Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I vanish
To accept G-d on G-d's terms, is to accept life on life's terms. Surrender into the process.. the oneness... the whole. the only. .all... manifest or unmanifest... this is just a matter of perspective on the all from within the all, on what still is, whether you see it, or not.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Noakh
A Friend of Mine just posted this picture on Facebook.
Here was my comment:
The reason you do what you do can be judged as strength or weakness when viewed case by case, but only when one looks at the generality - big picture, can the bigger reason, which is beyond right or wrong, beyond strength or weakness, be grasped. Holding onto (remembering / applying) that big picture - "reason", (which is felt strongest when difficult things are revealed to have had a positive outcome,) during one's dealing with the moment to moment decisions, can be either a positive guiding light, or a tremendously spiritually damaging and blinding aggrandizement of ego: "I am who I am" (In the picture above), only applies big picture, and has no present tense application (as identity is an image garnered by one's perception of one's past and potential futures), other than to shirk responsibility and escape real reason / present tense application. For "I am who I am" to apply to moment-to-moment situations (the present), it needs to read "I am who I am when I am (as such)" (so as to equate the first "am" in that rectified phrase, with the 'present' (through using the word "when") - resulting in a conceptual device/tool which when used in the present, reminds us of a yet unfolded bigger picture-future, and to remain open and optimistic to it - for it redeems us from the limitations in the perspective of the 'box of the present'. This "I am who I am" is an aspect of the biblical hebrew name of God "I will be that which I will be" (hebrew: Ekyh asr Ekyh), which was the divine Name which worked through Moses to redeem the Jews from Egypt (box of a harsh and limited perspective), and a is tremendously helpful / powerful concept to connect with. Holding onto this 'reason', to remain cognizant of the big picture, and then applying it, is 'Fath in God'. /end musing / commentary.
The reason you do what you do can be judged as strength or weakness when viewed case by case, but only when one looks at the generality - big picture, can the bigger reason, which is beyond right or wrong, beyond strength or weakness, be grasped. Holding onto (remembering / applying) that big picture - "reason", (which is felt strongest when difficult things are revealed to have had a positive outcome,) during one's dealing with the moment to moment decisions, can be either a positive guiding light, or a tremendously spiritually damaging and blinding aggrandizement of ego: "I am who I am" (In the picture above), only applies big picture, and has no present tense application (as identity is an image garnered by one's perception of one's past and potential futures), other than to shirk responsibility and escape real reason / present tense application. For "I am who I am" to apply to moment-to-moment situations (the present), it needs to read "I am who I am when I am (as such)" (so as to equate the first "am" in that rectified phrase, with the 'present' (through using the word "when") - resulting in a conceptual device/tool which when used in the present, reminds us of a yet unfolded bigger picture-future, and to remain open and optimistic to it - for it redeems us from the limitations in the perspective of the 'box of the present'. This "I am who I am" is an aspect of the biblical hebrew name of God "I will be that which I will be" (hebrew: Ekyh asr Ekyh), which was the divine Name which worked through Moses to redeem the Jews from Egypt (box of a harsh and limited perspective), and a is tremendously helpful / powerful concept to connect with. Holding onto this 'reason', to remain cognizant of the big picture, and then applying it, is 'Fath in God'. /end musing / commentary.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Genesis
Strangest Parshath Bereishith. We had to switch sifrei Torah twice mid aliyah, as they were pasul in the third aliyah. Then as I was carrying the torah back, the upper attarah of the torah catches the pull-chain of the light above the bima, and turns it off. Not the most encouraging way to start the cycle, but at least we are catching problems early. B'H our baal koreh is also a sofer.
As this error in a letter, happened during MY aliyah, and I was also Hatan Bereshit, I feel like I should probably be taking this personally. The invalid letters were a Kuf and a Nun, a significant break easily visible to the naked eye - in both letters. If anyone has any insight into the letters, please let me know.
That's TWO sifrei torah which need to be fixed, the only kosher Torot we had.
A friend of mine just posted this on facebook.
" Today, in every synagogue, the most influential sentence in all of human history was read aloud. It is the without match the greatest idea in the lexicon of the human spirit. Today we began the reading of the Torah anew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹ-ים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. In 1959 a survey was conducted of scientists across America. One question asked in 1959 “What is your concept of the age of the Universe?” resulted in more than two thirds of scientists responding that there was no origin of the universe. They believed that the universe was eternal. Science itself has shown they were very wrong. This most essential truth of monotheism has impacted all of human history in incomparable ways. Every ethical monotheist has this verse as the core of his belief, understanding it as the divine origin of the universe that also intended for human existence and provides man with his purpose. "
Here is my response:
" I can see it being very hard to prove, as the very concept of time and space themselves are creations, every tool we could possibly use to quantify this issue is by its nature 'within creation'. IMHO the only way to measure creation, is by using tools outside of creation, or at the very least, tools which predate (yes I am using a temporal word, but hence you see the limitation), or pre-exist this physical world in the chain of manifestation of the 'big bang / singularity'. I think this is where faith and (not equal to) irrationality comes in, for how else can one reach outside of creation or grasp tools beyond the rational intellect, unless they look beyond the limitations of rationality, believe that there is no accident, and that therefore, irrational does not mean not rational, but rather super-rational - above critical thought-dilection or differentiation? I think the root of the issue is in the fact that people have different ways of dealing with unknowns. Some like to eliminate all possibilities, and do not feel secure with the 'unknown', while the others, purposely leave gaps in their conclusions, so as to allow more light, possibility in. They are determined to allow as much of the 'truth' in as possible, even / especially at the expense of letting in untruth as well. We must be both rational and irrational in order to address all aspects of our lives, otherwise, it's like wearing dark shades, because only half of what you see makes sense immediately, and you are afraid to encounter the rest, so wish to make decisions to make you feel secure. I have faith that the Transcriber of the Torah, Moshe, was the human in his generation who was the most in touch with his inner humanity, and this gave him tremendous insight into how much of his perception was projection, and produced the most factual document possible in a physical universe, for it even included all things from the span of time and space, to the point that it is talking about things that our minds cannot comprehend, for the concepts exist in the future, possibly in parallel space. The value of the torah, is that it is as metaphysical and lofty as it is mundane, so factual that it exceeds our present capabilities of verification, and applies to the universe as it exists, not as what we know about it yet, but as it is in an ultimate state - a document meant to re-align ourselves with life, eternity, the flow of nature, the fundamental energetic pattern of the universe. As it is a blueprint of creation, it itself pre-existed creation, for as the Zohar states, "God looked into the torah, and created the universe." Teshuvah is so vital to mankind, it was created along with the Torah before the world. Also: Talmud Bavli, Pesachim 54a – "teshuvah was created before the world. Seven things were created before the world. They are: the Torah, teshuvah ..."
Another thing that pre-existed universe is the concept of beginnings, for as it says "Teshuva was created before the world." The torah itself will attest to this, for it itself starts with a beginning, and doesn't mention it's own transcription until later. This seems to be a contradiction, but it is really just a mirror image of a cycle. Another literal meaning of Bereshit, is "with beginings", instead of "in the beginning." "With beginnings did God create the universe." rather than "In the beginning did God create the universe." "With cycles (beginnings) did God create the universe." Every event and moment and place has a beginning and an end, but no cycle has a beginning and an end as far as it itself is concerned. It exists when it exists, and doesn't exist when it doesn't exist" Ekyh Asher Ekyh. But there is even a law dictating when this happens, a law we may or may not ever have insight to. No event occurs without pre-determining factors, not the big bang, and not every little tiny possible particle or wave of the bang, and thereby its constricting (rather than expansive) inverse, is without precision, infinite precision, depth, intention, and control, and because of this- it is all as aware as possible, and therefore alive. We absolutely must stop to think "hey, that doesn't make sense", and really start saying, "hey, from RIGHT HERE and RIGHT NOW this does / does not make sense, especially from down (or up) here". And by "say," I mean to think this when we make judgements. How do we use the Torah as a document to tune in? Start following its pattern, following the right examples presented, and to not walk in the ways of it's defined evil. The examples of wrong (archetypal) behavior exist in the torah, as they exist even now in our world, they are a part of creation itself- not in any way a disproof of creation (to answer those who say that "evil exists and where is G-d? Therefore it must be bullshit." But ...no.. its not bullshit... its just reality that you find incompatible with your understand of G-d, which you have not allowed light in to.)
A friend of mine just posted this on facebook.
" Today, in every synagogue, the most influential sentence in all of human history was read aloud. It is the without match the greatest idea in the lexicon of the human spirit. Today we began the reading of the Torah anew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹ-ים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. In 1959 a survey was conducted of scientists across America. One question asked in 1959 “What is your concept of the age of the Universe?” resulted in more than two thirds of scientists responding that there was no origin of the universe. They believed that the universe was eternal. Science itself has shown they were very wrong. This most essential truth of monotheism has impacted all of human history in incomparable ways. Every ethical monotheist has this verse as the core of his belief, understanding it as the divine origin of the universe that also intended for human existence and provides man with his purpose. "
Here is my response:
" I can see it being very hard to prove, as the very concept of time and space themselves are creations, every tool we could possibly use to quantify this issue is by its nature 'within creation'. IMHO the only way to measure creation, is by using tools outside of creation, or at the very least, tools which predate (yes I am using a temporal word, but hence you see the limitation), or pre-exist this physical world in the chain of manifestation of the 'big bang / singularity'. I think this is where faith and (not equal to) irrationality comes in, for how else can one reach outside of creation or grasp tools beyond the rational intellect, unless they look beyond the limitations of rationality, believe that there is no accident, and that therefore, irrational does not mean not rational, but rather super-rational - above critical thought-dilection or differentiation? I think the root of the issue is in the fact that people have different ways of dealing with unknowns. Some like to eliminate all possibilities, and do not feel secure with the 'unknown', while the others, purposely leave gaps in their conclusions, so as to allow more light, possibility in. They are determined to allow as much of the 'truth' in as possible, even / especially at the expense of letting in untruth as well. We must be both rational and irrational in order to address all aspects of our lives, otherwise, it's like wearing dark shades, because only half of what you see makes sense immediately, and you are afraid to encounter the rest, so wish to make decisions to make you feel secure. I have faith that the Transcriber of the Torah, Moshe, was the human in his generation who was the most in touch with his inner humanity, and this gave him tremendous insight into how much of his perception was projection, and produced the most factual document possible in a physical universe, for it even included all things from the span of time and space, to the point that it is talking about things that our minds cannot comprehend, for the concepts exist in the future, possibly in parallel space. The value of the torah, is that it is as metaphysical and lofty as it is mundane, so factual that it exceeds our present capabilities of verification, and applies to the universe as it exists, not as what we know about it yet, but as it is in an ultimate state - a document meant to re-align ourselves with life, eternity, the flow of nature, the fundamental energetic pattern of the universe. As it is a blueprint of creation, it itself pre-existed creation, for as the Zohar states, "God looked into the torah, and created the universe." Teshuvah is so vital to mankind, it was created along with the Torah before the world. Also: Talmud Bavli, Pesachim 54a – "teshuvah was created before the world. Seven things were created before the world. They are: the Torah, teshuvah ..."
Another thing that pre-existed universe is the concept of beginnings, for as it says "Teshuva was created before the world." The torah itself will attest to this, for it itself starts with a beginning, and doesn't mention it's own transcription until later. This seems to be a contradiction, but it is really just a mirror image of a cycle. Another literal meaning of Bereshit, is "with beginings", instead of "in the beginning." "With beginnings did God create the universe." rather than "In the beginning did God create the universe." "With cycles (beginnings) did God create the universe." Every event and moment and place has a beginning and an end, but no cycle has a beginning and an end as far as it itself is concerned. It exists when it exists, and doesn't exist when it doesn't exist" Ekyh Asher Ekyh. But there is even a law dictating when this happens, a law we may or may not ever have insight to. No event occurs without pre-determining factors, not the big bang, and not every little tiny possible particle or wave of the bang, and thereby its constricting (rather than expansive) inverse, is without precision, infinite precision, depth, intention, and control, and because of this- it is all as aware as possible, and therefore alive. We absolutely must stop to think "hey, that doesn't make sense", and really start saying, "hey, from RIGHT HERE and RIGHT NOW this does / does not make sense, especially from down (or up) here". And by "say," I mean to think this when we make judgements. How do we use the Torah as a document to tune in? Start following its pattern, following the right examples presented, and to not walk in the ways of it's defined evil. The examples of wrong (archetypal) behavior exist in the torah, as they exist even now in our world, they are a part of creation itself- not in any way a disproof of creation (to answer those who say that "evil exists and where is G-d? Therefore it must be bullshit." But ...no.. its not bullshit... its just reality that you find incompatible with your understand of G-d, which you have not allowed light in to.)
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