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Terrorists found on board Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janiero, Brazil to Paris on 31 May. (According to Homeland Security blog)
If this is truly the case that the flight was blown up by terrorist, then they have reached a drastic level. People are being killed by the hundreds at a time!
In other news, though I am religious and read very "right wing" blogs at times. Somethings are very hard to stomach. One example is the whole hatred for Obama. His name was even found in the Bible Code in Ezekiel 38:2.
Ezekiel Chapter 38
2 'Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal;
4 and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed most gorgeously, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
In the Hebrew, every seventh letter spells Obama. (There is a good explanation from Solomon's Stable blog --its a Christian blog).
While I do believe in the Bible codes, and I am slightly wary of Obama and his foreign policies, I know that there is free will. That alone should mean that there should be more than one place where Obama's name could be, perhaps spelled slightly differently (i.e. if he changed a part of himself, improved something like a character trait, or not get taken by haughtiness or whatever)a different reality can be had. I don't have a computer program to do the gematria research, alas.
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That terrorists were onboard is news to me, Miriam. It's not being discussed here, as yet.
I may as well update you on the latest from here:
museum guard killed in shooting; gunman wounded
It was the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum guard that was killed in the shooting, and the gunman wounded.
By first post grew a mind of its own, and posted itself without my permission. :)
Use the link above to learn more.
Domino - What is with all these killings?! And at the age of 88 he's still harboring hate in his heart?
"And at the age of 88 he's still harboring hate in his heart?" Miriam
A friend of mine, years ago (many years ago!), used to say often about this kind of thing when age and stupidity clashed:
"Nobody stays dead that long!"
We can't say anymore than "hate" kills the hater when harbored for years.
This man managed to do it, and probably lived a life more healthy than the two of us put together.
Although the security guard he shot is now dead, this killer is still alive--and he has a bullet hole in his head!
It's hard to kill evil. Weeds have to be pulled up by the roots, otherwise they spring up again.
Now, fear will kill you faster than hate.
I'm reminded of Robert Frost's poem, "Fire and Ice":
Fire and Ice
(From Harper’s Magazine, December 1920.)
SOME say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice
Namaste
Yes there is a lot of hatred of President Obama in the orthodox community. A lot has to do with race and the need to blame someone (who is blameless for all of this) Why? Let us get to the ikar. Only half a million Jews keep torah and mitzvoth, out of about 13.5 million of us. H’ doesn’t give us grief on the say so of the nations. We bring it on ourselves. We in the religious community like to think that we comprise all of the Jewish world. And even we aren’t doing all we can (less lashon hara, more ahavat Yisrael, less judgment, more menschlikeit, more Kiddush H’)
Israel was given to us. Yes. It says so in the bible that the Christians and Muslims read. However H’ asked us to keep many other laws. Most Christian and muslims with Jewish friends know that these friends aren’t keeping kashruth or Shabbat. So how is this glorifying H’ as king and his laws as true? Any non-Jew can turn to us and say oh you say G-d gave you the land, says so in the bible? yeah well what about everything else man? My friend Shoshi went out with me for shrimp the other night and she drives on shabbes plus her boyfriend is catholic. We listen to G-d sometimes and not others? This is NOT Kiddush H’.
A huge amount of non-religious Jews in America support a Palestinian state. They write this in comments and opinions to the NY Times, President Obama Jewish advisors agree with a Palestinian state. Why are we expecting Obama, a non-jew, to be a better Jew than real Jews? This makes no sense to me.
We are practicing a kind of subterfuge. In NY if a non-Jew tells a religious Jew that there should be a Palestinian state for the sake of peace, you know what the answer will be? “The Palestinians don’t want peace, they hate Jews, look at the terrorism….” Should this be the answer? The real answer is“H’ gave the land to the Jewish people. There is only a Jewish nation there. When the Jewish people return and dwell there completely, then there will be peace in the world. No a Jewish land didn’t begin in 1948 or1967. It was from the being of time.” We should tell the non-Jews the precise truth. Most people don’t say this because some think it will start a pogrom or they will look crazy in the eyes of the non-jew. So we hide. And the American newspapers could write about those crazy, violent right-wing settlers and their supporting rabbis as if the settlers are separate from the entire orthodox community. As if the religious community of New York was different.
PM Netanyahu said today “the Settlers are our brother and sisters.” To me he implied that “We” are different from “them”. However the real truth is that we are all settlers.
Also is the Prime minister of Israel keeping Shabbat and kashruth , praying and wearing his kippah? What is he representing in the world. He must stand up and be a Jew.
Non-Jews are right to question us and to expect much from us. We are the heart of the world. We are the light of the nations. The world must learn from us. We can’t talk about it in shiurim and then act like “well it is only allegory.”
It is so convenient to blame Obama. But is Obama the real reason for our tzarrot and prolonged Galut? Is Obama real responsible for our present state of life/affair/nation?
Our work is to everyday have Kiddush H’ in everything and every relationship, even the non-jewish ones. Time to stop pretending we don’t know what time it is and what we should be doing. A lot of tshuva needs to happen and we must work be bring the 13 million of us closer to Torah. Then even President Obama will understand
I completely agree with Raáyah. Our destinies as Israels/Jews is completely wound up in our observance of Torah and acceptance of the directives of Hashem. Obama and the US presidents before him are simply following a path of what is best for them and those who support them. Obama is simply saying publically what the other US presidents were keeping somewhat behind close dooors. The real issue is as Jews we need to have the same attitude for our own Torah perspective. This includes standing up to those who would claim we have no right to our ancestral homeland. We will be pushed as far as we allow ourselves to be pushed. If our leadership does not reflect the perspective of Torah that Hashem, and even the world really expects from us we will be placing ourselves at the mercy of whatever the world leaders want.
Domino -
"Nobody stays dead that long!"
We can't say anymore than "hate" kills the hater when harbored for years.
lol. True. And I do think there is an energy that hate brings. But at the same time it does eats one up inside, I would think. Its draining.
Perhaps some thrive on this -- truly wicked people?
Ra'aya & Ehav- That is the absolute truth! But to say that would get even the non-practicing Jews up in arms.
I've had a couple of people asking me about the situation with Israel and I've said this same thing. But unfortunately, it doesn't change their way of thinking.
At this point, I suspect many depend on the media for their opinion, (or secretly harber hatred against Jews, but this Isral/Palestine affair gives them supposed validity) and what we say won't change their minds. We need to change. Jews need to renew their commitment to the Torah, To God, to ahavat Yisrael.
But how? How to convince some comfortable people to live with a mission? To dismiss Western amenities? To eat kosher? to not hate a brother? To be bound by Torah?
Miriam asked:
But how? How to convince some comfortable people to live with a mission? To dismiss Western amenities? To eat kosher? to not hate a brother? To be bound by Torah?
Ehav’s Response
In terms of answers to your questions, this gets a bit into the video I am going to put out in October for a Month of Positive Solutions. I will though give some short ideas I have.
I believe that the ultimate solutions will come when one of two things happen. They will either happen together or separately.
1. Israelis/Jews for internal reasons begin to take the initiative and working on the solutions.
2. Some big catastrophe will happen that will cause us to wake up.
A friend of mine once said that for him the miracle of Hanukah was that the religious and the Hellenized Jews put their differences to fight a war of common survival. This is the basis of the solutions that I see.
In more detail I feel the following are possible solutions that can be implemented by all liked minded Israelis/Jews individually and collectively.
1. Raise children with the express intention of teaching them that they MUST go out into Israeli society and work towards bringing people back to Torah. This of course is a long term plan. I.e. if more children are taught authentic Torah and they marry, have children, and repeat the process the results will speak for themselves.
2. Get involved in programs to teach youth authentic Torah. Especially, at risk youth.
3. Form more tight knit communities by involving liked minded Torah based families. Move into a neighborhood of like minded people. Form after tefilah minyans where families interact and children learn Torah from the elders. i.e. create a community within the community where regular family gatherings are the norm.
4. Volunteer to work with Israeli/Jewish families in need. Be an example for them of how Torah based Israelis/Jews are supposed to be.
5. Get politically involved. See what the problems are in the Israeli political system. Work with a party dedicated to similar ideals. Pass on this political activism to the children.
6. Get involved in programs that are active in supporting Israeli/Jewish communities in need.
7. Get involved in programs to help lost Jews return to Judaism. Some of the strongest commitment to Torah comes from Benei Anusim.
8. Convince more Israelis/Jews to write or make videos promoting the cool elements of Torah based society that are often left out of the mainstream religious movements. As an example, I often talk about my training in Abir. There have been a number of people who learn Abir who became religious because it was the type of Qiruv they needed. The more people who get personally involved in Qiruv efforts the more variety in the stories of why it is important.
9. Work with Israeli/Jewish children to show them the lies that media portrays about pretty much everyone. Give them real life examples of how the media has an agenda and pretty works against almost everyone.
The main issue is that none of these are short term fixes, and they require community development and work. They also require working where the most can be done and that is with children and Israelis/Jews who are already searching for purpose.
The other issue is that national teshuvah can come either due to sincere desire simply to return to Hashem, or it can come as the result of some national calamity.
This is the thing that our actions or inaction may decide. The first type of Teshuvah is less painful and can happen simply when people are fed up with the status quo. The second type is more painful and can come at a very heavy cost.
Ehav - thanks. I need to be doing my part. Better to spend energy there.
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