner balance. This not only happens on the individual basis, it also happens at the collective level of humanity.
Everything in the universe fits together and works together as a concentric whole, of which we are a part. All proceeds by Divine design.
The “Divine plan” will be completely achieved by us. Whether we do it the “easy way” or the “hard way” is our choice.
We need to perceive the natural way by our creative, intuitive, psychic connection to the greater universe. The rational mind without this intuitive foundation is sometimes blind to things we should know. The power of creativity is a virtue of heaven. God’s creativity is obviously boundless. In the Divine spiritual worlds there only truth exists. There is the source of Divine intuition that leads to the foundation of our thoughts and creativity. It is there that there is adjusted the ”lens” of our objective reasoning. From there is revealed the powers which animate the forces within our emotions. The life force that vitalizes our bodies comes from there. From there actually comes forth the energy that gives the appearance and continual existence of every thing in this physical world. The only thing we can call with this level of Godliness is Nothingness, it is the source of creation. All things in the manifest world come from this unmanifested state which were are calling “nothing”. This Nothingness and God’s creation are in a indivisible bond. The truth is subtle.
The human mind is split between a conscious and unconscious side, with most human functioning occurs on the conscious side, but unconscious influence also shapes the individual and society. It rises up from a unknowable place of humanity’s collective unconscious.
We are separate individuals at the surface level, but at the unconscious level there is a link that connects together the minds of all mankind. Humanity is a part of nature and subject to natural law as everything else.
By our spiritual errors (sins) we lose contact with the intuitive, psychic side of our own being. This side of our consciousness becomes repressed and concealed. To revive this consciousness awareness God has given us Torah. Torah is a living and vibrant force, the true living essence God “hid” within the “book” called Torah. Thus the Torah has a revealed simple meaning and concealed mystical levels. The connection to Supernal consciousness few achieve. We need to be perceive beyond the Torah’s symbolism in order for it to interact with individual and collective consciousness.
There is a famous expression :
“in the beginning G-d gazed into the Torah and from it created the universe.”
The Torah begins :
“In the beginning Elohim (God) created the heaven and the earth.”
The Hebrew word for nature, “HaTeva” it has the same numerical value as the Divine name “Elohim” the Creator.
Elohim =86=.“HaTeva”
God=Nature
Elohim is the Creator of nature
The Torah expresses the will of Elohim found in natural law.
Just as there is a conscious and unconscious mind. There is a supernatural side to natural law.
The concealed aspect of the Torah is learned with the unconscious mind. By prophetic meditative techniques when learning Torah one goes into nature and the ways of Elohim. By this secrets become revealed and the mind opens to the intuitive bond with the greater natural world and greater insight and understanding into Torah.
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Jews were found to be at higher risk of myocardial infarctions than Gentiles.
The incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) was found greater among Jews than Catholics.
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/6/1244.full.pdf
Ashkenazi Jews have a lifetime CRC (cancer) risk of 9–15%. This elevated CRC risk is similar to that of individuals in the “familial risk” category, and differs strikingly from the 5-6% CRC risk for non-Ashkenazi members of general Western populations.
Ashkenazi Jews may have one of the highest lifetime CRC risks of any ethnic group in the world, a risk that diverges significantly from that of the general population.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15516840
In general, for American Jews, show excesses in mortality, noted for both sexes, are esophagus, stomach, colon, pancreas, lymphomas, and leukemia and, in females, the lung and the ovary from the general population.
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/35/11_Part_2/3507.short
Research has found Ashkenazi Jews are two-to-three times more likely to develop colorectal cancer than are members of the general population.
http://coloncancer.about.com/od/ethnicityandsocialstatus/a/AshkenJewsAndCC.htm
The Torah speaks of “reward and punishment” on a number of occasions. The blessings and curses are strikingly comprehensive, they leave no aspect of human life and experience unaddressed. Physical health and sustenance, emotional well-being and stability, spiritual satisfaction and fulfillment and every other possible blessing that inspires our earthly existence with worth and meaning, are all presented as the natural outcome of serving God in sincerity. And sickness and poverty, anxiety and fear, alienation and depression and all of the other myriad demons that haunt humanity and crush it with their oppressiveness, are even more prominently highlighted as the inevitable consequences of abandoning God and abrogating His commands.
Here’s an interesting statistic. Bnei Brak, Israel’s most religious city, also has the highest average life expectancy: 81.1 years for women and 77.4 years for men.
What makes that finding even more curious is that Bnei Brak also happens to be Israel’s poorest city, thus confounding the normal correlation between poverty and poor health.
Certainly heightened health consciousness cannot explain the longevity of Bnei Brak residents. Many men still smoke, and a quick glance around the city is sufficient to establish that news of the benefits of exercise and a low-fat diet has not yet reached most of Bnei Brak’s inhabitants.
A growing body of scientific evidence suggests the key to the longevity of Bnei Brak residents may well be their religiosity. Fully three-quarters of the 300 studies to date of the relationship between religious belief and health demonstrate a positive correlation. Various studies have shown that religious belief and regular attendance at religious services are associated with reduced doctors visits, a lower incidence of certain forms of cancer and heart disease, and decreased post-operative mortality and quicker rates of recovery.
http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/376/lchaim-in-bnei-brak
Orthodox Jews have lower mortality rates from cardiovascular problems, cancer, and all other causes than nonpracticing, secular Jews.
http://archfami.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/8/6/476-a
Belonging to a Jewish orthodox religious community and living the orthodox Jewish lifestyle was found associated with a strong protective health effect not attributable to confounding by sociodemographic factors.
The Low Incidence of Cervical Cancer in Jewish Women: Has the Puzzle Finally Been Solved?
The low occurrence of cervical cancer in Jewish women has been variously attributed to traditional habits, to different risk factors, or to genetic factors that provide some degree of resistance or immunity.
Traditional habits Jews around the world practice two distinct traditional habits: the ritual circumcision of males 8 days after birth, and the prohibition by the family purity laws (Niddah) against sexual intercourse both during menses and 7 days after its complete cessation.
http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/cancer/menczer1/
Orthodox jews have a lower incidence of malignant melanoma
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.2910530511/abstract
Several studies in the Jewish population of Israel have pointed to a protective association between religious orthodoxy and coronary heart disease. http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/reprint/86/3/341.pdf
Jewish Orthodox religiosity associated with reduced risk for coronary heart disease.
Those living in Israel have the 8th highest life expectancy in the whole world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
The Torah is a covenant, contract and set forth in parsha Ci Tabo are part of its terms. So let us realize by reading the curses, that which has already come upon us, and also remember what GOD did to Pharoe and all his country. The Ramchal teaches the 97 curses in parsha Ci Tabo are contained in 53 verses, corresponding to the 53 parsha of the Torah itself. Alluding to the fact one can lose everything eternal. 53 is the numerical value of ”gan” (garden) referring to Gan Aden (Garden of Eden). These curses allude to the judgment of the World to Come. The first curses (in parsha Bichucoty) are concerning judgments in this world, they are in 32 verses.3 In the world to come one has alot more to lose.
The section of curses in Vayikra (in parsha Bichucoty) may not be broken up when reading in public. They must all be read by one person.
The Gemarah in M’gillah 31b teaches:
“Said Abaye, “For the curses in D’varim a break may be made in when reading……”
It is written :
“ YHVH will not be willing to pardon him, but then the anger of the YHVH and His jealousy shall be kindled against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and YHVH shall blot out his name from under heaven; and YHVH shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
(19-20)
The God is not kidding !
* Already in the 4th and 5th centuries synagogues were burned by Christians.Number of Jews slain unknown.
* In the middle of the fourth century the first synagogue was destroyed on command of bishop Innocentius of Dertona in Northern Italy. The first synagogue known to have been burned down was near the river Euphrat, on command of the bishop of Kallinikon in the year 388. [DA450]
* 694 17. Council of Toledo: Jews were enslaved, their property confiscated, and their children forcibly baptized. [DA454]
* 1010 The Bishop of Limoges (France) had the cities’ Jews, who would not convert to Christianity, expelled or killed. [DA453]
* 1096 First Crusade: Thousands of Jews slaughtered, maybe 12.000 total. Places: Worms 5/18/1096, Mainz 5/27/1096 (1100 persons), Cologne, Neuss, Altenahr, Wevelinghoven, Xanten, Moers, Dortmund, Kerpen, Trier, Metz, Regensburg, Prag and others (All locations Germany except Metz/France, Prag/Czech) [EJ]
* 1147 Second Crusade: Several hundred Jews were slain in Ham, Sully, Carentan, and Rameru (all locations in France). [WW57]
* 1189/90 Third Crusade: English Jewish communities sacked. [DO40]
* 1235, Fulda/Germany: 34 Jewish men and women slain. [DO41]
* 1257, 1267: Jewish communities of London, Canterbury, Northampton, Lincoln, Cambridge, and others exterminated. [DO41]
* 1290 Bohemia (Poland) allegedly 10,000 Jews killed. [DO41]
* 1337 Starting in Deggendorf/Germany a Jew-killing craze reaches 51 towns in Bavaria, Austria, Poland. [DO41]
* 1348 All Jews of Basel/Switzerland and Strasbourg/France (two thousand) burned. [DO41]
* 1349 In more than 350 towns in Germany all Jews murdered, mostly burned alive (in this one year more Jews were killed than Christians in 200 years of ancient Roman persecution of Christians). [DO42]
* 1389 In Prag 3,000 Jews were slaughtered. [DO42]
* 1391 Seville’s Jews killed (Archbishop Martinez leading). 4,000 were slain, 25,000 sold as slaves. [DA454] Their identification was made easy by the brightly colored ”badges of shame” that all Jews above the age of ten had been forced to wear.
* 1492 In the year Columbus set sail to conquer a New World, more than 150,000 Jews were expelled from Spain, many died on their way: 6/30/1492.
[MM470-476]
* 1648 Chmielnitzki massacres: In Poland about 200,000 Jews were slain.
[DO43]
(I feel sick …) this goes on and on, century after century, right into the kilns of Auschwitz.
Numerous are the curses which the Torah promises will befall individuals and our nation if we fail to live up to our mission as members of God’s “Chosen nation.”
The Torah itself, like Adam before it, has fallen into the husk and shell of this world. This was the result of the sin of the Golden Calf. Originally Torah was given to Moses was the pure fruit of the Tree of Life. It enabled us to transcend the limitation of this physical world. We must learn to experience knowledge, the secrets of spirituality of the Torah, Kaballah (which means to receive in Hebrew) channeled down the the ladder through the Higher Self within the unconscious to the conscious mind, this is the fruit of the Tree of Life. This is “revelation” of awareness. The great Sage Rabbi Eliyahu, the Gaon of Vilna, stated, ”as long as one does not understand the secret, even the simple will not be clear” (Even Shelaymah 8:21).
Torah is not just a book of words. It is not a document created by a human being from this or any other world. Torah exists independently of our physical world and only exists in this world in its “book” form. It materializes as a book written with very specific rules in a very specific unique way. When the rules are followed the book provides the most stable and immortal form and structure for a thing most unlike things that exist in this our physical world.
What we call Tikkun (repair, rectification) depends upon our realignment with our higher self and the awakening of our higher faculties of knowing. This requires of us a comprehensive shift in the way we think and in the way we must come to view the world.
The Torah’s true and original form as it exists above. As taught by the Ba’al Shem Tov, exists as a conglomeration of independent, vibrant living letters and as creation proceeds and events occur here on Earth specific groups of letters combine to form words and thus give us the narrative that we have today. In the upper worlds the Torah is very “fluid”. Our Sages say that the original ”tablets” looked like sapphire stone and that the letters actually hovered over the tablets when at the same time they penetrated them through and through. Torah is neither of this Earth nor of this dimension.
To think that the universe just all of a sudden put itself together by chance and having no plan, goes against science and natural law. The natural law of Entropy that complex systems have the nature to always break down into something simpler. How then could the original simple singularity of existence, after the “big bang”, Tzimzum (contraction). What ever you want to call it. All of a sudden contradict the natural law that it itself sets in place and materialize complexity out of simplicity. Reality glaringly proves that existence itself is alive, intelligent and very much purposeful.
Within every sub-atomic particle there is information that gives it identity, purpose and function. This indwelling Knowledge (Dat) is what we call the ”Divine Presence.” This exists in everything and everywhere. Its inner core of power is concealed like the energy inside the nucleus of an atom. As we know with atoms, only once the atom is opened can its inner force be released. When this occurs we call it an atomic explosion. Imagine now how much energy there must be in the nearly infinite number of atoms in this one universe alone. Each one has the power of an atomic bomb in it. All together they contain a force indescribable and unfathomable. This force is the Divine Power concentrate put into our universe that keeps it alive in accordance with the Higher Design.
Unleashing aspects of this power, as we know from modern science can be very destructive. Yet there is a safe, more natural way to connect with healthy use of this concealed energy.It is not yet understood by modern science because of their secular/atheistic bias, but this way of contact has been understood for centuries by the Schools of the Biblical Prophets. The way to connect to the inner energy concealed within everything in the universe is to speak to it in the language of Energy.
Human consciousness is energy. Energy is within everything in creation. They are forms of the same thing. All we need to learn is the language of the connection. “Energy language” ,speak it and you can communicate with everything, as everything is energy based. This includes literally everything in the known universes. The energy language of which I speak is what we have come to know as Torah. Torah is truly the ”Rosetta stone” that speaks our human mortal language and then teaches us the ”energy language” of God. This means that through connection with the inherent energy within everything one’s individual consciousness can expand to be able to “touch” and effect anything, anywhere.
The “skin” (Simple meaning) of Torah consists of its words and their meanings (alluded meanings). The deeper flesh (secrets) of Torah consists of sounds, it is not the words words themselves. Torah words have been formatted to contain sound combinations, the vibrations of which open doorways into the inner recesses of the human mind that enables consciousness to expand into the other dimensional realities by Knowing then these codes and using them properly one can participate in evoking Divine providence. This is Torah as known to the ancients.
These sound combinations are usually formed from initial letters of words, or final letters of words. Just which words and how many are used will depend upon the nature of the Divine Name and the function of its usage. These letter combinations need to be properly oscillated through the human voice. When mind is engaged and voice is activated and the proper sound combinations flow forth from the two combined, actual force of resonance can be created that serves as a vortex that enables access to the upper worlds, to channel energy into our physical plane.
Communications requires two parties communicating with one another. Most people below do not know how to speak the language of Above, and therefore are rarely heard. Those Above have been given strict instructions to answer those who speak ”their” language. Today those who speak the “language from Above” are ever so few.
Sound in and of itself alone cannot perform this. It needs to be in proper pitch, tone, and also includes certain intentions. There must be an integral union and harmony between the unconscious element within the human mind. The actual tune through which Torah is chanted is the secret of the Ta’amim (cantellation notes of song) by which the Torah is chanted. Torah is not read like a book, it is meant to be chanted like a song. When one essentially sings the Torah in the right way, the melody penetrates the boundaries of consciousness and connects to levels within the unconscious mind enabling it access to the higher dimensional planes. This effects everything in all worlds, as this is their foundation of being. As all of existence came and comes forth out of Torah, which is none other than the Divine ”blueprints” or source of nature. The Torah is the Tool by which God creates all that was is and will be. Torah
Is a Living book.
In Biblical days, the prophets knew these powers well. They trained themselves to be able to ascend from time to time to the upper worlds. Such an excursion is no easy task and access is guarded by the ”flaming sword that guards the path,” nonetheless those who are trained in these ancient ways are able to ascend above. The “language from Above” is not like ours today at all. Common prayer is not the form that ascends directly. This is why many prayers go unanswered. Simply stated, few people today know the secret of prayer. Their words are ”heavy” and have no power to ascend. Words spoken that come forth from mouths but not from selfless hearts drop to the floor.
Ultimately the “secret of prayer is required, the energy language used by the Biblical Prophets in their work.
Horse kicks Turkey’s PM Erdogan
in the balls
Got to be Divine providence
During opening of a horse ranch , Turkish Prime minister Erdogan kicked by a horse. Turkish PM Erdogan having diarrhea of the mouth and saying one thing after the other was trampled, “kicked in the balls” whichever way you want to take it. Horses kick hard.
Charles Krauthammer
Friday, June 4, 2010; A19
The world is outraged at Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in. The Obama administration dithers.
But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign
Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is
perfectly legal. Gaza under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel –
a declaration backed up by more than 4,000 rockets fired at Israeli
civilian territory. Yet having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims victimhood when Israel imposes a blockade to prevent Hamas from arming itself with still more rockets.
In World War II, with full international legality, the United States
blockaded Germany and Japan. And during the October 1962 missile crisis, we blockaded (“quarantined”) Cuba. Arms-bearing Russian ships headed to Cuba turned back because the Soviets knew that the U.S. Navy would either board them or sink them. Yet Israel is accused of international criminality for doing precisely what John Kennedy did: impose a naval blockade to prevent a hostile state from acquiring lethal weaponry.
Oh, but weren’t the Gaza-bound ships on a mission of humanitarian
relief? No. Otherwise they would have accepted Israel’s offer to bring
their supplies to an Israeli port, be inspected for military materiel
and have the rest trucked by Israel into Gaza – as every week 10,000
tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are sent by
Israel to Gaza.
Why was the offer refused? Because, as organizer Greta Berlin admitted,
the flotilla was not about humanitarian relief but about breaking the
blockade, i.e., ending Israel’s inspection regime, which would mean
unlimited shipping into Gaza and thus the unlimited arming of Hamas.
Israel has already twice intercepted ships laden with Iranian arms
destined for Hezbollah and Gaza. What country would allow that?
But even more important, why did Israel even have to resort to blockade? Because, blockade is Israel’s fallback as the world systematically de-legitimizes its traditional ways of defending itself – forward and active defense.
(1) Forward defense: As a small, densely populated country surrounded by hostile states, Israel had, for its first half-century, adopted forward defense – fighting wars on enemy territory (such as the Sinai and Golan Heights) rather than its own.
Where possible (Sinai, for example) Israel has traded territory for
peace. But where peace offers were refused, Israel retained the
territory as a protective buffer zone. Thus Israel retained a small
strip of southern Lebanon to protect the villages of northern Israel.
And it took many losses in Gaza, rather than expose Israeli border towns to Palestinian terror attacks. It is for the same reason America wages a grinding war in Afghanistan: You fight them there, so you don’t have to fight them here.
But under overwhelming outside pressure, Israel gave it up. The Israelis were told the occupations were not just illegal but at the root of the anti-Israel insurgencies – and therefore withdrawal, by removing the cause, would bring peace.
Land for peace. Remember? Well, during the past decade, Israel gave the
land – evacuating South Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005. What did it
get? An intensification of belligerency, heavy militarization of the
enemy side, multiple kidnappings, cross-border attacks and, from Gaza,
years of unrelenting rocket attack.
(2) Active defense: Israel then had to switch to active defense –
military action to disrupt, dismantle and defeat (to borrow President
Obama’s description of our campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda)
the newly armed terrorist mini-states established in southern Lebanon
and Gaza after Israel withdrew.
The result? The Lebanon war of 2006 and Gaza operation of 2008-09. They
were met with yet another avalanche of opprobrium and calumny by the
same international community that had demanded the land-for-peace
Israeli withdrawals in the first place. Worse, the U.N. Goldstone
report, which essentially criminalized Israel’s defensive operation in
Gaza while whitewashing the casus belli – the preceding and unprovoked
Hamas rocket war – effectively de-legitimized any active Israeli
defense against its self-declared terror enemies.
(3) Passive defense: Without forward or active defense, Israel is left
with but the most passive and benign of all defenses – a blockade to
simply prevent enemy rearmament. Yet, as we speak, this too is headed
for international de-legitimation. Even the United States is now moving
toward having it abolished.
But, if none of these is permissible, what’s left?
Ah, but that’s the point. It’s the point understood by the
blockade-busting flotilla of useful idiots and terror sympathizers, by
the Turkish front organization that funded it, by the automatic
anti-Israel Third World chorus at the United Nations, and by the supine
Europeans who’ve had quite enough of the Jewish problem.
What’s left? Nothing. The whole point of this relentless international
campaign is to deprive Israel of any legitimate form of self-defense.
Why, just last week, the Obama administration joined the jackals, and
reversed four decades of U.S. practice, by signing onto a consensus
document that singles out Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons – thus de-legitimizing Israel’s very last line of defense: deterrence.
The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, 6 million – that number
again – hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to
national suicide. For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized
and constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed
anti-Zionists – Iranian in particular – openly prepare a more final
solution.
The God when He gave us the Bible set a yearly cycle by which it is suggested to illuminate (read) in the Holy “Book”. Concerning the parsha (portion) for this week:
Parsha Shalach
Bs”d
Towards the end of our parsha in discussing sitzet (fringes) as it is written “ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a thread of blue”
The Torah also states “You shall not go after your eyes or your heart that lead you astray”. Meaning away from the way of GOD. As the sitzet allude to all the comandments as the numerical value of sitzet plus their 8 threads and 5 knots equals 613 (all the comandments). Do not follow your eyes astray, but contemplate the commandments which direct us in the way which is upright. Do not follow your heart astray but love GOD. As mistakes begin when one acts in a way not prescribed by the Torah. Like in our parsha the sages say GOD never told Yisreal to send spies. That is why the parsha begins with the words “send to you spies”. The people asked for this. GOD certainly did not need them to be sent. So it should not be suprising that their mission did not turn out well. This is where things begin to go wrong. Wrong for a long time as this was the 9th of Av. The day of destruction of both temples. Since GOD did not say to send out spies, the spies became filled and obsessed with excessive desires for honor. When arrogance rises upon one’s heart, the Shechinah (Divine Presence) flees. As the 2 do not dwell together. From this they were caught in their own sin. Their sin resulted in all Yisrael losing faith. As is written “our brothers have made our hearts melt”. This is much like todays false leaders who say ”there is no way to stop the rockets that hit our cities daily”, but this is ever so far from the truth. There is a simple solution ”overwhelming military force”. (They finally did it, “Operation Cast Lead”, and the rockets have stopped for the most part now. Though in the future more ”overwhelming military force” may be required) Until it becomes learned that peace is a better way.
The sages warned us against these false leaders when they wrote almost 2000 years ago concerning these times in the ancient manuscript Signs of the Messiah we are told that before Redemption GOD will stand up kings over his people Yisreal who will reject his Torah in their dat (knowledge). They will be liars, But they will see themselves as those who serve GOD, but they do not. They will be disgusting. They will confuse all creation. Even the transgressors among Yisrael will be further removed from the redemption by these leaders who reject GOD, and the fear of Him. This will be a generation where truth is despised. At this time Yisrael will be without a king or true leader, alter or sacrifices. This generation will suffer becouse of harsh decrees that are different, strange and tragic made by these kings who reject GOD . They will make atheistic rulings against the Temple, GOD and his Torah.
Towards the end of the parsha some men went up to the land, it says ”the ark was not with them”. They went of their own accord. GOD had not told them to take the land at that time, but they went up anyway. Like the spies their action was not in accordance with Divine will, so how could it be successful ?. Only if our actions are in accordance with the Torah, Divine will, can we succeed in the end. The people could not enter the land till they were ready and could go with the Ark. With out the Torah one just doesn’t stand a chance in the Holy land. As the verse states “The land is a land that consumes its inhabitants”. R. Ostrowicze explains “its inhabitants” which literally in Hebrew means those who sit are consumed by the land. As the Holy land will not allow one to stay who is not moving higher and higher in Holiness. The prophets warn us concerning this as Isiah says:
” In that day shall the plant of YHVH shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and beautiful for those that remain of Israel. And it will come to pass that he that remains in Zion and He that remains in Jerusalem shall be called Holy,” (4:2)
But as we see in the parsha even after the spies bring back a bad report and GOD is very disappointed with us, and wants to bring severe judgment. The intercession of Moshe saves us. R. Yochanon states ”wherever you find greatness you find meekness”. GOD wishes the world to acknowledge him, then He will suspend justice and retribution to further this end. For this reason we must appeal to GOD for mercy upon his people as the hour is ”dark”, as enemies surround us. With Divine intervention we will find protection and Peace. With a complete redemption with our righteous Messiah and the Holy Temple built Quickly in our days. AMEN
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“I have given you every herb … and every tree … for meat.” 1:29
This is a mistranslation , in no way is the word here meat in the original Hebrew the word is “achla” which means food.
From this we see if you want to study a book as important as the Bible you should study it in its original language.
The Bible in the sacred language Hebrew does not use obscure language, but describes most things in words clearly indicating their meaning. Therefore it is necessary at all times to delve into the literal meaning of words to achieve complete understanding of what is actually meant. This can only be done fully by learning the “original text”.
Haim Nachman Bialik said ”Reading the Bible in translation is like kissing your new bride through a veil”
One needs the ability to understand the original author’s words, rather than through the translator’s opinion of the author’s words.
Hebrew is called the holy tongue? The Rambam explains that Hebrew lacks words for genital organs, for the reproductive act, for urine, and for excrement. When Hebrew needs to describe these things, it borrows terms with other meanings or employs allusions. This linguistic limitation makes the language sanctified. Hebrew is the original language of Torah, the language in which God communicates with his prophets and his people, and the language God used to create the world.
It is said that the Hebrew language came directly from God. It contains secrets that were preserved by the initiated. They contain the precise plan of the principles of creation. Each letter is a crystallization of one of the aspects of manifestation of the divine word. Each letter is thus connected to the creative forces in the universe. The twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are the building blocks of creation. According to the Bible, G-d created with world with Ten Utterances (or sentences) such as ”Let there be Light.” Immediately, there was light. And the Bible describes each of the Ten Utterances and the things that were created as a result. What is interesting is that these utterances were not just said once and erased, but stand for all time, forming the objects they created. The world is formed out of combinations of letters; these combinations are created from the letters of the words G-d spoke when he made the world. If a letter were to be rearranged or damaged, that object would cease to exist. Therefore, spiritually, the continued existence of these letters is essential for the functioning of the world.
Every letter in the Hebrew alphabet has a design, a number and a meaning. You might have heard of the term ”gematria.” Since every Hebrew letter has a number, words have ”totals,” and these numbers have special significance. Two words may be linked in their significance and meaning not just because of etymology or the fact that they are related in their sounds, but also because they are related in their numerical value.
Words and letters have a certain kind of power that goes beyond our capacity to imagine.
The Hebrew Bible is arranged similarly to a hologram. The Torah has recorded with in it a vast “world” of information “imbedded” within and waiting to be later reconstructed, some what like being unfolded. It is like a “zip” (compressed) file. The first letter contains the whole. The first word expands from the first letter, the first sentence from the first word, etc. It’s very much like what our scientists do, We include information with messages sent to outer space that explains how to decode the entire message-that’s also how compression programs work on computers. To perceive the Torah requires information retrieval, and information processing. As all is concealed with in it most only look upon its surfice. The ancient Hebrew alphabet is far more than a tool for everyday communication or the transmission of sacred texts; the letter forms themselves have intrinsic geometric and mathematical properties that point us to a profound knowledge of life and nature. They hold within them the secrets of human consciousness. The letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, as the manifestations of God’s speech. They are the energetic and vibrational building blocks of creation. They are analogous to physical elements. Just as, for example, an atom of oxygen gas unites with two atoms of hydrogen gas to form a molecule of water, so does one letter combine with another to create new entities. Hebrew words and letters are the constituent spiritual elements of all existence.
The Hebrew Alphabet is like the periodic table of elements.
The written Torah. It has in it only the crowns of letters and letters. It has none of the vowels written in it. Thus the words of the “Torah” (Bible) have many possible meanings. This does not mean that there is not a known simple meaning which Moses was taught by God at Sinai, but it lets us know there are other “secret” meanings to it’s words. The letters are the 288 sparks of the vessels that shattered. In creating the world God joined letters and sparks together. By the shattering of the vessels sparks fell below. Through reading of the Torah with the ”tamim” (musical notes) and ”nikudot” (vowels) which are into the vessels. This purifies the vessels and the sparks. Raise the letters that are fallen by the “tagim” (notes) , “nikudot” (vowels), “tagin” (crowns) All letters have their source in the letter “Alp” the Hebrew “A”, which is called sweetened.
By this the vessels are fixed ,from their shattered state. V”H of YHV”H is the source of the letters, it is the letters. By holy speech one makes permutations of these letters and sparks, thereby making peace between them and raising them up to the place from which they have fallen and their fixing reassembles them above to be conduits of light for us here below. Giving the world a higher and better level of Divine supervision, nullifying judgments..
The nature of the letters of the Torah is revealed by the fact that when the letters flew off the Tablets Moshe was no longer able to hold them any longer as they were so heavy, so he had to let them drop and shatter. This was because after the letters had departed from the Tablets they were with out “ruach” (Spirit) so grew heavy and fell. In the Torah scroll itself there are no vowels allowing the Torah to have many meanings, as each generation has a unique “tikun”(fixing) of its own by exchanging the letters
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The Septuagint is the oldest of several ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, lingua franca of the eastern Mediterranean Basin from the time of Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE).
The Septuagint was held in great respect in ancient times; Philo and Josephus ascribed divine inspiration to its authors.
In a second attempt to translate the Torah into Greek (after an unsuccessful attempt 61 years earlier), the ruling Greek-Egyptian emperor Ptolemy II Philadelphus who was a bibliophile, heard from his librarian, Demetrius, that the Jewish Bible was worth translating for the king’s archives. The king wrote to the High Priest in Jerusalem, asking him to send scholars who would be able to translate the Pentateuch into Greek. The High Priest sent 72 wise men, he gathered 72 Jewish Torah sages, had them sequestered in 72 separate rooms, and ordered them to each produce a translation. The Greek king was worried they might falsify something, so he made seventy two Sages sit in separate cubicles, so that each one would write an independent version., whom the king lodged in a building on the island of Pharos, near Alexandria. On the 8th of Tevet of the year 3515 from creation (246 BCE) they produced 72 corresponding translations. Miraculously, their translations were identical to each other, even when it came to delicate passages which could easily be misconstrued. In 13 places the sages used creative license in their translations so that there could be no misunderstanding of the meaning of the text. The result of the miraculous identical translations gave the Book the name “toafos of a re’em” Hebrew which translates as “the glory of a unicorn.” This Greek rendition became known as the Septuagint, ”of the seventy”
The later Jewish sages commented that the day the Torah was translated into Greek ”was as difficult for the Jewish people as the day when the Golden Calf was made, because the Torah cannot really be translated.” The Sages were worried about a false translation of the Torah. In a sense, that is exactly what the Golden Calf was: a false translation of spirituality. The people wanted something spiritual which would be here, in our lower world.
Despite this undisguised miracle, the Talmud teaches that when the sages completed their translation, on the 8th day of the month of Tevet, darkness descended upon the world and remained for 3 days, a tragedy commemorated by the fast of the 10th of Tevet (which also commemorates the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem that resulted in the destruction of the First Temple). It was like the sun became lost behind the pall of darkness, the brilliance of the Torah had become eclipsed to all those who would now depend upon its rendering in a foreign language, with all its levels of depth and meaning lost. The Torah had become ”like a lion in cage,” no longer the king of the beasts striking fear into all who heard its roar, now behind bars and stripped of its freedom and power; so too had the Septuagint reduced the Torah to just another cultural document.
However, ultimately the translation of the Torah into Greek had a positive effect: it communicated the Oneness of G-d to all nations. It was because of the Septuagint translation that the rest of the world became aware of the culture of the Jews and, according to Philo (Life of Moses 2:7), the Jews of Alexandria held an annual celebration on the island of Pharos on the anniversary of the completion of the Septuagint.
The Early Christian Church used the Greek texts since Greek was a lingua franca of the Roman Empire at the time, and the language of the Greco-Roman Church (Aramai)cwas the language of Syriac Christianity, which used the Targums). In addition the Church Fathers tended to accept Philo’s account of the LXX’s miraculous and inspired origin. Furthermore, the New Testament writers, when citing the Jewish scriptures or when quoting Jesus doing so, freely used the Greek translation, implying that Jesus, his Apostles and their followers considered it reliable.
Its interesting to note that in the Talmud its written ‘R. Judah said: When our teachers permitted Greek, they permitted it only for a scroll of the Torah’. This was on account of the incident related in connection with King Ptolemy, as it has been taught: ‘It is related of King Ptolemy that he brought together seventy-two elders and placed them in seventy-two [separate] rooms, without telling them why he had brought them together, and he went in to each one of them and said to him, Translate for me the Torah of Moses your master. God then prompted each one of them and they all conceived the same idea and wrote them for him.
Furthermore, we see corroboration of this from the works of Flavius Josephus, in his preface to Antiquities of the Jews.
I found, therefore, that the second of the Ptolemies was a king who was extraordinarily diligent in what concerned learning, and the collection of books; that he was also peculiarly ambitious to procure a translation of our law, and of the constitution of our government therein contained, into the Greek tongue. Now Eleazar the high priest, one not inferior to any other of that dignity among us, did not envy the forenamed king the participation of that advantage, which otherwise he would for certain have denied him, but that he knew the custom of our nation was, to hinder nothing of what we esteemed ourselves from being communicated to others. Accordingly, I thought it became me both to imitate the generosity of our high priest, and to suppose there might even now be many lovers of learning like the king; for he did not obtain all our writings at that time; but those who were sent to Alexandria as interpreters, gave him only the books of the law, while there were a vast number of other matters in our sacred books. They, indeed, contain in them the history of five thousand years; in which time happened many strange accidents, many chances of war, and great actions of the commanders, and mutations of the form of our government. Upon the whole, a man that will peruse this history, may principally learn from it, that all events succeed well, even to an incredible degree, and the reward of felicity is proposed by G-d; but then it is to those that follow his will, and do not venture to break his excellent laws: and that so far as men any way apostatize from the accurate observation of them, what was practical before becomes impracticable and whatsoever they set about as a good thing, is converted into an incurable calamity.
So, we see, the Septuagint, as it was in its original form, was only a translation of only the Torah for a specific reason, and that reason is that the Sages would not allow the Prophets and Writings to be translated at that time. Often you find Christian apologists and missionaries pointing to the Prophets and the Writings in the Septuagint, saying “don’t you see? This is how the rabbis translated it into Greek!”
Those portions of the LXX were translated incorrectly deceptively by Christians to advance Christian theology.There are many examples of this. The most well known is
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel,” (Isaiah 7:14).
Here the word for “virgin” in Hebrew is “alma” this means maiden, not virgin.
The word in Hebrew for virgin is “Betulah”.
