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July 8, 2016
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THE CONDITION KNOWN AS MORAL EQUIVALENCY

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I believe the thought process that leads to the condition known as “moral equivalency” is the result of an individual’s inability to see the world in real terms.

 

Two of the special qualities that separate the human being from other higher forms of life are the human being’s ability to see and understand the world in terms of the difference in the significance of things, and that is under all kinds of circumstances. This is profound, because if things can have different levels of significance by virtue of nature, independent of the human being, this means that nature, somehow and in some way, is built on a system of values that only the human being has the ability to expose and understand. Is not value determined by the significance of something? Is not significance based on importance? Is not importance the foundation of value? Thus, is it not the purpose of “man” to expose nature’s values.

 

I submit it is because the human being possesses the ability to see and understand a world that is based on varying levels of significance that not only exposes nature’s values–these abilities together also establish human value above every other form of life, because no other form of physical existence can rise to the level of performance that the human being can achieve by virtue of these qualities.

 

Thus, it is these unique and special qualities that empower the human being to bring both meaning and purpose into the world, because these qualities together not only establish the means by which nature’s values are exposed and understood, these qualities also establish the standard by which the value of all things are determined.

 

It is only through human existence that establishes both the meaning and the purpose of our earth and the universe, as well as the pathway to fulfilling both objectives. Both are achieved through exposing and understanding nature’s values, and living by those values from one generation to the next, because eventually and inevitably this leads humanity to fulfilling a great, universal purpose–to establish everlasting world peace.

 

Therefore, the purpose of the human being is to act as both the means by which nature’s values are exposed and understood, and to act as the standard by which those values are determined. Thus, it is the purpose of the human being, above everything else, to recognize, accept and openly acknowledge the non-negotiable worth of a human life, because it is only through an overt conscious awareness of such high value, that the human being can understand the state of reality, “nature’s truth,” which is that “all human life is of equal worth.” To act upon this truth, is to follow the pathway that leads to fulfillment of the human purpose, to establish a world of peace.

 

THE WORTH OF A HUMAN LIFE IS NATURE’S HIGHEST VALUE, THE STANDARD BY WHICH ALL OTHER THINGS IN NATURE ARE VALUED.

 

Moral equivalency occurs when that standard of value–the worth of a human life–is diminished, subordinated, or lowered for whatever reason, and if that problem persists for a long enough period of time. The reason is, the worth of a human life is fixed by nature, it is therefore a universal truth, not subject to human interpretation, thus, the worth of life is never a subjective matter, but when this occurs, the worth of life, the standard of all value, both morally and physically, is lost, rendering a world absent of value, which is also to render all things of “equal standing,” a world where life can have no more value than a mere experience.

 

June 22, 2016
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Morality Is Determined By Nature

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Inspired by the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (the days the Jewish people received the Ten Commandments–the Moral Code of the Hebrew Torah, and the Founding Fathers of America) in the immediate aftermath of the Islamic slaughter of 50 innocent human lives, I write the following:

Today America is confronting two wars, and both relate directly to the subject of “morality.”

 

Within America the moral war is between conservative moral values and liberal moral values. I submit there is an important difference between the two.  But America is also involved in a war with the religion of Islam (and I don’t mean only an extremist interpretation). This war too is defined through the moral principles of America’s founding fathers, which are stated in Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, in contrast to the moral principles of Islam, which are contained in the Koran, and other Islamic writings. Here too, there is a significant difference.

 

Before I continue I want to say this, …I’m no expert on moral principles, at least not in terms of being well read in any of these ideological, religious or philosophical ideas. However, I did read enough to feel confident about the legitimacy of what I am going to say, and the reason is, I looked at another source, a source which is the foundation of all human thought, a source which first established the universal moral principles. That source is nature.

 

I submit, the acts involved in human thought, that is, the act of wondering, the act of thinking, and the act of searching to find answers, always relate to the same two subjects which never change, even when some ideology intervenes in the process. Human thought is always based on the relationship between the human being and nature (man’s environment), and influencing human thought are past experiences, and the lessons of the past (which include the ideologies we believe in to guide our thinking). I learned that if we eliminate all human memory of our past lessons of life, and watch both the human mind and body together respond to nature, we can discover the “UNIVERSAL VALUES OF THINGS ESTABLISHED BY THE LAWS OF NATURE,” and that was long before the arrival of “Adam and Eve.”

 

The point is, the foundation of moral thought was established independent of the human being, those guiding principles were established within the very fabric of nature. That foundation, the sound principles of moral thought are therefore universal in nature, and cannot be changed by the free will of the human being. I submit, nature’s moral principles are fixed, everlasting, forever, and therefore, they apply to every human being regardless of religion, race, culture, gender, political affiliation or a person’s economic status, and because the human being cannot deviate from those moral principles and expect to achieve peace in the world, there can only be one set of moral principles for all people. Those moral principles must conform to the laws of nature, the only true common ground for all of mankind. (On a side note: If what I said is true, this is very profound, because this discovery not only leaves no room for human free choice, it is proof that nature is in control of the pathway that leads to world peace).

 

Here are two examples of nature determining human equality before the human being ever existed.

 

If you look up at any clear night sky, you will see, more or less, the exact same set of circumstances that have existed since the dawn of the universe, or to make it more convenient, just open to the first page of Google Earth.

 

Both a clear night sky and Google Earth, by no mere coincidence, show the same picture, both are comprised of darkness and heavenly bodies (our earth, stars, planets). I say “by no mere coincidence” because this set of circumstances is the “unchanging, fixed state of reality.” This is the only set of circumstances that is a reflection of an everlasting, perpetual state of things that can never be altered through the passage of time, which is why this set of circumstances is the only “human perspective” that is capable of revealing the one state of “facts” that can reveal both nature’s and life’s universal truths.

 

Here’s what I mean:

 

In the most practical terms…as your life changes, as you walk around each day, going from A to B, ….as our earth turns one complete circle every 24 hours, traveling at thousands of miles per hour, and as our universe expands at an enormous, unimaginable speed,… with all that is going on, in terms of reality, NOTHING MOVES ONE INCH. You see, relative to the seemingly infinite darkness that prevails, we are all fixed, nothing ever moves. Wherever a person travels, wherever our earth travels, wherever the universe goes on its long journey, nothing ever moved a single inch relative to the darkness. This is a universal truth of nature and a truth of life for every form of life, and the consequence of that fact are both stunning and profound.

 

In effect, with a mind that is stretched to the maximum of human potential, a mind that can see both what’s “inside the universal box and outside that box,” is that we can see that no human being is in control of his or her own destiny. We are all “equal,” all in a direct relationship with the darkness. For it is this state that controls the human journey through life, and dictates the permanency of this relationship.  It is also by no mere coincidence that this state of absolute pureness is a reflection of Abraham’s living G-d.

 

The point is, the true state of reality can only be revealed through a single perspective that guides the human mind, a perspective that again, is stretched to the limit of human potential, “a perspective that reveals all that is, was, and will forever be.” But very important, is the fact that is specific set of circumstances is a matter of recorded history by virtue of the state of reality that is visible to every human eye simply by peering up at the heavens on any clear night. This perspective therefore, tells the entire story of existence, for all people, and the entire story of existence for the universe. This perspective alone, reveals the common ground that all people share.

 

This perspective reveals the universe’s and life’s dependency on infinite darkness, and vice versa, and therefore, reveals a relationship that is sealed, everlasting through all of time. No other perspective that the free will of man can chose can tell the same story, the story of truth, which is why this perspective alone has the power to lead humanity to the fulfillment of the elusive human dream, to live in a world of peace.

 

It is the human mind’s reflection of both states together that can reveal the unchanging state of reality. So in truth, we live amidst two realms, a physical realm that is constant motion, constantly changing from one moment in time to the next, and a second realm that controls the motion of the physical realm, a realm which, in effect, acts as a paradoxical force, that keeps the universe fixed, unmovable and locked into a perpetual relationship with everlasting darkness. This is a realm that is both pure and empty, colorless, transparent and unwavering.

Somehow and someway, our universe came from the darkness, as such, it is the darkness that perpetuated the first ray of light, which is indeed very significant, because “the source of light is the darkness.” This idea is completely contrary to the way we were taught to think in western civilization. Yet, Google Earth shows the darkness?? And every clear night sky shows the darkness?? Duh!

 

First there was darkness, second the universe, third, life on Earth, and only after this order unfolded over time were the conditions “perfectly” established to beget the human species, the beginning of the generations of mankind. As such, through an everlasting mutual dependency on that order, the value of things was established through the laws of nature before the human being ever walked on the surface of the Earth.

 

It is because the human being is the only form of life that can think, reason, and care about what happens in nature and in the story of life, that places the human being on the very tippy top of nature’s values. It is the human being that is nature’s interpreter, and therefore, the purpose of the human being is to bring meaning into the world and meaning to the universe and meaning to the darkness “through interpreting the state of reality in truthful terms.” It is because every human life flows out of “nature’s order,” that established equal human worth before the dawn of our species. As such, it is nature that established the value of a human life, and not the free will of the human mind. In fact, the human mind, as awe inspiring as it is, does not possess the power to alter nature’s order, and therefore, it is not within human capability to change the worth of a human life (herein lies the division that separates the liberal from the conservative, herein lies the source of division between the world of Islam and the world of the Hebrew Torah, and the guiding principles of America’s founding fathers).

 

If a baby is born blind, and another baby is born with eyes that can see, both are equal in human worth, because both lives emanate from the same place as determined by nature. Track any human life’s genetic history back in time far enough and it will merge with every other human life. If you keep going further back in time, every human life will merge with the animal kingdom, then with fish, foul and plant life, and ultimately all things merge at that moment in time known as the Big Bang Event, the dawn of light, and the beginning of the universal journey, all of which emanated from the darkness. And so you see, equal human value was determined by nature, “through the order of things that is built on mutual dependency,” before Adam and Eve first appeared.

 

Thus, BY VIRTUE OF EVERY HUMAN LIFE EMANATING FROM A SINGLE SOURCE, ALL HUMAN LIFE IS OF EQUAL WORTH. THIS IS THE FIRST DECLARATION OF THE HEBREW TORAH, NOTICE THE ORDER OF THINGS: …”IN THE BEGINNING GOD (Infinite darkness) CREATED THE HEAVENS (the universe) AND THE EARTH (life).” Out of the story of life, comes the human journey, as well as human equality, whether the experiences of the journey are either defined through freedom or slavery.

 

IT IS NATURE’S ORDER THAT DETERMINED THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE, AND IT IS NATURE’S ORDER THAT DETERMINED THE VALUE OF HUMAN EQUALITY, AND THE VALUE OF FREEDOM.

 

Look at Thomas Jefferson’s words, “…life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  Notice the order of the words, …”life” is first, “liberty” is second, and “happiness” is third. This order isn’t by mere coincidence. The order was determined by nature, however, the point is, the order wasn’t determined by Jefferson. Is not happiness dependent on a person’s freedom (liberty)? Are not both freedom and happiness dependent on life? It is through the mutual dependency of all things that flow out nature that establish nature’s order and determine the values of life (at the highest value), the value of liberty or freedom (second in worth), and the value of happiness (third). Nature dictated those values, not man.

 

Every human experience (whether defined through freedom or slavery) emanates from a state of being, LIFE. In other words, life must prevail for an experience to occur, thus life is of the highest value, and because to live a happy life one must be free, thus, freedom or liberty is next in value. Happiness is a consequence of an individual’s freedom to choose, and both are dependent on life. As such, it man’s dependency on nature’s order that establishes moral standards, and gives rise to the level of mutual human respect that provides not only opportunity, but also the power to fulfill the dream of living a happy and peaceful life.

 

In conclusion, therefore, nature is in control of the pathway that leads to peace on earth, and that pathway was established through a specific order which was well established before the arrival of humanity. I submit, to acknowledge this universal ‘proven truth” is the first giant step all of humanity, together, must take in order to resolve human conflict, thus paving the way to the fulfillment of the human dream.

 

It is through this perspective, “In the beginning, (G-d) Infinite darkness created the (the Heavens) universe, and (the Earth) life,” that is the only guiding light that can reveal “the order of things, and the order of the story of evolution,” which determined the one law of nature that defined the future, that is, Life begets freedom, and freedom begets happiness, thus, it is only through the story of life, that created the possibility of living both a free and happy life.

 

Thus, nature established the value of things that determined the pathway to peace in the world. It is for this reason the value or worth of life must always remain in an non-negotiable status as it relates to the human condition, for to subordinate or to lower the worth of a human life for any reason, is to break the laws of nature that determine human morality–the guiding light that leads to world peace. To subordinate the worth of life, for any condition of life, is to lose nature’s guiding light, the pathway to achieving mankind’s most sought after and most elusive of all dreams.

May 19, 2016
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On Remembering the Holocaust

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The other day, I gave some serious thought to the Holocaust, right after reading an article titled, “On Remembering The Holocaust.”

 

To me, the people who felt compelled to “Never Forget” the Holocaust, and who contributed to the building of the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel, and the United States Holocaust Memorial in Washington DC, were doomed to fail in their mission in the long term. I mean, the Holocaust was destined to become just another terrible event in world history. As such, the way I see it, the lessons to be learned about the uniqueness of this era of unspeakable crimes against a people, and against all of humanity, I am afraid, were doomed to be forgotten.

 

As unbelievable as it is, humanity will have to learn these lessons all over again, but it’s the main reason this will happen that compels me to share my thoughts. You see, the reason the lessons of the Holocaust will be lost with the passage of time, the reason this is inevitable, is because too high a percentage of Jewish society were destined to have lost their interest in the Holocaust. I learned, if the Jewish people forget, the world’s conscience will be lost forever. Without the Jewish conscience guiding the world’s memory of the Holocaust, who else will? Absent of Jewish memory, the stage is set for the rise to power of another Hitler, who may well again target the Jews, or perhaps this time, target the American people.

 

So the question is, “why was it inevitable that the conscience of world Jewry be lost?” Well, I discovered the reasons at the very end of a tour of Yad Vashem last summer, and after thinking about it, I realized that the United States Holocaust Memorial, which I visited only a year earlier, shared the exact same problem. You see, with both memorials to the Holocaust, the planners, paradoxically, “forgot” to include the living conscience of the Jewish people. I mean the source of Jewish memory. By that I mean, TORAH IS MISSING FROM BOTH YAD VASHEM AND THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL. But even if Torah is present, in neither case is Torah displayed with the prominence it warrants. The very source of hope that kept the vast majority of Europe’s Jews, who were religious, alive day after day, always believing in Torah’s promise, that “with life there is always hope in the future,” was forgotten. Amazingly, THE BOND THAT LINKED THE GENERATIONS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE THROUGH SHARING AND LIVING THE SAME WAY OF LIFE, A TORAH RICH LIFE THAT SERVED THE PURPOSE OF KEEPING THE MEMORIES OF THE PAST ALIVE, AS PART OF THE CONSCIOUS LEVEL OF EVERY JEW’S MIND AND HEART, IS MISSING FROM YAD VASHEM AND THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL.

 

HOW COULD THAT HAVE HAPPENED?

 

The source of Jewish unity–thus the binding link of the generations, the living memory of every Jew’s shared past with his fellow Jews no matter where scattered across the world–is missing from the very memorials charged with the objective of never forgetting the Holocaust. I submit, without Torah, without the daily repetition and practice of Shema Yisroel, THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IS “NEVER TO FORGET, without the Shabbos, THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IS NEVER TO FORGET…mission impossible.

 

Thus, the world’s moral conscience is missing, and absent of Torah’s recalling the past, the Jew has lost his guiding light into the future, as such, absent of Torah as a daily way of life, there was no way the planners of these great memorials were properly equipped to preserve and protect the lessons of the past. TORAH WAS FORGOTTEN FROM THE VERY PLACES DESIGNED TO “NEVER FORGET.” SHAME ON ALL OF YOU.

 

Sure, people will continue to visit these memorials, and their hearts will break, but as the years go by the numbers will drop, as a high percentage of the world’s Jews and the world at large lose interest in the Holocaust. As the old saying goes,”time heals all wounds,” and that includes even the most horrible of memories. IT IS BECAUSE NATURE IS BUILT ON THE HEALING OF WOUNDS WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, THAT ANOTHER SYSTEM HAD TO BE DEVISED FOR THE PURPOSE OF REMEMBERING THE PAST, OF KEEPING THOSE WOUNDS ALIVE, FRESH IN THE MEMORY OF EVERY’S JEW’S MIND. SUCH A SYSTEM COULD NEVER PERMIT THOSE MEMORIES TO SLIP AWAY INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE HUMAN MIND, THUS REDUCED TO EVENTS OF INSIGNIFICANCE, IF NOT LOST FOREVER. NO MEMORIAL COULD EVER ACHIEVE SUCH A LASTING IMPRINT ON THE HUMAN MIND. THE PERFECT SYSTEM TO ENSURE REMEMBERING THE MEMORIES OF THE PAST WAS GOD’S GIFT TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE, THIS IS THIS PEOPLE’S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD. THE GUIDING LIGHT INTO THE FUTURE, ARE THE MEMORIES AND LESSONS OF THE PAST. THAT PERFECT SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED IN TORAH, YET TORAH WAS FORGOTTEN BY THE PLANNERS OF YAD VASHEM.  How could that have happened?

 

There is a reason the planners of Yad Vashem and other Holocaust memorials forgot the importance of Torah in Jewish life for almost 3,500 years.  That was because a few German rabbis around the year 1880, decided they would rather live as Germans than as Torah observant Jews. I am referring to the birth of Reform Judaism. Reform Judaism served the purpose of assimilating into German society, solely to reduce the burdens of life of living as an observant Jew, and that message was brought to America. How could these rabbis not have known that the meaning and purpose of assimilation would end up causing the Jew “to forget his past, to become a part of a new and different way of life?” Of course they knew. How could any rabbi not consider the impact of breaking from a past that demanded daily practice, and the daily teaching of one’s children to keep the light from the past burning? HOW COULD ANY JEWISH LEADER TAKE SUCH A RISK?

 

UNITY DEMANDED OBSERVANCE OF TORAH, BECAUSE ONLY THROUGH A CAREFULLY DESIGNED “WAY OF LIFE” COULD THE MESSAGE REMAIN CLEAR IN THE MIND OF EVERY JEW, THUS, “NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN.” TORAH HELD THE GENERATIONS TOGETHER THROUGH OBSERVANT LIFE, AND THROUGH THE BEAUTY OF SHABBOS, AND TORAH LIFE KEEPS THE MEMORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST AND THE SIX MILLION THAT PERISHED SQUARELY AT THE CENTER OF THOUGHT, WHY? BECAUSE TORAH IS THE “BOOK OF LIFE,” THE STORY OF THE BEGINNING OF LIFE, THE GENERATIONS OF LIFE, AND THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE, AND THE MESSAGES AND LESSONS OF LIFE. TORAH IS RECORDED HISTORY OF A PEOPLE’S STRUGGLES AND HARDSHIP, AS WELL.

 

If the prayer, Shema Yisroel wasn’t clear to the first reform rabbis, the Ten Commandments should have been. Isn’t it common sense, that people will always seek an easier road if the door is open? Meaning, purpose, the unity of the Jewish people, all had to fall prey to that easier path of life once Jewish leaders opened that door. Was not the story of the departure from Egypt, a story about human nature? Didn’t freedom beget the construction of a golden calf (a symbol of a materialistic life, and immoral behavior)? Didn’t these rabbis, Israel Jacobson, Leopold Zunz, Abraham Geiger, and Isaac Mayer Wise, learn from Torah that as the world and lifestyle changes over time, the foundation of life’s story never changes? Didn’t they learn from Torah, or simply just from mere observation, that sharing the same way of life forms a bond that connects one person to another, while keeping the family together, and unifying a people? Didn’t they learn from Torah? Didn’t they understand nature, that “birds of a feather flock together?” Didn’t they learn that the unity and strength of a people, and the meaning of life, all come from the preservation of a shared past, and the preservation of a shared goal for the future?

 

The point is, Reform Judaism established a pathway that would inevitably lead to forgetting the source of unity from generation to generation. That is Torah. Nowhere in Yad Vashem, the State of Israel’s memorial to the six million Jews who died during that horrible era, is the presence of Torah to be found in a prominent position. No tour of Yad Vashem that I had ever been on, and that was on four occasions, ever included any meaningful teaching of Torah, or a description of how Torah kept the light of hope burning throughout those dark days in Jewish history for millions of Jews. Amazingly, during the Holocaust, most of European Jewry was observant, yet the planners of Yad Vashem, “they forgot Torah.”

 

The hypocrisy calls out from the ashes of the ovens of Hitler’s Auschwitz, Belzec, Begen Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, and Dachau. If there was ever an event to learn from, it was from the years of the unimaginable hell of Hitler’s Holocaust. Amazingly, the most important lesson of all, was missed. TORAH, THE PERFECT SYSTEM TO KEEP THE MEMORIES OF LIFE, THE MEMORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST, A PART OF EVERY JEW’S LIFE IS MISSING FROM YAD VASHEM.

 

The Holocaust is a story of death, but the unity of the Jewish people demands sharing the same story of life, for without following that “COMMANDMENT,” the Jew would surely forget. Death is final, death must remain in the past, but the story of life continues, and to wait until the very end of Yad Vashem to learn that lesson, without the bond that connects one Jew to another, the bond that connects every Jew to his or her past, I mean Torah, the significance of Yad Vashem’s message must be short lived. Without Torah, without the daily reminder, without the Shabbat, the memories and lessons of the past, must be lost, because if the Jew forgets, for sure the world will too.

 

Nothing in life is important enough to remember, if all one remembers is once or twice a year. A Torah observant Jew remembers everyday, which is why every Jewish life that has past on is remembered through the Kaddish prayer. This is why every Jewish life is sacred, to be cherished. TORAH IS A CELEBRATION OF LIFE, THE HOLOCAUST IS A STORY OF DEATH, WHICH SHOULD WE CHOOSE TO GUIDE THE FUTURE OF OUR PEOPLE. THE STORY OF LIFE, OR THE STORY OF DEATH?

 

Freedom as it stands alone, is a very shallow experience. Freedom can only relate to a moment in time, and the moment is always in the present. Freedom has nothing to do with one’s past, nor does freedom have anything to do with one’s future. Freedom is merely the ability to do as one pleases from one moment to the next. Very shallow indeed, but also very addictive.

 

But with life it’s different. Life is a story, it is a story of the past, and the story always relates to a person’s family, a person’s genetic and cultural and perhaps religious heritage. All of the richness of a person’s life comes from the past, but that past will surely be forgotten if its messages aren’t passed on to the next generation. Thus we find the meaning of the Shema Yisroel, the central message of Torah. THIS IS WHAT WE MUST DO TO NEVER FORGET THE PAST.

 

God didn’t give the human being the power to choose the pathway toward the future, both in physical terms nor when it comes to learning the meaning and purpose of life. It must come from the past, and the message is carried into the future through the generations of the family, from father to son, and from mother to daughter. This is not a matter of the free will of the human mind, it is a matter of a “law of nature,” it is G-d’s law.

 

LEARN THE PAST, BECAUSE NOW IT SHOULD BE EVIDENT TO ALL, “FREEDOM DESTROYED OUR CONNECTION TO THE PAST, TORAH IS MISSING FROM YAD VASHEM, TORAH IS MISSING FROM JEWISH LIFE.

 

Thus, the main message of the Holocaust is what the Jewish people must do, not only to “Never Forget” the moral lessons to be learned from the Holocaust, but also what the Jewish people must do to become United “as if one heart and one mind,” thereby paving the way for a bright new future for the entire world.

 

September 2, 2015
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Zionism, Promise and Chosenness

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The idea of Zionism originates from the Torah. It can be found hidden within the story of Abraham. Zionism is an idea that connected the future with the past, and in doing so, defined the story that would inevitably unfold over the course of a 4,000 year long journey, a story that continues to this very day.

G-d promised Abraham and Sarah that they will have a son, Isaac, and from the descendants of Isaac will spring a great nation. That promise came true, and so too did G-d’s other promises.

Zionism is directly connected to G-d’s promise to Abraham, but the future of his descendants will be defined through pain and suffering which eventually must lead to the salvation of mankind, or what is also called “living in a world of peace.”

The pain and suffering is the product of a people that was “chosen,” for everything that happens in life that has meaning, is based on human emotion. Being chosen begets jealousy and hate, but being chosen is also an order, and instruction, that goes somewhere for a purpose.

Needless to say, there is more going on than meets the eye.

September 2, 2015
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What Went Wrong With America

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It’s been quite a while since I learned what went wrong with America, why our nation is failing, but to transform my complex thoughts into simple terms, so that I could articulate what I learned in a way that most people can understand, …well, that proved to be even more of a challenge than solving this great mystery. But I think I finally arrived, so I’m going to try to explain what I discovered. In fact, I must try NOW, I can no longer wait for the necessary clarity of words to suddenly appear in my mind, because today, America is in the midst of an accelerating state of moral collapse.

America, the country I love with all of my heart, she needs help. How did the problem begin? How do we fix it? What must be done to restore our nation to her greatness, so that America can stand tall and erect, above all other nations, beaming with moral clarity? So that once again America is the “light unto all nations of the world,” the one ray of hope for all people, the one shinning star that the nations of the world must follow while on the relentless journey that will ultimately lead to the fulfillment of every human being’s greatest dream, to live in a world defined through brotherly love and happiness? I must try to articulate what I learned, NOW!

Many years ago, back in the early 1970s, I, like many people, saw a serious problem beginning to brew in America, but I was one of the few who tried to stop the bleeding, because I could see the future, and sure enough, that future eventually arrived. America today is in big trouble, but while many people know the side effects of the problem, no one as yet has publicly announced the cause, I mean, at least no one that I’ve heard about. You see, the cause of America’s problem is very well hidden, in fact, it was so well hidden back at the time our Founding Fathers drafted America’s Constitution, that it slipped right past all of their eyes and each of their minds. You see, I learned that the cause of America’s problems today, can be traced back to the very words that define America’s ideology, the phrase,”….life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

I learned that America’s two most sacred documents, the very writings that our nation looks to for moral clarity, the basis of American justice and equity, The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, are in direct conflict with one another in regard to the single most important part of both documents, and it is that conflict which defined both the future success of America as well as America’s ultimate moral collapse. You see, while the foundation of The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were both intended to be built on the “Laws of Nature,” thus, creating a perpetual and everlasting harmony between these two writings–our most sacred documents–that’s not what in fact happened. Instead, our Founding Fathers made one serious, very well hidden mistake, thereby causing an opposite effect. Eventually a major conflict between both documents would arise, thus, creating a paradoxical future for America. Thinking that America would always pursue a path that would lead to “a more a perfect union,” instead, our Founding Father’s mistake would lead America to a more “divided nation.” You see, our Founding Father’s one mistake would inevitably and eventually cause America’s guiding light, our society’s moral compass, to fade off into a memory of the past, thus, leading America towards a state of moral collapse as a society.

To be continued….

 

September 2, 2015
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Shema, the Central Prayer

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The Shema, the central prayer which unites the generations, achieves that purpose through being recited every morning, every afternoon and every evening. This way, through daily repetition, the Jew doesn’t forget that more important than an “individual’s freedom,” is the individual’s “story of life,” the link that connects one generation to the next, and the bond that unites the past, the present and the future. I am referring to the only pathway that nature provided that directs every individual story of life. That bond, the link between the generations is called the “family.”