“He’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace; they pray for him nightly that the bloodshed will cease” [1]  

Has anyone noticed that Israel is being invested and effectively paralyzed as if stung by a huge spider prior to being wrapped and eaten? It is easy to show that most if not all of “the world community” is involved in this latest final assault, this attempt to solve the problem the nations have with the Jews.

In response world Jewry resounds with familiar calls for education that rarely lead to much that is substantive; feeble letters of protest are written about the Democratic Party honoring arch Jew-hater and fabulist Carter at its Obama-fest; prestigious Jewish high schools offer curricula that present paltry bits of Israel’s ancient history, post-dated as if to appease the heirs of the “Documentary Hypothesis,” that 19^th century deconstruction of the Books of Moshe, a hypothesis that like Darwinism has become dogma in direct relation to the lack of evidence for its claims. (more…)

Our perception of how one serves God is influenced by our concept of God… All progress in knowledge and wisdom helps elevate the holy light of Torah allowing it to shine with a purer radiance. [1]  

Many people inherit ideas that ascribe human traits to the Creator; or, at another extreme are atheist materialists; or who see the Highest Wisdom as a disinterested “Will” or “Spirit” to whom human life and choice is insignificant; the world impairs sanctity so that one must “die if thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek,” with God. These errors, leading to despair of earthly life and its potential for joy and revelation can be and has been made even by those who see the radiance of an Eternal One [2]. This essay would be a mutual learning so that we may learn to appreciate the way of Judaism and the role of Jews and Torah in healing a bewildered world… the ultimate doing and rectification. (more…)

Rabbi Elazar said, ‘whenever a person has Dei’ah [“knowledge”] it is as if the Holy Temple has been built in his days.’

True Daat: knowing how to use all the facets of the soul…a central function of the Beit HaMikdash [was] to engage our aesthetic senses and imaginative faculties to holiness and splendor [1]

To know ourselves we must know God and the nature of the soul. To the extent that we know, and understand what knowledge is, we grasp the nature and extent of freedom and the complementary facts of divine mercy and the means and place of forgiveness: the Temple service on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem that elevates all faculties of soul to support this path of knowledge most fully.

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