Jewish thought

A thought of peace from the U.N.

2011-09-24T11:50:44+02:00

Transcript of the message of hope and peace: (http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA)

Transcript

Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established 63 years ago. On behalf of Israel and the Jewish people, I extend that hand again today. I extend it to the people of Egypt and Jordan, with renewed friendship for neighbors with whom we have made peace. I extend it to the people of Turkey, with respect and good will. I extend it to the people of Libya and Tunisia, with admiration for those trying to build a democratic future. I extend it to the other peoples of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, with whom we want to forge a new beginning. I extend it to the people of Syria, Lebanon and Iran, with awe at the courage of those fighting brutal repression.

But most especially, I extend my hand to the Palestinian people, with whom we seek a just and lasting peace.

Ladies and gentlemen, in Israel our hope for peace never wanes. Our scientists, doctors, and innovators apply their genius to improve the world of tomorrow. Our artists, our writers, enrich the heritage of humanity. Now, I know that this is not exactly the image of Israel that is often portrayed in this hall. After all, it was here in 1975 that the age-old yearning of my people to restore our national life in our ancient biblical homeland - it was then that this was branded shamefully, as racism. And it was here in 1980, right here, that the historic peace agreement between Israel and Egypt wasn't praised; it was denounced! And it's here, year after year that Israel is unjustly singled out for condemnation. It's singled out for condemnation more often than all the nations of the world combined. Twenty-one out of the 27 General Assembly resolutions condemn Israel - the one true democracy in the Middle East.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. You might say: That's the past. Well, here's what's happening now - right now, today, Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security.

You couldn't make this thing up.

So here in the UN, automatic majorities can decide anything. They can decide that the sun rises in the west. But they can also decide - they have decided - that the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest place, is occupied Palestinian territory.

And yet even here in the General Assembly, the truth can sometimes break through. In 1984 when I was appointed Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, I visited the great rabbi of Lubavich. He said to me - and ladies and gentlemen, I don't want any of you to be offended because from personal experience of serving here, I know there are many honorable men and women, many capable and decent people, serving their nations here - But here's what the rebbe said to me. He said to me, you'll be serving in a house of many lies. And then he said, remember that even in the darkest place, the light of a single candle can be seen far and wide.

Today I hope that the light of truth will shine, if only for a few minutes, in a hall that for too long has been a place of darkness for my country. So as Israel's prime minister, I didn't come here to win applause. I came here to speak the truth. The truth is that Israel wants peace. The truth is that I want peace. The truth is that in the Middle East at all times, but especially during these turbulent days,peace must be anchored in security. The truth is that we cannot achieve peace through UN resolutions, but only through direct negotiations between the parties. The truth is that so far the Palestinians have refused to negotiate.The truth is that Israel wants peace with a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians want a state without peace. And the truth is you shouldn't let that happen.

Ladies and gentlemen, when I first came here 27 years ago, the world was divided between East and West. Since then the Cold War ended, great civilizations have risen from centuries of slumber, hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty, countless more are poised to follow, and the remarkable thing is that so far this monumental historic shift has largely occurred peacefully. Yet a malignancy is now growing between East and West that threatens the peace of all. It seeks not to liberate, but to enslave, not to build, but to destroy.

That malignancy is militant Islam. It cloaks itself in the mantle of a great faith, yet it murders Jews, Christians and Muslims alike with unforgiving impartiality. On September 11th it killed thousands of Americans, and it left the twin towers in smoldering ruins. Last night I laid a wreath on the 9/11 memorial. It was deeply moving. But as I was going there, one thing echoed in my mind: the outrageous words of the president of Iran on this podium yesterday. He implied that 9/11 was an American conspiracy. Some of you left this hall. All of you should have.

Since 9/11, militant Islamists slaughtered countless other innocents - in London and Madrid, in Baghdad and Mumbai, in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, in every part of Israel. I believe that the greatest danger facing our world is that this fanaticism will arm itself with nuclear weapons. And this is precisely what Iran is trying to do.

Can you imagine that man who ranted here yesterday - can you imagine him armed with nuclear weapons? The international community must stop Iran before it's too late. If Iran is not stopped, we will all face the specter of nuclear terrorism, and the Arab Spring could soon become an Iranian winter.

That would be a tragedy. Millions of Arabs have taken to the streets to replace tyranny with liberty, and no one would benefit more than Israel if those committed to freedom and peace would prevail.

This is my fervent hope. But as the prime minister of Israel, I cannot risk the future of the Jewish state on wishful thinking. Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be. We must do our best to shape the future, but we cannot wish away the dangers of the present.

And the world around Israel is definitely becoming more dangerous. Militant Islam has already taken over Lebanon and Gaza. It's determined to tear apart the peace treaties between Israel and Egypt and between Israel and Jordan. It's poisoned many Arab minds against Jews and Israel, against America and the West. It opposes not the policies of Israel but the existence of Israel.

Now, some argue that the spread of militant Islam, especially in these turbulent times - if you want to slow it down, they argue, Israel must hurry to make concessions, to make territorial compromises. And this theory sounds simple. Basically it goes like this: Leave the territory, and peace will be advanced. The moderates will be strengthened, the radicals will be kept at bay. And don't worry about the pesky details of how Israel will actually defend itself; international troops will do the job.

These people say to me constantly: Just make a sweeping offer, and everything will work out. You know, there's only one problem with that theory. We've tried it and it hasn't worked. In 2000 Israel made a sweeping peace offer that met virtually all of the Palestinian demands. Arafat rejected it. The Palestinians then launched a terror attack that claimed a thousand Israeli lives.

Prime Minister Olmert afterwards made an even more sweeping offer, in 2008. President Abbas didn't even respond to it.

But Israel did more than just make sweeping offers. We actually left territory.We withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 and from every square inch of Gaza in 2005.That didn't calm the Islamic storm, the militant Islamic storm that threatens us. It only brought the storm closer and made it stronger.

Hezbollah and Hamas fired thousands of rockets against our cities from the very territories we vacated. See, when Israel left Lebanon and Gaza, the moderates didn't defeat the radicals, the moderates were devoured by the radicals. And I regret to say that international troops like UNIFIL in Lebanon and EUBAM in Gaza didn't stop the radicals from attacking Israel.

We left Gaza hoping for peace.

We didn't freeze the settlements in Gaza, we uprooted them. We did exactly what the theory says: Get out, go back to the 1967 borders, dismantle the settlements.

And I don't think people remember how far we went to achieve this. We uprooted thousands of people from their homes. We pulled children out of their schools and their kindergartens. We bulldozed synagogues. We even moved loved ones from their graves. And then, having done all that, we gave the keys of Gaza to President Abbas.

Now the theory says it should all work out, and President Abbas and the Palestinian Authority now could build a peaceful state in Gaza. You can remember that the entire world applauded. They applauded our withdrawal as an act of great statesmanship. It was a bold act of peace.

But ladies and gentlemen, we didn't get peace. We got war. We got Iran, which through its proxy Hamas promptly kicked out the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority collapsed in a day - in one day.

President Abbas just said on this podium that the Palestinians are armed only with their hopes and dreams. Yeah, hopes, dreams and 10,000 missiles and Grad rockets supplied by Iran, not to mention the river of lethal weapons now flowing into Gaza from the Sinai, from Libya, and from elsewhere.

Thousands of missiles have already rained down on our cities. So you might understand that, given all this, Israelis rightly ask: What's to prevent this from happening again in the West Bank? See, most of our major cities in the south of the country are within a few dozen kilometers from Gaza. But in the center of the country, opposite the West Bank, our cities are a few hundred meters or at most a few kilometers away from the edge of the West Bank.

So I want to ask you. Would any of you bring danger so close to your cities, to your families? Would you act so recklessly with the lives of your citizens? Israelis are prepared to have a Palestinian state in the West Bank, but we're not prepared to have another Gaza there. And that's why we need to have real security arrangements, which the Palestinians simply refuse to negotiate with us.

Israelis remember the bitter lessons of Gaza. Many of Israel's critics ignore them. They irresponsibly advise Israel to go down this same perilous path again. You read what these people say and it's as if nothing happened - just repeating the same advice, the same formulas as though none of this happened.

And these critics continue to press Israel to make far-reaching concessions without first assuring Israel's security. They praise those who unwittingly feed the insatiable crocodile of militant Islam as bold statesmen. They cast as enemies of peace those of us who insist that we must first erect a sturdy barrier to keep the crocodile out, or at the very least jam an iron bar between its gaping jaws.

So in the face of the labels and the libels, Israel must heed better advice. Better a bad press than a good eulogy, and better still would be a fair press whose sense of history extends beyond breakfast, and which recognizes Israel's legitimate security concerns.

I believe that in serious peace negotiations, these needs and concerns can be properly addressed, but they will not be addressed without negotiations. And the needs are many, because Israel is such a tiny country. Without Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, Israel is all of 9 miles wide.

I want to put it for you in perspective, because you're all in the city. That's about two-thirds the length of Manhattan. It's the distance between Battery Park and Columbia University. And don't forget that the people who live in Brooklyn and New Jersey are considerably nicer than some of Israel's neighbors.

So how do you protect such a tiny country, surrounded by people sworn to its destruction and armed to the teeth by Iran? Obviously you can't defend it from within that narrow space alone. Israel needs greater strategic depth, and that's exactly why Security Council Resolution 242 didn't require Israel to leave all the territories it captured in the Six-Day War. It talked about withdrawal from territories, to secure and defensible boundaries. And to defend itself, Israel must therefore maintain a long-term Israeli military presence in critical strategic areas in the West Bank.

I explained this to President Abbas. He answered that if a Palestinian state was to be a sovereign country, it could never accept such arrangements. Why not? America has had troops in Japan, Germany and South Korea for more than a half a century. Britain has had an air base in Cyprus. France has forces in three independent African nations. None of these states claim that they're not sovereign countries.

And there are many other vital security issues that also must be addressed. Take the issue of air space. Again, Israel's small dimensions create huge security problems. America can be crossed by jet airplane in six hours. To fly across Israel, it takes three minutes. So is Israel's tiny airspace to be chopped in half and given to a Palestinian state not at peace with Israel?

Our major international airport is a few kilometers away from the West Bank. Without peace, will our planes become targets for antiaircraft missiles placed in the adjacent Palestinian state? And how will we stop the smuggling into the West Bank? It's not merely the West Bank, it's the West Bank mountains. It just dominates the coastal plain where most of Israel's population sits below. How could we prevent the smuggling into these mountains of those missiles that could be fired on our cities?

I bring up these problems because they're not theoretical problems. They're very real. And for Israelis, they're life-and-death matters. All these potential cracks in Israel's security have to be sealed in a peace agreement before a Palestinian state is declared, not afterwards, because if you leave it afterwards, they won't be sealed. And these problems will explode in our face and explode the peace.

The Palestinians should first make peace with Israel and then get their state.But I also want to tell you this. After such a peace agreement is signed, Israel will not be the last country to welcome a Palestinian state as a new member of the United Nations. We will be the first.

And there's one more thing. Hamas has been violating international law by holding our soldier Gilad Shalit captive for five years.

They haven't given even one Red Cross visit. He's held in a dungeon, in darkness, against all international norms. Gilad Shalit is the son of Aviva and Noam Shalit. He is the grandson of Zvi Shalit, who escaped the Holocaust by coming in the 1930’s as a boy to the land of Israel. Gilad Shalit is the son of every Israeli family. Every nation represented here should demand his immediate release. If you want to pass a resolution about the Middle East today, that's the resolution you should pass.

Ladies and gentlemen, last year in Israel in Bar-Ilan University, this year in theKnesset and in the U.S. Congress, I laid out my vision for peace in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state. Yes, the Jewish state. After all, this is the body that recognized the Jewish state 64 years ago. Now, don't you think it's about time that Palestinians did the same?

The Jewish state of Israel will always protect the rights of all its minorities, including the more than 1million Arab citizens of Israel. I wish I could say the same thing about a future Palestinian state, for as Palestinian officials made clear the other day - in fact, I think they made it right here in New York - they said the Palestinian state won't allow any Jews in it. They'll be Jew-free - Judenrein. That's ethnic cleansing. There are laws today in Ramallah that make the selling of land to Jews punishable by death. That's racism. And you know which laws this evokes.

Israel has no intention whatsoever to change the democratic character of our state. We just don't want the Palestinians to try to change the Jewish character of our state. We want to give up the fantasy of flooding Israel with millions of Palestinians.

President Abbas just stood here, and he said that the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the settlements. Well, that's odd. Our conflict was raging for nearly half a century before there was a single Israeli settlement in the West Bank. So if what President Abbas is saying was true, then the - I guess that the settlements he's talking about are Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jaffa, Be'er Sheva. Maybe that's what he meant the other day when he said that Israel has been occupying Palestinian land for 63 years. He didn't say from 1967; he said from1948. I hope somebody will bother to ask him this question because it illustrates a simple truth: The core of the conflict is not the settlements. The settlements are a result of the conflict.

The settlements have to be - it's an issue that has to be addressed and resolved in the course of negotiations. But the core of the conflict has always been and unfortunately remains the refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

I think it's time that the Palestinian leadership recognizes what every serious international leader has recognized, from Lord Balfour and Lloyd George in 1917, to President Truman in1948, to President Obama just two days ago right here: Israel is the Jewish state.

President Abbas, stop walking around this issue. Recognize the Jewish state, and make peace with us. In such a genuine peace, Israel is prepared to make painful compromises. We believe that the Palestinians should be neither the citizens of Israel nor its subjects. They should live in a free state of their own.But they should be ready, like us, for compromise. And we will know that they're ready for compromise and for peace when they start taking Israel's security requirements seriously and when they stop denying our historical connection to our ancient homeland.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called "Jews"? Because we come from Judea.

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. That's my last name. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

And for those Jews who were exiled from our land, they never stopped dreaming of coming back: Jews in Spain, on the eve of their expulsion; Jews in the Ukraine, fleeing the pogroms; Jews fighting the Warsaw Ghetto, as the Nazis were circling around it. They never stopped praying, they never stopped yearning. They whispered: Next year in Jerusalem. Next year in the promised land.

As the prime minister of Israel, I speak for a hundred generations of Jews who were dispersed throughout the lands, who suffered every evil under the sun, but who never gave up hope of restoring their national life in the one and only Jewish state.

Ladies and gentlemen, I continue to hope that President Abbas will be my partner in peace. I've worked hard to advance that peace. The day I came into office, I called for direct negotiations without preconditions. President Abbas didn't respond. I outlined a vision of peace of two states for two peoples. He still didn't respond. I removed hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints, to ease freedom of movement in the Palestinian areas; this facilitated a fantastic growth in the Palestinian economy. But again - no response. I took the unprecedented step of freezing new buildings in the settlements for 10 months. No prime minister did that before, ever. Once again - you applaud, but there was no response. No response.

In the last few weeks, American officials have put forward ideas to restart peace talks. There were things in those ideas about borders that I didn't like. There were things thereabout the Jewish state that I'm sure the Palestinians didn't like.

But with all my reservations, I was willing to move forward on these American ideas.

President Abbas, why don't you join me? We have to stop negotiating about the negotiations. Let's just get on with it. Let's negotiate peace.

I spent years defending Israel on the battlefield. I spent decades defending Israel in the court of public opinion. President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we be able our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.

In two and a half years, we met in Jerusalem only once, even though my door has always been open to you. If you wish, I'll come to Ramallah. Actually, I have a better suggestion. We've both just flown thousands of miles to New York. Now we're in the same city. We're in the same building. So let's meet here today in the United Nations. Who's there to stop us? What is there to stop us? If we genuinely want peace, what is there to stop us from meeting today and beginning peace negotiations?

And I suggest we talk openly and honestly. Let's listen to one another. Let's do as we say in the Middle East: Let's talk "doogri". That means straightforward. I'll tell you my needs and concerns. You'll tell me yours. And with God's help, we'll find the common ground of peace.

There's an old Arab saying that you cannot applaud with one hand. Well, the same is true of peace. I can not make peace alone. I cannot make peace without you. President Abbas, I extend my hand - the hand of Israel - in peace. I hope that you will grasp that hand. We are both the sons of Abraham. My people call him Avraham. Your people call him Ibrahim. We share the same patriarch. We dwell in the same land. Our destinies are intertwined. Let us realize the vision of Isaiah - [Isaiah 9:1 in Hebrew] - "The people who walk in darkness will see a great light." Let that light be the light of peace.

The Chinese Bamboo

2011-09-18T14:50:29+02:00

An uplifting Rosh Hashanah tale.

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2011-09-18T14:27:29+02:00

It will make your head spin and an interesting way of thinking, of thought for the soul.

Wonder of wonders

2011-01-16T12:54:39+01:00

All life is gifted, even animal life. Every life form has an ability, has a Chava for there is blood that runs through its veins. It´s a knowledge not well known nor widespread, but the Torah does say that it is.

Let me explain.

I on numerous occasions have stated in other writings that we are all a oneness, and only within that concept can we formally and truthfully state that we have been created in G-d´s image. As an individual we cannot do so ever. Together we are because our connection with each other is Chava which means that it is also connected to those living in the animal world as well.

What does that tell us? How should we understand it?

It does teach us that there is at least one ability that every single form of life has in common with one another, namely telepathy. We connect with each other by means of what we truly are, a soul, a Chava, also worldwide better known as Eve. Often we don´t really know what happened while some do, are well aware of it because they accept the reality, the celestial truth.

As a soul we transcend the natural world. We connect to one another on a level, a world where there is harmony, even an unbelievable amount of knowledge wherein we can delve. There is also no rivalry, no hatred, no evil, no ego. Every soul knows its tasks. And many people will more than ones have witnessed a situation wherein they somehow did something that perhaps did save their life at the time or prevented them from being hit by a car or simply kept you away of walking head on against a street sign for instance.

You looked the other way, and still you somehow turned your head just in time so that the accident wouldn´t happen at all. In a split second, as if time stood still, you were given the opportunity to listen and be guided or to ignore and feel the heat of the moment. But it´s true that it doesn´t work always. Sometimes you won´t be able to prevent the inevitable. It will happen for all kind of reasons, some perhaps not even related to ourselves then just so that others could hopefully learn from it. Yes, that it would open their eyes. That they hopefully would realize that they are special too and set themselves free, set free their Chava instead of keep on giving their ego all the richness of stupidity, of a path that leads nowhere at all but to dead.

Is our life than not worth a dime at all? Is it not worth living, a waste of energy?

Yes, we are worth it. Life is the most precious gift a soul can be given for it is given the opportunity to live a life in a manner beyond its wildest dreams. But it comes with a necessary and foremost task, namely to control the habits of nature, to learn to withstand it so that the world below becomes in its entire a complete image of the above with regard to the celestial peace, the total harmony between all life forms, even the elements.

Our main task is just that. It´s what the Torah tells us to do, to work for, to create it below as a well oiled team of life no matter our natural and cultural differences as well as beliefs. Not one single soul is identical as there are many tasks to be fulfilled in all kind of domains. The world of the soul is therefore also a world where diversity is highly regarded as a richness that serves the equality between all. But true, it has only one Master, one King, one Torah!

And this knowledge gives us another clue with regard to the writing about G-d giving us dominion over it all. We are given dominion over all of nature, and we tried to understand what it truly meant. But did we succeed? Have we been successful?

Yes, did we gave nature the room to evolve as well? Did we gave it the space to develop, to mature and above all to live its very own life? And what hint did G-d give us in the Torah about this? And what about the natural resources of the Earth? Have we been a good guardian of the house or a worst one that has rented the house?

Maybe the best way to understand it is by looking into it as if it´s a kind of project. G-d created and gave us the freedom of choice. But to fully comprehend its inner spiritual core we have to learn that the project on itself had been given the green light by all of us. Within the world of the soul we have all agreed of making the endeavor a success, that we can copy the celestial order into a natural habitat as well, that we can withstand the numerous natural temptations, that we can control it, to have dominion over it, and foremost over ourselves, our own host body for if we can´t control it, then we won´t succeed somewhere else neither.

However, we also do need to accept the host body´s limitations and therefore also its chemical structure and what this entails with regard to how it wants to grow and to live a human life! If we can´t accept the limitations of nature, then we won´t be able to find the harmony within its core so needed for our task as being a soul, as being one body, an equal image of. Some will therefore be hetero while others gay or transgender or have another natural handicap that in first instance seems to limit the ability of fulfilling our task as a soul, but it doesn´t really when we look deeper into the matter, when we delve deeper into the knowledge base of our Torah.

That´s the main lesson we should guard with our life because it heralds failure or success. And surely now more than ever for we are at the dawn of the Seventh Day. As I wrote before in another writing is it as such that we may state that we are living in a time many of our ancestors would have wanted to live in. And through us they do so for a soul never dies. It´s therefore in fact not quite correct to write it as such, or to say it because we are one, we are one body no matter if we have already lived our natural life cycle, are living it, or will be living it. Our connection with one another is very firm and extremely stable as the Torah does teach us.

It does tell us as well that we when living as a free soul never should give up either on being a light so that all other souls will hopefully succeed in setting themselves free from a body who kept them imprisoned when so for our world will otherwise time and time again turn its back on the celestial peace it so desperate needs now more than ever. And for that to materialize there needs to be order. This world needs the celestial order to survive for it otherwise is doomed as order stands equal to life and chaos to dead.

All of us have been given guidelines. Gay people have been given guidelines as well in what can´t be done. They have not been sentenced to dead because of their gender orientation. They have been given the right to live their life for the soul within the body stands higher than its natural body and how it wants to live. The task of the soul to be fulfilled is far more important than what we may think that the message in the Torah means or implicate yes or no, tho we may be wrong no or yes. In that perspective I would like to ask a question, namely: What do we regard as women clothing and men clothing?

It is written that women may not wear men clothing and vice versa. But what do we define as such? Does G-d has given us guidelines about that or has he given us the freedom if men should wear pants and women a dress? So basically it are we, or the designers who decides what we will be wearing? Doesn´t that say something about the Torah guideline as well for how did G-d clothed adom and adom!?

He clothed them with a soul, with light to enlighten the entire world so that the world below would become a true image of the world above, a world in order, a celestial order, a celestial peace, a world where there is only one clothing that is worth to be mentioned and to talk about for all the rest is a waste of time and energy!

And personally I would want to give you the reader a task: Try when you have a lot of free time, preferably your next holiday, to read and study Torah without watching time and learn to feel how it felt. If you do it right, then you will often start to wonder about what day it is now when you put the study to rest for a while, or even that you will be surprised in how late it already is. Just try it out! But most importantly: What kind of hint does you think it gives you?

It will give you the clue, perhaps even the key to the wonder of wonders, the miracle of miracles.

To have or to have not

2010-12-30T15:11:55+01:00

Do we still have the freedom to believe in our most sacred belief that life does exist, that we do live? Do we really have it, or are we just a reflection of an image of our imagination, a creative fantasy?

We see, and so we believe. We hear, and so we belief that there is sound. We witness, and so we assume it to be as is. But there is something we can´t see, we can´t touch, and still we accept it as a reality, a fact. It´s our soul and everything that surrounds its existence, namely the womb of its world, of the world it lives in. Heaven has become as such a concept wherefrom many thoughts, ideas and even fantasies have found their origin.

We don´t see it. We don´t hear it. We don´t witness it thus, but we feel it. We feel that it´s there tho we can´t yet explain really why humankind evolved as it did. It sits still in a sort of mystery box. Only fragments of its nature have become a source of study for us to understand what we are really dealing with while our brain has so much more room wherein it can absorb knowledge beyond our wildest dreams within the present time we do live in. And we don´t have to really search for it as we already have it. It only needs to be put into motion.

So is what we do belief in therefore a source of magic, of witchcraft, of sorcery, of dreams and manipulations of some kind to keep us asleep,... or to awaken us? Is it related to drugs, to what certain extracts of plants can do with our mind, our body and subsequently our way of life, or is it due to an illness, one we can’t see, we don’t know about? Is what we witness then really a premonition of what may come, a vision into the future, or is it just a play with our intellect of the day? Can we uberhaupt regard ourselves as being intelligent? But what is regarded as intellectuality? And how do we describe stupidity? Do we explain it by way of our help, our Chava, or by our ego?

It are all certainly heavy questions, questions that millions of people for sure have asked themselves in the past, the present and will surely do so tomorrow because it’s their sacred right to do so. People have the right to find it out for themselves, to acquire the answer to their question about G-d´s existence, about the one faith in the one G-d tho that our world has many beliefs in Him. Our life is not about us nor about Him, but only about What is and thus I am. I am who I will be. It, the Torah, tells us thus that the future is not yet written at all though that it stands full of prophecies! And it´s not a contradiction at all.

But can we with regard to the sacred right let others destroy all life when nothing has helped and will help them to persuade them otherwise?

In fact, all questions above do return the same answer. They all have the core within them. They all point into the same direction somehow when you start delving deeper and deeper because there is only one source, one core wherein everything of everything lives its life, the greatest library so to speak of the entire Explorea for us to explore. It lays there open for us, not closed. For every gift, every ability and task to be fulfilled is there a knowledge base, a light to enlighten the entire house, a solution for at the end nothing is impossible when you realize that there is no end at all nor a beginning. It´s as if you in a manner of speaking would want to say that we are a sun within a sun and so on.

Every single form of life has the answer living deep within itself. It wants to be found, and it gives us many signs during our life in how to do so, in how to gradually evolve from a belief in being a body into one of being a soul. It is still in that process for it would have been devastating if life would have evolved in just one single instance like the Big Bang. Life, natural life that is, can’t take such a speed, and so we shouldn’t push it for this is not the way the concept of a celestial freedom works nor celestial peace for that matter. Life has the right to evolve slowly and steadily so that a firm and solid foundation can emerge whereupon it can build without sorrows, without pains, but with an inner tranquility so that the body would become a true image of its Creator.

And the question we should therefore ask ourselves first is: What if there would have been no belief at all in the one G-d whatsoever, no belief in the one faith? Would humankind have evolved that much better, more at peace with itself, or just the complete opposite? What if there wouldn’t have been the intellect to evolve, the wisdom to think in an enlightened way, to solve a problem by means of our Chava, our given help and to move on?

But again: would such a world have been much better than the one we do live in at present? Would a world without the knowledge of having a soul still be in existence, or have died out long ago? Would we be living a life without a purpose, one completely stripped from its raison d’être, and thus only living by the call of the wild with a small human touch of thought?

Then look around, and what do we see? What do we witness? With how many are we living on this tiny planet? Is this right or is it wrong? Is this what the sanctity of life means? Is this what it means to be the keepers of nature, the guardians of its well-being? Have we really succeeded, or just made a complete mess of it?

One thing we can tell for sure is thus that there would have been not that much difference between a way of life without our Chava and our present one because if we analyze our behavior to this very day, then we must admit that many of our actions have been and are a result of our ego. They do not originate from our help, our Chava. The conclusion therefore is that we just have only prolonged our existence somewhat because we only once in a while did fell for her charm, and threw the fruit of the tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden away afterwards instead of keep on learning from it. Luckily that some did!

Life is not a game. It is what it will be, an image of I am who I will be forever. Dead on the other hand is not a game as well, but simply a reflection of I am who I won´t be ever. That´s basically the only two choices we are being given. That´s the cornerstone of our existence, of every form of life. The choice we make will result in a very firm and solid foundation whereupon we can build a strong house, or one on quicksand, of self-destruction, of self-extermination.

And such a choice seems to be not that very important for the eye that has become blind, become naïve, but there is a very tiny difference that has an enormous potential of turning the tide around in the benefit of everything that concerns life because we do belief, we do think, we do have the ability to see the solution through the eyes of our help, of our soul, and thus to rescue ourselves from the abyss of self-extermination, of self-destruction, unless our belief is dead,... is dead itself of course, is the ego of humankind.

But do we really want it? Are we prepared to accept the consequences of the solution? Are we ready to acknowledge the Truth? Do we want to give our brain the tools of starting to use those sections humankind has kept asleep till this day? Have we thus the courage to evolve beyond the boundaries of our present nature, and to accept what needs to be done by all of us together as one? Do we have we the courage to sacrifice ourselves instead of pointing the finger to one another resulting at best in a status quo and at worst in a total annihilation of one and all!?

Yes, before we can really delve into the depths of Torah we need to become honest with ourselves about those questions for there exist only equality within the world of G-d. There is no Judaism, no Christianity, no Islam, no Hinduism, no Buddhism, no Zen and so on. We all are souls of light living, studying and working together as one. And I’m well aware that such a thinking and view can be seen as a rebellious one, a revolutionary one at best, but it isn’t.

Just like we have our different tasks here in this world, so have we our tasks in the other world as well. It’s all exactly the same because the core essence is to make sure that everything stays turning around, stays in existence, stays running smoothly. And we are proud when we succeed in this just the same as G-d is proud about us when we have learnt a lesson or two to the benefit of the world above as well as the one below.

There is nothing wrong about this with regard to halacha when we look into the depth of our Torah for we are souls. We aren’t an image of G-d individually, but all life together wherein blood runs through its veins are as one that very image the Torah tells us about. To bring the world above to the below, to let both worlds become one we thus need to learn in seeing ourselves as just a particle of the collective, of the body. But we also need to acknowledge that there is no other king than G-d.

And this can be a stumbling stone for we all, whether we are Jewish or not, are longing for the coming of Moshiach. It makes the coming very problematic because Moshiach is no king at all. It´s not about the restoration of the kingdom of Dovid that´s at stake here. It´s the restoration of His Kingdom for the Torah does teach us that G-d has accepted the wish of the Jewish people, and gave them the permission to establish a kingdom like the other nations around them at the set time. But what was, is and will always be His wish in this? Do we have to keep securing our ego´s wish or should we let our Chava empower our enlightenment?

Furthermore is there the fact that one G-dly day equals a 1000 human years which means that we are yet only at the eve of the Seventh Day. It tells us thus that Moshiach ben Dovid is not on the order of the day in our present time that is. However, we may state that we already do live in the time of Moshiach ben Yoseph. And how we do relate to them is thus far more important for is the Eight Day, the Day of Yom Kippur not thé most important one of all days?

How do we see, we think, we teach about them? And is it right to do so the way we do so? Can either Moshiach be truly a king, or just simply one of us all, equal to us, a person we walk by in the street, on the bus, or sit next to in a theatre?

So as we all together as one serve G-d by being a Chava, so does G-d serve us as well for a teacher and a student do serve one another in equality, and we all together as one are an image of Him, have been created in His image!

Still, what is the most important lesson out of all this?

That go and multiply yourself not refers to our natural existence. It means that we have to go and become one, become one body. It tells us to make everyone aware of Chava and become the image together as one for if our presence in a natural multitude destroys, then we´ve did something wrong. All of us that is!

Then we for millenniums have let our ego do most of the talking. Then we have let our womb be used for purposes of war without thinking about the consequences of our blind actions, even naïve thinking. But as the Torah states: It is His word and not ours. It doesn´t matter to which people we do belong to because we are all equal and as one in His world. You don´t have Jewish people and you don´t have goyims. You just have Chava, and also humankind´s next evolutionary status.

Let all think about that before anything else when decisions have to be made, even politically, and of course religiously for ultimately it´s all about to have or to have not.

One G-dly day equals a thousand human years while one single human day equals a celestial eternity, a celestial equality between teacher and student, between the below and the above.

To have or to have not thus!

The Truth is near...

2010-06-15T11:52:55+02:00

170) ...and has always been amongst us since the beginning of everything. Yeah, we can talk about it and stay talking about it over and over again, but at the end the truth is what it was, is and will always be, namely the same as always. It's not we personally who have defined its nature, but G-d who has shaped it the way it has become and will become when completed on the seventh day. And only G-d will be exalted on that day for it will be the day of all days because until now a world turned around in circles like the serpent's ring, often without G-d, and every time again a new world emerged anew out of the old one. It kept and keeps doing so till the moment arrives wherein humankind would be put to the task of choosing the answer to the choice put forward. But this time there is only one right answer, one single right choice that can be chosen for when we truly want to move on to a better world, to the world of worlds. The serpent's ring must be broken. Moshe's staff must devour the one of the Egyptian Pharaoh, or what we could translate in our days as present Islam, tho not the people's culture, as neither its beliefs. And this we can only properly understand when we know the core lesson of the Temple, even our Torah. Still, it won't work if rebels and terrorists keep wrecking havoc on all levels of human life, even nature in general thus, and try to prevent the fulfillment of the body of life, of G-d on earth, of the above and the below becoming One. So the choice is clear, namely a choice between destruction or alteration, of following the path of the serpent or the path of the very first adom of our world who made the right choice. It won't come overnight, and certainly be not that easy, but humankind will have the opportunity to gradually adapt itself, to evolve into a new being so to speak. Humankind and all life for that matter will enter a new dawn with new gateways to open or to close because the one thing that won't change is our freedom, as we still will have a lot to learn. However, that world will have ways we never could have thought to be possible in our present world, and it will be good for it will have been born out of goodness, out of a celestial enlightenment. For that we need to be not afraid of tearing things down, of tearing down that what was not right for now or forever. If in non-muslim nations employing muslims was not quite the right choice to do for instance because non-muslim politicians saw only power in them and them turning this weapon of power around like a Trojan horse, then we return on our steps and start it all anew, but within the proper light this time, the right context like showing first of all the proper and upright respect for one another which is a two-way traffic by the way. Nevertheless, this tearing down can't work properly without a proper Torah knowledge nor the proper and upright respect for Eretz Yisrael, even its Jewish population, because everything within the body of life, of G-d thus has its proper place, its destiny defined everlasting. And therein sits them the tricky part of our evolution towards this world of worlds. It can come within an atmosphere of a peace we never have witnessed before, or it can come the most hard way we never have seen coming our way. The choice is ours in how we decide to enter it, but know the proper timing to return on your steps, and also to move fast or slow forward when needed because there is not much room for error thanks to the present Islam that has chosen the path of darkness, as it can change things dramatically to the worst for everything and everyone. Yes, there are technologies we can invent, and there are those we may not create ever. There are mixtures we can fulfill without any problems whatsoever, but also ones that will push us to the brink of an extermination of all life. There are thus also natural chemical elements and atoms we are not entitled to find because of their all encompassing destructive nature, a remnant of the past while we need to move forward. These must stay theories!! It means that we must learn to push our ego completely aside for everything to become a success and the transition a very smoothly one indeed. For this we have still quite a few centuries to go before it will become what it will be between the twelfth and the thirteenth hour of the seventh day. So learn to understand that it won't be the end of all life, not the end of humankind at all, but a gateway to an almost completely new way of life except for the Torah, even our Torah! However, the choice is ours to make, but can only be made as One for only G-d will be exalted at that moment!

Our children's future... perhaps

2010-04-29T14:28:33+02:00

169) A lot of talk has, is and will surely be going on about how we want to educate our children so that humankind's future is preserved. It's in itself an everlasting noble practice as life's survival depends on its success. The below and the above can't join into an everlasting matrimony when the below lives in fear of the light, and subsequently tries to escape with its gifts and tasks accordingly by fleeing into the arms of darkness, a sidetrack of the ego, of our self destructive nature wrongly thinking that unleashing viruses, drugs, killing, murder, antipathy, corruption and war is needed so that we as humans act the way nature does to preserve the species on this tiny planet; and often of one kind only. Yes, it's not G-d in this matter that gives and takes but the very natural surrounding we live in. It will always try to regenerate itself when it becomes unstable, when its balance becomes uneven. Nevertheless have we to admit deeply that we ourselves as solely natural human beings are a major cause of concern in this matter because giving birth to children has and is not always done out of love, then rather out of a hunger for power, for world domination resulting in a situation that on itself can lead to the end of human existence on this planet as more people need not only more food but will also diminish our natural resources very rapidly, resources we need; and we don't need if we would still be living in the Stone Age so to speak, a time when nature is given time to regenerate. Anyhow, most of these children are not being cared of as should be because of them serving only one purpose, namely to dominate, to become a majority. They are literally being used as tools of war without them even being aware of it, nor their rulers naive enemy when so. The love of their parents for them, if at all, is thus without doubt a completely fake one. It's an attitude that everyone can easily witness happening when it happens, especially as an adult who still cares, who doesn't want to close his/her eyes for the injustice done to these children. And it's the right thing to do because it's wrong to keep yourself on the sidelines resorting to the false excuse of them being not your very own children, or out of fear for what the adults may do if you don't side with them, with their ideology. These children are ours! They belong to the whole which means that we are all responsible for their well-being within their own people as well as within the entire body, but not within the ideology spoken of above, the dominating illness, the cancer of power. Every single form of life belongs to the one body; and it will have consequences vis-à-vis its indivisible unity when one or more cells start to rebel against its very existence. After all, we as human beings have not been given dominion over to dominate, but to care for one another, for all life so that the body stays healthy upon the foundation laid down within our Torah, even within the Torah. If a situation of 7 billion people needs to be changed into one of let say a maximum of 4 billion people, then it can easily be achieved if we really want it, and without impregnating life with a killing virus, drugs nor war, nor vying for another people's extinction, or the ignorance towards its real historical rights on the ground as a fact when it truly will serve humankind's survival, its existence, even all life. We just have to start thinking as a soul, as whom we truly are. The rest will come by itself, the same as it did with King Solomon and his judgment about the indivisible child, about Yerushalayim thus, even Eretz Yisrael. And that's also one of the reasons behind our time, a time so close to the next world that we can almost grasp its breath, but not quite yet for there is still a lot of work to be done. People need not to fear, don't need to resort to actions out of frustration, of being unable to stop it, of becoming apathetic all out of fear because it's your light, our light. It's the same light that protected the Jewish people as well as the gentiles with them on their journey out of Egypt. It's the light that shows you the path of your soul, and not the ego. And within that light will we see our achievements to better the world, to make it a better place to live in as well as the tools to keep it alive and stable within the correct interpretation of what it means to have dominion over, namely by understanding and accepting wholeheartedly that all life is equal to one another for it is written within the Talmud that whoever saves one life will save the world entire. That's having dominion over, namely saving life and not killing, murdering it no matter how it's being done, even when it's just about one's soul belonging to a people with its own gifts and tasks like being the heart of the body. But it's also realizing that we are also a natural body that once will die when we will stay alive as a soul. We are therefore one and indivisible, but we can only stay living within our unified oneness within the lessons coming out from the Temple, from out of the Tent of Meeting.