Jewish Endeavor

Some new created blogs

2008-02-14T01:00:00.004+01:00

It has been a long while since I wrote something for my blogs here, but it will still be some while before going on with it I must say. My apologies for that.

Yeah, I haven't found something yet, or rather found in the mean time some other things while at the same updating my website. It has now a lot of info that has been revised, especially in the section of thoughts, articles, quotes, as well as some editorials.

But what's most important is that the entire study of the Book of Esther has been completed and can be read over there when you would want to. It has a new updates section as well of Yisraeli news & Music in a new clothing.

So there is clearly a lot new on offer because all the thoughts minus the last two to this day have not only been revised, but are as good as completely new ones. The revised quotes are going gradually into the same direction as well.

So if you are curious about it, then please feel free to pay my website a visit at:

http://users.skynet.be/JT/Index.html

As always are you most welcome to the site. And when you do, then don't be shy to post a comment in the guestbook as well. Thank You!

Oh yes, before I forget. The calendar section has also been put into a new clothing, which makes it for me a bit easier, and for you the visitor a much more interested tool to work with I hope.
Tho that there is still quite some work to do, then it is progressing steadily and cautiously so to speak. Like many people would say: Haste is in such a work not in anyone's good interest, certainly not myself the student.

But if you for any reason whatsoever wouldn't like to visit my website, then you can also visit me also on these four blogs:

http://eretz-yisrael.skynetblogs.be/

http://jewish-quote.skynetblogs.be/

http://jewish-thought.skynetblogs.be/

http://esther-wisdom.skynetblogs.be/

Hope to see you there soon or at the website.

What you will see in three of the blogs over there is everything that already have been updated on the website like quotes, thoughts and the fully done study of the Book of Esther. The only new blog is the one named Eretz Yisrael. On the website itself is there of course a lot more to wander around in.

Enjoy I would say.

And thanks for your visit!!

Time to give revisions a chance for change

2007-06-27T10:35:00.000+02:00

I know that it has been a long while since I wrote something new for this blog, even the Zohar one. And my apologies for those who once in a while stopped over to read what became available. However, It will still take quite some time before I will renew my writings for both blogs, especially the Zohar one because I'm in the process of revising a lot of thoughts, written by myself, these days before moving on once again with what I was busy on, and it all takes a tremendous amount of time, and effort, to hopefully do it right, just, and with strength within.

So please, my sincere apologies for those who feel a bit puzzled about the entire situation. Still, it's my hope that you the reader can understand that I'm doing this all on my own together with a full time job. Okay, not so full, as I work a 4/5 shedule, meaning 4 weeks working and the fifth one on leave. Nevertheless, I somehow will perhaps also create some new blogs in the future on Blogger, which will solely take the revised content in full this time to you. Well, it's my understanding that blogs have at least a much better chance of staying online than an own free personal website, a little bit of some Mb space on the net that I pay for that is within the form of a subscription I have with my Internet provider.

And beside that, blogs do give readers a rather easier ease to comment on what a blogger does write, whereas it's my hope that you of course will do so unless you feel that it can only be read in silence that is with due respect. But we all do learn from the moment we are born till our last breath of air we inhale on this tiny spot within the immensity of the universe(s). And it can only be achieved through a sincere and honest interaction between people.

For now, don't be shy to keep stopping over once in a while, and read anew some of the content available, or just visit the website at: http://users.skynet.be/JT/Index.html if you can't wait, and feel the need to read what has also already been revised within the section of thoughts and quotes.

Thank you for your time and visit.

Bernadette Schaepdryver

Book of Esther: Chapter 10 (revised study)

2007-05-28T00:57:00.000+02:00

We may believe, or we may not believe. Whatever we decide regarding the book of Esther, the most important message sits them within its depth, not its clothing. The more we study it, the more we will come to know what drove the people of the region to do what they did, and surviving the ordeal that was about to take its toll. Jew and gentile unified themselves against what was about to become a moment in time that could have changed it so dramatically that it would have been very questionable if the world could have overcome the devastating outcome of what it would do to the deeper feeling we all do possess regarding what being humane is all about, what being a human being entails who abides by the sanctity of life He embodies in everyone of us. Maybe that it would still have lasted a few years before its final and complete demise into oblivion, no one will know for sure, and luckily so. Yes, luckily because it caused us to be living today, to have the same opportunity as everyone else had in that time, namely to better the lives of everyone, to make the world a better place to live in, even trying to make it equal with the one above. Like our Jewish brethren and sisters of that precious time in time, we too have been given the choice of coming forward or not, of starting to walk on our own legs without any visible help that is, or to fall prey to a thinking, a lifestyle that will not enlighten our body and mind, nor we keep being a light unto the nations. We are therefore advised to return to our Aba without realizing profoundly, or with a tangible, a concrete visible incentive to go for it, to make at least a concrete and substantial effort of showing our utmost appreciation, as well as deep respect for everything He has done for us till today, and will keep doing so everlasting. He even entices the gentile through this story to follow in the footsteps of their brethren and sisters who lived at the set time in the region, and not to waste precious breath of air on matters that for sure will not bring them the solace they so desperately aspire, even when they are not aware of it that they do. Yeah, it's for sure a story that will reverberate its lesson within every time and world wherein man will live his life. What happened in Esther's time caused a kind of ripple effect on a clean surface of water that will last everlasting, just like our Torah did. It will not come to a halt, even when we would forget because its deeper essence, its soul is timeless, it's what keeps humankind afloat, but not rudderless, or adrift that is. Tho the bodies and minds of the people of that time may have been constrained by the time they lived in, not so for the souls of these people who were entitled to be present in such a commendable moment, one wherein humankind came to stand at a crossroad in their lives that would decide about the future of the next generation, even every generation that would come thereafter, including ours as well thus, and so on.

There is thus no real need to know more about what happened afterwards, of what happened to queen Esther and Mordecai once their tremendous achievement, and that of everyone involved, those who chose their side, fulfilled itself as hoped for. If we would demand it, then we for sure will come to show our dishonor, our disrespect to the remembrance of all the souls who committed themselves to not only salvage the world of man, then every life throughout the ages of time. They showed us that the salvation could not become a matter of fact when a world thinks solely with its body and mind. No, their lives do teach us how it's most important to return ourselves to our deepest thoughts, those that can only be found within our own self when we strengthen the bond with our soul. Only our soul can bring us the much needed resources for us to start moving, to put us back on track so that we, Jew and gentile, can show our forefathers and -mothers that their fight for the survival of life, its sanctity, was not a waste of their deepest hope with regard to future generations to come after them. If we are to keep their memory alive and well, maybe even kicking, then let we make sure that their memory will not be in vain. Yes, let we strengthen our bond with their plight because theirs is as good as ours for as long as there will be a Haman who is eager to commit the same atrocities, probably with an even greater desire for calamity due to the impatience of the ego that kept, and keeps hitting the wall of defeat over and over again. As time stood not still, so did neither man's eagerness of inventing innovative technologies, and this for the good of all, but also for purposes that it was, and is not to be used for in any time, or place. Therefore we can not rest, or let us be taken off guard till the last remaining Haman, even followers of such a lifestyle, do become a matter of the past, and we without fear, even in joy can celebrate a new dawn, a new world that man has never witnessed before, that humankind has not lived ever till that day comes. This was the feeling within as good as every person's heart that like clean air blew throughout the entire kingdom of Ahasuerus once the darkness of the past year became truly a matter of remembering it so that it would not be forgotten, but become a lesson that would give generations to come the incentive to be attentive, to not become complacent till every man can truly sigh a breath of relief in that s/he will not have to fear anymore, that really everyone will have the ability to live their lives for ever and ever in peace and security, the tranquility our forefathers and -mothers fought for, the one that they hoped for that we, the generations that would come after them, would fulfill at the set time. True, they knew due to the prophecies that their life, even their decision, would only serve as the much needed push to set in motion what was about to become fulfilled in a later generation. But if they didn't, then nothing would last, then only come to a halt for queen Esther did not kept her silence, nor did Mordecai.

(When you want to read the entire revised study, then please feel free to do so by clicking on the following link: http://users.skynet.be/JT/NewDesign/Home/Newstudy.htm -- Thank you)

Book of Esther: Chapter 9 (revised study)

2007-04-22T11:13:00.000+02:00

It has been told us that we on the day of reckoning at the end of times will be wandering around in sunshine, straight into a bright light. We will come out of our houses and feel really free to be who we are. It is said that we won't have to be afraid anymore, that we will enjoy and have a feast. Our fear will be turned into happiness, our sorrows be thrown away from our shoulders. Yes, the day will come that no evil shall find a place to hide, no place to escape to. On that day, everyone, every Jew, will have the upper-hand against those who want to harm them, and even the sanctity of all life. It's even widely assumed throughout the entire world that goodness will also feel the heat of the moment, that good and evil will suffer, that there will be no place to run to once that day arrives. But, if we feel that way, then we can't really state that we do know Him who knows us. Still, it's true that we should not run because when we flee, then it will be a sign that we admit our guilt in a certain way, no matter if we are guilty or not. If we flee the scene, then we without question do show, do give the impression that we have something to hide from those who are about to ask that justice be served, no matter if their demand will be justified or not. Anyhow, this has by no means to be interpreted as a way of action when it concerns a matter of running for safety. If you can save your life, and that of others against a natural disaster about to occur for instance by knowing a place that it will be safe, then do so, even when you would have no means whatsoever to defend yourself with against an assailant. Only, do know that no one can run away from the time that s/he is destined to die, that his/her body is about to succumb to the age of time, or other occurrences, even illness, unless G-d would be lenient to you in this particular case, as we know that He once did, that there is a precedent. It's a precedent that even shows us that our G-d is a G-d of life, not of dead. Yes, that He wants us to live our life in body, mind and soul, as it being our destiny to do so, trying to fulfill our sacred and holy duty as a human being.

Therefore, it's most important that we try to understand the matters correctly before we jump to a conclusion made on wrong assumptions, perceptions that may pull us backwards instead of forwards to better times. After all, when a knowledge, a lesson, a teaching would not be correct, then we know that it can take a very long while before it becomes rectified. This means that as long as this does not happen, no one will move one step forward, on the contrary in a worst case scenario. Thus as long as the irregularity, the flaw sits very firmly within the mind and thoughts of millions of people, maybe in all of man's manner of thinking, then there will be no movement out of the circle. We can only burst through it when we are willing to keep on learning till we have the matter straight because we through learning, and not being afraid of accepting the truth of our soul, won't have to flee anymore, but will come to stand steadfast on both our feet, and overcome the atrocities that could have been, or become devised against us all, or even against just one of us. Correct, sometimes there just needs to be only one person to give us the push we need most at the right time like Adom, Noah, Avraham, Moshe, and yes Esther and Mordecai did, but also many others, Jews and gentiles alike. Remember Moshe's father-in-law. When we have found the path of learning it just, then there is no reason to be shy anymore, just as queen Esther did. And in a way, this is what is being taught us here in this chapter as well. If nothing would have been done against Haman's decree, then it would have been interpreted in such a manner that would have given Haman and his supporters the right to do what they wanted to do. Everyone would in body and mind have come to agree with their point of view, but not with their soul. All citizens of the kingdom, even the king himself, except for the Jewish people, would have not withheld their support because there would have been no alternative, no other option. But this is so true as well for what even happened during the time of Moshe. If he, nor the midwives would not have stood-up against Pharaoh, then nothing would have stopped him from what he was about to succeed in, namely the assimilation of the Hebrew/Jewish people into the Egyptian mainstream. It would have had major repercussions for every generation of man that would have come thereafter. Hence, we maybe wouldn't be talking, or writing about Esther at all, not to mention Yisrael itself, or the Torah for that matter. It to a certain degree does tell us thus that we shouldn't fear change, that we shouldn't keep on accepting, and succumbing to the harassments so to speak.

A Judaic orthodox lifestyle can be seen as the uppermost important lifestyle to live by as a Jew, but when it prevents people from moving on, then no one will beget a real tangible energy impulse to help him/her outgrowing the prevalent trend within his/her community without forsaking on the basic rules/laws that his/her community is founded on. S/He could even become into the ability of uplifting it into acquiring a higher level of faith in G-d. The same goes for every other Jewish community and their style of living, their vision about religious laws, rules and regulations, and how to implement them, to abide by them. Anyhow, on the other hand, the fear for change could even become so great that almost no one will want to listen to what Moshiach ben David would have to say when the moment we all await does arrive because certain things about the way they live at present will not have to be fulfilled anymore, like fasting for instance. That time is a time of joy everlasting while fasting is a moment of sorrow we remember in this world. But this is something that in the time, and world of Moshiach is not needed anymore for man will become reconciled with his/her pain. The suffering, when so, will be taken away from him/her. Every soul will be freed from its captivity, from its chains. With some it will go easy while others will have it much harder to overcome their former lifestyle, their ego so to speak. At the end, no one will be left behind. Only, those who will keep being stubborn will have to settle with that what they tried to pour over their victims heads. And this on itself does teach us again in how the story about Esther, even that of Moshe, has a very deep bond with what we are told to witness on the final day of reckoning whenever it may occur. Most importantly it is thus for us to learn, but not being afraid of going against the fear of our brothers and sisters when so for otherwise nothing will happen at all. Nevertheless, we can only do so when we are fully certain, and be ascertain of, that that what we want to do is justified, and won't harm in any way the profound bond of the entire Jewish community with G-d, with His Torah. We can not, and may not, G-d forbid, lessen our appetite in doing what is good for our soul, giving it all the strength it needs to change us into the person we truly are, and have always been for that matter, every man that is.

(When you want to read the entire revised study, then please feel free to click on the following link: http://users.skynet.be/JT/NewDesign/Words/Esther/Esthercenter.html -- thank you)

Book of Esther: Chapter 8 (revised study)

2007-04-19T11:38:00.000+02:00

What we learn here is that passiveness will bring us nowhere. It will eventually only aggravate the situation till there is no way out of it than to succumb to the atrocities that have been devised. When no one would have stood-up against it, then there was nothing that would have stopped it from happening, and the world would surely have looked different than how we do know it today. But, we are also being taught to be careful when we do protest a certain irregularity, or injustice. We have to be very sure that what we are about to do is fully justified, that we are not asking an injustice to be undone through something worse. Everything has to stay within the confines of the matter in question. It has to be made clear to everyone throughout the kingdom that what they are about to experience was completely out of touch with their well-being as a human being. Every citizen was about to learn the difference between being a human-human and what it means to be living as a spiritual-human being. The people of the kingdom were being guided towards a life that would start to show their utmost respect to the sanctity of life, and not the culture of dead that Haman practiced, even worshipped. He firmly believed in it. It was his belief, his god, and in his eyes it should have become so in king Ahasuerus' entire kingdom. Therefore, let us even today stand still for just one moment, and let us look around a bit. Try to see, to witness what this kind of culture has brought humankind. And when we do so, then we surely will notice the dare situation nature has fallen into, a nature we always will have to work with because even the most technological advanced technology can't do without its help. As such, if humankind would keep on believing that a lifestyle in the likeness of Haman is preferable, then we all are doomed to disappear into oblivion. Yes, a culture of dead is not only a behavior that results out of hatred, but something that finds it roots within our ego, meaning that the hatred is not really directed at the one that is hated, then only and solely towards the one who starts to hate. It's self-destructive in nature, suicidal when you prefer. It's hating yourself for what a kind of person you have become, but not accepting it.

True, since the coming into existence of human society we as human beings have always had the intellect of advancing our intellectual know-how, and put it into a practical feasibility so that everyone could enjoy its wealth, it making the life of man easier. In that light we found a way to make fire, and it brought many additional opportunities with it. But, we were not yet aware of the enormous damage it could cause as well when handled erratically. And even today, there are those amongst ourselves who still don't understand the danger of what a fire that starts to spread allover the world can cause to all of humankind. Still today, there are irresponsible people, even entire groups of people, sometimes even almost an entire nation, who seems not willing to accept the fact that they have chosen a path that will not lead them to their salvation. It will bring them no solace, not now, not anywhere. If we all would follow their guidance, then the only thing that this planet will witness is dead, the dead of all life, no exception, a desert just like theirs is already, even literally for some. So, we based on that knowledge could easily state that there is not much difference between the world of queen Esther and the one of today. And we will not be that far from the truth with such a statement because man has to a certain degree not wasted any opportunity given to stay encircled by his own ego, meaning that as long as he let his ego be the talk of the day, even his law, his belief in it thus, then nothing will truly change in any time. We will keep being harassed time and time again by those who think that they always do know better. But, no one of us does for otherwise we wouldn't have any schools anymore. We wouldn't have any facilities wherewith we are enticed to try to make life even more easier than before. Hence, we wouldn't have any Yeshiva anymore as well if we would know everything that has to be known, even about His word. We wouldn't be studying Torah, nor writing about it. There would even be no reason for a stillborn baby to be brought into this world, nor s/he pushing for it. Correct, if the infant would stay put within the security of the womb it feels safe, then how can things change for the better, even in the world to come? Thus no, nothing of a kind would and will happen because it would and will not only kill the infant, but the mother as well eventually, meaning all life!

And this is one of the many things we come to learn by studying this Megillah. This chapter will even open our eyes a few inches wider so that we hopefully can come to understand its beauty, its tenderness, warmth and love for life, all life that is. But, we should try to start looking beyond its literal amplification. Instead, we have to try to enlarge it through its figurative expression by combining it with its spiritual, and subsequently mystical hidden message because there sits them the key not to its success, then to ours when we can achieve to extract it out of its depth. Yes, what we are enticed to learn, and thus to do, is to submerge ourselves into this entire Megillah with a unified body, mind and soul, knowing our Torah, free from any bondage. We have to be a house build on a solid foundation if we want to acquire the ability of knowing how to search after its wealth by entering every room that it is entitled to open up for us depending on our progress. It's for that reason that we first of all have to find this key, and realize that we without it won't have the opportunity of becoming freed souls. Alas, we won't know that we are really still enslaved so to speak. We will keep on falsely believing that we are free while the opposite is quite true. It's thus of utmost importance that we first of all learn to accept the state we are truly in. And when we do so, then we should not keep this wisdom, this treasure for ourselves, but remember that we only as a community, a unified nation of people, of life can gain the strength needed to salvage the entire world, even and above all ourselves first. If any man would forsake on this, then none of us won't be any better than Haman himself, nor would we be free. The meaning of life is to understand that it, and we are all connected to one another somehow. Every single particle in life, every atom is part of the bigger picture in a manner of speaking. After all, there will be no freedom, no sanctity, even no holiness without the safety of every Hebrew/Jewish individual, without the security that no harm will be done to queen Esther and Mordecai's brothers and sisters, to their nation. If the decree of Haman would stay in effect without a decree that would counter its gravity successfully, then there will be nothing left for Esther and Mordecai than to acknowledge defeat and shame for they would have been found truly not one bit better than Haman. Yes, if one particle disrupts the process of goodness, then the entire process will eventually become disruptive towards everything else it is connected with unless it is stopped from proceeding with the harm it is causing within a justified manner of perception, expression, interpretation and ultimately action, not by being passive, nor delusive, and neither deceptively.

(When you want to read the entire revised study, then please feel free to click on the following link: http://users.skynet.be/JT/NewDesign/Words/Esther/Esthercenter.html -- thank you)

JT's FREE toolbar

2007-04-17T16:10:00.000+02:00

Shalom,

As from now you can download this FREE toolbar to your webbrower if you want, and listen even to live Israeli Radio stations online while serving on the net. There is an option to put some of your own favourite radio stations as well.

Just click on this link http://jewishtanakh.loyaltytoolbar.com/ and you will be taken to the download site.

There is even a private chatroom for all those who have downloaded this toolbar where you all can chat with each other whenever you want about what you want, or even thus about things you read on the JT sites.

Another feature is the possibility of feeds from Yisraeli newssites as well as some religious sites like Aish.com for instance. It will give you direct access to the latest news and the necessary links to the newsitems in questions.

You will have a weather option and a newsticker as well.

But above all, you will have immediate access to the three JT sites on the net plus a search option too.

And last but not least, it's all FREE.

And if you don't like it, then you can always uninstall it. For that you will have to go to your configuration screen with the start button on your windows desktop. Afterwards just choose software and look after the title: Jewish Tanakh toolbar.

Hope you will enjoy this new free feature.

The editor of the JT sites.

Bernadette Schaepdryver

P.S. In the future I will see if some other features can be added to it, but you won't need to re-install the toolbar, it will be updated automatically if you have chosen this option in the toolbar option - (JT Home's push down button at your left).

Book of Esther: Chapter 7 (revised study)

2007-04-16T09:10:00.000+02:00

We have come to know that Haman had succeeded in wasting every opportunity he had been given to become a better person. He had slammed every door others had opened for him because he was so assured of his right that nothing in the entire world could have changed his mind, even till the very last moment. Yes, even at the couch where the queen was laying down on, he still was only begging her to save his own life, not asking her to forgive him for his evil decree. And that's the core of the lesson within this particular chapter. That's the reason why even Esther kept her silence when the king did burst out in anger, and made a seemingly wrong assumption. Haman had not come with the proper demands, the proper words that would have given him the merit of salvaging his life. True, on the very last of all opportunities he had been given, he still thinks only about trying to rescue his own life, not of those who would become annihilated under his decree. Therefore, we become aware of the fact that he still beliefs very firmly in what he beliefs. Even now, his only concern was to keep himself alive so that he could fulfil the hatred that has ravaged his entire personality. And for that reason, the queen kept her silence because there was no life to be found in Haman's words, only a culture of dead. It were only the words of a man who knew that he was about to be given a death sentence. In his case, his words uttered were thus merely a trick of his nature, trying to let believe that by saving him, he could have the chance to better his life, to become a better person, realizing in a very vague manner that what he had done was not quite right. But that vagueness was not about to save him, for those who know how the nature of such a man does work do know that such a person will not change his attitude once the sentence will be reversed, or lessened. That person will only try to beget the same results, albeit through different means now, but always through lies, even falsifications, and with the help of compromised people. An admitting of his wrong at this stage would thus have to be seen by means of how he would handle his decree, not the final outcome of it. That would still be going ahead no matter what. As a result, everyone is keeping his silence, even the chamberlains, and they covered Haman's head.

Some will perhaps arguing now that no justice was served, that he had not been given a fair trial. Hence, he was given none whatsoever. The king had spoken, and so it became. Still, we are not entitled to think, or even have the right to think in such a manner. And this is because we are well aware of what he wanted to get fulfilled. The only thing that no one had done was coming forward defending him, as it was useless. No matter that the king could have had it wrong in their eyes, if Haman would have done something whereas the king would had to retract his verdict, then someone would surely have said so. Only, no one did, and therefore became the verdict; remember the previous chapter; he already had made before entering the banquet a non-negotiable one. The king had already made up his mind long before that particular moment. In a certain way, the banquet itself could be seen as a court of law. We have the accuser in the person of the queen, the accused Haman, the king being the judge, and Haman's decree as a testimony making from everyone a witness to the stand in the courtroom as well, even a jury. There was thus no reason for the jury to say that Haman was not, or really guilty to the last charge that was made against him because it won't have changed the outcome in any way due to the severity of the other one. He had already been sentenced for that one. It didn't matter anymore. It was a waste of breath so to speak. There were more urgent matters to be discussed as soon as possible now that the extend of the gravity became clear. Thousands of innocent lives had to be saved, and there was no time to waste on one that clearly had no desire to be saved in any way. As a result, we may be assured of the fact that justice has truly been served. Okay, maybe that we can argue about the sentence, and it would be not wrong to do so in our present time with all the know-how and possibilities that are offered to these days prisoners in certain regions of today's world. Nevertheless, it would not have changed the outcome, nor what he had devised against the Hebrew/Jewish people of his time.

Let us not forget that the queen asked for her life to be saved, the same as that of her brothers and sisters, of her people as well. Yes, the saving of her life is not in relation to her transgressing the law of the king in coming to him without permission. It was asked because she would also be killed under the wicked decree of Haman as she was Jewish. She was a member of the very same community that would become annihilated entirely. Even Mordecai once warned her that her being queen would not save her, remembering what did happen to queen Vashti. As she became no queen anymore, the king could easily do so with her as well because who will save her, when no relative of hers is still alive to protect her, and to counter any wrongdoing by Haman, knowing that he had the king's seal? And if this, the decree thus, would become fulfilled, then nothing would keep Haman away from doing with her life the same as what he would do with her people, even to the very last one within the kingdom. But, when we read her words carefully, then we will also come to reveal that behind some of her words is hidden a two dimensional demand, even perhaps a three dimensional one. It's true that she asks for her people to be saved, but at the same time does this also refer to everyone within the kingdom as well. As the king becomes aware that even his standing will become tarnished, even beyond his kingdom, then we surely can take this matter a bit further. And by viewing the matter through a wider scope, then we can come to realize that not stopping Haman would have caused repercussions to emerge even far beyond the borders of the kingdom, even beyond the set time it all did occur. Not only tens of thousands of Jews became saved, but also descendants of the lost tribes as well. Of course, no one can to this day really predict of what would have happened if it all had gone as Haman had planned. Only, the kingdom will surely have fallen into anarchy, becoming ruled by Haman, the new king. Other nations of that time will without doubt have not wasted any time to invade it, giving Haman the excuse of annihilating other minorities, and thus perhaps those of the lost Hebrew/Jewish tribes.

(If you want to read the entire revised study, then please feel free to click on the following link: http://users.skynet.be/JT/NewDesign/Words/Esther/Esthercenter.html -- Thank you.)

Book of Esther: Chapter 6 (revised study)

2007-04-08T10:11:00.000+02:00

These days, many are wondering if there is really another world to belief in, to long for. And like in any time of humankind, they have the right to think about it, to ask questions about such a most important matter that has kept them awake since we can remember. But, most of them, like the king who could not sleep, won't ask for the proper books to be opened. Often, they just want to read those who would give them the answer they already have constructed for themselves within their mind of thoughts. It doesn't matter that there is another book in existence that is much more reliable, and for them to come standing face-to-face with reality. They don't want to hear about it, and even when they do, they will not listen to its advise, rather harden their stance into the opposite direction, sometimes even very extremely, just as Haman behaved and wanted. Yes, the very fact of them denying themselves the doorway of redemption, perhaps even the light of salvation, reveals to all those around them, that they do know what kind of steps are needed for all of humankind to prosper, to have a rich life, or rather a life that will enrich their every day life day after day, even night after night. Only, they don't have the courage within them to change. Or at least, it's what they think, not necessarily the reality. As a leader, you have thus always the choice between guiding the people, everyone of your constituencies that is, towards prosperity, or you can keep them into the enslavement of your power, out of fear for that what no one should fear, unless you behave contrary to its rules/words of wisdom, even laws. True, there is in such a circumstance always the fear that the people will get a wrong guidance, and things will get worse, things become corrupted, the same as the advisers of Pharaoh brought even more hardship into everyone's household, even to the Egyptians themselves. But, when the king would prevent himself from acquiring the right answers, or believing in the proper guidance, then you can't truly blame the people for behaving erratically vis-à-vis themselves as well as others. Or you have very wise advisers around you, or you have wicked ones like Haman.

Yeah, for over more than 5000 years now, humankind has come to know that it has a soul, a Chava. But still today, there are quite a lot of people who will be aspiring a lifestyle in the likeness of Haman, completely contrary to this ancient old reality, a very vivid one for sure, as it's an everlasting one. But again, they have the right to do so, as it is their right within a free society, even religiously. Still, it doesn't mean that they are right. Of course, they will return the favor, and claim that those who think otherwise are completely out of touch with the truth. In their philosophy, there is no other world to belief in, only theirs. And it should be forced into everyone's mind of thinking because it gives them who created this human thinking all the power it needs, the natural way that is. One who controls this can kill whomever s/he wants, even an entire people, because it's the law of nature, and this thus without feeling any remorse, a culture of dead alike. At least, it's what they think and interpret in blindness, as they worship nature without a soul when it's full of souls who belief in G-d. Anyhow, in their world, there is no soul, nothing, just the body that behaves and act according to its own chemical structure, meaning the ups and downs of the hormones, even the genetic make-up of this or that person. The more medical knowledge that becomes available, the more scientifically know-how becomes known from out of whatever domain in science; hence the danger of seeing Kabbalah as a science thus, which it is not by the way, as science is confined by nature, not spirituality; the more they will harden their stance of having been right all the time. Nothing will convince them of the contrary. There is no dime in the entire world that can be given them to change their mind, even when they would accept the offer out of a political consideration for instance. And this is what happened to Haman. He was offered that dime, and he took it, but still kept himself very firm onto his desires, his thoughts about what life is all about, for him that is, not for others, nor the king for that matter. Therefore, he took the offer with both hands, and didn't notice that it was not a real dime he was offered. He was so assured of his handling of the situation correctly, that he had the king in his power, and many other noble princes, as well as the elite of the kingdom, that he didn't realized something extraordinary that was bound to happen to himself and to those he wanted to harm. Yes, even the king was not really aware of the scope of his involvement in having a most important role within the world that G-d kept hidden.

In a way, it reveals something strange. Mostly, we are enticed to assume that He kept it hidden because we as being Jewish were not entitled to see it, a thinking that is to a certain degree not wrong, albeit not completely right neither. But, as explained above, we maybe would have to think also differently, from an angle we never thought to be that important, meaning that He kept things in a secretive way, so to not expose His plan wherewith to salvage the entire Hebrew/Jewish nation. If Haman would have got the slightest warning, the slightest impression that something was not right, that he had to be careful about where to put his next step, then surely the advise to the king could have been entirely different. After all, when he would have been aware that G-d would save his people, and Mordecai being one of them, then surely, he could have scent trouble ahead, even when he didn't knew about the person the king was talking about. Now, there was at that moment nothing for Haman to be worried about, only the knowledge that Mordecai was a Jew, one who had defied his authority because as a Jew he was not permitted by faith to do so. And he, that is Mordecai, will be killed. At the same time, we notice how many opportunities Haman was given as well, opportunities to retract his murderous decree. We can even witness G-d's hand into Haman's wicked ideology, as the plan was to become fulfilled one year after it was decreed. In between, everything was possible for him to change his mind. And till that moment that we come to be taught of as of now, he begot many opportunities. Even today, he could have easily changed, after having witnessed what the king eventually did with his advise. He could still have told the king, as he was in his presence, that he would annul the decree regarding the Hebrew/Jewish people because he was wrong, that he had been wrong all along. But, he didn't. The last opportunity, the door for his own redemption and eventually salvation, he closed it for good. He slammed the door into his own face, even of his entire family and friends. And behind all that slamming, we again see the push for us as Jews to start standing on our own legs so to speak, to walk back to G-d on our own strength, the power of the soul. It was for us a time of learning to stand firm, and steady on both our legs, and walk, not being taken by the hands anymore wherewith G-d was helping us to walk as happened during Moshe's lifetime. We were guided into learning to walk by ourselves. To walk back to our mother, even father.

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What about the death penalty?

2007-03-25T10:55:00.000+02:00

The death penalty, it's a wish and a curse. For some it is seen as a blessing against evil while others will regard it as a horror to humanity. But, no matter how we interpret it, it will stay a cause for concern in many households, and especially within every governing body. After all, taking the life of another human being is not something you can take lightly, or for granted because once it has been taken, there is no way back. A life that is lost, is one that is lost. You never win, even when it in first instance seems to be so when it concerns a matter of evil within everyone's own perception that is. Yes, whatever good that person could still have brought into our world, it will forever be gone into oblivion till another one comes around with the same talents of goodness. In the mean time, we can only hope that it will be not too late. We can only hope that the ones who have been affected by the evilness within that person will not gain fertile ground, and sow thistles and thorns instead of wheat and barley. But, for that to become prevented, we can only achieve it through our own hands after having, first and foremost, looked into our own mirror of wisdom. We have to start looking within our own mind and thoughts for the answers to the why that these things do happen, or are still happening all around us. And at the same time, let us neither forget that everything within human society, even all of nature, is one way or another interwoven with each other. It's a reality no one can disconnect him-/herself from. It means thus that there is no easy way out, no escape possible. Or we work together with due respect, or we falter completely into the pit of a lost paradise, a hope we did let slip through our fingers, a wish we could have materialized if we only would have learnt to master the skills of real strength. If we only could have.., what a most beautiful world we all would be living in.

Still, this is not something impossible. It doesn't have to be a mission impossible for otherwise we wouldn't have become accredited with the Torah in the first place. If G-d wouldn't have shown faith in us, we wouldn't have come to know how to present our faith in Him. But, we did. At least some did. A few did so within the beginning of this tremendous adventure into the unknown. The people within that faith became Jewish. And it's true that they were called Hebrews in first instance. Nevertheless, today they are Jewish. And in that sense did G-d gave the entire world His name for He said who He is, namely I am who I am. Or it is also referred to as that He will be who He will be. It's probably the most mystic revelation in all of the Torah. Only, once we refine it into our own heart and connect it with the values of humanity, then we can come to understand the deeper essence of what He truly could have meant with this name of His when He shared it with us. At the burning bush, He revealed His name to Moshe. To him He said: 'I am who I am.' Moshe was a Hebrew. He was who he was, the same as we as Jews are who we are. The entire Torah lives within that name as it's Torah. Without it, it can not survive. This name of His is the breath that keeps our Judaism alive and well, that gives us being Jewish the ability to be who we truly are for if we forsake on it, it is as if we forget Yerushalayim. And of her it is said: O, if I forget thee.. Yes, if I forget who I am, then I am a nobody for I will have lost all faith into myself. In a court of law, I will have sentenced myself with a verdict, namely the death penalty, the one that would figuratively have put me to death for I would have forsaken not only on who I truly am, but also will become a beacon of darkness instead of light to all the others who were, are, or will be on the verge of doing the same. By telling Moshe His name, He gave him the freedom to make a choice between Him or the pagan gods. It was for Moshe to choose, and likewise will others follow his example. This name is thus not only the backbone of Judaism, it's the salvation of the entire humankind, even all life.

Of course, beside all the above, we do have another version of the death penalty as well. This we have called war. The decision for going to war is in a certain way also one sentencing others to their death. Only, it's not always clear in these circles of which party that has truly created the atmosphere for such a decision to be taken, as it's the one, the community, or the nation that has caused it to be given that can only be found guilty to the verdict it caused to occur. One that goes to war within a defensive, or pre-emptive defensive spirit can not be seen as the one that brought upon the world the culture of dead to emerge again to the forefront of everyone's life. Let us therefore in that perspective never forget that war is always related to the pagan god of war, and not to G-d, the One we in Judaism only belief in. Every religion that claims that their god asks them to kill, to murder, to go to war against the other, in this case often regarded as infidels, is one that beliefs, or still does belief, in a multi- religious concept, not in one G-d only. G-d is not a god of war. That vision is one that belonged to Rome and other non-Judaic cultures of before that period of time in humankind's history. It's not ours anymore. It's not the one of the world we live in today. It's neither so on a minor scale, nor on a greater one. In whatever circumstances we do fulfil the duties of our life, whether in private and in public, in our homes and on the job, this god is not of this world. And it's in that sense that we should look at all the commands where our Torah seemingly does gives us the green light to put others to their death. It often only should be regarded as an act of mercy because the person will not be truly killed. He or she will only be figuratively dead for the family and/or the community, even the entire nation. He or she will still have the opportunity to become forgiven when so possible after having followed certain preset rules to the matter in question.

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Book of Esther: Chapter 5 (revised study)

2007-03-18T11:50:00.000+01:00

Haughtiness comes before the fall. It's a well-known saying that has, like the Torah, withstood all the hardship in every time. And it has proven as many times its tremendous truth, just as G-d's word has done so as well. We would almost have to assume that both are related to each other, that through the knowledge of something more important than just living a life by nature, both have somehow made new revelations of above much more prevalent. For the one who is lectured in the matter, it will not be that strange of course. But, for the one who is in a far away land, completely cut of from every ability to love G-d and all the wisdom, love and warmth He could put into his/her heart, it's naturally just a sign of weakness. For that person, life is what it is and nothing more, only the strength of his/her muscles is what counts. That man, woman, child, or even an entire people will not remember what could be remembered. Yeah, in certain times we say never again. Still, those who have completely or partially disconnected themselves from the source, the very source of all life, will without doubt forget time and time again what truly did happen. It's not so much that they don't want to forget. It's more that they are taught to forget because deep inside the inner depth of every society who lives by such a rule, the truth, the reflection in the mirror is just unbearable. What they will see is what they don't want to be remembered of. Nevertheless, it's not so much what they, or their grandparents or great-grandparents have done wrong that is embarrassing them. No, it's more the revelation that there is truly more to life than just their presence within life. Looking into the mirror of their being reveals their soul, and as such let it them know that they are not only a human being of flesh and blood, but that they need to behave as one as well. Some call it a person's conscience while others refer to it as that tiny little voice you hear bursting through the barrier of sound all around us, and sometimes put extremely loud so that the person(s) in question would not hear that angelic voice speaking to them, trying to warn them, to bring them back to reason, to a life, the only life, worthwhile to live. The sound of music by the way, whether from above or below, is not meant to make you deaf, on the contrary, it's purpose is to caress the soul with tenderness and sweetness so that it will reflect into that person's behavior. Once you trespass the border of what good, decent music within a respectable volume can bring to humanity, the behavior will without doubt change into ugliness, even a mirror that people will not want to be remembered on once they are faced with their inhumane reality.

True, we have to make a distinction between those who have done inhumane deeds, or are willing to commit them, and them who have thrown their religious life overboard, those who have become secular, or even worse, namely in that they have disconnected themselves completely from it, arguing that no G-d and neither gods do exist. They have their reason as much as the believer in G-d has his/her. But, even when we seem to not be entitled to connect them with the same wavelength as the others spoken about just above, they should be considered as a part of the same world. Integral or not is of course a matter of perception because there are always exceptions to the case, or any case for that matter. Anyhow, it's after all well known that many, to not say all, will often, or eventually in later generations, join forces with those who have throughout the ages tried to bring down the Torah, even Eretz Yisrael. Whether they do it consciously or not is beyond the point once they join the ones who don't fear to trample the most sacred thing that exists in a man's life. Nevertheless, the seemingly fearless life they portray is in reality one overflowing of fear, as they act out of fear for that what they don't want to hear about. They don't want to be reminded of the fact that they have or are in the process of throwing their entire life through the sewage system. Yes, a distinction we should therefore make because their act is one that doesn't want to remember the Torah, or don't want the people of it to be remembered, let stand still being a presence within the midst of human society, nor as a nation on G-d's chosen land for them within that world, their world as they perceive it, no stranger allowed, no G-d, at least not the one of the Torah! Thus the difference to their inhumane actions, like the one that Haman is now trying to get fulfilled, the reason of their alienation with the source of all life, is because its their mirror, the complete opposite of how they are behaving at present. And the people who represent this truth are like a clear to very clear reflection within their troubled waters, to what they don't want to be kept reminded of for otherwise they will lose the pleasure(s) that isn't/aren't truly one(s) at all. Like G-d is working in the time of queen Esther in a veiled manner, those people's hatred, even revenge is veiled to them, the true and only reason that is. They won't see it truly and honestly as such unless they do commit themselves wholeheartedly to better their lives and thus lifestyle. Instead of saving their life by joining forces with the One that sanctifies life, they throw it all away by joining the army of dead, the one that lives by the rule of the strongest, or push or be pushed. The only question is: How should we respond to it, to such an assault on a human's very existence, his/her raison d' être, even an entire people's one, and its sanctity they preserve at all costs?

Why do those who belief in the G-d of the Torah do leave the sanctity of His presence? Do we have to view it with the same perception as those bullies spoken about? Does it mean that the Torah, that yes G-d is awful, not to be remembered, the same as whatever human atrocity that has been committed vis-à-vis another human being? Should we put it on an equal footage?

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Book of Esther: Chapter 4 (revised study)

2007-03-14T12:26:00.000+01:00

Previously, we have come to learn in how we arrived at this point, the decree that Haman had devised against the Hebrew/Jewish population of king Ahasueres' kingdom. It's the same knowledge that also did put Mordecai into a situation of seemingly feeling guilty about it. The new law had been written and it became known to all. And while some do argue that no one of the common people were aware of why they should themselves prepare for the 13th of Adar, wherewith to explain the confusion, then I can't but help feeling otherwise about it. True, it's quite possible that Mordecai will have made the connection between this new edict and how he acted towards Haman, even knowing the wroth that it accumulated against himself and the entire Hebrew nation for not having bowed down before Haman. Therefore, it's fair to assume that Mordecai, it seems, felt responsible, that he took the entire blame upon himself. It should thus not be taken lightly because such a situation will bear heavily upon anyone's shoulders. Of course, it would explain Mordecai's present behavior more obviously, more in line with his profile, meaning a deep religious man who had total respect for G-d. He must have felt perturbed about the whole thing in relation to what he stood for. And even when we probably will never become aware of the full extend of how he must have felt, then we could also take note of the fact that he, based on his argument with queen Esther, could not but feel unease as well regarding the manner he had tutored Hadassah just moments before she would enter Shushan the castle. After all, it must have been not easy for him to ask her to keep her identity a secret, something that clearly without question meant forsaking on every halachic rule, when needed, that could betray her upbringing, who she truly was and is. Still, another subtle hint is given, one that undoubtedly proves that everyone could understand what the waiting was meant for. It became even known to the entire Hebrew/Jewish population, and they didn't run away. Hence, where would you want to run to in the first place in such a large kingdom? You can hardly ask of people who are to become annihilated to run for safety to perhaps even worse enemies of those times, no?

As a result, we do have the right to assume that everything was well known to everyone. But, that it at the same time, like in previous ones, resulted in an upheaval of a more strict religious devotion, not so much of finally coming to terms again with who you truly are, your roots and how good it was, then the hope that started to shine more brilliantly anew, the hope of salvation, of becoming liberated, be freed of the bondage, to be fully who you truly are within your very own nation once again. It is therefore quite understandable, no matter the prophecy, that some could have started to lose all hope after years of exile. Yes, through Judaic studies, whether done now or centuries ago, we always become aware of the deep rooted belief that there is for everything a reason that something happens, or has happened. And in Judaism it means that G-d will one day come to our rescue, will save us out of a dreadful situation. So, we wait and wait, but it's not right to wait anymore. He, that is G-d, wants action from our part, especially when it has something to do with our degree of respect for Him. Yes, sometimes, when hardship befall us, no matter when we are Jewish or a gentile, we tend to look into the wrong direction. We never start looking first and foremost into ourselves, always wanting to blame others instead. Honestly, it's of course human nature to act as such, our ego that doesn't want to see its own image, the truth about itself, in the mirror. But spiritually, we do know better than that. We know that we largely will have to put the blame, for what we mostly assume as unjustified, upon our very own shoulders. True, it's not always as such, and we therefore have to be careful with matters like these, to not create, or constructing the basis for even greater injustice instead of justice. Nevertheless do we have to be prepared, at any moment in time, to stand-up for ourselves, even when this would be against the very personality we have acquainted ourselves with, namely myself. Hence, it is never a surprise, and understandable, that people are losing hope whenever things are not happening fast enough. And here in this particular situation, based on what is taught us about it, we are being submerged within the reality that many Jews must have felt through interpreting the festivities in Shushan the castle, as it was given due to the joy that nothing has happened 'after' 70 years, that the Hebrew/Jewish nation did not return to Eretz Yisrael. Of course, the worst nightmare that can happen to anyone is being thrown before the lions as was done to the prophet Daniel. Only, here it were the ones of our own belief, G-d's authority/existence became attacked by a god's belief in a manner of speaking.

If it was true, then what about G-d? What about everything we stand for, we belief in? Is the king right, and are we wrong? How can that be? Of course, we are a minority, but does that mean that we are wrong? Should we start reneging on who we are and join, assimilate ourselves with the local population, their beliefs? Is it right for us to follow in the same footsteps of our brothers and sisters of the kingdom of Northern Yisrael? Were they so right when many started to worship foreign deities? But how can that be right, when those nations who do belief in them have spilled so much blood, even our own? Is dead thus the end? Is the culture of dead the only right path? Or is our belief in the sanctity of life the path that will truly enlighten the world entire? Have we and our forefathers, even the Patriarchs Avraham, Yitchak and Yaacov been mistaken all along? Is the entire Judaic endeavor all been for nothing, even the Noahide one? Is life thus merely being born and die, and nothing more than that? But what does that tell us about the other one's belief, or beliefs, the one/ones of the king? Does it mean that there is no G-d, that He doesn't exist at all? Hence, should we be afraid of those lions, who symbolize everything that G-d stands for, that they will devour us?

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Book of Esther: Chapter 3 (revised study)

2007-03-09T12:16:00.000+01:00

For centuries we are taught to learn from our mistakes, to rectify them and above all, to never again let them emerge to the forefront of our lives. And we know that our sages did took these lessons not only to the depth of their own heart, then shared them with us as well. They were free to belief in G-d the way they did while we were entitled to that same kind of freedom. At the end, the choice stays with every individual, even regarding the consequences that could or would occur depending on which path was chosen. Anyhow, everyone had, depending on the matter, the honorable duty to think thoroughly about what s/he would do due to the bond, even the existential threat that often loomed behind almost every corner, something that is even not alien to the Hebrew/Jewish nation alone. During Hadassah's lifetime, many other nations had already witnessed it long ago, whether it occurred due to a natural disaster, or by having been conquered, even by a Trojan horse alike, no matter in which way, visible or veiled, through words and/or deeds, it had been constructed. The end result is what counts for those who devised such a plan/strategy. It's like a black horse on a chessboard that would start to wreck havoc on white's half, white being unable to do anything about it, to counter the devastating attack for the time being. Even the ten northern Hebrew tribes are no exception to the case. They are the ones we could always bring to the forefront as proof to our case, especially with regard to the Trojan horse theory. From within, the kingdom began sliding towards its end, and it became conquered very easily, something which was not entirely the same with regard to the southern kingdom, the kingdom of Judah, home of king David for those who perhaps may have forgotten it.

Still, entire civilizations were not wiped away from the map of the earth. They became assimilated with the people and customs of those who conquered them. They became immersed within the culture of a foreign people, often forcefully to such an extend that they would lose all connection to whom they were once before, and would eventually, due to a very high inter-marriage rate, even over time becoming unable to put a claim on one of their ancestors title, then only of them they are now a part of. No matter the ancient old connection to an at that moment nonexistent people, or even nation, the offspring became fully integrated into the person who they from now on will be, namely a citizen of the Persian empire, a persian thus. Only their language was kept intact, probably out of convenience so that the integration would become fulfilled as quickly as possible. And again, we can bring forward the ten northern tribes of Yisrael as a witness to the success of such a policy. But, the exiled from the kingdom of Judah do give us a horizon of hope in that we can stand-up against the forces of darkness when we put their state of the mind, or rather belief into a comparison with the northern kingdom of Yisrael at the time of its exile. The Trojan black horse can wreck havoc, but the end result is what counts, even for white, no matter the setbacks and a seemingly lost situation! Let us not forget that even in chess, a dramatic turn of events can always occur to the one who thinks, in an overwhelmingly clear manner, to be on the winning hand, but still loses miraculously enough so to speak due to the vision, connected to the supernal wisdom, within the other side's encampment.

True, we also have stories that tell us as well about quite a few genocides that took place, sometimes even entire cities that became cleansed of its entire population. The life of those men, women and children were valued even lower than the price of cattle, even cattle that was meant to be slaughtered for consumption. But, as we in our belief of Light are through manners of wisdom advised to think wisely on whatever decision we take regarding all kinds of different matters, we are also well aware that the elements who worship darkness in our midst are constantly advised to do the same, albeit within a different manner of perception, always an illusion from the mind of an illusionist. So, we know that those who knowingly or unknowingly have joined the chorus of darkness will without doubt be learning from their own faults as well. The masters have mastered the same skills within the same place so to speak. We all have received our breath from Him who created man in the first place. The rules of chess are thus for everyone the same whether you are a pawn belonging to the dungeons of the black royal house or a soldier defending the values, the well-being of white's entire kingdom. But, even when the candle from the forces of darkness has fallen from its socket, creating a fire the world has never witnessed before, it will only be staying a curse to the world entire for as long as it keeps burning, wrecking havoc wherever it pleases it. Haman became such a child of ancient times of hatred, a personality willing to not only prolong the curse, but to try to enforce it to become the rule of the day everlasting, god alike thus, an idol to the entire world, one belief in many gods. It reveals thus to us the constant situation, till the curse becomes eradicated from our mind of perception, of a war between on the one side this belief in many gods and on the other side many people believing in one G-d, many gods thus versus many people, or a few people versus one G-d. In this, we also have to remind ourselves that the majority of the people of the region did also believed in the Hebrew G-d as well. It's a very important detail, no matter how tiny it may seem.

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Book of Esther: Chapter 2 (revised study)

2007-03-07T12:29:00.000+01:00

Previously, we have come to learn what queen Vashti did and what had been ruled about her. It was certainly not a very wise decision made by the king. But, what was done could not be undone. It was the rule of law and also the king could not otherwise than show it its utmost respect. After all, he stands as an example to his constituencies. Anyhow, now that he was sober again, he began to realize the extend of the biggest mistake of his life that he had fallen prey to. The festivities had taken place and it had also taken its toll. In the eyes of the king, it was the worst nightmare that could have happened to him because he clearly loved Vashti, and we may therefore be assured that no shortcomings will have fallen upon her, even when she was to be no queen anymore. She was still one of his wives who he regarded with high esteem, and would therefore stay living for the rest of her life within the palace. At the same time do we again witness the element of silence. As queen Vashti was about to be replaced as queen within one year, and would become a ray of hope and wisdom to the kingdom, she had every opportunity to guide the new queen to be, to educate her and to make the king love her. You would almost start to wonder if the king's chamberlain Hegai did not do what he did based on the vision of Vashti. After all, having the privilege of being a queen, a very wise one indeed, she knew the talents a person in such a dignified position had to have, more than anyone else. It was not so much about the beauty of the body, rather the one that lives within. Every human being, as said with regard to the previous chapter, has it in him/her. Of course, it does not give us the guarantee that we will live by it, nor was this the case thus for all the beautiful virgins that were to be brought unto Shushan the castle, to the house of the women. Nevertheless, one single person ran unknowingly into the spotlight, namely Hadassah, the daughter of Mordechai's uncle. There was something special about her. She was no princess, as she was not raised to be one. Only a very humble person, as Mordechai was, did raise her as the person she had become, immerging her into the wisdom of Torah, as was appropriate for a woman.

True, it is written that Esther pleased Hegai the king's chamberlain, and that she obtained kindness of him in return. Nevertheless, we are not told the reason behind this behavior. In that light, we may probably not forget that he also knew Vashti very well, the queen knowing her husband even better than Hegai or any other king's chamberlain for that matter. Anyhow, it does reveal to us the brilliance of queen Vashti, the beauty of her personality. She felt no remorse at all, on the contrary. She handled the entire new situation as a queen properly befits. What she had done was the right thing to do at the very time that it had to be done, not later and not sooner, just right on time. An opportunity did present to her, and she took it firmly with both hands knowing what the consequences would be when fulfilling the cause of action, that, let us not forget, was a good deed indeed. But, the responsibility would lay entirely with her, and hers alone. So, knowing very well which place she as a woman occupied within the king's palace, it was most appropriate for her to take now a step backwards, keeping a low profile, working behind the scenes, accepting with dignity and honor the king's decision, and as such keep on caring for the well-being of the king's empire. Therefore, she was, in her very own capacity and personality, the most appropriate character within Shushan the castle who could with an almost 100% certainty pick out the virgin who clearly would befit a queen's delicate and most important position. The whole scenario fits well into the place and time of what we are becoming immersed into. And it's for certain no fairy-tale. Hence, those tales are often constructed around things that really do have happened in the first place. No, Hadassah's beauty was so overwhelmingly visible to everyone that she truly had the qualities of a queen. She only needed her presence, being who she truly was, and nothing else when it would become her turn to be brought before the king. Still, the decision was for the king to make, not the chamberlain nor Vashti. Of course, a little bit of a gentle push into the right direction would be not wrong in this case as the daughter of Mordechai's uncle Abigail did befit the profile that even Vashti will have lived by, and thus her real beauty in the king's eyes, the one he truly did love very much.

Nevertheless, as the Midrash does teach us, it could have been Mordechai's wish that the king would not choose her. It is told that she truly was a princess after all as she descended from king Saul, the very Hebrew king who thanks to his degree of appeasement would also give rise to Haman now. Thus, when we take this angle of view into consideration, then it seems that something did have to become rectified, and strangely enough came befalling on the shoulders of the same royal house that caused it to occur in the first place. Naturally, at the time, it's useless to look at the past wrongs because what happened did happen and nothing can be done about it. We can only look ahead and try to correct our mistakes as best as possible. And here, they manifested themselves within a veiled concept because as good as no one was aware of this important detail that only became revealed to many more after a thorough study of the events in question. Yes, through miraculous circumstances the house of Esther became in the possibility of putting things back straight. But G-d would not be G-d if He would not present it within the kind of freedom He is so well-known about throughout the Judaic world. As such, in a veiled manner of perception, every individual kept his/her free will, to choose this or that. No one was pushed into one decision only, just as was the case in the time of king Saul. After all, no one was aware of what was about to happen truly. Mordechai had to rely on what he heard at the king's gate from a possible third person unless Bigthan and Teresh could not have seen him sitting, and would therefore have thus been not aware of his presence. Or as some suggest, that they wrongly thought that he could not understand them. But, based on the English phrasing of the sentence, we perhaps may fairly accept that another person told Mordechai about the intentional plan to murder the king. As a result in either way, he told Esther, who had to rely on the honesty of that same third personality, and the king had to rely on Esther's word, already queen Esther. At the end, the matter became proven right. So, not Mordechai nor Esther and certainly not that unknown person had to do what they all did. Neither had the king to accept it and order an investigation into the matter. They all freely choose what they thought was the right thing to do at that moment. And it was right and just to act as they did in the given circumstances!!

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Book of Esther: Chapter 1 (revised study)

2007-03-04T18:43:00.000+01:00

Sometimes we tend to look at something with the eyes of the world we live in ourselves at present instead of with those of the time we read about. This is not entirely wrong in the case of the Book of Esther, but it would nevertheless be wrong to study about it, to look at it entirely in this particular sensitivity. It would not only harm the beauty of the women in question, even the king's splendor, then also the point behind the story. We would forget to look beyond the veil of men and women in a figurative sense seen. Yes, for after all, Vashti, the queen merely respected the laws of the king, the laws he lived by spiritually/religiously and otherwise. And with that gesture, she honored also all the women within his majesty's kingdom as well as its standing not only allover the empire, but as well beyond its borders because it was a custom within the region of Persia, even till today, that women would show themselves to visiting people/strangers in a veiled manner. It was theirs and the empire's dignity. And such a behavior was thus already a common practice within a multi-godly believing society as the then world was, with the exception of the Hebrew nation whereto Hadassah (Esther) belonged who only believed in one, namely G-d only. Now king Ahasuerus would ask his queen and wife to do away with this ancient old practice/custom. But to queen Vashti it became immediately clear that respecting this wish and even freedom would do harm to her and eventually all women of the empire, as well as to the royal honor, her husband's, the king's prestige outside the walls of the palace, even beyond those of Shushan and the empire. The men were merry with wine, and it was even in those times already a common knowledge that nothing wise could emerge out of such a behavior. Still, what the king ruled, he had done and it could not become revoked, not even by the king himself. So, the law was to be upheld, even by the king, or revoked through another law that would bypass a previous one made making it worthless unless valued only through the freedom of every person's desire, or wish to live by a defunct rule. But miraculously enough, the new law would just strengthen the old one instead, even when it meant the downfall of queen Vashti, and when we are prepared to look at it within a different manner of perception.

A strange event of occurrences began thus already to manifest themselves without that the participants within what would become revealed were aware of. The king was asking something that when obeyed would have turned the kingdom for certain into an abomination not only thanks to the drunken status that the men were in, but when it would have occurred could have changed the course of time into a completely different world, or that kind of world would have given way to another major disaster in the likeness of the flood during the time of Noah. So, in a way, a luck for the king that a Hebrew nation was a presence within his empire, a nation that at the same time was about to experience its salvation, its freedom/liberation. As our Talmud states, the occurrences during king Ahasuerus reign were unfolding themselves around the very moment that it was prophesied that our forefathers would become liberated from the Persian (present day Iran) hegemony. Thus, if we could look at it from this perspective, it seems as if something, or rather someone else controlled the entire play of the time. In a hidden fashion, G-d was slowly revealing Himself by staying veiled as a woman would do towards visiting strangers to the family house, or in this case palace. Not only queen Vashti, in an act of bravery unknown to the women of the kingdom, acted according to this veiled concept of G-d, but even the men in their intoxicated state did so. They all, without realizing it themselves, did strengthen the law that already was in place. And the red carpet was being prepared for Esther to arrive within the walls of the palace. Therefore, it's not that strange to look at it in this way. We only have to put the depth of the matter within the depth of our own heart to let the hidden become revealed because only when it reveals itself, only then can we learn about its beauty. G-d can only teach us when we are prepared to come closer to Him, to become His bride so that we can both be without veils in each others presence and show our utmost respect to one another. Now, not only Esther could keep her veil on in the way that Mordechai would ask her, but through this veil it will become clear that the Hebrew nation was about to be liberated from the Persian hegemony on the very day that the festivities did took place, even at the time when the new law that would cause Esther to enter king's Ahasuerus heart would start to take effect.

Such veiled expressions of events are not only a case of that time. No, whenever the Hebrew nation was in exile, or is in exile (spiritually and naturally), these things do occur in that we find all kinds of people, Jews and non-Jews alike, being at the right place and in the right time to bring them salvation/liberation from the oppression of the body, mind and soul, offering them instead the hand of freedom to be truly who one is in the likeness of G-d's name, namely when He said to Moshe: I am who I am, or I will be who I will be. This in turn reveals that He always will somehow try to salvage those who want to be enlightened, to be a light to the nations the same as He is Light, not darkness. Let us thus in that sense also take into consideration that a person only can truly be who s/he is when living by the pure character/personality of his/her heart, a heart connected to its Creator, the same as we are pure of heart at our birth into this world we are supposed to enlighten with our presence, and thus not the other way around that is. As such, when we return to the story told, we witness within what happens the liberation of every individual, not only the Hebrew nation. As the law could not be revoked directly, it stays in effect, even with the creation of a new law that would seem to make the previous one defunct. It's not truly the case, both laws can be applied whenever a person would decide to do so. In a way, we come to reveal the very foundation of Judaism. In the time of Adom, Adom was given the freedom to choose names for all kinds of things. When having eaten from the forbidden tree, man became in the ability to freely decide between good and evil, or good and wrong. Anyhow, when taken a wrong turn, he will have to accept the consequences that do come with such a choice, like we are taught with what happened to Cayin. It's a bit the same situation here as well. Vashti acted in a way whereas she thought to protect the kingdom, but in such a way as that she will behave against another law. So, what happens is the emerging of two laws that do come into conflict with each other, namely the law of the moral ethics (religion/spiritual) and the law of the body (world/natural). We have thus a situation wherein a person desires to eat the apple (nature/king Ahasuerus) and one who wants to preserve G-d's law/human moral ethics (spiritual/queen Vashti). At the end, both do stay in existence when we take the Hebrew element into consideration.

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Curiosities of life

2007-02-05T11:47:00.000+01:00

The essence that surrounds all life is something very interesting to study about because it generates a lively debate on what the meaning behind ours and every life really means. It causes us to think or even rethink our perceptions regarding this matter, a substance of life and/or dead. It makes us into somebody or something that truly exists or maybe even not at all. This is quite extraordinary as it pushes us into learning about its depth, about what man does need to do to live a full life, a humane life vis-à-vis his neighbor and even towards ourselves as a person. Once we can grasp the true meaning behind this great opportunity we have been given, the secrets of life so to speak, only in such an environment will we all become in the ability of sustaining a non-extinguishable existence throughout every universe or G-d's entire world. After all, the beauty of nature should inspire us to think twice before we start to ignore its richness, the wealth it can give not only to us, but to all life regardless of how it lives or how we are doing so in relation to gender, race, color or whatever else there is that could differentiate us from our fellow-being. In spiritual essence seen, we are all one and the same personality who serves G-d one way or another. The body is merely the primordial vessel wherewith we can attain such a state of awareness and receive the blessings that comes with it, even becoming fully aware of our talents, the spiritual ones. Together, even with nature, we are as one entity. And only in such a oneness can we achieve complete harmony between all life, every particle of it.

Of course, the truth within our natural viewpoint is that we live and die, not first of all die before we can live. Still, we die first and live thereafter. This is what nature does teach us in the form of a seed. The seed can only mature into a lively matter when it dies first, with the earth serving as an alternative to the female human egg/womb. And this is not that much different within our human world or even in the world of a spider whereas a female spider will kill the male once it has been made pregnant. The same occurs with regard to the female egg. It will try to kill the male seed, to discard the foreign 'intruder' into its cell, a process which on its turn will generate a pregnancy, or to cause the internal energy of the seed, that succeeded in impregnating the egg, to divide it into more cells and ultimately into a new still unborn life till the infant becomes born and the 'intruder' of the first hour is yes gone in a manner of speaking. Therefore, based on this kind of knowledge, we can not but assume correctly that it's not the male, rather the female side of nature that is not only strongest, but also most powerful, omnipotent, whereas the male side is sacrificing itself without questioning it within the matter of right or wrong. This reality is also reflected within Judaism in its most appropriate and blessed way when it concerns questions related to someone's descend. As such, we are taught that Moshiach can only come from a line of female descendants in a straight line to king David, not king Shlomo (Solomon). It could even suggest a female Moshiach bat David rather than a male one so to speak. Or why not a Moshiach ben (bat) David who will have both sexes in the same likeness of the Adom of the Garden, man created in the likeness of G-d, and an egg, figuratively speaking, that will not try to discard the seed as both do stem from one and the same body, the perfect unison of body, mind and soul, of male and female into one as the One, even in nature, above and below one whole?

In a certain way, we could thus argue that we become born eventually, while we for certain will die once again so to live anew, a recurring process till we achieve the highest spiritual level. Nevertheless, this will have to be seen through a completely different point of focus and based on the level of spirituality that we will have come to achieve. The in-between, between dead and life after having lived, sits them for the moment still in a kind of twilight zone. It’s something we can't see, but can feel when we would try to concentrate our attention to it in a more focused way of perception. Its existence is omnipresent in all of us, in every life, even when we in body through the eyes of nature seem unable to catch even the slightest glimpse of it with our sight. Anyhow, it’s a presence no matter the reality that our eyes, mouth and ears do present to us, namely creating the logical assumption of a possible unreality instead, of G-d who would have to be non-existent as the outcome that such a kind of vision would generate as well. The illogical reasoning within our logical assumption based on what we do know today goes beyond our day-to-day comprehension. This is at least the case within the state of mind we lived and in a certain way still do live whether occasionally or in full force depending on the way we have been taught into the matter, or that lessons concerning its wisdom have been neglected widespread for decades, maybe even centuries due to unjustified constraints and above all taboos, and even persecution, prejudices as well as discrimination in the same likeness that the Hebrew forefathers of the Jewish people have witnessed in Egypt and beyond till today.

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Are you crazy? Who is crazy?

2007-01-28T15:42:00.002+01:00

What is the definition of being crazy? How do we define someone as such? And is there really a way to say, to decide that one has gone cuckoo? When can we define and state that someone is? And if so: Is it the person's fault, or is it because of an external cause, even perhaps injustice? Would it thus not be an interesting matter when we start digging a bit deeper into this phenomenon and find out if we are or not? But no matter the outcome of our decision regarding a person and even ourselves, we will always have to take into consideration that the most important question of all will remain standing, namely: Are we truly crazy? Or: Is anyone of us really?

First of all, it's true that there has already been said and written quite a lot about it. And this article will for sure not change much on the overall perception we all have about it. Over time, the definition has changed due to new revelations concerning certain illnesses and the way it starts to manifest itself into a person's body or even animal. We have learnt more about the Alzheimer disease for instance, but also what certain brain tumors can do to a man's overall personal character. Even epileptic behavior is not alien to us anymore, nor is autism and dementia. Many more of these before (un)known diseases became known or better known to humankind. And with as many of them, the injustice that had been done to millions of people for centuries became finally rectified. Still, a lot of work remains to be done for the light has not entered everyone's home yet worldwide. Prejudices and above all taboos on these particular matters do keep on persisting because certain non-Judaic world religions have incorporated it wickedly, out of ignorance, into their mainstream belief as a word of G-d when it's rather just only a word of their self created god. This is something we have to take into consideration when wanting to look deeper into this particular matter for it can uplift justice to many more or keep people into the dungeons of darkness for a prolonged time when it does not need to be so, then only when we are still sick of power madness.

Anyhow, it's true as well that before we can eradicate darkness, we need to look into ourselves to what has caused this darkness to occur in the first place. An enlightened solution can never be found when we keep within any answer to a problem the very source that resulted in the injustice we do want to eradicate out of our world without, out of laziness, fleeing instantly to the ancient Greek way of dealing with such a situation. We will never be able to erase the practical manifestations of our faults/evil made and done when we refuse to eradicate that what resulted in our wrong behavior, what did us decide to do what we did. Sometimes we even try to minimize a cruelty by arguing that we don't have any control over it, that we have been given a free mind to decide as such or so. It's our nature or our democratic right to act as we do and/or did. Still, we are first of all a human being with the ability to differentiate between right and wrong, good and evil. We have the capability as well as capacity to learn, to progress and to evolve into a better person. And that's a fundamental knowledge we can't and never may ignore because this basic understanding of who we are tells us that we don't have the right to persist in evil/wrong actions when we have learnt about a more humane solution or being taught about our wrong. Of course, we can start arguing endlessly and everlasting about the meaning behind right and wrong. And everyone of us will have his/her opinion regarding this matter all within the narrow constraints of their own borders of belief in this or that literally and figuratively seen.

Nevertheless, we all do have in our possession the ability of truly knowing what is truly right to do and what's not. We just have to let it enlighten our body and mind. We only have to empower it so that it can reveal to us who we truly are and what is expected from us, keeping in mind that G-d is first and above all the celestial King, manifesting Himself to us, into our homes through the highest form of diplomacy possible. He gently tries to correct every wrong step we could have taken, even when it saddens Him greatly that not everyone can get saved right away till the time comes when all will be truly redeemed and salvaged. But the most important thing for those who truly do follow in His footsteps, and be a light unto the nations, is to not be silent ever, to speak out always and relentlessly for the better of a precarious situation like as happened during the time of Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai. Keeping silent is always a wrong, because it will only prolong the evil or cause it to occur. It's neither right to keep hidden what can better millions of people's lives or refuse a life saving treatment/operation to anyone just because s/he doesn't has the financial means to pay for it. A life is priceless and so should we regard every medical/social assistance to a person that can safe his/her life and any life for that matter regardless of poverty or richness. Once we start to make distinctions between persons, then we create the perception of craziness because we all are living on the same boat so to speak. We are all human beings, no exceptions.

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A matter of courage

2007-01-14T11:01:00.000+01:00

Every person's desire is to have the courage to be courageous when it is needed most. No one is born without this feeling because man has been created as an individual who belongs to an entire system, even the ecological one. We are all part of a team. Yes, the whole of nature is. And when one or more elements of that team starts to disrupt the flow of positive energy, then the entire team will suffer, maybe even crumble into defeat, and, in a worst case scenario, into extinction. Some will therefore argue that man is one of the mob, of the herd like we say about the animal world being a herd animal. But no one is, even nature is not. No life can survive when it rebels against the forces of its own nature. It means that we only can survive when we work together in harmony, in balance between yin and yang as some would suggest. We can only surmount the obstacles ahead of us when we can accept our own self in the way we have been born, have been created because when one or more elements starts to disrupt the system, it will become corrupt entirely and life will become lost, will sail without compass, navigating its course on good luck or until it dies from exhaustion on a beach. Even man can not exempt himself from such a deadly behavior as he is often the cause of the way nature as a whole does behave towards every other life or to itself.

Indeed, the Torah tells us that wherever there is blood that runs through the veins of a body, that body is the host of a living soul. This means that every living creature, whether on this planet or beyond, lives by the grace of G-d. So, when we know that every soul is a particle of the giant source from where it derives its energy from, then we realize that all life, when in unity, does form one single body, a body that can only work perfectly when everything works in harmony. And it can only perform as it should do so when it knows who and what it is, what it is supposed to do. It can not fulfill this task when corruption thrives, at least not in an optimal format. We have learnt this from the story of Noah whereas ultimately only one option remained possible to surpass all the obstacles man had put in front of himself, not something else that had done it in his stead. Only man is responsible for his action. And when he behaves irresponsible to the essence of life, all life and its huge richness that it can give the world entire, then such behavior will start to create a cancerous way of life not only to humankind, but to every life that surrounds man and lives within this world he created for himself out of his ego and not for the sake of pleasing G-d. Instead of redemption and salvation, the body will try to destroy itself time and time again in the same likeness as it happened during the time of Noah, but not necessarily in the same manner of outcome!

In a certain way, we clearly could thus state that many souls are as the fallen angel so to speak. They have to learn to be strong again, to be non-conciliatory with the evil temptations that caused their fall. They have to work together in uplifting themselves back again to the status of who they once truly were. That is the task they need to fulfill, the utmost important one in a man's life. And yes, it's thus not the body that is truly weak or weakened, but the soul. The body merely only serves as a means for the soul to become stronger, to find its path back to the ultimate light it once was a part of because as souls, we all emanated from out of one body who created us like when a woman becomes pregnant and new life becomes a reality. We all are on a spiritual level too the result of a kind of pregnancy albeit not quite to be envisioned in the same way as we do within our own human world. In that sense, we could even become a little bit puzzled about the essence of G-d Himself as the Torah states that a woman from now on will give birth in pain. It would seem that we are rather a particle of the fallen angel himself instead of one from the Source, the Light and thus G-d. And as particles we have been given the task to correct ourselves through Torah so that the entire body becomes a light again. This would also suggest that there are souls who truly are part of G-d's spiritual body instead of Leviathan (the fallen angel).

Can we see it this way? Are we entitled to see it through the eye of good versus evil, meaning particles of Leviathan and particles of G-d or the celestial angels?

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The conversion ideology

2007-01-01T16:48:00.000+01:00

For as good as the entire history of humankind, man has not wasted one moment in getting others to convert to what s/he believed in. It's almost unbelievable when coming to learn about the ease a few of them had in pulling thousands of people behind their ideology. Still, once you know that the majority believed in as good as the same kind of gods albeit with a slightly different name, then the mystery becomes less mysterious. There is no doubt that the man, woman and child we have come to call idol worshippers worshipped worldwide the same idols like the sun and the moon for instance. Every one of them had gods in the same likeness of Astarte for instance, or also called Ishtar in other places. So you see, just how close every man lived with his fellow man. Even when they lived for thousands of miles away from each other, then still there was a kind of bond with one another that connected them all together, namely in that they had the same thoughts and fears about mundane happenings all around them that they could not explain in a rational way nor in the logic of the time for they didn't know better at that moment within their life. They lived by what they knew and what they didn't knew and often feared became a part of their religious convictions because it was something that went above their head, was mystic in their eyes. They couldn't grasp the essence, it was godly for them.

What some regarded thus as the wisdom of one of their wise man, the sorcerer of the tribe, was something that was not that unique to that place. Many other people around the world believed in the same, even when they never had heard of each other and won't have met one another neither during their entire life, not even one of their members who belonged to the same tribe as they did. They believed in what every man could see with his/her own eyes, even could touch. Their belief was restricted to the elements of nature they mostly feared, elements that were everywhere the same and still are of course. Due to that, it was not that difficult for wicked personalities to create a complete religious ideology around it, the package that would give them a lot of power. Wherever you went, the same fear wandered around like a ghost of the past that kept man after tens of thousands of years still trembling and their heart weak so that their eyes would stay closed because they all were led by a blind who him-/herself didn't know better neither. Oh yes, s/he knew, but there was nothing else to worship. There was no escape. There was nothing else to flee to, to embrace and become freed from the bondage they all saw and interpreted as something natural to do. It was nature that called them, and they bowed in awe or fear for when that call came depending on the season. And this has always been so since man could remember. So why changing the concept? Was it not better to utilize it as it was?

But the more the knowledge grew, the more extreme the ideology became worshipped for the leader saw his/her position slipping through his/her hands. Time and evolution never stood still, and there were always people who were gifted with thoughts beyond the realm of their world. Often, they could not really understand what they experienced right away. And so, they asked advice to the wise of the tribe. Those men and women mostly created a suitable explanation for the person to understand, but it made the thought not really understandable, rather it became a part of the ideology within the constraints of the mind of the time and tribe. The knowledge became stripped of its meaning, its essence, but it made the wise even more dangerous than the day before because they knew that if one man almost put their power into jeopardy, then more could follow. In such instances, they realized that a new dawn was coming around and only when they could anticipate that dawn correctly, they would be able to keep their position safe and secure. Yes, simple men and women from their own tribe became in a way smarter than themselves and without realizing it made the wise stronger and kept themselves wandering around in the same darkness as before, or became even killed, murdered, offered in the name of one of their gods. As such, man evolved and so did his religious thoughts and ideologies within the realm of their world and dead became worshipped more than life for the wise knew that the element of fear kept people's nature weak against their strength, their acquired knowledge.

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The cloning project

2006-12-31T15:12:00.001+01:00

Today we can say that we know how to clone many things, from just body organs to full grown cloned animals. The scientists who are working on this quite extraordinary endeavor do know perfectly well what needs to be done for their patience and hope to become a successful creation. There is even no doubt that it can create a wide range of healing opportunities for people who do need a transplantation of one of their organs. It is even assumed that more stem cell research can open a complete new horizon in how to deal with nowadays illnesses like Alzheimer for instance. Whatever the path that is being taken in those domains, the future of humankind will look very different than the one we live at this very moment in time once the acquired new skills become practical feasibilities. There is even no question about that the possibilities and hope it creates in many people's heart is exhilarant. Still, it's also important to be vigilant because man has not been created to murder life, then to exalt it into a higher level of consciousness to what it means to be human and alive.

Yes, we have to be fully aware of where we truly want to go with this new opportunity so that it doesn't become a bestiality that our world has ever witnessed. There is light and there is darkness. And till the light has not been able to vanquish the darkness completely from out of our lives, it's every person's duty to be alert to any wrongdoings regarding this particular matter for it can bring humankind into the world it always searched for or drive man completely mad/insane. It can bring us into a future wherein the health of a man's soul becomes most important rather than the body, the health of his/her spirituality versus his/her ego. Or, it can cause humankind to tumble into a spin of evil wherein an escape out of it becomes very difficult, but not quite impossible. Nevertheless is there no doubt that in such a situation, life on earth will be given a very extremely deadly blow once the dark side of man's capabilities would start to reign. After all, we have to assume that once scientists will become in the ability to clone every human organ possible, that every organ can become replaced by a complete new one, even the heart and who knows the brain also over time to come. No one will question the ultimate danger that it can create in the mind of wicked or irresponsible people who are still living within our midst.

Should we therefore not better slow down the process of research?

No, instead, we should make sure that whatever we want to do with the results in terms of healing, that the laws and rules regarding medical assistance about this matter will already be written and that everyone from poor to rich will have the right to this assistance because man has not been created to murder, but has been given the opportunity to live so to give life, not dead. He has been given the chance to prove himself, to let the soul become the desire to live by and not the chemistry of the body. And this reality makes us wonder about the purpose of a research into cloning this or that. It pushes us to think about it in a responsible way and not within a delirious state of the mind, or an extreme liberal or left minded point of view. We have to stay firm with both feet on the ground and not start to think that we can fly like a bird into the sky and jump from a mountain into the valley and realize to late that we can't be a bird ever. This means that we should never use the knowledge we have acquired and gathered about cloning for the purpose of cloning a human being nor the natural way as neither through an artificial environment. The purpose of our life is to help man live as a unique human being, one in a kind. Just think of what cloning human beings would cause in a world that is becoming overpopulated and destructive to nature!

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The meaning of life

2006-12-25T16:21:00.000+01:00

A lot has been written and said about this particular subject. And it's quite understandable that questions will keep bothering us regarding this matter for as long as we live and won't have find the perfect answer, the pure water, the water that will heal our entire being of who we truly are and what the meaning of our existence is, the purpose, the essence, its depth, the core, the root that stays the same everlasting within all universes encompassed by the wisdom of its nature. Anyhow, the answer to those questions is something we ourselves as individuals can only answer correctly when we have found the light, the energy that keeps us alive, that keeps our nature alive for this very purpose and beyond its revelation. It's not so much a question of time, but rather an essence of courage, the will to chance, to evolve, to take the next step beyond the previous one because stagnation will kill, will destroy life, will erase our existence. But evolution is something that does not exist within nature as we only can evolve on the spiritual level of life.

Wherever there is blood running through the veins of a body, even the animal, that body is the carrier of a soul and evolution can only occur through the maturation of the soul. And until the maturation becomes complete, we are only seekers. Once we find what we have searched for in our belief in one G-d, it will not make us stronger believers in Him. It will rather chance us in who we truly are. We will not have to belief anymore because we will have become what we have searched for. Our entire being will become immersed within His Torah. Yes, G-d has not forbidden us to eat from the Tree of Life. He has only kept its secret hidden from us because we ate from the one with the knowledge about good and evil. That's also the reason why Moshiach will not know everything as well because his/her time will be one wherein evil is still a presence. And the key to G-d's Kingdom can only be given to everyone once we all have come to accept pure goodness within our heart.

Moshiach will only help us more profoundly than how we have done it ourselves till that moment. He or she will guide us to that state of the mind in a more concrete way as we will have become spiritually mature enough for this to happen. Our strength in Him has become strong. But before he or she can do that, we need to prepare ourselves properly for this extremely important event in human history. We will also have to make us ready for the acceptance of our faults and wrongness in thoughts and teachings because he or she can do nothing when we would refuse his or her Light, the same as G-d wouldn't have been able to guide Moshe and the Hebrew people, our Jewish ancestors, out of Egypt when they would have refused to accept His Light at night and His cloud in the day. The same it is within the time of Moshiach. He or she will not be in the ability to do anything unless we can accept his or her presence amongst our midst in the way it is supposed to be done. It is even said that Moshiach ben Yoseph will fail, but if this is the case, then we have to understand that it is a prophecy with a negative warning. This means that it lays in our own power to change, to evolve and to help Moshiach ben Yoseph to succeed. And you know what needs to be done so that it can happen.

This means that we as seekers need to be on our guard constantly so that we would be in the ability of staying on the same spiritual level, even when we would reach the highest one possible as the key can only be given once every soul has reached the level needed. It is as such because in G-d, we all are a oneness which means that we are a team and as a team we have to think and behave as one. If even one element in this oneness can't adapt properly to the foundation it is a particle of, then the entire oneness can't fulfill itself as such. The structure, the foundation will become unstable, its strength weakened and the entire house that is being build upon it will crumble. It will become a wasteland, a ruin, a land of thorns and thistles until it becomes a desert wherein nothing wants to grow unless we find the cure that would heal its soil and make it fruitful again no matter what it would cost as it's something priceless. For that, we as humans are a team, and only as a team will we become in the ability to change the course of history from evilness/wickedness into pure goodness/pure light as happens when the Jewish nation does return home after having been exiled and do follow the path that has been prepared for it so that they can prepare themselves properly for taking upon them the most important task in human life in peace, security and tranquility as how it is supposed to be fulfilled through the knowledge we have acquired from the Torah.

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The choice we make

2006-11-29T22:22:00.000+01:00

Since we have been given the grace to live as a human being, we never stopped making choices for ourselves. We even made them for others while they made some for us. Our lives are filled with doing this or rather that. It has become so natural to do, almost mechanical, that we aren't feeling the need nor the necessity anymore to just stand still for one single moment and really start thinking about the choice we want to make next. We refuse to put a sign in front of us that says: Silence please! Yes, the sign that would tell us that we are entering a place, a time, a moment to sit still, to be quiet and listen, just listen to what we may hear not on the outside, then from out of the inside of ourselves. If we only could be granted enough time, enough opportunities to do so within our hectic lives. The possibilities would be enormous. People allover would finally become, be granted the ability to start looking within themselves for whom they truly are or even why they live. It's like a dream, but in reality more a vision, a longing that lives for sure within hundreds of millions of people worldwide, even when many are not aware of it, are to preoccupied with themselves to make time for their self.

Only: Will we in the first place be given the choice to do so? Will we be free to go for it? Are we prepared to liberate ourselves from our ego? And once we have it, once we are: Will we use it properly? Will we use the given time, a real luxury to really really go on a journey, an adventure in finding the treasure, the long lost treasure for so many people of the world? But, what will be the outcome of that 'battle' between ego economics and an altruistic economy, between dead and life?

After all, when the world of economics, of commerce worldwide wants to be sustained for generation to come for the well-being of every human individual in every generation, even nature, then it won't happen when we would keep alive an economy that thrives on the ego of man. Of course, such a choice when made will be pushed onto the shoulders of those who won't like it that they have to follow along with it for their survival, surviving were many will falter, will fall upon the bottom of the ocean crying where no one can hear them, but only G-d. Out of their weakness they cry not aware that they are truly the ones who are the fittest, the strongest, that they cry out of their desire to be freed. Out of their strength they call for help. Sadly, the choice that man makes for himself and others alike in the above example will not be a choice that makes us, rather one that will break, that will tear us all apart into all kinds of fragments lost from its root not knowing where to go next, not capable of making any choice by themselves anymore. Such a reasoning, a thinking, a philosophy will only lead us to nowhere, to Neverland, a place that is not real because it's not the kind of environment that says who we truly are.

We are humans, not ghosts nor pictures on a screen or in an album/newspaper/book. We are no creative imaginations, but real beings in flesh and blood. We are neither a robot nor any other mechanical object like a car nor television or computer. Who we are is the most important relevancy within every choice we want to make before we give it its final approval. Only when we are willing to succeed in this kind of mentality, will we prevail against that what's coming straight at us all as a meteor, namely the choice of all choices everyone of us will have to make for him-/herself personally in his/her own lifetime once it comes knocking on his/her door. And as they always teach and have taught us in school: It's better to be prepared for such moments than going into it fully unprepared, going into it by whistling a tune as if you don't care. But people should care as it's the moment of truth as we have called it for ages.

An examination is the moment of truth for the student. It's also the moment of truth when very important choices will have to be made within a person's own life, even as a child already. Throughout our life we constantly will bump into situations that demands from us to make a choice, a choice that at the same time will also tell us and others who we are and who we are not. It's a tricky sentence, but look at the opportunity of choice within its depth. This is something that has never changed during man's evolution till this time and we, till the end of times while not the end of life, have always been free to choose between left or right, between white or black, light or darkness. Anyhow, whether we are young or old, we can learn to fulfill what needs to be done because we are who we are once we have found the treasure filled with only one choice left. What resides in us doesn't leave us. We only have to be willing to liberate it. But, before we can arrive at this destination, we will have to make the most important choice in a man's life, namely to be.. or not to be.

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The cell generation

2006-11-28T15:29:00.000+01:00

We have different times. We even are speaking about different worlds. There are billions of unique people living all around this planet beside plants, animals and even insects. In our human terminology, there is not such an understanding of just one time, one instance or one moment, one world nor one person and so on. But in terms of a cell, we can state that we all do live in the generation of cells. And that generation has not come to an end and will not come to an end ever, even when this planet would vanish, life will still go on unabated. This generation will stay in existence as a one time only event in the likeness of the Oneness. Only, it's an everlasting event. It has started hundreds of millions of years ago and it's still an ongoing process of generating new life time and time again, not only on this planet nor in this solar system and galaxy alone, even this universe. World after world, it will bring new hope to the people of the present time, to life in general. It will generate a ray of light because every cell is so precious that you can't put a figure upon it in terms of the amount of money that needs to be paid for it. It's just so priceless. Still, humankind has just recently come to terms with it. Yes, tens of millions of years ago, it already came to life for the very first time on this planet, but only for over a merely 5760 years, man began to understand the importance he had to attach to such a tiny thing that has and does give him also the ability to live, an opportunity to be, to become a part, a cell of the Oneness.

For us, it seems to have happened so long ago. We hardly remember what may have happened. Many are stupefied about what they learn about the past and can't hardly belief that a human being can at the same time behave so barbaric and yet also so gently, so lovely, so compassionate to his surrounding. For some, G-d is feared and ignored because of it. They can't grasp the essence of the hardship He has caused those who did wrong against not only another human being, but as well against them who He has chosen out of many nations. Many have problems with the easiness of what He has permitted them - the Hebrews - to commit in His name, yet fail to look deeper into the matter and start to compare it against the seemingly equal behavior of others where against it has not to be compared with at all. Nevertheless, they only see or are only willing to see what the Hebrew nation has build above ground-level, but force themselves to ignore the very solid foundation it all has been build upon in the first place. They force themselves in refusing to come to terms with the justified answer to the why. Their interpretation is viewed through the opening of a very tiny window, a space that gives them no room to look beyond their own world, their very own way of living, even thinking. After all, even those who were members of the Barbarians thought that their actions and thus military and brutal conquests were justified. Even the Romans did thought so as did the Greeks. Nebuchadnessar was one of them and even Nazi-Germany. They all consciously thought that what they wished for was justified, that their gods, even 'G-d' justified it. They found themselves superior as a race, not supernal as a people. Killing a member of G-d's body was justified, was seen as humane in their reasoning!?

But, many still today fail to grasp the reason of why that He has punished their parents, their fore-fathers for thinking wrongly, behaving inhumane. They fail to comprehend the reason behind the disaster that befell the Egyptian nation, even the Canaanite's, the Philistines, the Edomites for that matter and so many others during the course of man's history, even those of Noah's time. Of course, for many a merely 2000 years ago, it could easily be forgiven due to their complete lack of knowledge about what the G-d of the Hebrews really meant, of what His word, His Torah truly means to the depth of a Jewish man's heart who loves it word for word, letter for letter, cell by cell in a way of speaking. Since the new adom, they hardly have chanced the way of life man lived before that period. Nevertheless, they evolved as well. Even when their religious system of belief was still based on a very ancient principle, evolution within their world stood not still. They progressed, and to some extend we may say and state that the Hebrew nation has to be thanked for the achievement/the progress the non-Hebrew population of that world at that time did made, even when it was still very far from being good, being truly humane. If it was not for them - the Hebrews - who in the background of those civilizations worked tirelessly in trying to bring it more in line with what we today regard as how a human being should behave, then many of us would not have lived today. Not one cell of their body would have existed. At the same time, it will make the sin of the non-Hebrew population of today even greater because they today do know what the meaning of being humane means, also towards His chosen people, especially towards His chosen ones now even more than before, even Tsiyyon (Zion).

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The forgotten brain

2006-11-27T18:06:00.000+01:00

Some say that we are merely living to only die and nothing else that has existed before nor beyond this particular time in a man's life. That there is no other world than just this one period. Such people think about it with their brain. There is no soul for them, no spirit, even no inner voice that talks to them when they are in despair, are in a festive mood. Those kind of man will live their life in the supposition that it sucks to be alive because they don't see the power of it, the benefit, the reason of making an effort to do good, to live decent with respect to another human being, even nature. They don't see the purpose of the why they live and only will follow their passion. Yes, they will only follow their selfishness, even when it demands of them to be nice to another fellow, it will only be fulfilled as an action from out of the selfish behavior, an act as an actor/actress to betray the world around and the self.

Like some of them say that they only do 'good' out of own personal interests, but ... once the other or nature is not needed for these interests anymore, even G-d, it becomes trash, not worth a look at, not valuable enough to be nice to it or him/her. In certain occasions, it needs to be destroyed, even literally, because it becomes seen as a witness, a danger against a person's true nature, true intentions. It even can reveal the true nature of certain world religions or religious behavior, but can also sadly enough push people who belief in the One and only G-d in its trap. It's the time of truth versus the lie, the gossip, the laughing with other people's misery/handicaps, even their gender orientation, the hurting of people's feelings and so much more of wrongdoings in this matter by members of humankind vis-à-vis another human member of this world and the one to come. But they mostly don't want to see it, to be put with their nose onto it because if they do see, do understand, they will have to admit what they ferociously don't want to admit. They will even have to admit that what they aspire is not human, is only a false vision created from out of their own selfish ego, their nature.

People in such a state of the mind will only hurt people over and over again, even after having behaved nicely in a misleading way, sometimes trying to kill, to murder people literally and/or figuratively, often under false pretexts so that they can belief that what they do is 'right', is 'just', is 'pure justice'. Their only desire is to be served in the sense of the Roman mind or by way of the Nazi ideology for instance, but not to serve like man is being taught about by means of the inner depth of the Torah. It's thus no surprise that they do find themselves often lost within their self created world, completely lost from all reality around them. Still, they see, but can't watch it. They hear, but can't listen to it. They feel, but are unable to touch it. Their world fights a seemingly endless battle against the world that is truly real, yet not quite as real as we may think based on their philosophy because we create what we want as some of them will argue and try to persuade many others to think 'wisely' in the same likeness as them for their own good. Think wisely between parentheses as it is in this sense always said as a warning, a blackmailing of those who still try to stay firm within their desire to do truly good, to be truly man of wisdom, man who wisely know that once they would fall that all hope will be lost and so the world of humankind with them.

With this I mean that when a majority of people will follow in the footsteps of what has just been written, then an unreal world will become real, or at least will use an enormous amount of force to become so. It's what we have termed the force hidden behind the ideology of revisionism, a force that every empire in the likeness of Rome and Nazi-Germany has aspired and wants to aspire no matter what. Or, what others are saying about, namely that when you repeat something very often enough, then it will become real, people, even politicians thus, will start to belief it as something true. But people will not realize that those who have put the broom on fire in the first place did it so that the whole house would become an inferno of burning flesh in an oven. They want an imaginative world becoming a reality by pushing people allover to let them seemingly imprison their own soul by themselves. They want the people to do what they want in such a way as that the people falsely think that they have done it all by themselves and let them get away with the feeling that they are masters and not servants. You know, the white race supremacy ideology or the fundamentalist Islamic one. They are both the same of a kind. The one raised and nurtured within the walls of Christianity and the other within those of Islam.

Nevertheless, such behavior can not mature to such a monster when it does not has receptive bodies that are already prepared to out of their nature do what it wants. It let others falsely think that they are masters over themselves and others while hiding the reality that they are regarded as even lower than servants. They become slaves of the supreme master of the ideology. They have imprisoned their soul. They sold their soul. It's what the master wanted so that it would not succeed in liberating the body from the chains of slavery it has been put in. The master will be followed as they blindly have become to belief that they are or will be masters themselves in his world. They will find maidens waiting for them and not realize that life in Heaven is not lived the same way as on Earth, as in this world. There is no sexuality in Heaven. There is only Oneness. We are all part of the One and the same and in His likeness have we been granted the freedom and opportunity to cure our soul, to heal it so that it again can become a light that will make Him shine as on the very first day of creation. Him and us in Oneness being a Light onto and into the present world of the time.

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Two beginnings unified into one whole - a reflection

2006-09-25T18:55:00.000+02:00

In reading the Zohar's Haqdamat Sefer ha-Zohar I bumped into a very interesting revelation. And I know that some are trying to denounce the legitimacy of the Zohar's content, but those ones mostly do so based on the assumption that what is written within are words of G-d. Why they believe as such or who has misguided them in believing that it is so, that's up to them to reveal. Nevertheless, one thing must be said and that is that the Zohar is Torah yes, and still not a word of G-d. It's rather a book that we can put on an equal footage with the Talmud, it being a commentary. That's what it is, only a commentary, the mystical commentary about G-d's word. It has always been known to be as such and not otherwise. It means also that it is subject to faults.

After all, if in the Talmud one of the Sages says so and another one says no, but it's so: who would we have to follow to make no mistake in our belief in G-d to certain matters in our life, even rules of religious law?

The same counts for the Zohar. Both books, the Talmud and the Zohar, are only given to the student and everyone else who beliefs in G-d the Judaic way as an advice, a teaching in the hope that he or she could be the one who untie the knot so to speak when there are still some unresolved disputes of interpretation for instance. We all do learn, and every generation evolves into new understandings, new revelations that can bring us all to the point wherein everything will be known to us Jew and gentile. This time is referred to as the coming of Moshiach ben David, not the Moshiach thus who we refer to as the coming of Eliyah, the prophet. This is proven by our own daily activities whether in a school/university environment or on the job in whatever field we are most commendable in. What we have been taught about, we try to make it better than what we have learnt about it, to let it evolve into something better, the same as Intel, the chip manufacturer, always finds new ways to speed things up and make computers better.

Let us not forget that the Zohar itself reveals that the written Torah is in reality one book that hides four books, namely the literal one, the figurative one, the midrashic one and the mystical one. I myself would put a fifth book to it, namely the prophetic one, the visionary one thus. This would make up of 26 books whereas one is comprised of the five books of Torah that Moshe wrote down. And only the written Torah in itself is the one with the word of G-d, is truly Holy, while all the others are only explaining, commenting on the hidden within His word. It doesn't mean that because they can't be regarded as Holy in the sense of the written Torah, that they become less important because to write those commentaries, you have to have a great inner feeling and understanding of His world. Especially with regard to the Zohar, you have to go very deep within your own self to comprehend its depth and pull out the lesson of what it wants to teach the student about. But more important it is in first instance to feel, to become acquainted with what it does to yourelf, to your inner serenity so to speak with the things that are happening around you.

Anyhow, they, those books of commentary, would all do so by keeping themselves within their own speciality without closing the door to input from any other book, certainly not for the written Torah itself because they can't exist without it while the written Torah can exist without them. It doesn't need them to spread the message of Truth. But denying their existence would be very wrong as they are very helpful in better understanding where He wants humankind to direct its steps to. Even when faults or mistakes could have been made, at the end its the progress that will be made that is most important, the spiritual evolution beside the natural evolution of humankind.

Whether we thus would agree or not with the Zohar's validity, that's of course subject to debate amongst religious scholars. One thing is certain and that by reading on the matter within the Pritzker edition together with its very splendid own commentary, I became a kind of intrigued with a déja vue. Well yes, it went about the word Bereshit cut in two, namely Be and reshit whereas reshit means thus beginning. The letter bet in the Hebrew alphabet is the second letter within that alphabet. And here comes the mystery in that the place of this letter explains the hidden essence of reshit.

(quote) Similarly, the first gate to supernal Wisdom is awe of YHVH. This is reshit, beginning; bet - two joined together as one. These are two points: one hidden and concealed, one existing covertly. Since, they are inseparable, they are called reshit, beginning - one, not two. (end quote)

And I will not go into the explanation of this very interesting quotation as the commentaries that comes with the Pritzker edition are very revealing and makes the understanding of the Zohar much easier. Only, it made me think about my own Torah studies, meaning referring to the facts that the Torah itself is telling us about two beginnings in one. With this I mean that we have the natural evolutionary aspect of humankind and its spiritual evolution. In the one we side with the scientist who have revealed human existence on this planet for over more than hundreds of thousands of years. Still, it's only about 5767 years now that man entered his spiritual evolution. Thus yes, two beginnings.

The Zohar is thus fully right in stating that they are inseparable. They are both beginnings, but they have to be seen in their unified essence and not separated even when we read about them within the Torah over two chapters. The one refers to the world since the well known Big Bang theory while the next chapter submerges us all into the knowledge of humanity's evolution into coming to terms with it having a soul. Still, even when the Torah puts them in two chapters, they are one and not two because they speak about the same human being. Every human being having a soul, even when the knowledge was only limited to just a very few 5767 years ago.

(quote) Whoever attains one attains the other. (end quote)

In Kabbalah and thus the Zohar this means that whoever attains Shekhinah, lower Wisdom, will also encounter higher Wisdom that is reflected by Shekhinah. Or whoever attains the notice of being a human being and not just a natural being, will encounter his soul, his Chava.

A remembrance to be remembered

2006-09-18T17:47:00.000+02:00

Was the reason why our Jewish brothers and sisters became murdered during the Shoah and Choerban responsible for their own dead? Was what happened to them, their own fault? Did it happened because they had transgressed G-d's commandments? Did it happened because their lifestyle was not conform the proper religious accepted practices of those times before you could be accepted as an observant Jewish personality, even a member of the Jewish family, the Jewish nation? To say it plain and simply: Did they deserve to die? Did some of our parents, safe from Nazi persecution, had the right to feel a kind of antipathy to their plight? Did they had the right to utter that it was G-d's wish, His judgment to their sins?

NO!, NO!! and ... NO!!!

Why not?

Because the Torah let us understand that we as a Jewish people, descendants of our forefathers, are in a search for G-d. We know Him by word, and we believe in Him by what He has spoken to Moshe. Nevertheless, we try to comprehend what He has said. We try to come to terms with the message, the universal message that He transmitted not only to us, then to all of humankind as is said within the Book of Devarim chapter 29 whereas G-d says: 'And not only with you do I make this covenant and this oath.' G-d made that particular covenant within that chapter with all those who were present when Moshe lived, even the stranger who went with him out of Egypt and even those who were still following idol worship around them. It means that what He has told Moshe is not only true. It goes beyond human comprehension as it transcends the nature of our being. Our Jewish prophets have proven its everlasting reverberation of trueness to the outskirts of our universe and back again while their very own prophecies brought the Torah's hidden revelations closer to the depth of our heart right here on this very planet we have called Earth, even the very place we have named Yerushalayim, even Tziyyon, Eretz Tziyyon. They prophesied about what was already written within the Torah itself. They were and are Torah as the Torah was and is them forever and ever. They knew Torah and the Torah knew them.

We therefore have to be prepared to dig deep within ourselves before becoming in the ability of pulling the depth of the message to the surface of ours and everyone's life. Still, it's not the core of the secret that we will unfold when we do so. The force, the strength needed to let it float on the ocean of life is one only Moshiach ben David can attain. And even he can not enter the core in itself because it would destroy the very person he is. He would destroy the world when he would do so, even creation in itself as it is creation. It would make of him the anti-moshiach instead of the Moshiach. This is the message that becomes revealed out of the Garden of Eden whereas it is told that Adom and Chava were not entitled to eat from the tree in the middle of the Garden, but neither from the one who would give them an eternal life after having eaten first from the forbidden tree that is. The combination of both would have made of man the complete opposite image of the one that G-d had created man for in the first place. Man would destroy creation. He would destroy the very foundation whereupon his world has been build and is being build, build upon Torah. Anyhow, man will live everlasting once he understands and come to respect the meaning behind the restrictions meant for the world beyond the one he lives in at this very moment. Hence, it's the lesson needed within this world before we can attain the blessings of the other one. And it doesn't refer to the world to come as that world is another matter in itself, even when it has and will have a very close relationship with the one beyond the perception of what the eye can see in any world of man.

No, those who perished during the Shoah were living their lives based on how they interpreted His word. They searched for Him, sacrificed their life, and like many others found Him in their heart. Many of them found Yerushalayim in their heart. Their Tziyyon was in them, but for many Tziyyon was not with them. And all of the world has a tremendous debt towards the innocents of the Shoah until the fourth generation, the time the sins committed by the father, the parents will cease within the fifth generation, that is unless no other generation within those four will have committed its own atrocities with regard to the Shoah while keeping its horror alive and history twisted whether in deeds and/or in words because if so, then it will always be added and the count will start from the beginning anew. Yes, we all in the world have thus an enormous debt to the victims of the Shoah, even when we have been born decades later, even from Venezuela, to Cuba, North Korea and even all the way up to Syria, Lebanon and Iran, even Iraq and beyond in the Arab/Muslim, Christian/Islamic, other religious denominations', secular and non-religious world. It's how we behave today towards its remembrance that the world of tomorrow will judge our behavior. It will act with a compassionate judgment or only with judgment or compassion. But only the first one is the right action to fulfil because both others alone will keep bringing about destruction around, not salvation.

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Believing! What about?

2006-08-11T15:19:00.000+02:00

It's true that everyone of us does believe in something. It's even a fable to assume otherwise. Even the atheist can't honestly persist in convincing others of how s/he feels about it all, of being a non-believer. They will be lying to themselves as well as to everyone else they encounter in their life's journey when they do so. After all, they belief that there is nothing on the other side. No one can convince them that G-d really does exist, that there is life after our natural death. We mostly can't persuade them of the fact that every human being is born with a soul, a soul that serves as a gateway between our natural existence and the world above, the spiritual essence that keeps us alive. This is their belief, their religion so to speak. And it has its gods too, gods who will be found within their nature, the nature of who they want to be, even the nature that surrounds them. It's a very old lifestyle, one that predates our world, and a very egocentric one, but still a presence around us, a presence that also wants to survive, to fight for its survival as being the 'truth', the only 'truth'.

Tho they feel extremely certain of their right in this, they, out of ignorance, show often no respect for those who think differently. Therefore will it certainly be not that strange to find them in bed with one of the one G-d religions they feel most comfortable with and support them in their cause, when so, to eradicate another one G-d religious people/belief. It doesn't have to be said that this people will be as good as always the Jewish people. And we should not find it absurd because after all, Judaism is the cradle and the father as well as mother of as good as every religious orientation to this day, even our present world. Help others to destroy it, even by first hijacking both when needed, and you will proof your point in that their is no after-life, that the G-d of Judaism is a fable, non-existent. That's how the ego always works within the nature of a human being as we have been born with the knowledge of good and evil. But, we are born with it to learn to differentiate between both so to act only in goodness. This knowledge is a gift we have been given so to overcome our ego's strength through the strength of our soul, to overcome the negative energy by our positive essence, the ability to outgrow negativity.

Of course, this is all easy said than done. In the mean time do we have to be fully aware that the atheists, unaware of their wrong, will try to bring back to the forefront the old habits, turning the clock thousands of years backwards. Only, the weaponry has changed dramatically wherewith they can force the ego, their ego into everyone's psyche almost unnoticed than only by the trained eye. It's an ego that works through underground tunnels, the sixth sense if you could say so, invisible to the mainstream, to the landscape above. Nevertheless, it does affect every society, all religions worldwide are infected with it, even Judaism. No one is really free from this kind of virus, the danger of it spreading out it wings to retake back its lost glory, its power to control and to dominate the masses, pushing us all to the brink of oblivion. It knows no mercy as it feeds itself with the power of self-destruction, the nature of life and dead, the cycle of natural life, of preservation, even of correcting a flaw within the natural habitat when needed due to a natural extraterrestrial occurrence or an unnatural intervention of man him-/herself. Only, its destructive attitude is not naturally related. It only seems that way because it needs its victims to stay blinded, to stay blindfolded for the real truth, that of the soul and its spiritual wisdom from above.

Is it the atheist's fault?

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Revising my own study

2006-07-30T18:32:00.000+02:00

For the moment, it is as such that I have started a revision of all chapters of the Torah that I have done until now as time permits me to do them. Therefore, it's my sincere desire and hope that I will be in the ability to uplift the study from a rough sketch, even my use of English, into something more worthwhile to read as well as to learn. Well, learning is perhaps a great word when you put it into relationship with Rashi and other great Sages as well as Rabbinical authorities in our present time and before. At least, my hope it is that it will give you together with all that you have studied until now a kind of a jumping board into a greater depth of the word that G-d transmitted to Moshe, maybe even a help with your study.

Can it be accepted as something valuable by your local Rabbi or by yourself?

That's of course not to me to answer this question. We are all human beings and are as such not without fault no matter how high or low we do stand on the ladder of spirituality, of the religious divine. Only, I do know that for the ability to grow, we can't just copy into our mind that what others have put into it, even our own tutors for that matter. It's most important that we use the foundation that our forefathers have laid down for us as a way to build upon it through guidance from our tutors and even sometimes self study because even as we can learn from our tutors while they can learn from us, we are a next generation, one that builds upon the previous one. Even the children of Rashi will admit this when they would still be alive.

Therefore, the new inspirational thoughts we could derive from their lessons can be proven right or wrong. Over time, elements can thus become proven right when it's wrong, but as well be seen as wrong when being right, even the thoughts I or you would write down in our study or discuss with other students. In any case, it's most important during this process to not cutting ourselves away from those who are most dear to us, those who have a firm spot in the depth of our heart, from our family thus, even when they maybe can differ in view to that of ours.

After all, did our Sages in the Talmud not differ as well on many religious related subjects?

And to this day, this hasn't changed! It's the beauty of being Jewish, believing in Judaism, namely having the freedom of going beyond the lessons of study in Torah. Going beyond it, so that we all can arrive at the ultimate knowledge, the day when all will become known to us that was hidden. Yes, the day that the Temple can become rebuild as all pieces will match the foundation that Moshe has laid down for us all.

This is something no one, no people, even no nation can achieve when being prevented from growing, even yes, prevented from correcting mistakes made as Moshe has taught us on many occasions of rebellion, rebellion that would have prevented the destruction of the golden calf, the standing up against evil/wickedness if there was no freedom to learn and grow, to learn from the mistake made. Yeah, when being prevented from doing so, the only thing that will happen is that we will build wrong upon wrong into an even greater wrong until the hundreds of millions belonging to this group of man will go after the few million, a minority, worldwide who still have kept the real treasure of truth within their heart.

Those who still can regard themselves as being Jewish, being Hebrew naturally and spiritually while others maybe only naturally, but certainly not spiritually anymore. Nevertheless, by birth they are still Jewish and a valuable member of the Jewish Nation just like any other Jewish member. Anyhow, the one is thus as a person still united and a belief in Elohim while the other lives in rebellion with him-/herself and G-d in favor of gods, of saying to others that these are your gods, only Elleh is your god, the Elleh without the Im as the Zohar does teach us.

So, why should we be not entitled the same privileges of having an own opinion, an own perhaps breathtaking view on the matter and at least have the freedom to express it, talk about it and discuss it?

What I know about such an endeavor is that it can only make sure that the tree of life will stay alive and will every year bear its fruits time and time again. Having the freedom to express, to talk and discuss the matter gives us the great luxury of being a part to the rebuilding of the Tower of Babel, namely the spiritual one that is, a Tower where G-d will not confound our language. On the contrary, He will help us to understand each other again through this Tower or rather Temple of Yerushalayim, the Temple on mount Moriah, the place that will repair every fault man has made in the past, even through ignorance out of hatred and/or out of a hatred by conscious while having taken hundreds of millions down this path instead of up to Heaven.

Most important to always remember is that we can be wrong as we are not G-d, we only can try to become an image to His liking, an Elohim, Shekhinah and Binah, the What and the Who united in one body, the androgynous Adom. The Adom that G-d created. Male and female He created Adom.

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The believing factor

2006-07-23T16:36:00.000+02:00

Every day we believe in something. We need it because life would otherwise become unbearable. It's no matter of being religious as even the secular one beliefs. The atheist does so too. S/He may not be aware of that fact, but s/he does. The atheist beliefs that there is no belief than the one s/he beliefs in. And yes, a belief only in the forces of nature is in reality the ancient old way of fulfilling a man's religious duty. It only has been given another name, but it in reality is just the same, man returning to how he was tens of thousands of years ago. Okay, not quite yet as how it was. But how long would it take when this dangerous phenomenon is not reversed in good spirit, in respect for the feeling of those who don't believe the same way as I or you would do so? After all, they are human beings too with a right to a free mind as well, even when this mind can in its thoughts and desires behave dangerously to the welfare of many. They are often the rebellious type of human being within their surrounding, bowing to individualism as their god.

Dangerous yes thus, because we have to keep in mind that what happened way back in time was often quite very inhumane to say the least. It's surely not a time to wish for that it returns, but it will without doubt start practicing in full force the same old lifestyle when it would be given this opportunity, no matter the many arguments to the contrary. We just have to look around us today, and we know in our heart that it's not something man can wish for nor aspire to become a reality once again. There is just to much at stake. Man has come from too far to lose all he has gained since the opportunity arose in his midst to change course, to change his destiny, even his future. We should not return to such an illusion, an unreality as this kind of lifestyle hurts the reality of nature, nature also constantly being exposed to its source, its Creator, and being aware of this fact day and night. If it would not be as such, nature would not hit at man whenever this same man has crossed all red lines to its very own welfare, its existence, an existence that is needed when man wants to survive as well naturally and spiritually.

The prospects of achieving a better life for everyone is thus not something that is a far away dream, something that is not reachable, something that will never materialize. If we start thinking as such, feeling this tendency emerging to the forefront of every day life worldwide, then it's time to alarm everyone within every generation for we are losing hope, the hope that will keep man from starting to behave like a wild animal again, thinking wrongly that he is confined to this planet only where survival is seen within the realm of the fittest, not within the strength of the helping hand to those who need it, even nature. Yes, the fittest helping those who are less fit, even them too maybe by the 'weak' as the definition of the fittest should never be regarded through the concept of muscles, of physical strength, of military strength as the prophet Daniel has taught us.

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Chitchat between drug addicts

2006-06-27T19:04:00.000+02:00

Sometimes we feel as if we may not joke about G-d’s word. And it’s true. But, it also depends on how you do so because the way you do can give people a lesson à la Torah so to speak.

Let’s try it out. And what comes beneath will thus be a kind of chitchat between individuals with a slight comic touch.

One day Dave was staying over with his friends. They had fun and laughed a lot, but Dave couldn’t help it to look into Sam’s father’s bedroom when on his way to the bathroom. And what he saw there changed his entire young life. Yeah, he found something very strange, at least to him. He never saw this kind of stuff before. He opened it and took a bit of it. And when he went back, he flopped himself down to the sofa. It didn’t take him much time to fall asleep to the astonishment of his friends who really were so far off into another world that they hadn’t noticed that he had been away.

“What the heck,” said Sam, “then you invite someone and he falls asleep. He even didn’t drink one beer with us or took some of our dope.”
“What have you gave him Sam,” said Leon, “he seems pretty much down? Should we not wake him up?”
But Sam said: “No let him. I don’t know what he took. Anyhow it must have been… wow. Look at him. Look at this face. Weird man!”

Dave had become so dizzy all of sudden that in no time, he felt as if he was floating around or that everything was floating around him. Well, that’s what he thought. And in that kind of state he met Sarah, the most beautiful woman he ever saw.

“Heck, what a girl,” he thought, “that’s my kind of woman. That’s the woman everyone would dream to have as his wife.”
But the woman answered him and said with a gently soft voice, almost a whispering: “No Dave, you can not have me because I’m taken. I have my husband. He’s Abraham.”
“Abe.. Abe,” he stuttered, “the Abe. I didn’t know that he had a mistress.”
“No, not that one, not Abraham Lincoln” Sarah said.
“I don’t know of… holy grace… good lord,” Dave uttered, “that Abraham?”
“Yes, that one,” Sarah whispered in his ear.
“How old are you?” asked Dave. “You must be about 3000 years old.”
“Older Dave, much older,” answered Sarah.
“5000?”
“No”
“10000?”
“Nope, but I will give you a hint. I’m as old as you are.”
“You are fooling me,” Dave responded with frowned eyebrows, “that can’t be.”
“Still, it is so Dave, my boy,” explained Sarah, “everyone is as old as everyone else, think about it and you will find the answer.”

And Dave opened his eyes, his friends above him, eager to know what he took so that they could take the same because what they saw; they had to have it too.

So they asked him: “Hey dude, what did you took?”
“Nothing,” replied Dave, “honestly nothing. But wow man, that stuff your father has, that brings you to a height no drug can match its equal. You never know who I met.”
“No, we don’t care who you met,” said Dave’s friends very impatiently, “we want to know what you took.”
“Well,” Dave answered, “I only took your father’s Torah. And man, was me that a journey in sobering up. Wow, I have never been so high as I have been now.”

After that happening, no one took any drugs anymore, as Sam’s father Torah became their medicine to a better future.

Touch down!

Kabbalah and the Big Bang

2006-06-09T10:27:00.000+02:00

Normally it's the understanding in kabbalah that we don't look beyond what we can't comprehed on this particular matter as it goes into a world we can't grasp. It's something that goes beyond our creation as we have been created after that moment and not before.

Anyhow, when we want to progress, we can not but look beyond what has been taught to us. So therefore, I feel that we are entitled in trying to figure out what could have been or what was or is, still is thus a present phenomenom in our every day life. After all, it is said that the past tells us about the future, which means thus also the present.

When something of beyond the Big Bang can thus become defined as the past, which it is, then it surely has a value to our future and present as it has created the situation that we exist, even our entire universe. Nevertheless, and here Kabbalah is right, what we will come up with are only theories and will stay as such unless we can prove it, we can prove that it really has, is and will always be as such. We can't really looking into it, at least not at present as we since Adom have been taught nothing about it or what could have been before the Big Bang occurred. There are only theories. It's something untouchable, a bubble that we can't catch for fear that it will blow up. And yes: Why not with a bang, a bang that unleashed an enormous quantity of atoms and neutrons into a space?

Even when we can write a whole book of this kind of theories, I will within this post stay as brief as possible and still try to make my point as clear as I can.

Thus, today we live in the supposition of a universe, one universe.

So, what if there is more than one universe as there is more than one galaxy and even more than one solar system within one galaxy, and more than one galaxy within one universe? Thus, what if we have something greater than a universe wherein many other universes have been formed and who knows are still been formed?

I would explain it with something we as a child have probably played a lot with, namely a device with an open circle attached that we dip into soap water to make soap bubbles by blowing into this open circle. If we're just lucky, we will get one bubble (one universe), but with some more luck, we can get more bubbles (more universes) attached one unto the other. The blower we could for the moment define as the Divine element.

But, you may argue: Are the galaxies not those bubbles?

Yes, it's true that it's the same thing. Only, that we can create around the bubbles one single bubble and this single bubble can itself again attach itself unto another bubble. After all: Don't we say that the universe is infinite?

But when the infinity is not the universe itself, then the infinity we have always talked about is something else than the universe. The best we could describe it for now is by the word Divinity from Divine. The Big Bang can than simplistic be symbolized with someone who blows the bubbles. And it will give us something to look for beyond the Big Bang as we have a concrete theory that can give us a leap into what has until now been largely regarded as unknown territory with a sign:

No trespassing allowed. You will be killed.

And this is just the same as when we thought that going beyond planet Pluto would for certain mean our dead because it was seen as a black, a very dark space, a void where we should not trespass its boundaries. Yes, its boundaries even when we regard the universe as infinite. But, we know that there is more beyond Pluto. It's not black, not dark. There is something beyond, just as there is something beyond the Big Bang as well. We for the moment can only rely on theories in the same likeness of the theories that were made before we knew that there was more beyond Pluto.

Certain is that there is something, and that something can become uncovered one day as it's our past that has told us our future within the present in any time as it's infinite, it's timeless.

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Beside this, I will also perhaps try in the near future to write a full article regarding this theory on my JT website. So stay tune.

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Noah's prophecy

2006-06-04T00:43:00.000+02:00

You maybe wonder in how the life of Noah's house can become at the same time a house of prophecy. There is after all no concrete indication or evidence that would sustain the theory. The house lived by what G-d commanded them to do and they fulfilled in every way His commandments for many years. It was only after Ham's fiasco in the tent of his father that a crack became visible, one that eventually will cause a major rift between the houses of all three sons of Noah, houses that eventually would harbor all three major monotheistic religions, namely Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

In their time, everyone lived their lives for decades according to the teaching of their father, that is Noah. They didn't know anything else. They were lectured within the culture of the house and also about the world around them. Noah taught them the difference betweem them and their future, between the path of both worlds and how it was meant to be or to become. The sons believed and it made them strong, even when it was seen by the outer world as weakness. But, their houses survived while others vanished to never been heard of again. Only within the annals of Judaism we have been given a reference to how their culture must have been long before the world came to know the opportunities that archeological excavations would bring to them, whether for the good or for the worst.

Well yes, we all know that some of these archeological funded missions had a more (religious) political background. The aspiration was more inspired by the desire to acquire a solid proof for the existence of certain groups of people. The right to be was more important than anything else, and often no shame was to be found when fictional elements were plastered unto a certain object to sustain a reviosanal theocrasy instead of accepting with dignity and respect the reality of the found. But no, everything had to be done to erase what never should become erased in the first place. The wisdom of man should not be replaced by the stupidity/foolishness of his nature.

Anyhow, others used a more old fashioned way of changing the historical tide. They builded above the remnants of what once was a house, a synagogue and yes, even a Temple. No waste of time was spilled to waste precious artefacts of wisdom, of guidance to uplift all of humankind to a level of spiritual revelation.

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The value of everyone's soul

2006-05-28T10:39:00.000+02:00

We know that our soul leaves the body when we die. And, we also do know that there is a mourning period in every religious community. It's one of the basic elements wherewith we are capable of making a distinction between the body and the soul, between the natural environment we live in and the spiritual realm that surrounds us as a blanket, a blanket of warmth and love for who we are.

This knowledge is what the first man knew already, but wasn't aware of it until the second man, the second adom, became a living representative, the Ambassador to that vision. Yes, archeological diggings have revealed to us that the pre-historic human being believed in a life after dead, even when he couldn't yet understand the wisdom to this knowledge, namely G-d, the existence of one G-d. He couldn't yet grasp the weight of a feather and subsequently filled his thoughts with an overload of natural substances. He envisioned the spiritual realm by his nature, by what he saw: the body, and nothing more to it than just simply that natural reality.

The arrival of the spiritual adom changed all of that was known to the pre-historic world. The historical religious values of that particular living environment began to diminish by the day, even to this very day. Yeah, it's not something that changed overnight. Both worlds still do live side-by-side in our time as well after more than 5760 years and counting. There is no question about that. But, the natural reality of the one is slowly being taken over by the spiritual realm of the other.

In that sense, Jewish Orthodoxy has got it always right, namely that our world (humankind) really started with Adom and Chava, while early existence of mankind(!), the man in his natural state, predated this world. It's what we witness in the first two chapters of the Book of Bereishis (Genesis) whereas the first chapter reveals the creation of the one world while the next chapter the beginning of our world, the very first revelations of what will be named Judaism, the spiritual realm within man's existence and what this means to the enrichment of his life, in particular his soul, his Chava and ultimately also his body, his nature, his character as a person created in the image of G-d.

Anyhow, for the moment, we are still living in a time of transition between one world and the other one. Both worlds are overlapping each other until only one will remain, until the one will join the other. And this in itself will finalize the journey that began with the very first pre-dawn life on this planet, not the Universe, which will take another hundreds of years to materialize. Nevertheless, the finalization of the sixth day will have brought man from his genetic (DNA) natural upbringing unto his spiritual 'genetic' upheaval. After that, the blessed time of the seventh day will manifest its marvelous light within every person's life and shine as it never did before.

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The sanctity of life

2006-04-20T22:48:00.000+02:00

Time has not stood still for even one single moment. It went always forward with just one tiny exception as we learn within the Book of Kings II chapter 18. Still, it's not what we will be talking about here. No, what we will try to discover is the mystery concerning life, life in general and our very own life.

Where do we come from? What are we? Who are we? And why did we evolve the way we have?

It are all very important questions to ask for because we are the only creatures of life who can ask them. At least that's what we think. And we do so because we don't suppose for even one moment that the animal world as we see it can do so. We assume that they are incapable of fulfilling this kind of thoughts. We assume because we regard ourselves to be humans when they are not.

Nevertheless, they are part of life too. They must have at least a tiny bit of what we have. As they belong to the world at large as we do know it, so, they must be an integral member of it with everything that comes with it. They must have the same qualities of evolution, even when we don't see it clearly as such. Yeah, we don't understand them due to the language barrier. We look at the situation from an angle that block's our view, our ability to perceive what is hidden. Or, the ability we have lost!

So, what if they have the same capabilities and thus qualities albeit on a different level? What if they live two separate lives? Can it not be that there is in the world of the animal an unknown path, an unknown knowledge we are not aware of, a knowledge we have too, but for some reason have not found yet, or not to its fullest potential? Yes, why not?

After all, even one of our Prophets had bumped into such a situation as where the animal began to act very strangely and not the way man thought of it that it could do so. His mule didn't want to go one step further, not because it was lazy, but just because there was something it could only see and respond to. Even the Prophet at the time as being human could not do so. Man saw himself to be higher than any other life on this planet. It was beyond man's comprehension to assume that an animal could have higher qualities than him. It was unthinkable, unheard of to even feeling the smallest compassion about such a possibility.

And still, it happened. It proofs to us that there is something beyond our world that everyone of us can reach out for.

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Thank G-d, not Moshe!

2006-04-04T12:04:00.000+02:00

Today we are more elevated than the souls of past times. Or at least it is what it should be hopefully. After all, we as man evolved and progressed much further than way back in time. At least, this is true on the level of nature in terms of technological advances and alike. Out of our desires we grew, and some were good while others were not. Some were egoistic in nature while others were more spiritually inspired, but not completely disconcerted from their egoistic self esteem.

So what about the spirituality level? Do we have learnt to evolve there as well? Did we grow as man into humans? How is the situation to this day? And what are truly our hopes for tomorrow?

We can read the Torah literally and all what we will read is what happened, not why it happened or for what purpose it happened within the Divine plan of G-d that He hopes that man ultimately will achieve. If we read the Torah as such, meaning literally, then you don't have to study Judaism. You just can skip that class and go straight to the history class and stay a non-religious person for instance.

What we thus will read in the Torah literally won't fill the heart. It will stay empty. But once you try to figure it out why their lives were lived the way our Hebrew forefathers lived it or why we live seen within their time as if we live in their time, things begin to fill your heart as you see the divinity within it all when you put it in a parallel situation to our time. It’s trying to comprehend why they lived so that we can learn why we live.

It's a bit what Rabbi Michael Laitman wrote, namely by having a left, a neutral and a right line. There are two parallel lines and you do stand on the neutral one between the two times. Thus, we put their time to the left and ours to the right or we put theirs to the left and the future to the right while the present is being put in the middle.

You don't truly connect them with each other, but only lay them next to each other so that you can see the difference or yes the equality when going into its depth, into the heart of His word so to say until the lines that ran parallel will truly connect to each other within time not by you, but by what He has given you to learn about it. What was lived and learnt way back in time becomes revealed in the time to come, in the time that the parallel worlds become one whole.

It’s thus not really trying to read between the lines of what Moshe has written. This is only a metaphorical expression. It’s taking His word to the depth of your heart, meaning, learning to know how His guidance works and evolve accordingly. And this evolutionary light, as we could name it, can be brought to you by means of books you read, but as well by your sufferings or pains as well as joy and by means of your family, friends or even the stranger. In short, by what happens around you and how you respond to it all as being a part of the whole.

He gives and with what we do with it, it will give Him the pleasure of seeing us growing. The more we understand this, the more we comprehend who He truly is, the more we will have appreciation for Him, have joy in receiving what He has given us as well as gives us and the better we can learn to correct for when we didn't had it quite right when so.

At that moment we can say that Kabbalah is Torah as Torah is Kabbalah if you know what I mean. You see the people of the time of Moshe evolve. They progress. They come closer to Him. They maybe did not understood it the way we understand it today, but if it wouldn't have happened as it did, we wouldn't have been were we are now today because beside that we try to grow closer to G-d by studying Kabbalah, the world is also coming closer to G-d by means of their lives. The actions they took are those that have made us who we are today.

We live because they lived their lives as they did. We grow because they have grown by suffering, by pain and yes, by making mistakes. They learnt and out of what they learnt we learn until man himself arrives at the point of truly growing closer to G-d in such a way as that we would not tremble on our legs and fall down to the ground with our head covered when He would reveal Himself to us, but will within the respect He deserves kneel down and bow our heads down not in fear, then in the joy of the heart for being with Him and He with us.

The people in Moshe's time stood up and went further on the path to the Promised Land. And every time they did, He went with them. And when they rested, He rested with them. They were with Him and He was with them.

Individually we can thus try to come closer to Him by means of studying Kabbalah, but the world in itself is growing also as a whole towards this goal by the actions that it takes, even when it can be wrong ones or empty ones out of egoism. But, the more we learn, the more we grow and the more we grow the closer all of man will come to Him. The more the world will direct its steps in coming closer to Him as an altruistic personality from within whatever religion they believe in, the sooner the new world will arrive.

Moshe did not enter the Promised Land of our world, but he entered the Promised Land of the world above. It's for man to try to make both ones a whole like Adom and Chava became one whole. Yes, the Promised Land Eretz Yisrael (Adom) becoming one whole with the Promised Land (Chava) from above. And Moshe who rejoins his people again in a way of speaking because the people has learnt what he wrote down by heart and understood that it were not his words, then the words of our Creator. The people will not learn more about Moshe, but they will learn more about G-d and whom He truly is, the G-d of life and the reason for why we live.

Thank G-d, not Moshe for that or any other person for that matter!

Finding the greater good

2006-04-02T00:18:00.000+02:00

Today, many people do yearn for something they feel, but can’t yet put their finger on. They know it’s there, and still, it’s a mystery to them. It’s something that seems so far away and yet so close they could touch it with their finger if they would just give it the freedom it desires, if they could give it the space within their heart. Could man just only give it the right love, oh what a world we would become.

And yes, the freedom it longs for in every man because only when man does so, he will have set himself free. He will truly have acquired a free will, the will to choose and the will to go above his own egoism, his own self-interests. Man will have found the greater good that every man yearns for within the depth of his heart. And that‘s only the beginning of a new world, a world new to us, but in reality a treasure that was lost long ago that man would have finally found back.

Only, if man would just not be so preoccupied with his desires, his ego, his profiling to the outer world around himself, then his world could have turned out for the better many decades ago. Anyhow, it is said too that everything has its time and place to happen. Maybe it’s today or tomorrow or in some distant future. But one thing is sure; it can’t stay on going as it does. When man wants to wish himself a better world, then he can’t succeed by putting his own self above everything else. He has to try to find the strength to become altruistic in nature for the greater good has no service on those who wish to harm it day and night.

Okay, it’s true that it will not happen over one night. Nevertheless should he not be waiting until bulbs of light do fall on his head from above. This is not the way it will happen unless he wants to feel what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, even when it was also a kind of light, the light of fire that is, and very hot indeed. Even the greatest barbecue on this planet could not match such a heat. Man acted as an animal, as a natural creature and as a natural being he felt how nature has always felt it.

Man was, and in many cases still is today, a being that mostly lived as he felt right. Just like how nature works, he acted day and night. He thought that he was a human being, but in reality was just a man as a dog is just a dog or a donkey is just a donkey. And hey, even that animal is regarded as a very smart one. No, you can be the smartest guy in the world, you can be the greatest of minds that man has ever known, but you can still be regarded by nature as just a part of its creation and nothing more.

It is what happened to the people in Noah’s time and it did happen in many other times of man’s long history. The more man acts like a natural being, the more he will feel what nature is all about. And not only that as even the behaviour from man to man has proven during the passing of time how he sees himself more as an animal of nature than as a human being created by His Creator, even the ones who think they are kind and a loving personality.

It’s not being aggressive in nature, kind or loving that will give you a full heart with essence. This is not the way it works. Anyone can be good to another one, but it doesn’t mean that a person does it for the greater good. Many person who are kind and do act with a heart of love towards his fellow man do so out of their own self interest vis-à-vis another fellow. They want to show that they can be as good as the other one. Yes, they see it as a contest. They feel what it does to their nature, not to their soul. They feel, but can’t touch what lives in their heart because it will still be empty.

They do serve the good of a person or a people, that’s for sure, but there is a catch behind the curtain that the one who benefits from it may not see. It’s doing good or being kind for the purpose of a personal goal that often is not good, even when it’s just for parading with what you did. It still is just for a person’s own ego and nothing more. It will not fill your heart with the wisdom that it needs to grow into an engine that could transform the body into a spiritual essence that equals the Creator. Yes, as He created man in His image, man becomes His image.

That’s what every man truly should yearn for. He should start to look inward, inward to himself, to who he is and to what he truly wants to be. Does he want to be just a man or a human? That’s the ‘billion-dollar’ question everyone should ask himself. What in the heck am I doing in this world, in this body? Why have I fallen with my butt on this damn soil of earth? Why am I eating dust instead of enjoying the luxury of the songs of angels?

It seems so simple to ask such questions, but many will have great problems in answering it with the right answer. Sure, thousands of responses will follow and none of them will truly show the person a glimpse of whom he truly is. It will only show him the person he is right now, the simplistic one, the superficial one. But deep inside, there sits a breath of air, a drop of oxygen that awaits the sparkle of love to set in motion the path the heart has yearned for since birth, the path that will bring a man’s soul to a level wherein the body becomes human not in nature, then in spirit. It slowly and gradually will become one with the One.

And it is said that sometimes things have to happen within time, place and space, but it is sometimes and not always. Noah was not warned for nothing and he didn’t warn the others for no reason. Avraham didn’t warned Lot for him to feel how nature works and Lot didn’t warn the people of the place he lived as well as his wife for him to feel good. Our Jewish Prophets from the Jewish Tanakh did not prophesised a bad omen for it to happen. Everyone that was warned had the free will, the choice to listen. We have the freedom to change course whenever we want it for the greater good to happen to ourselves and to humankind. We just only have to look inward, nothing more, every (hu)man that is.

Shalom, and may G-d bless you, your family and everyone who is dear to your heart.

The unreality of reality

2006-03-30T12:30:00.000+02:00

Today, there are more and more questions coming to the surface within the gentile thinking about the validity of the person Jesus and subsequently also Islam as it is a direct offshoot of it. When the one is put in question, the other will automatically also be falling within the same category of doubt. And the Islamic fundamentalists are doing a great job to speed this up, even within Christianity.

Yeah, sure, a very remarkable person when you belief in him, but otherwise nothing more than a little bit special for his time. Hence, the majority of the world didn't even knew that he existed or that it was maybe all just the fantasy of a philosopher who was refused an audience, a philosopher that was regarded as crazy, a complete fool within the general populace wherein he, or yes why not she, lived.

Has that person existed? Has he not? Was what is told about him true or not? Is it a fictitious joke that ran out of control, a bit like the one of Orson Welles, but adapted to the time of play? Who wrote it, as even a personality like Mary could have easily done it?

Well, one thing is certain, and that is that the truth will probably not become revealed anytime soon regarding those questions that many in the world of today are asking themselves when looking into the meaning of the story of Jesus. Time has not stood still and the story has took its own life since it began, even within the world of those who write about what bothers them most to this particular phenomenon in the history of man. Yes, sometimes it's better to let it rest and learn to cherish the good that has come out of it more than the bad, especially within the gentile world itself.

And no, not really since it began as you have always the need for one person to write, to narrate the play of tomorrow. But without the support of his/her entourage for going along with it, nothing would have ever happened that would have changed the course of history so drastically as it did regardless of it being good or bad. No man could ever have done it all by him-/herself. You need at least a dozen of people around you who know how to play in on the masses, who know how to blind people or even politicians, who have themselves a very strong mind and will, a will that even can put a member of the Sanhedrin trembling on his knees and let him think that he's blinded by fear, not by hate.

Luckily Orson Welles was not that good or we wouldn't be living above ground level anymore. Hence, would we really be living at all for we maybe in our panic could have gone mad against every neighbor so killing everyone in the nation we lived and even beyond. We would destroy nature because we wrongly would be thinking and believing that it are dangerous aliens. Nations would go to war against nation because everyone worldwide would be living an unreality within a reality.

Hé, and is that not what just happened during World War II and especially to the Jewish People and all those minorities the Nazi regime and their followers disliked so much?

Orson Welles proved his point, namely that man can be easily manipulated into believing the unreality of reality as long as you know how the psyche of man works and succeeds to manipulate its will. That's what many politicians are studying these days, especially when elections are nearing. They try to know what is going on within the mind of the nation's constituencies. And hence, this has never been different in any time. On the contrary, with the birth of Christianity, the drama only began to live it's own life. It once in a while goes completely nuts like with Hitler and Queen Isabella of Spain and the Spanish inquisition.

Of course, let us not be fooled, even while being fooled in trying not to be. Whether what happened was real or not, whether the Jesus story is maybe fully fictitious or not, one thing must be said: The story has achieved to pull billions of gentile people away from the belief in gods, of what is generally known as idol worship. People began to belief in the one G-d of the Jewish People allover. And for realizing such a tragedy, you have to be a very strong personality or group of people, even when you would have misused your gift for an evil purpose.

Nevertheless, the above paragraph can easily be washed away when we would realize that perhaps the greatness of their plan succeeded so overwhelmingly because they knew how to get the political mainstream in the region of that time to their hand. Yoseph Flavius knew it very well. He knew how to manipulate the situation that could endanger the entente between the Jewish People and Rome in what we in present day terminology would call a Cold War situation. Yes, many Jews of the high elite, even within Rabbinic circles, knew that Rome didn't like rebellious people.

Better to please their ego than to rebel against what they believed or stood for. After all, the story goes that not the Romans wanted to crucify Jesus. They wanted to set him free. The Romans who were stationed in the region of that time were thus clearly the ones that the group had targeted all along in the first place. The writing was not meant for the Jews, but for the gentiles. And if the Jews had to be vilified, well they must have thought, so be it.

Was it thus to save the Jews from the wrath of Rome? Were rebellious elements trying to set up a revolt? Was the emergence of this story meant to pull the attention away from them? Was it only meant for that in the supposition that it would die out slowly afterwards?

The story was clearly not meant to save the Jews in the sense as is widely assumed today and since it went living its own story. It was meant to bring the Light onto the nations from out of the Chosen People who had, has, and always will be the Chosen ones of that Light. But, things went completely out of control from the very first moment the story was brought into the open.

The Jewish People will not be redeemed by converting to Christianity and neither to Islam. Neither all of humankind will be redeemed by forcing this travesty upon the Jewish People whether religiously, economically and/or otherwise. Redemption will only come when we as Jews are prepared to look inwards to whom we as a people truly are in every sense of the body and above all soul as well as mind.

The only thing that is left for the gentile world to do is to learn to respect the belief of a people, Jewish or not, and its sovereign right that goes with it, even land, knowing that G-d is also a member of humankind where they, just as the Jewish People who He has chosen, are an integral part of, a part of the great divine that He wishes to happen to every man's body, soul and mind.

Shalom and may G-d bless you, your family and all those who are dear to you.

The time that was not!

2006-03-29T05:27:00.000+02:00

Just recently I read something that time will be a forgotten knowledge in the new world to come. For me, it was of course not surprising to read what the author wrote about this matter within the moment he lived, that is the time of today and yes, tomorrow. But, the writer has a point when we look back to where it all began with Adom. And there is even with one particular Jewish king a very perplexing equality with this view.

Yes, this king begot the blessed opportunity to correct his mistake when G-d did let time return in time. If the author would only have read this very tiny piece, he probably would not have written anything about it at all. But, to the contrary, he did his research on a variety of many type of calendars with a great emphasis to those of the Maya's, calendars that will all come to an end in the year 2012, the basis of his theory that that year will be the one we should watch out for.

And no, don't be afraid or start to panic because it's not an end on itself. It's only our world of time that will cease to exist, the moment whereas man will enter a new world. At least, that's the reasoning behind the theory. Whether it will happen as is said is of course an entirely other matter.

Yeah, the paradise we once had. The garden that was. The time that was not. Even at that moment time stood still as it passed by to man's life. Therefore we could put in question the theory as explained because when this would happen, then man will not really be entering a new world. He will only have regained a lost one.

And still, the author neglect one very important element in his research, namely: it's not because all different type of Maya calendars do stop in the year 2012 that what he predicts will really happen in that time. The coincidence is related to time and time is not the element that will be kept. It thus can as easily happen right now, tomorrow, next year or yes, in 2012 or even many more years later. Anyhow, it all would be predictions made with a very unreliable parameter that man has called time.

But: Will time really be gone within the world to come?

No, it will not. We will have day and we will have night. We will have the stars on the firmament of the heavens and we will thus have the lights, the little ones and the big ones. Our lives will be lived as man has always lived them. Nothing will change that, neither a new world. The only thing that will have changed will be our evolution, our perception of what we should do with our life, the evolution where it all had begun with in the first place.

That is what the enlightened world will stand for, that man will have regained the very essence of why he had been created. The circle will be completed and all of man will without fear start to walk in the sun. He will not have to fear darkness, no other evil things. He will finally have regained his true life that will put his footsteps forward to places he has never been before, even when he already saw them, but could not grasp the essence that these places carried within the depth of their heart.

And as with everything that is 'new', man will surely encounter setbacks, but the spirit will be with him, just as G-d was with Moshe and the Jewish People who went out of Egypt to Eretz Yisrael. Yes, our very first ancestors who truly made aliyah to their Homeland, the land of their father Yisrael, Eretz Yisrael. They made aliyah with the intention of building a nation of light to their inner self and the nations that surrounded them.

Yeah, time will tell when all this will happen, but only G-d will decide so, just as He did with one of our kings. Not man decided when, He did. What is important for us to know is that we prepare ourselves for that blessed moment. Whether it will be in our life or not doesn't matter because if we don't do it, our children will be lost. When we forget Yerushalayim, the essence and not its superficial picture, then the kids of tomorrow will have no teacher to learn them what we could have learnt them.

That light has been given from generation onto generation, the Chanukah of the Jewish soul, the spirit of tomorrow for all who want it. If we as elders forget Yerushalayim, we forsake Yisrael's (Yaacov's) blessings not only to us, but to all of mankind. The Torah that once was will be no more and the wolves of the forest will devour it with such a ferocity as they have never done before, blinded as they will be due to hundreds of years of captivity in a world where they were kept in the darkness away, far away from the light that could have saved them, that could have liberated them out of the dungeons of wickedness.

Yes, the Torah that has no Alpha and no Omega, the Light we all share, but many have lost on their journey through time. The essence, the depth and thus the knowledge our elders knew very well and the sages of today know how to teach them rightly without corruption to any time related matter.

Will man be in time for his time to pass?

Shalom and may G-d be with you on your journey wherever it may bring you to.

Where it all began

2006-03-28T15:44:00.000+02:00

As a very first post to my blog, I will give you the webaddress of my very own webspace on the Internet highway. It's a space whereas I wonder why I ever subscribed me to this blog.

Anyway, here comes the address:

http://users.skynet.be/JT

I'll hope you will enjoy the reading that goes about a personal study of every chapter (not yet fully completed) of the Torah, an endeavor that took me quite a few years of my free time that I could and luckily still can spend on it, even when it's less than before.

Anyhow, beside this study, there are also some own made quotes and thoughts that I feel could perhaps be of some inner purpose to those who read them. But of course, that's all up to your very personal feeling in how you maybe could feel right now, which easily can change the next minute or morning or even, who knows, next year. It's all the touch of the spirit that can guide you to wherever you want to go or the spirit wants to direct you to.

On my personal website, you will also find some articles I wrote, articles that have mostly a religious background. Some are also more time related, often to what happens in the world and Eretz Yisrael.

So what you think of it or if you want to react on a certain matter related to this blog or the website, you may always use this post as a means to do it or directly from within the site. It will be read and if needed be answered when time permits me to do so.

For now I wish you an enjoyable reading and may G-d bless you, your family and all those who are dear to you.

Shalom.