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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

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Social Commentary

Moshiach is Coming

The Talmud-Book of Law contends Moshiach will come to the earth amid signs and situations foretold 2000 years ago. Turmoil is one of the signs, but the world has been in constant turmoil over the last 2000 years, particularly for the Jewish people who had their Temple destroyed then forced out of the land to wander the earth, homeless. Moshiach, the hope of the Jewish People is what has kept us going.

Besides turmoil is the promise that the entire world will witness the coming of Moshiach; the internet has gone a long way making the world to be as one conscious entity. Another sign of Moshiach is that at the time Moshiach comes the world will be distracted with another issue. In our time money and the economy trumps all other issues. Trying and garner some attention other issues attack financial centers with chaos, but war cannot be waged without money.

The financial institutions are the Atlas of the world; this mammoth god holding the world on his shoulders goes through times of instability when his knees tremble and the world quakes. Atlas needs to be fed to regain his strength and all the world is forced to participate—it is called a bailout. While the world watches the Dow slide and the indexes fall Moshiach is coming.

There are other signs Moshiach is coming, astrological signs like Mars receding from the earth after 6000 years at the same time the Roman calendar reaches his 2000 year conclusion; a decade before the 5000 year old Mayan calendar ends; 200 years prior to the end of the Hebrew calendar. Obviously we are in the End of Days—the end of the calendars.
Moshiach is not about destruction; Moshiach is about initiating a new light in the world obliterating that which is false through illumination and truth. War will end as will poverty; Moshiach will bring the world into what is known as the 1000 years of Peace and of Woman. In order to bring Moshiach to the earth we must first fix ourselves as a woman fixes herself before receiving a man. The purpose of this world, as taught by the cabalists is to fix what is wrong—not through war, but through logic, understanding and compassion.

The calendars remind us that there is not much time left and the work is enormous, but the collected human beings of this world are ready and willing for the task. Work is the most important virtue of the human being and everyone’s work is needed to fix our situation. The new economy being devised must allow and reward everyone’s work for the sake of fixing the world.

By focusing on the goal, fixing the world so Moshiach can come is about making the world a beautiful place supple and open to receive the new light, to conceive a new reality giving birth to a new spirit of life before the Creator.

If Not for Katrina

Future historians will regard the hurricane Katrina which devastated New Orleans on August 29, 2005 as having been the one singular event that brought down the 2000 year reign of the Roman Empire upon the world. The storm that passed over the New Orleans was like the storm which defeated the Spanish Armada causing a dramatic change in history—blunting the spread of Catholicism. President Bush on the next day peered down upon the destruction on his way from Texas back to Washington D.C. and because of the media and the internet the entire world witnessed America's disgrace and ineptitude. But, most importantly God saw the schemes and hope of desperate men.

In 1999 at the end of his term President Clinton signed into law the federal promise to religion they could not be barred or limited in the amount of property they could acquire; simply put—cities and towns cannot legally zone out religion. The huge surplus handed to President Bush was given to the military who bought arms from the richest people in the world who drove up the price of oil through the turmoil they created in the Middle East until oil supplying countries were being gorged with money; when the economy broke the money lost its value. All of this would have been fed to the American people and swallowed, but for Katrina.

Katrina caused Americans to open their eyes and wonder with there brains, how is it possible the richest and most powerful nation on the earth could be so vulnerable and unprepared for calamity? The question has brought national introspection culminating in the election of Barack Obama. If it were not for this question and its subsequent effect on the populous the housing crisis would have greatly increased the property of the Church and America would have become a right-winged Christian country.

This was the long view of the 26 years from Reagan who was first since prohibition to harness Christian extremism launching him into power. President Bush, whose name translates directly into Hebrew as Embarrassment, is the final recipient of that movement.

The Problem with Progress

Change cannot occur without first reevaluating progress. Seemingly, progress has become a cancer eating up the resources of the world and leaving a dire pollution threatening the very existence of life on planet earth. Progress is inevitable as is growth, but the natural cycles of life has been tampered with—now progress holds the whip and administers the blows; the beast wants to be fed. The present world-wide economic predicament is a function of more for the sake of more. In a consumer based economy, progress has become too big, eaten too much and excreted far too much. It is time for a change.

Progress needs to be reigned in and redirected for the benefit of the populous. Progress, admittedly has produced wonders limited only by the imagination, but more progress would be excessive. For far too long the human being has taken second place to progress; the greatest social goal has been to advance the progress of progress—freedom has been redefined as allowing one to take their chosen place in the hierarchy of progress. Progress has no mind, no emotions and most importantly no morals—progress only knows more.

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