Kabbalah/Sod

MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:08 am

Kabbalah/Sod

This Thread should clear up alot of misapprehensions and ignorant abuse about the Bible. thumbs up

Definitions: Torah=Instruction

Kabbalah=To Receive

Kabbalah: A Brief Definition
http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380617/jewish/Kabbalah-A-Brief-Definition.htm

http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380639/jewish/The-Need-to-Learn-Kabbalah.htm

By Baruch Emanuel Erdstein
Often referred to as the "soul" of the Torah, the Kabbalah is an ancient Jewish tradition which teaches the deepest insights into the essence of G-d, His interaction with the world, and the purpose of Creation. Kabbalah teaches the essential Jewish cosmology, integral to all other Torah disciplines. Sometimes called "the Inner Torah" or the "Wisdom of Truth", it offers a comprehensive overall structure and plan for the universe, as well as a detailed understanding of the particulars of our lives. The student of Kabbalah is made aware of the personal as well as the collective rectification process and is encouraged to play an active part in it.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/kabbalah.html

Kabbalah

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Kabbalah is the name applied to the whole range of Jewish mystical activity. While codes of Jewish law focus on what it is God wants from man, kabbalah tries to penetrate deeper, to God's essence itself.

There are elements of kabbalah in the Bible, for example, in the opening chapter of Ezekiel, where the prophet describes his experience of the divine: "... the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.... I looked and lo, a stormy wind came sweeping out of the north-a huge cloud and flashing fire, surrounded by a radiance; and in the center of the fire, a gleam as of amber" (1:1,4). The prophet then describes a divine chariot and the throne of God.

The rabbis of the Talmud regarded the mystical study of God as important yet dangerous. A famous talmudic story tells of four rabbis, Azzai, Ben Zoma, Elisha ben Abuyah, and Akiva who would meet together and engage in mystical studies. Azzai, the Talmud records, "looked and went mad [and] Ben Zoma died." Elisha ben Abuyah became a heretic and left Judaism. Rabbi Akiva alone "entered in peace and left in peace." It was this episode, the later experiences of individuals who became mentally unbalanced while engaging in mystical activities, and the disaster of the false Messiah Shabbetai Zevi that caused seventeenth-century rabbis to legislate that kabbalah should be studied only by married men over forty who were also scholars of Torah and Talmud. The medieval rabbis wanted the study of kabbalah limited to people of mature years and character.

The most famous work of kabbalah, the Zohar, was revealed to the Jewish world in the thirteenth century by Moses De Leon, who claimed that the book contained the mystical writings of the second-century rabbi Simeon bar Yochai. Almost all modern Jewish academic scholars believe that De Leon himself authored the Zohar, although many Orthodox kabbalists continue to accept De Leon's attribution of it to Simeon bar Yochai. Indeed, Orthodox mystics are apt to see Bar Yochai not so much as the Zohar's author as the recorder of mystical traditions dating back to the time of Moses. The intensity with which Orthodox kabbalists hold this conviction was revealed to me once when I was arguing a point of Jewish law with an elderly religious scholar. He referred to a certain matter as being in the Torah, and when I asked him where, he said: "It's in the Zohar. Is that not the same as if it was in the Torah itself?"

The Zohar is written in Aramaic (the language of the Talmud) in the form of a commentary on the five books of the Torah. Whereas most commentaries interpret the Torah as a narrative and legal work, mystics are as likely to interpret it "as a system of symbols which reveal the secret laws of the universe and even the secrets of God" (Deborah Kerdeman and Lawrence Kushner, The Invisible Chariot, p. 90). To cite one example, Leviticus 26 records "a carrot and a stick" that God offers the Jewish people. If they follow his decrees, He will reward them. But if they spurn them, God will "set His face" against the people: "I will discipline you sevenfold for your sins...." and "I will scatter you among the nations" (26:28, 33). At the chapter's conclusion, God says: "Yet, even then, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or spurn them so as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them, for I am the Lord, their God" (26:44).

On this series of admonitions, the Zohar comments: "Come and see the pure love of the Blessed Holy One for Israel. A parable: There was a king who had a single son who kept misbehaving. One day he offended the king. The king said, 'I have punished you so many times and you have not [changed]. Now look, what should I do with you? If I banish you from the land and expel you from the kingdom, perhaps wild beasts or wolves or robbers will attack you and you will be no more. What can I do? The only solution is that I and you together leave the land.' So . . . the Blessed Holy One said as follows: 'Israel, what should I do with you? I have already punished you and you have not heeded Me. I have brought fearsome warriors and flaming forces to strike at you and you have not obeyed. If I expel you from the land alone, I fear that packs of wolves and bears will attack you and you will be no more. But what can I do with you? The only solution is that I and you together leave the land and both of us go into exile. As it is written, 'I will discipline you,' forcing you into exile; but if you think that I will abandon you, Myself too [shall go] along with you."'

There are many strands of teaching in the kabbalah. Medieval kabbalists, for example, were wont to speak of God as the En Sof (That Which Is Without Limit). The En Sof is inaccessible and unknowable to man. But God reveals Himself to mankind through a series of ten emanations, sefirot, a configuration of forces that issue from the En Sof . The first of these sefirot is keter (crown) and refers to God's will to create. Another sefira, binah (understanding), represents the unfolding in God's mind of the details of creation, while hesed (lovingkindness) refers to the uncontrolled flow of divine goodness. Most of the sefirot are regarded as legitimate objects for human meditation; they represent a way in which human beings can make contact with God. Through contemplation and virtuous deeds, human beings can also bring down the divine grace to this world.

The greatest scholar and historian of kabbalah in this century was the late Professor Gershom Scholem of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Scholem, himself a nonobservant Jew, was fond of explaining how he became attracted to so esoteric a discipline: "My decision to study Jewish mysticism came the day I visited the home of a famous German rabbi, a person with a reputation for scholarship in the kabbalah.... Seeing on his shelf some mystical texts with intriguing titles, I had, with all the enthusiasm of youth, asked the rabbi about them. 'This junk,' the rabbi had laughed at me. 'I should waste time reading nonsense like this?' It was then . . . that I decided here was a field in which I could make an impression. If this man can become an authority without reading the text, then what might I become if I actually read the books?"

As a rule, mekubbalim (people who actively study and practice kabbalah) are skeptical of men like Scholem, who studied kabbalah as a university discipline and not from a personal conviction of its truth. One mekubbal, Rabbi Abraham Chen, declared on one occasion before a seminar of Scholem's students: "A scholar of mysticism is like an accountant: He may know where all the treasure is, but he is not free to use it." A precisely opposite view on the value of kabbalah was taken by the late Professor Saul Lieberman, the great Talmud scholar of the Jewish Theological Seminary. In an introduction to a lecture Scholem delivered at the seminary, Lieberman said that several years earlier, some students asked to have a course here in which they could study kabbalistic texts. He had told them that it was not possible, but if they wished they could have a course on the history of kabbalah. For at a university, Lieberman said, "it is forbidden to have a course in nonsense. But the history of nonsense, that is scholarship."

Lieberman's caustic comment aside, kabbalah has long been one of the important areas of Jewish thought. Ideas that many contemporary Jews might think of as un-Jewish sometimes are found in the kabbalah, most notably, the belief in reincarnation (gilgul neshamot). Between 1500 and 1800, Scholem has written, "kabbalah was widely considered to be the true Jewish theology," and almost no one attacked it. With the Jewish entrance into the modern world, however-a world in which rational thinking was more highly esteemed than the mystical-kabbalah tended to be downgraded or ignored. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in kabbalah, and today it is commonly studied among Hasidic Jews, and among many non-Orthodox Jews who are part of the counterculture.

http://www.aish.com/sp/k/

http://www.aish.com/sp/k/Kabbala_1_What_Is_Kabbala.html

Kabbala is the Torah's expression of the way the world works. Removed from its source, it's a whole lot of rubbish. (First in a series.)

by Rabbi Shimon Leiberman
Most people have heard something or other about Kabbalah. But it is highly unlikely that what is going around in the general marketplace posing as Kabbalah is anywhere close to the real thing.

What most people have been exposed to is a smorgasbord of pop psychology and self-help that pretends to have some connection to Jewish mysticism, but it rarely, if ever, does.

It is easy to see how people are fooled. In most disciplines, you expect to know and understand something after studying it. But when it comes to mysticism, people expect to be mystified. So they are willing to accept incomprehensible mumbo-jumbo. Kabbalah is supposed to be mysterious and enigmatic. It's mysticism after all!

So much nonsense is presented in the name of Kabbalah, it is important to have some sort of forum where people can find the basic understandings that they crave.

In this series, we will attempt to present the central ideas of Jewish mysticism in a methodical and intelligent manner, minimizing abstruse terminology and shying away from a sense of the incomprehensible.

WHAT KABBALAH IS AND ISN'T

In order to understand what Kabbalah is and what it isn't, let us use the following illustration.

A researcher sits in his lab examining all sorts of atomic phenomena. He smashes atoms at great speeds, and records what he sees happening. He is very meticulous in his work, and may even draw some immediate conclusions from the data at hand. But he leaves it at that.

The kabbalist describes the abstract but we can still sense that there is a concrete and solid reality that he is grappling with.A great scientist picks up these notes, reads them and ponders their meaning. He begins to construct a mega-picture. He tries to envision what the entire system may be like. He knows that there are no instruments, nor can there be, to actually see the particles he imagines, and therefore he gropes for metaphors that will accurately connect the bits of data that the physicist collected. Thus, he begins to speak of "super strings," "atomic tunnels," "energy bridges," and "ten dimensions."

A third person, who has a highly fertile mind but with no sense of science, is eavesdropping. His imagination has been fired and, in no time at all, he is carrying forth about people that have mysteriously disappeared in "atomic tunnels," and unlimited sources of energy contained in various of the "ten dimensions."

These three people illustrate the different approaches to Kabbalah.

The "data" or facts that Kabbalah deals with are the narrative of the Torah, and its entire body of religious law. The "researcher" represents a person who sees the laws and narrative as they are, understands their immediate meaning, but does not get the larger picture.

The "great scientist" represents the Kabbalist who sees the various local points and then begins to get a feel for the greater picture. He needs metaphors to describe the abstract unity he perceives, and he is aware that this tool is likely to be vague and only approaching the understanding that he has acquired. Although limited by the tools at his disposal, the complex picture the great scientist communicates can still give us a sense of the reality that he is grappling with.

And then there is the pseudo-Kabbalist -- "the eavesdropper" -- whose Kabbalah is basically unrelated to Torah, except perhaps as a springboard for his imagination. He has discovered "sources of energies," "divine emanations," and ways to "expand consciousness," but it all stems from his fanciful illusions.

IN SUMMARY

Kabbalah is to Torah what philosophy is to science.

Like science, the Torah gives us the facts that are fully perceived sensually and rationally quantifiable.

Like philosophy, Kabbalah gives us the grander abstract picture that the facts present.

The upcoming segments of this series will be exploring some of the fundamentals of Kabbalah.

Pardes (Jewish exegesis)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardes_(Jewish_exegesis)

Pardes refers to (types of) approaches to biblical exegesis in rabbinic Judaism (or - simpler - interpretation of text in Torah study). The term, sometimes also spelled PaRDeS, is an acronym formed from the name initials of the following four approaches:

Peshat (פְּשָׁט) — "plain" ("simple") or the direct meaning[1].

Remez (רֶמֶז) — "hints" or the deep (allegoric: hidden or symbolic) meaning beyond just the literal sense.

Derash (דְּרַשׁ) — from Hebrew darash: "inquire" ("seek") — the comparative (midrashic) meaning, as given through similar occurrences.

Sod (סוֹד) (pronounced with a long O as in 'bone') — "secret" ("mystery") or the mystical meaning, as given through inspiration or revelation.
Each type of Pardes interpretation examines the extended meaning of a text. As a general rule, the extended meaning never contradicts the base meaning. The Peshat means the plain or contextual meaning of the text. Remez is the allegorical meaning. Derash includes the metaphorical meaning, and Sod represents the hidden meaning. There is often considerable overlap, for example when legal understandings of a verse are influenced by mystical interpretations or when a "hint" is determined by comparing a word with other instances of the same word.

Some thinkers, such as the Tolaat Yaakov, divide Pardes into Peshat, Remez, Din (law), and Sod. According to this understanding, Derash is divided into the homiletics, which are classified under Remez, and legal interpretations, which are classified under Din...................Examples[edit] Pshat{Gen. 1,2) And the earth was empty (tohu) and formless (vohu).
Rashi - The Hebrew word 'tohu' means astonishment in English and the word 'bohu' means emptiness and next to emptiness. Thus the phrase is 'amazement and desolation'. This means that a person would be amazed and astonished at anything that was there.

[edit] Remez(gemara makkos 2b) Q. A hint that the law of conspiring witnesses is in the Torah, where is it?
A. There is no such hint, because it is stated explicitly (Deut 19,19) You do to them what they conspired to do to the accused.

Q. But a hint that conspiring witnesses receive a whipping [if they cannot be punished by doing to them as they conspired] according to the Torah, where is it?
A. As it says (Deut 25,1-2) They caused the righteous to be righteous and the evil to be evil. And therefore the evil get whipped.

Q. Because they caused the righteous to be righteous and the evil to be evil. And therefore the evil get whipped?
A. But there must have been witnesses who testified that the righteous were evil. And other witnesses came and caused the righteous to be known as righteous as they were before, and caused the previous witnesses to be known as evil. And therefore the evil get whipped.

[edit] Derash (Midrash)(gemara makkos 23b) Rabbi Simlai deduced that there were 613 mitzvot taught to Moses at Mount Sinai. The verse says that (Deut 33,4) Torah was given to us through Moses at Sinai. The gematria of Torah is 611. And one should add to them the first two of the Ten Commandments that were given directly by God to the Jews [this is known because they are written in the first person singular], making the total 613.

[edit] Sod(Guide for the Perplexed book2 section 30) "Adam and Eve were at first created as one being, having their backs united: they were then separated, and one half was removed and brought before Adam as Eve." . Note how clearly it has been stated that Adam and Eve were two in some respects, and yet they remained one, according to the words," Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh" (Gen. ii. 23). The unity of the two is proved by the fact that both have the same name, for she is called ishah (woman), because she was taken out of ish (man), also by the words," And shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh" (ii. 24). How great is the ignorance of those who do not see that all this necessarily includes some [other] idea [besides the literal meaning of the words].

This Thread will Focus on the SOD level of Meaning. Kabbalah=To Receive. thumbs up

MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:09 am

http://www.inner.org/noahide/noach2.htm

The Nature of the Soul

Every human soul possesses ten sefirot, or spiritual powers. The first three are intellectual, while the remaining seven relate to the emotions.

The three powers of the intellect are the primary motivating force of the Divine element of the soul. The seven emotive powers are the primary motivating force of the soul's animal element.

For this reason, much of Jewish identity is based on the principle of "three." The Jewish People come from three patriarchs; in our prayers, we pray to "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." The priestly blessing is composed of three verses (three individual blessings). Our sages state: "Blessed be God, the Merciful One, who gave a threefold Torah [i.e., the Five Books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings] to a threefold people [Priests, Levites, and Israelites] on the third month [Sivan] by means of three [Moses, Aaron, and Miriam]."

Though the principle of three is innate in the mind of the Divine soul of Israel, it is secondary to our absolute faith in God's essential Oneness, which transcends the power of the mind. By clinging to the wisdom of Torah, which links the mind of man to God, the Divine elements of the soul become fully conscious of the absolute One, as it is said: "Hear O' Israel, God is our God, God is One" (see footnote).

In the animal soul's innate state, the three intellectual powers serve the earthbound desires of the seven emotive powers. It is to correct this "upside-downedness" that the seven Noahide Laws were given.

For a non-Jew, spiritual "rectification" involves the refinement of the seven innate powers of emotion through a commitment to fulfill the seven Noahide commandments. The non-Jew's innate first nature is thereby transformed into a second, rectified nature, which enables him to "see through" the three uppermost levels of his soul and envision the "One." This (often sudden) perception causes the seven emotive powers to serve the three Divine powers, rather than the other way round. If a non-Jew neglects his obligation to observe his seven commandments, he remains unable to apprehend God's true unity, and his consciousness is apt to fall into idolatry, with its deluded worship of the "three," the stars, nature, yogis, the pantheon of "gods," money, etc. etc. In short, idolatry can be defined as the worship of anything or anyone other than the One True God.

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Footnote #1:

The innate identity of the non-Jew, on the other hand, is based on the principle of "seven." There are 70 Noahide nations on earth. The core-essence of these nations is the seven Canaanite nations that occupied the Land of Israel before the Jewish People conquered it.

The number seven also has a special significance in Jewish tradition. It denotes "endearment"; in the words of our sages, "all sevens are dear." For the non-Jew, on the other hand, the number depicts general secular reality. For him, the seventh day of creation is not qualitatively different from the six preceding days. It is a day of work and experience of Divine providence and immanence. For a Jew, however, the seventh day, Shabbat, is qualitatively different from the six weekdays. It is a day of rest from worldly endeavor, a time to experience Divine transcendence. The Jewish seven reflects unity, while the non-Jewish seven represents plurality.

In the Jewish soul, the seven emotive powers are subordinate and serve the spiritual quest of the three intellectual powers. The 70 souls of Israel that went down to Egypt are subordinate to the three Jewish patriarchs...........The Seven Noahide Commandments

As we said, the seven Noahide commandments correspond to the seven emotive powers of the soul. These, in turn, correspond to the seven major parts of the body.

Sefirah
Commandment
Body part

chesed
"loving kindness"
prohibition against
adultery
right
arm

gevurah
"might"
prohibition against
murder
left
arm

tiferet
"beauty"
prohibition against
theft
torso

netzach
"victory," "eternity"
prohibition against
idol worship
right
leg

hod
"splendor," "acknowledgment," "thanksgiving"
prohibition against blasphemy
left leg

yesod
"foundation"
prohibition against eating flesh torn from a live animal or drinking its blood
organ of procreation

malchut
"kingdom"
establishing a legal system
mouth

That adultery is a perversion of love and murder is a perversion of might is obvious. Theft is a perversion of beauty, since beauty is the trait that enables one to relate to another with concern and consideration.

True faith in one G-d represents man's ultimate victory over evil (whose only real power is its ability to misdirect one's faith), and the gateway to eternity. The perversion of faith is idol worship. Blasphemy, the "partner" of idol worship, is a perversion of the soul's acknowledgment and expression of thanks to G-d.

While the first five and the last one of the Noahide commandments were given to Adam at the outset of creation, the sixth was first given to Noah after the Flood. The Torah refers to Noah as the tzadik ("righteous one"), the "foundation" (yesod) of his generation. The first 10 generations of mankind had been instructed by G-d to be vegetarian. After the Flood, G-d permitted Noah and his descendants to eat animal flesh in general, but forbade them to eat limbs amputated from a living animal, or to drink blood from a living animal.

The seventh Noahide commandment is the only positive one. It is the commandment to establish a legal system in order to judge those who transgress the previous six commandments, and in this way to regulate and rectify society. This commandment corresponds to the power of malchut ("kingdom"), for law is the foundation of any kingdom. As our sages say, "the law of the kingdom is the law to be obeyed." Malchut receives input from the other powers of the soul, as it is said: "All the rivers [the six powers] flow into the sea [malchut]." In the body of man, malchut corresponds to the mouth, whose function is to direct and control society.

When these seven commandments are arranged in the sefirotic structure familiar to students of Kabbalah, we have:

Gevurah
"Might"
Murder
Chesed
"Loving kindness"
Adultery

Tiferet
"Beauty"
Theft

Hod
"Eternity"
Blasphemy
Netzach
"Victory"
Idol worship

Yesod
"Foundation"
Eating amputated limbs from a live animal

Malchut
"Kingdom"
Establish a
legal system

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MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:11 am

As anyone can see, any Kabbalah School or interpreter of the Bible that 'does away' with the Torah is to be avoided like the plague, they are False Teachers. thumbs up

http://www.inner.org/noahide/noach7.htm

Mercy -- God Performs Miracles

At the beginning of creation, God saw that if He created a universe in which each individual is judged exactly in accordance with the merit of his deeds and intentions, the universe could not exist. He therefore combined the attribute of mercy with the attribute of judgment, and with both--mercy before judgment--created the world.

The natural order of creation reflects Divine judgment; Divine mercy is expressed in the form of miracles, defined as a superseding of the strict laws of nature. God's mercy is to all His creations, as is said in Psalms: "God is good to all, and His mercy extends to all His creatures.

As explained above, continual re-creation is an act of Divine lovingkindness. The fixed laws of nature, which function within created time and space, reflect the Divine attribute of might and judgment. The fundamental "law" of Divine judgment is referred to as "measure for measure." In His infinite mercy (the inner dimension of the Divine attribute of beauty), God makes the supernatural realm manifest.

Recognizing God's attribute of mercy, His desire and power to change the flow of nature (not merely in response and in proportion to the merits of man), arouses a desire in the heart of man to turn to Him in devoted worship.

In the idiom of our sages, prayer is referred to as "[beseeching] mercy." We pray that God miraculously heal the sick, provide for the poor and bless the barren with children. We pray for the clarity of mind and heart to know God, and to be able to emulate His ways.

Our sages teach us that the way to arouse God's mercy is to emulate His attribute of mercy, to empathize with one's fellow man and shower compassion upon him. In their words: "Whoever shows mercy to others will be shown mercy from Heaven."

By contemplating history, both past and present, a non-Jew will surely see the wonder of God's mercy toward His children Israel. Even in times of destruction and exile, the torch of the Jewish People has never been extinguished (as the laws of nature would dictate). By contemplating this phenomenon, the non-Jew connects to the Divine attribute of mercy in his worship.

In our prayers we depict the Mashiach ("Messiah"), who will bring salvation to the entire world, as "a beggar beseeching mercy at the doorstep." By recognizing God's attribute and deeds of mercy to all (and especially His mercy and miracles to Israel), the non-Jew connects to the soul of the true savior of mankind.."...................................................Victory (Trust)--Self Transformation

In serving God, the ultimate victory in the soul of man is the triumph of one's good inclination over one's evil inclination. To the extent that one is victorious in this spiritual battle, he merits a metamorphosis of being.

A Necessary Evil: The Yetzer ha-Ra

http://ejmmm2007.blogspot.com/2006/12/necessary-evil-yetzer-ha-ra.html

Though the Torah does not require that all non-Jews convert fully to Judaism, it does require that they undergo a semi-conversion in order to become "righteous gentiles." Non-Jews must accept the seven Noahide laws conveyed to mankind by Moses, the servant of God, in the Torah. They thereby become transformed, and acquire a greater level of free will, as described above.

With regard to the righteous gentile, the Torah states: "and he shall live with you." He may live in the land of Israel, and it is incumbent on the People of Israel to provide for his welfare.

As with all the spiritual powers of the soul, victory possesses an inner dimension. This is the power of trust in God, and the sense of self-confidence born of the realization that God continuously provides each person with the spiritual resources necessary to rectify his behavior and character traits, and thus transform himself into a virtually new being.

Victory is the "branch" of loving-kindness. In Divine service, loving-kindness corresponds to the consciousness of continual re-creation. Victory is made achievable by the sense that it is always possible, and never too late, for one to rectify and transform one's self.

Victory follows the three previous states of consciousness--love, awe, and mercy. After experiencing God's love for him (to create him anew every second), one turns to Him in awe (the hallmark of manifest free will), and comes to recognize His mercy. The greatest miracle wrought by God is His gift to man of potential rectification (the attribute of victory).

Here as well, the non-Jew takes his lead from the Jew. The "victory" of the Jew entails the "climbing" of the levels inherent in his animal soul, and the merging of these levels with the energy source of his Divine soul. Initially, the animal soul of the Jew comes from what is referred to in Kabbalah as the "intermediate shell"--that state of being which possesses a mixture of good and evil. As the non-Jew undergoes the semi-conversion process necessary to become a righteous gentile, he ascends from his spiritual imprisonment within the "three impure shells" to become identified with the "intermediate shell." He thereby becomes similar in some ways to the "secular" side of the Jew. (For this reason, the Jewish nation is commanded to sustain him.) Were he to convert in full, he would acquire the holy, Divine soul of Israel itself.

Tzelem Elokim Tikkun Olam

http://www.azamra.org/NaCh.shtml

http://www.azamra.org/kabbalah.shtml

Kabbalah & Mysticism

The Baal Shem Tov explained: Why is the Kabbalistic wisdom called the Hidden Wisdom??? Works on the Kabbalah are readily available! If a person is capable of understanding the Talmud and law codes, he will be able to understand the Kabbalah, while if he can't understand the Talmud and law codes, he won't be able to understand the Kabbalah. Then why is it called the Hidden Wisdom???

The reason is that the entire Kabbalah is built on two foundations, which are both hidden. The two hidden foundations of the Kabbalah are Fear of Heaven, and Love of God. These two are hidden in man's heart – for no-one can tell by looking at a person from the outside if he truly fears and loves God. It is because these two hidden traits of fear and love are the foundation of the entire Kabbalah that it is called the Hidden Wisdom.

Keter Shem Tov

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http://www.azamra.org/Kabbalah/138_Openings.htm

Opening 1

Oneness
God's existence, His will and control

The oneness of Eyn Sof - He who has "No End", blessed be He - lies in the fact that only His Will exists, and no other will exists except through Him. Therefore He alone is in control and not any other will. The entire structure is built on this foundation.

God's supreme unity is the foundation of faith and the root of wisdom. Accordingly, this is what must be explained first. For the entire Wisdom of Truth (çëîú äàîú, Chochmat Ha-Emet, the Kabbalah) comes only to demonstrate the truth of Faith (àîåðä, Emunah). It comes to explain how all the created realms and beings and everything that happens in the universe all emerge from the Supreme Will (äøöåï äòìéåï, HaRatzon HaElyon). It shows how everything is governed in the right way by the One God, blessed be He, to bring the entire cycle of creation to complete perfection in the end. The component details of this wisdom provide detailed understanding of all the laws and processes by which the universe is governed.

Thus the first axiom of this wisdom is that everything we see, including all created beings and all that occurs within time, is under only One Master, blessed be He. God alone makes and does all this, and He governs everything. The purpose of this wisdom is to explain the ways in which He acts to make and govern the creation. If so, the oneness of God is what we must explain first, since this is the very foundation of the creation, as will be explained. If we can understand this subject, we will have an understanding of the foundation of the creation, its root and purpose. Accordingly, it is certainly proper to explain this first.

The opening proposition consists of two parts: Part 1: The oneness of Eyn Sof. This introduces the subject of the supreme unity of God. Part 2: The entire structure. This unity is also the foundation of all the emanated realms and created beings.

Part 1: The oneness of Eyn Sof. You already know that we are not talking at all about God in Himself, namely about the essential nature of the Owner of this Will. Everything that we discuss relates only to His Will, which is all-powerful and unlimited. Of this we are permitted to speak, yet even here there is a limit to how far our minds can reach, as will be discussed below. Nevertheless, since we are not dealing with His Essence but with His Will, it is more permissible for us to seek understanding.

We must believe and have faith that the Supreme Emanator - blessed be He and blessed be His Name - is One alone, unified in all respects. This means that He alone exists, and only He exists necessarily: there is simply none other. And He alone controls everything. That He alone is in control is an obvious inference from the first proposition - that He alone exists. Since He alone exists, He alone is in control. This means that every other being that exists now is contingent upon Him.

Nevertheless, the fact that He alone is in control is a separate item of faith. Otherwise the unbelievers might say that at first He may have been alone and that He chose to bring creatures into being. But they could argue that nevertheless, as soon as He created independent creatures possessing their own will, it would be possible (were it not for the fact of His perfect unity) that these independent wills would set limits to His will. In other words, once He gave them free will, they became able to choose the opposite of His will.

Moreover, the course of the history of the world makes it appear outwardly as if this is indeed the case. For He created the universe for good, but He created the Other Side (ñèøà àçøà, Sitra Achra), which is evil, and He created man with free will, giving him the potential to do evil. Man came and chose to do evil, with the result that God's desire was not accomplished. The unbelievers argue that now that the people of Israel have sinned, there is no salvation for them (God forbid) for they sinned and continue to sin. Accordingly they will always remain exiled and persecuted - for where could their salvation come from? Indeed it says explicitly: "For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen because their tongues and their doings are against God, to provoke the eyes of His glory" (Isaiah 3:. It also says: "You forgot [or weakened] the Rock that gave birth to you" (Deuteronomy 32:18).

Accordingly we need to know that not only does God alone exist, but also that God alone is in control. This is what is meant by the oneness of his Will: that nothing in the world could ever negate His will, for He alone is in control.

Everything we see that appears to be the opposite of His will exists only because He allows it in accordance with His deep plan, which will continue unfolding until He brings everything to complete perfection. At present God leaves man with freedom of choice for as long as He wills. But in the end - whether through repentance or by means of punishment - everything will return to complete perfection. This is called "the oneness of Eyn Sof, blessed be He". We are talking about the oneness of His Will [but not about Eyn Sof in His intrinsic Essence].

Thus only His Will - the Will of the Emanator, the unified Eyn Sof, blessed be His Name, - exists, because only God exists necessarily. In other words, just as we must believe in the oneness of God's existence - that God alone exists necessarily - so we must believe in the oneness of His power and will. Just as His existence is necessary, and it cannot be otherwise - and He alone is the necessary cause, while everything else derives from Him - so too, His will and power are necessary, and it cannot be otherwise. His power alone holds sway, and all other wills exist only in accordance with this Will. Thus no other will exists except through Him.

Accordingly you cannot argue that, "While it may be true that all wills exist through Him, now that they exist, they have the power to defy His will" (God forbid). This is not true. Therefore He alone is in control and not any other will. In other words, only He is in complete control, for nothing can limit His power. This power belongs to the Supreme Will, which can truthfully be said to be the one and only Will. God wills according to His Will, and nothing can limit Him. No other will is in complete control, for all other wills are contingent upon the Supreme Will and therefore subordinate to it. Accordingly, even though they are also wills, they are not in the same category as the Supreme Will. For it cannot be denied that they derive from it, and therefore they cannot be equal to it, even though they are called "wills". As soon as we say they derive from the Supreme Will, we imply that, unlike the Supreme Will, they are not in complete control.

Thus when we say that there is one Emanator, blessed be His Name, Who is oneness and unity in all respects, we must immediately understand that His power is also all one. Since it is impossible for two powers both to be in complete control, we must say that only one Will is in complete control, and all others are not in control. It is still legitimate to say that now, other beings exist besides the First Existent. For this does not negate the power of the First Existent. He exists and He creates, and these other beings exist only through Him. However, if we were to argue that an absolute will exists besides the Supreme Will, even while conceding that the existence of these other wills is not necessary and that they derive from the Supreme Will, this would be a denial of the absolute power of the Supreme Will. For it is impossible to say that two powers can both be in complete control. If we say that the first absolute power made another absolute power, neither the original power nor the new one are in complete control. Accordingly, when we say that the First alone has power, it is inconceivable that there is any other absolute power.

Accordingly, when we say the universe has One God, which means one absolute Ruler and Controller, it is inconceivable that there is any other absolute power. For if there were, there would no longer be one Ruler but as many as the number of independent wills that had been brought into being, and then none of them could truly be called "Ruler". In that case it would be impossible to relate everything to one root - as we must - except in the past. We could say that at first there was one root, but now we could no longer relate everything to a single root, because we would be saying that a being exists who has the power to limit the initial Ruler. And if you object that if the initial Ruler wills it to be so, this is not called limiting the initial Ruler, the answer to this objection will be given in Opening 2.

Part 2: The entire structure is built on this foundation, namely on the oneness and unity that we have explained. The entire structure refers to all that was brought into existence by God, including both the lights [àåøåú, Orot, the Sefirot] and the separate realms and beings [ðîöàéí ðôøãéí, Nimtza'im Nifradim, the worlds and creatures that derive from and are governed by the Sefirot]. The entire structure is founded on unity, in the sense that this entire structure is a single, complete entity that manifests the truth of this oneness and unity in the parts of the structure itself. The lights (Sefirot) that may be seen in it, the "bodies" (the created realms and beings) that exist in it, how they are governed and all that happens to them - all were made as parts of a single order which points to and actively reveals the underlying oneness.............................Opening 2

His desire is only to bestow good. Even evil is a means through which He bestows good. In this way His oneness is clearly revealed.

The will of the Emanator, blessed be His Name, is only good, and therefore nothing will endure except His goodness. All that is initially evil does not arise from another domain that could endure against Him. In the end it will certainly be good, and then it will be revealed that there is no domain other than His.

This is the answer to the objection posed above: If the Supreme Will wanted to bring into being powers capable of setting limits to His power (as if such a thing were possible) - this would not be contrary to the Supreme Will, since He willed it so.

The will of the Emanator, blessed be His Name, is only good - We cannot say that the Supreme Will wanted other wills to exist having the power to limit Him in any way whatever. For the Supreme Will wants only good, and it would certainly not be good if His goodness could not reach His creatures. If you say that such is the nature of goodness - to benefit the righteous and punish the wicked, while "showing compassion for the wicked is cruel" - the Torah says the opposite: "I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious" (Exodus 23:19) - "even though he may not be worthy" (Berachot 7a). It is also written that, "The sin of Israel will be sought but it will not exist, and the transgression of Judah will not be found" (Jeremiah 3:2). From here we see that it is God's will to benefit even the wicked.

If you argue that all this applies only after the long exile and punishment - this is precisely what proves the point. For if so, we see that the Supreme Will brings it about that eventually everyone benefits. From this we may infer that His will is only to benefit, quite literally. However, He has to deal with each one suitably according to his nature. It is necessary to punish the wicked in order to forgive them afterwards. If the intention was to reject the wicked, they should literally be destroyed instead of being punished in order to benefit them afterwards. The fact that they are punished to benefit them later is clear proof that His will is only for good. For the intended result of an action is the ultimate purpose that governs all parts of that action. In the end, all men, whether righteous or wicked, receive goodness. If so, the ultimate purpose is to bestow goodness on all. This proves that His will is only for good.

And therefore nothing will endure except His goodness - Seeing that His will is only to benefit, it must be that things will not continue endlessly in their present state. Granted, if He did not spurn the destruction of the wicked, we could have said that their punishment is not bad, but rather that, "Evil pursues sinners" (Proverbs 13:21) and their punishment is fair retribution, as discussed above. However, now that we have said this is not His way, but that he punishes the sinner in order to bring him to repent so as to benefit him, if so, the punishment itself is bad. As such, it cannot continue forever. It must come to an end so that the sinner may be released. Since the punishment is bad, it is against the Supreme Will. And just as it cannot continue forever in each individual case, so it cannot continue forever in the world as a whole, for it is against the Supreme Will.

Let me now demonstrate conclusively that evil must come to an end in the world as a whole. For the intended result of any action is the ultimate purpose that governs all parts of that action. Now the end result of the complete cycle through which all people pass, including even the wicked, is good. If so, good is the ultimate purpose of the complete cycle in all its parts. Thus we have proof that the ultimate purpose of the entire cycle is good. But it is the Supreme Will that brings about the entire cycle. Since the ultimate purpose of the cycle is good, the whole purpose of the Supreme Will must also be only good. Thus we have proof that the entire purpose of the Supreme Will is only good.

Now let us consider whether the punishment, which the wicked suffer before the end, is good or not. When something ends up being different from what it was in the beginning, its beginning and end are not in the same category. The end of the cycle through which the wicked pass is different from what it was at the beginning. For in the end they attain good, while before the end, they suffer punishment. If so, the beginning and end of the cycle are not in the same category. The end is good - and this was the original intention of the Will that brings about the entire cycle. However, the intermediate stage or means - the punishment, which comes before the end - is not in the same category as the end. If so, that which comes before the end is not good: it is not what was initially desired by the Will that brings about the cycle. If we object: Then why does it exist? The answer is that it is not possible to attain the end without it. If it were possible to attain the end without this means, it would not be fitting for this intermediary to exist.

We may conclude from all this that the punishment is bad, and it is the opposite of what is desired and intended by the Supreme Will. However, it exists as a necessary means through which His creatures attain the end goal. If it were possible to attain the end goal without this means, it would have been better, given that His will is for good. Just as inflicting punishment in individual cases is the opposite of His will - which is why it must eventually come to an end - so too we may infer that punishment in general in the running of the world is also against the Supreme Will, and must change in the end.

Since the Supreme Will planned that all the individual components of creation will attain good in the end, it must be His purpose to bring the entire world to attain only good in the end. Just as He created punishments sufficient to bring each individual to receive good in the end, so He has the power to create a kind of punishment, or whatever else it may be, for the entire world, that is evil at first but ends up being good. It is certainly true that His will is only for good, and this is what must endure forever. For His power is forever and only His Will holds sway. If the means to accomplish this end is through evil, this does not undermine His intention to benefit everyone, for evil is the means to evengood. On the contrary, His good purpose will eventually be revealed and the intended result will endure forever. For what comes out of the entire cycle on every side is only His essential goodness.

All that is initially evil does not arise from another domain that could endure against Him. Now that we understand that what He does must be good in the end, we must understand another truth. This is that there is certainly only one domain, contrary to the claim of the unbelievers that there are two domains. When we say that our God is one, it is necessary to understand two things. The first is that even though we see such a multitude of diverse phenomena in the universe and so many different and opposing causal chains, we know that even so, there is only One God, blessed be His Name, and only one Will. The second thing that follows from saying that God is one is that no other will can limit Him, even one brought into being by him. And it is certainly impossible that two powers or realms exist, one creating good and the other creating evil. HaShem our God, HaShem is One - with every kind of oneness and unity.

If at the present time it appears as if things come about through a power other than God, be it a power that He created or another "independent" power, it is not so. God alone in His intrinsic goodness brings everything about. We have already discussed how everything evil that now exists will not endure forever. In the end, everything will be good, and we will know and retroactively understand that there never was any other power or domain. For an independent power or domain must by definition endure forever. This is obvious, for any power is independent only to the extent that nothing else has power over it. An independent power or domain is one that exists in and of itself. Whatever does not endure cannot be said to be an independent power or domain. Once we understand this, we see that no will - not even one that He brought into being - can limit Him. On the contrary, the purpose of the entire cycle is to reveal His dominion afterwards and to perfect all things through His goodness. This is what we must believe with perfect faith.

The benefit of studying the wisdom of the Kabbalah is that we can come to know and understand this clearly. We have been commanded to do so: "And you shall know this day and bring it into your heart, that HaShem is God in the heavens above and on the earth below: there is none other" (Deuteronomy 4:39). And how will we understand this? When we understand how the entire cycle of the universe is governed from beginning to end, we will then see clearly how it is that everything comes only from God, blessed be His Name. The purpose of everything is that only His good desire to benefit will endure forever, and nothing else. The very things that today perplex us and cause the wicked to stumble into heresy, will in the end reveal this truth to us, showing us His true, unique oneness in all its ways.

From this discussion we may clarify two aspects of the evil that apparently exists in the world now. The first is that it does not emerge from another domain or power (God forbid) that could exist against Him. The second is that in the end it will be good. In the end it will certainly be good - for it cannot stand against His goodness, not even in the sense explained earlier whereby a will that He brought into being might limit Him. In the end, it will be good.

Moreover, it is precisely in this way that Eyn Sof makes known to us His true oneness. And then it will be revealed that there is no other domain but His. Had He simply given His creatures an immediate understanding of His perfection, they might recognize His complete perfection (inasmuch as He revealed it to them) and understand His great majesty and glory. But this would not have refuted the principle of the unbelievers in earlier generations that it is impossible to understand a thing except from its opposite. They argued that if we say there is one God who is the ultimate good, there must (God forbid) be another who is the ultimate evil. For if it were not so, there could be no knowledge of the ultimate good.

In order to refute this claim, God willed and created evil, as it is written, "making peace and creating evil" (Isaiah 45:7). In this way, the opposite is immediately manifest, and then it is possible to understand the side of good. Moreover, we will also know that even this evil was not an independent domain in its own right. Only the omnipotent God, blessed be His Name, has the power to bring about what appears to be His very opposite. And through this we will see His great perfection.

Evil is not an independent domain God forbid. It is something created by God in order for His creatures to see what is the opposite of good, so that they will not think that there is some other opposite. For the only opposite is that which is actually the opposite. And when they have seen the opposite, and have also seen that it is nothing but His creation, they will have clear knowledge of His perfection and oneness. Then the folly of the wicked and the unbelievers will be exposed. For in the created realms, it is indeed the case that one side can only be known through its opposite. But the way of the Creator is not the way of His creatures at all. For a creature cannot make the opposite of himself. But He made His opposite, and then He negates it - and His oneness is revealed to perfection!

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MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:12 am

26And Elohim said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth and over all the creeping creatures that creep on the earth.”

27And Elohim created the man in His image, in the image of Elohim He created him – male and female He created them.

28And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.”

29And Elohim said, “See, I have given you every plant that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed, to you it is for food.

30“And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to every creeping creature on the earth, in which there is life, every green plant is for food.” And it came to be so. 31And Elohim saw all that He had made, and see, it was very good

Tzelem Elokim=Humankind as Image of YHWH/God

1: Has Intelligence

2: Has Freewill

3: Has component of Spiritual Being-A Soul

4: HaShem/YHWH Rules the Universe and Spirit World, Humans have dominion over the Lower World.

5: Has the faculty of Judgement

6: Has an inherent Holiness and Dignity

As created in the image of God, humans are endowed with "three intrinsic dignities": infinite value, equality, and uniqueness.

The first means that human life cannot be weighed, measured, or compared in terms of, that is, subordinated to, any other value. In the Kantian Parlance humans are always a goal or end in themselves and never a means to something else.

The second term implies that no person or group is privileged over another. In fact, Idolatry results when a person or group absolutizes itself or its message.

The third idea reinforces the dignity of every human by insisting that each person is irreplaceable and has a special role to play in the redemption of the world.

The Jewish religion is founded on the divine assurance and human belief that the world will be perfected." Judaism engages with and seeks to overcome these realities of history through its notion of covenant. The covenant is that dynamic which God inaugurated in history, that partnership between God and the Jewish people, to achieve the dignities for which all humans were created. Jews are those teachers, models, and co-workers-having both a divine and human partners - whom God designated to help all persons and even nature achieve redemption. For Greenberg, the messianic dream of perfection will not be realized by divine fiat, but by "improving this world, one step at a time."

These understandings of God, humans, and the world are expressed through the Torah and lived-out by the Jewish people through the Holy days and the Halakhah. In this view, Torah is that divine teaching which stands as "the constitution of the ongoing relationship of God and the Jewish people." Rabbi Greenberg

This expanded view/articulation of higher values help us to search for YHWHs presence in the secular Realms of Life, some peeps call this: 'Holy Secularism'.

The Covenant is essentially a Divine, Loving, Pedagogic process. As Humans become more competent, YHWH invites them to take up a more active role in the Task of Tikkun Olam/World to Come, as Co-Creators.

The lay people of YHWH/God play a more influential role in discerning Yahwehs purpose and in carrying out His Divine Mandates.

Later, ensuing Historical events reshape understandings of earlier Teachings.

Summarized

We=ALL Living things-creatures-sustained and Nurtured by Yahweh-will fill the World with Life.

* We will reshape the Historical Reality, the Flesh & Blood world we inhabit, to sustain that Life at the highest possible level.

* Life will multiply and triumph Quantitatively over all its enemies; including Entropy, Death, and Disorder.

* Life will equally triumph Qualitatively.

* All of Lifes’ capacities/potentials will be developed fully and realized.

* When Life blossoms to its fullest capacity that treats all Life, especially Human Life-the most developed form-and sustains it with the highest and fullest respect that it deserves, then Life will be in harmony with existence and deeply related to Yahweh, its Source and Sustainer(Natural Laws)

* This is the Jews Story, and by default; the Christians/Xns.

* Telling the Story of Creation is the Jews 'Witness'. The present evidentiary Facts contradict the Narrative fairly substantialy.

* Yet, This Story of Creation is shared by Jews and Christians

* This Story leads Humans to see existence as best they can, from a Cosmic Perspective-Sub Specie Aeternitatis.

* From that Vantage Point there are Three Grand Movements in the unfolding Pattern of the Cosmos

1: The World is moving from Chaos to Order. From the Big Bang, with no Laws of Nature to the regularity of the Life sustaining Laws of Nature.

2: The World is moving from Non-Life to Life. From a State in which no life existed to the emergence of Life. From one cell, untold replications, life has grown Quantitatively, and developed Qualitatively. It has luxuriated and spread into a vast range of forms over and through a variety of sustaining conditions/environments.

* The declaration that Life is growing, moving from non-life to life is counter-intuitive.
Death & Entropy refute that contention.

The 'Key' is YHWH/God-The Hidden, Infinite Source of Life with limitless Goodness, Love and Power that sustains Life and Nurtures every possible Form of Life into Being.

* YHWH, the Divine Source evokes the Third Grand Movement of the Cosmos

3: Life is growing ever more to resemble its Ground: YHWH

Life moves from being less to becoming more and more like Yahweh. The highest form of Life, the Human Being, represents the High Point reached thus far.

In Human Form, life so resembles its Maker that it is called; Biblically; 'The Image of God'

* This emergence of "The Image of God" is the Turning Point in Cosmic History according to Jews & Christians.

Up to that point Life has been sworn to 'Be Fruitful & Multiply' (maximizing reproductive success) through a built-in control Programme-A 'Selfish Gene'- that drives the process.

* The 'Image of God' Consciousness is so much like YHWHs that Humans are able to 'grasp' this overall pattern of which we, ourselves are part, and to join voluntarily in its realization.

* Similarly, the Human 'Image of YHWH/God has a capacity to Love ALL their fellow creatures and every aspect of the Universe, as well as the Maker of it all and the Beauty of the Plan.

* Once Humans understand and embrace this understanding, they will lovingly identify with and willingly participate in the process of Perfection.

* YHWH has invited us, as Humans, The 'Image of God', to enter into a Covenantal Partnership, committed to Love, to join fully in perfecting the Universe.

Tikkun Olam

* The People of Israel joyfully acknowledge that YHWHs first Covenant, the Noahide Covenant, never superseded, is made with ALL Humanity, not exclusively with Jews and/or Christians alone.

* It is made with ALL Sentient Beings.

* ALL Beings are called to recognize and participate in Natures Patterns.

* To accept Limits.

* To Direct their choices and actions in favour of Life.

* To join in working for Order against Chaos.

* We are ALL CHOSEN to become part of the movement from Non-Life to Life.

* We are commanded to increase Life and make it grow ever more like its Maker.

* The purpose of the Religious way of life is to create the nurturing ambience of memory and experience, of relationships and actions that sustain Human growth and turns it towards Yahweh.

* Being in the 'Image of God/YHWH brings with it more God like capacities. It bestows intrinsic Dignity, a climatic extension of that respect to which all of life is entitled.

* The People of Israel hold these Truths to be self-evident: That ALL Humans are created in 'The Image of YHWH/God; and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, among which are:

* Infinite Value

* Equality

* Uniqueness.

These are Birthrights of every Son & Daughter of Yahweh

The Sinai Event was the ultimate Social Engineering event.
The Torah is the first, and oldest Religious Book written in an Alephbet/ Alphabet........this alters the hegemony of the Brain to being left hemispherical centric=Abstract, linear and sequential. the ground for Theoretical Science....

MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:13 am

http://www.agudatbris.com/writtings2010/kabalah_revelation_messiah_yahshua.pdf

Kabbalah: the Revelation of King Messiah YahShua
“Now to him who is able to establish you by my full message - the proclamation of Messiah YahShua,
according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known
through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal Elohim, so that all nations might believe and
obey him— to the only wise Elohim be glory forever through Messiah YahShua! Amien.” (Romans 16:25-27)
Kabbalah has been clouded in confusion, legend, myth, and misrepresentation because authentic Kabbalahhas been hidden for thousands of years... until the coming of King Messiah YahShua.
The word Kabbalah הל בק comes from the root word לבק which means, “to receive.” Kabbalah
then is received revelation by the Holy Spirit. Kabbalah seeks to encourage a relationship between an eternal and
mysterious Creator – Yahweh, the Ayn Sof, the Incomprehensible One, and the mortal, finite creation – mankind,
made in the “image of the Express Image of the invisible Elohim.” (Genesis 1:26 & Colossians 1:15)
According to Scripture, knowledge of Yahweh was transmitted to the Patriarchs, prophets, and sages
( ה יה מכ HaחäKhämim in Hebrew, literally meaning “wise ones”) and in turn given to His people Israel.
Israel, as the priests of all mankind was to convey these teaching to the rest of mankind.
Unfortunately, though Israel was called to be a “Kingdom of Priests” (Exodus 19:6) foreign conquest and
persecution drove Israel’s spiritual leadership into hiding; the knowledge they had went underground making it
secret, fearing that it might be misused if it fell into the wrong hands. They stop the public use of the name of
Yahweh, hiding behind titles like El Shaddi, El Elyon, Adonai, and Elohim.
The Sanhedrin leaders were also concerned that the knowledge of the “Torat Ha’Sod”
meaning the “Mystical Torah” would be trampled on by the philosophers, theologians and preachers of the Gentiles................................................................What ought a person do?
He may go in the middle, provided that he does not stray in either direction.” (Tosefta Hagigah 2:3-4)
“Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the
left; keep your foot from evil.” (Proverbs 4:26-27)
The Torah is to be understood along four levels of interpretation:
· פשאת Peshat (literally. "simple"): the direct interpretations of meaning.
רמס Remez (literally "hint[s]"): the allegoric meanings (through allusion and parable).
· דרש Derash (from Hebrew darash: "inquire" or "seek"): midrashic (Rabbinic) meanings, often with
imaginative comparisons with similar words or verses.
· סוד Sod (literally "secret" or "mystery"): the inner, spiritual meanings, expressed in the Scriptures.
The study of Torah (the "Teachings" of Yahweh, in the Tanach and Messianic writings) is the inherent duty
of every Believer.
“Study to show yourself approved unto Yahweh, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the Word of Truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)
In the tenets of faith of Agudat Bris we declare, “We believe in the ין W ף א ס ו "Ayn Sof," the
Incomprehensible One, Eternal, Almighty, All Gracious, and All Wise Yahweh: Abba Father.
“Before He gave any shape to the world, before He produced any form, He was alone, without form and
without resemblance to anything else. Who then can comprehend how He was before the Creation? Hence it is
forbidden to lend Him any form or similitude, or even to call Him by His sacred name, or to indicate Him by a
single letter or a single point. . . . But after He created the form of the Heavenly Man (Pre-Incarnate Messiah), He
used him as a chariot wherein to descend, and He wishes to be called after His form, which is the sacred name
'YAHWEH'.” (Zohar, part ii., section "Bo," 42b)
Yahweh is the “Cause of all causes.” “And Elohim said…, "I AM WHO I AM." (Exodus 3:14) What
Yahweh did at creation was step from concealment into manifestation. The “Ayn Sof” or Infinite One, that exists
without end; He who has no beginning and has no end, moved from the incompressible into something the can be
grasped – Father.
Yahweh, by virtue of creating is the Father. “And [Messiah] said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible
for You. (Mark 14:36)” As Creator He is the "I AM WHO I AM,” Cause of all causes; the Root of all roots.
Man can only come to know Yahweh as “Abba” the Divine Parent, Father of All. Yahweh is “Eyeh Asshur
Eyeh,” the I am that I am or more literally, the Cause of all causes, the Root of all roots.
“Have we not all one Father? Hath not one Elohim created us? (Malachi 2:10)”
It is said by our Sages that, “All comes from One and all returns to the One.” The Messiah said, “I came
forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.” (John
16:28) That means, the sin of braking Covenant with Yahweh is the sin of breaking the Law of Return. The
Messiah came into the world to restore the relationship between Yahweh and man.
When man enters into Covenant with Yahweh, man is re-created. “Therefore if any man be in Messiah,
he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)”
The restored man is made into “ben Yahweh,” the son of Yahweh.
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15)
“And because ye are sons, Yahweh hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba,
Father.” (Galatians 4:6)
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“For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Yahweh. For the
creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope…For we know
that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who
have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption,
the redemption of our body.”(Romans 8:19,20, 22, 23)
Because there is a creation we know there has to be a Creator. But how did the Ayn Sof begin creation,
making room for the Universe and humanity? When Yahweh created the world, He didn't create it as a vast expanse
of existence all at once. Rather, He created a single point, referred to as "Ha-Makom" ( קום [ מ] ה literally "the
place", "the omnipresent") and from there, He drew out the entire universe. Ayn Sof began creation by b ם\ צ ו מ צ
Tzimtzum – constricting Himself forming an "empty space" ( ח/ יונפה ל ל ) in order to allow for a "conceptual
space" in which a finite and material world could exist. We know where that place, that first point, is. On the Temple
Mount, there is a stone. That stone is called the Even Shesia - literally the Foundation Stone. From that stone the
entire Universe was drawn out. In other words, when Yahweh created the world, there was a single point of contact
between the world above and this world.
The site of that stone was the place where Yahweh tested Abraham by commanding him to bring up his son
Isaac as a sacrifice; that stone is the site where Jacob dreamed of a ladder connecting Heaven and Earth and angels
going up and down on it.
Around that stone stood the two Holy Temples. In that Temple, the Holy Ark sat on top of that Foundation
Stone, and around it was the Holy of Holies; around the Holy of Holies was the Sanctuary; around the Sanctuary
was the Courtyard of the Temple; around that was Jerusalem; and around Jerusalem, the earth, and around the earth -
the universe.
And it is around that stone that we long to see YahShua’s Temple inaugurated in the month of Bül
(Cheshvan).
The first of Creation was Yahweh’s only begotten Son. The “First born of creation,” is “the image of the
invisible Elohim,” the Son of Yahweh called in the Hebrew the “Adam Kadmon.”
“He is the image (Adam Kadmon) of the invisible Elohim (Ayn Sof), the firstborn over all creation
(Son of Yahweh). For through Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and
for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the
Assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence
(Messiah). (Colossians 1:15-18)”
The first emanation to show forth out of the Heavenly Father was the Adam Kadmon, the pre-incarnate
Messiah. Yahweh the Father, whose knowledge and capacity of knowing is infinite, contemplates eternally His own
divine being, His own divine essence. The IDEA or IMAGE or WORD conceived of Himself in His own divine
mind is an absolutely perfect living representation of the Father. This living image of Himself which the Father
emanated from His divine Person, His bosom, is distinct from the Father but completely dependent on Him. He is
the Father's only-begotten Son. As the writer to the Hebrews expressed it, He is: “the brightness of His glory and
“the express image of [Yahweh’s] person (Hebrews 1:3).” He is the “Repairer of the Breach,” (Isaiah 58:12)
even before there was a “breach.” Blessed is Yahweh our Elohim Who creates the remedy before the wound. It was
from the Adam Kadmon that tremendous light shown forth and aligned itself into creation. It was through “the
image of the invisible Elohim,” the Messiah, that Yahweh made all things. The Adam Kadmon is the expression of
Yahweh’s complete Word.
“Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who
hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and
what is his son's name, if thou canst tell? (Proverbs 30:4)”
“[Yahweh] has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things,
through whom also He made the worlds; Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His
person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down
at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (Hebrews 1:2-4)”
Yahweh created mankind by His Divine Light of His Word. “In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim. He was in the beginning with Elohim. All things were
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made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the
light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. (John 1:1-5)”
Yahweh is the Father of Lights. “Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or
shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of
firstfruits of His creatures. (James 1:16-18)”
The first human, Adam, the Almighty's own direct handiwork, was created flawless, "In the image of
Elohim, He created him." (Genesis 1:26)
The Gaon of Vilna (Gra, 1720-1797) echoed this: “The light that was created on the first day was the light
with which Adam saw from one end of the creation to the other. This original light is the light of consciousness (
אור [ ל ה j כj ש Or HaSechel), the light which illumines the mind. It is through this that Adam perceived and
grasped the entirety of the universe. This is the light that was hidden away for the future when (Isaiah 11:9), ‘The
earth will be filled with the Knowledge of Yahweh’” (Aderet Eliyahu, p. 37).
Then, Adam and Chavah (Eve) disobeyed the command of Elohim, "Of the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die." (Genesis 2:17).
Chavah was tempted by a serpent, a manifestation of the Devil, to eat the fruit of the tree ("you will not die, you
will be just like Elohim"). After she did, she convinced Adam to eat of it as well and mankind fell from grace. As
Yahweh was literally pouring His Light into these vessels, they catastrophically shattered, tumbling down toward the
realm of the material, death. This is called the רי ב ש לים ת כ ה Sheviret HaKelim, or "Shattering of the
Vessels." Thus our great task involves assisting Yahweh by freeing and reuniting the scattered vessels, raising the
sparks, their spirit, back to Covenant and restoring the Kingdom and fixing the broken world. This is called the
Y ק B ם ו ןת [ עול “Tikun HaOlam,” the repairing of the world. How are we to do that?
“Hear, O Israel: Yahweh (is) our Elohim, Yahweh is one. Love Yahweh your Elohim with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be
upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk
along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them
on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-9)
How does the Ayn Sof, Who is pure Spirit without semblance or form, reveal himself to mortal man? In
the beginning, He did so by revealing himself through the manifestation of His Grace – called the ירות b פn ס
Sephirot.
“Praise be to you, O Yahweh, Elohim of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Yours, O
Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in
heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Yahweh, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.” (1 Chronicles
29:10-11)
This was revealed to us through Scripture by the Patriarchs, prophets, and sages.
“In the past Yahweh spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various
ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by His Son, Whom He appointed heir of all things, and
through Whom He made the universe. The Son is the radiance of Yahweh’s glory and the exact representation
of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat
down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. So He became as much superior to the angels as the name
He has inherited is superior to theirs.” (Hebrews 1:1-4)
“He is the image (Adam Kadmon) of the invisible Elohim (Ayn Sof), the firstborn over all creation
(Son of Yahweh). For through Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and
for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the
Assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence
(Messiah). (Colossians 1:15-18)”
The Son was created from out of the Father and was the agency that was used anytime man needed to see
the Elohim, “No man hath seen Yahweh at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the
Father, He hath revealed him. (John 1:18)”
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The critic would say, “Hey wait a minute. When God gives a revelation he does so in public. He gives it in
such a way that everyone can hear. He is not discriminatory. It is open to anyone who will humble himself and listen
to Him.”
“Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!” (Proverbs 9:17)
“‘I have spoken openly to the world,’ YahShua replied. ‘I always taught in synagogues or at the
Temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.” (John 18:20)
This is true, King Messiah YahShua taught everything in public, it’s just that no one understood Him. His
teaching hid in plain sight.
“The disciples came to him and asked, ‘Why do you speak to the people in parables?’
He replied, ‘The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven has been given to you, but not to
them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he
has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to them in parables.’” (Matthew 13:10-13)
“He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.”
(Daniel 2:22)
This revelation of the Messiah and His Kingdom had been hidden for centuries. However, it was written in
the Tanach all the time.
“The Torah is only casting a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves.
For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who
draw near to worship. If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have
been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an
annual reminder of sins, because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Therefore, when Messiah came into the world, he said: ‘Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but
a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
Then I said, “Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, O
Elohim.”’ (Psalm 40:6- Cool

First he said, ‘Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were
you pleased with them’ (although the law required them to be made). Then he said, ‘Here I am, I have come
to do your will.’ He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy
through the sacrifice of the body of Messiah YahShua once for all.” (Hebrews 10:1-10)
“Now to him who is able to establish you by my full message and the proclamation of Messiah
YahShua, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made
known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal Elohim, so that all nations might
believe and obey him— to the only wise Elohim be glory forever through Messiah YahShua! Amien.”
(Romans 16:25-27)
“We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of
the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of Yahweh’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has
been hidden and that Yahweh destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age
understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the King of glory.
However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what Yahweh
has prepared for those who love him’ (Isaiah 64:4) — but Yahweh has revealed it to us by His Spirit.” (1
Corinthians 2:6-10)
“Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to
Messiah’s afflictions, for the sake of His body, which is the Called Out Ones. I have become its servant by the
commission Yahweh gave me to present to you the Word of Yahweh in its fullness— the mystery that has been
kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints. To them Yahweh has chosen to make
known among the nations the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Messiah in you, the hope of glory.”
(Colossians 1:24-27)
Many of the learned Rabbis couldn’t see what King Messiah was teaching nor Who He was.
“At that time YahShua said, ‘I praise you, Father, Sovereign of Heaven and earth, because you have
hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was
your good pleasure.” (Matthew 11:25-26)
Yahweh sent His “Express Image” into His creation to reveal Himself to whomever will recognize their
need, whoever will recognize their own spiritual bankruptcy. Those who said to the Messiah, “We can see!” He
responds to them by saying, “You’re blind!” To those who cried out to Him, “We are blind, help us!” He opened
their blinded eyes.
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To those critics that deny there are secrets, hidden wisdom and mysteries in Scripture, we must say, there is
hidden treasure and hidden wisdom. The mysteries of Yahweh: how an infinite Elohim touches man; how He brings
healing and restoration to the world; how He transform the human soul; how He dwells among His people and
transforms our nature; and How He causes us to share in His nature, His character, His eternal life – these are all
mysteries – it is hidden wisdom.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Called Out Ones. To him who overcomes,
I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known
only to him who receives it.” (Revelation 2:17)
“My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the
full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of Yahweh, namely, Messiah,
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I tell you this so that no one may deceive you
by fine-sounding arguments. 5For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and
delight to see how orderly you are and how firm your faith in Messiah is.” (Colossians 2:2-5)
The full mysteries of Yahweh is revealed to us in King Messiah YahShua.
“For in Messiah all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in
Messiah, who is the head over every power and authority. In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off
of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by
Messiah, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of
Yahweh, who raised him from the dead.” (Colossians 2:9-12)
This is the mystery that has been kept hidden for the ages. Yahweh gave me to present to you the Word
of Yahweh in its fullness— the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now
disclosed to the saints.
John G. Lake said: “the secret of our Faith is not in doing but in being. It is in possessing the divine nature
of Messiah and His empowering presence that we become the reflection of Messiah’s character and our message will
then be characterized by the demonstration of the Spirit’s power. It is by becoming one with the Father that we can
know peace in the midst of storms. It is through [Yahweh’s] abiding presence that we find the secret place of the
most High and abide under the shadow of the Almighty. (Psalms 91)”
We have received: “The revelation of Messiah YahShua, which Yahweh gave him to show His servants
what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel …that is, the word of Yahweh and the
testimony of Messiah YahShua. Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those
who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.” (Revelation 1:1-3)

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MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:15 am

Opening 3

http://www.azamra.org/Kabbalah/Openings/003.htm

The ultimate goal of creation is to bestow the ultimate good on God's creatures.

The ultimate purpose of the creation of the world was for God, in accordance with His good desire, to bestow the ultimate good.

Having explained the meaning of faith in God, we now come to discuss His works.

The ultimate purpose of the creation of the world - for clearly, every actor acts for a purpose - was for God. to bestow - not for His own need, since He has no need for His creatures, but in order to benefit His creatures in accordance with His good desire. In other words, if you ask, "Where did this purpose originate?" the answer is clear: That which is good desires to bestow good. The Supreme Will is the ultimate good. If so, His desire is to bestow good - the ultimate good, because He is the ultimate good, and therefore His desire is to bestow the ultimate good. This is why He made the world in this way, with free will, reward and punishment. For this is the means to bring His creatures to the ultimate good, as will be explained in the next Opening................................Opening 4

His desire to bestow good to perfection through the revelation of His oneness is the cause of the deficiencies in the world, which create the conditions for man's service. The revelation of His oneness is itself the reward.

The Eyn Sof, blessed be He, wanted to bestow complete good, so that its recipients will not even be ashamed. He planned and calculated how to reveal His perfect oneness in actuality, for before Him there are no barriers or deficiencies. Accordingly, He established the system of government that He follows, in which eventually evil actually turns back into good. Initially, He gave a place for evil to do what is in its power, but at the end of everything, all the damage is repaired and all evil turns back into actual good. And thus His oneness is revealed, and this itself is the delight of the souls.

The proposition consists of four parts: Part 1. The Eyn Sof, blessed be He... This is the underlying principle of the order that was instituted to serve the ultimate purpose that I mentioned in the previous Opening. Part 2. He planned and calculated how to reveal... This is the plan that lies behind this order. Part 3. Initially, He gave a place... This discusses how evil turns back to good. Part 4. And thus His oneness is revealed... This tells us what comes at the end of the cycle.

Part 1. The Eyn Sof, blessed be He, wanted to bestow complete good. As explained earlier, He wanted to bestow good to the utmost degree of goodness and perfection so that its recipients will not even be ashamed, for, as the rabbis stated, "One who eats what is not his, feels ashamed to look in the face of his benefactor" (Yerushalm, Orlah 1:3). In order to avoid this, He wanted that people should have a way of working in order to thereby earn the good which they then receive as their reward. Accordingly He created good and evil and gave man free will, placing him in a situation of reward and punishment until the intended goal is achieved.

Part 2. He planned and calculated how to reveal His perfect oneness in actuality... For the actual method of man's service also had to be fitting and not merely arbitrary. For clearly, whatever the commandments that He might have instituted, they would all have been to men's merit when duly performed by them, and they would receive a reward for all of them. But true to His exalted wisdom, the Master of the World wanted that the method of service, rather than being merely arbitrary, should itself be a single system, consistent in all its parts and constructed according to a deep plan. He wanted one root for the entire system. The Supreme Will calculated that there could be no more fitting and logical focus for man's service than if He were to reveal His oneness in actuality. This would provide a suitable area in which man could serve, and the revelation of God would itself be the benefit man would receive, as will be discussed below.

For before Him there are no barriers or deficiencies His unique perfection surely lies in His total and absolute power. No possible barrier or deficiency can stand in His way. This we will come to know from the side of God's perfection, not from the opposite side. For this is only revealed when it is not the deficiencies and the repair that comes to them through the power of His perfection that are seen, but only His perfection alone is seen. This was a suitable area within which service could exist. In His wish to reveal His oneness in actuality, His plan was first to reveal the deficiencies, after which His oneness and His power over them would again be revealed, and He will rectify everything.

When perfection holds sway, there is certainly no need for service at all, for nothing could be better than His complete perfection. If so, fulfillment of the commandments would not add anything to it, or to His government of the world. But in a situation in which deficiencies exist, fulfillment of the commandments is of benefit, because through them, that which is imperfect and deficient is able to attain perfection. If so, only a realm of deficiency provides the appropriate arena for service in this way. For service is very applicable in a realm of deficiency. For it is impossible to speak of oneness and unity unless we speak of absolute power and control without any limits. It follows that if He desires to actually reveal this unity, He will create a limitation and then remove it.

Here we have the concept of the "centre" of Eyn Sof mentioned in Kabbalistic literature (Etz Chayim, Drushey Igulim Veyosher 11:3), where the Tzimtzum ("contraction") took place. This "center" is the central "point" on the basis of which the worlds were created and the service within them. The act by which they came about was the concealment of perfection, which left a realm governed by the principle of imperfection, a realm in which service is relevant. However, what He wanted to reveal is how the realm of deficiencies becomes rectified through the power of His oneness. If so, the work is not complete unless perfection is initially concealed, to make it possible for deficiencies exist. In this phase, the possibility of service exists - until the perfection of His oneness and unity is revealed and He rectifies all the deficiencies.

Indeed the service itself includes the actual revelation of His oneness, for it is the people who serve who draw down and reveal this unity so as to rectify all that is lacking. And now see what is their reward: the very unity that is revealed, which will be revealed to them, and they will attain it. This itself is the perfect goodness that He wants to bestow on them. For the reward for the fulfillment of the commandments is only in the world to come, when the souls come to their root, which is the root of the entire creation. Their delight will be according to their level of attainment. When they attain the revelation of God's unity, their delight will be perfect in every way: no barriers will stand in the way of the recipients, and they will attain the light of perfect unity - the greatest possible delight the souls can enjoy.

To summarize: When Eyn Sof, in His perfect wisdom, wanted to institute a system of service, he calculated in what arena it would be applicable. He knew that there was no aspect of His perfection in which there was any need at all for His creatures or any place for their service except in the bestowal of good, whereby evil itself turns back into good. This is the fundamental concept of perfect unity about which I wrote. In God's aspect of complete perfection, there is no place whatever for service. However, because the very concept of oneness and unity involves the hypothetical possibility of imperfection (not that it exists, but that it is negated through the power of perfection) it was therefore pertinent that in order to reveal His goodness, He should conceal His perfection - in order then to reveal it in actuality. This is like "damaging in order to repair". On this foundation He did all His work: He made a place for independent beings and a place for their service, and fixed a very precious reward for them.

Part 3: Accordingly He established the system of government that He follows... namely, the system of government that exists now, in which eventually evil actually turns back into good. In this way, what existed within His unity in potential becomes revealed in actuality, in that, Initially, He gave a place for evil to do what is in its power - He concealed His perfection - but at the end of everything, all the damage is repaired and all evil turns back into actual good, quite literally, and this is the end of the cycle through which His oneness is revealed.

Part 4: And thus His oneness is revealed. Several things are involved here. First, His oneness itself is actually revealed. Since this involves evil turning back into good, it could not actually come about until evil was actually revealed in the lower realms. Secondly, the revelation of God's oneness is so precious that they will have the greatest delight when they attain it. Thirdly, this revelation, which involves initial concealment, provides a place for service and, when attained, for reward. Since evil exists only during the phase of service to reveal His oneness, the service does not need to last forever. " 'Today to do them' and tomorrow to receive their reward" (Eruvin 22a on Deut. 7:11). For as soon as His oneness is revealed, there is no further need for service, because this itself is the delight of the souls - the revelation of His unity is itself precisely the goodness that, as we have said, He wants to bestow.

Thus we see how the Supreme Will calculated and planned something intrinsically perfect and logical in all its parts. The goodness which He bestows is in itself complete: it is very great and precious, for His oneness is something most glorious and precious. Further, the mode of bestowal is also perfect, because the recipients will not feel any shame, having worked to earn their reward through service. Moreover, it is the actual bestowal of good itself that creates the possibility of service. For it is the way in which the intended bestowal of goodness comes about that provides a place for man's service. The purpose of the service is to reveal God's unity, which is the intended benefit, which comes about through turning evil back to good.

Thus the complete path of government in its perfection involves the initial concealment of His perfection followed by its revelation. This very pathway is what creates the possibility of service. The entire creation and the system through which it is governed are built on this foundation. Thus the system through which the world is governed is a law that will eventually reveal, through all its cycles, the truth of this oneness. And the creation itself is built othe foundation of concealment followed by revelation - in the sense that the created realms and beings themselves contain allusions to the laws of this system of government. This is what was stated in Opening 1: "On this foundation the entire structure is built".

MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:17 am

The Christian and Other Religions: the Biblical Evidence
Christopher J. H. Wright

http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/religions_wright.pdf

3. Israel and the gods of the nations

a. ‘No other gods’. There is certainly a change of atmosphere from the ‘ecumenical bonhomie’
(Wenham) of the patriarchal religion in Genesis to the clarity and unambiguous exclusiveness of
the first commandment: ‘I am Yahweh ... You shall have no other gods beside me.’ From this
point on, the faith of Israel was dogmatically mono-Yahwistic, whether or not the monotheistic
implications of that faith were as yet consciously understood. Israel was forbidden either to
worship other gods or to attempt to worship Yahweh in the way those gods were worshipped (Dt.
12:30f.). The facts of this matter are quite unmistakable and need not be tediously listed in detail.
In the law (e.g. Dt. 7, 13, etc.), in the prophets (e.g. Je. 2), in the narratives (e.g. 2 Ki. 17), in the
psalms (e.g. Ps. 106), even in the Wisdom tradition (e.g. Jb. 31:26ff.) the overwhelming message
is of the exclusiveness of Israel’s faith―Yahweh alone. This is not just a peripheral trait or the
by-product of national pride.

It is of the essence of that covenant relationship to which alone Israel owed their nationhood and from which they derived their reason for existence.
However, it is precisely as we feel the full force of this particularism and exclusivism of the historical faith of Israel that we need to recall the universal purpose that lies behind it—theologically and chronologically. The preservation of a pure worship of the living God in Israel and of the revelation entrusted to them was not to spite the rest of humanity but was ultimately for their sake. It was not a matter of Israel flaunting their privilege in an attitude of ‘Our religion is better than yours’—as if Israel’s faith was one among many brands of a commodity, ‘human religion’. Rather what was at stake, what was so threatened by Israel compromising with the gods and worship of other nations, was the continuity of the redemptive work of the Creator God of all
mankind within the unique historical and social context which he himself had chosen. And that choice of Israel was for reasons finally known only to himself, reasons which certainly did not include any national or religious superiority on Israel’s part, as they were bluntly informed (cf.
Dt. 7:7; 9:5f.).
This is a point which is missed by some who try to soften the sharp edges of Israel’s religious
exclusivism by a misreading or false comparison of Old Testament texts.

MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:20 am

The whole point of the Bible is to unite ALL Humans. The Creator, YHWH, Ein Sof, delivered a message in Hebrew.

The point of the Commandments is to convert humans from their natural animalistic/egoistic nature to Altruistic.

Recognition that the Creator is ONE, no Duality............the Shema: "Hear O Yisrael, YHWH is our Elohim, YHWH is one!" The First Commandment begins with: "I AM"

So What Exactly is an Elohim?

http://www.thedivinecouncil.com/What%20is%20an%20Elohim.pdf

..........I know how difficult it was for me to understand that some cherished notions about the
word G-O-D were actually misconceptions. One was an idea dealt with in the last
chapter, that the false gods of the Bible were only idols. Another notion that didn’t
conform to the reality of the text was that the word G-O-D is only a name, not just an
“ordinary” noun. Because I thought G-O-D was exclusively the name of a personal
being, and a unique being at that, I tended to assign the attributes of that being, Yahweh
of Israel, to the three letters G-O-D. When I came to realize that there were other G-OD-
S in a heavenly council, it seemed (and that’s an important word) as though Yahweh
was just one among equals. That bothered me.
In the last chapter I explained why this concern was imaginary. Yahweh is inherently
distinct and superior to all other gods. Yahweh is an elohim (a god), but no other
elohim (gods) are Yahweh.......I’m betting that many of you are like I was
after first discovering what the inspired text really says—what the ancient worldview of
Israel really assumed. You still may be stuck on the idea that there can only be one
elohim since Yahweh is called elohim in so many places in the Bible. And if that’s not
true, you might be asking, then what is an elohim? Even further, you might doubt that
Yahweh can be part of the class of elohim and still be “species unique” as I described in
the last chapter. That’s what we’re going to address here.
The second doubt is easily handled. On one level, it is no problem for Yahweh to share
attributes with inferior creatures he has created. After all, he does that with respect to
us. We mirror the creator in what theologians have often called “communicable”
attributes. Examples would be love, mercy, intelligence, and so forth. Those attributes
Yahweh alone possesses are often termed “incommunicable” attributes. Examples
would be omnipotence, self-existence, and omniscience. By definition only one being
can be all powerful (omnipotent). If that being’s power is matched by another, then he
wouldn’t truly be supreme in power. As the High God shares attributes with us as his
creatures, so lesser elohim may share some of his qualities.
The former concern is probably the one that most readers find more tricky: How can
Yahweh can be part of the class of elohim and still be “species unique”? Answering
this question is actually not difficult, but it requires two adjustments in your thinking:
(1) that elohim as a term does not speak of a range of attributes with which we would
only associate Yahweh; and (2) that the term refers only to a being’s proper plane of
existence. The second consideration is crucial, in that it is the key to sorting out how
various beings can be described as elohim and yet only one Yahweh exists.
I don’t have to tell you that sorting out this issue is important so as to coherently
distinguish Yahweh from the other elohim...........

MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:21 am

................The Hebrew Bible, Old and New Testaments inform us that: Life is precious and History is meaningful, unlike David Ickes assertion that life is an Illusion, the Biblical view is more scientifically astute: The World is not AS we perceive it but it is very real. The Bible entrains our 6th Sense so that we may perceive realities beyond the 5 sense world.

The 5 Senses do not detect infrared, ultraviolet, radio waves, x-rays etc..yet they exist. The unaided human eye cannot perceive Atoms, protons, quarks etc.yet they exist......We see the Unity of existence, the ground that sustains being, the interconnexion of ALL Life.

The Creator is 'unseen' yet we learn to see through the surface of reality. We are never alone.

The Torah overcomes the Reptilian/Mammalian Brain Centers. Teaches us to become impeccably honest, to be non-exploitive, loving, altruistic. to be a Shepherd not a Predator.

Rodin, you lie when you teah that Jesus hates.

In Hebraic Thought the whole Function of the Torah is to turn the Soul away from the things of the Flesh. FROM egoistic TO Altruistic. During our life our Soul either attaches itself to the things of Flesh, the Path of Darkness; or it attaches itself to the things of the Spirit-The Path of Light, becoming a Child of the Light.

When the False prophets and teachers tell us that Jesus 'did away with the Torah/Instruction/Laws of YHWH'...........they lie, they deceive........they mislead innocents onto the Path of Darkness........rodin; suzi woo woo: you must learn, before you die, to Play the Game Clean. You must learn why deceiving, cheating, exploiting are losing propositions and they harm you more then the people you harm by doing those sordid things.

Great harm is done to our societies as these once recognized undesirable charateristics are now exalted and presented as paradigms for behaviour.....................................The Good Newz is that there IS a Paradigm Shift-We are in a Transit between two Ages......The Age of Production and Accumulation TO the Age of Integrity and Restoration.

"Ahavta yirecha Kamocha"= Love your neighbor as yourself.

In humans the personalities that could have been are always there, always uncomfortable in their imprisonment. And periodically they scream from the dungeons of their minds demanding their Freedom.

The Biblical Commandments were given not for the sake of imposing rules and limitations and restrictions on people limiting their Freedom, but rather as a Divine communication that can be seen as generous-teaching/instructing humanbeings how life works and what to do and not to do to make the best of it.

Within the mitzvot/commandments are all the neccessary instructions for human conduct, in order to help people avoid negative consequences and repercussions, and also to reap benefit from living in alignment with the Laws of the Universe.

Who is wise? They who can foresee the consequences of their actions.
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MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:21 am

* The People of Israel joyfully acknowledge that YHWHs first Covenant, the Noahide Covenant, never superseded, is made with ALL Humanity, not exclusively with Jews and/or Christians alone.

* It is made with ALL Sentient Beings.

* ALL Beings are called to recognize and participate in Natures Patterns.

* To accept Limits.

* To Direct their choices and actions in favour of Life.

* To join in working for Order against Chaos.

* We are ALL CHOSEN to become part of the movement from Non-Life to Life.

* We are commanded to increase Life and make it grow ever more like its Maker.

* The purpose of the Religious way of life is to create the nurturing ambience of memory and experience, of relationships and actions that sustain Human growth and turns it towards Yahweh.

* Being in the 'Image of God/YHWH brings with it more God like capacities. It bestows intrinsic Dignity, a climatic extension of that respect to which all of life is entitled.

* The People of Israel hold these Truths to be self-evident: That ALL Humans are created in 'The Image of YHWH/God; and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, among which are:

* Infinite Value

* Equality

* Uniqueness.

These are Birthrights of every Son & Daughter of Yahweh

The Sinai Event was the ultimate Social Engineering event.

The Torah is the first, and oldest Religious Book written in an Alephbet/ Alphabet........this alters the hegemony of the Brain to being left hemispherical centric=Abstract, linear and sequential. the ground for Theoretical Science....

Rabbi Greenberg

THE UNIVERSAL DESIRE FOR CLOSENESS TO God...AND THE SECRET OF THE SABBATH by Rabbi Chaim Richman

The following teaching from the riches of the Oral Tradition is about a level of understanding the Sabbath which is relevant to Jews and non-Jews alike. It is based on a teaching by Rabbi Chaim ben Atar (1746-1793), known as "the holy Light of Life," based on the title of his most famous work.

I. The World Intuitively Pines for G-d
Man - The Centerpiece of Creation
The created world can be divided into four basic categories: the inanimate, plant, animal, and 'speaking' life - man. Man, the highest level of creation, is the only creature endowed with the capability of speech, and this is what singles him out as a completely separate category - he has the greatest potential to develop a relationship with his Creator. He is the center of creation and its purpose and crowning achievement. For this reason, he was created last, and introduced into the Garden... to enable him to enter into a complete world, ready for him, furnished and equipped in advance to house its illustrious occupant.

Every Level of Creation Possesses a Soul
Man is followed by the members of the animal kingdom. Next in line comes the plant kingdom, and finally, inanimate creation - the lowest level of creation, as exemplified by stone. Even stone, the Torah teaches, possesses some degree of life-force, however weak. For it is impossible for something which the Holy One has created to be incapable of recognizing Him. Therefore, commensurate to that degree of life-force, awareness of the Divine could be said to exist within it...

Desire for Closeness to G-d... The Prime Mover
And so the soul, the essence, of every creature, each according to its level of understanding, has some inkling of the greatness of the Creator, and actually carries on a relationship with Him. This soul is constantly driven with endless passion to come closer to the source of all life, the Great and Perfect Light of the L-rd... how much more so should this be true among the higher, more spiritual elements of creation who understand to some extent what it means to 'cling' to the light of the living G-d.

All of Creation is United in the Desire for Closeness to G-d
Herein lies one of the greatest secrets of creation...

All life on earth... and even the actual physical elements that comprise the planet itself - the entire world as one, including every level of creation, from the lowest level of the inanimate - stones and earth, to the highest and most intelligent life-form, man himself; an endless pageant which spans every creature, plant and animal - all are constantly and inexorably united by an all-consuming, burning desire for G-d. This is the vital force which drives the world; this desire is the power which fuels the universe... it reverberates within the entire life-force, and the whole globe, like a man beating with one heart, knows on the deepest level with absolute clarity that there is nothing as sweet, desirable, and sustaining as 'Dveykut' - the ability to 'cling' close to the light of the Creator. This is the purpose of life itself, and on the deepest collective intuitive level, all are aware that nothing else is worth living for. This longing is itself the vital life-force of everything, and the entire world draws from it at once. In other words, this longing for G-d is what fuels the world to go on.

Because G-d is the Creator of all existence, He maintains an intimate link with each and every creature, regardless of its spiritual capacity. Obviously not all of creation is equal in spiritual sensitivity. Regardless of this, that link of intimate knowledge still exists, according to its degree of conciousness and development.

Three Revolutionary Innovations in Human History took place at Mount Sinai.

1: Abstract Ethical Monotheism

2: Universal Codified Law

3: An Alephbet 1,800 BCE

Abstract Ethical Monotheism rather than Polytheism, Rule of Law for All rather than the Divine Rights of Kings or Queens and an Aleph/Bet, less than thirty characters that replaced Iconographs/Ideograms and Hieroglyphs, enhancing Literacy amongst the masses.

The abstraction of all three innovations were mutually reinforcing.

YHWH/God proclaimed that there exists a Codex of morality that stands above Human intercourse.

The 10 Commandments applied universally to everyone. no King, Pharoah, or Potentate was above the Law.

Refutes the rubric that 'Might makes Right'.

YHWH/God expected all His Chosen People TO READ what He inspired to be written.

The Pentateuch is the oldest Religious Book written in an Alephbet-Alphabet. Prior books were written in Cuneiform, Hieroglyphs etc......

YHWH forbade anyone from visualizing Him. No Images. No Idolatry.

He sanctioned only the written word.

This promulgates equality and openness.

An overarching Theme of the Pentateuch, and ensuing Books of the Bible is: Justice for all.

A distinguishing feature of the Pentateuch from other belief systems of the Time is its dominating Theme of: Righteousness,

Living a pious life and obeying written law was/is more important than winning Battles, honouring the King, or sacrificing to a local god.

Justice for all was a unique community standard in an era when the dominant principle was a raised and clenched fist.

Unlike other ANE Sagas, the Exodus begins with the people shackled slaves.

Unlike other ANE Sagas, Yahweh 'Chose' the people rather than the people choosing their god.
This rediscovery allows each to uncover and affirm each others’ role in the Divine Plan. The Kingdom of Yahweh is advanced and comes closer.

'You are my witnesses says YHWH/God' Isaiah 43:10
The People of Israel are YHWHs Servants, 'Chosen' to witness to the loving Creator and the Divine Plan for Humanity and the Cosmos.

The People of Israel = not just the Israelis, or Jews, but to all who affirm that Yahweh has made a valid Covenant with Abraham and his descendants and all who take up the task of World Redemption so that the covenant can be fulfilled.

For that is the purpose of making the covenant.

Xns and Muslims are recognized as Abrahams children when they purge themselves of Supersessionist claims and hatred of Jews.

To be True to its Witness, the People of Israel tell 3 Stories to the World, the rest of Humanity, in the presence of Yahweh and in the presence of their fellow Humans.

1: They tell the Story of Creation, the Divine Vision of an intended perfect World. Jew & Xn stake their existence that this World will come to be.

2: The Story of the Covenant, the process operating between a Divine-Human partnership whereby our imperfect World will be brought back to that state of Perfection.

3: The Story of Redemption-sometimes called: 'The End of Days'-'The Messiah Story'-which is the culmination and realization of the process.

At the end, Holistic perfection will be achieved.
Peace between Humans.

Between Humans and all the rest of Life, between all Life and Nature itself, and between all of the above and Yahweh.

Three Stories add up to one comprehensive Story: The Triumph of Life

Before Monotheism there had never been Religious Warfare.

The Polytheistic Cultures were live and let live about other culture Deities and often borrowed and share aspects.

The Polytheistic Deities were usually Local Deities, not Universe/Worldwide.

Polytheist had National gods, Local gods, family gods and personal gods, even their pet animals had gods.

Abstract Ethical Monotheism was a Major Advance along the road to Enlightenment, but came at a high cost.

Abstract Ethical Monotheism encouraged people to think in new ways. An Abstract Ethical Monotheistic Creator Being not tied to a concrete Image/Picture is a very Abstract Concept..

Abstraction is a crucial component of Logical Reasoning and its use can liberate people from superstition.

Devotion to an Abstract Deity has a Heavy price.

If everyone agrees there is only one, true, Living Creator Being, and different groups conceive of it in different ways, then whose perception of that Deity is the correct one?

Examine each groups’ values and praxis.

Different perceptions have inspired some groups to wage war and engage in forced conversions.

This never occurred in Polytheistic Cultures.

They had many wars but for the usual mundane reasons, Land, Treasure, Women, Power over others for the sake of Power alone, but they never waged Religious War.

One effect of an Alphabetic based Abstract Ethical Monotheism is the brain is using a new abstract, linear, sequential, and reductionist means of communication which moves people who learn it and use it into a Left Brain, Masculine Mode, rather than the usual Pictographic, Feminine Right Brain Mode.

The Aleph/Alphabet subliminally coaxes users to be intolerant of other Iconic Systems of Beliefs.

This is illuminated in the Ten Commandments.

As stated before, Judaism is the first religion to be based upon universal literacy, the written word.

When Moses came down from his meet and greet with YHWH on the mountain, the multitude had fashioned an Idol/Golden Calf, this so upset Moses he dropped the two stone Tablets upon which YHWH/God had written the ten commandments.

Allegorically: In the first confrontation between Image and Written Word, both were destroyed.

As the story goes, Moses returned to the Mountain Top and Yahweh provided him with another set.

The 10 Commandments; The first four Commandments are for the Recognition and service/Worship of YHWH/God, the remaining six focus on our fellow humans, loving and serving them.

The Commandment to Honour Both Father and Mother elevates and recognizes the importance and status of Women in the Family Group.

Love your neighbour is not one of the Ten but appears in the Torah/Instruction, Leviticus 19:18.

The last six commandments are not unusual, and found in other Codices of Laws, The First four Commandments are Unique.

Each one of the first four commandments encourages Alphabetic Literacy by rejecting the Right Brains way of 'knowing'.

One effect of a new, abstract, linear, sequential and reductionist means of communication moves people who learn it into a Left Brain, Masculine Mode.

Social Engineering.

The 10 Commandments: The First four concern Recognition/Respect and Service/Worship of Yahweh.

The remaining six are love and respect of fellow humans.

The Ethics they embody are more sophisticated than other contemporary ANE Cultures.

The commandment to honour BOTH Father and Mother signifies the womens important role and in the Family Unit.

Loving your Neighbours is in the General Torah/Instruction: Leviticus 19:18

The last six commandments are not unusual, the first four commandments are unique. Each of the first four encourage Alphabetic literacy by rejecting the right brains way of knowing.

The First Commandment:

20:2 I am Yahweh thy Elohim, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

20:3 Thou shall have no other elohim before me.

In one fell swoop demoted all other elohim/gods & goddesses to nothings.

Nothing personal, it was business.

The Meta-Message of the First Commandment is that Yahweh is the Master of the Universe, He is self-existent, and all other elohim/gods & goddesses are created beings, subservient to Him.

Psalm 82

82:1 Yahweh stands in the congregation of El; he judges among the elohim.

82:2 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

82:6 I have said, You are elohim; and all of you are children of the most High.

82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

82:8 Arise, O Yahweh, judge the earth: for thou shall inherit all nations.

All of Yahwehs’ Titles are masculine.

The First Commandment is a radical break with the Hebrews past environment. Moses and the Hebrews had left Egypt which was Polytheistic, alot of gods and goddesses worship.

Yahweh declares there is no worship of other gods or goddesses.

Perhaps the most radical sentence ever written.

The Second Commandment:

20:4 Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I; Yahweh thy Elohim am a jealous Elohim, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

No Graven Images, Icons or Idols, Statues.

Learning to think without Images is indispensable to Alphabetic Literacy. The Power formerly rendered to Images/Pictures is now transferred to the written word.

Make no Graven Images is a ban/restraint on Right Brain Pattern Recognition.

The Third Commandment:

20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of Yahweh thy Elohim in vain; for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Do not use Yahwehs Name vainly, with Malintent. Again; Left Brain.

Yahwehs first instruction to adam isto Name all the critters. Through Naming, Adam attains dominion over all the Earth. Naming confers meaning and order, moving Life from Chaos to Order.

To Name is to know, to know is to control. Order out of Chaos.

The Fourth Commandment:

20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

20:10 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of thy Elohim: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

20:11 For in six days made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Seven Days are not a Natural Break Point in any of Earths Major Natural Rhythmic Cycles-Lunar-Solar, except the Quarter Moon.

This facilitates the learning of Arithmetic.

Leviticus 25:3-10 is about the Jubilee Years, the 50th,

No other Ancient Near East culture at that time had instructed the general population to compute complex time periods, this had formerly been the domain of the Priestly Castes.

The Time Commandment lays the foundation for the concept of Justice, a well developed sense of Linear Time is necessary to conceive of Punishment delayed and Rewards postponed.

Non-Literate Cultures are not as pre-occupied with the notion/concept of Justice as the Literate, because they do not conceive of time only as linear.

Non-Literate Societies tend to think of death as a passage to another World, not as a Day in Court.

Alphabets stretch out the sense of Time and make possible the awareness of the possibility of a retribution Time in the distant future.

A Judgement Day only occurs in Literate Cultures.

Alphabet Literate Cultures became aware of writing History in a Linear, Chronological sequencing of Events.

The fourth Commandments Mechanical/Sociological ramifications is instructing people to be aware of Passing Time.

This was the advent of the seven day week, and a day off every week.

A day off for ALL Humans, Free and Bond, and ALL Beasts of Burden one day a week and the Farmland to lay fallow every seven years to rejuvinate the enzymes in the ground.

This led to Sundials, waterclocks, Pendulums, Escape Mechanisms, Cogs, Gears, Calenders.

Time is a key function of the Left Brain.

Each of the First Four Commandments trains people in the ability to: Think Abstractly, linearly and sequentially.

Collectively, they produce a Mindset that enhances the use and facility of Alphabetic Literacy.

This Technology welded the small group into a cohesive and coherent Nation/Culture.

What occurred at/in Sinai was unique, the Authority of the Written Word superseded the authority of the Image.

Reiterating the Revolutionary Innovations that occurred at Mount Sinai:

1: Abstract Ethical Monotheism emerged,

2:Universal Codified Laws establishing Moral Ethics

3: The Alephbet-Proto Alphabet emerged. The Hebrews reduced thosands of Images/Hieroglyphs/Petroglyphs/Ideograms/Pictograms into two dozen Characters, enabling Universal Literacy

For the first time ever, Religion demanded the follower be Literate. It is Commanded the Fathers obtain Scrolls of the Torah and teach them to their children.

Moses Commanded; Thou shall read the Law before all Israel Deut-31:10,11

The Reading of the Torah remains the most sacred obligation of every Jew.

Yahweh was concerned, unlike other gods, about the actions of everyone of His people.

Yahweh actually cares.

If someone was cheating/exploiting widows and orphans, mistreating strangers and slaves.etc.......YHWH knew and became wrathful.

The polytheistic gods did not.

Yahweh in His written Laws provided preventive Medicine, unknown to Egypt and Mesopotamis.

He explicitly spelled out in excruciating detail and minutia exactly what He expected from each and every Israelite.

Each Israelite established a personal relationship with Yahweh.

All of Yahwehs Laws were written down and everybody knew them.

It was an absolute Judaic condition that every male was literate.

Ignorance of the Law was no defence.

The Hebrews were the first culture to universally embrace Alphabetic writing, the Torah is the first/oldest Religious Book written in an Alphabet.

The 10 Commandments were transmitted in a written Alephbetic form; Paleo-Hebrew.

Abstract letters/grammatical sequence/uniconsonantal phenomes.

The Alephbet/Alphabet introduced and enabled the possibility of Universal Literacy

So once upon a time in the Sinai Desert a radical new communication technology emerged that would forever change cultural perceptions and that the first people to utilize it would introduce fundamental principles and features underpinning Western Civilisation.

Historical Data: Proto-Sinaitic Alephbet=precursor of the Alphabet.

Discovered by Sir William Flinders Petrie, very early 20th century. Dated to: 1,800 BCE

Egyptian Coptic 2,000 years later/after

Tell el Armana Cache Phoenician 1,450 BCE letters from Canaanite Leaders to Akhenaton were scribed in Cuneiform

Akkadian Cuneiform after Sumerian Conquest.

An amazing vortex of Science and History occurred in the Sinai that the worlds’ oldest alphabet was found where the Hebrew Nation had their seminal experience.

Yet another Unique Concept brought forth at Mount Sinai is the Concept of Free Will.

Throughout the Ancient Near East, Babylon, Egypt.etc......humans 'believed their fate, destiny was in the hands of the gods.

The Sinaitic Covenant convinced the Israelites that every decision was theirs to make: Choose Life or Choose Death.

The choice between Right and Wrong was upon the individual. This beget the concept of Guilt, 'Guilty Conscious'; an internal Quality Control.

Moral Realtivist may consider this an ambiguous area, but is it really?

Bottom Line of what occurred at Sinai, those many years ago, the Power that once had been given to pictures was transferred to written words.

The Power of the Right Brain was Transferred to the Left Brain.

The Alephbet/Alphabet is the Book of Yahwehs/Bibles Eminence Grise-The unsuspected power.

Superorganisms/memes compete, as one Entelechy rises, others fall.

Of all the ANE Superorganisms/Memes, only the Jews have survivied.

Alphabetic Literacy profoundly reconfigured the relationship between the Hebrews and their Deity and between the Hebrews and their neighbours. The other ANE cultures.

The Jews have an unshakable faith.

The Religious beliefs of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Hittites, Hyskos, Hurrians, Cretans, Mittani, Assyrians, Persians, Canaanites, Ugarites, Akkadians, Egyptians, Greeks, Phoenicians, Philistines, and Roman Belief Systems have diminished greatly and most have disappeared.
The Hebrew Faith has withstood the Viscitudes of times, surviving catastrophes that should have extinguished them.

From the Alphabet Effect and the Oxford Companion to the Brain/Mind

Left /Western Culture....Right /Eastern Culture

Left Brain Oriented ..................Right Brain Oriented

Alphabet .......................................Ideograms

Linear .............................................Non-Linear

Visual................................................Acoustical

Logical ..............................................Analogical

Deductive ........................................Inductive.

Abstract ................................................Concrete

Causal....................................................Mystical

Rational ................................................Intuitive.

Specialist...............................................Generalist.

Centralized............................................Decentralized

Universal ................................................Local

Fragmented ............................................Integrative

Time Oriented........................................Space Oriented

Progressive .............................................Traditional

Continuous Time.................................. Cyclic Time

Geometric ................................................Algebraic

Abstract Science ....................................Concrete Science

Natural Law ..............................................Order & Pattern

Technology.............................................. Craft.

Exploitation............................................. Invention

System .......................................................Technique

Codified Law ..........................................Customs-Mores (confucious)

Monotheism ............................................Harmony of Nature (Tao)

Absolutism...............................................Relativity

The Human Brain has three evolutionary layers.

1: The Reptilian Brain=Instinctual

2: The Paleo-Mammalian= generates Emotions

3: The Cerebral NeoCortex=Imagination, Intelligence-Right and Left Hemispheres, Corpus Callosum-capable of Art & Physics

The three brains in one operate like three interconnected biological computers, each with its own subjectivity, its own special intelligence, and its own sense of Time & Space.

The Atavistic Human Reptilian Brain-The R-Complex, contains Programmes that are rigid, compulsive, ritualistic and paranoid.

The Paleo-Mammalian Brain-The Limbic System is the seat of archaic emotions that drive feeding, fleeing, fighting, and sex-they ensure survival.
All emotions are either pleasant or unpleasant-Pleasure & Pain are the two criteria of Judgement of the Limbic System, judges all experience.

Of the two cortical Hemispheres the Right Brain is in more direct communication with the archaic reptilian instincts and primative mammalian emotions.

An instinct permits no variation in an organisms response to a specific stimulus-Instincts are 'Hard Wired' forcing the organism to respond reflexively & repititously to any particular stimulus.

In mammals emotions may be considered the truncated remnants of reptilian instincts.

A specific stimulus detected by mammalian sensory apparatus always activates the same release of complex chains of neuro-transmitters and hormones.

Emotions impels mammals and hyper-conscious primates to commit repetitive instinctual behavioural patterns.

Fear impels flight or fight responses, hate, anger, jealousy impels them to kill, envy and greed impel them to steal, lust will impel them to cast aside caution and behave in a manner that could compromise their safety and/or survival.

Be that as it may-mammals have more complex brains then reptiles and can make decisions, and are therefore capable of making choosing between different responses.

Humans, due to the development/gift of the Cerebral Cortex; have Freewill, which enables us to override our emotions and modulate our response to environmental provocations.

* Humans have many choices

* Mammals have few

* Reptiles have none at all

Characteristics of the Right Brain

BEING-IMAGES-METAPHORS-MUSIC

"All At Once" 'Holistic' 'Gestalt'

Characteristics of the Left Brain

DOING-WORDS-ABSTRACT THINKING-NUMBER SENSE

"One at a time" Abstract, Linear, Sequential

RIGHT BRAIN

1: 'BEING': appreciates 'Feeling State'--complex expressions of emotions-Laughter-Faith-Patriotism-Ectasy-Grief-Love--Etc..Aesthetic Appreciation and Harmony.

There is no precise nomenclature for 'Feeling State', they are subjective, they cannot be precisely enumerated in scientific language, they remain ambiguous. They are: NONDISCURSIVE.

'Feeling States' are Non-Logical; they confute the rules of conventional reasoning.

As Blaise Pascal so succinctly put it: "Le Couer a ses raisons que la raison ne connait pas" The heart has reasons that reason will never know...........

'Feeling States' are authentic, the experience of Love, Hate, Joy, Grief, are known with an internal authority that is beyond the Realm of Debate.

The essence of a 'Joke', Faith in a God, Patriotism, Love are non-discursive, non-logical and authentic.

Intuition/Hunches, or why an object/subject is beautiful to one person but not to another.

Each 'Feeling state' lies beyond the tight circle of logic. When compelled to explain affective States, people usually rely upon that old tautological response: 'It is because it is'.

'Feeling States' do not progress in a linear process, Getting a Joke, Intuitive Insights come out of nowhere, Love at first sight, religious conversions ala Damascus Road are -"All at Once".

2: Images-Comprehension of Images--The Right Hemisphere takes in the 'Big Picture' in a holistic manner, it appreciates the relationship of the parts to the whole. The Right Brain assimilates Images as Gestalts-seeing 'All at Once'.

3: Metaphor: A mental innovation arising out of a unique combination of 'Feeling States' and Images.

Greek Root-Meta=Over and Above-Meta-normal

Phor-Pherein=to bear across

A Metaphor allows/causes the 'Leap' across the chasm of one thought to another thought. Metaphors have several different levels of meaning simutaneously (All at Once) perceived and supplies plasticity to otherwise rigid language.

Communicating any affective, emotional 'Feeling State' requires the usage of Metaphor because the so called objective world can be described, measured and catalogued with scientific precision, the internal, subjective world of emotions eludes precise Scientific Analysis.

The verbal art of metaphor is poetry.

Metaphors linguistic cousins are: Similies, analogies, allegories, proverbs and parables. Each allow simultaneous levels of interpreting one single set of words.

Dream Interpretation, Myths, Religions, Dreaming is Right Brain-it is said Dreams are to the individual; what myths and legends are to the society.

The most potent combination of Metaphor & Image is Art.

Visual Art is non-discursive, non-logical and authentic.

the Artistes device is to use visual metaphor to transport a viewer from a neutral affective state to complex 'Feeling States'.

Awe, Shock, Pleasure, ............

When the Artiste is successful the viewer is Transported Metaphorically 'Bearing' us 'across and above'. There is no Transitory State, it is an 'All at Once', Quantuum Leap. That is Great Art, it is Successful.

4: Music-Ability to appreciate and create music is Right Brain. The appreciation of music is an emotion we share with more primative animals.

Music demonstrates the Right Brains ability to process information as an 'All at Once' holistic gestalt by utilizing multiple; incoming; converging determinants and integrating them synthetically.

Simultaneity is the opposite of linear, sequential time, is unique to the Right Brain whose home ground is the realm of visio-spatial context, correlating parts to a whole whilst intuiting diverse relationships amongst them.

Multiple determinants, multiple emotions, multiple meanings, multiple images and multiple sounds converging into one State can be expressed through the metaphor of Space. The Right Brain excels at the appreciation of spatial dimensions and judging distances.

Driving, Skiing, and Dancing are in the dominion of the Right Brain.

The Right Brains principal attributes: BEING-IMAGES-METAPHORS & MUSIC echo evolutionary techniques used by mammals to comprehend Reality, All at Once, and are perceived holistically.

Left Brain

The Left Brains modus operendi is: 'DOING' rather than 'BEING'

An accepted rubric of Brain Laterization is the Respective Hemispheres control the opposite side muscular appendages--Left Brain=Right Hand--Right Brain=Left Hand.

The Act of 'willing' is Left Brain, the Right Hand Throws, Gathers, Fabricates.etc......

Rather than Simutaneity/All at once; what makes us 'Homo Faber' the Toolmaker is our sense of an Abstract, Linear, Sequential series of 'Steps', 'Moves', 'Processes' that exist in Linear sequential Time which is necessary for Craftwork, Hunting etc.

Words-Vocalisations are Left Brain-Language is action Oriented, we abstract, discriminate, analyze and dissect the World into pieces-objects-catagories-that we can then grasp metaphorically and literally. A vocabulary is a Tool Set by which we act upon the environment.

From the Left Brain issues the generation and comprehension of speech with its intricacies of grammar, syntax and semantics.

Speech enables us to not only communicate with others but allows us to talk within ourselves and to ourselves.

Lower Creatures can SIGNAL
Advanced animals can INFORM
Only humans can Question, Dispute and Reason.

Abstract Thinking: This is the ability to process information/Data without the use of Images/Pictures and is the opposite of Metaphorical Thinking.

Words are Image substitutes the mind uses in building Concepts and to solve problems. When Humans evolved beyond thinking in Pictures they made a transformative evolutionary leap.

Previously meaningless phonemes/vocalisations became the words of speech and the tools of abstract thought.

Later when they combined the meaningless letters of an arbitrary alphabet to form visual words to represent the World, they created the Worlds very first Abstract art Form-The Alephbet.

Written Alphabetic Language. The Human Race had combined meaningless sounds with meaningless symbols and and created Civilization!

Abstract Thinking is usually performed within the Context of Causality which evolved from earlier Hominids perceiving, catagorizing the World into Spatial Events occuring in Time. Sunrise/Sunset--High Tide/Low Tide--Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter.

The Human ability to recognize the intersection of Space & Time may be the precurser condition to recognize Causality and thus Formulate Logic.

The primary benefit of our Species derived from the use of Abstract Thinking was the strengthening of Foresight.

Logic is dependent on the proposition of: If-Then

A hypothetical 'IF' Scenario or idea is formulated in the mind and then placed left of 'NOW' (the past), next a hypothetical 'Then' scenario or idea is placed to the Right of 'NOW' (the future)

One may now apply Forced Logic, and Inductive and Deductive Reasoning to mentally deduce the probability of the 'IF' proposition leading to the 'THEN' proposition and initiate, modify or withold ACTION.

Logic is NOT Holistic, nor is it conceived of as a GESTALT, it depends upon an Abstract Linear Sequence.

IF-THEN Syllogisms are a reliable method of Foretelling/Predicting the Future Events thus replacing Omens, Portents; Oracles, Tarot, Astrology etc....

The Rules of Logic form the foundation of Science, Business and militatary Strategy.

Logical Thinking stands apart from other mental activities like: imagining, intuiting, reflecting, reminiscing, ruminating and daydreaming in that Logical Thinking relies upon a belief in a rigid coordinate system of Absolute Space and Invariant Time-

Number Sense: Ability to count originates in the Visio-Spatial Right Brain, and all higher animals can perceive and separate the concept of 'Oneness'; 'Twoness' and 'Manyness'. The Human ability to manipulate larger numbers is Suis Generis/Unique.

Calculation requires a level of Abstraction beyond the Realm of the Right Brain.

The Left Brain Rules Language and Numbers, the Language of Numbers is Mathematics, which arranges meaningless symbols which represent numbers into simple arithmetic, or into intricate, infinitesimal calculus.

When small children learn the alphabet they also learn mathematics.

The Left Brains innovative features: Doing, Words, Abstract Thinking and Number sense are processed in Abstract Linear Sequential Time.

To develop Craftwork Strategy, Language Logic and Mathematics the mind must range back and forth along the line of: Past-Present-Future.
The ability to fashion a Tool arises out of the Left Brain and relies upon the ability to memorize a series of steps in linear sequence.

The dominant hand is a specialized limb that is an extension of sequential Left Hemisphere.

Logic, Algebra, Physics equations all proceed in Time-Line by Line Proofs are the essence of higher math.

A series of numbers is a sequence.

Right Brain: Phylogenetic Learning, vision based and dependent on Space.

Left Brain: Learns Data/Information by rote in sequence-Time.

Right Brain: Holistic, Synthetic integration of Being, Images, Metaphors, Music-Functions: 'ALL AT ONCE'-All can be mapped using the vectors of Space.
Left Brain: Doing, Words, Abstract Thinking, and Number sense. Functions: 'ONE AT A TIME' All can be mapped by linear sequential Time.

Being, Metaphor, Image and Music are the Essence of Art.
Doing, reason, Abstract Thinking and Number sense are the essence of Physics

"From the point of view of evolutionary epistemology, the principle lesson of both special and general relativity theories is this: Human /beings are organisms capable of manipulating internal representations of the World by means of concrete operations and can transcend the bounds of their biologically given perceptione. They can liberate themselves and construct a view of reality that conflicts with intuition, yet gives a truer, more encompassing view."

Max Delbruck

"Time & Space are real Beings, a Male & a Female, Time is a Man, Space is a Woman"

William Blake

Bibliography:

For the Sake of Heaven and Earth Dr. Rabbi Irving Greenberg

"Long Night's Journey into Day Ekhardt

The Lucifer Principle

Global Brain, the Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

Howard Bloom

http://howardbloom.net/

http://howardbloom.net/lucifer/links.html

Art & Physics

The Alphabet vs. the Goddess

Dr. Leonard Shlain

http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/

The Genesis Enigma: Why the Bible Is Scientifically Accurate by Dr Andrew Parker

The Alphabet Effect: Dr. Robert K. Logan

the Oxford Companion to the Mind

http://www.oup.com/uk/booksites/content/0198662246/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1262027/

The Divine Council Dr. Michael S Heiser

http://www.michaelsheiser.com/

So What Exactly is an Elohim?

http://www.thedivinecouncil.com/What%20is%20an%20Elohim.pdf cheers

MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:23 am

......................For those who falsely claim that Yahshua Messiah/Jesus 'Did away with' the Torah/Laws of YHWH, I challenge you to explain these verses of Scripture.

http://www.eliyah.com/thescriptures/

Matthew 4
1 Then Yahshua was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tried by the devil.

2 And after having fasted forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

3 And the trier came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of Elohim, command that these stones become bread.”

4 But He answering, said, “It has been written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of YHWH.’ ”

5 Then the devil took Him up into the set- apart city, set Him on the edge of the Set- apart Place,

6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of Elohim, throw Yourself down. For it has been written, ‘He shall command His messengers concerning you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, so that you do not dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

7 Yahshua said to him, “It has also been written, ‘You shall not try YHWH your Elohim.’ ”

8 Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain, and showed Him all the reigns of the world, and their esteem,

9 and said to Him, “All these I shall give You if You fall down and worship me.”

10 Then Yahshua said to him, “Go, Satan! For it has been written, ‘You shall worship YHWH your Elohim, and Him alone you shall serve.’

Yahshua cites Torah 3 Times with Authority....beaware of the False Teachers.

Is the New Testament Yahweh's Word?

Don't Accept The New Testament As Yahweh's Word On The Basis Of Human Tradition
http://www.serveyahweh.org/Religion/newtestament.htm

In the context of the New Testament canon Yahweh's people should not accept that the New Testament is Yahweh's word simply on the basis of human tradition. For Yah'shuah has shown that human tradition is NOT the basis for determining true worship. The New Testament, or any portion of it, should only be accepted as Yahweh's word only where it is fully in harmony with Yahweh's commandment. But if it, or any portion of it, is not fully in harmony with Yahweh's commandment it cannot and should not be accepted as Yahweh's word or commandment!

Live By Every Word That Proceeds Out Of Yahweh's Mouth

Matthew 4:4 reads,

4:4But he answered, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’"

In these comments Yah'shuah quoted from Moses' words to the children of Israel in Deuteronomy 8:3,

8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

Truth Is Yahweh's Word

John 17:17 reads,

17:17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

It is therefore clear from Yah'shuah's words that human beings are to live by every word proceeding out of the mouth of Yahweh. He also defines truth as Yahweh's word. Therefore living by the truth is living by Yahweh's word, living by Yahweh's commandment. This is what human beings are to live by, and not by human tradition, especially human tradition contrary to Yahweh's word.

To Believe Yah'shuah You Must Believe Moses' Writings

John 5:46-47 reads,

5:46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. 5:47But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

Yah'shuah's words show that it is necessary for one to believe Moses' writings in order to believe him. In other words, those who believe Moses' writings are the ones who believe Yah'shuah, and those who do not believe Moses' writings are the one who do not believe Yah'shuah. Yah'shuah therefore implicitly affirmed that Moses' writings are indeed Yahweh's word.

Yah'shuah Didn't Destroy The Law Or The Prophets

Matthew 5:17-18 reads,

5:17"Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. 5:18For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

Yah'shuah therefore affirmed that the law and the prophets, the writings he affirmed as Yahweh's word, would continue in applicability even up to the time of the passing away of heaven and earth. Seeing that heaven and earth are still with us it is indeed the conclusion that nothing has passed away from the law, and it remains in full application.

Yah'shuah Commanded His Disciples To Abide By Moses' Authority

Matthew 23:1-4 reads,

23:1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, 23:2saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat. 23:3All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do. 23:4For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

Yah'shuah commanded human beings, including his disciples, to abide by the authority vested in Moses. In other words, he simply affirmed his word in Matthew 5:17-18, on the continuing applicability of the law or Yahweh's word as delivered by Moses to the children of Israel.

Believe What The Prophets Have Spoken

Luke 24:25-27 reads,

24:25He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 24:26Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?" 24:27Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Yah'shuah's usage of the writings of Moses and those of the prophets shows that he acknowledged these as Yahweh's word. For in Matthew 4 and 15 he clearly taught that human beings are to live only by Yahweh's word, and here he was indeed teaching his disciples by the writings of Moses and the prophets. Yah'shuah therefore acknowledged that the writings of Moses and the prophets are indeed Yahweh's word.

Live By The Writings In The Law Of Moses, The Prophets And The Psalms

Luke 24:42-49 reads,

24:42They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 24:43He took it, and ate in front of them. 24:44He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."

24:45Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. 24:46He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 24:48You are witnesses of these things. 24:49Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."

According to Yah'shuah the collection of writings that made up Yahweh's word, what all human beings are to live by, is that called the law of Moses, the prophets and the psalms - what is today called the Old Testament. This is synonymous with the Scriptures, according to the author of the above words - Luke.

Yah'shuah's Disciples Of All Nations Are To Observe The Things He Personally Commanded His Disciples

Matthew 28:18-20 reads,

28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 28:20teaching them to observe all things which I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

Yah'shuah clearly commanded his disciples to teach new disciples of all nations to observe all things that he had commanded his disciples. He commanded them to live by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh's mouth. He also showed them that Yahweh's word is contained in the writings called the law of Moses, the prophets and the psalms (writings), now commonly known as the Old Testament. Therefore, the things that Yah'shuah's disciples are to observe are those that are contained in the writings commonly called the Old Testament. For observing the things in these writings is indeed living by words proceeding out of the mouth of Yahweh, seeing that words that proceeded out of Yahweh's mouth are contained in these writings.

Yahweh's Word To His Disciples Concerning Verification Of Words

Isaiah 8:16-20 reads,

8:16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 8:17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 8:18Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion. 8:19When they shall tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn’t a people consult with their God? On behalf of the living should they consult with the dead? 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

8:16 clearly shows that the testimony (prophets and writings) and the law (of Moses) should be bound and sealed among Yahweh's disciples. And in matters of light Yahweh's disciples are not to consult with forces of darkness. They are to consult only the law and the testimony. In other words, the very writings that Yah'shuah later used in affirming that he was indeed the Messiah, the law of Moses, the prophets and the writings, are the very same ones that Yahweh commands his disciples to consult. For light is contained in his word, which is recorded in these writings. And anyone speaking contrary to his word in these writings is devoid of light. In other words, any writing that is contrary to the law of Moses, the prophets and the writings is not Yahweh's word, but a word and work of darkness!

Another Test Yahweh Gives His People Concerning Verification Of Words

Deuteronomy 18:9-22 reads,

18:9When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 18:10There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, 18:11or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 18:12For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you. 18:13You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God. 18:14For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do. 18:15Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen; 18:16according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. 18:17Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. 18:18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. 18:19It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 18:20But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. 18:21If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken? 18:22When a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.

Don't Listen To Those Who Practice Abominations

Yahweh clearly warned the children of Israel not to listen to those who practice abominations - the practices of darkness as seen in Isaiah 8:16-20. It is on account of both practising these abominations and listening to the practitioners of these abominations that Yahweh cast out of the land of Canaan those who inhabited it prior to the children of Israel.

MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:25 am

Here is YHWHs Plans and Instruction, are you able to comprehend this Data? ...was this Historical Data/Facts beyond your comprehension? Where did the values and principles of the modern world come from? http://www.aish.com/ci/s/48899267.html .[/size] thumbs up

1.Respect for Human Life. In a perfect world, all people would be guaranteed certain basic human rights, paramount among which must be the right to life. They should be able to live that life without constant fear of its loss and with certain basic dignity.
2.Peace and Harmony. On all levels -- whether communal or global -- people and nations should co-exist in peace and harmony with respect for each other.
3.Justice and Equality. All people, regardless of race, sex, or social status should be treated equally and fairly in the eyes of the law.
4.Education. Everyone should receive a basic education that would guarantee functional literacy within society.
5.Family. A strong, stable family structure needs to exist to serve as the moral foundation for society and as the most important institution for socializing/educating children.
6.Social Responsibility. On an individual, community, national and global level, people must take responsibility for the world. This should include an organized social network to address basic concerns such as disease, poverty, famine, crime, drug-related problems, as well as environmental and animal protection issues.

Genesis-Bereshith: In the Beginning

26And Elohim said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth and over all the creeping creatures that creep on the earth.”

27And Elohim created the man in His image, in the image of Elohim He created him – male and female He created them.

28And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.”

29And Elohim said, “See, I have given you every plant that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed, to you it is for food.

30“And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to every creeping creature on the earth, in which there is life, every green plant is for food.” And it came to be so. 31And Elohim saw all that He had made, and see, it was very good

Tzelem Elokim=Humankind as Image of YHWH/God

1: Has Intelligence

2: Has Freewill

3: Has component of Spiritual Being-A Soul

4: HaShem/YHWH Rules the Universe and Spirit World, Humans have dominion over the Lower World.

5: Has the faculty of Judgement

6: Has an inherent Holiness and Dignity

As created in the image of God, humans are endowed with "three intrinsic dignities": infinite value, equality, and uniqueness.

The first means that human life cannot be weighed, measured, or compared in terms of, that is, subordinated to, any other value. In the Kantian Parlance humans are always a goal or end in themselves and never a means to something else.

The second term implies that no person or group is privileged over another. In fact, Idolatry results when a person or group absolutizes itself or its message.

The third idea reinforces the dignity of every human by insisting that each person is irreplaceable and has a special role to play in the redemption of the world.

The Jewish religion is founded on the divine assurance and human belief that the world will be perfected." Judaism engages with and seeks to overcome these realities of history through its notion of covenant. The covenant is that dynamic which God inaugurated in history, that partnership between God and the Jewish people, to achieve the dignities for which all humans were created. Jews are those teachers, models, and co-workers-having both a divine and human partners - whom God designated to help all persons and even nature achieve redemption. For Greenberg, the messianic dream of perfection will not be realized by divine fiat, but by "improving this world, one step at a time."

These understandings of God, humans, and the world are expressed through the Torah and lived-out by the Jewish people through the Holy days and the Halakhah. In this view, Torah is that divine teaching which stands as "the constitution of the ongoing relationship of God and the Jewish people."

Rabbi Greenberg

This expanded view/articulation of higher values help us to search for YHWHs presence in the secular Realms of Life, some peeps call this: 'Holy Secularism'.

The Covenant is essentially a Divine, Loving, Pedagogic process. As Humans become more competent, YHWH invites them to take up a more active role in the Task of Tikkun Olam/World to Come, as Co-Creators.

The lay people of YHWH/God play a more influential role in discerning Yahwehs purpose and in carrying out His Divine Mandates.

Later, ensuing Historical events reshape understandings of earlier Teachings.

Summarized

We=ALL Living things-creatures-sustained and Nurtured by Yahweh-will fill the World with Life.

* We will reshape the Historical Reality, the Flesh & Blood world we inhabit, to sustain that Life at the highest possible level.

* Life will multiply and triumph Quantitatively over all its enemies; including Entropy, Death, and Disorder.

* Life will equally triumph Qualitatively.

* All of Lifes’ capacities/potentials will be developed fully and realized.

* When Life blossoms to its fullest capacity that treats all Life, especially Human Life-the most developed form-and sustains it with the highest and fullest respect that it deserves, then Life will be in harmony with existence and deeply related to Yahweh, its Source and Sustainer(Natural Laws)

* This is the Jews Story, and by default; the Christians/Xns.

* Telling the Story of Creation is the Jews 'Witness'. The present evidentiary Facts contradict the Narrative fairly substantialy.

* Yet, This Story of Creation is shared by Jews and Christians

* This Story leads Humans to see existence as best they can, from a Cosmic Perspective-Sub Specie Aeternitatis.

* From that Vantage Point there are Three Grand Movements in the unfolding Pattern of the Cosmos

1: The World is moving from Chaos to Order. From the Big Bang, with no Laws of Nature to the regularity of the Life sustaining Laws of Nature.

2: The World is moving from Non-Life to Life. From a State in which no life existed to the emergence of Life. From one cell, untold replications, life has grown Quantitatively, and developed Qualitatively. It has luxuriated and spread into a vast range of forms over and through a variety of sustaining conditions/environments.

* The declaration that Life is growing, moving from non-life to life is counter-intuitive.
Death & Entropy refute that contention.

The 'Key' is YHWH/God-The Hidden, Infinite Source of Life with limitless Goodness, Love and Power that sustains Life and Nurtures every possible Form of Life into Being.

* YHWH, the Divine Source evokes the Third Grand Movement of the Cosmos

3: Life is growing ever more to resemble its Ground: YHWH

Life moves from being less to becoming more and more like Yahweh. The highest form of Life, the Human Being, represents the High Point reached thus far.

In Human Form, life so resembles its Maker that it is called; Biblically; 'The Image of God'

* This emergence of "The Image of God" is the Turning Point in Cosmic History according to Jews & Christians.

Up to that point Life has been sworn to 'Be Fruitful & Multiply' (maximizing reproductive success) through a built-in control Programme-A 'Selfish Gene'- that drives the process.

* The 'Image of God' Consciousness is so much like YHWHs that Humans are able to 'grasp' this overall pattern of which we, ourselves are part, and to join voluntarily in its realization.

* Similarly, the Human 'Image of YHWH/God has a capacity to Love ALL their fellow creatures and every aspect of the Universe, as well as the Maker of it all and the Beauty of the Plan.

* Once Humans understand and embrace this understanding, they will lovingly identify with and willingly participate in the process of Perfection.

* YHWH has invited us, as Humans, The 'Image of God', to enter into a Covenantal Partnership, committed to Love, to join fully in perfecting the Universe.

Tikkun Olam

* The People of Israel joyfully acknowledge that YHWHs first Covenant, the Noahide Covenant, never superseded, is made with ALL Humanity, not exclusively with Jews and/or Christians alone.

* It is made with ALL Sentient Beings.

* ALL Beings are called to recognize and participate in Natures Patterns.

* To accept Limits.

* To Direct their choices and actions in favour of Life.

* To join in working for Order against Chaos.

* We are ALL CHOSEN to become part of the movement from Non-Life to Life.

* We are commanded to increase Life and make it grow ever more like its Maker.

* The purpose of the Religious way of life is to create the nurturing ambience of memory and experience, of relationships and actions that sustain Human growth and turns it towards Yahweh.

* Being in the 'Image of God/YHWH brings with it more God like capacities. It bestows intrinsic Dignity, a climatic extension of that respect to which all of life is entitled.

* The People of Israel hold these Truths to be self-evident: That ALL Humans are created in 'The Image of YHWH/God; and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, among which are:

* Infinite Value

* Equality

* Uniqueness.

These are Birthrights of every Son & Daughter of Yahweh

The Sinai Event was the ultimate Social Engineering event.

The Torah is the first, and oldest Religious Book written in an Alephbet/ Alphabet........this alters the hegemony of the Brain to being left hemispherical centric=Abstract, linear and sequential. the ground for Theoretical Science....

Rabbi Greenberg

MoMo Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:26 am

One of the first things we should learn in our search for the true Savior is His Name. The importance of knowing this Man's Name cannot be overstated. Names were and are very important to the Hebrew people, and their meanings are of great significance, not only to individuals, but also to entire families.

The name Jesus is an invention of man which in no way carries the meaning of the true Name of this Man mentioned in the New Testament. The simple fact (which is easily proven from authoritative sources) is that this man was born a Hebrew and He had a Hebrew name. There is no such name as Jesus in the Hebrew language.

Reading from The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 10, page 10, we find that the supposed name Jesus is actually the common Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua.

JESUS (d. 30 c.e.), whom Christianity sees as its founder and object of faith, was a Jew who lived toward the end of the Second Commonwealth period......The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 12, page 805, gives us additional information, concerning the Hebrew spelling of Joshua, which is yod-heh-waw-shin-ayin.

This source also points out to us that this Name, correctly pronounced Yahshua, is a compound name constructed with the Tetragrammaton,which is the Name: YAHWEH, . The Name Yahshua follows the common practice among the true worshippers of Yahweh, in forming and using compound names which brought glory to Yahweh's Name....................The Name Yahshua is just such a compound Name. It is a combination of Yahweh's Name in a personal name (YAH: yod-heh) and SHUA (shin-ayin), which means salvation. The Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament, by Brown, Driver, and Briggs, page 221, tells us that the Name Yahshua means Yahweh is salvation. ............The Law of Yahweh, which Yahshua and the apostles preached, plainly tells us that Yahweh is one.

Deuteronomy 6:4-5—
4 Hear, O Israyl, Yahweh is our Father. Yahweh is one.
5 And you must love Yahweh your Father with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. ....................................The prophets further testified that Yahweh is the only source of power and there is no pagan God with Him at all.

Isayah 43:10-12—
10 You are My witnesses, says Yahweh, and My servants whom I have chosen; so you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He! before me there was no God (el) formed, nor will there be after Me.
11 I, even I, am Yahweh; and beside Me there is no savior.
12 I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and no strange god (el) is among you! Therefore, you are My witnesses, says Yahweh: that I AM YAHWEH!

Isayah 44:8—
Do not fear, nor be afraid. Have I not told you from that time, and have declared; You are My witnesses! Is there a source of power except Me? Truly, there is no other rock; I know not one.

Isayah 45:6,18—
6 So that they may know from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting that There is none besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no other!
18 For this is what Yahweh, Who created the heavens, Who is the Father, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited, says: I am Yahweh, and there is no other source of power!

It should now be obvious to anyone that the apostles, as well as the prophets, did not believe in or teach a pre-existent God-savior. The apostles clearly taught against pagan Godworship, the same worship all Christianity teaches today.

Romans 1:20-25—
20 For since the creation of the world, the invisible things of Him are clearly seen—His eternal power and holiness—being understood by the things that are written; so that they are without excuse.
21 Because that, when they knew Yahweh, they did not glorify Him as Father, nor were thankful, but became idolatrous; Godworshipers (worshipers of elohim), in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools; simpletons,
23 And exchanged the glory of the uncorruptible Father for images, made to resemble corruptible man, and birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Therefore, Yahweh also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own minds, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who exchanged the truth of Yahweh for the Lie; Lords (Baalim), Gods, and Goddesses (Elohim), and worshiped and served the creation, rather than the creator, Who is blessed forever. Praise Yahweh! HalleluYahweh!

I Corinthians 10:20-22—
20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to Yahweh; and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of Yahweh and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of Yahweh's table and of the table of demons.
22 Do we provoke Yahweh to jealousy? are we stronger than He ?

II Corinthians 6:14-18—
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with unright-eousness? and what fellowship does light have with darkness?
15 And what harmony can there be between Messiah and Belial; Worthlessness: Satan? Or what share does a believer have with an infidel; untrustworthy, not faithful, not true nor loyal?
16 And what agreement does The House of Yahweh have with Gods (elohim)? for we are The House of the living Father. As Yahweh has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their Father, and they will be my people.
17 Therefore: come out from among them and be separate, says Yahweh. Do not touch the unclean thing, and I will receive you.
18 I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says Yahweh Almighty.

II Corinthians 4:4—
For the god (el) of this world (Satan) has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, so that the light of the message of the glory of the Messiah, Who is the image of Yahweh, should not shine unto them.

Romans 6:15-16—
15 What? May we sin as though we are not under the Law, yet under Yahweh's undeserved pardon? by no means!
16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey—whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

I Yahchanan 3:7-9—
7 Little children, let no man deceive you; he who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
8 He who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Yahweh was manifested; that He might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whoever is begotten of Yahweh does not commit sin; for His seed remains in Him; and it is possible for him not to sin, because he has been begotten of Yahweh.

I Yahchanan 5:18-21—
18 We know that whoever is born of Yahweh does not sin; but he who has been begotten of Yahweh keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.
19 We know that we belong to Yahweh, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
20 And we know that the Son of Yahweh has come, and has given us an understanding, in order that we may know Him Who is true; and we are in Him Who is true, for we are in His Son, Yahshua. Yahweh is the true Father, and eternal life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from the defilement of Gods (elohim).

Revelation 18:2-5—
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of demons, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 Gor all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Come out of her, My people, so that you do not partake in her sins, and so that you do not receive of her plagues,
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and Yahweh has remembered her iniquities!

However, the apostles knew Yahweh's Plan which called for a man to be born who would be sacrificed for the past sins of many. They also knew that this man would be raised again by Yahweh.........................Yahweh has always revealed Himself as our Father. Yahshua Messiah taught His twelve apostles to pray to Yahweh, and to begin their prayers to Him as "Our Father."

As you read for yourself, you will find that Yahshua taught His disciples, those who obeyed Yahweh, to pray in the following manner.

Luke 11:2—
So He said to them: When you pray, using this example, say: Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed be; to show reverence and respect to, Your Name. Your Kingdom come. Your will be done; as it is in heaven, so may it be in earth.

In their ministry, the disciples spoke of Yahweh as the Father of Yahshua, saying this specifically in the following Scriptures:

Ephesians 1:17—
Asking that the Father of our King, Yahshua Messiah, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation; unveiling and uncovering truths, for the full knowledge of Him.

I Kepha 1:3—
Blessed be Yahweh, the Father of our King Yahshua Messiah, Who, according to His abundant mercy, has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Yahshua Messiah from the dead;

I Corinthians 8:5-6—
5 For even though there are many called gods (elohim), whether in heaven or on earth (As there are many gods; elohim, and many lords; baalim.),
6 Yet to us there is only One Authority, the Father, from Whom all things came and for Whom we live. And there is but one King, Yahshua Messiah, on Whose account are all things, and on whose account we live .

However, to the disobedient, Yahshua said:

Yahchanan 8:44—
You are of your teacher who is Satan the Devil, and whatever she who is your teacher desires, you will do. She was a murderer from the beginning, and remained not in the truth, because there is no truth in her. Therefore, when you speak your falsehoods, you speak her words, because she is a liar, and the teacher of all lies!

The Holy Scriptures show that we accept one of two beings as our head. We can either accept Yahweh as our Father (head) or we can accept Satan as our head.

Through this world's lust to break the Laws of Yahweh, they have rejected Yahweh as their Father, while accepting Satan the adversary as their head. By doing this, they have become the people of the devil, as the Apostle Shaul describes in the following Scriptures, because they did not like to retain Yahweh in their knowledge..............................................Yahshua Messiah said the following.

Yahchanan 6:44—
No man can come to Me, unless the Father, Who has sent Me, draws him; and I will establish him as a priest at the last day.

When we are called out of this world by Yahweh's Holy Spirit and begin to understand the importance of Yahweh's Holy Scriptures in our lives, we, even then, are only half of the creation Yahweh requires us to be, in order for us to enter His Kingdom. To understand this, we must understand the Plan of Yahweh.

When Yahshua was resurrected from the dead, He became the firstborn of many brothers.

Romans 8:29—
For whom He did foreknow, He also did foreordain to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

When we are conformed to Yahshua we will also be conformed to the Father Yahweh, because Yahshua conformed to be exactly like the Father.

Hebrews 1:3—
Who, being the reflection of the perfection of Yahweh, and the representation of Yahweh's plan, by upholding all things concerning that which was spoken by Yahweh through the Law and the prophets, when He had purged sin, sat down on the right hand of Yahweh on high;

http://www.yahweh.com/pdf/Booklet_Shaul-Do-Away.pdf

Much like the Christian NAZIs that preceeded you, you are ignorant an ddon't know what you speak of. I see through you like I see through the water that flows down my drain. thumbs up

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8820.html

Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life. In The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel shows that during the Third Reich, the Institute became the most important propaganda organ of German Protestantism, exerting a widespread influence and producing a nazified Christianity that placed anti-Semitism at its theological center.

Based on years of archival research, The Aryan Jesus examines the membership and activities of this controversial theological organization. With headquarters in Eisenach, the Institute sponsored propaganda conferences throughout the Nazi Reich and published books defaming Judaism, including a dejudaized version of the New Testament and a catechism proclaiming Jesus as the savior of the Aryans. Institute members--professors of theology, bishops, and pastors--viewed their efforts as a vital support for Hitler's war against the Jews. Heschel looks in particular at Walter Grundmann, the Institute's director and a professor of the New Testament at the University of Jena. Grundmann and his colleagues formed a community of like-minded Nazi Christians who remained active and continued to support each other in Germany's postwar years.

The Aryan Jesus raises vital questions about Christianity's recent past and the ambivalent place of Judaism in Christian thought.

ANTISEMITISM AND CHRISTIANITY

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8820.html

Hitler did not achieve most of his political and military goals, but on the Jewish question he succeeded remarkably. If his antisemitic propaganda found resonance, its success can be credited in large measure to the unrelenting anti-Jewish Christian theological discourse that linked Nazi propaganda with the traditions and moral authority of the churches. That link was proclaimed with enthusiasm by Nazi Christians: “In the Nazi treatment of the Jews and its ideological stance, Luther’s intentions, after centuries, are being fulfilled.”13 Antisemitism was the lingua franca of the Nazi era and was employed by church leaders to gain credibility with their own adherents—but also out of sincere antisemitic conviction. Antisemitism was also a tactic in the rhetorical battles among the different Christian factions, with each accusing its opponents of being “Jewish” while positioning itself as the true Nazi believer.14

Already in 1971 the historian Uriel Tal challenged the entrenched view that racist antisemitism is a new phenomenon that repudiates Christianity by arguing that it was actually utterly dependent on Christian anti-Judaism for its success: “it was not the economic crises that brought about this new political, racial and antireligious antisemitism, but completely the reverse, it was precisely the anti-Christian and antireligious ideology of racial antisemitism which hampered the first antisemitic parties in their efforts to utilize the economic crisis for their political development . . . [because] what still attracted the masses was the classical, traditional Christian anti-Judaism, however adapted it may have become to the new economic conditions.”15 Tal demonstrated that Germany’s antisemitic, völkisch movements that arose in the nineteenth century had to abandon their initial anti-Christian stances in order to win supporters for whom Christian anti-Jewish arguments held profound political appeal.16 Even within the so-called “church struggle” between German Christians and the Confessing Church for control of the Protestant church, antisemitism became the glue that united the otherwise warring factions. Similarly, however much Hitler made use of images of messianism, redemption, and other Christian motifs, the most useful and consistent aspect of Christianity for the Nazi movement was its anti-Judaism, just as the single most consistent and persistent feature of Nazism was its antisemitism.

Hitler was well aware of arguments that were central to the Institute: that Jesus was an Aryan, and that Paul, as a Jew, had falsified Jesus’s message, themes he repeatedly mentioned in private conversations, together with rants against the church as a Jewish subversion of the Aryan spirit (though the reliability of his reported private conversations is uncertain). In a diatribe alleged to have occurred in October of 1941, the month Hitler made the decision to murder the Jews,17 Hitler proclaimed that Jesus was not a Jew, but a fighter against Jewry whose message was falsified and exploited by Paul: “St. Paul transformed a local movement of Aryan opposition to Jewry into a super-temporal religion, which postulates the equality of all men . . . [causing] the death of the Roman Empire.”18 His views demonstrate that the German Christian diagnosis of Christianity as tainted by Jewish influence resonated at the highest levels of the Reich, but that its prescribed solution of dejudaization was met with skepticism if not sheer mockery. Was Christianity thoroughly impregnated with Judaism, or could it be dejudaized, as the Institute claimed?

Like the antisemitic parties of the nineteenth century, the Nazi Party could not reject Christianity—not only because it would offend the moral and social sensibilities of Germans, but because the antisemitism of Christianity formed the basis on which the party could appeal to Germans with its racial and nationalist ideology. Nazism’s relationship to Christianity was not one of rejection, nor was it an effort to displace Christianity and become a form of “political religion.” Nazism did not present racial antisemitism as antithetical to Christian theological anti-Judaism; rather, Nazi ideology was a form of supersessionism, a usurpation and colonization of Christian theology, especially its antisemitism, for its own purposes. The theology of the Institute was a similar effort at supersessionism in reverse, taking over elements of Nazi racial ideology to bolster and redefine the Christian message. The result was an uneasy competition between two sides seeking popular support and institutional control, though access to power was, of course, highly asymmetrical.

Thus, while seeking to undermine the political power and moral authority of the churches, Nazism simultaneously appropriated key elements of Christian theology into its own ideology both for purposes of winning adherents used to Christian arguments and also to give its own message a coherence and resonance with the age-old Christian teachings that had shaped European culture. Conversely, German Christians appropriated Nazi rhetoric and symbols into the church to give its Christianity a contemporary resonance. Both the Nazis and the German Christians identified Hitler as Christ’s second coming. That gave Hitler the status of a supernatural being and gave Christ renewed glory as a contemporary figure of enormous political significance. Both were suspicious of the institutional church. Factions within the Nazi Reich and the party saw the church as competition and a potential threat to be ultimately eliminated after the war.19 The German Christians sought control and radical reform of the Protestant church, which they never fully achieved, leading them to bitter complaints and, in some cases, demands for its demolition. Meanwhile, Christianity was not to be banned nor the churches outlawed; rather, as the historian Ernst Piper writes, Nazi strategy was to control the churches and lead to “a steadily advancing process of delegitimization and disassociation, of undermining and repression” that would undercut the church’s moral authority and position of respect.20 In its own supersessionist theology, an amalgam of Nazism and Christianity, with a rejection of church authority and doctrine, an assertion of German supremacy and Jewish degeneracy, and absurd revisions of the Bible, the German Protestant church contributed substantially to the Nazi project of undermining Christianity.

The establishment of the Institute in 1939 and the proliferation of its projects during the war years demonstrates that the antisemitism of the German Christians was not simply rhetorical, but was intended to lend active support to Nazi policies against the Jews—or, at times, to push those policies in more radical directions. Indeed, certain Protestant theologians stood at the forefront in discussions of the so-called Jewish problem; Gerhard Kittel’s notorious speech of May 1933, later published as a pamphlet, has been called the most antisemitic utterance of that year.21 In considering ways to rid Germany of Jews, Kittel proposed not only expulsion and guest status, but extermination (“Ausrottung”), a method he rejected only because it was too difficult to implement. On February 24–25, 1936, a few months after the proclamation of the Nuremberg Laws, but long before Jews were being deported and murdered, a group of theologians, some of whom subsequently became leaders of the Institute, met in Dresden to discuss a merger of the German Christian factions of the state churches of Thuringia and Saxony. During the course of the meeting, Siegfried Leffler, a German Christian leader, official in the Thuringian Ministry of Education, and, by 1939, figurehead of the Institute, stated:

In a Christian life, the heart always has to be disposed toward the Jew, and that’s how it has to be. As a Christian, I can, I must, and I ought always to have or to find a bridge to the Jew in my heart. But as a Christian, I also have to follow the laws of my nation [Volk], which are often presented in a very cruel way, so that again I am brought into the harshest of confl icts with the Jew. Even if I know “thou shalt not kill” is a commandment of God or “thou shalt love the Jew” because he too is a child of the eternal Father, I am able to know as well that I have to kill him, I have to shoot him, and I can only do that if I am permitted to say: Christ.22
What is striking is not only that Leffler spoke of killing Jews as early as February 1936, long before mass murder of the Jews became Nazi policy, but that there was no response to his comments from those attending, neither immediately nor later in the session; the discussion simply continued as if murder of Jews in the name of Christ was a customary topic.23 The aryanization of Jesus into a manly, heroic, fighting spirit reflected among the theologians the “heroic realism” that prevailed in the 1930s within right-wing political thought. That “heroism” meant killing one’s opponent without emotion but in accord with principles of natural law, in defense of one’s own race and at the cost of personal sacrifice.24 Paul Althaus, professor of theology at the University of Erlangen and a noted ethicist, was present at the meeting, but expressed nothing to indicate that he was appalled or disturbed by Leffler’s remarks. The lack of outrage is evidence that ridding Germany of Jews had become an acceptable point of discussion among theologians, even when murder was proposed as a technique of achieving it. The Nuremberg Laws, while perceived by many German Jews as protection from far worse legislation, were viewed as an encouragement by the German Christian movement to take even more radical positions. Legal cases in German courts, brought in the wake of the Nuremberg Laws’ criminalization of sexual relations and marriage between Jews and Aryans, and widely reported in the German press, implicated Jews as sexual predators of Aryans, further encouraging Christian theologians to insist on protecting Christian purity by eradicating Jewishness with even more radical measures.25 The penetration of Christian bodies by Jewish sex reiterated a typical motif of racist rhetoric, the dangers of miscegenation, and reinforced fears that Aryanism was not immutable, but subject to destruction by Jews.26 Antisemites had long insisted that German Aryan women were vulnerable to Jewish predation, and Jesus, whose gentleness and suffering was viewed as effeminate by German Christians, was depicted in one caricature as an Aryan woman on a cross with a lecherous Jewish man in the foreground: the crucifixion as the Jewish rape of Germany. ............................

mugglez Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:24 pm

I; Monsieur Le Sabrage salut Senor El Kabong for his generous and magnaminous benevolence and kindness and generosity for sharing freely his sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the Jews Holy Scriptures, the Bible, Old and New Testaments.........he has tirelessly refuted the Neo Nazis rodin and tru lilly and their perverted twistings and misinterpretations of the Holy Scriptures....Well done Senor El Kabong.........well done!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye28n_aJspA

http://nazarenespace.com/profiles/blogs/kabbalistic-yeshua-11

Kabbalistic Yeshua 1.1Posted by Shawn on September 4, 2009 at 7:30am
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.The Sefirotic tree of life

The ten sefirot or the ten ementions of Hashem's divine attributes is an exclusively Jewish concept. I doubt I have to explain to you the pervasiveness of this concept in kabbalistic texts. The kabbalists provide a path in which to travel up and down these sefirot and the following is the top-down path. Beginning at Keter (will of Hashem) you go to Chochmah (wisdom), then Binah (understanding), and then to Chesed (kindness goodness), and next to Gevurah (Power strength). From there you move to Tiferet (glory) and then to Netzach (endurance) and Hod (patience). You then come to Yesod (foundation, Torah, and the Zadakim) which links to the final sphere Malkut (the kingdom of Hashem).

Compare to the New Testament.
Colossians 1:9-15 “That is why we, from the day we heard, have not ceased praying for you, and asking that you be filled with the knowledge of his will (Keter) in all wisdom (Chochmah) and spiritual understanding (Binah), to walk worthily of the master, pleasing all, bearing fruit in every good work (Chesed) and increasing in the knowledge of Elohim (hidden sepherah of Da'at), being empowered with all power (Gevurah), according to the might of his glory (Tiferet), for all endurance (Netzach) and patience (Hod) with joy, giving thanks to the father who has made us fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in the light (Yesod), who has delivered us from the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the son of his love (Malkut), in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, who is the likeness of the invisible Elohim, the first-born of all creation. (The Sepherotic tree of life.)

Rabbi Shaul not only hits every emanation, but he also hits them in order which certainly rules out any chance of coincidence..........................According to the gospels Yeshua (gilgul nefesh David) entered into a garden late at night with his retinue or disciples and said woe to his disciples he found sleeping. Also at this special hour of judgment Yeshua was taken away to be judged.

This are far too many points of congruency for this to be coincidence. The New Testament is making a clear indication that Yeshua and his disciples preformed the kabbalistic traditions of both Hitbodedut and Tikkun hatzot.

The heavenly comings and goings of the Mashiach.

It is often said by anti-missionaries that according to Judaism the Messiah will be an ordinary man and although he will have a great role in restoring the nation of Israel he will not be doing radical miracles and weird things like you see in the New Testament (such as ascending and descending to heaven in pillars of smoke). They also claim that Messiah will only come one time and there will not be multiple appearances of the Messiah. I am not sure whether these anti-missionaries are unaware of their own faiths kabbalistic traditions or if they are intentionally hiding the fact that Judaism does teach these things about the Messiah.

Soncino Zohar Shemoth section 2 page 7b - “Then shall pangs and travail overtake Israel, and all nations and their kings shall furiously rage together and take counsel against her. Thereupon a pillar of fire will be suspended from heaven to earth for forty days, visible to all nations. Then the Messiah will arise from the Garden of Eden, from that place which is called “The Bird's Nest”. He will arise in the land of Galilee, ... “The glory of his majesty” refers to the Messiah when he shall reveal himself in the land of Galilee; for in this part of the Holy Land the desolation first began, and therefore he will manifest himself there first, and from there begin to war against the world. After the forty days, during which the pillar shall have stood between heaven and earth before the eyes of the whole world, and the Messiah shall have manifested himself, a star shall come forth from the East variegated in hue and shining brilliantly, and seven other stars shall surround it, and make war on it from all sides, three times a day for seventy days, before the eyes of the whole world. The one star shall fight against the seven with rays of fire flashing on every side, and it shall smite them until they are extinguished, evening after evening. But in the day they will appear again and fight before the eyes of the whole world, seventy days long. After the seventy days the one star shall vanish. Also the Messiah shall be hidden for twelve months in the pillar of fire, which shall return again, although it shall not be visible. After the twelve months the Messiah will be carried up to heaven in that pillar of fire and receive there power and dominion and the royal crown. When he descends, the pillar of fire will again be visible to the eyes of the world, and the Messiah will reveal himself, and mighty nations will gather round him, and he shall declare war against all the world...”

From this passage of the Zohar we learn the following.

1 – The Mashiach will reveal himself first in the land of Galilee (Northern kingdom)

2 – The Mashiach reveals and conceals himself as he sees fit.

3 – The Mashiach will travel to heaven in a pillar.

4 – The Mashiach “shall return again” in a pillar of fire to make war.

5 – The Mashiach will at times be invisible.

6 – The Mashaich will ascend to heaven in the pillar of fire “and receive there power and dominion and the royal crown.”

7 – all the world will see. “the pillar of fire will again be visible to the eyes of the world”

These seven kabbalistic concepts of Mashiach are also found in the New Testament.

1 - The New Testament also teaches that the Mashiach appeared first in the Galilee (The incarnation of the Mashiach for that generation Yeshua) I doubt I need to quote those places in the NT for you.

2 - The New Testament speaks of Yeshua concealing himself and revealing himself many different times. Again I doubt I have to show you those quotes.

3 - The New Testament says that the Mashiach Traveled to heaven in a pillar.

Acts 1:9 “and having said this, while they were looking on, he was taken up, and a cloud hid him (Yeshua) from their sight.”

4 – Just as the Zohar, the New Testament speaks of Mashaich RETURNING to earth in a pillar of fire to make war with the enemies of Hashem.

5 – As strange as it sounds the Zohar speaks of the pillar of fire, as well as the Mashiach in it, being invisible.

Luke 24:31 “And their eyes were opened and they recognized him. And he disappeared from their sight.”

6 – keeping in mind that the Zohar says this about the Mashiach “the Messiah will be carried up to heaven in that pillar of fire and receive there power and dominion and the royal crown.” lets look at the New Testament.

Luke 24:49 “And see, I am sending the promise of my father upon you, but you are to remain in the city of Yerushalayim until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Matthew 28:18 “And Yeshua came up and spoke to them, saying, All power has been given to me in heaven and on earth.”

7 – According to the Zohar all the world will see the pillar of fire in the heavens.

Matthew 24:30 “...and then the sign of the Son of Adam shall appear in the heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Adam coming on the clouds of heaven with power and much glory.”

The right side of the boat

The following is a quote from the kabbalistic text Kol HaTor.

“Our mission, the mission of the great Gaon, light of Mashiach ben Yosef, with regard to the final generation, is as follows: “According to Rabbi Eliyahu, all the steps, all the rules and details concerning the period from the beginning of the Redemption until its conclusion, which include the ingathering of exiles and settlement of the Holy Land--all these are the assignment of the first mashiach, Mashiach ben Yosef. They derive from the left side, that is, from the quality of Din, which prevails when the awakening starts from below, naturally, as occurred at the time of the Second Temple, during the reign of Cyrus. Later on, the redemption will be completed with the quality of Chesed (i.e., Lovingkindness)on the right side, with Mashiach ben David.”

We learn from this passage of Kol HaTor that...

1 – The Gaon of Vilna was considered a cycle of Mashiach ben Yosef and that the Mashiach has many comings or incarnations.

2 – The redemption will begin on the left side, that of judgment, and just as the time of the reign of Cyrus will yield an insignificant ingathering of exiles. Yet as soon as the the redemption begins on the right side, that of Chesed, this will be the entire ingathering of every single lost Israelite from both the house of Judah and the house of Israel.

Compare to the New Testament. My comments in ( )

John 21:1-6 “After this Yeshua manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Kinnereth, and he manifested in this way: Shimon Keph, and Toma called the twin, and Nethanel of Canah in Galil, the sons of Zabdai, and two others of his disciple were together. Shimon Kepha said to them, I am going to fish (search for Israelites who have strayed from the Torah in particular the northern kingdom). They said to him, we are also coming with you. They went out and immediately entered into the boat. And that night (The time of Din) they caught none at all (Just as in the time of Cyrus). But when it became early morning (going from the time of Din to the time of Chesed), Yeshua stood on the beach. However, the disciples did not know that it was Yeshua. Then Yeshua said to them, Children, have you any food? They answered him, No. And he said to them, throw the net on the right side of the boat (indicating that they had been fishing off the left side the side of judgment), and you shall find. So they threw, and they were no longer able to draw it in because of the large number of fish. (The complete redemption of both houses of Israel)”

It is clear that this passage of the New Testament is speaking of the same concept as found in the book Kol HaTor. It is no surprise since both Yeshua and the Vilna Gaon were both prime suspects for the spirit of Mashiach ben Yosef in there respective generations.
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mugglez Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:25 pm

http://www.mashiyach.com/kabbalah.htm

Kabbalah simply means "to receive", but many generally think of Kabbalah as a form of religion, or as Eastern mysticism. Having a basic understanding of Kabbalah can be quite helpful if you come up against ideas of those who use Kabbalah to shape their ideas about spirituality.

Kabbalah is not a single system where all involved utilize the same basic principles, those who promote Kabbalist ideologies can be extremely duplicitous and deceptive. So hence some of the caution against studying Kabbalah. On the other hand, those who insist all Kabbalah is bad are generally ignorant and/or threatened by something they have little or no knowledge of. Anyone who communicates anything "spiritual" or who believes they have "received" insight from "the Spirit" are essentially teaching their own form of "Kabbalah".

There are mainstream ideas within "Kabbalah" that everyone should know about and be able to discuss, whether they agree or disagree with its interpretations. For example, take a brief survey of the list of words below, how do you define them? Where did you learn about their definitions?

Abba Adam Kadmon Akedah Anthropomorphism Antinomianism Apocalyptic Atonement

Ba'al Circumcision Da'at End of Days Exorcism Gehinnom Gematria Gevurah

Grace after meals Halacha Hod Holy Spirit Kedushah Kavod Messiah Metatron

Nefesh Olam haba Pardes Passover Prayer Prophetic Redemption Remez

Resurrection Sabbath Sacrifice Sefirot Sexuality Sinai Temple

Throne Tiferet Toledot Adam Torah Tikkun Olam

Tree of Knowledge Tree of Life Trinity

Virgin Mary World Zodiac

Each of the above words represents a meaning that each of us has a "relationship" with. There are infinite "connections" within these words, each one has many levels of meaning and understanding. Let's look at a set of names in Torah called the Toledot Adam (the line, or genealogy of Adam). The "given" names of Adams descendants to Noah are straightforward, these are "normal" Biblical names until we look a bit deeper. What is going on? Can you see a hidden meaning beneath these common individual names? You decide. In my mind what the meaning derived from the sequential meaning is no coincidence. There is universe of thought underlying these names, a hidden code to be "received". It speaks of Mashiyach.

Toledot Adam Bereshit 5

(Geneology of Adam from Genesis 5)

HEBREW NAME ENGLISH DEFINITION
ADAM MAN
SETH APPOINTED
ENOSH MORTAL
CAINAN SORROW
MAHALEEL BLESSED ELOHIM
YARED SHALL COME DOWN
ENOCH TEACHING
METHUSELAH HIS DEATH SHALL BRING
LAMECH DESPAIRING
NOACH COMFORT

MAN [is] APPOINTED MORTAL SORROW,

[but a] BLESSED ELOHIM SHALL COME DOWN

TEACHING [that] HIS DEATH SHALL BRING

[the] DESPAIRING COMFORT

MAGNIFICENT! YHWH ordained the Hebrew Names in the Toledot Adam to tell the story of Yeshua coming to earth to bring Comfort! Even SALVATION to His people! However, trying to understand Kabbalah or trying to connect with YHWH and His Mashiyach without Torah is to venture off into darkness and eventually the soul will be tormented.

True kabbalah is meant to establish the Word of YHWH in our neshama (spirit),

and to strengthen and confirm our relationship with Master YHWH.

There are many levels to receiving YHWH's wisdom, knowledge and understanding. The Adversary (HaSatan) twists that which is good and distorts it for evil purposes. However, if we focus on the Kabbalah that is revealed inside of Tanakh and the Ketuvim Netzarim, we discover magnificent revelation about YHWH, His Mashiyach, and the Life He has given each of us.

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mugglez Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:29 pm

http://www.mashiyach.com/kingdom/kingdom.htm

Mashiyach Yeshua brought a government to this world... not another religion about God, not another conspiracy theory about the Creator of the Universe.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:

and the government shall be upon his shoulder:

Isaiah 9:6

The Kingdom of Elohim is greater than all the religious "isms" out there would have us believe. The Master of the Universe also instructs us about His Kingdom by letting man made kingdoms serve as the antipathy to His. Man's kingdom's are epitomized by Nimrod, who was the king of Babylon, a mortal man who was inspired and "anointed" with unclean spirits elevating his own self importance above all other humans. Babylon was a literal city, although it's a dust heap today the model of its government is what big business and religion fashions itself after, the kings of the earth follow the "business model" of Babylon that Nimrod "invented", they do it through relativism, humanism and materialism.

The kingdom of haSatan has been replicated on earth by governments, religions and big business through a hierarchical system of authority. Most churches and synagogues have one person who has veto authority over all the other leaders. Most board rooms have a principle owner who makes the rules because he owns the controlling interest of shares in the company. It would seem that the pastor, priest or rabbi who invests their time leading a congregation should be the one who uses his expertise and guides the congregation. No, not according to the Kingdom of Heaven, the role of leadership in the Kingdom of Heaven is to server others and guide each one to YHWH and His Mashiyach, rather than build a fiefdom unto oneself. A very big difference.

Mashiyach tus that whoever wants to be "the greatest" in his Kingdom would be the servant of all. Being a "servant of all" means that a leader opens himself to be used by the Father to reach out to whomever He desires, as opposed to having a his or her own "little flock". The Kingdom of Elohim is represented by Tsiyon (pronounced Tsee-yone or Zion in English), a literal place in Jerusalem, that symbolizes a spiritual place, the seat of Mashiyach's government on this earth. Originally Zion was a small location in Jerusalem, then it became a code name for the whole city of Jerusalem. wave

For it is said in the Scripture, “Behold, in Tsiyon I lay a chosen and precious stone for the head of the corner; and whoever believes in him will not be ashamed.” On you therefore who believe is this honor conferred: but to them who do not believe “he is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” And they stumble at it because they believe not the Word from where they were appointed. But you are an elect race, officiating as priests of the Kingdom; a Set Apart people, a redeemed congregation; that you should proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness to his precious light: who formerly were not counted as a people but now are the people of Elohim; and also, there were (once) no mercies on you but now mercies are poured out upon you. My beloved, I entreat you as strangers and pilgrims, separate yourselves from all lusts of the body, for they war against the soul. And let your behavior be honorable before all men; so that they who utter evil speeches against you, may see your good actions and may praise Elohim in the day of trial. And be submissive to all the sons of men, for Elohim’s sake; to kings, on account of their authority; and to judges because they are sent by him for the punishment of offenders, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of Elohim, that by your good deeds you may stop the mouth of the foolish who do not know Elohim: As free men, you are not like men who make their freedom a cloak for their wickedness, but as the servants of Elohim. 1 Peter 2:6-16

Throughout Scripture we read of a Kingdom that is not of this earth, but it is shaped from the pattern that is in Heaven. The tabernacle in the wilderness was built according to the specifications that YHWH gave to Moses and within that tabernacle, each of the physical elements are symbols of the spiritual or heavenly Kingdom. It is also interesting to note that Zion is mentioned in 153 verses in the Tanakh... this is the same number of fish the disciples caught in John 21:11. The symbolism is clear, Yeshua taught his disciples how to build the Kingdom of Heaven, as opposed to a religion "about" the Kingdom of Heaven, a very big difference.

We are being trained to know what Tsiyon is, and what it is not. No religion or people's groups have exclusive rights to Tsiyon, it belongs to the people of Mashiyach regardless of religion, race, color or creed. The Government of Tsiyon is on the shoulder of Mashiyach. Mashiyach is returning to the Mount of Olives from whence he departed, but this time round Scripture tells us he will be Mashiyach Ben David a much different scenario than when he first came to earth.

There is the Israel of Elohim (spiritual) and there is the other kingdom of Israel of the flesh. Not all who are Israel of the flesh are the Israel of Elohim. If we can look at Jews, Christians or Muslims without judging them by their religion or race, then we are getting closer to ZION, as how it is revealed in Mashiyach. The Kingdom of Elohim is a government, NOT a religion.

Tsiyon is also the place in our neshama (spirit) where we connect with Mashiyach where our heart receives and gives love for all of Creation, where we can see all others through the eyes of Mashiyach and carry no prejudice towards anyone. The Kingdom is within us, it is not an external government or religion. Over the centuries there have been many Zionist movements who entrapped adherents into a nationalistic or global vision not of spiritual Zion but simply another ploy to gain control and power through labor, politics, wealth and strategies for power. The oligarchs of have big designs on greater and greater world dictatorial power which they borrowed from Nimrod, the original representative of anti-Messiah and anti-Zion.

Today there are Christian Zionists who love the Jewish people and support the land of Israel, a Zionism on a practical and natural level benefitng Jews and Christians according to the Covenant of Faith YHWH gave to Avraham. However the majority of Christendom is anti-Zionist, nurtured by replacement theology and dispensationalism and therefore anti-Zionist when it comes to the Kingdom of Elohim. Christians tend to be partisan, biased and dualistic towards Judaism and Islam which is viewed as a competitive religion. Christians see themselves as exclusive inheritors of the promises, they don't see a future for Jews or Muslims except wrath of the Almighty YHWH for them not converting to Christianity. Most Muslims have the same partisan thinking as Christians and view Christians and all other non-Muslims as infidels. Jews don't view Christians and Muslims going off to burning eternal hell, but rather that each individual is judged on the merits of their lifestyle choices regardless of religious persuasion. In other words we are judged by how we live, more than by which religious affiliation we are part of, this is more consistent with a universal Government that operates outside of a religion.

To understand the Kingdom of Elohim one must have a perspective that YHWH gave life to all living souls for a purpose, and that purpose was not to create them so He could have the "satisfaction" of burning them in hell. Much of the thinking of hell is derived from the dark ages where torture and gore were commonplace ways of horrifying people into submission to their ruthless and evil dictators. This same ideology is still widely held by the majority of Churchianity today, whereas a bit of study into the Word of YHWH clearly shows that sheol (the grave) and Gehenna (eternal separation) are not so much about torturous hell but the resolving of those who choose to make war against Mashiyach.

YHWH takes no pleasure in the punishment or death of the rebellious.

"Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed;

and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says YHWH Elohim: therefore turn and live." Ezekiel 18:31, 32

Mashiyach will never endorse man's religions, governments or economic systems, and so why should we? Mashiyach uses no creed or religion to transform the hearts of man, he reveals his Attributes and manifests Righteousness in those who lay down their life to follow him. By experiencing the Character and Perfection of Mashiyach, we are transformed into the Image of Elohim, then we are free to build upon the Common Good for ourselves and others.

If we understand the Netzarim Faith that Paul and the Apostles followed, then we can better understand why the original Faith was forced underground by the Fourth Century. The Netzarim (Nazarenes) stood between Rabbinical Judaism and Greek based Christianity. Whether Jews, Christians, Black or White, or Islam or Hindu or Buddhist the Netzari Faith doesn't quantify people according to their religious choice or net worth. The Faith is all about living in our individual physical and spiritual potential each day.

There is only one hope for mankind, Mashiyach is the author of Peace and Justice, the Kingdom of Mashiyach welcomes ALL who seek him, none are excluded. Knowing Mashiyach changes our world view and transforms how we respond to our own needs and those of others. Once we accept his Kingship and enter into his Kingdom, we begin to understand the meaning of life and love and peace and joy. Mashiyach reveals to us that it is impossible to find Peace outside of his Justice and Righteousness.

Man cannot be trusted in himself, he was designed to co-labor and co-rule with Mashiyach, he was not designed to make up his own rules and do what is right in his own eyes. Consider the labels we wear as Jews, Christians or Moslems? How is it that people came to be identified by the names of religions, instead of through the Master who Created life? How is it that man's religions have become more important than YHWH and His Word and the Common Good that is upheld by His Word?

Where does the Common Good of man come from?.................................................................................

mugglez Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:34 pm

http://www.yashanet.com/studies/revstudy/text/yeshua_and_torah.htm

Yeshua, Torah and the Tree of Life
Torah is also called the "Tree of Life," as it points us to God as He reveals Himself in the Sephirot, and thus His salvation. Going back to the time of Moses, God Himself states that His Torah is the way of "life."

As all men physically die, the context is one of the Torah being "the words of eternal life:"

Leviticus 18:4-5 - Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 30:6 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Deuteronomy 30:19 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

The third chapter of the book of Proverbs (a highly kabbalistic text), speaks of the Torah in terms of "Wisdom and Understanding" (the Sephirot of Hokhmah and Binah), calling it a "Tree of Life." The Torah is this "Tree of Life" that founded the earth and established the heavens:

Proverbs 3:13-19 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

A prayer recited when the Torah scrolls are placed back into the ark in a Synagogue service, is Etz Chayim He, "It is a Tree of Life:"

It is a tree of life to those who take hold of it, and those who support it are praiseworthy. Its ways are ways of pleasantness and all its paths are peace. Bring us back Lord to You, and we shall come, renew our days as of old.

The request, "Bring us back Lord to You," in the above prayer is a petition for teshuvah, commonly called "repentance," but more accurately defined as "return." As mentioned in our background studies, the path up the kabbalistic Tree of Life, is the path of return to God.

To "follow Yeshua," as John did, is to follow Torah. The New Testament equates Yeshua with the Torah and the Tree of Life, mentioned in Proverbs (above), stating that He was behind the creation of the heavens and earth:

Colossians 1:16 - For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

John further states that Yeshua is the Torah, present with God and therefore "part of" God:

John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Torah, and the Torah was with God, and the Torah was God.

This concept is shown in the Midrash on Genesis (Bereshit), which explains how God "consulted" the Divine Torah during the process of creation. "God" was behind "His architect" who had the direct involvement in the "project" of creation:

Bereshit Rabbah I.1 - R. Oshaya began (his exposition in this way): "Then I was by Him, as an amon; and I was daily all delight" (Prov. 8:30). Amon means tutor; amon means covered; amon means hidden; and some say, amon means great. Amon is a tutor, as you read, "As an omen (= nursing father) carried the sucking child" (Num 11:12). Amon means covered, as in the verse, "ha'emunim (= those who were covered) in scarlet" (Lam 4:5). Amon means hidden, as in the verse, "And he omen (= concealed) Hadassah" (Est 2:7). Amon means great, as in the verse, "Are you better than No-amon?" (Nah 3: Cool

-- which is rendered, "Are thou better than Alexandria the Great, that is situate among the rivers?" Another interpretation: Amon is a workman (uman). The Torah (= Wisdom) declares: "I was the working tool of the Holy One, blessed be He." In human practice, when a mortal king builds a palace, he builds it not with his own skill but with the skill of an architect. The architect moreover does not build it out of his head, but employs plans and diagrams to know how to arrange the chambers and the wicket doors. Thus God consulted the Torah and created the world, while the Torah declares, "In/by/with the Beginning (be-reshit) God created" (Gen 1:1), "Beginning" (reshit) referring to the Torah, as in the verse, "The Lord made me as the beginning (reshit) of His way" (Prov. 8:22).

In Hebraic thinking, when one accepts the teachings of Torah, it is said to "become a person's flesh and blood." Therefore, to fully accept the teachings of Yeshua, is to partake of His "flesh and blood" - which is the Torah.

As Yeshua Himself said:

John 6:51-59 - I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

Many of those following Yeshua, could not deal with this deep (kabbalistic) level of teaching and left Him. His closest disciples however understood that He meant His "flesh and blood" as being, "the words of eternal life" -- the Torah:

John 6:60-69 - These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Messiah, the Son of the living God.
When Yeshua speaks of "eating His flesh and His blood," this is refering to the Torah, as He was/is the "Torah in the flesh." The manna eaten by the Children of Israel was a physical representation of the Torah, which was what truly sustained them. (The same can be said of the water from the mysterious rock/well that followed them, which Paul associated with Messiah in 1 Corinthians 10:4.)

Yeshua, His disciples, and the prophets of old, always pointed to Torah as the path of salvation.

Matthew 19:16-17 - And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. [Torah]

John 1: - In the beginning was the Word [Torah], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 5:46 - For had ye believed Moses [Torah], ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

Paul directly ties Yeshua to the Torah, describing Him in the same language God did of Torah through Moses. The point Paul is making in this commonly mistranslated and misunderstood passage, is that the Torah points to the Messiah and His teaching on Torah. God did not change when Yeshua came. (Matthew 5:17-21, Romans 3:31). "Confessing Yeshua," and "believing in your heart" that He resurrected, does not simply mean that acknowledging certain historical realities brings salvation (even if done "sincerely, with all of one's heart," etc.) Even the demons know Yeshua is Lord and was resurrected. Rather, it means to accept and follow His teachings -- i.e., being "hearers and doers" of the Torah, as both Paul and "James" taught:

Romans 10:4-11 - For Messiah is the goal of the Torah to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the Torah, "The man who does those things shall live by them." And the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, "Do not say in your heart, "Who will ascend into heaven?"' (that is, to bring Messiah down from above) or, ""Who will descend into the abyss?"' (that is, to bring Messiah up from the dead). But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Yeshua and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."

Deuteronomy 30:11-16a - For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live ...

John, in his epistle, makes an explicit connection between "knowing Yeshua" and keeping Torah:

1 John 2:3-5 - And in this we know that we have known him, if his commands [Torah] we may keep; he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command [Torah] is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not; and whoever may keep his word [Torah], truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this [Torah] we know that in him we are.

John's comments (above) and all "New Testament" texts concerning "following Yeshua" must be interpreted in light of what God had already said (in what was the only "Bible" of that time as well). A good place to look at what it means to "follow Yeshua" is Psalm 119, were David makes clear how important Torah is toward salvation:

Psalm 119:1-9 - Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Psalm 119:41-42 - Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

Psalm 119:81 - My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

Psalm 119:88 - Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Psalm 119:92-94 - Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. I am thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts.

Psalm 119:174-176 - I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight. Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me. I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

MoMo Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:59 pm

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Ciggy Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:34 pm

Of interest here:

MoMo Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:21 am

As the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments are peerless, suis generis, likewise The Book of Job is utterly unique, considered a Kabbalistic Text, like the Vision of Ezekiel and the Chariot.

Applying the 4 levels of understanding of Biblical Scripture provides some fascinating and profound insights into realities beyond our 5 senses............

Kabbalah, the 4th/Sod/Secret Level................. thumbs up

I reiterate, any Kabbalah/Sod that is not Torah based is False Kabbalah.............. thumbs up

Kabbalah and Telepathy

http://www.torahscience.org/communicat/kabbalah_and_telepathy.htm

The Power of Thought
Telepathy is usually defined as the ability to communicate by thought transfer, without participation of the senses.

In Kabbalah and Hassidism the power of thought is considered to be the highest of the three powers of the psyche: thought, speech and action. It is therefore most important to guard the mind from impure thoughts or evil thoughts about others. In the book of Tanya we are taught that evil thoughts about someone are ultimately even more harmful than speaking slander about him or actually taking harmful physical action against him.

The phrase used by our sages in the Talmud that describes the phenomenon of telepathy is machshava moelet (“a thought that causes an effect”) . Telepathy has a negative connotation when moelet is seen to be from the root meilah (“sacrilege”). On the other hand, the positive connotation of this expression is that thought has an actual effect upon reality.

In Hassidic lore, telepathy is considered to be a gift of the righteous. By clarifying his thoughts, the tzaddik achieves the power to act from afar through his thoughts, transcending the limits of space and time to communicate with another Jewish soul, extricating him from his troubles in a time of need.

As we shall see, the word in the Bible that depicts the ability to communicate through thought is chashmal. Although in modern Hebrew chashmal is an everyday word used to describe the natural phenomenon of electricity, it appears only once in the Bible, in the depiction of the Divine Chariot that Ezekiel envisioned in his prophecy; the most profound chapter of the Bible. Ezekiel describes the “eye of chashmal,” a shade of light or color.

According to one of the rules of Hebrew grammar, every word has either a two or a three letter root. If a word has a root of four or more letters, then it must be a compound word that can be broken down into two or more roots. Our sages thus explain that the four-letter word chashmal is made of the two words, chash, “silence” and mal, “speech.” Maimonides explains that there is a type of angel that are called chashmalim and this is because “they are sometimes silent [chashim] and sometimes they speak [memalelim].” In addition we find in the Book of Proverbs that of the twenty-eight “quality of times” that change in the world there is “a time to be silent and a time to speak.” However, in Kabbalah we are taught that this duality of speech and thought exists only in the three lower worlds (Beriah, Yetzirah, Asiyah), that are under the influences of time and are unable to simultaneously tolerate two opposites. Contrarily, in the world of Atzilut there are no paradoxes. In this highest world where time does not exist, chashmal does not refer to those angels, rather it refers to the true chashmal that Ezekiel saw in his prophecy, a light that shone from Supernal Man sitting upon His throne wearing the clothing of chashmal (the numerical value of the word chashmal is equal to the numerical value of malbush, “clothing”). Since in the world of Atzilut everything is unified in wondrous harmony and all paradoxes coexist at one and the same moment, silence and speech also exist there as one. It is in the world of Atzilut that one can find the phenomenon of communication through silence.

Here in the world as we know it, time is divided into separate units to allow for the duality of the paradox to express itself at varying moments. In the lower worlds as we experience them, the character and the fashion of speech is different from silence and they cannot be experienced simultaneously.

The Power of Silence
There are a number of possible ways to explain silence as an act. The first is that silence is an act of thought. The Hebrew word for thinking is chashov, which even begins with the word chash, “silence” and can also be seen as an acronym for lachush be... that means to sense something through silence. The sense of thought is an inner phenomenon in which one considers something in silence.

A second type of silence is the silence that comes from the realization that there is an infinite gap between our thoughts and the thoughts of God as it says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts.” This idea is expressed in the midrash that teaches us that when Moses received the Torah, he waited while God “tied the crowns” to the letters of the Torah. Moses asked God about these crowns and God showed him how Rabbi Akiva was destined to explain these crowns in the future. When Moses saw the extent of Rabbi Akiva’s Torah study he asked God in amazement why Rabbi Akiva should not be the one to deliver the Torah. God’s reply was, “Be silent! This is the thought that came up before me!” Moses then asked to see the reward that Rabbi Akiva would receive for his Torah study and God showed him how the Romans would torture Rabbi Akiva to death. Moses asked in amazement, “This is the Torah and that is its reward?!” and once again, God replied, “Be silent! This is the thought that came up before me!”

It is impossible for a human being to rise up to or to sense God’s thoughts, he must therefore be silent. Every true believer in God meets great mysteries throughout his life that he cannot begin to understand, such as the holocaust. The Lubavitcher Rebbe said that one should not even attempt to understand the holocaust, rather we must remain silent, as did Aaron the High Priest when his two completely righteous sons, Nadav and Avihu were taken from him (they died while offering incense in the Tabernacle), as it says, “And Aaron was speechless.” Under such circumstances there is nothing else to do but to remain silent and to accept the facts through total belief that “My thoughts are not your thoughts,” and that God is the absolute essence of goodness, even if our own perception of reality seems to contradict this.

The third explanation of silence is the Chassidic interpretation of the reply from God to Moses, “Be silent! This is the thought that came up before me!” which, in the Hebrew “Shtok! Cach ala (came up) bemachshava lefanai,” can be rendered, “Shtok! Cach ale (get up) bemachshava lefanai,” meaning that through silence one may be able to rise to a higher level of perception and thus to reach an infinitely higher level of thought, coming closer as it were to God’s own thoughts.

Another expression of our sages related to silence is “siyag lechochmah, shtika,” “A boundary for wisdom is silence.” In Kabbalah, the word siyag is interpreted as the light that encompasses wisdom. When one rises higher into the encompassing light of silence that enshrouds wisdom, one draws down a higher encompassing light into the inner soul, thus achieving levels of understanding that previously existed only in the realm of simple faith. We all believe that God is good, even when we cannot see His goodness manifested in reality as we perceive it. However, through the power of faith found in the heart of every Jew as he silently accepts reality, he is able to draw down higher levels of faith and understanding...............................................This meditation is completely opposite to an ordinary understanding of the world. From a physical point of view, to someone who views the world from a perspective of da’at tachton, “lower knowledge,” action is concrete while speech and thought are abstract and therefore not considered so important. This idea is even stated explicitly in the Talmud in the saying, “action is the main principle.” This is obviosly true; however, once one begins to meditate upon this idea, one realizes that the amount and the quality of light that are revealed in action are completely null and void in comparison to the vitality of speech. Similarly, one realizes that a positive thought contains far more light and illuminates the soul far more than speech. This statement is an amazing innovation, especially when one considers the emotions and the intellect, which are totally imperceptible to someone who has not purified his mind and has not achieved this understanding. This false perception of reality, seeing that which is “above” to be “nothing” while that which is “below” is “something,” is a superficial perception of reality. The meditation described in Tanya brings us to the realization that each level is nullified in relation to the level above it, and clarifies to us that that what is “above” is truly “something,” while the external world is “nothing.” This realization is called da’at elyon, “upper knowledge” and without it one is unable to purify one’s thoughts. Someone who perceives the world through da’at tachton is under the influence of, and weighed down by the animal soul. In many places we find that Chassidism refers to da’at tachton as “the seed of beast,” while da’at elyon is called, “seed of man.” as in the words of the prophet Jeremiah “And I have sowed the House of Israel with the seed of man and the seed of beast.” Most souls are souls of da’at tachton, we thus feel that “something-ness” is below while all that is “above” is imperceptible and seems to be “nothing.” If one has only da’at tachton and feels that speech is nullified to action and that thought is nullified to speech and so on, then one is unable to purify his “garments” and is unable to raise them higher. One is thus unable to reach the “crown” and the “crystal dew” found there, which is the power of inner communication that we call telepathy

WHAT IS THE TORAH
WHAT IS THE TORAH AND
WHY WE TEACH IT EVERY WEEK

http://www.eons.com/groups/topic/2655875-WHAT-IS-THE-TORAH?page=1

By Tom O'Haver

What the “Torah” is:
The word "Torah" is often misunderstood, because it can mean different things to different people and in different contexts. The literal meaning of “Torah” is “Teaching”. In its most limited sense, "Torah" refers to the Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In a broader sense, Torah was more than just these Five Books. God's Torah encompasses all of God's revelation. But the word "torah" can also be used to refer to the entire Jewish bible (the body of scripture known to non-Jews as the Old Testament and to Jews as the Tanakh or Written Torah), or in its broadest sense, to the whole body of Jewish law and teachings and ultimately to Jesus (Yeshua) who is the Living Word.

John
1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Torah Readings:
We, at El Shaddai Ministries read, study and teach on Torah Portions each week. We publish the portion for each week on our website. It is thought that the custom to complete the weekly public reading of the Torah every year (on the holiday of Simchat Torah) finds its root in Babylon when Israel was in captivity. The Torah’s division into fifty-four sections (Parshiyot) was to allow for the completion of a yearly cycle with the reading of one Parshah per week.
Written Torah
To Jews, there is no "Old Testament." The books that Christians call the New Testament are not part of Jewish scripture. The so-called Old Testament is known as Written Torah or the Tanakh.
This is a list of the books of Written Torah, in the order in which they appear in Jewish translations, with the Hebrew name of the book, a translation of the Hebrew name (where it is not the same as the English name), and English names of the books (where it is not the same as the Hebrew name). The Hebrew names of the first five books are derived from the first few words of the book. The text of each book is more or less the same in Jewish translations as what you see in Christian bibles, although there are some occasional, slight differences in the numbering of verses and there are some significant differences in the translations.
TORAH (The Teachings):
Bereishith (In the beginning...) (Genesis) Shemoth (The names...) (Exodus) Vayiqra (And He called...) (Leviticus) Bamidbar (In the wilderness...) (Numbers) Devarim (The words...) (Deuteronomy)
NEVI'IM (The Prophets):
Yehoshua (Joshua) Shoftim (Judges) Shmuel (I &II Samuel) Melakhim (I & II Kings) Yeshayah (Isaiah) Yirmyah (Jeremiah) Yechezqel (Ezekiel) The Twelve (treated as one book): Hoshea (Hosea) Yoel (Joel) Amos Ovadyah (Obadiah) Yonah (Jonah) Mikhah (Micah) Nachum Chavaqquq (Habbakkuk) Tzefanyah (Zephaniah) Chaggai Zekharyah (Zechariah) Malakhi
KETHUVIM (The Writings):
Tehillim (Psalms) Mishlei (Proverbs) Iyov (Job) Shir Ha-Shirim (Song of Songs) Ruth Eikhah (Lamentations) Qoheleth (the author's name) (Ecclesiastes) Esther Daniel Ezra & Nechemyah (Nehemiah) (treated as one book) Divrei Ha-Yamim (The words of the days) (Chronicles)
Written Torah is often referred to as the Tanakh, which is an acrostic of Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim.
The Haftorah and B’rit Hadasha
In addition to the Torah readings each week, we include scriptures from the Haftorah and B’rit Hadasha. The Haftorah is a series of selections from the books of Nevi'im ("Prophets") of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) that is publicly read in synagogue as part of Jewish religious practice. The Haftorah reading follows the Torah reading on each Sabbath and on Jewish festivals and fast days. Typically, the haftorah is thematically linked to the parasha (Torah portion) that precedes it.
The B’rit Hadasha is the Hebrew term for what we typically call the New Testament. So we include readings from the Gospels and Apostolic Scriptures (also known as the “Renewed Covenant” or “New Testament”) that relates to the Torah Portion.
Why Teach the Torah Every Week
Have you ever read a passage in the Bible that you have read many times before but suddenly see something different and meaningful in it? There is a phrase in Jewish tradition that says that Torah has 70 facets. This statement is sometimes used to indicate different perspectives of interpretation of the Torah. We find by repeating the weekly Torah Portions each year that we will discover a new facets of meaning just like a diamond has many faces of beauty.
So hang on and buckle your seatbelts because we are starting anew in discovering what God has for us in His Word and how His Living Word, Yeshua is manifested throughout the Torah, Haftorah, and Brit Chadesha.

http://www.bookofjob.org./

The Book of Job opens onto a pastoral Eden, the land of Uz to the south and east of the Dead Sea. (Job 1:1) “Seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys” graze the hillsides. And “very many servants” tend to their physical care. (Job 1-3) An ideal family lives there: a mom, a dad, “seven sons and three daughters”. Their lives are lives of joy and celebration as evidenced by the many feasts. (Job 1:4) A devout father tends to their spiritual care. (Job 1:4) All is right with this world. The reader may hear echoes of an earlier Eden. “God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31)

A New Adam

Here we meet a new Adam. He is a mature human being, the man whose name is Job. (Job 1:1) The author places some emphasis on this point because the Hebrew text begins with the word for man “ish”, “a man there was”. This is a signifcant change in the normal Hebrew word order of verb-subject-object. Here the order is object-subject-verb. [2] The significance is found in the fact that there are only two genuine parallels to this inverted syntax and they are found in the opening lines of Nathan’s parable (2 Samuel 12:1) and Joash’s fable (2 Kings 14:9). [3] This syntax is an introductory Hebrew formula or idiom for the parable that follows, akin to the modern introductory phrase “once upon a time”. Thus, the author The Book of Job is telling the reader from the start that this book is and should be read as a myth or parable about humankind.

As a new Adam, Job is not just Everyman. Job is the best humankind has to offer. He is truly and fully human. He is what all of us could be and should be. In the judgment of the author, Job is “blameless and upright, one who fears God and turns away from evil”. (Job 1:1) Unlike the first Adam, Job is a completed work. “This man was the greatest of all the people of the east.” (Job 1:3) Since the people of the east were proverbially regarded as wise, [4] Job is presented as the wisest of the wise. His decisions as to how to lead a moral life are something all of us should emulate. That is especially the case when he raises the Oath of Innocence against God. The Oath of Innocence is a formal lawsuit against God for bringing evil into the world.

As a new Adam, Job will not face a simple test of blind obedience. Job’s test will require all the intellectual and moral resources a mature human being can muster. And that test will bring out the fullness of his name. The name “Job” means “where is my father.” [5] In part, his struggle is the search for a loving father God in the midst of a world of undeserved and unremitted suffering. The fate of all humanity will rest on his choices.

sharky Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:56 pm

Fake Kabbalah thumbs down

The 'original' red strings have not been made since the destruction of the second temple......70CE.........they were made from the ashes of the sacrificial unblemished Red Heifer........of which there had only been six or seven in Temple history and none at all since 70CE. thumbs up

http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com/redstring.htm
Violence and Left-Wing Politics: What's Going on at UCLA's Hillel?
By Catriel Sugarman

August 2007

Wearing a thin red string—roite bindele in Yiddish—as a type of talisman in order to ward off the "evil eye" is a custom many people erroneously associate with the Kabbalah, the ancient mystical tradition of Judaism. Traditionally, those who have endorsed the red string say it "should" be made from thin red wool thread that has been wound around Rachel’s tomb in Bethlehem seven times. For "maximum effect," they say, it must be tied or worn on one’s left wrist. Even today, in some hareidi neighborhoods in Israel and New York, it is not uncommon to see women pushing baby carriages decked with red strings.
It is said that the late Debreczyner Rav, Rabbi Moshe Stern, z"l, mentioned it as a custom practiced in his father’s home, however he was unable find a source for it.

The fact is, there is no genuine written source in authentic Kabbalistic literature for wearing a red thread around the wrist to ward off the "evil eye" or for any other reason. In the authentic Kabbalistic literature, red has no magical powers nor does it have any special connection to the Matriarch Rachel.

"Ways of the Amorites"

The practice of wearing red strings is mentioned in the Tosefta (a collection of expanded tanaitic traditions not included in the Mishna) where it is referred to in Shabbat 7:1 as "things that are darchei haEmori. Literally, this means "ways of the Amorites"—witchcraft-like practices that are strictly banned: one who cuts his hair "koomi" (i.e., like the idolaters); one who makes a plait (locks worn by Roman or Greek youth) and offers it to the gods; one who raises her child between the dead; or one who ties a red string to his finger."

The Rambam succinctly summarizes his views on these matters in the Moreh Nevuchim: "The same idolatry and superstitious practices that, in your belief, keep certain misfortunes far from you, will cause those very misfortunes to befall you" (Bk. 3, Ch. 37).

In Genesis 38:27-28, it is written that when Tamar gave birth to twins, one of the babies put out a hand. The midwife took "a crimson thread and tied it to his hand saying, ‘This one came out first.’"

The classical commentaries (e.g. Seforno, Or Hachayim etc.) view the midwife’s efforts with the red thread as merely a means of identifying which twin breached first: in no way was it seen as a protective gesture.

Hollywood "Glitterati"

Despite the practice’s questionable origins, wearing a red thread has become something of a fad of hysterical proportions, verging on a status symbol, among Hollywood’s glitterati, their fans and imitators, and literally millions of others around the world – Jews and non-Jews - who mindlessly follow in their footsteps.

Celebrities, including vast numbers of non-Jews, have started to wear these red amulets to avert the "evil eye." Pop diva Madonna, Ashton Kutcher, Avril Lavigne, Anthony Kiedis. Demi Moore, and Roseanne Barr are merely among the most well known adherents. There are countless others.

Many ambitious entrepreneurs have capitalized on this craze by fabricating products related to the red string and other pseudo-Kabbalistic paraphernalia. Many people with spurious qualifications and dubious backgrounds have written strange books on the matter. Centers and websites devoted to the subject are popping up all over the world.

Kabbalah Center

By far, the organization most responsible for the proliferation of trendy red-string wearers (especially in Hollywood) is the so called Kabbalah Center, a massive multimillion dollar operation that has 11 branches in North America and another 16 branches elsewhere.

In addition, there are scores of "study groups" affiliated with the Kabbalah Center.

The directors of this immensely profitable enterprise are Phillip Berg (now known as "HaRav") and his wife Karen.

Chartered Jets and Private Planes

According to researcher Mim Udovitch, of the British-based Radar Magazine, "tax documents filed between 2000 and 2003 show assets of approximately $60 million for five of the nonprofit entities controlled by the Bergs. They fly in chartered jets and the private planes of their donors and recently built three neighboring mini-mansions in Beverly Hills, which, like their deluxe New York dwellings, were paid for by the tax-exempt Kabbalah Center." (This is in stark contrast to the bleak four-to-a-bedroom conditions and $35-a-month stipend they offer their droves of full-time volunteers—called the "chevra"—who cook and clean for them.)

In 1971, Philip Berg (then known as Shraga Feivel Gruberger) began preaching his version of the "Kabbalah" to a small group of students in Israel. A former insurance salesman for New York Life in Brooklyn, Mr. Gruberger eventually dumped his first wife, Rivka (the mother of his seven children), and married his former secretary Karen.

Rivka and her children were purged from the hagiographic Kabbalah Center’s "authoritative" biography of Shraga Feivel Gruberger-Berg. In the official sanitized version, his personal life began with his "historic" partnership with Karen.

Message from the Next World

According to The Kabbalah Center’s slick website, Karen "was, and continues to be, the spark behind the expansion of The Kabbalah Center within the US and abroad. Once Karen realized the power of Kabbalah to enrich and enhance lives, it was she who suggested that Rav Berg break with tradition and open up the study of Kabbalah to everyone."

Elsewhere we are told that this insight was not really Karen’s own: in fact it was "revealed" to her in a dream by the same deceased Kabbalist whom HaRav Shraga Feivel continually claims as "his mentor." In his nocturnal visit, the ethereal personage confided to Karen that the time had come to teach Kabbalah to all the peoples of the world, and that she was to take the lead.

The Bergs did not take this "ectoplasm intercession" from the next world lightly, but, truth be told, Shraga Feivel, having re-invented himself as "Phillip," did not need much convincing.

The Bergs and "The Kabbalah Center" were on their way.

Enchanted Kabbalah Power

Sandra Bernhard was the first major celebrity who became associated with the Los Angeles Kabbalah Center. Ms. Udovitch described the process: "Enchanted by the power of Kabbalah, within a couple of years, Bernhard had brought in her friends Roseanne Barr and Madonna (now known to her Kabbalist pals as ‘Esther’), who were soon followed into the fold by Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Jeff Goldblum, Marla Maples, Sarah Ferguson, Monica Lewinsky, Paris Hilton, and the former Posh Spice."

Mick Jagger and his ex-wife Jerry Hall did some serious fundraising for the Bergs before they jumped ship. Madonna is the cherry on the cake: according to insiders, in the last four years Madonna alone has donated approximately $18 million to the Center.

The Bergs have found that coddling the egos of famous Hollywood personalities can be very profitable indeed.

"72 Names of G-d"

The Kabbalah Center’s published list of the "72 Names of G-d" embellishes all their sites. Madonna wears them on T-shirts and dances against their projections on the stage. Ms. Bernhard’s new mantra is: "Stop spinning your wheels. Tap into the 72 Names of G-d immediately!"

For a period of time, Britney Spears wore the red string and—enthusiast that she is—even had Hebrew letters tattooed on her back. But then she ceased her Kabbalistic activities, and as a result (so she says), her life went into a tailspin.

Realizing the error of her ways, Ms. Spears once more donned the red string, thus once again placing herself under the protection of the Matriarch Rachel.

"This time," said Ms. Spears in her weekly conference call with gossip magazine editors, "I ain’t gonna take that string off no matter how many times I puke on it."

Ms. Spears had learned her lesson.

Confronting the Eye

Since then, The Kabbalah Center has not ceased expanding; its red strings, perfumed anti-stress candles, holy Kabbalah Water, amulets, and Kabbalistic jewelry are merchandised all over the world. You can buy illustrated cards with the "72 names" and, without any difficulty, "connect" to the "Light."

On his website, "HaRav" Berg explains: "According to Kabbalah, the critical need to confront the problem of negative influences cannot be underestimated. People who fail to understand this and activate a protective shield through positive and proactive behavior will eventually become victims."

"Kabbalah teaches us that we can remove intrusive negative influences and, more importantly, that we have the potential to eradicate negativity forever! The power of the eye, when understood from a Kabbalistic perspective, becomes as powerful a healing instrument as it can be a devastating channel of destruction," he says, explaining that his Center’s red strings are guaranteed to "activate" the required "protective shield."

"Rachel and the Red String"

According to "HaRav" Berg, the red string has been used as "a tool of protection for centuries."

"The practice, developed by the sages, involves winding the red string around the tomb of the great Matriarch, Rachel, located in the Land of Israel. The string is then cut it into pieces and worn on the left wrist," he says, explaining that the left hand "is considered by Kabbalah to be the receiving side for the body and soul."

"By wearing The Red String on our left wrist, we can receive a vital connection to the protective energies surrounding the tomb of Rachel. It also allows us to take Rachel’s powerful protective energy with us and draw from it anytime," he says.

"Bread of Shame"

Investigative researcher Elena Lappin once interviewed "crown prince" Yehudah Berg (the son of Shraga Feivel and Karen) and asked him why a piece of red string is so expensive ($26).

Testily he told her about the "Kabbalistic concept of bread of shame: you don’t get something for nothing."

"For us to get the red string, we have to get an armored car to Rachel’s Tomb; they get shot at every time they go, it’s a dangerous situation. We have to pay a private security firm. So there’s a lot of money that’s laid out by the Center. Other people who wear it from elsewhere don’t necessarily get the benefit. We give them the whole technology of special wrapping and prayers. The minimum people should do is appreciate that and pay for it," said Yehudah Berg.

No Armored Vehicles

Unfortunately for Mr. Berg, Ms. Lappin visited Rachel’s Tomb herself and asked the rabbis who have had a permanent presence there for the past ten years whether they had ever seen any part of that narrative.

"The answer is a definite no: no armored vehicles under the protection of a private security firm, no shootings of this description, no one observed arriving with large quantities of red string and wrapping it around the tomb," she said.

A spokeswoman for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism and also for Religious Affairs commented that "the area is under heavy military protection and no special permits had been given to the Kabbalah Center to enter Rachel’s Tomb with large quantities of red string."

During a visit to a Kabbalah Center conference in Israel, Ms. Lappin happened to see a piece of the famous red string, as worn by Madonna and friends. At the conference, it was attractively presented with an instructional CD. Ms. Lappin also saw something else: a sticker on the sealed packed which said "Made in China."

Kabbalah Water

Red string is not the only "blessed" substance sold by The Kabbalah Center. In 1999, the Center started selling Kabbalah Water which they claimed possessed marvelous spiritual and medicinal properties.

Ms. Lappin recalls that, on the Center’s website, she read an account of a Kabbalah scholar named "Billy" who led a discussion on "The Science of Kabbalistic Healing: The Cure for Cancer and the End of Disease."

When asked for advice about a grandfather with end-stage cancer, Billy replied: "Kabbalah water and Zohar volume 20 and 21 are the most effective ways to begin a healing treatment. I would suggest two-to-three bottles a day. I have seen cancer go into remission, and I have seen it disappear in many people who have used this initial approach."

Not surprisingly, there are Kabbalah devotees who drink up to 10 bottles a day.

"Astonishing Discovery"

The Kabbalah Center website loudly trumpets the uniqueness of its water: "Years ago, Rav Berg and the great Kabbalists who were his teachers made an astonishing discovery: a truly sharing consciousness, channeled through certain Kabbalistic blessings and meditations, has the power to return water to its primordial state of completely positive, healing energy."

According to the Bergs, the "Kabbalistic blessings and meditations bring about elegant and balanced crystalline structures in water, while negative consciousness has an opposite effect."

It has been reported that one proposed marketing mock-up of the water, "the Madonna Model," even included a jingle: "Get that feeling/Of Kabbalah healing…"

Government Interference

But "HaRav" Berg does not always get his way. Wishing to avoid the expense of advertising and promotion, he told Radar Magazine that "if the damn FDA would just let me put on the label that the water cures cancer, like it does, I wouldn’t need marketing."

According to another student interviewed by Radar, "HaRav" Berg has declared that Kabbalah Water has cured AIDS. A third student told Radar about being present at a Shabbat lecture in New York during which "a scientist from the Miami Center told the congregation that drinking it had cured the case of SARS she had contracted during her recent travels in Asia."

No wonder it is so expensive!

Kabbalah Water Baths

In an article about Madonna’s recent concert tour in Ireland, reporter Jeannette Walls said the diva’s handlers were stunned when the star demanded 25 cases of Kabbalah Water for a one-day concert.

"The one-time Material Girl refuses to drink anything but the water sold by the trendy religious movement, which some have called a cult," wrote Ms. Walls, noting that also on sale during the tour were T-shirts emblazoned with the logo: "Kabbalists Do It Better."

A source told Ms. Walls that some Kabbalah followers were known to "bathe in Kabbalah Water daily, some even twice a day."

American Thunder

But the multi-million dollar Kabbalah Center is not the only game in town. There are plenty of ambitious small-fry "wannabees" out there.

One trafficker in Kabbalistic paraphernalia is "Warren" of "American Thunder," who gravely assures his customers that he takes his "responsibility to deliver a genuine bracelet very seriously."

"Warren" embellishes his website with the traditional nostalgic picture of Rachel’s Tomb sitting in splendid isolation among the olive tree-dotted fields of Bethlehem, even though it has not looked like that in generations.

Fake Bracelets?

"All Kabbalah string is not the same," Warren insists. "Our string is genuine because Kabbalah scholars wrap it seven times around the Tomb of Rachel."

He further cautions the public to "beware of fakes," because, he says, "99 percent of the bracelets on the market are not properly wound around Rachel’s Tomb."

"Our red strings are genuine mystical bracelets prepared according to the Kabbalah tradition," Warren declares.

Asked why there is so much "fake Kabbalah string" on the market, Warren gives an explanation much like the Bergs’ justification. Rachel’s Tomb, he explains, "is located near Arab territory."

"To get there you must use an armored vehicle. The tomb is now in a concrete bunker and guarded by the Israeli army. Wrapping the string requires clearance. Even scheduling time when the string can be prepared is tricky," he says, adding that his "Kabbalah scholars" frequently "have to do it at midnight."

Clearly, as Warren says, "getting authentic string is difficult and dangerous."

The "Evil Eye"

Touted (by Warren) as "the best offer on the Web for genuine Kabbalah," he also suggests (as "spiritual tools, not religious items"), heavy red string Kabbalah bracelets, anklets, and a silver-and-opal "hand of G-d" charm.

"Wearing a real Kabbalah bracelet offers you spiritual protection from negative energy whether it comes from the general public or from people you’re close to, and helps set you up for success and good luck," explains Warren.

American Thunder also features links to sites that offer instruction on how to "come to terms with psychic experiences, psychic protection, self-defense, and development." There are "tools for personal and spiritual growth, and safe techniques for developing or controlling your psychic gifts."

If you still need help, "Psychic Marie" delivers "very accurate psychic tarot readings on any problem." Marie "specializes in love and jobs." An astrology site is still under construction.

Spiritual Entrepreneur

Another cyberspace Kabbalist, Cheryl Glover, is a real entrepreneur. Her self-proclaimed "spiritual goal is to assist people by bringing them metaphysical methodologies to help them find their higher consciousness, spirituality, and The Light; … to raise consciousness: awareness of these positive and negative thoughts and help people create for themselves a better life."

In this way, she hopes to bridge the gap between "ancient Kabbalists" and "New Thought Philosophies."

Ms. Glover, whose Kabbalah credentials consist mainly of courses at the Bergs’ Kabbalah Center before she branched off on her own, also sells red string in bulk. However, she claims her string has one advantage over her competitors’ wares: her string is "blessed by a Kohan (Jewish High Priest [sic])."

"The Kabbalah Center never says their strings are blessed by Kohans," she proudly tells her prospective customers.

"Mystical Kabbalah Stones"

A trailblazer in the Kabbalistic world, Ms. Glover was the first to sell "Mystical Kabbalah Stones" taken from "the cave of the founder of Kabbalah Rabbi Shimon Ben Yochai." She even supplies a formal certificate of origin.

Suitably decorated, the elegant document certifies that the stones were collected from the burial cave of Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai on Mt. Meron/ Safed. "The bracelet string was blessed by a Kabbalist Kohan (a Jewish High Priest, ‘especially tasked with healing in the Temple’) at the same location," the certificate says.

The admittedly unimpressive-looking stones come with precise instructions: "Hold [the stones] in your left hand (closest to your heart) whenever you need that little drop of extra help in your life. You will be more than surprised from the huge difference in your feeling, attitude, and success."

Reiki Water

Ms. Glover does not sell Kabbalah Water, but she does peddle Reiki Water, which she says is "well known for its success with distance healing and placing Reiki energy into inanimate objects for the benefit of humans and animals."

Reiki Master Cheryl Glover "infuses natural spring water with Reiki healing energy," says her website.

Even Kabbalah aficionados must agree that the mystical water market is getting crowded. There is also the Kabbalah Energy Drink, sold in sleek 12-oz cans and made with "extremely pure mountain spring water. It is a "citrus fusion" which energies the faithful.

"So whether you have to take your dog for a walk, study for finals, bar-hop with friends, or just need a second wind at the office, reach for Kabbalah Energy Drink," says the promotion.

No wonder devotees of Kabbalah everywhere have discovered this extraordinary drink. Kabbalah Energy Drink is news! MSNBC announced that "Kabbalah Energy Drink tastes better;" New York Magazine called it "the pop culture right now;" and Yahoo News dubbed it the "source of power."

"Ari Mikveh" Water ("AriH2O")

Not all holy water is for drinking. On "the eve of the new month" (a time considered by some of the faithful as "especially auspicious for repentance,"), water, intended for sale, is gathered "directly from the fresh spring outlet of the Ari Mikveh in the town of Safed."

"The waters of the Ari Mikveh serve as a focal point for prayers and meditation," reads the AriH2O website, explaining that just as the Kabbalah "subtly describes the division of the ‘upper realms’ and the ‘lower realms,’" so, too, AriH2o.com "will help you learn more about the separation of the ‘lower and upper waters.’"

They do not recommend drinking the stuff, which is sold in a "special keepsake blue bottle," the color chosen because "blue has long been the most common color used to protect against the evil eye in the Middle East region, as it reminds one to direct intention toward heaven."

Although an impressive-looking certificate of authenticity is supplied, customers are advised not to drink the water because "to maintain the ritual purity and mystical powers attributed to this special mikveh water, we do not purify or filter it at all. The Ari Mikveh is fed by a fresh water spring, but is not harvested for drinking water."

"Kabbalah Corner"

Kabbalah Corner calls itself "the most trusted online Kabbalah store selling original Kabbalah items." On its website, it markets "a wide range of unique and authentic Kabbalah items, designed by great Kabbalistic artists (from Safed, the Holy city of Kabbalah origins [sic]) who were trained by distinguished rabbis in Israel that examined and approved the final products."

Like many "newbies" in the burgeoning Kabbalah market, the Kabbalah Corner website features a whole range of "incredible mystical jewelry," including "incredible Kabbalah love and relationship letters pendants," "incredible financial and spiritual energizer pendants," and a "gold Merkaba Kabbalah pendant—an incredible pendant for healing and protection."

Perhaps the most interesting of the lot is the (incredible) "wishing box" since it provides—so we are assured—"additional help, from higher powers, for wish fulfillment." The boxes are inscribed with "Kabbalistic codes," written in "old Hebrew" which, the site says "render the wish importance of holiness [sic]."

Kabbalah Corner offers a free red string with every purchase of a jewelry item.

"Divine Positive Energy"

But the Kabbalah Corner’s pièce de resistance is the "Holy Talisman," which the website says it is "able to reveal" now "after conferring for many years with Rav Haim Messas, a trusted Kabbalist." Consisting of three silver Hebrew letters (shin, dalet, yud), the Holy Talisman "acts as a receptor and conduit for divine positive energy."

The Kabbalah Corner emphasizes that "the three letters symbolize the qualities of Wisdom, Grace, Love, Peace and Will." These virtues "result in power equal to that of the stars, the planets, and the moon, which make up the universe."

The ad for this powerful pendant says: "The Holy Talisman fuels profound spirituality, and eternal love, peace, and happiness" and "may be worn continuously without degeneration or corruption of its infinite divine attributes."

Hi-Tech Kabbalah

No doubt it was inevitable that someone would seek bridge the gap between the "ancient truths of the Kabbalah" and ultra-modern—even futuristic—technology of tomorrow. Life Technology (purveyors of "alternative science information and products, including homeopathy, radionics, neoradionics, psychotronics, and Atlantean technology") offers a "Miraculous Kabbalah Talisman" guaranteed to "illuminate mind, body and soul."

Incorporating "four unique design elements," the product is touted as "the most potent talisman/manifesting/energy enhancement device" on the market.

It has four elements: (1) "a mini scroll of the most sacred magickal [sic] formula of Kabbalah, the written formula of the 72 Name of G-d;" (2)pure quartz crystal micro spheres, important because "quartz is a material of powerful healing, spiritual enhancement, and manifesting properties which acts to enhance the transmission and delivery of our intent to the creative centre of the universe;" (3) "a fragment of red string from Rachel’s Tomb in Jerusalem [sic];" and (4) "a special Ethero-Magnetic caduceus orgone-generating module which incorporates the magickal [sic] and sacred ‘lost cubit’ measurement, a measurement so secret that its precise value cannot be found in ancient or modern literature."

No arduous spiritual regimen is necessary to solve problems once you are the proud owner of this unique amulet. The advantage of the Miraculous Kabbalah Talisman is that it "offers a quick and easy way to achieve joy, financial abundance, sexual fulfillment and spiritual enlightenment."

It is, the site insists, "the key to removing depression, stress, creative stagnation, anger, illness and the other common problems of life."

The Kabbalah Manifesting Crystal

The website promoting the Kabbalah Manifesting Crystal calls it the "ultimate in causal engineering technology" that was introduced as a result of research using information from "diverse fields such as radionics, psionics, psychotronics, quantum physics, sacred geometry, sonics, music, and metaphysics." The engineers have developed "an understanding of how the human mind can interact creatively with the material universe."

The website goes on to explain how the "Archangel Mikhail" revealed to the people at Life Technology "that mankind was to be allowed to see the truth that we all have a connection to the source of all and that abundance is the natural state of the universe." The Kabbalah Manifesting Crystal merely "super-connects our consciousness to the source of all abundance more quickly and easily than meditation or any other known method."

Their cleverly-designed website insists: "It is widely recognized in esoteric science and by academics that Hebrew letters, through their specific mathematical structural geometry, contain information that encodes life force energy, i.e., it provides an intelligent conscious template for archetypal energies and natural creative forces. For thousands of years, the wisdom of Kabbalah was considered far too powerful for ‘ordinary’ people. It was known and studied by only a few select scholars, theologians, and great thinkers, such as Plato, Shakespeare, and Isaac Newton [sic]."

Tangible Effects

And amazingly enough, according to the website, over the centuries, these Kabbalists found that the tangible effects on their lives were quite remarkable.

"The power of the Zohar was like nothing anyone had ever come across. Application of its insights led to remarkable visible changes such as clarity of purpose, prosperity and remarkable relationships," says the site.

Aided by the "spiritual guidance" of the aforementioned archangel, the psychonatical engineers at Life Technology were able to "channel" these "magical primal creative forces" into the Kabbalah Manifesting Crystal, giving it a tremendous advantage over "other forms of magickal [sic] talisman or life changing catalysts, i.e., no conscious input is required from the user, and, unlike many other talismans, the device will function optimally without any necessity for a certain belief system on the part of the user."

It is unclear if even the Miraculous Kabbalah Talisman does that.

Guided by the "Archangel Mikhail," Life Technology offers a whole range of other "powerful metaphysical tools" as well.

Enraged and Horrified

To say that genuine Kabbalists, rabbis, and responsible community leaders are enraged and horrified at the cynical perversion of the ancient Jewish mystic tradition of the Kabbalah is an understatement. Most of their criticism is targeted at the flamboyant Kabbalah Center, the largest purveyor of pseudo-Kabbalistic accoutrements.

According acknowledged master and authentic Kabbalist HaRav Ya’akov Hillel, "using the Names [of G-d] to acquire fame or money is an extremely serious violation"

According to Rabbi Hillel, the early Sages, who knew how and when to use the Names, deliberately broke the chain of oral tradition by not teaching this wisdom to their disciples. The early Masters were afraid, and rightly so it seems, that the power might come be misused.

Like Pornography

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, one of the greatest contemporary authorities on the Talmud and Kabbalah, has said that "Berg’s Kabbalah is to the real thing what pornography is to love."

Another Orthodox rabbi who has taught classes in Kabbalah, Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein, chairman of Jewish law and ethics at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and a long time observer of the antics of the Kabbalah Center, called the Bergs’ empire "equal parts of non-mystical and traditional Jewish wisdom, and one part snake oil and hokum"

"The infatuation with it is Los Angeles at its worst—the tendency to want it now, to want it without effort, and to want it by right rather than doing the hard work," said Rabbi Adlerstein.

Toronto-based scholar of Jewish philosophy and Chassidut, Rabbi Immanuel Schochet, charged the Kabbalah Center with being "not just a cult, but a dangerous cult."

"They are distorting Kabbalah ... taking some of our sacred books and reducing it to mumbo jumbo, all kinds of hocus-pocus," he said.

Reputable Book Stores

It is even worse when otherwise reputable Jewish book stores offer "authentic" red strings and "Kabbalah jewelry" for sale along side Chumashim with commentaries, Gemarot, Rambams, books on halacha, kippot. and mezuzah cases.

Similarly, otherwise legitimate merchants of Judaica online have not always resisted the temptation to try to deflect a bit of the widening "Kabbalah gold stream" their way.

The website of one such online supplier, Judaism.com, advertises "The Authentic Red String from Rachel’s Tomb" which is "interwoven in a sterling silver bracelet with an attached heart charm." Promoting the trinket as "the red string of the Kabbalah," the website says, "No one actually knows how or exactly when the custom of wearing a red string began. But we do know that every detail contains deep significance."

Just Like the Others

The differences in content between Judaism.com’s "red string" ad and the offerings of the Bergs’ Kabbalah Center are minimal. Noting that "we are looking to be protected from forces beyond our control," Judaism.com’s website says the Red String, "infused with mystical, Kabbalistic powers at the Tomb of Rachel, promises the protection of the Evil Eye [sic]."

Judaism.com says it wants to reclaim this Red String as Jewish tradition and promises that theirs is "blessed with special authentic and proven qualities; to remove pain, the Evil Eye, to bless children who will live on, and afford easier pregnancies."

"We pray that this string may be a protection for us," says the site.

Distressing

Normative Judaism’s view of this "Kabbalistic" nonsense has been encapsulated in a letter, written by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Cong. Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, NJ, to Judaism.com, in which he berates the website for its sale of "the authentic red string."

"On one level, we would have wished that modern man had progressed beyond the stage of belief in the magical powers of icons and amulets. But on a deeper level, it is extremely distasteful that such a borderline-idolatrous object should be offered for sale on what purports to be a Jewish web site—alongside traditional objects like challah boards and kiddush cups," he wrote.

"I assume you are unaware that these red strings constitute the very antithesis of Judaism and all that we stand for. We believe in the power of G-d alone, and have willingly martyred ourselves in sanctification of His name and in defense of that sublime notion of one, all-powerful, incorporeal G-d," Rabbi Pruzansky continued.

"These red strings are as Jewish as the cross, and I would respectfully urge you to immediately remove them from your site, with an explanatory note as to the reason for their removal. And may together we bring the light of Torah to the world," he concluded.

At least Judaism.com does not sell Kabbalah water.

true lilly Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:58 am

Grant Mazzy:
Mrs. French's cat is missing.
The signs are posted all over town.
"Have you seen Honey?"
We've all seen the posters, but nobody has seen Honey the cat.
Nobody.
Until last Thursday morning, when Miss Colette Piscine swerved her car to miss Honey the cat as she drove across a bridge.
Well this bridge, now slightly damaged, is a bit of a local treasure and even has its own
fancy name; Pont de Flaque.
Now Collette, that sounds like Culotte.
That's Panty in French.
And Piscine means Pool.
Panty pool.
Flaque also means pool in French, so Colete Piscine, in French Panty Pool, drives over the Pont de Flaque, the Pont de Pool if you will, to avoid hitting Mrs. French's cat that has been missing in Pontypool.
Pontypool.
Pontypool.
Panty pool.
Pont de Flaque.
What does it mean?
Well, Norman Mailer, he had an interesting theory that he used to explain the strange coincidences in the aftermath of the JFK assasination.
In the wake of huge events, after them and before them, physical details they spasm for
a moment; they sort of unlock and when they come back into focus they suddenly coincide
in a weird way.
Street names and birthdates and middle names, all kind of superfluous things appear related to eachother.
It's a ripple effect.
So, what does it mean?
Well... it means something's going to happen.
Something big.
But then, something's always about to happen.

Grant Mazzy:
[On Air] Now, in our top story of today, a big, cold, dull, dark, white, empty, never-ending blow my brains out, seasonal affective disorder freaking kill me now weather-front, that'll
last all day - or maybe - when the wind shifts later on, we'll get a little greenhouse
gas relief from the industrial south. HAIL MARY, yea though I walk - we go to Ken Loney - in the Sunshine chopper.
Ken Loney:
[Over Speaker] It's always brighter above the clouds Grant!

The really scary part is how many Pontypool zombies are already among us.
I really, really, hate
to give anything away but
many people seem to be
missing the obvious...
that words hold power,
they are infectious
and can lead to
unintended consequences.
Stephen McHattie steals the show as the cowboy hat wearing radio talk show host Grant Mazzy. Mazzy was recently fired from his real gig and is now the morning show in the
small town of Pontypool. Between reports of school closings and traffic reports, Mazzy
tries to provoke(wake up) his audience with charged language but Mazzy is
about to learn that words have consequences.
First he offends his producer and a casual joke turns out not to be funny when it hits too close to home. Then reports of mob violence start flooding the station. As the bloodshed escalates and threatens Mazzy and his morning crew they slowly learn the true nature of the threat and the power of their own words. Pontypool holds relevant lessons for us all. There is some blood and mild gore but the really scary part is how many Pontypool type zombies are already among us.
by McQualude

_______________________________________

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD,
AND THE WORD WAS GOD.
John - Chapter 1

In ¹⁷²² the beginning ⁷⁴⁶ was ²²⁵⁸ the Word ³⁰⁵⁶,
and ²⁵³² the Word ³⁰⁵⁶ was ²²⁵⁸ with ⁴³¹⁴ God ²³¹⁶,
and ²⁵³² the Word ³⁰⁵⁶ was ²²⁵⁸ God ²³¹⁶.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jhn&c=1&t=KJV#1

1 John - Chapter 1

That which ³⁷³⁹ was ²²⁵⁸ from ⁵⁷⁵ the beginning ⁷⁴⁶,
which ³⁷³⁹ we have heard ¹⁹¹ ,
which ³⁷³⁹ we have seen ³⁷⁰⁸ with our ²²⁵⁷ eyes ³⁷⁸⁸,
which ³⁷³⁹ we have looked upon ²³⁰⁰ ,
and ²⁵³² our ²²⁵⁷ hands ⁵⁴⁹⁵ have handled ⁵⁵⁸⁴ ,
of ⁴⁰¹² the Word ³⁰⁵⁶ of life ²²²²;

(For ²⁵³² the life ²²²² was manifested ⁵³¹⁹ ,
and ²⁵³² we have seen ³⁷⁰⁸ [it], and ²⁵³² bear witness ³¹⁴⁰ ,
and ²⁵³² shew ⁵¹⁸ unto you ⁵²¹³ that eternal ¹⁶⁶ life ²²²²,
which ³⁷⁴⁸ was ²²⁵⁸ with ⁴³¹⁴ the Father ³⁹⁶²,
and ²⁵³² was manifested ⁵³¹⁹ unto us ²²⁵⁴ Wink

http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=1Jo&c=1&t=KJV#1

sharky Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:48 am

Yeshayahu explains to us that the light that Jerusalem shall give forth will be the light of men, the light of their righteous deeds.

John 1:1-5 “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with Elohim, and the word was Elohim. He was in the beginning with Elohim All came to be through him, and without him not one came to be that came to be. In him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

Just as the earthly Adam the heavenly Adam, Adam Kadmon, carried his wife inside of himself. And her name is Hayah (Life or living). Just as earthly Adam's wife, heavenly Adam's wife bears the name life, but unlike the earthly Havah, the heavenly Hayah does not carry the defective vav but the higher level yod. So the only question remaining is does the Zohar also refer to the heavenly Jerusalem as Hayah just as the New Testament?

Soncino Zohar “the “daughters of Jerusalem” are the twelve tribes, as we have learnt that Jerusalem is established on twelve rocks, three on each side (wherefore it is called Hayah (living one)),”

Yohanan's statement “in him was life” is a highly mystical statement in reference to the heavenly Eve or heavenly Jerusalem. It could just as easily read in him was Hayah which is the name of heavenly Jerusalem according to the Zohar. The gospel of Yohanan opens with the highest level of kabbalistic allusions thus its intended audience was initiated kabbalists. Unfortunately these texts fell into the hands of Roman politicians and from that point on the misinterpretations did abound......................John 10:11-15 “I am the good shepherd. The good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep...Now the hireling flees because he is a hireling and is not concerned about the sheep. I am the good shepherd. And I know mine, and mine know me, even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.”

Romans 5:6-8 “For when we were still weak, Messiah in due time died for the wicked. For one shall hardly die for a righteous one, though possibly for a good one someone would even have the courage to die. But Elohim proves his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Messiah died for us.”

The Ramchal explains that a Zadik who willingly suffers to make atonement and draw others into the perfect community is “elevated” or lifted up to a very high degree. This brings back to that ever popular verse in the book of John.

John 3:14-16 “And as Mosheh lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the son of Adam has to be lifted up, so that whoever is believing in him should not perish but possess everlasting life. For G-d so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever shall believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

thumbs up

There are many levels to receiving YHWH's wisdom, knowledge and understanding. The Adversary (HaSatan) twists that which is good and distorts it for evil purposes. However, if we focus on the Kabbalah that is revealed inside of Tanakh and the Ketuvim Netzarim, we discover magnificent revelation about YHWH, His Mashiyach, and the Life He has given each of us.

cheers

Was Jesus a Kabbalist?

Almost certainly. Many people believe that Jesus travelled to India and even further afield during the ‘missing years’ before he began his ministry. This is because his teaching appears to reflect Eastern faiths.

But there would have been absolutely no need for him to do so; everything he taught is true to Kabbalistic teaching which was known as Merkabah (Chariot) at that time. This has become more apparent since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library.

How can you tell?

Everything the Gospels tell us about Jesus show that he knew his Jewish law and understood its inner implications. He was a Jew, not a Christian—and many people forget that.

But there are more definite indications too. Some of them are:

■John the Baptist was the son of a Kabbalist. Zachariah was a priest of ABIA—Azilut, Beriah, Yezirah (I and Y are interchangeable in Hebrew) Asiyyah. These are the names of the four worlds as shown in Jacob’s Ladder.

■There are four gospels—Matthew is the gospel of Asiyyah, the physical World, Mark is Yezirah, the psychological World, Luke is Beriah, the spiritual World and John is Azilut, the World of the Divine. As the early Church Father, Iranaeus, wrote, “The Gospels could not possibly be either more or less in number than they are. Since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the Church is spread over all the earth, and the pillar and foundation of the Church is the gospel, and the Spirit of life, it fittingly has four pillars, everywhere breathing out incorruption and revivifying men.”

■The Lord’s Prayer is a Kabbalistic prayer, running down the central column of Jacob’s Ladder.
■The patterns of the Gospels, such as the ten miracles in Matthew and the seven diatribes against the Pharisees, follow the order of the sephirot on the Tree of Life
■The Book of Hebrews talks of Jesus being ‘a priest after the order of Melchisedek’ which is the Kabbalistic line. Melchisedek initiated Abram and Sarai into the Teaching.

mugglez Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:16 pm

Any Kabbalah that conflicts, contradicts Torah or Scripture is False Kabbalah, of which there are many.......it is not magik. thumbs up

http://www.torahofmessiah.com/kabbala.html

Disclaimer
In this article I express a negative opinion of Kabbalah, but it must be understood that my negative opinion is primarily limited to the the way Kabbalah is misused by certain individuals and groups. There are some very useful aspects of Judaic traditions that some consider Kabbalistic. One example is the Zohar, which constitutes the fundamentals from which other Kabbalistic materials are based. The Zohar should not be viewed as "Scripture," since it is actually only commentary on the Scripture from various individuals. But the Zohar can be a useful source of information and actually supports teachings found in the New Testament.

So, please do not view this article as a comprehensive condemnation of Judaic Kabbalah, since I firmly believe the Zohar and other Judaic material can be and is greatly beneficial to a person who wishes to deepen their understanding of spiritual things.............I feel the use of mysticism, "traditions of men", and additional "Scripture" besides the Holy Scripture should be VERY cautiously practiced! I fear some that flock to Kabbalah feel the pure Word of YHWH has nothing more to teach them. I do not say that sarcastically. I truly feel many of those promoting Kabbalah within counterfeit Messianic Judaism and their newest revised title - counterfeit Nazarenes - have become "bored" with study of ONLY the Written SCRIPTURES (though they very much need to study more) and have, therefore, taken to more "exciting" studies that will "entice" more people - those being Mysticism. So, I truly feel they now believe there is nothing more for them to learn from study of only the Bible. I hope I am wrong about this; however, the growing dominance of Kabbalistic mysticism within Messianic circles leads me to this conclusion.

...............Whereas the teachings of Kabbalah may be useful for further insight, they should NOT be used as a basis for foundational doctrines. ..........................Knowledgeable Jews (unlike these "enlightened" Messianics) are well aware Messiah is NOT shown in the Tanakh or legitimate Kabbalah as being YHWH. Since most Messianic groups refuse to release their grip on the alleged diety of Yeshua, they are flocking to Kabbalah for "proof" of their beliefs in these false doctrines. ................Kabbalah, when properly applied, proves Yeshua is NOT God. However, there is no need to even delve into Kabbalah for that proof. .........

The Pagan Logos

In order to justify their claim that Yahshua is Yahweh and that He pre-existed with Yahweh, the Christians quote the following Scripture from the King James Version.

John 1:1-5, KJV—
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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

The word word in these verses comes from the Greek word logos. The Christians, so eager to promote the pagan Trinity, attached
to the word every pagan interpretation. But they deliberately ignore the fact that Yahchanan was a Jew who had nothing to do with
pagan Greek philosophy.

The Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia, Moody Press, Chicago, IL, Volume 2 pages 1046-1047. gives us the following information.

Many scholars have argued that the apostle John had this philosophical development in the back of his mind when he wrote the prologue to his Gospel and that he actually tried to impart some of these concepts. For a long time many have contended that the
background of the fourth Gospel was essentially Hellenistic rather than Hebraic

. In dealing with such an assertion we may note that studies in the Dead Sea scrolls have tended to confirm the traditional conservative position that the cultural orientation of the Gospel of John was Hebraic.

Moreover, we must observe that John was a simple fisherman from Palestine. While he did come to live in the sophisticated city of Ephesus, probably after the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, there is no evidence that he imbibed any of that city’s Gr. philosophical orientation. If he intended to be philosophical in the first few verses, he certainly was not anywhere
else. We may argue that John used the word “logos.” which was common in the language of the day, in its ordinary meaning and
poured into it a spiritual significance.
This source admits that Yahchanan used this word in its ordinary meaning. They further admit that Yahchanan’s writings were
Hebraic.
The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 12, page 1060, admits that the style of most of the writings in Volume Two of the Holy
Scriptures is, in fact, Hebraic.
The Language of the New Testament. Although the language of the New Testament, in the form that it exists today, is Greek, two earlier
influences are still discernible.
(1)THE INFLUENCE OF THE ARAMAIC-HEBREW ORIGINAL. Because most of the authors were Jewish Naz-arenes, they spoke, for
the most part, Aramaic, and some also mishnaic Hebrew. This influence, which was detectable particularly in the original versions of
Mark and Matthew, survives to some degree in their extant Greek versions and in several of the Epistles as well, including James and
Jude. The rest of the works were originally written in Greek.
(2) THE SEPTUAGINT. Since this translation was used by many authors, the New Testament contains not only Aramaic words and
phrases, which the disciples heard from Jesus and took care to remember out of reverence for their master (e.g. Talitha Kumi (Mark
5:41), Kum, Rabboni, Eli, Eli (Elohi, Elohi) lama sabachthani (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:24)), but also expressions and phrases which retain
their Hebrew flavor although they were transmitted through the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
So to assert that the Apostle Yahchanan was writing of a pagan logos is absurd. The word logos in its ordinary meaning comes from
the Hebrew word dabar as Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, page 380 shows.

A Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, by Julius Furst, page 312 shows us that the Hebrew word dabar refers to
Yahweh’s Plan and His Laws.

The Interpreter’s Dictionary, Volulme 4 pages 870-871, states emphatically:
“The word of God” (o logo” tou qeou) is used of:
(a) the OT law (cf. Mark 7:13=Matt 15:6, where it is contrasted with the tradition of the Jews); (b) a particular OT passage (cf. John
10:35, referring to Ps. 82:6); (c) in a more general sense, God’s revealed will, or his whole plan and purpose for mankind (cf. Luke
11:28; Rom. 9:6; Col. 1:25-27, where it is defined as the “mystery hidden for ages and generations but now manifest to his saints...,
which is Christ in you”; Heb. 4:12); (d) the word preached by Jesus (cf. Luke 5:1; perhaps also 11:28, cited in c above); and the referenced
made by Jesus to the word of God which he has preached (described as “his word”or “thy word,” according to the context) in John
5:38; 8:55; 17:6; etc.;
So Yahchanan wrote, under inspiration, not of a pre-existent God-savior, but of the wonderful Plan of Yahweh. The Anchor Bible,
Ephesians 1-3, page 111, shows us from the Talmud that seven things were in Yahweh’s mind, His Plan, from the beginning and this
plan included the Savior.
In the Talmud tractate Pesachim 54a; cf. Nedarim 39b, seven things, i.e. the law, repentance, paradise, Gehinnom, the throne of glory,
the heavenly sanctuary, and the messiah are not called pre-created, but pre-conceived in (Yahweh’s) thoughts.
.W.ith all this in mind, let us read the correct translation of the following Scripture. Yahchanan 1:1-5—
1 In the beginning was the plan of Yahweh, and the plan was with Yahweh, and the plan was Yahweh’s.
2 The same plan was in the beginning with Yahweh.
3 All things were done according to it, and without it nothing was done, that was done.
4 In this plan was life, and that life was the light to mankind.
5 Now that light shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not take hold of it.
.T.he Law of Yahweh, which Yahshua and the apostles preached, plainly tells us that Yahweh is one. Deuteronomy 6:4-5—
4 Hear, O Israyl, Yahweh is our Father. Yahweh is one.
5 And you must love Yahweh your Father with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
.T.he prophets further testified that Yahweh is the only source of power and there is no pagan God with Him at all. Isayah 43:10-12—
10 You are My witnesses, says Yahweh, and My servants whom I have chosen; so you may know and believe Me, and understand that I
am He! before me there was no God (el) formed, nor will there be after Me.
11 I, even I, am Yahweh; and beside Me there is no savior.
12 I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and no strange god (el) is among you! Therefore, you are My witnesses,
. says Yahweh: that I AM YAHWEH! Isayah 44:8—
Do not fear, nor be afraid. Have I not told you from that time, and have declared; You are My witnesses! Is there a source of power except Me? Truly, there is no other rock; I know not one. Isayah 45:6,18—
6 So that they may know from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting that There is none besides me. I am Yahweh, and there
is no other!
18 For this is what Yahweh, Who created the heavens, Who is the Father, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established
it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited, says: I am Yahweh, and there is no other source of power!
It should now be obvious to anyone that the apostles, as well as the prophets, did not believe in or teach a pre-existent God-savior.
.T.he apostles clearly taught against pagan Godworship, the same worship all Christianity teaches today. Romans 1:20-25—
20 For since the creation of the world, the invisible things of Him are clearly seen—His eternal power and holiness—being understood by
the things that are written; so that they are without excuse.
21 Because that, when they knew Yahweh, they did not glorify Him as Father, nor were thankful, but became idolatrous;
Godworshipers (worshipers of elohim), in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools; simpletons,
23 And exchanged the glory of the uncorruptible Father for images, made to resemble corruptible man, and birds, four-footed beasts,
and creeping things.
24 Therefore, Yahweh also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own minds, to dishonor their own bodies between
themselves:
25 Who exchanged the truth of Yahweh for the Lie; Lords (Baalim), Gods, and Goddesses (Elohim), and worshiped and served the
. creation, rather than the creator, Who is blessed forever. Praise Yahweh! HalleluYahweh! I Corinthians 10:20-22—
20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to Yahweh; and I do not want you to have
fellowship with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of Yahweh and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of Yahweh’s table and of the table of demons.
. 22 Do we provoke Yahweh to jealousy? are we stronger than He? II Corinthians 6:14-18—
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with unright-eousness? and what fellowship
does light have with darkness?
15 And what harmony can there be between Messiah and Belial; Worthlessness: Satan? Or what share does a believer have with an infidel;
untrustworthy, not faithful, not true nor loyal?
16 And what agreement does The House of Yahweh have with Gods (elohim)? for we are The House of the living Father. As Yahweh has
said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their Father, and they will be my people.
17 Therefore: come out from among them and be separate, says Yahweh. Do not touch the unclean thing, and I will receive you.
. 18 I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says Yahweh Almighty. II Corinthians 4:4—
For the god (el) of this world (Satan) has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, so that the light of the message of the glory of
. the Messiah, Who is the image of Yahweh, should not shine unto them. Romans 6:15-16—
15 What? May we sin as though we are not under the Law, yet under Yahweh’s undeserved pardon? by no means!
16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey—whether of sin,
. which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? I Yahchanan 3:7-9—
7 Little children, let no man deceive you; he who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
8 He who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Yahweh was manifested;
that He might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whoever is begotten of Yahweh does not commit sin; for His seed remains in Him; and it is possible for him not to sin, because he
. has been begotten of Yahweh. I Yahchanan 5:18-21—
18 We know that whoever is born of Yahweh does not sin; but he who has been begotten of Yahweh keeps himself, and the evil one
does not touch him.
19 We know that we belong to Yahweh, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
20 And we know that the Son of Yahweh has come, and has given us an understanding, in order that we may know Him Who is true;
and we are in Him Who is true, for we are in His Son, Yahshua. Yahweh is the true Father, and eternal life.
. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from the defilement of Gods (elohim). Revelation 18:2-5—
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of demons,
and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 Gor all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with
her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Come out of her, My people, so that you do not partake in her sins, and so that you
do not receive of her plagues,
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and Yahweh has remembered her iniquities!
However, the apostles knew Yahweh’s Plan which called for a man to be born who would be sacrificed for the past sins of many.
They also knew that this man would be raised again by Yahweh.

mugglez Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:34 pm

Yahweh And Yahshua, Two Different Beings

http://www.yahweh.com/pdf/12-2004-PW.pdf

Yahweh has always revealed Himself as our Father. Yahshua Messiah taught His twelve apostles to pray to Yahweh, and to begin their
prayers to Him as “Our Father.”
As you read for yourself, you will find that Yahshua taught His disciples, those who obeyed Yahweh, to pray in the following
.m.anner. Luke 11:2—
So He said to them: When you pray, using this example, say: Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed be; to show reverence and respect to,
Your Name. Your Kingdom come. Your will be done; as it is in heaven, so may it be in earth.
.I.n their ministry, the disciples spoke of Yahweh as the Father of Yahshua, saying this specifically in the following Scriptures: Ephesians 1:17—
Asking that the Father of our King, Yahshua Messiah, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation;
. unveiling and uncovering truths, for the full knowledge of Him. I Kepha 1:3—
Blessed be Yahweh, the Father of our King Yahshua Messiah, Who, according to His abundant mercy, has begotten us again to a
. living hope through the resurrection of Yahshua Messiah from the dead; I Corinthians 8:5-6—
5 For even though there are many called gods (elohim), whether in heaven or on earth (As there are many gods; elohim, and many
lords; baalim.),
6 Yet to us there is only One Authority, the Father, from Whom all things came and for Whom we live. And there is but one King,
Yahshua Messiah, on Whose account are all things, and on whose account we live.
.H.owever, to the disobedient, Yahshua said: Yahchanan 8:44—
You are of your teacher who is Satan the Devil, and whatever she who is your teacher desires, you will do. She was a murderer from the
beginning, and remained not in the truth, because there is no truth in her. Therefore, when you speak your falsehoods, you speak her
words, because she is a liar, and the teacher of all lies!

The Holy Scriptures show that we accept one of two beings as our head. We can either accept Yahweh as our Father (head) or we
can accept Satan as our head.
Through this world’s lust to break the Laws of Yahweh, they have rejected Yahweh as their Father, while accepting Satan the
adversary as their head. By doing this, they have become the people of the devil, as the Apostle Shaul describes in the following
.S.criptures, because they did not like to retain Yahweh in their knowledge. Romans 1:26-32—
26 For this reason Yahweh gave them up to degrading passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use into that which is
against nature.

27 And the men did the same thing: leaving the natural use of the woman, they burned in their lust for one another; men committing
shameful acts with men, and suffering in their own bodies the penalty for their error, which is their fitting retribution.
28 And so, since they did not like to retain Yahweh in their knowledge, Yahweh gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those
things which are not proper.
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual impurity, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,
and malice. They are gossips,
30 Backbiters; slanderers, haters of Yahweh, despiteful, arrogant, and boastful. They are inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents,
31 And without understanding. they are covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable; truce breakers, and unmerciful:
32 Who, knowing the righteous judgment of Yahweh, that those who practice such things deserve death, not only continue to do
these very things, but also approve of those who practice them.
Yahweh blames the false religious leaders, the preachers who are the instruments of Satan, for this worldwide rebellion against
.Y.ahweh and His Laws. Notice what the Prophet Yeremyah was inspired to write. Yeremyah 23:21-22—
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken of them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused My people to hear My words, the Law and the prophets, then they would
have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings..............................Almost all English versions of the Bible render Revelation 1:8 in the same way the King James Version is translated. Revelation 1:8, KJV—
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
By merely leaving this text as it is written, a tremendous understanding has been lost. However, if these two Greek letters are
researched in detail, one will readily see that Yahweh is revealing much more about Himself than just being the beginning and the
end.
In the Greek alphabet, the letter alpha is the first letter, and omega is the last letter. However, in the Hebrew Language, in which
even the so-called New Testament Scriptures are now known to have been originally written, the letter aleph a is the first letter, and
the letter tau t is the last.
It is an admitted fact by the Biblical scholars that Revelation 1:8 should say in Hebrew:
I am the ALEPH and the TAU instead of I am the ALPHA and OMEGA .The Anchor Bible, Revelation Volume 38, page 379, gives us the explanation of this phrase.
8. the Alpha and the Omega. The Hebrew would be aleph and taw, probably standing respectively for Urim and
Thummim, the sacred lots of the high priest used to determine the will of God, and also meaning all “encompassing.”
Adam Clarke, in his Commentary, Volume 6, page 971, agrees that alpha and omega are aleph and tau in Hebrew.
[The beginning and the ending.] That is, as aleph or alpha is the beginning of the alphabet, so am I the author
and cause of all things; as tau or omega is the end or last letter of the alphabet, so am I the end of all things,
the destroyer as well as the establisher of all things.

We would not be any better off, however, if this Scripture (Revelation 1: is properly rendered: “I am the Aleph and the Tau.”
We still would not know what Yahweh means when He identifies Himself by the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet,
unless this is further researched.
The letters aleph and tau must be researched to see if they do have a meaning, or message, to convey.
What the Bible translators did not realize (or they rejected) is that each individual Hebrew letter can be a word or phrase unto
itself, with a specific meaning. This is clearly pointed out by Fabre d’Olivet in his book, The Hebraic Tongue Restored. Dr. d’Olivet
gives clear, precise explanations of the meanings of each individual Hebrew letter, and what they point out or declare. On page 98
of his book, Dr. d’Olivet also states that knowing that each Hebrew letter has a meaning of its own, is the key to understanding the
Scriptures.
In reference to the letters aleph and tau, Dr. d’Olivet gives clear proof that these two letters make statements in their own right.
The first letter in the Hebrew alphabet, as Dr. d’Olivet points out from The Hebraic Tongue Restored on pages 95 and 287,
stands for unity.
a A.__This first character of the alphabet, in nearly all known idioms, is the sign of power and of stability. The ideas that it expresses
are those of unity...
a A. First character of the alphabet in nearly all known idioms. In its hieroglyphic acceptation, it characterizes unity, the central
point, the abstract principle of a thing. As sign, it expresses power, stability, continuity.
On pages 98 and 465 of this book, Dr. d’Olivet clearly points out that the letter tau, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, means
and stands for perfection.
t TH.Sign of reciprocity: image of that which is mutual and reciprocal. Sign of signs. Joining to the abundance of the character d,
to the force of the resistance and protection of the character f, the idea of perfection of which it is itself the symbol........................t TH. This character as consonant, belongs to the sibilant sound. As grammatical sign in the Hebraic Tongue, it is that of sympathy
and reciprocity; joining, to the abundance of the character r , to the force of resistance and protection of the character f, the idea
of perfection and necessity of which it is the emblem.
Incredible as it may sound, both single letters aleph and tau, are in themselves Hebrew words that have specific meanings.
As Clark in his Commentary, and the writers of The Anchor Bible, Revelation, have shown,the Alpha and Omega should have
been written: the Aleph and the Tau.
Now, with the true meanings of these Hebrew letters revealed, all can see the statement that Yahweh is actually making in these
.S.criptures. Revelation 1:8—
I am unity (Aleph) and perfection (Tau), the Beginning and the End, says Yahweh: Who is, and Who was, and Who is to come: the
Almighty.
.O.ther Scriptures verify that Yahweh is unity and perfection. Deuteronomy 6:4—
Hear, O Israyl, Yahweh is our Father. Yahweh is One.
.Y.ahshua Messiah, a begotten Son of Yahweh, Who was the Savior sent by Yahweh, taught that Yahweh is perfection. Mattithyah 19:17—
But He said to him: Why do you question Me about righteousness? There is only One who is the standard of perfection, and that is
. Yahweh; so if you would enter into life, keep the Laws of Yahweh. Mattithyah 5:48—
Therefore, become perfect, just as your Father Who is in heaven is perfect.
Yahweh is revealing Himself again to be unity and perfection. These Scriptures that reveal the Alpha and Omega, the Aleph and
the Tau to be Yahweh Almighty (Revelation 1:8; 1:11; and 21:6) do not point out Yahshua Messiah. Nor can Revelation 22:13,
in which this phrase was added, be used to claim that Yahshua Messiah pre-existed.
Yahshua Messiah: First And Last—Beginning And End
Having proven that the words Alpha and Omega were added to this Scripture, Revelation 22:13, The Book Of Yahweh correctly
.r.eads. Revelation 22:13—_
I am the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
We know Yahshua said this. We know it is no contradiction for Him to call Himself the last, for He will live forever.
We know it is no contradiction for Him to call Himself “the end,” for He is the end result of having kept His Father’s Laws
.p.erfectly. Romans 10:4—
For Yahshua is the ultimate result of keeping the Law unto righteousness for everyone who believes.
The translators tried to distort this Scripture to try to make you believe that Yahshua Messiah ended the Law. Romans 10:4 taken
.f.rom theKing James Version, shows us how this Scripture has been distorted. Romans 10:4, KJV—
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.
If you will research the meanings of the word translated end in this Scripture, then you will see that this word means ultimate, prophetic
purpose, and not end as is universally understood in the English context.
The word translated end in Romans 10:4, as well as Revelation 22:12 is word #5056, from Strong’s Greek Dictionary and
means to set out for a definite point or goal; prop. the point aimed at as a limit, ultimate or prophetic, purpose.
Religious imposters also use Romans 10:4 in order to deceive the people in this world into thinking that Shaul taught against
Yahweh’s Laws. The Apostle Shaul never once taught against the Law of Yahweh. In fact, he taught all to keep Yahweh’s Law. In
.t.he same book of Romans, which Shaul wrote, we find the following Scriptures. Romans 2:13—
. For not the hearers of the Law are the righteous in the sight of Yahweh, but the doers of the Law are the righteous. Romans 6:16—
Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin which leads to
death, or of obedience which leads to righteousness?
There are many Scriptures in the book of Romans, which teach against sin: against breaking the Law of Yahweh (I Yahchanan
3:4). However, these two should be enough to show you that the Apostle Shaul did not teach against the Laws of Yahweh, as the
false religious leaders would have you believe.
Now, in Revelation 22:13, Yahshua called Himself the “last” because He has been resurrected to eternal life, and now He will
never die again. He called Himself the “end” because He is the end product, the ultimate result of keeping the Law of Yahweh.
What did He mean when He called Himself the first in Revelation 22:13? Did He mean that He was the first being to ever exist?
Many would have you think so. Did He mean that He was the Father of all living? There are some who would have you believe this....................Yahshua: Now Fully Created, Mankind: Now Half Created
Y.Yahshua Messiah said the following. Yahchanan 6:44—
No man can come to Me, unless the Father, Who has sent Me, draws him; and I will establish him as a priest at the last day.
When we are called out of this world by Yahweh’s Holy Spirit and begin to understand the importance of Yahweh’s Holy
Scriptures in our lives, we, even then, are only half of the creation Yahweh requires us to be, in order for us to enter His Kingdom.
To understand this, we must understand the Plan of Yahweh.
.When Yahshua was resurrected from the dead, He became the firstborn of many brothers. Romans 8:29—
For whom He did foreknow, He also did foreordain to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brothers.
When we are conformed to Yahshua we will also be conformed to the Father Yahweh, because Yahshua conformed to be exactly
.l.ike the Father. Hebrews 1:3—
Who, being the reflection of the perfection of Yahweh, and the representation of Yahweh’s plan, by upholding all things concerning
that which was spoken by Yahweh through the Law and the prophets, when He had purged sin, sat down on the right hand of Yahweh
on high;
The definition of the word conform from Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language is to make the same or
similar, to bring into harmony or agreement; to be in accord or agreement.
In order to receive the reward of eternal life, as Yahshua did, we must be conformed to the same image that Yahshua obtained.
The next question is, hOW did Yahshua obtain this image? Scriptures show that He was not born with this image but through a
.p.rocess, He became the perfect creation of Yahweh. Revelation 3:14—
...the first perfected of Yahweh’s creation...
Yahweh’s perfected creation becomes our hope. We will become perfectly created if we overcome, just as Yahshua is the first perfected
now. Yahshua is only the beginning, the first. There are many more to be made perfect and to become Yahshua’s brothers, the actual
.s.ons of Yahweh. Colossians 1:18—
For He is the Head of the body, the called out ones, Who is the beginning of the firstborn from the dead, so that in all things He may
have the pre-eminence...Keep in mind what the Apostle Shaul said in Romans 10:4. Yahshua is the ultimate result of keeping the Law of Yahweh. Now,
.n.otice the warning recorded for us in the following Scriptures. Romans 16:19—
For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore, I am glad on your behalf, but I want you to be wise in what is righteous and
simple, concerning evil.
Then Comes Persecution
Yahshua Messiah was most definitely persecuted. The thing to understand about these persecutions is that He benefitted from
.t.hem. Notice what is recorded for our instruction. Hebrews 5:8-9—
8 Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience from the things which He suffered;;
9 Then being perfected, He became the Causer of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him.....Mattithyah 24:11-12—
11 And many false prophets will rise, and will deceive the many.
12 And because iniquity; the breaking of Yahweh’s Law, will abound, the love of the many will grow cold.
Please notice in the above verses that the Savior is saying that these religions are teaching people to practice and abound in
breaking Yahweh’s Torah/Laws....

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