Anne Frank Jewish

I might be interested in the following person if he or she existed.

Too much today, we all like to say we are a jew who is orthodox or maybe reform.

How about this one.

Lets try to be Anne Frank Jews.

Conscientions, rewarding, interested, in vogue, satisfied, very affluent and wise.

That might be a better than the ordinary daily jewish routine I think.

Breaking G-ds torah onto someones head

I must remark that there is a venue I have found that is a jewish run site online and to participate you are asked to "curse jesus".  I am not sure that G-d would have any jew curse anyone to verify that he is in fact jewish as this group wishes to ask the participant to comply with and acnowledge. 

Reply to the elitist Messiah maniacs

To those who run around continually and say that there can be no Jewish homeland until there is a 'messiah', I say the following:

Messiah is not the exact definition of the forces that save Israel. G-d is in control and Israel is under the auspices of Jerusalem and Heaven. Israel does not rely on an event or a single experience and thus Israel is continually being replaced and fulfilled as a Nation. The idea that There can not be a jewish state at this day is like asking for roses from a jedi. Jedi's do not exist.

Drunk praying

Some people say that "G-d is 'in' you".

G-d is not baggage.

G-d is in your future if you are righteous.

(G-d is not a form and has no spatial representation so if you want a G-dly way of life, keep G-d in your future and keep the commandments.  Not to preach but the idea that G-d is in your insides is an inaccuracy). 

Pet Peeve distinguished and rewritten

Not that this is a big deal for this blog, but I thought I would introduce my own terminology to the excuse that many want to make to actually "do wrong". 

Burning bridges NEVER is a wise way to live.

But in reality, one does not burn a bridge to end a poor experience with another person.

That is called "Torpedoing the Alleyway" as there really was no bridge between you and that other person and just really an alley way of heresy and indifference.

To torpedo an alleyway means just hanging up that phone in life or just simply walking past the other fellow or worried lady.

Either way, give it a try and lets not burn too many bridges.

The above facebook circulating commentary is a very inaccurate faithless example of ignorance mixed with their own savvy bliss. 

Post Denominational crime

There is a new crime among jews.   Today, many jews who are young and savvy are frequently saying that instead of identifying themselves as either an orthodox or reform or maybe conservative jew, they are "post denominational".  At first I though this was perhaps very sophisticated (but I did not adopt it for myself).  Perhaps saying you do not believe in the divisions of our values and faith is a very intelligent way to describe your prefered fervor for just being jewish and not being "labeled".

I thought that perhaps there was honor and dignity in a remaining neutral on what type of jewish ways you follow.

I realize now that this is again a fools pride.

In turn, Judaism today is at war within and there are multiple "denominations" or movements.

In reality, you must in turn find a movement or otherwise you are losing your place in the book of jewish life.

In reality if you are post demonimational, you are refusing to discuss the conflicts and heresies and blasphemies even in the jewish world.

So that in turn makes you an non-orthodox jew.

So denominations aside, there really is orthodox and non-orthodox.

You do not have to be an uber stringent jew to call yourself orthodox.  You just have to recognize that there is truth and that there is a way that is true.

But perhaps there are those who wish to go to any shul and perhaps intermingle wherever they want to go.   This is to be considred a friendly way to say "I just do not understand Israel".  But in reality these people for their time being are doing  some good.  Either way, G-d is ONE and judaism should be ONE too. 

What I do not believe

I have come full swing on Shabbas observance. 
From a child who did not know anything about shabbas overall other than a Friday night service and maybe Saturday services to a full blown "shomer Shabbas" with no electricity and no driving and alot more in my 30s.
In effect, I came full circle for today, I keep the sabbath of course, but without a ban on electricity and without a ban on even driving today. 
I realize that the uber religious will call your author of the heresy files a heretic himself, but in reality, I feel a guiding hand on my life.

If you do not like that, I am sorry for you.  I sort of feel that a child whose daddy might only be home with him on sabbath might enjoy going to the Zoo with his father or mother.
Either way, lets get rid of the sabbath abuses of 'power'.

I feel that the name "shomer shabbas" while clearly denoting a certain lifestyle is really a misnomer. 

Noone is the protector of the sabbath.  That is G-ds job. 

Calling youself shomer shabbas is in effect a great way to try to inflate your self worth.
And for that, I do not use the term and I feel it is a bridge to falsification of religious orthodoxy.

(p.s.  I do not light a fire in my home on sabbath, I do not work on sabbath.  I do enjoy a kiddish and maybe challah and time with my family).   Candles too of course.  Havdalah also.

Clam bake for eternity

I have read people who say that "G-d is love"

I mean that is all nice and fine if you really want to be all powerful in your thrills,

But G-d is not a token of liberty.  G-d is not "love".  G-d GIVES love. 

Small sophistication lost.

Following the Flock

Today in Israel the nation (not the state), there are plenty of ways for a jew to live his life.  Will he be born into a conservative community and stay there his whole life?  Will he or she grow up in a stringent religious community and either stay and be a part of this way or otherwise seek a jewish life that does not have the same restrictions or other requirements.

Either way, G-d is here to help us.

Everything is given a controversy and the communities fight for their right to say that they are the "true way" of the jewish people.  Liberal jews are shunned for their considerations of their own beliefs and their choices.   Israel is not together at all and of course, there are plenty of people who will shun you at the drop of the hat if you are not "super clean" in your >halacha<.   The fact is that there are even tzaddiks in the reform and conservative communities and even if someone violates Torah in one sense, H' asks did he know better, did he do it to violate torah or did he not have the capacity to know Torah in its entirety. 
Ask yourself what you are aspiring to become today, a servant of Hashem or just a minyon of the blessings of someone else you may think is the most righteous servant or otherwise wise or intelligent person.  Either way, G-d is here and you can always go closer to Hashem.

G-d is not a Tasters Choice G-d

I must remark that the nice christians often tell me "you are not born again".  No I am not.  My G-d chose my birthdate and I live to serve a G-d of Abraham who is well known. 
G-d is not a tasters choice "god" who wants you to adopt a new system to be "reborn".  G-d gave you your birthdate when you were born yourself.  There is no reborn, but you can indeed repent.

The real matzo ball

In the line of the previous comment, lets take a look at every beautitude...

The eight beatitudes in Matthew 5:3–12 during the Sermon on the Mount are stated as Blessed are:^[2][3]

• the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (5:3)
• they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. (5:4)
• the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. (5:5)
• they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. (5:6)
• the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. (5:7)
• the pure in heart: for they shall see God. (5:8)
• the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. (5:9)
• they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (5:10)

Blessed is the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven?
  In reality, the poor in spriit are given freedom.  They are loved, but blessed is not the nature of the King.  They are given freedom to live better.  But reality says that they do get to heaven if they are just.  Just being poor in spirit does not mean holiness for eternity.  There is a higher stake at play.

Those that mourn?  See previous entry.

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth?
  Sounds great and they love this one.  But do they actually inherit the world that we enjoy today or do they inherit the world in the future.  In reality they inherit the heavens and the honor of being truthful. 

Blessed are they who hunger after truth and righteousness, for they will be filled.
   Be good of course, but will you be "filled".   I suppose that our G-d will honor your intellectual honesty and that is a firm belief, but I will state that being filled is not G-ds promise.  Being fulfilled is.  So good work on this one christians.  If you only worked the word perfectly I would give you credit for a truth.  In reality this is a honorable saying, but it is not 100% truthful. 

Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.
  I think that the christians have it almost totally here.   This is a fact.  If you give mercy, you will be treated with mercy.  But mercy is not obtained, it is revealed.   So good job, but this is again not the 100% orthodox method of writing it.  Maybe it works for those who do not get the reality of G-ds blessings in totality so this one should be excused from the criticisms of a jew who does not buy the new testament, but it is still not written as perfectly as a jew would express such a thought if he had the help of his G-d.

Blessed are the poor at heart for they shall see G-d.
  Well, I give them credit for thinking of our G-d here and I give them credit for blessing those who are poor at heart.  But what is poor at heart in reality?  G-d does not make the heart poor.  The man and woman have to endure pain and suffering to allay theirselves of their own lies and injustices in life.  The heart that is poor is really the heart that has suffered.  So I would suggest to you that G-d is not one that blesses a heart that has suffered, but whom the authority rests in the honor of bringing dignity to those who are honorable and trustworthy.  Are they blessed for their suffering and their extremes of poverty?  I would say that they are blessed for their standing in humanity.  But a better verse to be written in this case would be "blessed are those who have suffered for they have the future worked out".  Either way, I can not profess that you will visually see our G-d although hopefully you have come to know our G-d by your suffering and your own satisfaction in what our Creator has brought to your life. 

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of G-d.
   G-d is true and peacemakers are divine.  But they are not the "children of G-d" in the sense that they stand out simply for their peacemaking.  They stand out for their decency.  And that is what makes them honorable and righteous.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
   Suffice to say, that the kingdom of heaven is not sold off.   G-d gives it to the just and righteous no matter whether they were or were not persecuted for every thought and vision and action that they have taken.  If you are persecuted for what G-d brings to us as honor and truth, rest assured that G-d will move closer to you in your lifetime and you will be satisfied with your own rights and your own trust in G-d.  I am not sure that the goal of being persecuted by another is to give you a better footing in heaven, but I would not argue that Hashem wants you to go futher when you stand up for freedom, rights, diplomacy and humanity.  So do what is true and right, but do not do it for heaven, do it for this planet we enjoy today.

Why spend Gold?

Just a little ditty here.

The new testament says:
Matthew 5:4-- Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

What did you think, that they would be kicked?  Actually in some cases they really are kicked.

But in truth, blessed is the day that that mourn.  not the person.  The day is what is blessed.   Just a sine qua non of truth and reality.

Clandestine Subroutine

I have heard some of the ambitious liken their fortune and fame and ability to the adage that they will be "kicking ass and taking names".  Is this the future mind set?

I ask you this.  Does taking names mean you understood what was for dinner in humanity or does it mean that you are cutting down the trees around you and making way for your own rise to stardom.

Either way, if you like to kick ass and take names; have fun killing the sentiment of tomorrow. 

For it is not a nice way to believe that you must be the caretaker of the future with an axe and a dogma.

A Memorial Worth Keeping on the Blog

Burning Brightly in the skys above now.

Rest in Peace Ray Bradbury

August 22, 1920 - June 5th, 2012

The perpetual light

Some chassidic thought for you today.

How does the light of the universe exist?


Here is my paradigm:

G-d takes care of creation.

Creation takes care of the heavens.

The heavens take care of G-d.

Perpetual light

Intelligent Design Algorhythm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/americans-believe-in-creationism_n_1571127.html

The Huffington Post has revealed for us the horror that there are Still Americans who do not all adopt the evolution big bang theory and might heavens forbid believe that there is a G-d and that the world was created in situ according to a plan.   Heavens forbid. 
I wrote a few tid bits:  enjoy the following:


Creation with an intelligent designer that brings us music and art and indeterminately unfathomably universes of mankind in the future dictates that there could have been a Creation that was started as per the jewish calendar 5772 years ago and in situ, the fossils and records of dinosaurs could have been implanted by a very intelligent designer as to indicate that this planet could have been randomly or totally started at some point billions of years ago. If there is a G-d and I assert of couse unswervingly that there is, then our Creator can do things to either fool us or really maybe there were dinosaurs and he controlled every molecule before that and since. If you think that the Species are all random and that the way that this natural world functions with predator and substance that is so well defined and functional together as a random mutation, I assert that there is too much evidence of a perfect creation. Perhaps the world does not seem perfect today and there is strife and war and famine, but there is a G-d and all goes according to a divine plan.  

My spider senses tell me that G-d is very real and that if he wanted this world to exist as it does, it would. Does that mean a 7 day creation scenario or a intelligently guided origin from the big bang. I am not one to completely say I could assure myself that G-d did not play a game with us by telling us that it is how it is in the bible. But either way, I am an orthodox jew and I am 100% certain that we have a higher power and that that power is indefinately in control. That means that people like Abraham Lincoln were no accident in history and that the future is in good hands. So I say if you want to be intellectually honest, you have to claim that you were not present in the beginnings and any theory has its merit. So teach them all and do not force our students to assign one over another. Either way, we are entitled to our rightful beliefs and there is never going to be any viewing of the beginning ever. Of course, you can think you evolved from a slime mold and maybe Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity could be evidence thereof, but I care to think that there is a G-d and a Creator and that Creation is an ongoing endeavor which will never end. If you do not like the Jewish view that there is a Creator, have fun.  

How could G-d create "hitler" and "bin laden"

The above question seems to be a favorite of all the atheists who have given up indefinately on the idea that there is a True Creator. 

Illness and heresy created the output of Hitler and Bin Laden. G-d continues to show us as a human civilization that there is much evil under the sun. We are always given the ability at the long run always to fight evil indefinately. G-d did not make the evil for us to be destroyed but the evil existed as to destroy itself in the long run.
Ultimately, we can not hold G-d accountable for the hatred and divisiveness. We can realize that sickness, heresy, wickedness, poverty and hatred exist and all try to destroy the unity that humanity will ultimately continue to move towards with the help of a Divine Creator.

Where have all the flowers gone?

A photo of the ordination of the reform rabbis including men and women both wearing prayer shawls.

Stupid is their common sense

Indeed folks.

The nice people who wrote the new testament have clarified to us what a "Jew" who follow Torah is...

He is a ***Pharisee***

The simple fact is that heresy is played out by the creation of a term that denotes a man who is "holier than the common man". The people who lived in that day and age were not in my beliefs documented to be a 'pharisee' in any jewish literature or jewish writings.

I am goign to assert that the idea of introducing a term called pharisee to the language is done so that the Jews who keep Orthodox Laws can be discriminated against as men who want to be "holier than the common man".

G-d is not about making a man a holy competition among men.

So if you are a nice christian and want to talk about jews, it would be intelligent to discuss Jews as Torah Observant rather than as you have often filled my experiences telling me that any jew who keeps the laws is a "pharisee".

This is a fluke of your own stupidity.

Bunny come to my Bris

I must remark that the ongoing way of the 'masorti' conservative judaism in some ways exceeds the heresy of Reform Judaism.

Conservative jews like to put on tefillin in the week and pray to their party's affiliation. This is not a prayer to Hashem since there is no mechitza. There are women present next to the man who is trying to make the most divine of all divine connections a man can acheive (putting on tefillin).

I honestly have more regard for a group of jews who leave orthodoxy and never put on tefillin in the presence of women than a group who wants to be "holier" than the reform, put on tefillin and sit next to their wifes and other ladies in the synagogue.

Uncharming coincidences

This is the week of the zombie.
In the past week, I have seen 4 zombie stories and that is much more than the zero zombie stories I have heard of in the usual day.

It started with the Miami Zombie who ate the man's face on the freeway.

Then later, I heard of the zombie roommate who ate the other person's brain and heart in his dorm room or something like that.

There was a story about the murderous despot from Liberia I think who in his days of terror would eat victim's hearts in a ceremony with others in Sierra Leone. Charles Taylor is his name.

And of course there was not to be an end to this mayhem as today, I turned on the television and MSNBC had a nice rerun of the Jeffrey Dahmer interview tapes.

Am I getting some kind of notice here or otherwise being tuned into a weekly theme? Lets hope it ends with this week huh?

Fact G-d keeps

The nice christians tell us "judge not lest ye be judged".

Judaism is not christianity.

Judaism is much more simple....

JUDGE RIGHT