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<title><![CDATA[Madonna, amenintata cu moartea]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Kabbalah - new project!]]></title>
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<p>Important Update: This Site/Post is now directed to our new Kabbalah online project which is ongoing. (The &#8220;blessing on the sun&#8221; is a one-time event once in 28 years and we want to see you more often than that <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  ) Please click on the links below to join and follow us on a Kabbalistic mystical, spiritual journey&#8230; Rabbi YY</p>
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<p>HI and Welcome to Once-In-28-Years Opportunity To Make <a href="http://kabbala.weebly.com">Blessing On The Sun</a>&#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Glaubensfrage, oder: die Verkomplizierung der Simplizität]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Das Leben&#8230; ein guter oder ein böser Traum ? 1.0 Hmm, nun also ist es an der Zeit&#8230; es war]]></description>
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<p><strong>1.0 Hmm, nun also</strong> ist es an der Zeit&#8230; es ward wieder einmal Winter. Die Zeit der Poesie, der Nachdenklichkeit; und so manches Mal vielleicht auch die der Depression. Ich nutze also die Gunst dieser Stunde(n), um damit mir selbst und allen interessierten einmal die Frage zu beantworten, woran ich persönlich <em>glaube</em>. Oder anders gesagt: ich möchte schlicht <em>einen</em> möglichen Glaubensweg von vielen vorstellen. Ob dieser im Ergebnis &#8211; sofern es eines geben wird &#8211; nun &#8220;richtig&#8221;, &#8220;falsch&#8221; oder besonders empfehlenswert ist steht dabei wohl ausser Frage.</p>
<p><strong>Und, sollte sich</strong> tatsächlich jemand dazu entschließen diesen Text zu lesen; so empfehle ich sich dafür doch einige Minuten Zeit und die nötige Ruhe zu nehmen. Denn: ich hole gerne mal groß aus und schöpfe aus dem Vollen; eben solange <em>es</em> noch voll ist&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Sicherlich gibt es</strong> auch Menschen, die sich mit &#8220;weniger&#8221; beziehungsweise eben auch <em>nichts</em> zufriedengeben, wenn es um die große Frage der Religionszugehörigkeit oder den Glauben im Allgemeinen geht. Ohne eine Wertung vornehmen zu wollen: diese Menschen haben es zumindest<em> leichter</em>. Doch es ist klar, dass es immer Köpfe geben wird, die jeden und alles hinterfragen. Da dass auch <em>gut</em> so ist, habe ich kein Problem damit, mich zu eben <em>jenen</em> Leuten zu zählen.</p>
<p><strong>Doch beginnen wir</strong> mit drei wirklich aussergewöhnlichen Persönlichkeiten:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://ikarusvpn.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/3_wichtige_personen.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5239" title="3_wichtige_personen" src="http://ikarusvpn.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/3_wichtige_personen.jpeg" alt="3_wichtige_personen" width="500" height="196" /></a><strong>Einige Porträtzeichnungen vov sogenannten &#8220;Vip&#8217;s&#8221;&#8230; na, alle erkannt ?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Gut, dies ist</strong> natürlich nicht Vorraussetzung; doch diese drei haben in ihrem Leben durchaus nennenswertes vollbracht. Der Reihe nach aufgeführt sind das natürlich: <em>Laotse</em>, <em>Kant</em>; und ein gewisser Herr <em>Thomas Henry Huxley</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Und was haben</strong> all diese drei (zugegeben: <em>genialen</em>) Köpfe gemeinsam ? Nun, in erster Linie waren es große Denker. Ich erspare mir an dieser Stelle jedoch, einzelne Biografien auszuführen; sondern picke mir einmal nur das heraus, was für diesen Beitrag relevant erscheint. Und das ist in erster Linie das Faktum, dass alle drei <em>eher mehr als weniger</em> etwas mit dem Begriff des <em>Agnostizismus</em> zu tun haben (beziehungsweise hatten).</p>
<p><strong>1.1 Der Agnostizismus beschreibt</strong> im Wesentlichen eine Lehre, die; wenn ich das einmal so sagen darf, abgehobene religiöse Köpfe auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurückzuholen vermag. Denn die These lautet: &#8220;<em>ob es einen Gott gibt oder nicht, kann ich nicht sagen &#8211; weil ich eben &#8220;nur&#8221; Mensch bin</em>&#8220;. Besonders gefällt mir daran, dass die Existenz eines Gottes weder bejaht (vergleiche beispielsweise handelsübliche <em>Christen</em>) noch verneint (vergleiche überzeugte <em>Atheisten</em>) werden kann &#8211; da man für beide Varianten kaum handfeste (oder sagen wir wissenschaftlich greifbare) Beweise oder Indizien aufbringen könnte. Gläubige Christen beispielsweise dürfte bereits diese These wütend machen &#8211; da sie glauben, diese &#8220;Beweise&#8221; längst zu haben, oder dass sie sie erst  gar nicht brauchen würden. Doch diese These geht ja noch einen Schritt weiter: selbst die Existenz eines so unglaublichen Universums wie das in dem wir leben muss noch nicht notwendigerweise beweisen, dass ein Gott existiert. Andererseits wird diese Möglichkeit aber auch keinesfalls ausgeschlossen &#8211; wie auch.</p>
<p><strong>1.2 Nun muss man</strong> aber noch einen Schritt weiter gehen und sich fragen, wie weit man diese These auszuführen gedenkt. Eine Möglichkeit wäre zu sagen, dass es folglich <em>vollkommen irrelevant</em> ist sich überhaupt die Frage nach einem Gott zu stellen, da man sie ohnehin niemals beantworten könnte &#8211; Problem gelöst. Doch ich persönlich tendiere stark zu einer anderen Variante, nämlich zu der Annahme, dass diese Fragestellung möglicherweise zu einem <em>anderen</em> Zeitpunkt erneut aufgegriffen werden müsste um beantwortet zu werden. Dies harmoniert auch stark mit meinen allgemeinen Ansichten zum Thema Religion: es mag sein, dass ein höheres Wesen oder eine höhere Macht existiert &#8211; möglicherweise erfahren wir auch davon,<em> nur eben nicht jetzt und heute</em>. Eine überaus interessante Herangehensweise an das Thema der Offenbarung beziehungsweise dem plötzlichen Auftreten von übernatürlichen Wesen zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt bietet beispielsweise die Serie &#8220;<em>Neon Genesis Evangelion</em>&#8221; (siehe dazu 4.1).</p>
<p><strong>1.3 Soweit so gut</strong>. Jetzt fühle ich mich allerdings gezwungen, mich ein wenig in Richtung der <em>gnostischen</em> Denkweise zu bewegen &#8211; eigentlich fatal, wird diese generell als gegenteilige Lehre angesehen. Die <em>Gnosis</em> spielt &#8211; zumindest teilweise &#8211; auf eine gewisse &#8220;Exklusivität&#8221; einer religiösen Erkenntnis an. Dies meint: möglicherweise ist<em> nicht jedem</em> eine Art &#8220;Erleuchtung&#8221; möglich. Weiterhin beinhaltet diese Lehre einen Ansatz, der geradezu fantastische (in doppeltem Sinne) Ausmaße annimt: es wird davon ausgegangen, dass die materielle Welt grundsätzlich eher negativ zu beurteilen ist (mitunter auch der menschliche Körper als Teil von ihr), und dass es eine Art <em>göttlichen Funken</em> geben könnte der in den Menschen schlummert. Dieser Funke stammte demnach vom höchsten Gott selbst, und müsste von &#8211; einzelnen &#8211; Menschen erkannt werden um so den negativen Aspekten der materiellen Welt entgegenwirken zu können.  Eine durchaus interessante Theorie &#8211; der ich mich allerdings nur teilweise anschließen kann. Doch das ist ja der Sinn dieses Textes &#8211; es soll ein wenig <em>zusammengetragen</em> werden. Wer weiss, vielleicht entsteht am Ende eine ganz neue Weltsicht, der erst noch ein Name gegeben werden müsste&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>1.4 Denn das große</strong> Problem der <em>Gnosis</em> &#8211; was diese Lehre auch merklich von anderen unterscheidet &#8211; ist die Annahme, dass einen höchsten Gott &#8211; aber auch einen <em>Schöpfergott </em>geben könnte, welcher eben diese eher minderwertige materielle Welt erschaffen hat. Es entstünde also quasi eine Art göttlicher Zwiespalt in Bezug auf diese drei-Stufen-Hierarchie: der höchste Gott erschafft einen Schöpfergott, der im Grunde &#8220;falsch&#8221; handelt und die Menschen zu dem macht was sie sind. Doch die Hintertür des höchsten Gottes ist besagter <em>göttlicher</em> <em>Funke</em>, der verhindert dass die Menschen zu sehr an dieser materiellen Welt verhaften bleiben. Allemal interessant &#8211; zumal hier ein Hinweis auf den möglichen Sinn des Lebens gegeben wird, wenn auch unterschwellig. Es sähe dann doch so aus: ein höchster Gott, der vermutlich &#8220;gut&#8221; ist, lässt zu, dass ein Schöpfergott eine grundsätzlich eher <em>nicht so gute</em> Welt erschafft in der grundsätzlich eher <em>nicht so gute </em>Menschen leben. Dann aber kommt der Begriff der <em>Freiheit</em> (vergleiche 5.1) ins Spiel: wenn der höchste Gott das Gute quasi vorgeben würde, gäbe es keinen freien Willen mehr.</p>
<p><strong>1.5 So aber liesse</strong> er den Menschen die Wahl beziehungsweise spielt &#8211; mithilfe der möglichen Existenz eines <em>göttlichen Funkens</em> &#8211; auf die mögliche Güte einzelner Menschen an. Entweder erkennen die Menschen diesen <em>Funken</em> beziehungsweise den eigentlich Sinn des Lebens &#8211; der demnach wäre, <em>gut</em> zu sein &#8211; oder aber sie entscheiden sich anders. Man hätte also alles vereint: eine Art <em>reinen Glauben</em>, die Tolerierung eines nicht-Glaubens ebenso wie den freien Willen. Doch dies ist erst der Anfang. Wenn wir diese Theorie nämlich <em>noch weiterdenken</em> würden, stellte sich eine weitere Frage: müsste der <em>Gnosis</em> nach dann also der Zustand der Menschlichkeit generell überwunden werden da er eher schlecht ist &#8211; oder genügt es, wenn es einzelne Personen gibt die über ein größeres Wissen (und damit die notwenige Güte) verfügen ? Es wäre hilfreich, wenn sich mir dazu ein Auserwählter offenbaren würde &#8211; doch ich nehme an, <em>die Schweigepflicht</em> nimmt hier durchaus andere (und folgenschwerere) Dimensionen an.</p>
<p><strong>1.6 Und in Bezug</strong> auf den <em>göttlichen Funken</em> beziehungsweise den <em>gütigen Menschen</em> finden wir weitere Anhaltspunkte in der jüdischen Kabbala. Dort gibt es den Begriff des <em>Adam Qadmon</em>, was soviel bedeuted wie <em>ursprünglicher Mensch</em>. Dieser ursprüngliche Mensch hatte demnach bestimmte Werte (<em>Weisheit, Herrlichkeit und Unsterblichkeit</em>), die ihn auf eine gottgleiche Stufe stellten &#8211; verlor diese aber im Zuge der Anpassung an die materielle Welt. Einen Überblick über die besonderen Wesenzüge des nicht mehr ursprünglichen da angepassten &#8211; aber im innersten guten &#8211; Menschen gibt auch heute noch der bekannte Lebensbaum der jüdischen Mythologie:</p>
<p><a href="http://ikarusvpn.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/kabbala_baum.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5249" title="Kabbala_Baum" src="http://ikarusvpn.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/kabbala_baum.jpeg" alt="Kabbala_Baum" width="500" height="710" /></a><strong>1.7 Hier in einer</strong> etwas komplizierteren Darstellung. Die 10 großen Kreise sind die<em> Sefirot</em>, die sogenannten <em>Emanationen</em>. <em>Emanation</em> bedeutet soviel wie das Hervorgehen von Dingen aus einem höheren, möglicherweise göttlichen Ursprung. Man könnte also davon ausgehen, dass diese 10 Werte als mögliche Grundlage (auch einer Bewertung) für den <em>guten</em>, und damit auch in gewisser Weise <em>perfekten</em> Menschen dienen. Selbstverständlich ist auch diese Schrift ein nur allzu menschliches Werk, doch spiegelt sie im Grunde auch recht gut mein Bild eines guten und gerechten Menschen wider, deshalb auch die Erwähnung hier. Denn die 10 Werte sind grundsätzlich als positive Eigenschaften zu beurteilen, wenngleich man feststellen muss das ein gewisser, mir wichtiger Begriff fehlt: nämlich der der Freiheit. Stattdessen haben wir an der Spitze sowie als Grundlage die Begrifflichkeiten<em> Kether</em> und <em>Malchūt</em>, welche beide auf eine gewisse &#8220;Obrigkeit&#8221; als solche anspielen &#8211; nämlich auf eine Art Regierung, ein Königreich &#8211; und sei es ein übernatürliches oder ein gar allzu irdisches. In beiden Fällen jedoch wird impliziert, dass es eben nicht ohne die Herrschaft durch eine höhergestellte Macht oder Entität geht. Ob diese nun indirekt, direkt oder gar nicht (mehr) agiert und eingreift, sei allerdings einmal dahingestellt. Man könnte es auch so interpretieren: es spielt keine Rolle ob es dieses höhere Wesen gibt oder nicht, allein die Tatsache dass dies möglich ist bringt den irdischen Menschen in eine gewisse Position der Verantwortlichkeit &#8211; und damit zu einem bestimmten Handeln.</p>
<p><strong>1.8 Gut, in Kapitel</strong> 1.3 behandelte ich also die Gnosis, und brachte wenig später etwas von der<em> jüdischen Kabbala</em> ein. Und jetzt wagen wir doch mal wieder etwas: wir verbinden beides. Denn sowohl die <em>Gnosis</em> als auch der Schöpfungsprozess nach <em>Isaak Luria</em> (ein bekannter Kabbalist) beinhalten sowohl eine gewisse Exklusivität in Bezug auf die Teilhabe an göttlichen Prozessen, als auch die Notwendigkeit einer gewissen Güte seitens der Menschen. Während es bei der <em>Gnosis</em> die mögliche Existenz einer Art <em>Geheimlehre</em> sowie der schon behandelte <em>göttliche Funken</em> ist, ist es im jüdischen Schöpfungsprozess &#8211; wieder nicht &#8211; die Menschheit im gesamten, die sozusagen zu Höherem berufen ist beziehungsweise wird &#8211; sondern einzelne Geschöpfe, die durch ein besonderes Maß an Güte, Liebe und Gnade möglicherweise über die Grenzen der irdischen Welt Bedeutendes zustande bringen könnten. Die Vorraussetzung: das Böse hat zwar eine Existenzberechtigung, muss aber generell angezweifelt und bekämpft werden (siehe 6.1).</p>
<p><strong>1.9 Was also ist</strong> das <em>Resümee</em> dieses kleinen Gedankenganges ? Nun, in erster Linie sollte es die Feststellung sein, dass man eigentlich ganz froh sein kann Mensch zu sein. Allein diese Tatsache führt überhaupt zu der Möglichkeit sich derartige Existenz- und Sinnfragen zu stellen; und das Faktum dass man wohl eher nicht von einer Antwort ausgehen sollte führt zu einer größtmöglichen Freiheit. Denn eines ist klar: solange ich Mensch bin, sollte ich wohl lieber nichts von einer möglichen höheren Existenz wissen, solange ich nicht gerade diese Freiheit einbüßen möchte. Andererseits schließt dies keinesfalls die Hoffnung aus, dass diese höhere Existenz tatsächlich existiert. Denn täte sie das nicht &#8211; so wäre das Leben zwar immer noch genauso lebenswert, doch im weiteren Sinne eher bedeutungslos. Mir bleibt also <em>weniger der Glaube als die Hoffnung</em>, das noch mehr als das was wir sehen und erfassen können existiert; und das ich irgendwann einmal daran teilhaben kann, in welcher Form auch immer. Und wenn dies erst geschiet, wenn ich nicht mehr Mensch sein werde. Und wer weiss; vielleicht ist dieser Zustand gar nicht mal so erfüllend, und man wünscht sich im Endeffekt doch noch einmal das irdische Leben mit all seinen Facetten leben zu können, beziehungsweise zu dürfen. Doch diese Frage lässt sich eben nur schwer beantworten &#8211; wie so vieles. Eines kann ich jedoch beantworten, nämlich was ich mir für die Momente nach dem irdischen Tod wünsche <em>würde</em> (siehe 7.1)&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Ich grüße Euch,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Euer Ikarus</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>Anmerkungen:</em></span></p>
<p><em>4.1 Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime-Serie), siehe <a href="http://ikarusvpn.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/neon-genesis-evangelion/" target="_blank"><strong>hier</strong></a>.<br />
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<p><em>5.1 Die Freiheit ist als solche grundsätzlich positiv zu beurteilen, selbst wenn sie automatisch impliziert, dass auch das Böse in einer auf dem Prinzip der Freiheit aufgebauten Welt herrschen oder gar obsiegen kann. Es genügt die Tatsache, das sowohl das Gute nie ohne das Böse, als auch das Böse nie ohne das Gute auf ewig alleine herrschen kann. Die Freiheit ist demnach ein Wechselspiel dieser beiden Zustände, in der das Bestreben hauptsächlich auf das Erreichen eines guten Zustandes gerichtet werden sollte. Eine Welt ohne Böses wäre zwar vorstellbar (Utopie), jedoch wäre sie nicht im Sinne der Begrifflichkeit Freiheit, da es in der Natur des Menschen liegt beide Seiten zu kennen und kennen zu wollen (siehe 6.1).</em></p>
<p><em>6.1 Das sogenannte Böse als Begrifflichkeit muss ständig weiterexistieren, ansonsten wäre eine Unterscheidung zwischen Gut und Böse kaum noch möglich. Mehr noch, der Begriff gut würde sich ebenso wie sein Gegenteil in Luft auflösen. Selbst in einer hypothetischen Utopie wäre es daher meiner Meinung nach Voraussetzung, dass jedes Wesen zumindest um die Existenz von Bösem weiss, um sich um so mehr glücklich in seiner gegenwärtigen Situation schätzen zu können. Dies impliziert nicht zwangsläufig die Notwendigkeit von einem immer wieder auftretenden Bösem, welches jedoch die Wirkung und das positive Empfinden des reinen Guten weiter verstärken kann. Eine reine Utopie kann und darf es also nicht geben &#8211; zumindest nicht, wenn wir von einer menschlichen Existenzebene ausgehen. In Bezug auf die göttliche Ebene ist die Vorstellung einer Utopie eher anwendbar, jedoch sieht man auch hier dass immer wieder Gegenteiliges (Böses) erschaffen werden muss damit eine Unterscheidung überhaupt gelingt.</em></p>
<p><em>7.1 Es käme mir irgendwie unverschämt vor, wenn ich eine vielleicht viel zu hohe Erwartungshaltung an ein mögliches Weiterexistieren nach dem irdischen Tod hätte. Natürlich wäre es schön, wenn es möglich wäre, in irgendeiner Form weiterexistieren zu können. Natürlich nur, sofern man von einer ähnlichen Existenz wie dem menschlichen Leben ausgeht, in dem der &#8220;Grundzustand&#8221; des Menschen quasi &#8220;0&#8243; ist &#8211; und er sich langsam entwickelt und sich dem Guten als auch dem Bösen anschließen kann. Doch mein ganz persönlicher Wunsch für das etwas nach dem Tod wäre eigentlich nur eines: die Möglichkeit, mit einem positiven Gefühl von dieser Welt zu gehen. Dies meint: der Tod an sich ist rein pysisch sicherlich schon eine etwas negative Erfahrung (allgemein gesprochen), und vielleicht war das Leben davor auch nicht immer so rosig. Deshalb wäre mein Wunsch oder meine Hoffnung, dass ich noch einmal die glücklichsten Momente meines Lebens in einer Art Zeitraffer erleben dürfte &#8211; quasi als schöne gute-Nacht Geschichte. Dies wären dann wohl in erster Linie Erlebnisse und Momente aus meiner Kindheit. Ein möglicher Nacbteil wäre sich zu fragen, ob es beim zweiten Mal dann überhaupt noch ein so schönes und einzigartiges Gefühl wäre wie beim ersten. Weshalb ich noch eine Alternativhoffnung hätte: dass es irgendwie möglich wäre, alle &#8220;verpassen&#8221; Chancen seines Lebens noch einmal zu nutzen (zumindest gefühlt, emotional). Oder anders gesagt: dass man plötzlich (rückwirkend) auf alle Probleme eine Antwort oder die Erlösung erhält, die man in den verzweifelsten Momenten seines Lebens hatte. Ich denke, mit diesen Wünschen bin ich vergleichsweise noch recht bescheiden&#8230; weder würde ich mir Unsterblichkeit noch eine überaus Bedeutsame Rolle für eine mögliche Zukunft wünschen, lediglich ein Abschließen mit dem Bisherigen &#8211; aber aus einer anderen Perspektive. Eben sodass ein seliger Schlaf gewiss ist&#8230;<br />
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<link>http://antikorruptionsbyran.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/platon-arkitekt-av-den-nya-varldsordningen/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Platon (428/427 &#8211; 348/347 f. Kr.) är en av de mest omtalade filosoferna från antika Grekland o]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dancing While Doing Dishes]]></title>
<link>http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/dancing-marriage-of-body-soul/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dancing While Doing Dishes How does one attain and come to experience the highest levels of living? ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">How does one attain and come to experience the highest levels of living? How would one be able to be in and of this world within the daily experiences of errands, responsibilities, obligations, eating, drinking, sleeping and so many things that might keep a person from living and being in a state of pure joy, calm, clarity of mind and enlightenment?</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Rabbi Yitzchak Luria (1534-1572), known as the <a href="http://www.nachalnovea.com/LiveTransmission/tzaddikarchive/chanukah5760/arizalrcv.pdf" target="_blank">Arizal</a> (an acronym which stands for <em>HaEloki Rav Yitzchak Yitzchak &#8220;&#62;Zichrono Livracha &#8211; The Godly Master Yitzchak, may his memory be for a blessing) </em>was someone who more than almost anyone in Jewish history attained a level of enlightenment, holiness, purity and entirely embodied all of the divine qualities of goodness and truth.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">To illustrate the level in which he was on, one day while studying Torah early in the morning his main student and disciple Rav Chaim Vital walked in. The Arizal was very much immersed in his study and he merely glanced at Rav Chaim for a moment as he entered the room. After glancing for a mere moment at Rav Chaim, the Arizal then went back to his learning and said, &#8220;Rav Chaim &#8211; why did you insult your wife last evening?&#8221; Rav Chaim was taken aback by the immediacy of the Arizal&#8217;s vision and asked how he knew that, how he saw that. The Arizal said, &#8220;It was written in the lines of your forehead&#8221;.</p>
<p><img title="Arizal%20synagogue%20Safed" src="http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/arizal20synagogue20safed.jpg" alt="The Arizal Shul in Tzfat" width="650" height="433" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">There is an entire book about the greatness of the Arizal called, &#8220;<em>Shivchei Ha&#8217;Ari&#8221; (the praises of the Ari) </em>in which there are brilliant, mind opening and boggling descriptions of who he was, what he saw and how he brought the reality of God to people&#8217;s minds and hearts.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The Arizal was once asked how he had attained such heights, such mastery, such perfection, such holiness. He answered, &#8220;It was through the dancing on Simchas Torah&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Although the Arizal had mastered every aspect of Torah, prayed in isolation, meditated, studied and so worked on himself to attain and experience the level that he did &#8211; it somehow all came down to his dancing on Simchat Torah.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">This would really deserve an entire book dedicated to delve into the depths involved and required to truly explore this &#8211; but nevertheless we can begin with something.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches in the 10th lesson of Likutey Mohoran that the experience of dancing is the synthesis and marriage of body and soul, of physical and spiritual (paraphrased). For when a person dances, they dance from the joy that they experience that brings their body to unleash its inner soul. The body is so infused by the soul&#8217;s happiness, excitement, vision and pure life force that it dances; where the body and soul become one. And therefore, to the extent of one&#8217;s connectedness and being in-tune with his soul will the body dance.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><img title="awesome!" src="http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/awesome2.jpg?w=231" alt="awesome!" width="231" height="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">We dance on Simchat Torah after having gone through over a period of a year the entire Torah. Over the course of a year, the Jewish soul has tasted and experienced one teaching after another, week after week, day after day. With the vision of what the teachings of the Torah are, how they totally transformed his life, how they opened, expanded and infused infinite life to his heart, mind and soul &#8211; with that vision a person breaks out in dance. And if a person is seriously connected &#8211; the dancing will be an experience of infinity, of tapping into the oneness of creation and the marriage of body and soul.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">With this potential of experience, the Arizal said that this is how he attained his lofty heights of living.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">There are countless stories of many holy Jewish people who on Simchat Torah were seen dancing in a state of bliss and fiery energy alone in their homes. For if a person is hearing the music, he cannot stop dancing.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Whether we find ourselves in Shuls and communities that are having Simchat Torah or we find ourselves away from a larger community &#8211; may this Simchat Torah (Saturday night and Sunday morning outside of Israel, Shabbos in Israel) bring us to live our lives to the highest heights and truly develop a relationship with God.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Ultimately this vision, clarity and joy is to enlighten the way in which we walk in the world in our day to day living; enlighten our errands, careers, eating, sleeping and cleaning. So that we&#8217;ll be dancing while doing dishes&#8230;</p>
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<link>http://samzodiac2.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/dagens-tarotkort-stavesset/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Stavesset brukar indikera en slags nystart. Livsgnista.. Enligt manfagre motsvarar elementet Stavar]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="attachment_7275" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 356px"><a href="http://www.tarotteachings.com/ace-of-wands-tarot-card-meaning.html" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-7275" title="AceofBaton" src="http://samzodiac2.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/aceofbaton.jpg" alt="Stavesset brukar indikera en slags nystart. Livsgnista" width="346" height="605" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Stavesset brukar indikera en slags nystart. Livsgnista..</p></div>
<p><strong>Enligt <a href="http://www.manfagre.se/tarot/tolkningar.htm" target="_blank">manfagre</a> motsvarar elementet Stavar&#8230;</strong></p>
<h3><span style="color:#ff6600;">Elementet Eld. Står för vilja, livsglädje, självaktning, kreativitet, skaparkraft och utveckling. En värld av beslut, handling, engagemang, förverkligande och makt. Det handlar om aktivitet agerande, identitet, självförtroende, intuition, inlevelse och framgång. Stjärntecknen Väduren, Lejonet, Skytten.</span></h3>
<p><strong>Och essen symboliserar&#8230; </strong></p>
<h3><span style="color:#339966;">Elementets kraft. Ursprunget och roten. Målet och kronan. Förbannelse och välsignelse.<span style="font-size:xx-small;"><span style="font-size:xx-small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></h3>
<p>Läs även andra tolkande (?) bloggares åsikter om <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/Tarot">Tarot</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/NewAge">NewAge</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/Stavar">Stavar</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/Ess">Ess</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/manfagre">manfagre</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/Internet">Internet</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/Tolkning">Tolkning</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://bloggar.se/om/Dagens+tarotkort">Dagens tarotkort</a></p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest phase of the submission of Japan Japan has been a subject of intense Masonic infiltration]]></description>
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<p><span style="color:#003300;">Japan has been a subject of </span><span style="color:#003300;">intense</span><span style="color:#003300;"> Masonic infiltration and control since it was compelled to &#8220;open its borders&#8221; by Brother (Commodore) Perry [father-in-law of August Belmont, the Rothschild's agent in America] &#8230;  subverted by Rothschild-Jardine agents &#8230; &#8220;educated&#8221; by &#8220;Christian&#8221; Masonic  missionaries &#8230; used as a proxy for Ashkenazi-British interests in the Brother Jacob Schiff-funded war against Orthodox Christian Russia  &#8230; governed by Brother (General) MacArthur &#8230; brought under the purview of the Trilateral Commission &#8230; <span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/various-steps-towards-lurian-kabbalistic-lubavitch-masonic-world-domination/"> brought under Lurian Kabbalistic Lubavitcher Noachide  rule</a></span> &#8230; and so on. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/freemason-general-douglas-macarthur-post-card.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9743 aligncenter" title="Freemason General Douglas MacArthur post card" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/freemason-general-douglas-macarthur-post-card.jpg" alt="Freemason General Douglas MacArthur post card" width="480" height="271" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Japan&#8217;s new Prime Minister </span><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="color:#003300;">&#8211; the man who&#8217;s going to bring Hope and Change to Japan &#8212; is Hatoyama Yu</span>kio 鳩山由紀夫, grandson of Prime Minister Hatoyama Ichirō  鳩山一郎.Part of the Japanese Hope &#38; Change Scam was an election commitment to renegotiating the issue of U<span style="color:#003300;">.S. bases in Japan. The saps/voters fell for it. Obama just announced there&#8217;s nothing to talk about, and he&#8217;s </span></span><span style="color:#003300;">ruling out any renegotiation of the bases agreement, so there you go,<span style="color:#003300;"> <em>plus </em></span></span><em><span style="color:#003300;">çà</span></em><span style="color:#003300;"><em><span style="color:#003300;"> ch</span>ange </em>&#8230;</span><span style="color:#003300;"> A little shadow-play for the sheeple &#8212; Hatoyama will act disappointed for the cameras &#8212; then back to the business of business.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/hatoyama-yukio.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9750 aligncenter" title="Hatoyama Yukio" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/hatoyama-yukio.jpg" alt="Hatoyama Yukio" width="404" height="504" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">The Hatoyama family is one of Japan&#8217;s most prominent political dynasties, having produced six members of the Diet (Japan&#8217;s parliament) &#8212; including cabinet members and party leaders &#8212; as well as powerful business leaders. See</span> <span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=EUMgpxv6MSEC&#38;dq=Yasuko+Hatoyama&#38;source=gbs_navlinks_s"> Itoh Mayumi, <em>The Hatoyama dynasty: Japanese political leadership through the generations</em>.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Hatoyama Yukio is a co-founder of the Utopia Politics Study Group, which is dedicated to removing the power of money in Japanese politics. I</span><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="color:#003300;">t was revealed in  1991, when Japanese politicians were required to list their ass</span>ets, that Hatoyama Yukio was the richest politician in Japan, and one of the world&#8217;s richest &#8220;socialists&#8221;. His assets then rose from $70 M to $100 M. His homes, apartments, offices and  campaigns were paid for by his mummy, Hatoyama Yasuko </span><span style="color:#003300;">鳩山安子</span><span style="color:#003300;"> (née Ishibashi), who is popularly known as   &#8220;The Godmother&#8221; of Japanese politics.  She is heir to the Bridgestone fortune, which the new Prime Minister will inherit. Bridgestone Corporation 株式会社ブリヂストン, a multinational rubber conglomerate founded in 1931 by Brother Ishibashi Shojiro 石橋正二郎 [Yasuko's father], is the largest tire manufacturer in the world.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/bridgestone.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-9742 aligncenter" title="Bridgestone" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/bridgestone.png" alt="Bridgestone" width="375" height="57" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Ishibashi Yasuko, a Princeton grad, married Hatoyama Ichirō <span style="font-weight:normal;">鳩山威一郎<span style="display:none;">,</span> <em> </em></span>(Jr., son of the PM of the same name &#8212; their names are written with different Chinese characters), who became Japan&#8217;s Foreign Minister in 1976.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;"> Hatoyama Yukio and his younger brother, Hatoyama Kunio <span style="font-weight:normal;">鳩山邦夫</span>, co-created the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in 1996, with billions of yen from their mummy.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Hatoyama Kunio <span style="font-weight:normal;"> </span> was  Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications in former PM Aso&#8217;s LDP government. In office, he wanted all foreign visitors to be photographed and fingerp<span style="color:#003300;">rinted, and suggested that executions ought to be streamlined as mere administrative procedures, not requiring his ministerial signature. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/hatoyama-miyuki.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9748 aligncenter" title="Hatoyama Miyuki" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/hatoyama-miyuki.jpg" alt="Hatoyama Miyuki" width="140" height="209" /></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">The new prime minister met his wife, Hatoyama Miy<span style="color:#003300;">uki </span></span><span style="color:#003300;">鳩山幸</span><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="color:#003300;">, while </span>he was attending  Stanford University. She had been<span style="color:#003300;"> a drag artiste with the all-female Takarazuka Revue, and was married when they met. Now she is a New Age guru, and describes herself as a &#8220;life composer&#8221;. She may have been take to Venus by  aliens. In her b</span></span><span style="color:#003300;">ook, &#8220;Very Strange Things I&#8217;ve Encountered&#8221;, she details her abduction. &#8220;While my body was sleeping, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus. It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Miyuki&#8217;s &#8220;burning dream&#8221; is to make a Hollywood movie starring Bro. Tom Cruise (Scientology branch), &#8220;because I know he was a Japanese in a previous life. I remember that he and I were together. I believe he&#8217;d get it if I said to him &#8216;Long time no see&#8217; when I meet him.&#8221; She declared that her movie would &#8220;change people&#8217;s sense of value dramatically&#8230; I&#8217;ll get an Oscar for sure.&#8221;<br />
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<p><span style="color:#003300;">Miyuki gets her energy directly from the sun. &#8220;When the sun is up, I always eat it&#8230; I tear it off and eat it like this,&#8221; she said, gesturing as if clawing at the sky, tearing pieces off the sun and putting them in her mouth. &#8220;That gives me great power,&#8221; she said.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/hatoyamas-favorite-manga.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9749 aligncenter" title="Hatoyama's favorite manga" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/hatoyamas-favorite-manga.jpg" alt="Hatoyama's favorite manga" width="308" height="475" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="color:#800080;"><em>Brother Hatoyama Yukio&#8217;s favorite manga</em></span><br />
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<p><strong><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="color:#800000;">1955.03.26: A Day of Infamy</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/hatoyama-ichirou.jpg"><img title="Hatoyama Ichirou" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/hatoyama-ichirou.jpg" alt="Hatoyama Ichirou" width="179" height="218" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">The new Prime Min<span style="color:#003300;">ister&#8217;s grandfather, Prime Minister Hatoyama Ichirō  鳩山一郎&#8217;s father, </span></span><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="font-weight:normal;">Hatoyama Kazuo 鳩山<span style="color:#003300;">和夫</span></span><span style="color:#003300;">, was a Masonic Yale graduate. He was S</span></span><span style="color:#003300;">peaker of the House of Representatives of the Diet of Japan from 1896 to 1897, and president of Waseda University.  <span style="font-weight:normal;">Hatoyama Kazuo&#8217;s wife</span>, Hatoyama Haruko 鳩山春子, was the founder of a women&#8217;s college [now Kyoritsu Women's University 共立女子学園] designed to produce Masonic breeding stock. </span><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="color:#003300;">Former Prime Minister Hatoyama Ichirō&#8217;s wife was the principle of this college.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#003300;">The budding Kabbalist (the new PM&#8217;s PM grandfather) served many years in the Japanese house of representatives, starting in 1915, and was chief secretary of the cabinet in 1927-29. In 1931-34 he was minister of education.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Brother Hatoyama passed as a &#8220;Christian&#8221; (Baptist).</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/masonic-temple-jabulon-and-virgin.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9753 aligncenter" title="Masonic Temple - Jabulon and Virgin" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/masonic-temple-jabulon-and-virgin.jpg" alt="Masonic Temple - Jabulon and Virgin" width="500" height="355" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Brother Hatoyama was elected to the House of Representatives as a Rikken Seiyūkai member in 1936. In 1945 he was removed by Supreme Commander Allied Powers because of his fascist past, but  returned in 1951.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">CIA files  declassified in 2005 and publicized in 2007 by the U.S. National Archives detail a 1952 US-backed plot to assassinate then prime minister Yoshida Shigeru in then install Brother Hatoyama. Coup plotters  included US-supported war criminals. [<em>See below</em>]</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Brother Hatoyama was elected prime minister of Japan in 1954.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Brother Hatoyama was made a Master Mason, March 26, 1955, while in office as prime minister. This Luciferian  consecration was widely publicized in the Japanese newspapers, for it was an about face of policy from 15 years previous, when the Japanese government forbade any national to become a member of the brotherhood. Local attacks upon Freemasonry went as far back as 1921, when Imai Jiro, faculty member of Tokyo Imperial U., warned against &#8220;this dangerous and subversive secret society.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">The Luciferian ceremony was jointly conducted by the Grand Lodge of the Philippines and the district grand lodge of Japan. Five officers from the Philippines attended, including Grand Master Warner Schetelig, and Grand Secretary Antonio Gonzales. The Nippon Times stated that General John E. Hull, General Paul E. Rusto, General K. P. McNaughton, and Venezuelan Minister Rodriguez-Jiminez participated in the ceremony.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Messages of congratulations poured in from people all over the world to Hatoyama, including ex-president Brother Truman who had authorized the Masonic cull of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and from General Brother Douglas MacArthur.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/brother-harry-satan-truman.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9651 aligncenter" title="Brother Harry Satan Truman" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/brother-harry-satan-truman.jpg" alt="Brother Harry Satan Truman" width="414" height="497" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="color:#003366;"><em>&#8220;August &#8216;45 was a great month for the Brotherhood. Great harvest!&#8221;</em></span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#003300;">Brother MacArthur&#8217;s wire read:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">&#8220;As basic morality is the foundation of Freemasonry it is a source of deep satisfaction to me to see its progress in Japan. No more reassuring indication of its growing strength could be evidenced than the conferring of its third degree upon the Prime Minister. Please extend my felicitations to him on this significant occasion not only personally, but as the political representative of the great Japanese race.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Bother MacArthur was appointed by the lodges via Brother Harry S Truman to rule over the Empire of Japan. The great military of the great Masonic nation of America brought &#8220;freedom&#8221; to Japan.  Here is a US military base:</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/us-military-swastika-building.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9765 aligncenter" title="US Military Swastika Building" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/us-military-swastika-building.jpg" alt="US Military Swastika Building" width="500" height="280" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800080;"><em>Coronado Naval base, San Diego</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">As prime minister, Brother Hatoyama rebuilt diplomatic ties [日ソ共同宣言] with the Masonic creation the USSR, which was then utilizing Japanese slaves to exploit Siberian resources, and occupying Japan&#8217;s Kurile Islands. During negotians, Kōno Ichirō 河野一郎, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, saw that Khrushchev the Butcher possessed a  big paper knife decorated with an icon of Brother Lenin.  Kōno asked Khrushchev to give it to him, which he did. Kōno then gave the sacred object to PM Hatoyama, saying,  &#8220;I got Khrushchev&#8217;s dangerous paper knife, so I give it to you, Prime Minister, instead of the Islands&#8221;. [「フルシチョフがそれを振り回すからヤバクて仕方が無いから分捕った。北方領土の代わりに総理に進呈しましょう。」~ "The Paper Knife Episode" ~ 河野外交におけるペーパーナイフを巡るエピソード.]</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">The normalization of relations with the USSR was necessary before Japan could join <a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/lucifers-united-nations/">the Rockefellers&#8217; United Nations</a>.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#003300;">Brother Hatoyama also paroled some of the Class A war criminals who had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Tokyo Trial.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/freemason-passport-1785.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-9754 aligncenter" title="Freemason Passport 1785" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/freemason-passport-1785.jpg" alt="Freemason Passport 1785" width="473" height="641" /></a></span></p>
<p style="padding-bottom:13px;"><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>CIA Papers Reveal Japan Coup Plot</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-bottom:13px;"><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>Associated Press 2007.03.01</strong></span></p>
<p><!--- End Article Title/Source/Date --> <!--- Start Article Content --><span style="color:#003366;">TOKYO &#8211; Declassified documents reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The scheme &#8211; which was abandoned &#8211; was concocted by militarists and suspected war criminals who had worked for U.S. occupation authorities after World War II, according to CIA records reviewed by The Associated Press. The plotters wanted a right-wing government that would rearm Japan.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The CIA files, declassified in 2005 and publicized by the U.S. National Archives in January, detail a plot to oust the pro-U.S. prime minister, Shigeru Yoshida, and install a more hawkish government led by Ichiro Hatoyama.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The CIA, in papers released under an act of the U.S. Congress to declassify documents related to Japanese war crimes, said the plotters were led by Takushiro Hattori, a former private secretary to Hideki Tojo, the wartime prime minister hanged as a war criminal in 1948.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Two CIA documents said the plot reportedly had the support of 500,000 people in Japan, and that the group planned to use a contact who controlled a faction inside the National Safety Agency &#8211; a precursor to the Defense Ministry &#8211; to help launch the coup.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The files reviewed by the AP strongly suggest the Americans were unaware of the plot until after it had been dropped. The plot was developed after the U.S. postwar occupation of Japan ended in April 1952, and the CIA files say <em>American financial support for Hattori&#8217;s group</em> had dried up by then.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Still, the documentary evidence of the plot illustrates the violent potential of the right-wing, anti-communist <em>cabal that had worked under the U.S. occupation authority&#8217;s &#8220;G-2&#8243; intelligence wing</em> in the early days of the Cold War in the late 1940s and early 50s. The CIA operated separately from the G-2.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">&#8220;Since the beginning of July 1952, plans for a coup d&#8217;etat have been initiated among a group of ex-purgees including former military officers. The leader of the group is ex-Colonel Hattori Takushiro,&#8221; said an Oct. 31, 1952, report, which claimed &#8220;this report is the first to mention a definite rightist plan involving violence.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">&#8220;The original plan of the group was to engineer a coup d&#8217;etat, including the assassination of Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru on account of his hostile attitude toward depurgees and nationalists,&#8221; the CIA document said.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">According to the document, Hattori colleague Masanobu Tsuji talked the group out of the coup, urging it to focus instead on countering the Socialist Party. The files say the group then decided it would not stage a coup as long as Yoshida&#8217;s conservative Liberal Party remained in power.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">However, the group still considered violence an option, the files say.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">&#8220;The group is considering the possibility of some minor assassination attempt in lieu of a coup d&#8217;etat,&#8221; the Oct. 31, 1952, document said.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Hattori and others had worked under the aegis of Maj. Gen. Charles Willoughby, the anti-communist G-2 chief. During the occupation, Willoughby was considered the second most powerful American after his boss, Gen. Douglas MacArthur.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Some group members were considered choice war crimes trial targets after the war.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Tsuji had been wanted for involvement in the Bataan Death March of 1942, in which thousands of Americans and Filipinos perished. Another group associate was Yoshio Kodama, a war profiteer and mob boss who was deeply involved in procuring materials &#8211; often illegally &#8211; for the Japanese military machine.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><em>Neither of them was prosecuted for war crimes.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The Japanese militarists joined U.S.-supported missions to spy on communists in Japan, infiltrate agents into Soviet and North Korean territory, and recruit Japanese mercenaries to protect Taiwan from communist forces in mainland China, declassified documents show.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The CIA files, however, say the operations were riddled with intelligence leaks, hobbled by a lack of competent agents, and deeply compromised by rivalries among the rightists themselves. The agents&#8217; top priorities, the documents say, were profits and an eventual resurgence of a militarist Japan.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The assassination plot detailed in the CIA files came at a difficult time for Hattori&#8217;s group.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The departure of Willoughby from Japan in 1951 as the U.S. occupation wound down deprived the rightists of their leading American patron and paymaster. Meanwhile, Yoshida was openly hostile to Hattori&#8217;s push for rearmament.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">&#8220;The government attitude toward the Hattori group has been increasingly antagonistic, and the group has lost influence since the departure of General Willoughby,&#8221; said a CIA document dated April 18, 1952.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Yoshida was pushed out of office peacefully in 1954 and replaced by Hatoyama, but the ultrarightist dream of resurrecting a militarist Japan never happened. The 1947 pacifist constitution bars Japan from warfare and has never been amended.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003366;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-11006" href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/masonic-occupied-japan/hatoyama-ichirou-and-masonic-enlavement-of-japan/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11006" title="Hatoyama Ichirou and Masonic Enlavement of Japan" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/hatoyama-ichirou-and-masonic-enlavement-of-japan.jpg" alt="Hatoyama Ichirou and Masonic Enlavement of Japan" width="486" height="640" /></a><br />
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<p style="text-align:center;">「<em>鳩山由紀夫とフリーメーソン</em>」</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003366;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/chabad-lubavitch-illuminating-japan.jpg"></a><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/chabad-lubavitch-illuminating-japan1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9762" title="Chabad Lubavitch Illuminating Japan" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/chabad-lubavitch-illuminating-japan1.jpg" alt="Chabad Lubavitch Illuminating Japan" width="268" height="175" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800080;"><em>Chabad Lubavitch Illuminating Japan: &#8220;</em></span><em><span style="color:#800080;">During the days of Moshiach, we see many righteous non-Jews who help the Jewish people in many ways.We in Japan have been blessed with many such righteous gentiles.&#8221;</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>Brother Albert Pike on the Kabbalah, from <em>Morals              and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Freemasonry</em>, Charleston,                  1871:</strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:#003300;">&#8220;Masonry is a search after Light. That search            leads us directly back, as you see, to Kabbalah.&#8221;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#003300;"> &#8220;All the Masonic associations owe to it [Kabbalism] their            Secrets and Symbols&#8221;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#003300;"> Concerning            the numerical mysteries of the Kabbalah: &#8220;Omnia in numeris sita sunt&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;Everything lies veiled in numbers&#8221;<br />
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<li><span style="color:#003300;">The Kabbalah is &#8220;the key of the occult sciences.&#8221;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#003300;">“LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!”</span></li>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/kabbalah-tree-of-life-hebrew.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-9796 aligncenter" title="Kabbalah Tree of Life Hebrew" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/kabbalah-tree-of-life-hebrew.png" alt="Kabbalah Tree of Life Hebrew" width="284" height="507" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>Re: <a href="http://watch.pair.com/law.html">Lurian Kabbalistic Lubavitcher</a> Noachidism</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#003300;">Here they boast about having gotten some goyim to submit their nations to Talmudic rule:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://chabadjapan.org/blog_e/index.php/archives/3">In 2007, Chabad-Lubavitch gathered ambassadors</a> from Poland, Latvia, Mexico, Panama, Ghan<span style="color:#003300;">a, and Japan. to take part in a gathering to declare, in the name of the states they represent, their support of the universal teachings of Noahide Laws. </span></span><span style="color:#003300;">To the amazement of the audience at the Kinus, the embassadors signed a special proclamation which calls for all mankind to follow the Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach and to accept the everlasting kingship of the Rebbe Shlita as Melech Hamoshiach.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><a href="http://brianakira.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/ambassador-of-japan-signing-the-7-noahide-laws.jpg"><img title="ambassador-of-japan-signing-the-7-noahide-laws" src="http://brianakira.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/ambassador-of-japan-signing-the-7-noahide-laws.jpg?w=450&#038;h=337#38;h=337" alt="ambassador-of-japan-signing-the-7-noahide-laws" width="450" height="337" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800080;"><em>&#8220;Japan&#8221; submits to Noahidic Law.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://chabadjapan.org/photo/ambassadors_sign_7_mitzvos_1.jpg" alt="Ambassadors Sign 7 Mitzvos Declaration" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://chabadjapan.org/photo/ambassadors_sign_7_mitzvos_4.jpg" alt="Ambassadors Sign 7 Mitzvos Declaration" /></p>
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<p><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>St Paul to Titus:</strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color:#003300;">&#8220;There are also many who are rebellious,d vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped. These men upset entire families, teaching things they should not teach, doing it for sordid gain. &#8230; Rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith, not paying attention to Jewish fables and human commandments which distract from the truth. To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but by their works they deny him, being detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
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<p style="line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><a href="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/nwo-the-round-table.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9757" title="NWO - The Round Table" src="http://brianakira.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/nwo-the-round-table.jpg" alt="NWO - The Round Table" width="483" height="456" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>Trilateralism: Europe + North America + Japan</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">The Trilateral Commission was officially founded in July 1973 by the David Rockefeller, who was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time. He had formerly proposed its creation at the Chase Manhattan International Financial Forums in London, Brussels, Montreal, and Paris. At the 1972 Bilderberg meeting, the idea was widely accepted.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Zbigniew Brzezinski was assigned to organize the group. Other founding members included Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, both eventually heads of the U.S. &#8220;Federal&#8221; &#8220;Reserve&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Funding for the group came from David Rockefeller, the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">In July 1972, Rockefeller called his first meeting, which was held at Rockefeller&#8217;s Pocantico compound in New York&#8217;s Hudson Valley. It was attended by about 250 individuals who were carefully selected and screened by Rockefeller and represented the very elite of finance and industry.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Its first executive committee meeting was held in Tokyo in October 1973. The Trilateral Commission was officially initiated, holding biannual meetings.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">A Trilateral Commission Task Force Report, presented at the 1975 meeting in Kyoto, Japan, called An Outline for Remaking World Trade and Finance, said: &#8220;Close Trilateral cooperation in keeping the peace, in managing the world economy, and in fostering economic development and in alleviating world poverty, will improve the chances of a smooth and peaceful evolution of the global system.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Another Commission document read:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">&#8220;The overriding goal is to make the world safe for interdependence by protecting the benefits which it provides for each country against external and internal threats which will constantly emerge from those willing to pay a price for more national autonomy. This may sometimes require slowing the pace at which interdependence proceeds, and checking some aspects of it. More frequently however, it will call for checking the intrusion of national government into the international exchange of both economic and non-economic goods.&#8221;</span></p>
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<link>http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/joy-the-truth-of-living/</link>
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<p>1)       <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dvarim 28:47</span></strong> – Understanding the Outcome of a Life Without Joy</p>
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<li>In the Torah’s description of cause and effect, the Torah defines the outcome of suffering “&#8230;b<em>ecause you did not serve God with true happiness and a joyous heart</em>”.</li>
<li>The verse does imply however that the Jewish people <em>were</em> serving God. That service would include: Praying, praying with a community, giving charity, studying, teaching, keeping kosher, keeping Shabbat, etc.</li>
<li>What is this verse of the Torah (literally the guide, <em>hor’aah, Torah</em>) teaching us about the nature of being Jewish: Is it more important <em>what</em> we do, or <em>how</em> we do it?</li>
<li>What is the Torah teaching us about the nature of cause and effect on a deeper level?</li>
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<p><strong>2)       </strong><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Psalms 97:11</span></strong> – “<em>There is a light sown for a Tzadik / righteous person, and joy for those with a straight heart</em>”.<strong></strong></p>
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<li><strong>a.       </strong><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Otzar Hamidrashim / Collection of Medrashim, the 32 Character Traits of the Medrash, p. 268</span></strong> – <em>One cannot say that there is a Tzadik / righteous person who does not have joy and a straight person who is not filled with light. Rather this is the teaching: The righteous are those with a straight heart and their light is the light of joy.</em><strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>b.       </strong>What does the verse mean by saying a straight heart? How is this defining the ability to be joyous?<strong></strong></li>
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<p><strong>3)       </strong><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, Likutey Mohoran 4:5, 5:3</span></strong> – <em>A person is inherently happy, it is merely the confusion of the mind that results through mistakes of action and thought that confuse a person to be unhappy – for man’s natural state is of a “straightened heart of joy”</em>…<strong></strong></p>
<p>4)       <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Proverbs 17:22</span></strong> – “<em>A joyous heart enhances one’s brilliance, and a broken spirit dries the bones</em>”</p>
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<li>Explination by Rav Shlomo Yitzchaki, <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Rashi</span></strong>- <em>When a person is overjoyed with the life he has been given, his face shines with that joy</em>.</li>
<li>What is Rashi adding that we didn’t know already? What is Rashi pinpointing?</li>
<li>Rashi is adding the element of, “<em>the life one has been given</em>” – which is being aware of the current abundant blessings in one’s life, appreciating, acknowledging the reality of all the good one has been given – not focusing on lack but realizing that there is no lack. When a person lives with the joy of the life he has – his face will shine with that joy.</li>
<li>What does the end of the verse teach us? What is the root of all “<em>dry bones</em>”, suffering, ailments, frustration, and difficulty?</li>
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<p><img title="joy2" src="http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/joy21.jpg" alt="joy2" width="500" height="312" /></p>
<p>5)       The Torah does not merely instruct, it rather defines reality and is the gauge of reality. What the first verse in Dvarim and the later teaching of Proverbs has defined for us is the following reality in the following quotes:</p>
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<li><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, Likutey Mohoran II, 24</span></strong> – <em>The essential means of being connected to God is only through being in a consistent state of absolute joy, and to strengthen oneself to fully distance sadness and depression with all of one’s strength. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">For all the sicknesses that come upon a person – all of them come because of a lack of joy </span>(literally: destruction of joy).</em></li>
<li><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Rav Shlomo Carlebach</span></strong>, <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">quoting Rebbe Nachman in his own words</span></strong> – <em>People think they’re unhappy because of all the difficult things in their lives, but really it’s just the opposite: Difficult things come upon a person who is unhappy….</em></li>
<li><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Sefer HaMidot (Book of Character Traits), Joy</span></strong> – <em>Success can only come to one who is filled with joy.</em></li>
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<p style="text-align:left;">                                                               i.      One might think the opposite – that when I become successful I’ll be happy!</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">                                                              ii.      <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Rather being filled with joy is our natural inherent state that brings about health, success and a true ability to relate, and be open to God! Amen!</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;">In der jüdischen Kabbala lautet der göttliche Name für Binah “Yahweh, ausgesprochen als Elohim”. Wie wir im Kapitel über Da&#8217;at, das den Namen “Yahweh Elohim” mit Binah teilt, entdeckten, verweist dieser Name auf die eine Lebenskraft, die viele Formen annimmt. Wie wir bereits sahen, ist die Pleroma (Fülle) der göttlichen Fülle im eigentlichen Sinne Chochmah, während Binah die uranfängliche Leere oder Empfänglichkeit ist. Durch Binah wird die göttliche Fülle verwirklicht.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;">Eine Möglichkeit, dies näher zu verdeutlichen ist der Partzuf von Binah, Ima oder Aima (die Mutter) und die Vorstellung des Mutterschoßes. Ursprünglich repräsentiert der Schoß die Leere. Nach der Empfängnis ist er jedoch die göttliche Fülle. Vor ihrer Vereinigung sind die Kraft des Vaters und die Matrix (Gebärmutter) der Mutter nur ein Potential. Durch ihre Vereinigung verwirklichen sie dieses Potential gegenseitig. Auf diese Analogie von Mann und Frau weist der Name Elohim selbst hin. Er ist ein feminines Substantiv mit einem maskulinen Plural. Er legt den Schoß der schwangeren Frau, die absolute Einheit in der unendlichen Vielfalt nahe.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;">Manche Okkultisten haben die Bedeutung von Elohim als eine Vielzahl von Göttern und Göttinnen beschrieben, als die Vorstellungen des heidnischen Glaubens. Solch eine Assoziation missversteht jedoch die Subtilität dieses göttlichen Namens vollkommen. Zuerst sollte man verstehen, dass mit der Idee von Mutter und Vater nicht zwei Götter gemeint sind, sondern nur einer. Das Prinzip von Kraft und Form, Chochmah und Binah, ist eins in der überirdischen Welt. Als zweites sollte man verstehen, dass die Idee hinter einem weiblichen Substantiv mit einem maskulinen Plural nicht eine Vielzahl von Göttinnen und Göttern nahelegt, sondern eher einen göttlichen Elternteil, der unendlich erzeugen und gebären kann. Drittens ist die Pluralität, die mit dem göttlichen Wesen assoziiert wird eine Vielfalt der Qualitäten, Attribute oder scheinbaren Funktionen, vergleichbar solchen, die eine Person haben kann. Zum Beispiel kann eine Frau bei der Arbeit eine Spezialistin sein, wie eine Lehrerin und als solche mag sie viele verschiedene Quälitäten haben. Gleichzeitig kann sie auch eine Tochter, Schwester, Freundin, Ehefrau, Mutter oder Leiterin eines Vereins sein. Was für Qualitäten, Attribute oder Funktionen ihr auch immer zugeschrieben werden, sie selbst geht über sie hinaus. Sie ist sie selbst.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;">So ähnlich ist es mit der Beziehung von Gott zu den Qualitäten, Attributen und Funktionen Gottes in der Schöpfung. Elohim als ein Name Gottes bedeutet nicht eine Vielzahl von verschiedenen Göttern und Göttinnen, sondern eher ein höchstes Wesen, dass sich durch unzählige Qualitäten oder Attribute und Funktionen manifestiert. Diese formen die Matrix der Schöpfung. Eine solche Erkenntnis gibt Einsicht in das Wesen der Olamot und Sefirot. Sie sind Elohim, die vielen Qualitäten Gottes in der Schöpfung. Die Sefirot existieren in der heiligen Einheit, die Gott ist. Sie dürfen nicht auf irgendeine Weise getrennt von Gott oder von einander gesehen werden. Sie sind wie die Kabbala sagt “wie die Flamme mit der Kohle verbunden”.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><em>[aus Tau Malachi: Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ. – Saint Paul, MN : Llewellyn, 2005. – S. 121-123]</em></p>
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<link>http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/the-awareness-of-evening/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Awareness of Evening  &#8221;From the 15th of Av the strength of the sun weakens, and the night ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em> &#8221;From the 15th of Av the strength of the sun weakens, and the night grows longer. One should therefore study more Torah during these evenings, as the study of Torah during the night increases ones days and inspires their lives.&#8221;<br />
- Talmud Ta&#8217;anit 31a with Rashi</em></p>
<p> <strong> </strong> <img title="eveningss" src="http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/eveningss.jpg?w=300" alt="eveningss" width="300" height="200" />If the study of Torah can have such an impact &#8211; why should one study it during the dark and cold night? Wouldn&#8217;t it make more sense to study during the glorious sunny Summer day? And why should one increase their study specifically during the longer nights? Unless there must be some secret to the essence of the night and its relationship to studying Torah.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&#8220;<em>Torah can truly be experienced only when studied with all of one&#8217;s soul&#8230;For Torah to truly be studied, it must be studied at night. </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Therefore, someone who wants to merit the crown of Divine Wisdom should be conscience every night of their life to immerse themselves in the study of Torah and higher consciousness.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>- Rambam, Maimonides </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Path to Study Torah, 3:12,13</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">The study of Torah is to open one&#8217;s mind and soul to a higher reality, to experience and touch upon a deeper living. In order to fully access this, one must study it in the evening &#8211; for the evening represents darkness, concealment and confusion. Not to be perused or merely read &#8211; but &#8220;with all of one&#8217;s soul&#8221; in the darkness of night, in the climax of struggle. For that darkness of night has within it the glory of silence, the majesty of stillness and all the world is quiet. In that realm, the Torah is entirely alive and available to expand one&#8217;s mind, enliven one&#8217;s heart and settle our soul.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">If a person might not know where first to look to study Torah, not knowing which books to look for, etc. I would be happy to help them find a book that most speaks to them and their unique personality.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>B&#8217;chasdei Hashem</em> we should all merit attaining the higher realms of thought, emotion and experience that God wishes to bless us with during the beginnings of these longer nights.</p>
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<link>http://sottoosservazione.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/a-lezione-di-kabbala/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Quartiere di Petah Tikva di Tel Aviv. Ore tre di notte, lezione sulla kabbalà condotta dal professor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4102" title="images" src="http://sottoosservazione.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/images293.jpg" alt="images" width="94" height="142" />Quartiere di Petah Tikva di Tel Aviv. Ore tre di notte, lezione sulla kabbalà condotta dal professor Rav Laitman, fondatore e presidente del Centro Bnei Baruch (kabbalah.info). La kabbalà può sembrare una dottrina misteriosa e magica ma in realtà è un insieme di correnti esoteriche e mistiche dell&#8217;ebraismo che riguardano l&#8217;interpretazione simbolica del senso segreto della Bibbia. Non è una religione: è una scienza, un metodo. Il centro si trova in via Jabotinski n.112. Edificio vecchio e sproporzionato. All&#8217;ultimo piano c’è una falegnameria, un&#8217;officina, una palestra, una mensa, una cucina, uno spazio giochi per i bambini. In basso c&#8217;è una porticina, c&#8217;è una telecamera. Inizia la lezione del professor Rav Laitman. La sala è stracolma di persone. Matite, blocchetti, gente che scrive e ascolta. Domande e risposte si alternano. Come superare il nostro ego? Come avvicinarsi all’altro? Il metodo dato dalla kabbalà li aiuta a rispondere e a capire. Per loro l’uomo non può accontentarsi, è necessario che si ponga delle domande e si confronti con l’altro. Non esiste nessuna soluzione a qualsiasi problema se l’uomo non considera l’altro come se stesso.<!--more--></p>
<p>Sono le cinque e mezza del mattino, la gente continua a discutere. Ore sei, la lezione è finita. Le persone vanno a mangiare il cibo preparato da loro. In piedi attorno ai tavoli si abbracciano prima di sedersi e mangiare. Ecco arrivano i bambini per la prima volta. Sono tantissimi e giocano con gli adulti. All&#8217;interno del centro, tantissimi libri da ogni parte. Si fanno traduzioni, si scrive, si parlano tre lingue, si truccano gli ospiti delle trasmissioni, si salda un pezzo di ferro. Un alveare perfetto dove in piccoli spazi c’è tutto: computer, regie, mixer, studi televisivi e radiofonici. Canale 66, la tv satellitare di Bnei Baruch, ha collegamenti e dirette con tutto il mondo. Dal falegname al traduttore, dal fabbro al regista. Qui hanno deciso di creare la prima scuola al mondo dove si insegna la kabbalà ai bambini, senza voti, esami o diplomi. I bambini studiano con passione per ore, si appassionano alle scienze. Inventano e costruiscono giocattoli. Usano internet alla perfezione, fanno montaggi: sono dei secchioni simpaticissimi. La scuola è vissuta come un ambiente gioioso. È il gruppo che prevale. Se un bambino non capisce viene aiutato dal gruppo. Non rimane mai da solo. Gli insegnanti sono lì, ma non intervengono. Lasciano a loro lo spazio di discutere. Il bambino cresce perché ha di fronte a sé degli esempi veri e pratici: un bravo falegname, un bravo medico, un bravo meccanico ma il suo interlocutore è un altro bambino. Fino da piccoli gli allievi affrontano la Torah, la leggono insieme e discutono il testo. I maestri non alzano la voce quando i bambini compiono azioni scorrette, ma cercano di portarli alla consapevolezza che quell’azione ha ripercussioni sul gruppo. La kabbalà si insegna per rendere questi bambini uomini capaci di aiutare l’altro in difficoltà. Per farlo è necessario conoscere le leggi che determinano il corso della natura. Qui il sentimento verso l’altro è sostenuto con la conoscenza. Andare nella direzione giusta vuol dire partire dai bambini.</p>
<p>Andrea Salvatici per &#8220;Io Donna&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.informazionecorretta.com/main.php?mediaId=15&#38;sez=120&#38;id=30426">http://www.informazionecorretta.com/main.php?mediaId=15&#38;sez=120&#38;id=30426</a></p>
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<link>http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/experiencing-redemption-through-difficulty/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Clarity Comes Through Confusion &#8220;The word for Lamenting and fixing are the same in Hebrew, ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;The word for Lamenting and fixing are the same in Hebrew, &#8216;kinot&#8217; are the same letters as &#8216;tikun&#8217; which means fixing&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Likutey Mohoran 247</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">On Tisha B&#8217;av morning throughout the world, the  Jewish people sing, hum and meditate on the kinot. The Kinot are poetic lamentations written in utmost beauty and glory, describing the destruction of Jerusalem and exile of the Jewish people. They are a collection of poems and liturgy written over a thousand years ago by holy Rabbis and Jews brokenhearted and spiritually shocked at the reality in which they live compared to the reality which had been.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The Kinot when translated are like food without spices or taste, it has a lost effect. The experience is almost lost without the genuine richness of the original poetic Hebrew &#8211; something in and of itself to cry and lament over; the reality that the power and grandeur of Judaism cannot be experienced by so many.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Even in English though, when going through the kinot one can taste the soul of the Jewish people, the soul of the Land of Israel, the soul being in exile and yearning for <em>Tikun</em>, fixing and redemption. That is the secret of the kinot.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Rebbe Nachman in that teaching is teaching a secret about the nature of redemption and the secret to fix anything that needs fixing: by going through, and by feeling and experiencing the destruction. That in and of itself brings about <em>Tikun. </em>Kinot are Tikun, they are the same word, the same essence, the same reality.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><img title="Destruction_in_a_Berlin_street" src="http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/destruction_in_a_berlin_street2.jpg?w=150" alt="Destruction_in_a_Berlin_street" width="150" height="138" />If a person ever finds themselves in a place and reality of brokenness, of destruction, of exile &#8211; the secret to find completeness, building and redemption is by fully being in the reality of exile &#8211; by saying kinot, by absorbing that reality &#8211; and by understanding <em>why</em> we are there.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&#8220;<em>Said Rava: If a person finds that sufferings and frustrations have come upon him &#8211; he should look at how he has been living and acting; a</em><em>s it says in Lamentations, &#8216;We shall look into our ways and analyze it, and return to God&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>If a person were to look and not find any reason in his actions &#8211; then it is because of not having studied Torah&#8230;and if not because of Torah, then they are sent from God out of love to refine the person to grow&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>- Talmud Brachot 5a</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">For things beyond our control &#8211; such as what kind of families we were born into, our personalities &#8211; that is part of a Masterplan of the Creator. But for things <em>within</em>our control and we find ourselves frustrated and broken &#8211; look into our actions, say &#8220;kinot&#8221; over how we might have acted, see what we have been lacking in and misguided about &#8211; and when we say &#8220;kinot&#8221;, then we will find Tikun.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Our saying Kinot on Tisha B&#8217;av is in order to fully enter the reality and experience of exile &#8211; only to come out of it with a vision of what is deeply missing in our lives and how we can attain it.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Let this Tisha B&#8217;av be a time of clarity and vision where we experience the deeper lackings in our lives and the world and come away with an understanding of how we can bring the Tikun about.</p>
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<link>http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/redemption-through-destruction/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wednesday July 29th &#8211; Erev Tisha B&#8217;av On Tisha B&#8217;av we immerse ourselves in the bo]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">On Tisha B&#8217;av we immerse ourselves in the book of Eicha (Lamentations), the poetic expression of Yirmiyahu who experienced the destruction in Jerusalem thousands of years ago.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Eicha also literally means &#8220;<em>ayeka</em>&#8221; which means: where are you? This was the same word that Hashem used to ask Adam where he is after he ate from the tree.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">On Tisha B&#8217;av, the book of Eicha is an expression of who we are and who we can be. The destruction of Tisha B&#8217;av is not a historic thing, but a current reality of the spiritual exile and confusion that exists in the world. The day of Tisha B&#8217;av is a day where we can be silent with our lives and see who we really are and who we can become. God is asking all of us, &#8220;<em>ayeka&#8221;</em> where are we? What are our lives about? Who are we?</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;The Mashiach is born on Tisha B&#8217;av&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>- Talmud Yerushalmi, 2:4</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Let this Tisha B&#8217;av be a day of clarity, sensing the deeper reality in which we exist and becoming our ultimate selves &#8211; for with destruction comes true redemption and realization.</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;">&#8220;<em><span>On the 9<span>th</span> of Av it is <span>prohoibited</span> to study Torah, as <span>Tehillim</span> says, &#8220;&#8230;for the words of God are straight a<span>nd</span> gladden the heart&#8217; &#8220;</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>- Code of Jewish Law, Orach Chaim 554:1</em></p>
<p><span>The words of Torah absolutely bring a person to a place of joy a<span>nd</span> <span>settledness</span>, giving clear consciousness, patience a<span>nd</span> understanding.</span></p>
<p>If so &#8211; so even on T&#8217;sha B&#8217;av we should learn Torah?</p>
<p>Because we might not experience that when we learn Torah, or even listen to words of Torah throughout the year &#8211; we might open up or hear words of Torah and that experience is not there for us.</p>
<p><span>So on <span>T&#8217;sha</span> <span>B&#8217;av</span> we should be in a completely different reality of solitude a<span>nd</span> quiet to listen to the lack of completeness in our lives, to experience the unsettled mi<span>nd</span> that one might have throughout the year. A<span>nd</span> to listen to how it is thirsting for Torah to gladden our hearts, settle our mi<span>nd</span> a<span>nd</span> expa<span>nd</span> our lives. For <span>T&#8217;sha</span> <span>B&#8217;av</span> is the day of vision for how to repair a<span>nd</span> fix all that needs perfection: first a<span>nd</span> foremost our hearts a<span>nd</span> minds.</span></p>
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<link>http://rabbiari.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-mind-does-not-work-properly-unless-the-heart-is-open/</link>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;When a person lacks understanding in something &#8211; what should he do? He should pour out his heart to God.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Prayer and study is <em>one</em> thing &#8211; when our hearts are truly open our brains are giving us true thoughts. Let us strive to constantly open our hearts through pouring out our hearts to God and then our minds will flow with holy, pure and wonderful consciousness. Tears are the gates to wisdom.</p>
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<link>http://yoice.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/erst-manhatten-dann-berlin-video/</link>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>[singlepic id=138 w=240 h=180 float=left]Aus der Reihe „Gegen den Strom“ vom Privatsender Secret.tv ist dieses Interview mit Wolfgang Eggert zu seinem Buch „Erst Manhatten dann Berlin“ entstanden.</p>
<p>Es bietet einen kleinen Einblick in die umfangreiche Recherchearbeit, die Wolfgang Eggert über Jahre geleistet hat.</p>
<p>Nur alleine eine kleine Auswahl aus den bisherigen Veröffentlichungen, hinterlässt den Eindruck, dass es hier um jemanden geht, der vehement einer Verschwörung auf der Spur ist!</p>
<p>Erst Manhattan &#8211; Dann Berlin: Messianisten-Netzwerke treiben zum Weltenende</p>
<p>Im Namen Gottes 1. Israels Geheimvatikan als Vollstrecker biblischer Prophetie Band 1 und 2</p>
<p>Die geplanten Seuchen: AIDS, SARS und die militärische Genforschung</p>
<p>Aber wenn man sich genauer mit seiner Arbeit vertraut macht, erkennt man schnell, dass es sich hier um die Ergebnisse wissenschaftlicher Recherchen handelt.<!--more--></p>
<p>Auf dem Vorwurf, dass er ein Verschwörungstheoretiker ist, antwortete er in einem anderen Interview</p>
<blockquote><p>„Mein Hauptforschungsgebiet ist das Wirken des Organisierten Verbrechens, von Lobbygruppen, Geheimdiensten, Polit-Logen, Militärischen Under Cover Einrichtungen, Apokalyptischen Sekten, Geopolitischen Netzwerken. Alle diese häufig untereinander verwobenen Gruppen arbeiten vorsätzlich verdeckt und konspirativ. Ob Betrug oder Mord, Kauf oder Kompromittierung von Journalisten und Politikern, Organisierung von Putschen, Pogromen, Terroranschlägen und Kriegen: Verschwörung ist Teil ihres Tagesgeschäfts. Investigative Rechercheure müssen auf diesem Themengebiet Verschwörungstheoretiker sein, sonst sind sie lediglich Hofberichterstatter.“</p></blockquote>
<p>Und genau hier wirft Wolfgang Eggert in dem Interview auch sehr interessante Aspekte zu unseren Medien auf, wieso wir praktisch nur gleichgeschaltete Nachrichten, von den Meinungsbildenden Medien haben.</p>
<p>Journalisten beim Springerverlag <a title="Springer Presse" href="http://www.mysnip.de/forum-archiv/thema/12470/367539/Springer+Presse.html" target="_blank">unterschreiben und verpflichten</a> sich, keine negative Berichterstattung gegen die USA oder Israel zu führen!</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Zwischen der Axel Springer Vertag AG (&#8220;Vertag&#8221;) und XXXX (&#8220;Redakteur) wird folgender Redakteurvertrag geschlossen.<br />
§ 1 Arbeitsgebiet:<br />
1. Herr. Frau XXXX wird als Redakteurin angestellt und in der Redaktion BILD der FRAU tätig.<br />
2. Der Verlag behält sich vor, dem Redakteur andere redaktionelle oder journalistische Aufgaben, auch an anderen Orten und bei anderen Objekten zu übertragen, wenn es dem Vertag erforderlich erscheint und für den Redakteur zumutbar ist.<br />
§ 2 Grundsätzliche Haltung der Zeitung<br />
BiILD der FRAU hat folgende grundsätzliche Haltung:<br />
- das unbedingte Eintreten für den freiheitlichen Rechtsstaat Deutschland als Mitglied der westlichen Staatengemeinschaft und die Förderung der Einigungsbemühungen der Völker Europas;<br />
-  das Herbeiführen einer Aussöhnung zwischen Juden und Deutschen: hierzu gehört auch die Unterstützung der Lebensrechte des israelischen Volkes<br />
- die Ablehnung jeglicher Art von politischem Totalitarismus:<br />
- die Verteidigung der freien sozialen Marktwirtschaft.</strong></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong>DER STANDARD, 19. November 2001 &#8211; MEDIEN IM KRIEG Wegen Kritik entlassen </strong><strong><br />
</strong>OSZE-Medienbeauftragter: &#8220;Wahrheit nicht im Krieg sterben lassen&#8221; Berlin/Wien &#8211; Journalisten des Springer-Verlags (Bild, Welt) dürfen keine Kritik an den Militärschlägen der USA üben. Denn kurz nach dem 11. September wurde in die Arbeitsverträge die Verpflichtung zu &#8220;Solidarität mit den USA&#8221; aufgenommen. &#8220;Dieser Passus ist eine Beleidigung gegenüber den USA, dem Vorbildland der Freien Presse&#8221;, kritisiert der Beauftragte der OSZE für die Medienfreiheit, Freimut Duve, im Gespräch mit dem STANDARD. &#8220;Diese Selbstbeschränkung führt weg vom professionellen Journalismus. Der Gegenstand außenpolitischer Berichterstattung wird damit halbiert.&#8221; Aber auch in den USA ortet Duve problematische Entwicklungen: Zwei Journalisten von der Texas City Sun und vom Daily Courier in Oregon wurden entlassen, weil sie kritische Kommentare über US-Präsident George Bush geschrieben hatten. &#8220;Das Gefährliche ist das Verratssyndrom. Dass jemand als Verräter dargestellt wird, wenn er etwas berichtet, was quer liegt. Diese Verratsschraube darf eine freie Demokratie nicht erreichen. Man darf auch nicht hinnehmen, dass im Krieg die Wahrheit stirbt. Journalisten sind besonders herausgefordert, ihre Verantwortung zu nutzen.&#8221; Die Unternehmensleitungen müssten sich um Unabhängigkeit bemühen. Duve fürchtet, dass &#8220;unter dem Deckmantel der Terrorbekämpfung Staaten wie Turkmenistan, die den freien Journalismus schon ausgerottet haben, ihr Verhalten leichter begründen können, weil sie Teil der Antiterrorallianz sind&#8221;. Duve hofft auch auf ein Einlenken in den USA: &#8220;Es gibt schon mehr kritische Kommentare als in den ersten vier Wochen nach den Anschlägen. Die Massenmedien hat das noch nicht erreicht.&#8221; Zumindest bei der BBC hat Kritik Änderungen bewirkt. Der BBC World Service hat sich entschieden, die Anschläge in den USA nicht mehr als Terrorismus zu beschreiben. Die offizielle Diktion ist künftig &#8220;Attacke&#8221;. Mit dieser Formulierung will die BBC ihren Ruf der Unparteilichkeit vor allem in der islamischen Welt wahren. (afs)</p></blockquote>
<p>Genauso verhält es sich bei unseren Politikern, von Rechts nach Links, Quer durch die Reihe, alle samt werden sie gebrieft von der <a title="Atlantik-Brücke" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantik-Br%C3%BCcke" target="_blank">Atlantik-Brücke</a>. Die Atlantik-Brücke ist ein 1952 gegründeter eingetragener Verein mit Sitz in Berlin, deren Vereinszweck ist die Förderung des deutsch-amerikanischen Verständnisses und deren Einfluss nicht unerheblich ist.</p>
<p>In aller Freundschaft wird anders geschrieben und genau deshalb muss man sich wundern das Politiker es bis heute nicht begriffen haben, dass diese Deutsche Volk einen Frieden und einen Friedensvertrag braucht, oder wie viele Generation sollen noch von dem 2 Weltkrieg zerren!</p>
<p>Souveränität wird anders geschrieben und ein souveräner Staat spricht ach keinen anderen Staat seine uneingeschränkte Solidarität, so beobachtet argwöhnisch, ob die Schritte der anderen auch mit den eigenen zu vereinbaren sind.</p>
<p>Unsere Politiker und unsere Presse befinden sich im Grunde in einer Falle und wir müssen Gemeinsam einen Weg aus einer unerträglichen Situation finden.</p>
<p>Auch warum die einstmals gut aufgestellte Linke völlig in sich zusammen gebrochen ist und warum kritische Kriegsberichterstattung heute in ein Hurra endet. in diesem Interview kommen finden sie womöglich Antworten auf Frage, die sich sonst nicht lösen ließen!</p>
<p>[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D185E3C912D336D4[/youtube]</p>
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<link>http://castleofnutshells.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/does-anyone-have-a-theology-of-wisdom-and-word/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Damian</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been some great conversation about John&#8217;s prologue around the blogosphere. Peter]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>There&#8217;s been some great conversation about John&#8217;s prologue around the blogosphere. <a href="http://www.qaya.org/blog/?p=1157">Peter Kirk</a> first wrote about it, and then <a href="http://mwhitenton.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/translating-the-prologue-of-johns-gospel/">Michael Whitenton</a> did. <a href="http://mwhitenton.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/rhetorical-prologue-jpg.jpeg">J.K. Gayle</a> published a fantastic translation which sheds a lot of light.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been very interested in the connection between Sophia and Logos for some time now, however the conversation focused on translation until <a href="http://thechurchofjesuschrist.us/2009/06/examining-traditions-and-translation-logos-and-sophia/">Polycarp</a> spelt out the connections between the wisdom literature and John&#8217;s prologue. His conclusion raises questions as well:</p>
<blockquote><p>In the beginning, we have the maker of all things, God’s wisdom/word, and indeed, this wisdom/word was God. When Israel, and by reflection, humanity, lay in the grasp of Egypt/Rome/Sin, God sent forth His Logos, down from the royal throne (which is also the abode of Wisdom)  carrying the command of God, and it was this command which would bring salvation.</p>
<p>I do not believe that you can too easily remove theology from translation, and translation from theology – although it is a delightful exercise. I am handicapped in this area, being an novice in Greek, and lacking the letters of learned men and women – yet, this for me is a joy that fills my days.</p>
<p>Suzanne makes a statement:  <em>If the logos is the sophia, then we need to signal that sophia, the pre-incarnate “expression” of God is feminine; just as Jesus, the logos become flesh, is masculine.</em></p>
<p>I believe that the Logos and the Sophia are uniquely connected, both coming from Jewish speculation about God. I believe, for now, that Wisdom is seen easily as feminine because she is the giver of life, while the pre-incarnate Word is seen as masculine because it is active apart from life. I may better say it such, that Sophia is the unseen creative force, while the logos is God speaking. Two sides of the same coin, whole, unique, of God, and God.</p></blockquote>
<p>What I&#8217;m curious about, is the concept that Logos/Sophia are connected because their source is speculation concerning the nature of God. Regarding them like this (correctly, I suspect), is in a way regarding them as a precursor to the Kabbalistic understanding of God&#8217;s emanations. But what does this speculation as applied to Christ mean for Christians?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s an honest question. I really don&#8217;t know, beyond making some point in an argument on gender bias. Does anyone who reads here have a working understanding of this relationship, and what it means for a Christian? Does anyone have a theology of wisdom and word?</p>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow:hidden;position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">There&#8217;s been some great conversation about John&#8217;s prologue around the blogosphere. Peter Kirk first wrote about it, and then Michael White did. J.K. Gayle published a fantastic translation.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been very interested in the connection between Sophia and Logos for some time now, however, and Polycarp addressed this in a lot of detail, spelling out the connections between the wisdom literature and John&#8217;s prologue. His conclusion raises questions as well:</p>
<p>In the beginning, we have the maker of all things, God’s wisdom/word, and indeed, this wisdom/word was God. When Israel, and by reflection, humanity, lay in the grasp of Egypt/Rome/Sin, God sent forth His Logos, down from the royal throne (which is also the abode of Wisdom)  carrying the command of God, and it was this command which would bring salvation.</p>
<p>I do not believe that you can too easily remove theology from translation, and translation from theology – although it is a delightful exercise. I am handicapped in this area, being an novice in Greek, and lacking the letters of learned men and women – yet, this for me is a joy that fills my days.</p>
<p>Suzanne makes a statement:</p>
<p>If the logos is the sophia, then we need to signal that sophia, the pre-incarnate “expression” of God is feminine; just as Jesus, the logos become flesh, is masculine.</p>
<p>I believe that the Logos and the Sophia are uniquely connected, both coming from Jewish speculation about God. I believe, for now, that Wisdom is seen easily as feminine because she is the giver of life, while the pre-incarnate Word is seen as masculine because it is active apart from life. I may better say it such, that Sophia is the unseen creative force, while the logos is God speaking. Two sides of the same coin, whole, unique, of God, and God.</p></div>
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<link>http://wozuwozu.org/2009/05/30/of-celebricity-or-towards-a-phenomenology-of-madona/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 03:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ottiliemignon</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[1.The logic of truth, and the even the logic of writing, is a special case of the logic of celebrici]]></description>
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<p>1.The logic of truth, and the even the logic of writing, is a special case of the logic of celebricity.</p>
<p>2.Truth is manifest appearance before it is correspondence, and it is the play of concealment and disclosure before it is manifest appearance. Uprooted from the <em>modalities of celebricity</em> that together constitute a constellation of differentia, the thinking of the play of concealment and disclosures collapses into an ultra-transcendental platitude.</p>
<p>3.Gods, human beings, animals, forms of language and forms of life, every single thing in, of, and beyond the world, <em>comes about </em>with and in a certain celebricity</p>
<p>4.Each single world and the world of worlds  is held together by a certain mode of celebricity.  (Olympus is the celebricity of the gods)</p>
<p>5.The sacred and the profane belong to the topology of celebricity; they are <em>locations </em>to which celebricity belongs.</p>
<p>6.Distance and proximity are aspects of celebricity.</p>
<p>7.Fame is an exemplary type of celebricity.  The famous is extremely visible in its preeminence, and is distant yet not too distant.   Preeminence in virtue, beauty, strength, power makes up for distance. It <em>keeps </em>a certain distance &#8212; one thinks of Achilles withdrawing into his own camp.   It can be both seen sometimes, approached sometimes, and it touches much more than it is touched.   The famous requires a political space (Thus the significance of <em>Thersites</em>’ <em> </em>words and Odysseus’s blows).  The hero is famous, and thus even now, when our heroes seem so ordinary measured against Hercules and Achilles, this very ordinariness is the trait of the heroic.  The hero is always a local hero, even if the locality is the world. (It is telling that Obama, now the hero of the world, began as a community activist in Chicago: a city that, even if were twelve times bigger than it is, would never be cosmopolitan).</p>
<p>8.The common is visible in either a plainness that does not attract, or an ugliness that repulses.</p>
<p>9.The everyday is the common that retreats from view, allowing itself to become distant and invisible .</p>
<p>10.The  abject is the common that has been hidden away, or hides itself away, from shame.</p>
<p>11.The base is the common that tries to become famous by making its ugliness visible.</p>
<p>12.The wretched is the common that is driven by need to expose itself.</p>
<p>13.Divinity is at once extremely invisible and extremely untouchable.  It still touches: this is necessary to its celebricity, but can only happen rarely. (The caresses of <em>Thetis</em>).</p>
<p>14.The universal is the simple plainness that the famous, the divine, the common, the abject, the everyday, and the wretched share: the <em>visible invisibility</em> and <em>invisible visibility</em>,  <em>distant proximity and proximate distant</em>, <em>profane sacredness and sacred profanity</em> that conjoins these in a community without anything in common. It is the zone of indistinction, a specter and ghost.</p>
<p>15.Celebrity is a type of celebricity: it consists of the trinity of the divine (the father), the famous (the son), and the universal (the holy ghost) that joins the divine to the famous.   Celebrity is the movement in which the divine (the <em>ideal</em>) becomes common (<em>naïve</em>), the common becomes famous (<em>heroic</em>), and the heroic becomes ideal.</p>
<p>16.Celebrity is a type of celebricity, but it is also the celebricity of celebricity.   The <em>One</em> world is held together by celebrity: the celebricity of celebricity.</p>
<p>17. <em>The celebrity </em>of celebrities is the triune <em>One </em>who holds the One world together by exposing celebrity.</p>
<p>18.Celebrities are the many who expose the <em>One </em>celebrity.</p>
<p>19.In the <em>common era </em>everyone who is anyone has appeared as a celebrity. (<em>Vico </em>spoke of modern history as a repetition of ancient history.)</p>
<p>20.There are two aspects of celebrity: celebrities that do not appear as celebrities but as something else, and celebrities who appear as celebrities.</p>
<p>21.There are three kinds of celebrities: celebrities that play the famous; celebrities that play the universal, or celebrities that play the divine.</p>
<p>22.Of celebrities that do not appear as celebrities there are martyrs, who play the divine by imitating the divine sacrifice that is celebrity; there are warriors, who play the famous; and there are philosophers who play the common.</p>
<p>23.Hegel, in this sense, was the last philosopher.  Analytic philosophers, in contrast, are not post-Hegelian, but pre-Hegelian: they know only the <em>everyday</em> (the essence of which is prosaic language &#8212; what is unseen only because it is bland).</p>
<p>24.After Hegel the true philosopher could only appear as a celebrity.   This is at once because there was nothing left to say about the common, and because they could only speak about the uncommon.  The moment the philosopher speaks about the uncommon he becomes a celebrity-philosopher.   Yet the moment he becomes a celebrity-philosopher, he becomes impossible as a philosopher, since the philosopher could only ever be the one who plays at the common.  Whatever he says becomes common.</p>
<p>25.There are three kinds of celebrity philosophers: those who speak of the divine; those who speak of the famous; and those who speak of the abject. (Rousseau and Plato already combined all three modes)</p>
<p>26.Of these three, the third (Marx, Freud) are the greatest celebrities, since they speak of what is still common, indeed what is most common and uncommon to the common: the abject, uncanny remainder that the common is at once exposed to within itself and excludes from itself.</p>
<p>27.Because all three try to speak to the common of the uncommon, all three are exposed to a danger to which the philosopher is only exposed in moments when philosophy assumes a singular importance: vulgarization.</p>
<p>28.Philosophers were the first celebrities to appear as celebrities.   But once philosophers could only appear as celebrities, once they became celebrities in this narrow sense, then all other celebrities also had to appear as celebrities.</p>
<p>29.Thus the world of those who are somebody and yet not philosophers (we could speak of these quaintly as the <em>ambitious</em>, or with Plato, the <em>spirited</em>) split into two types: <em>mere functionaries</em> who gave up every trace of celebrity in return for efficient power (the ordinary <em>bourgeoisie</em>), and actual celebrities: who renounced every social function in return for a function of pure appearance.</p>
<p>30.Actual celebrities divide into the pure and the impure.</p>
<p>31.Impure actual celebrities are actual celebrities whose celebrity involves a functional skill that it once involves and excluded, depends on and transcends.</p>
<p>32.Impure actual celebrities divide into managers and laborers:  managers function through others, whereas laborers possess a tangible productive skill of their own.</p>
<p>33.Impure actual celebrity managers include <em>military leaders</em>, <em>businesspeople</em>, or <em>politicians</em>.  Military leaders play at being famous; businesspeople play at being divine; politicians play at being common.  The ideal type of the dictator combines all three.</p>
<p>34.Impure actual celebrity laborers include <em>athletes</em>, <em>producing artists</em>, and <em>performing artists. </em>These, again, correspond to the <em>famous</em>, <em>divine</em>, and <em>common</em>. (Hence the myths that surround these practices: <em>athletes do what everyone wants to do but can’t do because they lack the physique; producing artists create something original through a divine genius that only the few possess; performing artists do what most people could more or less do if they practiced for 10,000 hours)</em>.</p>
<p>35.The scholar is either an artist (theoretical physicists and mathematicians, noble-prize winning chemists and biologists who make their greatest discover while dreaming or tripping) or a mere functionary. Or they are obscure.</p>
<p>36.Athletes are either superstars (who gravitate towards the divine: Michael Jordan), great players (who gravitate toward the heroic:  <em>Scottie Pippen</em>),  or team players (Dickie Simpkins &#8212; The Thersites of the Chicago Bulls).    Football tends towards the famous, basketball the divine, and baseball the common.</p>
<p>37.This explain why there can never be another Michael Jordan.  And it also explains why there had to be Dennis Rodman, who played the Dionysius to Michael Jordan’s Apollo &#8212; embodying that abject remnant (<em>the rebound</em>)  that the divine tosses away from itself.  If Michael Jordan had also been Dennis Rodman, then this would have been too much.</p>
<p>38.Producing artists are either <em>novelists and</em> <em>directors</em> (the heroic), poets and composers (the divine), or painters (the common).  Hence the myths that surround these practices: everybody wants to be a novelist or filmmaker, but they lack the time, money, resource, endurance, quiet… or perhaps even (but this is always an afterthought) the talent; almost no one wants to be a poet or a composer, and almost no one can be; everyone could be a painter, since all they do is scribble or drip paint on a canvas.  And now the painter who everyone thinks they can be has assumed a very clear form: the photographer.</p>
<p>39.Performing artists are either dancers (the heroic), musicians (the divine), or actors (the common).</p>
<p>40.<em>Labor </em>involves an element of obscurity.  This obscurity transgresses these boundaries in an essential way, and indeed the entire power of all forms of celebrity labor consist only in these transgressions.   (With the rise of the ballerina on point in the early 19<sup>th</sup> century the heroic dancer became divine, and with Nijinski the divine dancer became common)</p>
<p>41.Pure actual celebrities are celebrities whose functional skill appears as a magical aptitude.</p>
<p>42.The purely pure actual celebrity is the actor (the myth of acting is that it is a purely natural talent &#8212; thus the child actor) or the model.  The impurely pure actual celebrity is the pop star.</p>
<p>43.The model is at once a pure celebrity and a non-celebrity.  Her beauty represents celebrity, but at the same time, the celebrity that it represents cannot outlive the beauty that represents.</p>
<p>44.The model who is past her prime either disappears, or, if she is a supermodel, she reinvents herself as a commodity by taking possession of an image that has already become alien to her.</p>
<p>45.The actor either plays the famous or the common.</p>
<p>46.The purely pure actual celebrity who plays the divine is not possible, but the exposure of this impossibility is of the essence of celebrity.</p>
<p>47.This impossibility takes three forms. First: the actor (Mel Gibson) who plays the divine by playing a martyr.  Though in this case the divine becomes common, and can only be represented as an odious fusion of the famous hero (Christ made buff like an action hero) and the everyman (Christ as humble carpenter). Second, the actress who plays the divine by being beautiful (but in this case her acting freezes into modeling &#8212; she seems cold, distant, unapproachable. The divine has again resumed a mythic form).  Third, the rock-star, who must make a choice between growing old and thus becoming common and ridiculous, or dying a martyr’s death.</p>
<p>48. Madonna has tried to do it all. But this can only amount to nothing.  The transformation between these forms offers no release from the entrapment of the spirit in the body of these forms.</p>
<p>49. Even if she were to adopt every orphan in the world, Madonna will never be a hero.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Suggested Order of Study of The Works of Breslover Chassidut]]></title>
<link>http://thebreslever.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/suggested-order-of-study-of-the-works-of-breslover-chassidut/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 04:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Suggested Order of Study of The Works of Breslover Chassidut, reprinted with kind permission of: Bui]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="center"><b><i>Suggested Order of Study of The Works of Breslover Chassidut</i></b>, <br />reprinted with kind permission of:<br /><a href="http://www.breslov.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://thebenoni.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/breslovresearchtop.gif" alt="Breslov Research Institute" title="Breslov Research Institute" width="450" height="54" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-237" /></a></p>
<p align="justify">Building on the previous post on <i>How to Learn Likutey Moharan</i>, here is a piece from Crossing The Narrow Bridge, A Practical Guide To Rebbe Nachman’s Teachings (Page 427-428) by The Breslov Research Institute.</p>
<p align="justify">The following is a suggested sequence by which to approach the works of Breslover Chassidut. Three separate schedules have been provided, based on your background in Judaism in general, and your ability to understand Hebrew texts. What is common to all three is the recitation of the prayers in Lekutey Tefilot, as these heartfelt prayers will open the way to the heart.</p>
<p align="justify">A.&#160;&#160;<b>For those with no (or limited) background</b>:<br />
1)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom<br />
2)&#160;&#160;Advice<br />
3)&#160;&#160;Untill the Mashiach<br />
3)&#160;&#160;Outpouring of the Soul, Resore My Soul<br />
4)&#160;&#160;Azamra, Tsohar<br />
5)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Stories<br />
6)&#160;&#160;The Aleph-Bet Book<br />
7)&#160;&#160;Mayim: Ayeh?<br />
8)&#160;&#160;Tzaddik<br />
9)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Tikkun</p>
<p align="justify">B)&#160;&#160;<b>For those with some background</b>:<br />
1)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom<br />
2)&#160;&#160;Advice<br />
3)&#160;&#160;Outpouring of the Soul, Resore My Soul<br />
4)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Stories<br />
5)&#160;&#160;Azamra, Tsohar; Mayim Ayeh?; Tefilin<br />
6)&#160;&#160;Likutey Morahan; Tzadik; The Aleph-Bet Book<br />
7)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Tikkun<br />
8)&#160;&#160;Untill the Mashiach</p>
<p align="justify">C)&#160;&#160;<b>For those with (some) knowledge of Hebrew</b>:<br />
1)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom<br />
2)&#160;&#160;Advice<br />
3)&#160;&#160;Outpouring of the Soul, Resore My Soul<br />
4)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Stories; Yemey Moharnat<br />
5)&#160;&#160;Likutey Morahan; The Aleph-Bet Book (Hebrew version with sources)<br />
6)&#160;&#160;Tzaddik; Kitzur Likutey Morharan; Alim Litrufah<br />
7)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Tikkun<br />
8)&#160;&#160;Untill the Mashiach<br />
9)&#160;&#160;Likutey Halakhot</p>
<p align="justify">Our Sages taught: “Luck is he who comes here (to Heaven) with his studies in his hand” (Pesachin 50a). When our days on this earth have come to an end, we will all appear before the heavenly Court. The “luggage” we will carry with us will consist of whatever Torah study and good deeds we performed during our lifetimes. Reb Noson said, “The study mentioned certainly applies to Rebbe Nachman’s works” (Oral Tradition). Happy is he who “packs” Rebbe Nachman’s teachings to take on his final journey.</p>
<p>For purchasing information <a href="http://www.breslov.org/bookstore/" target="_blank"><b>click</b></a> here. If you are looking for a learning partner please email coliver@breslov.org.</p>
<p align="left">By <i>Chaim Oliver</i><br />
<b>Breslov Research Institute</b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Suggested Order of Study of The Works of Breslover Chassidut</i></b>, <br />reprinted with kind permission of:<br /><a href="http://www.breslov.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://thebenoni.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/breslovresearchbottom.gif" alt="Breslov Research Institute" title="Breslov Research Institute" width="300" height="36" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-238" /></a>&#60;/p</p>
<p align="left">Please note, that <i>Breslov Research Institute</i> also has a weekly <b>dvar Torah</b> at: <a href="http://www.breslov.org/bookshelf/dvar.html" target="_blank"><b>The Breslov Research Institute&#8217;s Dvar Torah Archive</b></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Learn Likutey Moharan]]></title>
<link>http://thebreslever.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/how-to-learn-likutey-moharan/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 04:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[How to Learn Likutey Moharan, reprinted with the kind permission of: How do I learn thee? Let me cou]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="center"><b><i>How to Learn Likutey Moharan</i></b>, <br />reprinted with the kind permission of:<br /><a href="http://www.breslov.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://thebenoni.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/breslovresearchtop.gif" alt="Breslov Research Institute" title="Breslov Research Institute" width="450" height="54" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-237" /></a></p>
<p align="justify">How do I learn thee? Let me count the ways.</p>
<p align="justify">Reb Shlomo Freifeld z”l once told me, “You have to learn Likutey Moharan [amplify voice here] like a Tosfos!”</p>
<p align="justify">You can learn it as a musar sefer (the musar of Likutey Moharan would make you cry, said Rebbe Nachman zal; that’s why you have to turn the lessons into prayers; Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom #196 [end]). This can also be called a Likutey Tefilot-style, turning the lesson into a prayer..</p>
<p align="justify">You can learn it as a kabbalah sefer: kvetch my sefer any way you will, but don’t budge [in your behavior] from even the smallest paragraph of Shulchan Arukh! (The compiler of Ein Yaakov, the collected aggadatot of Talmud Bavli, writes something similar in his introduction, namely [I'm paraphrasing here], any interpretation is valid so long as one’s intention is to improve his yirat Shemaym and this borne out by his subsequent behavior.)</p>
<p align="justify">You can learn it segulah<b>*</b>-style, just reading the words, without even knowing what they mean, just knowing that its words are holy and having a positive impact on you, and on the entire world.</p>
<p align="justify">You can learn it in any of Reb Noson’s styles: Kitzur Likutey Moharan summary-style; Likutey Eitzot (Advice) i.e., by topic-style; Likutey Halakhot, in-depth, inter-laden with all you know from every and any area of Torah-style.</p>
<p align="justify">You can learn it as if Rebbe Nachman z”l himself was there teaching it, whether as your rebbe or as “one of the great tzaddikim of all-time.”</p>
<p align="justify">You can learn it with the intention: This contains not just information and ideas. This sefer is a fountain of emunah, yirat Shemayim, kedushah and taharah. I want all of those, in as full a measure as I can now receive them.</p>
<p align="justify">But whatever you do—learn it! ?</p>
<p align="justify"><b>*</b>A segulah is a thing or practice that in some mysterious way helps us, even though we may be clueless as to how it works.</p>
<p align="left"><i>Ozer Bergman</i><br />
Breslov Research Institute</p>
<p align="center"><b><i>How to Learn Likutey Moharan</i></b>, <br />reprinted with the kind permission of:<br /><a href="http://www.breslov.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://thebenoni.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/breslovresearchbottom.gif" alt="Breslov Research Institute" title="Breslov Research Institute" width="300" height="36" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-238" /></a></p>
<p align="left">Please note, that <i>Breslov Research Institute</i> also has a weekly <b>dvar Torah</b> at: <a href="http://www.breslov.org/bookshelf/dvar.html" target="_blank"><b>The Breslov Research Institute&#8217;s Dvar Torah Archive</b></a></p>
<p align="left"><i>Breslov Research Institute&#8217;s</i> <b>Dvar Torah</b> is e-mailed weekly.<br />
They will also periodically send out newsletters and special offers.<br />To Subscribe to their Mailing List, please click <a href="http://www.breslov.org/subscribe/parsha.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Chochmah in Atzilut: Der große Name Gottes]]></title>
<link>http://sophiagnostik.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/chochmah-in-atzilut-der-grose-name-gottes/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 15:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sophiagnostik</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Yah und Yahweh, das Tetragrammaton, ist Chochmah auf der Ebene von Atzilut. Yah besteht aus den Buch]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Yah und Yahweh, das Tetragrammaton, ist Chochmah auf der Ebene von Atzilut. Yah besteht aus den Buchstaben Yod und He. Die Spitze des Yod ist Kether und das Universium von Adam Kadmon, der Körper des Yod ist Chochmah und das Universium von von Atzilut. Der Buchstabe He ist Binah und das Universum von Beriyah. Somit ist Yah die Kraft der Überirdischen und drückt die Wahrheit von Chochmah als dem Erzeuger der Kraft am Lebensbaum aus. Die überirdische Kraft, die durch die Sefirot von Beriyah fließt, versorgt das Universum von Yetzirah. So deutet Yah auf Chochmah als der Kraft, die hinter der Welt der Engel (Yetzirah) steht.</p>
<p>Yod und He sind der überirdische Vater und die überirdische Mutter vor der Empfängnis und der Geburt. Verbunden mit Waw und He im Tetragrammaton, sind Yod und He der tatsächliche Vater und die wirkliche Mutter. Die göttlichen Eltern haben den Sohn und die Tochter geboren. Alle fünf Partzufim werden so durch den großen Namen Gottes repräsentiert: Yod-He-Waw-He. </p>
<p>Wenn die Buchstaben vertikal von oben nach unten geschrieben werden, entsteht das Bild eines Menschen. Das besagt, das Yahweh der Kanal der heiligen Schekina Adam Kadmons ist zu den unteren Universen und das die fünf großen Partzfim Ausdruck dessen sind, was in Adam Kadmon enthalten ist – der uranfängliche Mensch. </p>
<p>Ehje ist der höchste Name Gottes, Yahweh ist der große Name Gottes. Worin besteht der Unterschied? Hier gibt es eine direkte Parallele zur Verwendung des zweiten Buchstabens im hebräischen Alphabet (Bet) an Stelle von Aleph. Aleph ist der erste Buchstabe im höchsten Namen Gottes und repräsentiert Gottes Geist oder Essenz, die auch in der Schöpfung enthalten ist. Aber wegen des transzendenten Wesens des Schöpfers beginnt die Schöpfung mit dem zweiten Buchstaben, Bet, der Haus oder Struktur bedeutet, also die Matrix der Schöpfung. Diese Idee beschreibt auch die Beziehung zwischen Ehje und Yahweh. Sie ist ähnlich der Beziehung von Seele und Körper, in diesem Fall einem Lichtkörper und reiner Energie.</p>
<p>Ehje ist wie die Wurzel des Lebensbaums. Er ist das Leben des heiligen Baums. Deshalb ist er der höchste oder essentielle Name Gottes. </p>
<p>Yahweh ist wie der Stamm des Lebensbaums. Alle heiligen Namen gehen wie Zweige von einem Stamm von ihm ab. Deshalb ist Yahweh der große Name Gottes, der alle anderen enthält und durch Yahweh werden alle von Ehje versorgt und tragen Früchte, die Sefirot. Ehje wird auch die erste Herrlichkeit genannt, Yahweh die zweite Herrlichkeit und alle weiteren Namen Gottes die Herrlichkeit der Herrlichkeit (Elohim oder Binah) oder die dritte Herrlichkeit genannt.</p>
<p>Ehje ist in Yahweh wie die Seele im Körper und Yahweh ist wie ein Körper strahlenden Lichts, der Ehje enthält. Yahweh bedeutet: Das was war, ist und immer sein wird. Ehje bedeutet: Ich bin oder ich werde sein. So bedeutet Yahweh ein Ausströmen von Ehje, die Aktivität oder Offenbarung von Ehje, die während sie von Ehje ausgeht gleichzeitig auch immer zu ihm zurückkehrt.</p>
<p>Chochmah-Yahweh ist der Kanal der überirdischen Seinskraft, des überirdischen Lichts, das in der Kabala Ruhaniyut heißt. Ruhaniyut atmet und scheint aus den Sefirot und ebenso um sie herum. Es wird gesagt, dass es eine äußere und innere Ruhaniyut gibt, die aus den Sefirot wie eine Seele scheint und um sie herum wie ein Aura oder ein Kleid. Yahweh ist die innere Ruhaniyut und alle weiteren Namen sind die äußere Ruhaniyut. Ehje ist die innerste geheime Ruhaniyut, die wahre Essenz der inneren und äußeren Ruhaniyut, der strahlende heilige Atem Gottes. Das Wort ist ein Plural, der verschiedene Formen des Lichtatems Gottes nahelegt.</p>
<p>In Genesis haucht Gott Adam das Leben ein. Dabei handelt es sich um Adam Kadmon und Adam Ha-Rishon (den ersten Menschen), das überirdische Ideal der Menschheit. Es wird gesagt, das die Seelen der Gerechten (Tzaddikim) – aller authentischen Menschen – aus der Seele Adam Kadmons gezogen werden. So ist die Ruhaniyut oder der strahlende, heilige Atem Gottes im jedem Menschen. Durch Ruhaniyut sind wird mit den Sefirot, den göttlichen Namen und Partzufim verbunden und in der Lage uns an die Sefirot zu binden und diese an uns, also etwas von der heiligen Schekina zu verkörpern.</p>
<p>Yahweh ist der Name der Namen, die vereinigte Kraft der Ruhaniyut aller Namen Gottes. Yeshua ist dieser Name mit dem Einschub des Buchstaben Shin in der Mitte. Das legt einen Menschen nahe, der die Ruhaniyut in sich verkörpert und sich mit den Sefirot, den göttlichen Namen und Partzufim vereinigt hat. So ist Yeshua nicht nur der Name eines Menschen, sondern jedes erleuchteten Menschen. Dadurch wird die Bedeutung folgendes esoterischen Spruches klar: “Alle sprituellen Kräfte sind dem Namen Yeshua untertan.” oder “vor dem Namen Yeshua soll sich jedes Knie und jeder Kopf beugen.” In und hinter unserem gewöhnlichem Atem ist ein strahlender und heiliger Atem, die Manifestation von Hayyah, der Lebens-Essenz, die Chochmah entspricht. Indem wir diesen inneren, geheimen Atem entdecken und die heiligen Namen sprechen, haben wir die Kraft des gesegneten Namens Yeshua, die Gnosis von Yeshua Messiach.</p>
<p>So gelangen wir zu einem tieferen Verständnis der Ausgießung des heiligen Geistes über die Jünger zu Pfingsten im Beisein der heiligen Braut. Das überirdische Licht ist ein feuriges Licht, der Atem ist sein Fahrzeug und so kann jemand der weiss, wie man atmet und die göttlichen Namen vibriert, den heiligen Geist auf andere übertragen und ihn in ihnen erwecken. Das ist die Grundlage aller christlich-gnostischer Initiation.</p>
<p><em>(aus Tau Malachi: Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ. – Saint Paul, MN : Llewellyn, 2005. – S. 95-98)</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Suggested Order of Study of The Works of Breslover Chassidut]]></title>
<link>http://thebenoni.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/suggested-order-of-study-of-the-works-of-breslover-chassidut/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 00:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Suggested Order of Study of The Works of Breslover Chassidut, reprinted with kind permission of: Bui]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="center"><b><i>Suggested Order of Study of The Works of Breslover Chassidut</i></b>, <br />reprinted with kind permission of:<br /><a href="http://www.breslov.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://thebenoni.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/breslovresearchtop.gif" alt="Breslov Research Institute" title="Breslov Research Institute" width="450" height="54" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-237" /></a></p>
<p align="justify">Building on the previous post on <i>How to Learn Likutey Moharan</i>, here is a piece from Crossing The Narrow Bridge, A Practical Guide To Rebbe Nachman’s Teachings (Page 427-428) by The Breslov Research Institute.</p>
<p align="justify">The following is a suggested sequence by which to approach the works of Breslover Chassidut. Three separate schedules have been provided, based on your background in Judaism in general, and your ability to understand Hebrew texts. What is common to all three is the recitation of the prayers in Lekutey Tefilot, as these heartfelt prayers will open the way to the heart.</p>
<p align="justify">A.&#160;&#160;<b>For those with no (or limited) background</b>:<br />
1)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom<br />
2)&#160;&#160;Advice<br />
3)&#160;&#160;Untill the Mashiach<br />
3)&#160;&#160;Outpouring of the Soul, Resore My Soul<br />
4)&#160;&#160;Azamra, Tsohar<br />
5)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Stories<br />
6)&#160;&#160;The Aleph-Bet Book<br />
7)&#160;&#160;Mayim: Ayeh?<br />
8)&#160;&#160;Tzaddik<br />
9)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Tikkun</p>
<p align="justify">B)&#160;&#160;<b>For those with some background</b>:<br />
1)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom<br />
2)&#160;&#160;Advice<br />
3)&#160;&#160;Outpouring of the Soul, Resore My Soul<br />
4)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Stories<br />
5)&#160;&#160;Azamra, Tsohar; Mayim Ayeh?; Tefilin<br />
6)&#160;&#160;Likutey Morahan; Tzadik; The Aleph-Bet Book<br />
7)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Tikkun<br />
8)&#160;&#160;Untill the Mashiach</p>
<p align="justify">C)&#160;&#160;<b>For those with (some) knowledge of Hebrew</b>:<br />
1)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom<br />
2)&#160;&#160;Advice<br />
3)&#160;&#160;Outpouring of the Soul, Resore My Soul<br />
4)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Stories; Yemey Moharnat<br />
5)&#160;&#160;Likutey Morahan; The Aleph-Bet Book (Hebrew version with sources)<br />
6)&#160;&#160;Tzaddik; Kitzur Likutey Morharan; Alim Litrufah<br />
7)&#160;&#160;Rabbi Nachman’s Tikkun<br />
8)&#160;&#160;Untill the Mashiach<br />
9)&#160;&#160;Likutey Halakhot</p>
<p align="justify">Our Sages taught: “Luck is he who comes here (to Heaven) with his studies in his hand” (Pesachin 50a). When our days on this earth have come to an end, we will all appear before the heavenly Court. The “luggage” we will carry with us will consist of whatever Torah study and good deeds we performed during our lifetimes. Reb Noson said, “The study mentioned certainly applies to Rebbe Nachman’s works” (Oral Tradition). Happy is he who “packs” Rebbe Nachman’s teachings to take on his final journey.</p>
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<p align="left">By <i>Chaim Oliver</i><br />
<b>Breslov Research Institute</b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Suggested Order of Study of The Works of Breslover Chassidut</i></b>, <br />reprinted with kind permission of:<br /><a href="http://www.breslov.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://thebenoni.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/breslovresearchbottom.gif" alt="Breslov Research Institute" title="Breslov Research Institute" width="300" height="36" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-238" /></a></p>
<p align="left">Please note, that <i>Breslov Research Institute</i> also has a weekly <b>dvar Torah</b> at: <a href="http://www.breslov.org/bookshelf/dvar.html" target="_blank"><b>The Breslov Research Institute&#8217;s Dvar Torah Archive</b></a></p>
<p align="left"><i>Breslov Research Institute&#8217;s</i> <b>Dvar Torah</b> is e-mailed weekly.<br />
They will also periodically send out newsletters and special offers.<br />To Subscribe to their Mailing List, please click <a href="http://www.breslov.org/subscribe/parsha.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</p>
<p align="left">Also visit their blog at: <a href="http://www.breslov.org/blog/" target="_blank"><b>The Blog@Breslov.org</b></a></p>
<p align="center">© 2009 Breslov Research Institute &#8211; All Rights Reserved</p>
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