The Final Chapter

                                                                        Parashas Devarim

                                                           The Torah of Shem – In Full Bloom

                                                                        Rabbi David Katz

The Book of Devarim is often referred to as the Mishna Torah or the Torah in review in other words. When hear these words, one might often recall the famous codification of the Rambam who identifies his classic work in the same name and concept. To understand the Rambam in better detail, a teaching from the Zohar paints a most beautiful picture that explains the difference between the two titles the Rambam gives his work, which is not only the “Review of Torah” but the “Strong hand of Torah” as well. This picture suggests that should one be short in his learning, and in position to render Torah law, he will see the text as a strong hand, filled with rigid decrees and contradictions. On the other hand, one who understands the deeper dimensions of Torah, will see a review of his learning, and will realize that the stern nature was only upon first glance, and in truth one should seek to draw from his review, hence a merciful “Mishna Torah.” This is the message of the Zohar, Rambam, Noahide Law, etc. and per force it is the nature of the Book of Devarim as well; task being, to find the utter depths of the Torah, following the blueprint of the Torah code, and turning a rigid text into poetry of mercy. Let this be called the Torah of Shem in full bloom.

We ended the Book of Bamidbar in dramatic fashion, with seeds of redemption and a resolution that sails into the sunset, and they lived happily ever after.  Ironically, this IS the blueprint of the Torah, when one follows the map of Job, who suffered, but in the end acknowledges the greater good of God; the macro book of Devarim along with her micro/fractal portions follows the same path to exquisite detail. Here, in Parashas Devarim, in a much more concise account of Torah, we actually find the Torah in even greater detail; for the first time we see the Torah of Shem shining through, now that the tools of pilpul [spice of Torah] in detail have been properly highlighted. The revelation factor of this Torah angle comes from “Joy” [Hedva] of Torah, i.e. from full application of the Torah’s first four Books, we can see through Shem [a reincarnation of Moses] the Torah fractal with precision, and thus as always, to the highlighted pixel of the Ger, now in HD.

When one opens Devarim and follows its passages, soon it should become apparent that this is clear review of the Torah of Bereishit through the end of Bamidbar. Once this view is laid down, we can begin to micro analyze the text; the most fitting investigation naturally is to think as big as possible for maximum revelation. Thus the path that begins with Shem in Moses’ essential Torah through the mouth of the Divine Presence, should ultimately reach its destination of the Ger and Redemption, inseparable as always. For all intents and purposes this would become a new light of Moses – Moshiach within context of Pinchas and the giant Og, Head of Abraham’s estate, i.e. the Ger who reached the end of the maze of life by the teaching of Abraham, who learned from the mouth of Shem himself. As stated, nothing really changes in Devarim by essence, however what becomes new is the Torah that truly is “lefi pshuto” – the Torah that remains Oral, as it is written only within the halls of reality; preserved within the lens of Shem, he who brought out Torat Hashem [as written in the Prophets; contrasted with the intent of Torah Moshe and Torat Emet, all being faces of the same Godly Torah].

In Devarim 3:11 we come to learn the measures of the giant Og, whose mythological proportions are told over to be off the charts, and proven true by the otherworldly dimensions listed in our verse. [9 “amot” by 4 “amot” was Og’s iron bed; an “amah” is a unit of measure, and the surface area would then measure the always auspicious “36”.] This would essentially bring the content and context of the text into [their] real time, highlighting the path of the Torah’s essential qualities here, being the Torah of Shem, the Ger, and Redemption. This theme fits perfectly with the keys of redemption brought down in Talmud Sukkah [52b] of the Four Craftsmen: Righteous Priest [(Torah of) Shem], Elijah [Pinchas and the redemption of the Ger and truth], Messiah son of Joseph [the place taken by Moses in the future], and ultimately Messiah son of David [all ingredients into one vessel, simply the King Messiah].

As many are quick to accept the tally of Og, and in a proportion that creates an existential threat against Israel, we soon learn that Moses defeats Og [Hashem had to urge him to not fear Og], and in the process it is revealed in the Midrash/Talmud that Moses was also quite large, and by our standard in the Parsha in relation to Og’s bed, Moses is even larger, as he “stands” at 10 Amot tall. This poses one of the Torah’s biggest questions in faith, in the ability to properly understand Midrash, the portion of Torah that contains the essence of the Torah’s secrets. To properly absorb the intent of the passage, one must appreciate every nuance of the incredible passage, thus creating the vessels to allow Hashem to deliver the always looming bigger picture [of reality]; fantastically nudging the student into a clearer reality that is based on Torah.

This is where the Torah suddenly becomes Technicolor, and better able to understand the spiritual greatness of Moses, Og, Pinchas, Messiah, the Ger, Abraham, Sinai, God, Shem, Noah, and thus the entire Torah from there. It is this place of perception where the Torah becomes the utmost please and joy [in Hebrew it is called Hedva], otherwise known as the Torah of Shem, the Torah that elevates in its own aroma, as an offering of the Priest in all of us.  Hedva in Torah is the union of all and every union, truly embarking on the One-ness of the Torah, and echoes with Shema Yisrael Hashem is our God Hashem is One. One can quickly see how Pinchas and Moshe are one under the canopy of redemption, this can be iterated with Shem – Abraham, Moses – Shem, Og – Moshe, etc. i.e. every fractal in Torah is a composite water-drop of two that are really one. Suddenly, a Torah that fit nicely between two covers, is bursting with infinite light, all the while the victory of Torah never faltered, as the Torah is was and will always be the Torah of Moses as given on Sinai by the Mouth of the Powerful [Hashem].

To make matters illuminated in more recognized terms, consider that Moses was 10 Amot tall and Og was “huge” by the Midrash’s account. When we weigh the whole story of the Midrash, suddenly everything comes into focus, making a sub-book in the Torah: Og was huge by Torah standards, as he contained Torah knowledge of the pre-flood days, for Og is none other than Eliezer, who came to the world by clenching onto the Ark of Noah. Og/Eliezer with all of his Torah might, was able to replace Lot to Abraham as a possible inheritor, and he was the head of Abraham’s estate, i.e. his Torah legacy. Clearly this would be a challenge for Moses, upon which, Hashem told him – You are 10 Amot tall! [and Moses did not understand this about himself] Moses had all possessions equaling 10 Amot tall, his tool, his airspace, etc., essentially it was “the Torah of Moses” [in every detail that even encompasses Moses himself, for he was synonymous with Torah], keeping pace with the fashion that Hashem fashions even His own revelation [i.e. the 10 sefirot, 10 sayings, 10 Commandments, etc.] Hashem is telling Moses, “Yes Og is a giant in Torah [having gone from “Tohu” through the times of Torah, thus having “seen it all”] whose “numbers” are immeasurable [i.e. the wisdom contained in Books 1-4] and you stand only as tall as 10 Amot; realize that YOU are standing in the Image/Presence of God! Og never had a chance, and Moses sanctified the Name of God, with his display of Absolute Truth by powers of 10. 

Moses the victor, would then parallel the location in Torah, which is depicted by Pinchas and his revelation of Messiah in Torah, thus making visible Moshe Messiah, where Moses and Pinchas are one, as explained in the Zohar and other commentaries. The parallels are now endless, with comparing the 10 Amot of Moses to the construction to the Mishkan, of which Pinchas and the angel Metat [Enoch] are compared to; this essentially Redemption coming into full detail, turning the Torah into sublime Hedva. The Parsha would then continue, and it would follow through with the original fractal of Torah, the Bereishit program, one that fittingly ends with [Messiah son of] Joseph, as Joseph steps into the redeemer role, and the Torah fades into the future with Moses – redeemer – son of Joseph mode, until on-spot location. Yet again, we see the Job program in expansive light, as the Torah ends with the Redemption theme, this time in the form of Moses’ command of Joshua’s entering the Land; a mission that always positions Moses at the helm of “always being one step ahead” – perpetually leading us into redemption, for Moses’ Messianic name is Yinon [“to perpetuate matters of redemption”].

Now with the Torah of Shem opened with Hedva, one can see how great Og was and what he represents for the Ger – a power of Torah that spans all 6000 years of Creation; when placed within Torat Moses, it becomes elevated into the elusive Ger Tzedek, which Og so eloquently portrays through Torah exegesis and parable in expression. Along these lines and way of thinking, we better know, Pinchas, Moses, Redemption, Gerim, etc.; the entire Torah that we always knew suddenly comes into pristine focus and detail, drawing from the reality off of the page, while suddenly shown to be encapsulated in the “small” book that expresses the true giant, called the revelation of God! [Otherwise known as the Torah of Atzilus, the Torah of God Above where Shem serves as its High Priest].

There is however the rule that we must always understand the Torah also on the simple level [pshat], and the issue of the “amah” [measure; Moses was 10 Amot] must be understood clearly, and only through Midrash. Conformation to Torah discipline is thus conferred through the very Torah itself, for the basis of the passage before us is Og. Thus Moses by engaging Og was a tremendous coup when he happened up on Og’s iron bed and considered its dimensions. Og was a master of Torah, and thus he learned by the mouth of Abraham and Shem. By Moshe’s mazal from God, he was led to find the exact definition of Torah’s definitions of measurements, and would become essential to understand Torah in context of [Temple, Oral] Law. God showed Moses the path to the divine measure, and dimensions of the universe, for Abraham’s knowledge was itself a walking Mishkan in the relic now known as Og! Eliezer/Og finally finished his task as the master of mazal – faithful servant of Abraham!

[Eliezer showed his greatness of mazal/divine providence [secrets of "Tov Meod" - where evil reverts to good] when he realized the love of Isaac in Rebecca; Eliezer would prove to be a true student of Shem in carrying out his mission in understanding “Tzaddik v’ rah lo” (the righteous who experiences evil). As the essence of the Torah of Shem, this was displayed by Shem himself with Jacob, revealing the secrets of Job, and allowing Eliezer/Og to function according to his soul that was one of the few to enter Gan Eden alive. This would explain the astrological dimensions of Og, as he was to Moses as Shem was to Jacob, in the ascension towards true Yisrael through struggling with God.]

Parashas/Sefer Devarim is now upon us, and it is our job to turn the stringencies into divine favor, and bring out the Torah of Mercy through repetition in the eyes of Shem, tasting the “pilpul” [spice] and enjoying the “Hedva” [“fun”] in what is the Torah of God. In the end, Moses united with the Shechina, and spirals into the sublime essence of God’s Torah, finding the Hedva of youth, enjoying the close company of God. He tells us every week, until the Torah is concluded, and all of the Congregation of Israel is ready to enter the Land of Israel. And as we are finding out, this end is a product of a much bigger thought than we may have imagined, at least from the Genesis perspective. For now, we know more about the Messiah, Truth, Torah, Redemption, and what may be perhaps the most important of all, the Redemption of the Ger. For all that we know, whether here, or by following the fractal backwards and forwards in time, it always did and does come to one conclusion: God is the Guardian of the Ger Tzedek, and it is wise to begin to Love the Ger, and why not – it’s certainly Hedva to do so. As it is said in the yeshiva, “Rashi” [who is often perceived as difficult] is called “your friend”, and the Zohar speaks similarly of Shem, in the secrets of the Shema, which came from Shem into the Avot as tradition: Brother Shem is the Witness [taken from the words שמע – אחד], a true friend indeed, making Torah a true Hedva experience.

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Moishela Speaks the Hard Truth!

BS”D

                                                          

Discussion with Moishela (and his family) Part 10

A handicapped child

9 Kislev 5773 (Nov 22’12)

Very Soon There Will Be Another War

I’m sorry that I inconvenienced everyone so much to hear what I have to say tonight. But I truly believe that we are going into a very frightening dangerous time. Yesterday I wrote that no one should leave Eretz Yisroel (in discussion-part 9). There is no reason whatsoever, ever now to leave Eretz Yisroel.

I’m sure that many who read what I said are very upset with this idea, but I must tell you clearly that I know what I’m talking about. And of course many people will go anyway and they’ll come back safe and sound and they’ll say, “Look, I went and I came back and everything is fine so the warning is a bunch of nonsense”. But I will tell you this, it’s not nonsense and in Shomayim there is a Kitrug on Am Yisroel, because Am Yisroel goes against a very important Halachah that is brought down in Gemara,  that you’re NOT allowed to leave Eretz Yisroel Stam (for no valid Halachic reason) and when everybody flies off for vacations or for weddings, or for Bar Mitzvas, or to buy the Kallah her wardrobe, or to get a breath of fresh air, there is a very big Shailah (question) on all of these things. A person who is more Frum can find reasons for going. One of the biggest reasons is Parnassa, but so many of those that go for Parnassa, are exposed to the worst Pritzus in the world.

Air travel for example is very not Tzniusdik. Men and women gather in front of the toilets waiting. This is not very Tzniusdik. Men stand and Daven. Sometimes it’s so crowded when they Daven that they lean on the people sitting in the isles and many of those people are women, not to speak of the seating arrangements that are not always what we would like. People on airplanes sleep, especially when they go to America; the Frum and the non-Frum, and you can never know how you’ll see a woman sleeping, which is absolutely not Tzniusdik. And besides all the non-Frum with their skimpy outfits, and their giggling and their talking, it’s not for a Frum person to be exposed to, and a real Yid, a Shtarker (strong) Yid would never expose himself to that, and he would trust Hashem for his Parnassa.

This traveling back and forth will come to an end, an abrupt end. And when it happens there will be those stuck in foreign countries without a way to get back. I’m warning you in Shomayim it’s coming to the end, in Shomayim they are not willing any more to hear of such things.

There are also those who fly back and forth for family Simchas. They just wait for a family Simcha as an excuse to fly away. There are people that leave their children in all different homes, Erlicha (G-d fearing) homes and fly off to all the Simchas. But it’s improper to leave your children in strange homes, even if they are relatives unless there’s an excellent reason, flying off to a Bar Mitzvah or to a wedding is not an excellent reason.

A home that’s not the child’s home, could have a different level of Kashrus, could have different Minhagim in Tznius, and therefore it‘s not the thing to do at all. There are those who simply go for vacation to Italy to rest or maybe to The Alps for Pesach in a strictly Kosher LeMehadrin not Gebrox Hotel. However, how can it be that we suffered so much to leave Mitzrayim; we Davened so much to leave Mitzrayim and we leave Eretz Yisroel to go to Switzerland for Pesach? It’s absolutely horrific. It’s absolutely absurd. Then there are those that go to work for Parnassa. To work in Chutz Laaretz technically that’s allowed (Halachicly) but actually it’s better to stay here.

All this running from place to place only confuses the person. Travelling shakes a person up, and brings him out of his Seder. Can you really Daven on an airplane?  The first few days you are in America can you really Daven or in England or in Europe or in Australia or wherever, can you really Daven? When you’re running from place to place can you really have closeness to HaKodosh Boruch Hu? It’s very hard.

A Jew needs a Seder. He has to get up everyday at a certain time, Daven at a certain time, eat at a certain time, and continue his day divided up between learning, maybe making a bit of Parnassa, and Davening. A person needs his place always; his usual regular place. He needs his place where he stands in the Shul and Davens. He needs that Seder in order that he should have a clear mind without confusion, but whoever likes the excitement of the confusion, can’t ever really get close to Hashem. That’s why our world today is full of confusion. We have every kind of fast food you can dream of with a Hechsher, a Mehadrin Hechsher. We have all kind of plays and shows on Chol Hamoed. We have all kind of trips for Avreichim and their wives, and it’s all to confuse us. Of course it’s not as bad as in America, where people hop off to Disney world, or Disney Land, or Epcot, or who knows what. But still it’s not the way it’s supposed to be. We’re confused and we’ve been getting away with it for a long time. But now the problem is that those young people who grew up in such a world can’t really be Yiddishe Mamas and Yiddishe Tattas because they don’t know how. They don’t know how to pass on the true Mesoras (tradition). Of course there are exceptions, but the exceptions are very small.

Most of the Olam have forgotten the feeling, the sensitivity of a Jewish heart, of a Jewish mind. They don’t understand why flying could be not Tzniusdik. They do not understand why having Pesach in Switzerland might not be appropriate. They don’t know why they can’t go to the Dead Sea, Pesach time to a hotel with the best Hechsher and non-Gebrox. They don’t understand why they cannot go swimming and come out of the pool and eat the tantalizing kosher L’Pesach food in their wet bathing suits. These people usually are very insistent that all the food should be Mehadrin non-Gebrox but they have no problem saying a Brocha in a bathing suit. In this kind of generation, what kind of children can it produce? What kind? Even those families that the children are seemingly more Frum than the parents, something is missing because that’s the way they were raised and even if they look much more Frum inside, they still go out for dinner and this brings to very terrible things.

In the United States people go out to eat dinner as I just said. What’s going out for dinner? They call it “quality time together”. They talk like the Goyim, in Israel it’s become the same. They need to get away from their Tzoros. They don’t go to Daven at the Kosel. They go out to eat in some place that tantalizes your taste buds and gives you some kind of Goyish atmosphere, all with a Hechsher. Even in Israel this definitely exists. Not only the Frum Americans that live here indulge in this, the Frum Israelis as well.

All these things are producing Yiddishe children that have lost the beauty of the Erlich Yiddishe Neshamah, lost the beauty of the Temimusdik face, lost the beauty of the soul, and this is the saddest part of this time in history. Once you could always find really Erlicha Yidden, but today most are only putting on a show. Most are only a bad imitation of what once was.

We have Chassidim that are very exact in all their Levush (dress code) short pants high socks Shtreimels. Have you seen the Shtreimels lately? It’s absolutely ridiculous. You could think it’s a clown’s hat. It’s so high that I don’t even know how they balance it on their heads, it’s absolutely ridiculous. Their clothes, the men’s’ clothes are often so tight that you can see the men’s’ bodies wiggling as they walk in the street. I can’t understand it. Men that were Chasidim in by gone years, in Europe and in America that had the courage to wear all the Levush in public even though non religious Jews and Goyim both obviously were angry at their appearance. They wore large coats, not clothes that show their bodies as they walk. However if someone today dares to go with clothing that seems to large they are branded with disdain as “Chanyok”. What happened to Am Yisroel?

The Litvish won’t get off the hook either. How many boys in Yeshivas are only worried about their hats, their ties, their suits, their shirts, and their cufflinks? Their cufflinks are a major problem for some of them. And when they go out with a girl, well, they have to know if she has good Middos, but they are not talking about the characteristics of the girl, if she is kind, if she is smart, if she is charitable. They are talking about the size of her dress. This is so sad, so very sad. This is not Yiddishkeit; it’s Goyishkeit. And I want to tell you that it’s going to stop. You can pat yourselves on the back from morning to night, and be sure that you are the best Jews around, that you are so close to Hashem, and that you learn very many hours. It’s all worth nothing, if you don’t have the spirit. If you don’t have the Pnimius, then it’s worth nothing. Hashem is going to stop it.

You saw what happened with Sandy? The Egel HaZahav got the brunt of the destruction. Just take away the electricity and we’re all in bad shape. We’re finished with our fancy ties. We’re finished with our fancy Shaitels. We’re finished with our tight dresses. We’re finished with our makeup. We’re finished with food and we’re finished with almost everything that keeps us alive. No electricity means we’re finished, Chas VeSholom!

So I suggest right now that you take stock of yourselves. See clearly how far away you have gotten, how far we’ve gotten in so short a time. Sixty years ago there were still some people that were really Erlich. Today you have to look for them with a magnifying glass. So this message is to prepare us. Remember what I said. We are doing things that are improper, and we think they are Kosher. We think that when we’re on an airplane and eat a Badatz meal, that we’re Kosher but we’re not. Because the whole thing is Traif. It’s all Traif. And you can go to any Rav and ask them and they will often say to you, “you can fly”. It’s just what is written about this generation; Pnai HaDor KePnai HaKelev.

Everyone is worried if you don’t let them do what they want, they may leave Yiddishkeit or they might become less observant. Well it’s not going to help to give them what they want. Hashem is going to make a Seder and everybody who is a real Yid is going to do Teshuva. It’s going to be hard, so start the process now. As I told you before, we’re in a dark tunnel already. There is only two little slivers of light left. We’re going into a great darkness. If you’re not going to be prepared, if you don’t really have a Jewish Neshamah and I’m not talking about Geray Tzedek, I’m talking about Erev Rav who are Jews from birth, if you don’t do Teshuva now, and you don’t straighten out your lives, then by the time Moshiach comes,  I guess you won’t be around to greet him.

It’s very nice to talk about Sandy and to talk about the missiles that were in Israel in the last week or so, but when it comes to Teshuva nobody knows what I’m talking about. So what is Teshuva? People think that if they take their Tehillim say a few Kapitlach (chapters), and are a little bit more careful about their Kashrus, and make sure they don’t talk Loshon Hora about Reshoim, then they think they are being good. It’s not enough. It’s ridiculous. We’re nowhere near where we need to be, and I’m worried and I’m afraid for Am Yisroel. So if my words are too sharp for you, I’m very sorry but I must try to save you Beezras Hashem or to get you to try to save yourselves and if its too hard, to harsh, then throw this paper away, and I’ll Daven for you.

Yesterday a ceasefire was signed between The State of Israeli and the Arabs. This ceasefire is a joke. Very soon there will be another war that will drag on and on and cause us much anxiety and suffering. The only way that we can get through this is Rachmai Shomayim.

What I have said above is only examples of the problems of our generation. These are only small examples of how far this generation of so-called Frum Yidden have gotten from the Truth, and I feel that I must say these things to you my fellow Jews because I love you and I want you to get through these last wars without unneeded suffering. I Bentch all Am Yisroel that we should greet Moshiach Tzidkainu BeRachamim Uv’Simcha in the very near future.

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Gilad Shalit: Israel's Brother - Od Gilad Chai

To save a Jew is to save the World states Jewish Torah Tradition.
Lamysa, for or against what transpired a year ago, according to this maamer, a World was saved.

It's about time then that the Shechinah returns from her exile/imprisonment as well.

Let the removal of Hestaras Panim begin!

The Ramchal says that one Reign shall not infringe upon another. Is the rule of Darkness nearly over? When it is, we will have some sort of Revelation shedding Light on the Imminent Geulah.
It would seem, according to the model of the Ramchal this Time is close.

The Zohar by the way always did speak of '73 in its layout of a possible Geulah. [as opposed to 72/1/0...it mentioned those years, but the sof zman was always 73.

May we be zoche to be inspired in '73 - and beyond!




DenverPost.com:

 

 

Almost a year after he was released from five years of captivity in Gaza, former Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit has revealed more details of how he coped with the ordeal and his fears of being forgotten. Aware from the beginning that negotiations for his release could take years, he said he feared he could meet the same fate as an Israeli airman who was captured in Lebanon in the 1980s and never returned.

"I was afraid that would happen to me, that I would be forgotten and there would be no one to talk to," he said in a rare interview published in the Israeli news media. "That they would make me disappear; people wouldn't know where I was." Schalit, who was seized by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid in 2006, when he was a 19-year-old corporal, is treated as a celebrity in Israel, his photo popping up in the newspapers whenever he attends public events. But his family and friends have also guarded his privacy during his recovery, and he has spoken little about his experiences.

Now, he has granted an interview for a television documentary. An excerpt was broadcast Thursday, and transcripts of the interview were published in the national newspapers Friday. Schalit said that during his captivity he tried to focus on the good things, small as they were: "Whatever I was allowed; television, radio, reasonable food, the fact that they did not abuse me too much."

He said he tried to maintain a regular schedule and keep active. "I would get up at about the same time and go to sleep at the same time," he said. "I would do the same things almost every day. From the start, I followed the dates. There wasn't a moment that I didn't know what day it was." He said that he began to understand a little Arabic and built a kind of rapport with his guards over a shared enthusiasm for sports. "There were moments when a kind of emotion would arise, a kind of laughter," he said, "when we watched a good game on television or a movie." He would also play chess and dominoes with his captors, he said, saying these activities helped him "stay sane."

Though he did not keep a diary, he said, he wrote notes, which he would hide because some guards suspected that he was gathering information. He described the shock and relief after he was freed last October in an exchange with Hamas, the Islamic militant group, for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

"After I hadn't seen more than a few people at once all those years, to suddenly see such a commotion around you, it was an odd feeling," he said. An avid soccer and basketball fan, he began co-writing a sports column a few months ago for the Yediot Aharonot newspaper. He has since traveled abroad to cover major sporting events for the paper, as opposed to watching them holed up with his guards.

 

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Moshiach and Torah: Anti-Politics

As my Zaidie would say, if something needs done, "you do it Now! :  N - O - W!"
(and that is pronounced doubleyuh)

Mitt Romney has made a very important point in his plight to become the next President:
America needs solutions now; yet the man who can provide these solutions, isn't!

Obama is in the driver's seat, and [his so called] change is needed now; not tomorrow and not yesterday - now. But he is acting all political on America and holding them along with the rest of the World hostage to shoddy politics - even worse than Israeli Zionism!

If he would act now, perhaps some of the crisis issues facing modern Rome would begin to disintegrate with a fiscally responsible America. But Obama is pushing this envelope way beyond its point of integrity, ONLY for his reelection!

Is there a good answer? Yes an no. The World simply has spiraled out of control, while the good answer is the Torah has the answers, and I say this practically, and not as some Utopian point of view: we need Yovel! [the Jubillee restored]

If Torah has one redeeming merit in the eyes of the Nations, let it be Yovel! It happens to be the answer, and thus it is not for naught that the Torah has the concept. Many innovative thinkers that comprise the various sectors of the World have already toyed with the idea and recognized this as a [if not "the"] solution. But politics will be politics, and as we all know, politics are like lawyers: interested in their own mishagus as opposed to solutions.

The irony is, is that today more than ever we can truly see the gadlus of Torah, that it has the answers to every place of Life, and it simply isn't a political construct - it happens to be the Truth [ that is missing from our current day society in an almost total eclipse; may Moshiach only be hastened!]




FoxNews.com:

President Obama and Republicans are engaging in dangerous brinksmanship. Putting off a political solution to the looming “fiscal cliff” until after the election risks a second Great Depression.

Without a compromise by January, $400 billion in mandatory spending cuts and more than $100 billion in tax increases will immediately go into effect. With our economy only growing by only $300 billion annually, such a shock would thrust it into a prolonged contraction.

The failure the Obama $767 billion stimulus package to adequately jump start growth makes a second such initiative unlikely. Interest rates are at already at record lows. These leave policymakers too few tools once things start unraveling. However, President Obama has given Republicans hardly any political choices but to roll the dice. Facing reelection, he promises to veto any extension of Bush-era tax cuts for middle- income Americans if Congress does not raise rates on upper-income families. He won’t entertain meaningful cuts in entitlement spending or health care. Today, in August, businesses are already curtailing investments in machinery and information technology, as a hedge against a contracting economy in 2013, and consumers are spending less. Retail sales fell each of the last three months. -

But, even if Mr. Obama wins reelection in November, he likely will be saddled with a Republican House. Armed with a mandate, he will get higher taxes on upper income families. However, he has made commitments to expand the US naval resources in the Persian Gulf and Asia to counter Iran and China. He can’t finance those without giving Republicans some of the entitlement reforms they want but can’t get now.

For the economy, one of three outcomes is likely: 1. President Obama wins in November but doesn’t reach a deal with Republicans before February or March. Mass layoffs begin late this fall, especially in the defense sector, and the economy stumbles badly. 2. Mr. Obama wins and deals with Republicans in Congress by late December. Taxes go up, and overall spending is cut, but not as much as current legislation requires. The combination still derails the fragile recovery. 3. Governor Romney wins and implements a pro growth agenda, but the current situation is too urgent to wait for actions that won’t take effect until at least next spring and summer.

Today, in August, businesses are already curtailing investments in machinery and information technology, as a hedge against a contracting economy in 2013, and consumers are spending less. Retail sales fell each of the last three months. The Great Recession was caused by manifest structural problems in the economy: a wide trade gap with China and on oil; banks that had forgotten how to earn profits through sound lending; failed financial regulations and skyrocketing health care costs. President Obama’s policies have mostly exacerbated those problems. That’s why the recovery is so weak, and a second recession now could put the economy down for good. Too many young adults unemployed or in poorly paying jobs are living with aging parents. Many older Americans are running down IRAs before reaching retirement age, hoping for better days.

The safety nets provided by parents and savings will soon tear. If the economy goes down again, the negative feedback cycle of fewer jobs, less spending, more layoffs, and so forth will be much more severe than in 2008. The hallmark of a depression is a recession that does not sow the seeds of recovery by creating pent up demand for business and consumer durable goods. Truck and car replacements played a mighty role in our most recent, albeit weak, recovery. With many Americans slipping from the middle class, businesses may simply downsize for a permanently smaller U.S. economy, and families will own fewer vehicles, appliances and electronic toys. Unemployment in the range of 15 percent easily could become the new normal.

President Obama should risk upsetting his base and offer Republicans in Congress a reasonable deal now. Republicans should admit what they already know—Mitt Romney is no messiah—and take the risk of compromising now. American can’t afford for their elected officials to dither any longer.

No, Romney is not the Messiah, and funny enough we aren't hearing anything about Obama's Messiahdom anymore either.

THE only answer is the true Messiah, and this is something that has been foretold since the advent of the Torah on Sinai. The conditions are here, and we are in a process that will reveal the King Messiah. Even if Revelation is much down the road as the Ramchal describes, it is our job to harness this ko-ach, and bring it into the World - by understanding just what Moshiach entails for Mankind. There is much that we can do ourselves and now. We don't need something of a x-tian savior Moshiach [which is a tragedy that this idea has trespassed into Torah thinking people], we need proactive followers of God and Torah to make the vessel and hasten whatever comes first: the Beis HaMikdash or Moshiach himself.

If the Torah has solutions, then we need to start living out the Torah - there are things we can do right now.

Why Wait?
Torah and Kind Acts
Remove Chevlei Moshiach
Along WIth Shabbos and Meals
Returning To The Ways Of Hashem

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America: Mazal and Mushel [of Geulah]

I usually stay away from these articles. [especially the ones about fish]
But this grabbed my eye, simply, I want to know if things really are that bad, or just propaganda.

YahooNews:

Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 100 degrees. About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed in Iowa last week as water temperatures reached 97 degrees. Nebraska fishery officials said they've seen thousands of dead sturgeon, catfish, carp, and other species in the Lower Platte River, including the endangered pallid sturgeon. And biologists in Illinois said the hot weather has killed tens of thousands of large- and smallmouth bass and channel catfish and is threatening the population of the greater redhorse fish, a state-endangered species. So many fish died in one Illinois lake that the carcasses clogged an intake screen near a power plant, lowering water levels to the point that the station had to shut down one of its generators.

"It's something I've never seen in my career, and I've been here for more than 17 years," said Mark Flammang, a fisheries biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. "I think what we're mainly dealing with here are the extremely low flows and this unparalleled heat."

The fish are victims of one of the driest and warmest summers in history. The federal U.S. Drought Monitor shows nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states are experiencing some form of drought, and the Department of Agriculture has declared more than half of the nation's counties — nearly 1,600 in 32 states — as natural disaster areas. More than 3,000 heat records were broken over the last month. Iowa DNR officials said the sturgeon found dead in the Des Moines River were worth nearly $10 million, a high value based in part on their highly sought eggs, which are used for caviar. The fish are valued at more than $110 a pound. Gavin Gibbons, a spokesman for the National Fisheries Institute, said the sturgeon kills don't appear to have reduced the supply enough to hurt regional caviar suppliers. Flammang said weekend rain improved some of Iowa's rivers and lakes, but temperatures were rising again and straining a sturgeon population that develops health problems when water temperatures climb into the 80s.

"Those fish have been in these rivers for thousands of thousands of years, and they're accustomed to all sorts of weather conditions," he said. "But sometimes, you have conditions occur that are outside their realm of tolerance." In Illinois, heat and lack of rain has dried up a large swath of Aux Sable Creek, the state's largest habitat for the endangered greater redhorse, a large bottom-feeding fish, said Dan Stephenson, a biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

"We're talking hundreds of thousands (killed), maybe millions by now," Stephenson said. "If you're only talking about game fish, it's probably in the thousands. But for all fish, it's probably in the millions if you look statewide." Stephenson said fish kills happen most summers in small private ponds and streams, but the hot weather this year has made the situation much worse. "This year has been really, really bad — disproportionately bad, compared to our other years," he said.

Stephenson said a large number of dead fish were sucked into an intake screen near Powerton Lake in central Illinois, lowering water levels and forcing a temporary shutdown at a nearby power plant. A spokesman for Edison International, which runs the coal-fired plant, said workers shut down one of its two generators for several hours two weeks ago because of extreme heat and low water levels at the lake, which is used for cooling.

In Nebraska, a stretch of the Platte River from Kearney in the central part of the state to Columbus in the east has gone dry and killed a "significant number" of sturgeon, catfish and minnows, said fisheries program manager Daryl Bauer. Bauer said the warm, shallow water has also killed an unknown number of endangered pallid sturgeon.

"It's a lot of miles of river, and a lot of fish," Bauer said. "Most of those fish are barely identifiable. In this heat, they decay really fast." Bauer said a single dry year usually isn't enough to hurt the fish population. But he worries dry conditions in Nebraska could continue, repeating a stretch in the mid-2000s that weakened fish populations.

Kansas also has seen declining water levels that pulled younger, smaller game fish away from the vegetation-rich shore lines and forced them to cluster, making them easier targets for predators, said fisheries chief Doug Nygren of the Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism.

Nygren said he expects a drop in adult walleye populations in the state's shallower, wind-swept lakes in southern Kansas. But he said other species, such as large-mouth bass, can tolerate the heat and may multiply faster without competition from walleye. "These last two years are the hottest we've ever seen," Nygren said. "That really can play a role in changing populations, shifting it in favor of some species over others. The walleye won't benefit from these high-water temperatures, but other species that are more tolerant may take advantage of their declining population." Geno Adams, a fisheries program administrator in South Dakota, said there have been reports of isolated fish kills in its manmade lakes on the Missouri River and others in the eastern part of the state. But it's unclear how much of a role the heat played in the deaths.

One large batch of carp at Lewis and Clark Lake in the state's southeast corner had lesions, a sign they were suffering from a bacterial infection. Adams said the fish are more prone to sickness with low water levels and extreme heat. But he added that other fish habitat have seen a record number this year thanks to the 2011 floods. "When we're in a drought, there's a struggle for water and it's going in all different directions," Adams said. "Keeping it in the reservoir for recreational fisheries is not at the top of the priority list."

Is The World In A State Of Heat In The Mushel?

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Doom and Gloom...for the Sake of the Frum?

Here is my first attempt at reporting Doom and Gloom. I am not hopping onto the Blog Scene bandwagon, quite the contrary. What I want to know is: Is there a Truth to Doom? Should we pass off expressions like, "the worst drought in half a century" to just stam shtussim?
-or-
Is it conspiracy talk of NWO matters like Global Warming, HAARP, etc.?
It is confusing to know real reality, and to be able to ascertain just how evil the World of Asiah truly is.

Maybe Doom is just Doom. Maybe it comes from Hashem. Maybe Mankind has reached Tower of Bavel status and believe they are infused with the power of G-d.

Either way, it looks Geulah-dic, and if it isn't, well, then the social protesting that results from these terror propaganda agendas will resonate to some people's radars that Moshiach is [relatively] imminent.
My gut feeling is, it is part of The Plan; The Plan is looking more and more real each day. Some would call it a Mushel, I call it revelation of [Jewish] Mazal - davka, and not of the Goyasha velt.


YahooNews.com:

Scattered rain brought some relief to parts of the baking U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, but most of the region remained in the grips of the worst drought in half a century as the outlook for world food supplies and prices worsened. The U.S. Agriculture Department forecast that food prices would now out-pace other consumer costs through 2013 as drought destroys crops and erodes supplies. "The drought is really going to hit food prices next year," said USDA economist Richard Volpe, adding that pressure on food prices would start building later this year.

"It's already affecting corn and soybean prices, but then it has to work its way all the way through the system into feed prices and then animal prices, then wholesale prices and then finally, retail prices," Volpe said in an interview. The USDA now sees food prices rising between 2.5 percent and 3.5 percent in 2012 and another 3-4 percent in 2013. Food prices will rise more rapidly than overall U.S. inflation, the USDA said, a turnabout from the usual pattern. U.S. inflation is estimated at 2 percent this year and 1.9 percent in 2013. Food inflation was 3.7 percent last year but only 0.8 percent in 2010.

On Wednesday, the USDA added another 76 counties to its list of areas designated for disaster aid, bringing the total to 1,369 counties in 31 states across the country. Two-thirds of the United States is now in mild or extreme drought, the agency said. Forecasters said that after weeks of hot, dry weather the northern Corn Belt from eastern Nebraska through northern Illinois was likely to see a second day of scattered rain. But in the southern Midwest, including Missouri and most of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, more hot, dry weather was likely. "

Most of these areas need an excess of 10 inches of rain to break the drought," said Jim Keeney, a National Weather Service meteorologist, referring to Kansas through Ohio. "This front is not expected to bring much more than a 1/2 to 1 inch in any particular area. It's not a drought buster by any means." The central and southern Midwest saw more temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday, with St Louis at 101 F. "There's no change in the drought pattern, just thunderstorms shifting around," said Andy Karst, a meteorologist for World Weather Inc. "There are no soaking rains seen through August 8."

The outlook sent Chicago Board of Trade grain markets higher after prices had come down from last week's record highs. Chicago Board of Trade corn for September delivery closed 4-1/2 cents higher at $7.94-1/2 a bushel, compared to the record high of $8.28-3/4 set last week. August soybeans ended 45 cents higher at $16.94-1/4, compared to last week's record of $17.77-3/4. September wheat rose 24-1/2 cents at $9.03-1/4, compared to last week's 4-year high at $9.47-1/4.

The prices have markets around the world concerned that local food costs will soar because imports will be expensive, food aid for countries from China to Egypt will not be available, and food riots could occur as in the past. The United States is the world's largest exporter of corn, soybeans and wheat. Major losses in the massive U.S. corn crop, which is used for dozens of products from ethanol fuels to livestock feed, have been reported by field tours this week. Soybeans, planted later than corn, are struggling to set pods, but if rain that has been forecast falls, soybeans may be saved from the worst effects of the drought.

A Reuters poll on Tuesday showed that U.S. corn yields could fall to a 10-year low, and the harvest could end up being the lowest in six years. Extensive damage has already been reflected in declining weekly crop reports from Corn Belt states. "Monday's crop ratings showed losses on par with the damage seen during the 1988 drought if these conditions persist," said Bryce Knorr, senior editor for Farm Futures Magazine. "Weather so far has taken almost 4 billion bushels off the corn crop, so a lot of demand must still be rationed." In Putnam County, Indiana, this week, crop scouts did not even stop to inspect corn fields since a glance convinced them that farmers would plow crops under rather than trying to harvest anything. On Wednesday, scouts in central Illinois reported that some corn fields were better than expected, having benefited from early planting and pollination after a warm winter and spring.

Tom Womack of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture said some recent rains had helped soybean prospects, but "the damage that has been done to the corn has been done. No amount of rainfall will help us recover what we lost in the corn crop." Ohio Governor John Kasich signed an order on Wednesday that will allow farmers to cut hay for their livestock from grass growing along highways adjacent to their properties. Fire threats were growing in portions of the Plains. On Wednesday, firefighters from three north-central Nebraska counties and the National Guard battled expanding wildfires that have consumed more than 60,000 acres in the last week. On Wednesday, helicopters dumped water on wildfires, ignited by lightning, that have been burning since the weekend in the Niobrara River Valley. "We are making progress, but continued support is needed," Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman said.

In Missouri, one of the nation's driest states, the highway patrol said smoke from grass and brush fires was creating "very dangerous driving conditions." Discarded cigarettes were cited as a factor in those fires. Across the Midwest, cities and towns restricted water use for gardens and lawns and tried to save stressed trees with drip bags. Reservoir and river levels were low and being carefully watched, and restrictions were placed on barge movements along the Mississippi River and recreational boating. SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME? The U.S. drought has been blamed on the El Nino phenomenon in the western Pacific Ocean, a warming of sea temperatures that affects global atmosphere and can prevent moisture from the Gulf of Mexico from reaching the U.S. Midwest breadbasket. Some scientists have warned that this year's U.S. drought, already deemed the worst since 1956, is tied to climate factors that could have even worse effects in coming years.

Dangerously hot summer days have become more common across the Midwest in the last 60 years, and the region will face more potentially deadly weather as the climate warms, according to a report issued by the Union of Concerned Scientists (USC) on Wednesday. The report looked at weather trends in Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis and St. Louis and smaller cities such as Peoria, Illinois, and Toledo, Ohio. The report found that the number of hot, humid days has increased, on average, across the Midwest since the 1940s and 1950s, while hot, dry days have become hotter. Finding relief from the heat has become more difficult, as all the cities studied now have fewer cool, dry days in the summer and night-time temperatures have risen. "Night-time is typically when people get relief, especially those who don't have air conditioning," said Steve Frenkel, UCS's Midwest office director. "The risks of heat-related illness and death increase with high nighttime temperatures." In Chicago, more than 700 deaths were attributed to a heat wave in July 1995. With more extreme summer heat, annual deaths in Chicago are projected to rise from 143 from 2020-2029 to 300 between 2090-2099, the report said.

Al Gore-Rhythm: CEO of Shtussim [Figure him out]

Would Puff the Magic drago...I mean Al Gore lie to us?
The circus of the second half of 2012 is going to be worth the price of admission, as Rahm Emmanuel says, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
If it isn't real, then Hashem has the best time of all..even more than he had in Egypt.

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