Yemenite Jews Refuse to Leave - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News
The sweet smell of exile?
Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Statue of Liberty
At Electronic Village, the blogger writes the fascinating history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to Black America. WOW!!!
News Briefs - Israel National News
News Briefs - Israel National News
A young Jewish bike rider was attacked near the Erez alley in Hebron. He was able to flee.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Black Lights
This is a flashback post. I feel this is so important because without purifying these black lights, these seven candles, there is so much that we can't even understand. For instance, the relationship between David and Yonatan. Insert unholy thoughts in there and we immediately can't fathom that two men can love each other so intensely without it turning to an abomination. Same with the love of Odesser and Shazzar, etc.
So here's the post again:
Well, what do you use to light up your seven precious candles?
According to Rebbe Nachman, in Likutey Moharan lesson #21 we all have seven precious candles. These candles are our eyes, our ears, two nostrils and our mouth. When we use pure, clean oil to illuminate these candles that means we are checking what we take in --good books, good blog posts, positive, useful information, good tidings, important tidings, good food, fragrant or cool air, etc. When it is said that unclean, dirty oil is used, its as if we are putting shmutzy, trashy, junky, gossipy, disgraceful movies, songs, pictures, bad smells into ourselves.
It can be worthwhile to use good, healthy oil for illuminating these candles because a well lit face brings us to grace from The Holy One, Blessed be He and also the intellect can more easily absorbs information (the channels are not clogged up by falsehood, hurtful info, and the like).
Now who wouldn't want that?
It goes further. There are two kinds of knowledge. The one that is inside the brain already and the one that hoovers around us waiting to be let in. Let's give these two names. The one that's inside us already, we'll call absorbed knowledge; the kind that is not yet processed yet, we'll call floating knowledge (in Hebrew its called makif. Should I use the Hebrew?)
Using my favorite mascot, Karen. Say Karen is waiting to absorb some floating knowledge. For the time being she's just not getting it.
The floating knowledge x, y, and z are buzzing around her. She can't really see it, but its there. Some of it is so pure, so refined that unless Karen refines her seven candles, she may not be able to absorb all of it.
This floating knowledge of x, y, and z can also be called her "garments" because they hoover around her like a coat.
(hmmm, perhaps that explains why kids are always putting things in their mouths! lol. Forever learning, absorbing from the outside and bringing it in)
The concept of "garment" is too deep and I don't think I would do it justice to explain any further.
So to sum it all up: using pure oil to make your candles shine bright -i.e. using proper speech, no cuss words, not breathing hot air of anger, keeping cool, seeing good and hearing good- is beneficial in that it allows you to absorb knowledge faster. As you keep absorbing new knowledge and more knowledge, you get wise. You receive grace and you leave your enemies powerless.
So here's the post again:
Well, what do you use to light up your seven precious candles?
According to Rebbe Nachman, in Likutey Moharan lesson #21 we all have seven precious candles. These candles are our eyes, our ears, two nostrils and our mouth. When we use pure, clean oil to illuminate these candles that means we are checking what we take in --good books, good blog posts, positive, useful information, good tidings, important tidings, good food, fragrant or cool air, etc. When it is said that unclean, dirty oil is used, its as if we are putting shmutzy, trashy, junky, gossipy, disgraceful movies, songs, pictures, bad smells into ourselves.
Now who wouldn't want that?
It goes further. There are two kinds of knowledge. The one that is inside the brain already and the one that hoovers around us waiting to be let in. Let's give these two names. The one that's inside us already, we'll call absorbed knowledge; the kind that is not yet processed yet, we'll call floating knowledge (in Hebrew its called makif. Should I use the Hebrew?)
Using my favorite mascot, Karen. Say Karen is waiting to absorb some floating knowledge. For the time being she's just not getting it.
The floating knowledge x, y, and z are buzzing around her. She can't really see it, but its there. Some of it is so pure, so refined that unless Karen refines her seven candles, she may not be able to absorb all of it.
This floating knowledge of x, y, and z can also be called her "garments" because they hoover around her like a coat.
There was once a thug who was waiting for a girl to pass by to hurt her. He hid behind a bush and prepared for his ambush. Luckily, that girl decided to wear a disguise. She wore something different than what she already had. Thus, when she passed by the thug behind the bush, she was unrecognizable and was able to pass unharmed!Another good reason for illuminating our candles and absorbing new knowledge is that we eliminate the old "garment" around us and have a brand new garment unrecognizable than before. Thus, we can experience life quite differently than before. The "thugs" won't recognize the new garment and we pass unharmed; that is to say, old naysayers and previous hurtful words and haters can not effect us because they are chasing after the wrong garments.
(hmmm, perhaps that explains why kids are always putting things in their mouths! lol. Forever learning, absorbing from the outside and bringing it in)
The concept of "garment" is too deep and I don't think I would do it justice to explain any further.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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