I’ve heard myself saying, “I don’t recognize myself anymore” for the last few weeks, because of how different I feel compared to my younger years. Self-awareness can be an extremely uncomfortable thing to deal with, but it’s necessary for intrapersonal insights and growth. For some reason, I had a massive moment of self-awareness happen to me when I came home from work today.
Today was an unusually rough day for me, emotionally speaking. Part of it was I didn’t sleep properly last night, and like all of us, I have a lot on my mind right now. I’ve been struggling to process all of the chaos and nonsense that’s ensued as COVID-19 continues to affect our daily lives. I’m worried about what the future holds for us all, and what current events might do to my personal future.
I was extremely agitated on the job today, and apologized to my shift leader when I thought I’d said something snippy to her. To my surprise, she told me that I hadn’t been mean at all, and that I’ve never been like that with her.
See, this is indicative of two things: I’m still plenty nice even when I’m fed up, and I apologize more than I need to.
My manager and I’ve discussed this several times, because as she knows, I’ve struggled to stop myself for saying sorry for every little thing. I use “I’m sorry” as a reflex response anytime I believe that I’ve inconvenienced somebody. After I recently replayed Silent Hill 2, watching this scene with the young woman Angela Orosco hit a personal note for me.
Angela’s instinctive response, because of the horrible trauma she was put through prior to the game, is to apologize. For me, this was one of the coping mechanisms I developed in response to the sheer stress that being around my ex-stepdad for all those years.
I want to avoid writing an entire blog post about him again, but it necessitates mentioning his role in this. When I poured my heart out to God on this matter, I realized that my constantly saying “I’m sorry” whenever I feel uncomfortable or think that I’ve made somebody unhappy stems from my interactions with my ex-stepdad. I did my best to act in a manner I believed would appease him, in order to avoid angering him. I was constantly walking on egg shells around him, like Mom and my two sisters did. We had to put on a façade to avoid hearing him drop scathing remarks, or do something pettily passive-aggressive in response.
God helped me realize that I don’t need to apologize just because I feel uncomfortable, or because somebody might feel inconvenienced. He stopped me from saying to Him, “I’m sorry, I’m just not in a good place today”. Since when is God inconvenienced by His kids being honest with Him?
In hindsight of those nasty years of my life, it didn’t feel safe being honest with my ex-stepdad. This makes him a hypocrite, because he felt that he had the authority to be loud and honest about his beliefs, while shutting down anybody who even slightly disagreed with him. It felt better to go with the flow and avoid giving him fuel for a needless argument. I chose to be the appeaser instead of somebody willing to rock the boat even slightly, and I regret that.
Another thing that I’ve come to terms with is that, as another byproduct of that era, I’d rather daydream (or arguably, dissociate from the moment) to avoid drowning in anxiety. By distancing myself mentally from my surroundings back then, I believed I could avoid being crushed with tension. Well, it may’ve worked in those moments, but it had the direct consequence of saving the stress for later. Constantly trying to deny my feelings about a situation has gotten me into trouble a few times, namely that awful dormitory I put myself in at college. I was dishonest with myself and Mom about how bad it was for me, with how toxic the social environment was. It took me having the worst breakdown of my life for me to admit that I needed to leave.
Thankfully, I no longer need to worry about having to deny my feelings or the situation to survive. I’m supremely grateful to work at a job that encourages its employees to be open with their thoughts in an objective manner. My managers have done an awesome job of encouraging me to not feel like I have to dance around topics when I talk with them. It’s a breath of fresh air, for sure.
If anything, I’m free to be as pleasantly honest about things like Steven from Steven Universe! (Spoiler Alert for the following clip).
You see, Steven barely has to raise his voice in comparison to Blue Diamond here, as he calls her out on how toxic their “family” truly is. Now, without the fear of any repercussions from the man who loved oppressing opposing viewpoints, I’m free to call things out at my pleasure.
I have to remember going forward that I’m no longer in a toxic place in my life where I have to use these mechanisms to feel safe. I am safe. I don’t have to tiptoe around anything anymore. And in time, the echo of all the crap my ex-stepdad put us through will fade away. I just have to keep working to ensure that it disappears completely.
Oppose Daf Yomi. Why? It fails to weigh that each sugia of Gemara learns as an intact unit. Raping the integrity of a sugia of Gemara – that’s Daf Yomi in a nut shell. Daf Yomi compares to the Xtian Bible imposition of chapter and verse, that “rape” uprooted the organization of Order known as פ & ס. The Talmud entails more than simply reading on a daily basis a page of Gemara. The sugiot of Gemara, they establish the basic order of the texts. Uprooting this basic order (logic requires order, Oral Torah stands upon the יסוד of logic. This Oral Torah logic system stands totally apart from the ancient Greek philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, who developed a completely different type of logic system format.
The mitzva of lighting the lights of Hanukkah, Jews dedicate to HaShem the commitment to interpret the Written Torah strictly and only by relying upon the Oral Torah logic system. Rabbi Akiva’s chariot mysticism stands upon פרדס scholarship. This kabbalah stands upon the mitzva of קידושין. P’shat and Dr’osh a working couple; Remez and Sod, likewise a working couple), Daf Yomi totally ignores פרדס, the basis by which Tannaim and Amoraim, from Rabbi to Rav Ashi and Ravina based the “definition” of how to learn – known as Talmud!
Obvious: that the premise of this mussar, has an immediate appeal perhaps comparable to a lead balloon. Alas most Yidden do not have the slightest clue that perhaps the greatest chiddush of the Talmud, that it sets up a common law legal system which establishes lateral justice. Not till the American revolution by which the revolutionaries ditched the vertical Star Courts legal system by requiring a jury of one’s peers! Just as the jury system, those people do not receive a salary from the State so too the Torts court beit din Judges do not receive their salary from the State – both lateral type systems of justice!
Mashgiachim, based upon this chiddush, should not receive their salaries from the places they police for Kashrut. But alas because most rabbis fail to grasp the biggest chiddush expressed throughout the entire Sha’s, the beit din judges fail to properly assume their function as an expression of the Talmudic model of justice. Pursue justice sums of all the mussar from the NaCH prophets! G’lut comes upon the nation when we fail to rule the oath sworn lands with justice. The 3 judges of a Torts court: One functions in the role of prosecutor. The second functions in the role of attorney for the defense. Both these judges argue their case before the 3rd Judge.
Contrast the vertical legal system – popular in all none Jewish legal systems across the planet. Those vertical legal systems, the State pays the salary of both the Judge and the Prosecuting Attorney. A person who receives a salary from the State, hence in a court hearing its the State vs. so and so. Talmud reflects the mussar given by the Yethro prior to the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. To rule the nation requires the establishment of a workable legal system, no one man alone can judge the social and civil disputes of an entire nation.
The entire purpose of establishment of the 48 Levitical cities, 42 Yeshivot to train Federal Sanhedrin judges. The 6 cities of refuge each had a “Federal” small Sanhedrin court – headed by a Cohen of the house of Aaron. These cities too had a private altar. Prior to carrying out a Capital Crimes ruling, the Cohen of the small Sanhedrin court dedicated a korban upon the altar, to publicly testify that the judges of the Court heard the case in tohor – that they took no bribes. The dedication of a korban requires that the Cohen must be tohor on pain of כרת. The small Sanhedrin Courts functioned as the spokes of the Federal Court legal system.
The word ברית does not mean “covenant”, the popular translation in the Xtian Bible. Rather this key term בראשית\ברית אש serves as the יסוד of the entire Torah! Brit means alliance, the entire first Book of בראשית addresses the brit alliance in the face of g’lut. Brit vs. g’lut – Adam, Noach, and the unborn children of Avram (brit of pieces) experienced g’lut. The theology of the apostle Paul, by contrast, makes a focus upon “original sin” as the basis by which mankind needs Jesus son of Zeus to take the sins of the world away!
How do you define the “Big Picture” interpretation of the Torah? G’lut vs. Original Sin. Prior to the establishment of Israeli Independence, Jews lived our lives as stateless refugee populations scattered across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe/Golden Medina. Today, Yidden rule our homelands and Xtianity rots in g’lut, waiting for the 2nd Coming of Jesus son of Zeus. Stateless refugees have no rights by definition. How does the Torah describe the creation of the world? The world – filled with anarchy and chaos. The expulsion of Jews from England, France, Spain, and Germany — not a time of chaos and anarchy?
Logic stands upon Order. No logic system works without disciplined Order. דרוש compares cases comparable to how the Gemara “learns” the Mishna! דרוש functions as the יסוד of פשט, רמז, וסוד of פרדס scholarship. To weave a garment requires a warp and its opposing woof. Talmud contains halaka opposed by aggadita. To divorce the halaka from its “wife” aggadita, compare to a man who sends his wife away without a Get!
Gaonim scholarship produced Midrashim. The latter organize (emphasis on Order) aggadic stories in the Order of the T’NaCH. The Talmud by contrast organizes aggadita around a specific Mishna! Aggadita makes a T’NaCH דרוש, comparable to the halakic cases the Gemara brings to learn the Case/Rule of a specific Mishna. The logic compares to a simple Algebraic equation. Anything done on one side of the equation requires an equal opposite upon the other side of the equation.
We have now gone full circle. Just as the T’NaCH has sugiot, so too does the Talmud. The sugiot function, they give Order to both T’NaCH and Talmud. Learning T’NaCH and Talmud divorced from the Order established by the sugiot violates the dedication of the lights of Hanukkah – mentioned in the opening paragraph of this letter of mussar. Mussar, by the way, defined as דרך ארץ, and דרך ארץ means justice.
No man can tell or dictate to another that he must walk in דרך ארץ, that he must dedicate his life to seek justice. Hence the sages of the Talmud admitted that they did not know how to give a תוכחה to other Jews. This P’shat of the Talmud stands upon the יסוד of דרוש mussar. All the prophets of the T’NaCH command mussar. Why? Because mussar, applies equally across the board to each and every generation who walks upon the face of this earth.
‘Light unto the nations’, does not refer to Goyim, but rather g’lut Jewry dwelling in Goyim lands. Why? Goyim have no brit with the God of Israel. Goyim, despite their efforts to pretend otherwise, they do not sit as the Judges of Israel. My wife Karen, her metaphor by which she describes the failure of family and friends to rebuke immodest behavior by those whom they love, as “pollyanna naivate”. The behavior of דרך ארץ mussar stands upon the יסוד of emotional maturity. Sometimes, easier for others to recognize tuma behavior, than self awareness while breathing tuma spirits.
Weigh the ברכה:
השיבנו אבינו לתורתך, וקרבנו מלכנו לעבודתך, והחזירנו תבשובה שלמה לפניך: ברוך אתה ה’, הרוצה בתשובה.
How does the NaCH learn the k’vanna of this blessing?מלכים א יט:י. ויאמר קנא קנאתי לה’ אלהי צבאות כי עזבו בריתך בני ישראל את מזבחתיך הרסו, ואת נביאיך הרגו בחרב, ואותר אני לבדי, ויבקשו את נפשי לקחתה.On the surface this statement, exceptionally difficult to understand based upon the p’sukim
מלכים א יח:ד. ועבדיהו היה ירא את ה’ מאד וכו’.
How could Eliyyahu declare that he alone lived as a prophet? The NaCH has Eliyyahu repeat his obtuse statement a second time to emphasize its inherent lack of clarity. What exactly burdened the heart of Eliyyahu? Contrast the language employed by ישעיה opposed by the similar language by which the prophet ירמיה conveys a matter of the heart.
עמנו אל כנגד כי אתך אני.
The former validates the harshest of times, but that language equally conveys a social togetherness, an optimism that the mussar commandment of the prophet – heard and accepted by both the king and others. The language of the latter communicates a lonely bitter isolation, an anguish of spirit and a depth of depression. The language that Eliyyahu addresses his vision of HaShem directly resembles the language spoken by ירמיה; it contrasts with the assumption that a child or wife would obey their father or husband, if either vowed or sworn an oath.
Eliyyahu could not rely upon an Ovadyahu to deliver him from Izevel. The stark bitterness of ירמיה, that tuma spirits so dominated the Cohen people that they simply lacked the heart to do t’shuva; anymore than Izevel could suddenly prize the absolute necessity for justice.
Yidden mourn during this period known as the 9 days. Easier to sit on low stools and decry the destruction of buildings made of wood and stone weeping in an inverse pollyannaspirit, than to learn tohor middot and dedicate as a holy korban unto HaShem our commitment to walk in דרך ארץ in how we behave and interact with family and friends. Shalom requires trust. No trust no shalom.
Meditation does wonders for healing. A simple meditation that does not depend upon the eyes to focus upon some external object [I have a lazy eye so attempts to focus on a specific external object never worked for me.]. Always liked the pre WW2 research done by Royal Rife with radio frequencies. Asian medicine rejects Western medicine on the specific, that it holds that internal organs produce basic emotions. This concept works well with the
Spinal Courd/Brain Stem reflex arc electrical “laws” within our bodies. The art of meditation which this commentary promotes, affixing a color to an internal organ to a finger.
This concept of meditation follows the post War Japanese healing technique that I employed to treat my daughters’ cystic fibrosis. My teacher in this method of meditation – her daughter too had cystic fibrosis, and that common problem caused her to investigate Jin Shin Jyutsu is.
Fear(red)[anger, passion, power]/אמץ לב(green)[nature, safety, envy, luck] to the stomach/kidney. Anger(cyan[greenish/blue])[Spring, safety, stability, calmness, sadness]/Joy(pink)[romance, nurturing, kindness, calmness] to the liver/spleen/pancreas; Grief(black)[power, boldness, mystery, unhappiness]/Love(white)[emptiness, peacefulness, cleanliness, Innocence] to the heart/lungs. Shame(orange)[energy, enthusiasm, attention, happiness]/Hope(blue)[confident, relaxed, motivated] to large intestines/small intestines. Guilt(Chartreuse/yellow-green)[warmth, growth, energy, confidence, attention, jealous]/Freedom(purple)[wealth, imagination, popular, winter, defensive] to gall bladder/bladder. Chinese medicine does not include the pancreas, while the Japanese view the heart as taboo. Fear/Index finger. Anger/Middle finger. Grief/Ring finger. Shame/pinky finger. Guilt/Thumb. The right hand corresponds with the toes on the left foot and the left hand with the toes of the right foot.
The crux of meditation centers upon developing an awareness and sensitivity to the “focus point”. This meditation technique it’s different from the classic meditation as practiced in some yoga buddha styles. While single individuals alone can meditate, this system, built around group meditation. Something like using battery cables to start a car requires at least two cars. Two ways the body fights diseases, White Bloods cells and similar defense systems. The other, the body actually remembers past diseases and develops an immunity. The measles serve as a good example of this second type of natural defense within our bodies.
The derivative of Jin Shin Jyutsu is that my meditation technique has developed over the years, it views powerful positive and negative emotions as a bi-polar battery. In Asian medicine a low qi [pronounce che] within the 10 major internal organs, a low Qi energy represents the chief cause that causes the body defenses to fail to overcome diseases. The black death, which wiped out perhaps half of the population of Europe began in China. Chinese medicine treated the disease successfully.
Some attempt to explain their healing success by simply saying that Chinese include rats within their Culinarymenu. I do not know. Nonetheless the idea that our internal organs produce our basic emotions, this idea, expressed within the prophets of the NaCH and Sages in the Talmud, they mutually agree and accept the idea that internal organs produce emotions.
Western medicine has accomplished much. But what I do not trust, the strong tendency practiced by the medical industry to push pills; the idea that doctors have some sort of “secret” knowledge/expertise outside of the realm of the common man. The matter that bothered me for years, influenced by my dyslexia, how to employ the rational portion of our brains to
communicate with our internal organs. Remembered my first year of College biology. Could ATP produced by the mitochondria, within the cells of the major internal organs, physically represent the qi of Asian medicine.
Early Freud, he attempted and failed to locate a physical location in the brain that produced emotions. This failure caused him to develop his revolutionary idea of the conscious and non conscious components of the human mind. Freud focused upon the libido/sex drive, this ideal scandalized European medical circles in its day.
But clearly Freud searched for basic/fundamental emotions as the יסוד/foundation by which he sought to heal mental disease. Western medicine, it seems to me, they remain stuck in the idea that emotions generate from the mind alone. Western medicine does not view the Brain stem as serving as the Maestro which orchestrates the “music” of emotions produced by the internal organs of our body. As the dyslexic brain has trouble communicating between the two hemispheres of the brain, so too the rational mind does not openly communicate with the internal organs without intense Yoga-like meditation.
As an Israeli, the movement which hopefully will sprout from my political involvement within Israeli society, that Israel turns away from Shoah Europe as our main trading partners in favor of North Africa and eventually drawing in all or most of the African States. Medicine for the masses, African society, basically 3rd world as it stands today. Currently Western healing techniques dominate Israeli medical practices. This hopefully shall change. The medical meditation techniques my research has attempted to develop, permits the individual to treat diseases by means of meditation.
In the 1930s Rife research accomplished healing through employment of precise radio frequencies aimed at a diseased internal organ. Rife developed a powerful microscope that even today surpasses the electron microscope. The latter can only examine dead cells whereas the Rife microscope could examine living cells invaded by bacteria and viruses. The American medical community outlawed the Rife techniques for treating diseases. But Germany and other countries have incorporated it as part of their standard medicine.
But third world African countries, most villages lack electricity. The internal organs vibrate, they produce “frequencies”. Placement of the fingers upon targeted internal organs compares with starting a car with battery cables…transferring the “memory” of a healthy internal organ frequency over to a weak internal organ essentially defines the meditation of my modified Jin Shin Jyutsu is.
Karen has not felt well and she just messaged me that her heart damage has returned. She did not like making a meditation schedule and I certainly had no desire to demand it from her. Meditation qualifies as a wisdom or skill, just as the Talmud views the blowing of the Shofar on the Yom Tov. Meditation requires practice and mental energy, focused upon building the awareness of a person’s fingers, that they feel the vibrations which targeted internal organs produce.
Color-Psychology, affixing a color to represent a fixed emotion assigned to an internal organ of the body. The internal organs do not communicate through words, but rather by means of emotions. To describe an emotion with words compares to poetry or songs. King Shaul would rely upon David to treat his headaches by playing the harp. But third world countries don’t have easy access to music. Yet the human mind/eye can see colors, a person can enter the cave of many colors within his mind. Can colors have an impact upon the emotions the internal organs produce? Yes they can. Prisons employ colors to reduce prison violence.
The problem of meditation, the clutter within the mind. Affixing a color to an emotion as mentioned in the 3rd paragraph above permits the rational neocortex part of the brain to communicate a focused color/emotion to a specific internal organ by means of the fingers feeling the vibrations produced by those two targeted organs. In effect this meditation technique combines the neocortex together with the Brain stem to direct two targeted internal
organs to produce higher levels of ATP, and release this increased ATP into the bloodstream to function as energy food for other internal organs.
The beauty of this meditation technique, a healthy person can employ their fingers as “battery cables” and transfer ATP frequency energies from their body to assist the recovery of a sick person. This vibration energy compares to alternating AC currents. Inhale, focus upon the vibrations felt by the fingers of one hand. Exhale, focus upon the vibrations felt by the fingers of the other hand. Affix a color to basic emotion. The meditation focuses upon feeling the vibrations felt by the fingers, combined with “seeing” a fixed color within the mind – both the healer and the patient can do this as they breathe.
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The 9th sugia of our Av Mishna בבא קמא learns an entire sugia of Gemara in two lines of Gemara.
כשחזיק חב המזיק: חב המזיק, חייב המזיק. תוס. לא שייך לשון חיוב אלא לשון חובה.
Oppose Daf Yomi. Why? It fails to weigh that each sugia of Gemara learns as intact units. Raping the integrity of a sugia of Gemara – that’s Daf Yomi in a nut shell. The Talmud entails more than simply reading on a daily basis a page of Gemara. The sugiot of Gemara, they establish the basic order of the texts. Uprooting this basic order (logic requires order, Oral Torah stands upon the יסוד of logic. This Oral Torah logic system stands totally apart and different from the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle who developed a completely separate logic system format.
The mitzva of lighting the lights of Hanukkah, Jews dedicate to HaShem the commitment to interpret the Written Torah strictly and only by relying upon the Oral Torah logic system. Rabbi Akiva’s chariot mysticism stands upon פרדס scholarship. This kabbalah stands upon the mitzva of קידושין. P’shat and Dr’osh a working couple; Remez and Sod, likewise a working couple), Daf Yomi totally ignores פרדס, the basis by which Tannaim and Amoraim, from Rabbi to Rav Ashi and Ravina based the “definition” of how to learn – known as Talmud!
Obvious: that the premise of this mussar, has an immediate appeal perhaps comparable to a lead balloon. Alas most Yidden do not have the slightest clue that perhaps the greatest chiddush of the Talmud, that it sets up a common law legal system which establishes lateral justice. Not till the American revolution by which the revolutionaries ditched the vertical Star Courts legal system by requiring a jury of one’s peers! Just as the jury system, those people do not receive a salary from the State so too the Torts court beit din Judges do not receive their salary from the State – both lateral type systems of justice!
Mashgiachim, based upon this chiddush, should not receive their salaries from the places they police for Kashrut. But alas because most rabbis fail to grasp the biggest chiddush expressed throughout the entire Sha’s, the beit din judges fail to properly assume their function as an expression of the Talmudic model of justice. Pursue justice sums of all the mussar from the NaCH prophets! G’lut comes upon the nation when we fail to rule the oath sworn lands with justice. The 3 judges of a Torts court: One functions in the role of prosecutor. The second functions in the role of attorney for the defense. Both these judges argue their case before the 3rd Judge.
Contrast the vertical legal system – popular in all none Jewish legal systems across the planet. Those vertical legal systems, the State pays the salary of both the Judge and the Prosecuting Attorney. A person who receives a salary from the State, hence in a court hearing its the State vs. so and so. Talmud reflects the mussar given by the Yethro prior to the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. To rule the nation requires the establishment of a workable legal system, no one man alone can judge the social and civil disputes of an entire nation.
The entire purpose of establishment of the 48 Levitical cities, 42 Yeshivot to train Federal Sanhedrin judges. The 6 cities of refuge each had a “Federal” small Sanhedrin court – headed by a Cohen of the house of Aaron. These cities too had a private altar. Prior to carrying out a Capital Crimes ruling, the Cohen of the small Sanhedrin court dedicated a korban upon the altar, to publicly testify that the judges of the Court heard the case in tohor – that they took no bribes. The dedication of a korban requires that the Cohen must be tohor on pain of כרת. The small Sanhedrin Courts functioned as the spokes of the Federal Court legal system.
The word ברית does not mean “covenant”, the popular translation in the Xtian Bible. Rather this key term בראשית\ברית אש serves as the יסוד of the entire Torah! Brit means alliance, the entire first Book of בראשית addresses the brit alliance in the face of g’lut. Brit vs. g’lut – Adam, Noach, and the unborn children of Avram (brit of pieces) experienced g’lut. The theology of the apostle Paul, by contrast, makes a focus upon “original sin” as the basis by which mankind needs Jesus son of Zeus to take the sins of the world away!
How do you define the “Big Picture” interpretation of the Torah? G’lut vs. Original Sin. Prior to the establishment of Israeli Independence, Jews lived our lives as stateless refugee populations scattered across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe/Golden Medina. Today, Yidden rule our homelands and Xtianity rots in g’lut, waiting for the 2nd Coming of Jesus son of Zeus. Stateless refugees have no rights by definition. How does the Torah describe the creation of the world? The world – filled with anarchy and chaos. The expulsion of Jews from England, France, Spain, and Germany — not a time of chaos and anarchy?
Logic stands upon Order. No logic system works without disciplined Order. דרוש compares cases comparable to how the Gemara “learns” the Mishna! דרוש functions as the יסוד of פשט, רמז, וסוד of פרדס scholarship. To weave a garment requires a warp and its opposing woof. Talmud contains halaka opposed by aggadita. To divorce the halaka from its “wife” aggadita, compare to a man who sends his wife away without her Get דאורייתא!
Gaonim scholarship produced Midrashim. The latter organize (emphasis on Order) aggadic stories in the Order of the T’NaCH. The Talmud by contrast organizes aggadita around a specific Mishna! Aggadita makes a T’NaCH דרוש, comparable to the halakic cases the Gemara brings to learn the Case/Rule of a specific Mishna. The logic compares to a simple Algebraic equation. Anything done on one side of the equation requires an equal opposite upon the other side of the equation.
We have now gone full circle. Just as the T’NaCH has sugiot, so too does the Talmud. The sugiot function, they give Order to both T’NaCH and Talmud. Learning T’NaCH and Talmud divorced from the Order established by the sugiot violates the dedication of the lights of Hanukkah – mentioned in the opening paragraph of this commentary of mussar. Mussar, by the way, defined as דרך ארץ, and דרך ארץ means justice.
No man can tell or dictate to another that he must walk in דרך ארץ, that he must dedicate his life to seek justice. Hence the sages of the Talmud admitted that they did not know how to give a תוכחה to other Jews. This P’shat of the Talmud stands upon the יסוד of דרוש mussar. All the prophets of the T’NaCH command mussar. Why? Because mussar applies equally across the board to each and every generation who walks upon the face of this earth.
‘Light unto the nations’, does not refer to Goyim, but rather g’lut Jewry dwelling in Goyim lands. Why? Goyim have no brit with the God of Israel. Goyim, despite their efforts to pretend otherwise, they do not sit as the Judges of Israel. My wife Karen, her metaphor by which she describes the failure of family and friends to rebuke immodest behavior by those whom they love, as “pollyanna naivate”. The behavior of דרך ארץ mussar stands upon the יסוד of emotional maturity. Sometimes, easier for others to recognize tuma behavior, than self awareness while breathing tuma spirits.
Weigh the ברכה:
השיבנו אבינו לתורתך, וקרבנו מלכנו לעבודתך, והחזירנו תבשובה שלמה לפניך: ברוך אתה ה’, הרוצה בתשובה.
How does the NaCH learn the k’vanna of this blessing?
מלכים א יט:י. ויאמר קנא קנאתי לה’ אלהי צבאות כי עזבו בריתך בני ישראל את מזבחתיך הרסו, ואת נביאיך הרגו בחרב, ואותר אני לבדי, ויבקשו את נפשי לקחתה.
On the surface this statement, exceptionally difficult to understand based upon the p’sukim
מלכים א יח:ד. ועבדיהו היה ירא את ה’ מאד וכו’.
How could Eliyyahu declare that he alone lived as a prophet? The NaCH has Eliyyahu repeat his obtuse statement a second time to emphasize its inherent lack of clarity. What exactly burdened the heart of Eliyyahu? Contrast the language employed by ישעיה opposed by the similar language by which the prophet ירמיה conveys a matter of the heart.
עמנו אל כנגד כי אתך אני.
The former validates the harshest of times, but that language equally conveys a social togetherness, an optimism that the mussar commandment of the prophet – heard and accepted by both the king and others. The language of the latter communicates a lonely bitter isolation, an anguish of spirit and a depth of depression. The language that Eliyyahu addresses his vision of HaShem directly resembles the language spoken by ירמיה; it contrasts with the assumption that a child or wife would obey their father or husband, if either vowed or sworn an oath.
Eliyyahu could not rely upon an Ovadyahu to deliver him from Izevel. The stark bitterness of ירמיה, that tuma spirits so dominated the Cohen people that they simply lacked the heart to do t’shuva; anymore than Izevel could suddenly prize the absolute necessity for justice.
Yidden mourn during this period known as the 9 days. Easier to sit on low stools and decry the destruction of buildings made of wood and stone weeping in an inverse pollyanna spirit, than to learn tohor middot and dedicate as a holy korban unto HaShem our commitment to walk in דרך ארץ in how we behave and interact with family and friends. Shalom requires trust. No trust no shalom.
Meditation does wonders for healing. A simple meditation that does not depend upon the eyes to focus upon some external object [I have a lazy eye so attempts to focus on a specific external object never worked for me.]. Always liked the pre WW2 research done by Royal Rife with radio frequencies. Asian medicine rejects Western medicine on the specific, that it holds that internal organs produce basic emotions. This concept works well with the
Spinal Courd/Brain Stem reflex arc electrical “laws” within our bodies. The art of meditation which this commentary promotes, affixing a color to an internal organ to a finger.
This concept of meditation follows the post War Japanese healing technique that I employed to treat my daughters’ cystic fibrosis. My teacher in this method of meditation – her daughter too had cystic fibrosis, and that common problem caused her to investigate Jin Shin Jyutsu is.
Fear(red)[anger, passion, power]/אמץ לב(green)[nature, safety, envy, luck] to the stomach/kidney. Anger(cyan[greenish/blue])[Spring, safety, stability, calmness, sadness]/Joy(pink)[romance, nurturing, kindness, calmness] to the liver/spleen/pancreas; Grief(black)[power, boldness, mystery, unhappiness]/Love(white)[emptiness, peacefulness, cleanliness, Innocence] to the heart/lungs. Shame(orange)[energy, enthusiasm, attention, happiness]/Hope(blue)[confident, relaxed, motivated] to large intestines/small intestines. Guilt(Chartreuse/yellow-green)[warmth, growth, energy, confidence, attention, jealous]/Freedom(purple)[wealth, imagination, popular, winter, defensive] to gall bladder/bladder. Chinese medicine does not include the pancreas, while the Japanese view the heart as taboo. Fear/Index finger. Anger/Middle finger. Grief/Ring finger. Shame/pinky finger. Guilt/Thumb. The right hand corresponds with the toes on the left foot and the left hand with the toes of the right foot.
The crux of meditation centers upon developing an awareness and sensitivity to the “focus point”. This meditation technique it’s different from the classic meditation as practiced in some yoga buddha styles. While single individuals alone can meditate, this system, built around group meditation. Something like using battery cables to start a car requires at least two cars. Two ways the body fights diseases, White Bloods cells and similar defense systems. The other, the body actually remembers past diseases and develops an immunity. The measles serve as a good example of this second type of natural defense within our bodies.
The derivative of Jin Shin Jyutsu is that my meditation technique has developed over the years, it views powerful positive and negative emotions as a bi-polar battery. In Asian medicine a low Qi [pronounced che] within the 10 major internal organs, a low Qi energy represents the chief cause that causes the body defenses to fail to overcome diseases. The black death, which wiped out perhaps half of the population of Europe, began in China. Chinese medicine treated the disease successfully.
Some attempt to explain their healing success by simply saying that Chinese include rats within their Culinary menu. I do not know. Nonetheless the idea that our internal organs produce our basic emotions, this idea, likewise expressed within the prophets of the NaCH and Sages in the Talmud, they mutually agree and accept the idea that internal organs produce emotions.
Western medicine has accomplished much. But what I do not trust, the strong tendency practiced by the medical industry to push pills; the idea that doctors have some sort of “secret” knowledge/expertise outside of the realm of the common man. The matter that bothered me for years, influenced by my dyslexia, how to employ the rational portion of our brains to
communicate with our internal organs. Remembered my first year of College biology. Could ATP produced by the mitochondria, within the cells of the major internal organs, physically represent the Qi of Asian medicine.
Early Freud, he attempted and failed to locate a physical location in the brain that produced emotions. This failure caused him to develop his revolutionary idea of the conscious and non conscious components of the human mind. Freud focused upon the libido/sex drive, this ideal scandalized European medical circles in its day.
But clearly Freud searched for basic/fundamental emotions as the יסוד/foundation by which he sought to heal mental disease. Western medicine, it seems to me, they remain stuck in the idea that emotions generate from the mind alone. Western medicine does not view the Brain stem as serving as the Maestro which orchestrates the “music” of emotions produced by the internal organs of our body. As the dyslexic brain has trouble communicating between the two hemispheres of the brain, so too the rational mind does not openly communicate with the internal organs without intense Yoga-like meditation.
As an Israeli, the movement which hopefully will sprout from my political involvement within Israeli society, that Israel turns away from Shoah Europe as our main trading partners in favor of North Africa and eventually drawing in all or most of the African States. Medicine for the masses, African society, basically 3rd world as it stands today. Currently Western healing techniques dominate Israeli medical practices. This hopefully shall change. The medical meditation techniques my research has attempted to develop, permits the individual to treat diseases by means of meditation.
In the 1930s Rife research accomplished healing through employment of precise radio frequencies aimed at a diseased internal organ. Rife developed a powerful microscope that even today surpasses the electron microscope. The latter can only examine dead cells whereas the Rife microscope could examine living cells invaded by bacteria and viruses. The American medical community outlawed the Rife techniques for treating diseases. But Germany and other countries have incorporated it as part of their standard medicine.
But third world African countries, most villages lack electricity. The internal organs vibrate, they produce “frequencies”. Placement of the fingers upon targeted internal organs compares with starting a car with battery cables…transferring the “memory” of a healthy internal organ frequency over to a weak internal organ essentially defines the meditation of my modified Jin Shin Jyutsu is.
Karen has not felt well and she just messaged me that her heart damage has returned. She did not like making a meditation schedule and I certainly had no desire to demand it from her. Meditation qualifies as a skill that requires practice and mental energy focused upon building the awareness of a person’s fingers, that they feel the vibrations which the targeted internal organ(s) produce.
Color-Psychology, affixing a color to represent a fixed emotion assigned to an internal organ of the body. The internal organs do not communicate through words, but rather by means of emotions. To describe an emotion with words compares to poetry or songs. King Shaul would rely upon David to treat his headaches by playing the harp. But third world countries don’t have easy access to music. But the human eye can see colors, a person can enter the cave of many colors within his mind. Can colors have an impact upon the emotions the internal organs produce? Yes they can. Prisons employ colors to reduce prison violence.
The problem of meditation, the clutter within the mind. Affixing a color to an emotion as mentioned in the 3rd paragraph above, and referenced later still, permits the rational neocortex part of the brain to communicate a focused color/emotion to a specific internal organ by means of the fingers feeling the vibrations produced by those two targeted organs. In effect this meditation technique combines the neocortex together with the Brain stem to direct two targeted internal organs to produce higher levels of ATP, and release this increased ATP into the bloodstream to function as energy food for other internal organs.
The beauty of this meditation technique, a healthy person can employ their fingers as “battery cables” and transfer ATP frequency energies from their body to assist the recovery of a sick person. This vibration energy compares to alternating AC currents. Inhale, focus upon the vibrations felt by the fingers of one hand. Exhale, focus upon the vibrations felt by the fingers of the other hand. Affix a color to basic emotion. The meditation focuses upon feeling the vibrations felt by the fingers, combined with “seeing” a fixed color within the mind – both the healer and the patient can do this as they breathe.
ישעיה ז: ט – אם לא תאמינו כי לא תאמנו
The sign of this concept of faith: g’lut.
מאוס ברע ובחור בטוב
This idea refers to דרך ארץ, meaning ruling the land with justice. Wealth and power draw away the tuma yatzir within our hearts.
נעשה ונשמע
The Sinai oath to rule our people with righteousness. But what happens when the rich and powerful damage the persons and goods of the orphan and widow. Shall Israeli courts compel the rich and powerful רשעים to make fair restitution for damages inflicted? It seems to this commentator that the crux of this question defines the k’vanna of intent of the blessing:
סלח לנו אבינו כי חטאנו, מחל לנו מלכנו כי פשענו, כי מוחל וסולח אתה: ברוך אתה ה’, חנון המרבה לסלח.
The cry to achieve the mitzva of Moshiach, to destroy the tuma oppression, committed by the State and/or Corporate monopolies amongst our people. The obligation to keep the Sinai oath weighs upon the shoulders of the rich and powerful. ישעיה opened by bringing the memory of king Uzziyyahu, struck with tzarat, he sought to usurp the avoda of the Cohonim.
The tohor walk before HaShem, essentially defines the commitment to rule the land with justice. Neither a Crown, nor military rank that commands armies, permits a bnai brit person to abandon the דרך ארץ faith.
ישעיה ט:טו. ויהיו מאשרי העם הזה מתעים, ומאשריו מבלעים.
G’lut: A land without faith, that’s a land without Yidden. Russia of the late 19th Century and Germany in the middle of the 20th Century. Jews should leave the EU today. When Jews assimilate and embrace with fervor the customs and cultures of non Jews, then too Jews cease to live in those g’lut countries. Nations which have no faith, Stalin’s USSR serves as a powerful sign, such nations lack social endurance.
ישעיה י:א. הוי החקקים חקקי און, ומכתבים עמל כתבו. יא. להטות מדין דלים, ולגזל משפט עניי עמי, להיות אלמנות שללם, ואת יתומים יבזו.
The vision of that prophet, that a remnant, comparable to a tree chopped down, shall sprout and grow from a trunk which has somehow survived total destruction of its tree. T’shuva holds a vision that our people shall once again commit to the Sinai נעשה ונשמע oath. Then shall the Cohen nation again walk in דרך ארץ before our G-d.
The encounter between Par’o and Avram over Sarai his wife compares to Uzziyyahu’s attempt to usurp the duties of the House of Aaron. The servants of Lot rejected דרך ארץ therefore the family relations, at least on the side of Lot, collapsed. The invasion and g’lut of Lot. Avram served in the metaphor of Moshiach, and redeemed Lot from g’lut. But Lot assimilated and embraced the culture and customs of the people of Sedom.
Thereafter HaShem cut a brit with the unborn seed of Avraham and Sarah. The intent of this brit learns from the contexts of Parshat לך לך. The sign of faith – the brit melah. Thereafter the birth of Yitzak caused the heart of Sarah to rejoice. Yet Avraham still guarded the back of Lot, despite the foreign assimilation of the latter, whose children accepted the ערוה customs and practices acceptable unto Sodom.
The vision of Amos sees the din of g’lut fall upon multiple nations. Throughout human history empires have arisen and collapsed. The Cohen people have personally witnessed the rise and fall of many empires. Yet the mussar commanded by the prophets remains unchanged. The prophet demand of the Cohen nation to walk before HaShem with דרך ארץ, as the Cohen nation… the mussar of Parshat אחרי מות, with its Yom Kippor mussar. Whose Torah specifically mentions the Lot desire to pursue ערוה.
דכתיב במדבר לד:א. וידבר ה’ אל משה לאמר. ב. צו את בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם כי אתם באים אל הארץ כנען זאת הארץ אשר תפל לכם בנחלה ארץ כנען לגבלתיה.
What defines the borders of the Jewish state? To love tohor דרך ארץ and to equally hate ערוה. The ברכה of סלח לנו defines the eternal borders of the Jewish State.
Here concludes the learning on the 9th sugia of our Av Mishna בבא קמא.
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TCM [Traditional Chinese Medicine] refers to Qi as the life-energy. Wikipedia reports: “Meridians are not real anatomical structures: scientists have found no evidence that supports their existence.” This statement merits a challenge. Halaka means path. To walk down a path before HaShem. What wonder and awe. Electrical currents travel through circuits. How does the brain stem base of our brain communicate with our spinal column nervous system? A “Like question” equally applies to how the reflex arc of the spinal cord communicates with the internal organs of our body.
This precise knowledge lays not yet fully discovered. Therefore the opinion of Wikipedia on this specific point – false, wrong, inaccurate. When “science” assumes the mantle of the Catholic Church, and sports the mantle of the dogma: the infallibility of the Pope … science no longer exists as science. Rather science now merely qualifies as the most recent replacement theology. The dogma of this “new church”, it places demands upon its faithful, that they “believe” what the good doctor says. Dogmatism of what a person should believe does not go well with an atheist – praise God, like myself. It seems to me that ‘belief systems’ serve to stroke a persons’ personal Ego. All belief systems begin with the word “I”.
Each major internal organ of our body travels the “walk” unique to that specific organ. TCM refers to these meridians as channel pathways, something like a highway designed for high speed radio traffic, sometimes referred to as: Fight Flight. All communicative avenues require order. A specific of – order – setting priorities and keeping those priorities so set. Qi energy produced by all major internal organs [This research has limited its focus to the major internal organs within our body. This restricted viewpoint does not exclude the possibilities that all organs of the body communicate Qi energy. Something like how Germany and France dominate the EU].
This shabbot ideas about Jin Shin Jyutsu Is occurred to me. The electrical current of our central nervous system, part of the “electromagnetic spectrum”, which radio frequencies likewise resemble. Radio frequencies can produce heat. Heating an assigned “pair” of internal organs, the heart/black and lungs/white. Color, a language that a person can condition the internal organs to know. Something like walking a dog with a leash.
What does a meridian do? “Roads” transport Qi life energies throughout our body. Question: can Qi refer to as ATP? Obviously blood serves as a medium of transportation. But quick response time requires faster routes of communications. The eye hand coordination that a catcher needs to catch a fastball. Soldiers march in step to a cadence, similar to the way a fast ball hums as it approaches home plate.
The skin of the human body has resistance to electric current, 99% of this resistance occurs at the skin. Dry and wet skin have much different values of resistance to electrical shock. Recommended to soak ones’ “battery cable” hands in salt water prior to doing Jin Shin Jyutsu Is. TCM begins with 12 principal meridians. Healing functions as an art rather than a science. The latter makes – as its central focus – knowledge. Healing by contrast qualifies as a wisdom. Art, like the blowing of a shofar, the Talmud permits a child to blow on shabbot because the sages view the learning of that instrument as a wisdom. דרך ארץ requires reciprocation. Knowledge of a musical instrument does not transform that knowledgeable person into a musician. The latter spends many many hours of practice to acquire mastery over his instrument of choice.
The model of Western medicine makes for its focus – knowledge. TCM exists as a wisdom. The two often travel down different paths. The consistent stroke of a painter’s brush, took years, perhaps a lifetime, to develop. Modern science behaves as if it qualifies as an art critic. Noise similar to the EU demands of Israel: to risk a Civil War and divide this tiny nation into two hostile states. To this hogwash, this commentary promotes the independence of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the dismemberment of Great Britain.
Israel attempted the ‘Give peace a chance’ shtick, with the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, that risky attempt to appease the Chamberlains of the world, to strive for the grammatical noun of peace. As a consequence it stood upon the precipice of Civil War, with less than 10,000 people directly damaged by Sharon’s unilateral decision. The Jewish State needs a Civil War, experienced by the peoples of both Lebanon and Syria, those divided nations, so to speak,pointed a gun at their own people, in order to evaluate how brains splatter against a wall. The EU says: “Land for Peace, what do ya stand to lose?” Surrender the victory of the 1967 Six Day War. If the EU can succeed to negate the 1967 victory, then nothing stops them from striving to negate the 1948 Israeli victory. Europeans miss their dirty little Jew; humbled by our eternal curse as christ-killer stateless refugees.
The world existed in simpler easier times, when a Goy could murder a dirty Jew, ravish his wife and daughter, and plunder and burn shtetl communities with State sanctioned impunity. Please sit down if you’re standing. European Goyim do not like Jews. We had the chutzpah to try this imaginary man and find him guilty; who’s Gospel mythology transgressed the crime of false messiah. Europeans abhor that Jews view their savior as a myth, on par to that of a child’s belief in Santa Claus.
The Pope demanded from Galileo that he validate Church Dogma, that the Sun rotates around the Earth. Enough. Science and Art view our world based upon different perspectives. Art seeks to portray the Awe that a Man sometimes experiences. A person who feels a love for life, such a person, with a blessing, finds the cure for a disease. Such a person offers hope to the sick.
The primary contact points of Jin Shin Jyutsu is, require a strategy for their use and employment. The crossover from the fingers of the hand to the toes of the feet occurs at the hips. The sh’itta taken by this commentator – the hips, begin the lower body. The bi-polar approach mentioned previously holds that ATP can travel down any meridian path. A complex idea of meditation: It affixes an internal organ “breath”, it separates the bi-polar organ pair, it permits travel access to all meridian pathways. In-hale, focus upon the energy of a target organ directed to a specific upper body point. Ex-hale, focus upon the energy of the opposing target organ, directed to a specific low body point. This strategy attempts to explain the fingers and toes philosophy of Jin Shin Jyutsu Is meditation.
Whereas acupuncture employs the meridians in an action/reaction process – Jin Shin Jyutsu Is – relies upon the Mind to direct the Qi produced by the targeted internal organ, and consciously directs this unique Qi energy to travel through a desired meridian path unto a targeted point on the body. The purpose, to open blocked passages within these meridian lines. This commentator opens by manipulating the opposing target “battery” organs by massaging, with oil, the appropriate points wherein the art of reflexology maps the confluence of target internal organs within the feet themselves.
No one argues that, for example, the heart opposed by the lungs, physically exists within the feet. Reflexology maps the location of the nerves clusters, most linked to/influential to, our internal organs. The modern Western translation for the TCM concept, known as meridians, perhaps this idea, Western medicine translates as the reflex arc. Sufficient Qi opens blocked up or constricted meridians pathways. In the heart/lung example: inhale, see the color black and become aware of the pulse vibration at a specific above waist point. Exhale, see the color white and become aware of the pulse vibration at a specific below waist point – either a right hand left foot or a right foot left hand diagonal. Jin Shin Jyutsu Is meditation mentally directs the Qi to designated points across the body.
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