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Weather

FIRE AND WATER

Dated: 7/30/2010
Wildfires are raging in five regions as Russia endures dry weather and one of the hottest months on record while the worst floods in Pakistan’s history hit the northwestern provinces.

The highest knowledge known to the Jewish People goes under the name Misa Merkerva/Workings of the Chariot; the Cabala explains this mysterious wisdom as being the innate disposition of matter to combine – the two physical forces causing the coming together of elements is gravity and magnetism.

Neither gravity nor magnetism can be seen, only measured because they are the spiritual elements within physical matter which helps to maintain order in the natural chaos of creation. It is the combining of elements which brings about order and moderation; together fire and water produce a temperate atmosphere but separately they produce chaos.

The prophetic picture of physical devastation in the Torah is a thin cow eating a fat cow, but the thin cow remains thin. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor explains, the thin cow remained thin as a sign the happiness of the past is forgotten in the devastation of the present.

The Cabala explains how consumption followed by devastation leads to purity. What happens in one place of the world is felt and reflected everywhere on the earth and in the heavens. Eventually, we are promised, God will swallow up death and that will be that.

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Science

A HOTTER WORLD

Dated: 7/29/2010
More than 300 scientists from around the world hope to blunt the growing skepticism about climate change with a new report that says global warming is a fact and the Earth is hotter than ever.

The Midrash–Book of Metaphor says, Each person is a small world; from this can be deduced that the world is similar to a human being – the seven continents corresponding to the head, body, arms and legs plus sex float within a mantle of water like a little life immersed in the embryonic fluid.

A rise in the temperature could be normal if the circumstances warrant such a reaction for example at the time of birth many things in the body of the mother and child change and suddenly, birth is imminent.

The Torah is full of allusions to the birth of Moshiach as being a world-wide event; the sound of the ram’s horn, the Shofar, will be heard around the world; war and poverty will cease and peace will endure. What is required in our time is to push the birth forward.

The Zohar-Book of Secret foretells a time in the near future when the sun will be taken from its Nartika/Shield and will blaze seven times its present strength; the wicked will run into caves but the rest will adapt and glow with light. The name of the sun is Chom/Hot.

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Israel

ISRAEL MEETS KING

Dated: 7/28/2010
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and King Abdullah of Jordan ended more than a year of diplomatic near-silence yesterday when the two met at the royal palace in Amman.

Israel was always rules by a king until the Jewish return a century ago who formed a government and began a state for the express purpose of safeguarding the Jewish People. But, the eternal promise and dream of the Jewish People is King Moshiach.

Eight hundred years ago the Rambam wrote the Laws of Moshiach at end of the his 14 book compendium outlining the laws related to the 613 commandments spread throughout the first five books of the Torah. The Rambam says, When Moshaich comes Israel will no longer be ruled by the kings of the nations.

The Cabala teaches that Malchut/Royalty, the last of the Ten Sefirot/Luminaries, is the beginning of creation; the Midrash-Book of Metaphor is fecund with analogies and stories about the king – the nature of the a king is to rule through speech. As it says, God spoke and the world was.

The greatness of the king is derived from the love the king has for his people as it says, There is no king without a people. God is coroneted King of the World when the human being admits that God creates the world. Jewish comes form the word Hodu/Admit.

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Science

THE HUMAN ANIMAL

Dated: 7/27/2010
The human-animal connection goes well beyond simple affection; scientists now propose interdependency of ancestral humans with other animal species played a crucial and beneficial role in human evolution.

The Cabala explains how the human being is a combination of an animal soul and a human soul merged in a physical body that has all the elements of an animal yet is formed is a replication of the Four Letter Name of God, YHVH. Earth is home to this special being.

The earth is called by the name Tavel a term used in the Torah describing a human being being sexual with an animal; human sexuality combines both aspects of human and animal. According to the Talmud-Book of Law what distinguishes the human being amid animals is our ability to articulate thoughts into speech.

It is our ability to speak that gives the human being dominance over the animal; the Midrash-Book of Metaphor says, When the human being acts like an animal he is lower than the animal who acts out of instinct. The question is, What is God trying to prove?

Famous within the Torah is the prophetic vision of a chair held up by three animals, upon the chair is the form of a human being; the basic interpretation of this vision is animals propel the human being to become higher.

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Astronomy

MOTHER MERCURY

Dated: 7/26/2010
On its third swing past Mercury, NASA’s Mercury Messenger spacecraft discovered an unexpectedly young lava plain, rapid rufflings of the planet’s weak magnetic field and an unanticipated dance of elements in the thin atmosphere.

The Torah defines life as that which moves and Mercury of all the planets moves the fastest; called Cokev/Star this closest planet to the sun plays a pivotal position in the process of the solar system. The Cabala calls the sun and Mercury, Mother and Father never separated.

The life harbored on the other planets is more ephemeral than apparent, likened to the body the sun and Mercury correspond to the two hemispheres of the brain – constantly active but without visual evidence. Both Mercury and Pluto, the smallest celestial bodies of the solar system, house fragile unexpected systems.

The disparity of size between the sun and Mercury is mimicked at the other end of the solar system by Pluto and her three tiny moons reaching far from home in an extended elliptical orbit. Our planetary system of nine planets begins and ends with small.

The Cabala explains how the smaller the vessel the greater the light; small does not mean little but rather lacking importance, a smaller ego. To be close to a great light requires self-effacement; to become small and insignificant is the highest spiritual expectation – no wonder so few follow that path.

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Religion

STRICTNESS AND PURITY

Dated: 7/25/2010
A recent study released by two Texas Tech professors found the more fundamental the Christian beliefs of college students are more likely to commit domestic abuse.

Because of the erroneous perception that God is spiritual people think that strictness and purity are more important to the Creator than are our actions in this world. The reason why spiritual people or wannabes tend towards abuse is because their standard is very high – in heaven everything is perfect.

Nothing is stricter than dogma that no amount of reason can mollify or appease; dogma claims to be a true reflection of the spiritual where the immutable laws of heaven are more exacting than the laws of nature which has anomalies. However, strict comes with a cost.

Strictness in the Torah is reserved for the Rabbis and those who wish to emulate the Rabbis; the Rabbis try to perform the Torah in exemplary manner thus providing a positive example to the community – but, God is unimpressed. God likes the simple people who have a more open and comfortable relationship with their Creator.

Those trying to be spiritual and emulate the heavens often find their severity exploding onto others; some physically abuse and some abuse the emotions but all abuse the soul. The Bal Shem Tov when asked, How to love God? He answered, Love what God loves.

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Israel

WHO IS A JEW

Dated: 7/24/2010
A growing crisis between American Jews and the Israeli government over a proposed law on religious conversion was averted this week with both sides agreeing to a six-month period of negotiation.

The question should be What is a Jew not who. Actually the Jewish People are broken down into three divisions: those born of a Jewish mother, those converted according to the law and those who wish to live amid the Jewish People without being obligated to the 613 Commandments.

After the destruction of the First Temple 2500 years ago the rabbis no longer recognized the Ger Tashav/Stranger Amongst and treated them as Goyim/Nations; as a result Israel has become a nation among nations – practicing democracy while trying to live with the rabbis who got us into this fix.

The Talmud-Book of Law says, The Rabbis are the strictest opinion and one is not allowed to be stricter than the Rabbis. In this instance the strictness of the Rabbis is to insure the Jewish People remain pure yet the inner meaning of the Jewish People is as servants to God.

The Cabala explains how the soul of Jewish People desire the 613 Commandments while the non-Jewish Person has seven; those who wish to do all or part of the Mitzvot should be considered Jewish as it was in the time of the First Temple.

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Nation

CORPORATE HIGH

Dated: 7/23/2010
Jeff Wilcox persuaded Oakland to legalize industrial-sized marijuana farms, touting a study that promised millions in city taxes and hundreds of high-paying union jobs.

Marijuana is a very special plant first appearing on earth northwest of India. The way marijuana arrived in India was through Avraham who 4000 years ago left the Tower of Babel built on Mars and traveled directed by God to the earth.

At the end of the Avraham’s life he takes a third wife Ketora with whom he has many children; he sends these children to the east – eventually these children of Avraham journey to India and set themselves up as Brahmans (Avrahamings) writing the ancient Vedas. Marijuana was among the gifts Avraham gave to these children.

The Zohar-Book of Secret says, All the knowledge of the people of the east comes from Avraham. In addition to the languages which Avraham brought to the world: Arabic, Hebrew and Sanskrit was the gift of marijuana. Though there is no chronicle of the Jewish People smoking marijuana there is nothing prohibiting its use.

Marijuana was used in the Temple, being the first of ingredients called Kana Bosim/Good Smell. The incense burned in the Golden Altar before the cube of the Ten Commandments at the innermost part of the Temple was said to be the highest sacrifice.

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World

BLACK AND WHITE

Dated: 7/22/2010
A black British couple have spoken of their amazement after their baby girl was born white, with blue eyes and blonde hair.

The Talmud-Book of Law relates a story about a Caucasian couple who gave birth to a black baby. The Rabbis asked if they had a black statue in their home and they did. That’s it, said the Rabbis, the human gives birth to what they see – a natural protective system.

Though this happens rarely, it does happen without any biological explanation. The Cabala connects the eyes to the soul through what is called Chochma/Power to Question found in the right side of the brain – the place in the body where the sperm of man is first formed.

Though the woman carries her eggs since birth what she sees with her eyes can change the genetic form of the child. The Talmud-Book of Metaphor says, A child is the partnership between the mother, the father and God; the mother gives the egg, the father the sperm and God provides the soul.

The Zohar predicts, At the End of Days, New Souls will be born into the world; as the 2000 year Roman calendar, the 5000 year Mayan calendar and 6000 year Hebrew calendar all shortly end we should not be surprised by gentle signs of a bright new future.

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Science

THE CUBE

Dated: 7/21/2010
The entire range of physical theories that go beyond the standard model of elementary particle physics are based upon the existence of a dipole moment due to more matter than antimatter at creation.

The electric dipole moment of the electron could explain this imbalance by adding this fourth theorized component making its symmetry into a cube. The cube is fundamental to the Semitic Peoples - Arab and Jews. The holiest place for the Muslims is a mysterious black cube in the middle of Mecca.

The Jewish People from the time of Moshe pray with two black cubes of leather–one affixed to the forehead and the other on the upper part of the arm. The Ten Commandments as described in the Written Torah was made of two cubes miraculously engraved with the Finger of God.

The six sides of the cube portend to the four directions plus up and down. Cubism was introduced into the world as art by Picasso at the same time that Einstein revealed the secret of the atom: Energy equals Weight Times the Speed of Light, Squared.

The heavens are said to be made of infinite cubes called Halchalot/Chambers and the atom is the place where the physical and spiritual first combine to form animated life. The nucleus of the atom provides for the unification while the electron projects a cubic reality.

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History

FAST GOES SLOW

Dated: 7/20/2010
The Chasam Sofer and the Vilna Gaon on the first Fourth of July in 1776 were fasting because the Founding Fathers created democracy on 17 Tammuz, 5536–the beginning of the Three Weeks of Mourning.

The Three Weeks of Mourning conclude today, the ninth of Av when both Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed 500 years apart; a fact stated in the Talmud-Book of Law and chronicled by the ancient historian Josephos who was eye witness to the event. These sad days will turn happy in the future.

It is said that Moshiach will be born on this day and that the three weeks of mourning and the culminating day of the Ninth of Av will become a holiday transmuting into peaceful happiness. All the historical events that happen during this time are meaningful.

What caused God to destroy the Temple were the divisions forged out of hatred for no reason between the Jewish People; since the punishment is always commiserate with the crime, spreading the Jewish People throughout the world helped to achieve love. The greatest example of this phenomenon is America.

America is the merging of many diverse groups of peoples living in ethnic neighborhoods sharing their music, culture and knowledge. The Cabala explains how the merging of colors is what produces beauty and truth – America has the potential to bring peace to the world, not through war but through intelligence.

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Torah

THE FAST

Dated: 7/19/2010
The Three Weeks commemorating the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem continues through July 20, 2010 the 9th of Av commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temple on the same day 500 years apart.

There are two 24 hour fasts in the Hebrew calendar when the body loses desire for food–one day because of sadness and the other because of happiness. The sad day is the Ninth of Av; the happy day is Yom HaKipurim/Day of Atonement when the people are forgiven.

The fast that begins at sundown today and finishes when the stars come out tomorrow night; during that time one is not allowed to study the Torah with the exception of the Zohar-Book of Secret because the destruction of the Temple was the destruction of the body not the soul.

The saddest time is tonight until noon the next day during this period it is customary to sit on a low stool as a sign of mourning. After noon we get up from the floor and are allowed to learn limited amounts of Torah but the restriction from food and water remain until night.

The saddest day of the year is when the Temple was destroyed because the Jewish People hated one another and the happiest day of the year is when God forgave the Jewish People for building and serving the Golden Calf. ??

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Religion

WHERE IS COMPASSION

Dated: 7/18/2010
Citing the ordination of women as a “grave crime” Rome equates this assault on the Church, offensive as the scandal of priests who sexually assault children.

Woman and children are considered differently because the gentle nature of their vulnerable being; some societies exploit while some exalt in their women and children – the Church concludes, abuse against children is comparable to woman entering into the inner workings of the Church.

The rape of children by men and the counterclaim of the rape of the Church by women seeking ordination is beyond any rational explanation. The Church is built upon dogma and irrefutable doctrine demanding the devotee to accept and believe with doubt – the more irrational the dogma, the greater the reward.

One of the commonalities of the Semitic Peoples, the Arabs and Jews, is those devoted to the Torah and the Koran study loudly in groups so everyone can air their opinions; there are authorities in law but not of opinion because truth has many faces and personalities.

God has no dogma, no religion, and no doctrine. The Talmud–Book of Law says, A person is made of three partners: mom, dad and God. The Cabala explains how women and children are the purest signs of compassion, as is known – words of Torah from the mouths of children brings on compassion from the Creator.

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Nation

ARMY SUICIDES

Dated: 7/17/2010
June was not only the worst month ever for American combat deaths in Afghanistan, it was the worst month ever for suicides in the Army.

America came into being through violent revolution writing into the beginning of the constitution the right of the people to bear arms. All American children grow up in an atmosphere of violence inflicted by the media and the government’s obsession with war. The army is big business for everyone.

Some join the army out of patriotism, some are violent people whose nature draws them into the army and some are just there because they need a job – once inducted there is no turning back. It is emotionally hard to take the life of another human being, even one who is trying to kill you.

Soldiers like doctors need to be insensitive, but killing makes a mark on the soul. Any soldier who puts himself into the army to serve his country deserved respect and those who return deserve care; only those who kill can know the great damage that killing effectuates in the the human being.

The prophesy of the Torah is that one day, soon we will beat our swords into plowshares – we will feed and care for the world instead of carrying on destruction. The Cabala teaches that each person is a small world.

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Science

SMALLER THAN SMALL

Dated: 7/16/2010
Neutrinos are among the lightest and most evasive fundamental particles now a new survey of the galaxies puts neutrino mass at half as massive as previously estimated.

Neutrinos rarely interact with matter because they are so small yet there are so many of them that their accumulated force is formidable; neutrinos are made from the breaking down of the atom releasing a sub particle plus a minute burst of energy. What is the meaning and implicit metaphor of this most basic phenomenon?

There is a generalization in the study of the Cabala maintaining, The smaller the vessel the larger the light. This simple adage explains why the head which houses the majority of the senses plus the brain is small when compared with the rest of the body.

The Cabala explains how the darkness of physicality overcome by good intentions transmutes into light by embodying the darkness – expanding God’s reach into creation. The Cabala is obsessed with discovering the secrets of creation hidden within the Zohar-Book of Secret.

The neutrino is a physical manifestation of what the cabalists envisioned through their books. The metaphor of the neutrino is one of turning darkness into light. Most good action in the world pushes the darkness away but the ubiquitous nature of this sub atomic particle is a extraordinary example of turning darkness into light.

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Law

THE LAW OF THE LAW

Dated: 7/15/2010
The Swiss government's decision Monday to free Roman Polanski outraged Los Angeles prosecutors and U.S. officials but effectively ended a legal odyssey that erupted into public furor in 1977 when a 13-year-old girl was drugged and raped.

Law wants conclusion – right or wrong, dismissal is never a good option when it comes to the law; strange it is though during these thirty years this case has been active there has been the worse kinds of child abuse by the Catholic Church in the same city that turned a blind eye.

The study of the Talmud-Book of Law never reaches conclusions just postulates different possibilities and therefore the law cannot be declared from the Talmud. Jewish Law is a constantly evolving body of work where the present law-makers are considered midgets standing on the shoulders of giants.

Secular law is black and white lacking shades of grey, cutting a ruthless path through the lives of people while pursuing their prey. The law of the land is one of deterrent and not of justice. The Torah teaches, In the end God Judges.

The Cabala explains how the human being is judged by God every day and the purpose of the human being is to sweeten the Din/Law which brings compassion–the highest of human virtues. When a person dies it is customary to say, Barch Dian Haemet/God is the True Judge.

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Politics

INDECENCY IN AMERICA

Dated: 7/14/2010
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan struck down the 2004 Federal Communications Commission policy, which said that profanity referring to sex or excrement is always indecent.

According to the second of the Ten Commandments the only indecent words are those defaming or using God’s Name in vain, like God D-mn. To think God could make a Hell and D-mn things and peoples to that place is ludicrous and gives God a bad name.

In Sefer Chachmano, seminal book of the Cabala, is broken down the human body into 248 limbs and 365 connecting tissues not counting the seven major organs corresponding to the seven outer planets confined by the earth’s 365 day orbit around the sun and Pluto’s 248 year orbit around the sun.

The human body and all the functions of the body are holy. Religion and politics are like a couple always fighting, which is deemed appropriate social banter while nature is considered dirty. Hateva/The Nature is the same gematria as Elohim the Name of God used to create Creation.

The human being is differentiated from the animal by our ability to articulate thoughts into words. Excrement is dirty but the word is not whereas D–amn is politically permissible yet D–mning is such a filthy idea. Torah law constrains physical filth from sight and smell but not from sound.

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Law

CRIME PAYS

Dated: 7/13/2010
The Barefoot Bandit, formally known as Colton Harris-Moore, was arrested on Sunday after a two-year-long search and is currently being detained in a jail in the Bahamas.

One could imagine this young thief making the calculation that if he could stay free for long enough to gain a following his crimes would pay off. His mother has secured an agent, books and movies are bound to follow. Perhaps crime does pay?

The Talmud-Book of Law says, When the thief enters in to steal, while yet standing at the entrance of his crime he prays to God for success–the same God who commands the human being not to steal. Our constant connection to the Creator even in the midst of doing wrong is never severed.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says, The great flood of Noah was brought on by thievery; though the people of that time were seemingly involved is much more horrendous actions like praying to idols and ejaculating over the earth and trees as taught in the Midrash but thievery brought on the flood.

The Cabala explains, God can forgive those indiscretions committed against the Creator but cannot forgive what is done between people. Some steal with a gun while others steal with the fine print in a phony contract – God sees it all but waits to tell.

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Spirituality

CHODESH AV

Dated: 7/12/2010
The Babylonian Talmud states, When we enter the month of Av, our joy is diminished. The darkest events in Jewish history occurred during the first week and a half of this month.

On the ninth of Av 2000 and 2500 years ago the First and Second Temple was destroyed on this day; the Midrash-Book of Metaphor says Moshiach will be born on the ninth of Av. The new moon signifies the beginning of the nine days of mourning when no wine is drank except on Shabbot.

The Cabala explains how the greatest light comes from out of the darkness then relates this concept to the Bali Tshuva/Master of Return. The First Temple was destroyed because the Jewish People did not serve God out of joy but out of obligation–like a man divorcing his wife for insincerity.

The further from God we stray the deeper is our return; return happens when experiences and actions metamorphoses into good through the process of repentance. One can only repent before God so it is the repentance that spurs the return.

The Second Temple was destroyed because the Jewish People hated one another–the fix for such a crime was a long exile into Rome where the Jewish People out of necessity need to gather together for safety and companionship. God’s punishments help us fix essential wrongs and turn the darkness into light.

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Weather

TOTAL ECLIPSE

Dated: 7/11/2010
Thousands of tourists and scientists have descended on Chile's Easter Island to catch sight of today’s total solar eclipse.

I once asked an astronomer, How extraordinary is it that the moon precisely covers the sun during a solar eclipse? He answered: As if God put it there. Easter Island in Polynesia where 888 mammoth unexplained statues were carved seems a fitting place for such an event.

The Torah describes during the Six Days of Creation how the sun and moon were of equal size. The moon complained to God saying, There can not be two kings; and God responded with, So make yourself small–as a hint to this, the moon precisely covers the sun on sporadic occasions.

In the Cabala, the sun and the moon are male and female; the sun is always on while the moon cycles–woman, like the moon, also cycle on a 28 day period. The sun’ cycle divides precisely into 13 months leaving one day left over–Echud/One has the gematria of 13.

On the fall equinoxes of 2017 which in Hebrew is 5777 there will be a total eclipse running across the United States, beginning in Oregon and exiting in South Carolina–across the Bible Belt. The eclipse will peak over Christian county where the famous American mystic Edgar Casey had lived.

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Sports

SLAVES FREED

Dated: 7/10/2010
As the fans and players of the 29 other N.B.A. franchises cringed at the union of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, South Beach did what it does best–partied.

The owners of major sports teams have forever dealt players as if they are chattel–trading them for other players plus some money in the millions; now the players have taken control to form a super team–the should be called the Miami Slaves.

In Torah the slave is a big part of society. One can buy a slave at the market or receive a slave as payment or be awarded a slave in the person of the one who wronged you by the courts; slaves are taken in war. There are Jewish and non Jewish slaves.

The law in the Torah is that a non Jewish slave becomes Jewish when they are freed. It says, A freed slave can be the cruelest of people; Herod, the Jewish Governor of Israel 2000 years ago was a freed slave–so watch out NBA, but ultimately it will raise the bar.

The Cabala explains about two types of relationship with the Creator, one of slave and one of child. When we serve God because we have to then we are slave; when we serve out of happiness then we are child–then the soul can party in heaven.

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Arts

A MOUTHFUL

Dated: 7/9/2010
A domestic violence investigation involving actor Mel Gibson and his ex girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, claims the actor punched her in the face "more than once". Gibson said he was solely attempting to stop her from shaking their 8-month-old daughter, Lucia.

Famous for his anti-Semitism and racist remarks this actor is a curious blend of bad energy–Mel Gibson is the mouthpiece of an evil spirit purposely perpetrated upon the world. The Cabala teaches, The mouth has nothing of its own, a mere accumulation of the inner being.

Much like the Church, Mel Gibson would rather hit the mother to save the baby; he connects with the essential fault of the Church–the crucifixion whose portrayal in his movie The Passion was a blistering indictment against the Jewish People. The Rabbis remained silent but it is well known within the Torah-the crucifixion never happened.

Evil always finds an excuse for violence like an actor who acts out the violence in his soul and the suffering in his heart. What makes him such a pitiful person is his embellished ego full of false repentance and lies–a mirror image of the Church.

The Cabala explains how the letter Hey/5 which is a attribution of woman represents thinking and speaking as two lines converging in a right angle; action is a dot opposite the angle tricking the eye to form a box. Sometimes thoughts and words span the abyss and explode into action.  

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Science

SLEEP SCIENCE

Dated: 7/8/2010
In the initial stages of sleep energy levels increase dramatically in brain regions found to be active during waking hours according to new research.

The Talmud-Book of Law says, Sleep is a sixtieth of death–meaning during sleep the soul leaves the body and ascends to the lower part of heaven where nourishment of the soul happens. Our chimeric dreams are populated with strange entities and happening from that world.

Each soul is big like a sun and connects to the body through a thin hair of light entering into the right side of the brain. During sleep a small part releases and elevates funneling spiritual energy back to the body to rejuvenate the brain.

Once an old man was asked, why after getting up in the middle of the night to pee he would study a little Torah before returning to bed? He replied, When I return they ask me where I went and I don’t want to say, I had to piss–so I tell them I had to leave and learn something.

The Ari father of the Cabala once fell asleep for a moment, but when he awoke he said it would take him decades to recount what he had seen in his dream state. When science recognizes the soul a whole new frontier will open up.

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Sports

FOUL BALL

Dated: 7/7/2010
A male fan fell from the second deck of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas last night while reaching for a foul ball, landing in the field level seats below.

There is a saying, It is hard to go up but easy to fall down; the man did not die because he was shielded by fans below, but he was injured. So too in life where years of effort can result in a sudden unexpected collapse–the accident mirrors the human condition.

The baseball diamond which can be drawn out similar to the Ten Sefirot as pictured in the Tree of Life is where the game is played out, a foul ball has no purpose other than wearing down the pitcher. In life, those who intentionally or by mistake divert purposeful action and intention slow down the game.

Those who can’t participate but want to get close take a risk or being hit by foul ball in the lower level or in this case, fall from the upper level. Lately much has fallen on the people from the upper echelon of society who went afoul.

The Torah is divided up into the Written Text, the Law, the Metaphor and the Secret. The law is how we conduct ourselves in the world where the story produces a metaphor revealing the inner truth. The purpose of life is to win.

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Law

STONING IN IRAN

Dated: 7/6/2010
Iranian mother of two to be stoned to death; citing the Iranian penal code the victim will be buried up to her chest, the stones hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately.

There is no mention of stoning in the Koran, but there is in the Torah; according to the Laws of the Torah stoning was done after death, not as a form of execution. To actually stone a person to death is completely prohibited in the Torah.

The four ways of execution had to be carried out painlessly and were used sparingly–courts were deemed murderers if they put to death more than one person in 70 years. The reason for the four types of execution carried out after a painless death was to rectify the YHVH.

The Four Letter Name of God YHVH when set vertical make the stick figure of a human being–each of us a representation of God’s Name. Some human deeds are so bad they harm the four spiritual letters of their being–requiring repatriation.

Each letter corresponds to an element as does each of the four punishments. Doers of deeds done out of passion are consumed by fire, deeds of words bring on the punishment of strangulation, cold and calculating deeds are met with decapitation and those who harm the earth are hit with stones after their demise.

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