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Middle East Peace

Esteemed President Barack Obama
Honorable Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton
George Mitchell Special Ambassador to the Middle East

In accordance with our president's wishes I am forwarding to your office my proposal for peace in the Middle East. Peace throughout the Middle East can be accomplished by making peace in Israel which is predicated on finding a solution to Jerusalem—key to the Holy Land. (read more)

The No State Solution

Three thousand years ago Shlomo son of Dovid ascended the throne in Jerusalem where he would build the First Temple destined to stand for 410 years until destroyed by Babylon. Among the first things recorded about his kingdom is the following story: two women come before the new king wanting justice; the problem is a new born infant who both women claim. The king pronounced judgment—divide the child in half andgive half to each mother. (read more)

Why the Rabbis are Wrong
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   Kabbalistic Tarot by Dovid Krafchow
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Banned by the Rabbis

The Rabbis do not actually ban books, they just turn their nose up and that is enough since for the Jewish People, the People of the Book, rely upon the Rabbis to weed out textual inconsistencies with the tradition handed down from Moshe 3500 years ago. In general, this practice was saved for Jewish scholars who did not meet the grade. However, the Rabbis do not have complete power over the people; if the Rabbi refuses to state his source in the Torah/Teaching and argue his point then his authority loses strength and becomes just an opinion.

In the case of Kabbalistic Tarot neither is true and yet the ban is on...   Read More

Social Commentary

2012 and the Leviathan

The Zohar Chodesh-Book of Secret in describing the utterance from God that there should be emanations of light in the heavens, “The word Morot/Lights is written lacking a Vav to include the evil snake who cursed with impurity and made division; the sun did not shine on the moon. Illumination came from the Leviathan therefore the earth was cursed as is written, the earth will be cursed for your sake; Morot/Cursed is also written without a Vav.” On Dec. 21, 2012 the earth once again lines up in the eye of the serpent.

Much has been written concerning this galactic convergence with the earth at the center of our galaxy on December 21, 2012, but without an inner explanation into the meaning of this phenomenon it will remain an unexplainable happening like when Mars came closest to the earth on August 27, 2003. Conventional wisdom teaches that natural occurrences are meaningless save for their impact on the earth, but is that so?

The Leviathan is mentioned throughout the Torah holding a significant place in both the inception of creation, the “curse” of creation and the conclusion of creation. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says God created the Leviathan as a plaything; actually created two of them, but had to slay one for the sake of peace salting her for the righteous to eat in the next world. It was the Leviathan who focused the water onto the earth and set in motion a sequence of 6000 years whose time are about to elapse—constituting the End of Days. The Leviathan is closely connected with the Nochus/Snake that shares the same gematria with Moshiach—358.

On Deceber 21, 2012 the earth will line up with the eye of the serpent—the center of our galaxy—at the same time three ancient calendars end constituting the End of Days when conjunctions of dates and instances coincide with alarming clarity. The Cabala whose specialty is the intimate and precise knowledge of creation can untangle that which is confused and put together that which has been left out.

The Creator who is neither physical nor spiritual implants within the manifestations of creation signs by which the Creator can be known; there is nothing within creation that does not speak of the Creator—but, how to interpret creation is the conundrum. According to the scientific thought life is an amorphous anomaly coming together and producing life in a haphazard fashion, but the Torah insists that creation is the product the articulated thought of the Creator manifested in celestial speech. This ethereal communication which is written in the stars surrounds the earth like infinite threads delivering messages moment by moment.

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The Problem with Evolution

All theories have accompanying philosophies extrapolating moral and ethical lessens from the cold facts of theories; the theories are based on empirical evidence from laboratory experiments repeated endlessly with the same conclusion. Theories are the “why” of the experiment—the experiment works, but why? Explaining the “why” is what gives meaning to life; interpreting the theory requires drawing from concepts an essential understanding of life. Evolution is a good example of this process.

The conclusions that Darwin proposed had ramifications that infuriated the Church who long held that God created the world in six days from the microbe until the universe; these two disparate opinions has been the source of much ranker in the world, but both are just opinions and theories based by one on an ancient book and the other through modern day observation—fortunately neither is true.

The Torah/Teaching from the very onset deals with creation, but the Torah is much more than what is written. The Torah is composed on four levels and without seeing a complete picture one comes to wrong conclusions; the same is true of empirical observation. The scientists who can only measure the four elements of earth, water, wind and fire have no problem pushing their theories while recognizing that the physical reality makes up only four percent of creation—the rest being the mysterious Black Matter and Black Energy which makes up the other 96 percent of creation.

In general, it is good for science to have theories in the same way religion has beliefs, but when the theory or beliefs morph into dogma then the oppression of the human spirit begins through the spouting of philosophical dictums based on errant and insufficient information. The Torah/Teaching looks at creation through the immutable law of the Written and the three levels of the Oral Tradition. Like science Torah sees only four parts of the whole.

The Written Torah of 600,000 characters can be likened to the perimeter of the puzzle; the Talmud-Book of Law is how the pieces of the puzzle fit together; the Midrash-Book of Metaphor fills in the story; and lastly the Zohar-Book of Secret puts the last pieces in their place by answering all the outstanding questions and suddenly the picture of creation becomes perfect. The study of the Torah/Teaching is the foundation for understanding the Will of the Creator as revealed in the workings of creation.

The rigorous study of the Torah/Teaching adheres to specific methods as exacting as any scientific explanation; it is in the consistency and perfection of a non-contradictory text written on four levels that elucidates the form of creation mirrored throughout the universe in four divisions with ten particulars.

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The 1111 Cometh

In the spring of 5666/1906 a Rebbe asked of his students and followers to drink four glasses of wine because the Four Alephim had been revealed and were now coming to the earth. The Rebbe was referring to the primordial human figure called Adom Kadmin/First Man mentioned in the Cabala as being the prototype for creation. It was from Adom Kadmin that the first movements of creation are accounted for; called the three breaths corresponding to the ears, nose of mouth gives life to creation which later is imbued with consciousness as the eyes open. It is prophesied that from the forehead of Adom Kadmin would come the Four Alephim initiating the conclusion of the sixth and final millennium on earth corresponding to the six days of the week pattered after the Six Days of Creation.

In the spring of 5666/1906 the Rebbe announced the process had begun. The drinking of four glasses of wine at the conclusion of Pesech/Passover was a sign of Geula/Redemption as is the drinking the four glasses of wine at the beginning of Pesech during the Seder a sign of redemption. Pesech begins by celebrating the going out of slavery from Mitzriam/Egypt by proclaiming four future exiles: Babylon, Persia, Greece and lastly Rome. The four cups of wine after Pesech foretold of great calamity preceding the arrival of the Four Alephim produced from the forehead of Adom Kadmin bringing new light to the world.

But, how will the world know when the light has arrived?

The Creator, King of the Universe, sends proclamations to creation through prophetic text and visions, but God also sends signs directly to the people—for all to see and understand. On January 20th the nation receives a new leader which in Hebrew is called by the term Aleph as in the Aleph the first letter of the 22 letter Hebrew alphabet with the corresponding value of one. This Aleph/Leader will at that time combine with the 111th congress making the 1111 on the earth.

The Hebrew date on January 20th is Cof-Daled/24 of Tevet. There are 24 written books in the Torah; the word made from the combining of these two letters Cof-Daled/24 is Cad/Vessel. The implications of the circumstance of the inauguration of President Barack Obama, particularly the date, is a subtle sign from God that the new light has arrived and we, the world as a whole (since America is a conglomerate of all peoples throughout the world) are a fitting vessel to receive the light—Halaluya.

The Aleph/1 is considered to be the source of the 21 subsequent remaining letters of the Hebrew alphabet; the Aleph/1 is represented by a diagonal line dividing between two dots indicative of heaven and earth. The Aleph with a value of one when spelled out Aleph/1-Lamed/30-Peh/80 equals 111 together comprising the number 1111 is a clear sign to the people of the earth that the peace which arises out of conclusion has begun.

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