Amalek Owns You - Wakeup

The Torah demands, "Do Not Covet" - Where the late George Carlin would chime in, "That happens to be how the economy works."

George was right, unfortunately, that the transgression of the last of the 10 Commandments is what fuels the World as we know it: "I only want what you have!"

The Middle Class is the basis of Torah Society: Righteousness and Deliberation within the Power of Purchase.

Torah teaches and offers perspective of how to use and view money, and largely even economics as a whole. As God demands in Torah the Middle Class with a Utopian View, the World is responding diligently, ushering it out the door.

"You shall not covet" can be seen as the composite of the 10 Commandments, the benchmark of righteousness and obedience to God's Will; excluding it from society, would mark the end of faith within society.

To be rid of the Middle Class could in many ways be, the end of democracy in its latest incarnation; just another futile attempt of getting it right, whereas a Torah Government, is what the World needs, even if Planet Earth is unaware of God's message of Enlightenment embedded within the Torah, and the last of the 10 Commandments in particular - You Shall Not Covet. (and yes George, the Torah demands a thriving economy too)

Haaretz.com:

The middle class is shrinking, and its purchasing power is shrinking, too, found a Bank of Israel report due to be released this month. The report gives a concrete basis to the sentiments underlying last summer's cost-of-living protests.

Since 2007, goods and services became more expensive, while the middle class's real income remained steady, the bank found.

In contrast, since 1997 the middle class's purchasing power has increased significantly. However, over that period, the percentage of individuals and households in the middle class shrunk.

The central bank's researchers defined middle class as all households with net income between NIS 7,275 and NIS 12,125, which included about one-quarter of all households in 2010 and 2011. Upper-middle class was defined as households with net incomes of NIS 12,125 to NIS 19,400, which includes another quarter of all households. Above NIS 19,400 was defined as upper class, and below NIS 7,275 is lower class.

In 1997, 25.4% of all households were in the lower class; in 2011 the figure was 30.2%. Meanwhile, 28.8% of all households were middle-class in 1997, versus only 24.7% in 2011. The upper-middle class contracted from 26.9% to 25.7%.

Since 2007, the price of basic goods such as housing, rent, food, electricity, cooking gas and water have increased more than incomes, the bank found. The high cost of many of these items helped spark the social protest.

The report was prepared in response to that protest.

"The growing social gaps in Israel, coupled with the political and economic changes around the world, led to dissatisfaction among the core of Israel's society - the middle class. These are the people who are generally said to bear the brunt of the social, economic and defense burden, and they feel that their quality of life and state services are eroding," it states.

The overwhelming majority of middle-class households - 90% - are non-Haredi Jews, as are an even larger percentage of upper-middle class households - 95%.

Half of all households within these two groups include two parents and children, while one-quarter are childless couples. Of those with children, the majority have only one or two. Only 2% of middle-class households and a negligible percentage of upper-middle class households have five children or more.

Over the past two decades, the average age of people in these groups has increased. While the number of people over 65 in the middle class has decreased, their number has increased among the upper-middle class.

Most of these households include two wage-earners. More than 40% of middle-class households and 50% of upper-middle class households include two full-time workers, while the remainder have at least one person who works full-time or is self-employed.

One of the main arguments during last summer's social protest was that the middle class's purchasing power was eroding as expenses increased. The middle class's expenditure on costs such as education and health care grew significantly over the past few decades, while the public expenditure was low compared to that in developed nations, argued protesters.

The central bank said the items that cost middle-class households a significant proportion of their wages were: rent and mortgage payments, public transportation and vehicle maintenance, and preschool.

While the disposable income of the middle class and the upper-middle class increased more quickly than prices until 1997, the trend reversed in 2007, with real wages stagnating while prices continued to increase, stated the bank.

Somehow the Path to Moshiach Must Resolve Economic Issues -> Torah Economics of Novelty in 5772?

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Could Be Amalek - Maybe?

Maybe What Israel Needs Is A Moshiach To Make Moshiach Decisions - who would want to be Bibi on this one?

This could go down in History as the biggest decision of all time!

(outside of LeBron James to the Heat)

But seriously, how many doubts and maybes exist in the bombing Iran option?

I guess we'll get to see the mettle of the infamous Erev Rav - after 3,000 years of preparation and manipulation.

The Guardian:

In his speeches, Binyamin Netanyahu likes to fire up his audiences with frequent references to the Holocaust, Jewish destiny and the fate of future generations. In light of this doomsday rhetoric, one wonders if Israel's prime minister can always distinguish between the real dangers confronting the country and shadows of past traumas. This question is crucial, because to confuse one with the other could sentence Israel to relive those echoes and shadows.

If all that – the tough talk, the big bellows of catastrophe –, is no more than a tactic meant to enlist the world to tighten the screws on Iran, and if the tactic were to succeed without an Israeli attack, then we would happily acknowledge, of course, that the prime minister had done an excellent job, for which he deserves due credit and kudos. But if he indeed thinks and operates within a hermetic worldview that swings between poles of disaster and salvation, we are in a very different universe of discourse.

Instead of a one-dimensional translation of the Israel of 2012 into the Holocaust of European Jewry, one question needs to be asked: is it advisable for Israel, on its own, to enter into a war with Iran, a war whose consequences cannot be foreseen, in order to prevent a future situation that is dangerous indeed but that no one can be sure will ever come to pass? In other words, in order to block a possible disaster in the future, will Israel be driven to initiate a certain disaster in the present?

It's very hard to decide at a moment like this. It would be hard for any Israeli leader, not least Netanyahu, to make a level-headed decision in a situation heavily freighted with the trauma that occurred in the past and another that may occur in the future. Can Netanyahu, amid the tangle of pressures that he creates and inflames, find his way to a practical, clear-minded present? A present reality that need not be part of a tragic, apocalyptic myth that somehow strives for fulfilment again and again, in every Jewish generation?

Because this too is the present reality: there is already a balance of terror in place between Israel and Iran. The Iranians have announced that hundreds of their missiles are aimed at Israeli cities, and it is safe to assume that Israel is not sitting idly by. This balance of terror, say the experts, includes unconventional weapons, biological and chemical. To date, this balance of terror has never been violated.

No one can know for sure that the balance of terror will last. Nor can anyone be certain that it will not. No one can know whether nuclear weapons or knowhow might "trickle" from Iran to terrorist organisations, just as no one can rule out the possibility that the current regime in Iran might be replaced by a more moderate one. Politicians are currently working mainly on the basis of guesswork and fear. One must not belittle the gravity of such conjectures, but can they provide a solid basis for actions that might bring about irreparable damage?

No one in Israel can be absolutely certain that all Iran's nuclear potential would be demolished by an Israeli attack. Nor has anyone precise knowledge of the extent of the death and destruction that an Iranian response would sow in Israeli cities. It is worth remembering the overblown confidence of Israel's leaders and their illusions of accurate military intelligence at the start of the second Lebanon war, or the failures of prediction in the first Lebanon war, which entangled Israel in an 18-year occupation.

Even if the infrastructure of Iran's nuclear project were destroyed, it is impossible to destroy Iranian knowledge. And knowledge, and those who possess it, will rise from the dust – and this time fuelled by the insult of humiliation, and unbridled hatred, and a thirst for vengeance on the part of the whole Iranian people.

Iran, as we know, is not just a radical fundamentalist state. There are wide sectors of the population that are secular, educated and enlightened. There is a broad middle class, including many people who risked their lives in brave demonstrations against the dictatorial religious regime they despise. I am not claiming that the Iranian nation feels any sympathy for Israel, but that same part of the Iranian public, at some point in the future, might be the ones who will lead Iran, and might even warm to Israel. An Israeli attack on Iran would eliminate that possibility for many years; in the eyes even of moderate Iranians, Israel will be permanently perceived as a haughty, megalomaniacal nation, a historic enemy to be fought indefinitely. Is this possibility more or less dangerous than a nuclear Iran?

And what will Israel do if Saudi Arabia decides it wants a nuclear weapon? Attack it too? And if Egypt, under its new regime, heads down that path? Will Israel bomb it? And for ever stay the only country in the region allowed to have nuclear weapons?

Even if these questions have already been voiced, they must be repeated before ears go deaf in the din of battle: will war bring any real gain, any assurance of peaceful life for Israel? Anything that would create the willingness to accept Israel as a partner and neighbour, a willingness that in the long run can render all forms of nuclear arms – Israel's, and those of others – superfluous?

A legitimate answer to these questions, an answer hard to swallow but worthy of public discussion, is this: if economic sanctions do not cause Iran to halt uranium enrichment, and if the United States, for reasons of its own, does not attack it – even then, it would be better for Israel not to attack, even if this means that Israel, gnashing its teeth, would have to live with a nuclear Iran. It is very hard to accept that, and one hopes that international pressure will eliminate this eventuality, but an Israeli attack might be no less painful and bitter. And because there is no way to ascertain that Iran would indeed attack Israel if it had nuclear weapons at its disposal, Israel must not attack Iran. Such an attack would be a rash, wild bet, likely to disfigure our future in ways I dare not even imagine. No, I can imagine it, but my hand refuses to write it.

I do not envy the prime minister, the defence minister and members of the cabinet. Immense responsibility lies upon their shoulders. I think about the fact that in a situation mainly made up of doubt and uncertainty, the one certain thing is often fear. It is tempting for us Israelis to cling to such fears, to let them counsel and guide us, to feel their familiar, reassuring ring. I am sure that those who support an attack on Iran justify it on the grounds that it would be done to forestall the possibility of a bigger nightmare in the future.

But has any person the right to sentence so many people to death, only in the name of a fear of a possibility that might never come to pass?

• This article was translated from Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman.

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Colliding With 2012!

It seems the more they collide, the stranger the World gets (reacts).

They are set for unprecedented levels of output in The Large Hadron Collider -

Why do the Physicists and seemingly every other branch of Wisdom insanely focus on 2012 as a target date?

-Searching For God [Particle] in 2012...will it yield a Godly Response?

Last year they spoke of Time Travel in Geneva - What is on tap for this year?

FoxNews.com

More scientists are getting closer in the search for the "God particle" of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet.
In the hunt for the Higgs boson, which is key to understanding why matter has mass, two teams of physicists using results from a now-closed American accelerator have come up with similar findings to those announced late last year by researchers at the more powerful Large Hadron Collider in Europe.
I don't think there's any place for the Higgs to hide. We'll know the answer one way or another by the end of 2012.
- Rob Roser, Fermi physicist
While the scientists using the two accelerators have not found the elusive subatomic particle, they both have narrowed the area where it can be found, if it exists. And they know where it isn't.
Work done in the Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Lab near Chicago provides important independent confirmation of the getting-closer announcement last year by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, researchers said. The results from work by more than 800 scientists were to be announced in Italy on Wednesday.
"Globally the world is starting to see a consistent picture," said Fermi physicist Rob Roser, a spokesman for one team. "I don't think there's any place for the Higgs to hide. We'll know the answer one way or another by the end of 2012."
Roser said just because they have seen hints of the Higgs, it's not enough. "I'm not even willing to bet your house on it, let alone mine," he said Tuesday.
At Fermi, two teams independently used the accelerator in different ways. Two other teams in Europe used the Large Hadron Collider. Fermi's Tevatron collides protons and antiprotons together, while CERN smashes protons together. That means four different groups using different techniques and equipment have come to the same general conclusion.
Still, that's not certain enough for scientists to even call it evidence, Roser said.
While the results from Fermi's collider aren't as precise as CERN's, they are important because they give the European results more credence, Harvard University physicist Gary Feldman said.
The Tevatron closed in September, so it is likely that the final discovery of the Higgs will be in Europe, Roser said.
The Higgs, first hypothesized 40 years ago, is important to physics because it is crucial to the standard model theory that helps explain the six particles that make up the universe, Roser and Feldman said. Without it, there is no explanation for why the particles have mass.
"It would be a triumph of the theory to actually see that it happens," Feldman said.

Let there be Light 1.0 - Bereishit
Let there be Light 2.0 - Large Hadron Collider
Let there be Light 3.0 - God revealing Ohr Ganuz as Man's Futility Ends;
Moshiach 5772 - ...And Behold, It Was Very Good!

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The Torah's Missing Parsha!

Parashas Ki Sisa: Shem and the Missing Parsha

Rabbi David Katz - Noahidenations.com

In this week’s Torah Portion Ki Sisa, which falls on the heels of the previous Parsha Tetzaveh, we find a very odd dynamic concerning Moses that we can directly relate back to Shem. In Tetzaveh we strangely find an omission of Moses’ name in the Parsha. This week, we seem to find the source of this omission, in that Moses declares to Hashem, “Forgive the Jewish People, or else remove me from your Book!” Interestingly enough, as was mentioned that in the last Parsha Moses’ name was indeed removed, Hashem apparently did in fact decide to remove Moses’ name.
Moses and his name is a topic that must be understood most literally, as we will explain how Moses is actually an incarnation of Shem (whose name literally means “Name”) and the connection between the two.
In this Parsha, the Jewish People have just made the infamous Golden Calf, causing a sin that motivated Moses to pour his heart out to God. By doing so, Hashem and Moses have the following dialogue: “ידעתיך בשם וגם מצאת חן בעיני. ועתה אם נא מצאתי חן בעיניך...” – “…I shall know you by Name, and you have also found favor in my eyes. And now, if I have found favor in your eyes…”
The Arizal (A rabbi who lived in Tzfat Israel around the year 1600), states that this exchange between Hashem and Moses, reveals that this term, “בשם” / “by Name” is actually coming literally to say that this is an audible account that Moses is an incarnation of Shem [ben {son of} Noach]. And the, “favor in my eyes quote (favor –חן)” is actually the letters of Noach (נח) rearranged, which the Arizal says that Moses is an incarnation of Noach as well.
( In the future Moses will reach the level termed “Nun [50] Shaarei Binah – The Gates of Understanding, where the letter Nun [נ] will be added to his name, where he will be become the Final Redeemer termed “Messiah son of Menashe [ Moses with a Nun –משה+ נ= מנשה]. Menashe thus stands for Moses, Shem, Able, and Noah in initial letters מ'נ'ש'ה.)
Thus at the time of the Golden Calf and Moses’ prayer, he was aware that he was an incarnation of Shem, yet it was a novelty that he was an incarnation of Noah as well, which is why the “Nun” is hidden from him at this time, until the incarnation is complete with full Understanding in the End of Days. The basis for this Incarnation – Redeemer relationship is as the Midrash says, “The First Redeemer is as the Last Redeemer”; The First Redeemer is of course Noach as Moses will be the Incarnated Last Redeemer. Moses sensed that he was missing this level of Understanding and thus said to Hashem: “Please, send who you will send!” Had Moses been aware of the extent of his soul, perhaps the Complete Redemption would have taken place, but what was known to Moses was his soul connection to Shem, especially since Moses’ name is essentially “Shem” with a “Heh.”
Now that Moses is praying to Hashem in harsh terms to receive forgiveness for the Golden Calf, perhaps there is an element within Moses of Shem that is particularly addressing Hashem. We can see that Hashem focuses on this aspect the strongest, “I have known you by Name!” And it is from this level that Moses suggests to be removed from the Book of Torah - or in clearer terms, this was our ancient echo of Shem – and his omission!
As we come to Shem and his connection to this passage of the Golden Calf, remember what we said at the beginning of this passage, that in the previous Torah Portion it was Moses’ name that was omitted from the Torah, thus Hashem did fulfill Moses’ “request.” But our famous inquiry still remains as strong as ever – where is our Torah Portion of Shem?
The Torah begins with Bereishit, moves along promptly to Noah, and then all of a sudden we find ourselves learning about Abraham in Lech Lecha. Therefore one can say we are to learn about Adam and the beginning of the World, building up to Noah and his salvation, until we are thrust into a brand new world of – Abraham? Where is Shem? His Priesthood? His Kingship? His offspring? His Life??
The Torah literally makes no mention of Shem, almost as if he does not exist. It is such an exclusion, one must refrain from ignorance (and to deny Greatness to Shem) and seek to answer the hidden claim against Hashem.
The Noahide represents a level that transcends traditional conversion to Judasim, one that the Torah demands as a pinnacle of service to Hashem: to Love Hashem your God. The Noahide is this level, as it was the first Sinai Noahide, Jethro, who converted out of this “Love of Hashem” (urging him to say, “Baruch Hashem”). However, one must not lose focus of a more basic yet fundamental level in serving God: Fear of God!
Moses and therefore Shem by this point of the Torah, must have reached a Love of God, and “they” are reminded of the power of fearing God. Moses may have been correct to speak harshly to Hashem, and maybe Hashem was testing him to see if Moses was really ready to give his life to God, and of course this would go back onto Shem as well, as this was his portion of soul directly involved, with the declaration to be removed from the Torah! Thus when it becomes audible, “Remove me from your Book,” we see Hashem meant it! Not only was Moses’ name removed from one entire Parsha, but Shem is removed from the Torah! By removing Shem from having a deserved Parsha in his name, it will serve as a constant reminder of the seriousness and fear of Hashem. This may seem trivial, but realize this: with Shem being removed from a Parsha status – he has been given an immense test over time. With scholars focusing on the revealed aspects of Torah, it has become a tremendous challenge for scholars over time to piece together the life of Shem. This is not so much of a punishment to Shem, rather a reality: Ask to be removed =removal. No bluff. No take backs. No do-overs. Only the Fear of God. This was the level of Shem. Not only did he Love God, but he was able to walk the line with God.
There is a principle in Torah, that the greatest darkness and can produce an even greater revelation. And from God’s strict Justice, we must seek to find the greatest kindness. Remember, Shem was a Priest to God Above (with connotations of Kindness). Thus once Shem is removed from the Torah, and the Fear that he may be lost, is motivation and desire to find the Torah of Shem, and when inevitably found, it will influence an even greater Love of God. Shem may have been “removed” as a test, but God forbid if he was lost. The only things removed from the Torah of Shem were the words, but Shem reaches a far greater existence –in Wisdom! When we search for the Wisdom of Shem and his Torah, it now has the power to resonate even greater and multi-dimensionally than words could contain. Thus his plight with Hashem within Moshe was his soul yearning to be free, much like the way he shed his body and waited at Mt. Sinai for 1300 years upon the Giving of the Torah.
This was a tremendous leap for Shem, for if there was no Torah upon the name of Shem, could he be lost forever? Shem was no stranger to this level of Faith, as he suppressed his own seed, so that he could find and teach a student and future generation like Abraham; Shem defined walking a fine line with God, thus Shem not only Loved God, but thrived off of his fearing of Him. It was from this level that Moses could speak harshly with Hashem, and potentially risk everything. What Moses forgot was the Love of God, as would have been represented by Noah! Noah was a perfectly righteous man who lived with his Love of God. Moses’ job in the Parsha was to find Harmony of both levels of service: Love and Fear of God.
Moses may have been removed from only one Parsha, yet it is Shem who was removed from the Book. In the end, Shem lost essentially nothing, as his Wisdom endures, his Love lives on, and his ways of the Noahide lives on in an extra Parsha in his merit: “Jethro!” In the end, Shem lost nothing, while risking it all; only his risk wasn’t really a risk, it was taking serious levels of Torah seriously, as we all should.
Shem teaches all of us an invaluable lesson: how to serve Hashem with a full heart: of Love and Fear of God with Wisdom, exactly the way the Torah demands of us. King Solomon himself brings down these three essential levels of service in his three books: Wisdom, Fear, and Love (Proverbs, Kohelet, Song of Songs).
The Jewish People sinned, and Moses wrestled with God. Moses may have won had he not tried to rub in his victory (as Moses comes from the Emanation level of Victory – Netzach). He forgot where he came from in his soul, the level of Noach, the level of Love. Shem rose to greatness only because of the Love of Noah for his son Shem. It was this relationship, of which the Arizal says Shem and Noah were one in a sense, where Shem received Love along with his Fear, of which cultivated a relationship to God with Wisdom.
Where Moses forgot about Love, and he seemed to be punished, remember whose voice was stretching forth: Shem, and all that he represents – a complete relationship with Hashem, one that defies logic. If you trust in Hashem, then even when you think you are forgotten from before God, remember Shem – of whom Hashem said to Moses, “I have known you by Name.” Shem served from his soul with Love and Fear, and he will never be forgotten; it is our job to do the same, and if it comes to a head with extinction as an option in judgment – remember that you too will be remembered, like Shem who opened the door of remembrance, to he who serves with a whole heart, as the Torah demands. We know the Torah is possible to achieve, just look at Shem and what he accomplished in the Torah; remember, he’s there.

5772- Are we there yet?

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Fallen Syria - Another Fallen Sar of Yishmael!

Obama brought down Libya the same way he is threatening in Syria...Done Deal.

YahooNews:

Syrian tanks bombarded opposition areas in Homs overnight and the Red Cross tried for a sixth day to gain access to Baba Amr, a fallen rebel stronghold where activists have reported bloody reprisals by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
President Barack Obama said it was only a matter of time before Assad left office, describing Syria's turmoil as "heartbreaking and outrageous," but opposed a call by a senior U.S. senator for American military action to force him out.
No independent witnesses have been allowed into Baba Amr since troops retook it on Friday after a four-week siege, increasing concern about the fate of about 4,000 civilians estimated to have remained in the shattered neighborhood.
Local opposition activists said troops and pro-Assad militiamen occupying Baba Amr had killed seven males, including a 10-year-old, from the Berini family with knives. "They were stabbed to death yesterday. Their bodies were dumped in farmland next to Baba Amr," Mohammed al-Homsi told Reuters.
Syria imposes severe media restrictions, making such reports hard to verify, although the United Nations has compiled evidence of abuses it says amount to crimes against humanity.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said an aid convoy destined for Baba Amr had been awaiting permission to enter since Friday. "We have not made it in," the ICRC's Damascus-based spokesman Saleh Dabbakeh said.
The world has found no way to halt a year of bloodshed since many Syrians rose against Assad in what has proved the longest and bloodiest of Arab revolts against entrenched rulers.
At the United Nations, the five permanent Security Council members and Morocco met on Tuesday to discuss a U.S.-drafted resolution urging an end to the Syrian government's crackdown on demonstrators, a text some Western envoys said was too weak.
Russia and China, adamantly opposed to any Libya-style intervention in Syria, have vetoed two previous draft measures that would have condemned Damascus and it is not clear whether the latest one stands any chance of success.
According to a text seen by Reuters, the U.S. draft demands "unhindered humanitarian access" and "condemns the continued widespread, systematic, and gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities."
AMOS'S DELAYED VISIT
Top U.N. humanitarian official Valerie Amos, denied entry to Syria last week, was due there on Wednesday. Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan plans his first visit to Damascus as joint envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League on Saturday.
Diplomacy has yet to brake a conflict likely to have cost more than 10,000 lives: the United Nations said security forces had killed well over 7,500 people and Syria said in December that "terrorists" had killed more than 2,000 security personnel.
Assad, who has promised a multi-party parliamentary election in May, told a visiting Ukrainian lawmaker that the power of any state lay in popular support and that Syrians had proved they would pursue reforms and "confront terrorism backed by foreign sides," the state news agency SANA reported on Wednesday.
Apart from the shelling of the Homs districts of Karm al-Zeitoun, Jub al-Jandali and Deir Baalba, opposition sources said Syrian troops had staged raids in the towns of Qara and Yabroud north of Damascus, and in the northern city of Aleppo.
The White House said Obama was committed to diplomacy to end the violence, saying Washington wanted to isolate Assad, cut off his sources of revenue and encourage unity among his opponents.
"Ultimately this dictator will fall," Obama said, while rejecting a call by Senator John McCain for a U.S.-led effort to protect Syrian civilians with air strikes on Assad's forces.
"For us to take military action unilaterally, as some have suggested, or to think that somehow there is some simple solution, I think is a mistake," the president said.
Assad can still count on powerful allies such as Russia and China, as well as others such as Iran, Venezuela and Cuba.
China sent Li Huaxin, its former ambassador in Syria, to Damascus this week and SANA said he had reiterated Beijing's "opposition to interference in Syrian internal affairs."
However, China is bringing workers home from Syria in an apparent attempt to avoid a repeat of last year's rescue of its nationals from Libya due to violence there.
Only about 100 Chinese workers will be left behind to guard work camps and equipment, Commerce Minister Chen Deming said, without saying how many Chinese workers would be repatriated.

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Applaud Optimism: Goodbye Iran

Two things about Israeli's: Ultra Prepared and Ultra Not Stupid

This operation on Iran has had an eternity of preparation - Foolishness is to underestimate Erev Rav - especially on the point of pursuing Pax Judaica - their Ancient Desire and Purpose.

NYDailyNews.com:

Israel's “determination to prevent confrontation states . . . from gaining access to nuclear weapons” is the preemptive foreign policy doctrine of the Jewish state.

Those were the historic words of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s administration. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Begin’s death, and his legacy is currently playing out in Israel’s drive to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

The Begin doctrine has been implemented twice in Israel’s history. In June 1981, Israel launched Operation Opera to destroy the Osirak nuclear reactor outside Baghdad. In September 2007, Israeli jets launched Operation Orchard, targeting Syria’s secret nuclear facility at al-Kibar.

Unlike Syria and Iraq, the Iranians have multiple nuclear installations scattered across the country, each over 1,000 miles away from Israel. To knock out the six key sites and return home safely would be the greatest challenge the Israeli air force has faced since its founding.

The heavy water reactor at Arak and uranium enrichment facility at Isfahan both sit above ground, making them vulnerable. Similarly, Iran’s nuclear plant at Bushehr is, like Osirak, a wide-open target.

The vast military complex at Parchin, where Iran denied access to International Atomic Energy Agency inspections last month, has more than 100 buildings, many of which lie deep underground. The uranium enrichment complex at Natanz consists of both buried and ground-level buildings.

A second enrichment facility is buried deep into the side of a mountain at Fordo, near the holy city of Qom. Burrowed under 300 feet of rock, the Fordo facility is located in a hardened tunnel.

This would require successive bunker-busting attacks to knock out its operation.

President George W. Bush promised — and President Obama delivered — untold numbers of GBU-28 bunker busters, which can tunnel through concrete before exploding deep underground. President Bush is also rumored to have sold Israel several midair refueling aircraft.

Writing in last month’s daily Die Welt, Hans Rühle, who directed the planning department of the German Defense Ministry from 1982 to 1988, expressed almost supreme confidence that Israel’s air force could obliterate Iran’s main nuclear sites. He believes that with 25 of its 87 F-15 fighter planes and a smaller deployment of F-16 jets, the Israelis could destroy all six of Iran’s key sites.

Israeli jets could fly directly over Jordan and Iraq. In 1981, Jordan chose not to challenge the IAF, and the withdrawal of U.S. forces today effectively leaves Iraq with no air defenses.

They might also approach Iran through Turkey, but its termination of military ties with Israel and preoccupation with the Syrian civil war bode poorly for this option.

Finally, Israeli jets could swoop south and enter Iran through Saudi airspace. WikiLeaks dispatches on the Iranian nuclear threat reveal Saudi King Abdullah’s desire to “cut off the head of the snake.”

Benjamin Netanyahu is not likely to be the first Israeli prime minister to abandon the Begin doctrine. And however the Israelis might get to Iran, more than likely, they can.

— Benjamin Weinthal is a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

What could be the biggest weapon against Emunah in the End of Days is Misinformation.

I believe this article for the first time is telling the truth. The other side does not want people believing victory in Iran is possible...and thus the misinformation.

When Moses fought Amalek, he raised his hands in Emunah...thus for this war we must also have Emunah, and recognize our terrain.

There is so much at stake here, failure is not an option, which is why I believe this war will be the final birthpangs of Moshiach - It's that big.

The main point that separates this war from other wars, is that all the players are here (at astronomical odds) and every prophecy is starting to show.

According to the Ramchal, we are in the last stages of Histaras Panim (Divine Darkness), which means the revelation of Redemption is being sewn.

If this is not the Geulah, then I think a lot of people will join Chazal, when they say, "let Moshiach come and let me not live to see it." - can it get any more complex than now?

Out of Complexity Must Come Novelty.
Is The Gra Correct That 5772 Is The Most Complex Of Times?

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Dating Destiny Within Jewish Astrology

This year we will see the "Venus Transit" - Venus' pass through our vision of the Sun.


The famous Zohar that speaks of the Geulah in "72" seems to describe this passing quite well!
[A flame of Black Fire will be held in the Raqia for 60 days...]


Also "Timewave Zero" suggests our decent into the Novelty of 2012 will begin on the Transit Date.


Did the Mayans base everything around visualizing Venus? Did the Zohar give us an Observation Point?


NationalParksTraveler.com:

An upcoming solar eclipse may attract more attention, but some parks are also planning for visitors who would like to observe an even more unusual celestial event. The Venus Transit on June 5 will be a literal "last chance in your lifetime" occurrence.

Many of us aren't familiar with the term "Venus Transit," so we'll begin with an explanation of what to expect … and why it's so unusual.

A transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes directly between the sun and earth. Observers in the northern hemisphere will see Venus appear to move from left to right across the upper half of the Sun at a slight downward angle.

According to experts at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, "Transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun are among the rarest of planetary alignments." They're so rare, in fact, that only seven such events have occurred since the invention of the telescope (1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882 and 2004.)

If this is of interest to you, it would pay to mark your calendar for June 5. The next similar occurrence won't roll around until December of 2117!

As we mentioned in yesterday's Traveler, the upcoming solar eclipse on May 20 is getting a lot of attention in parks, primarily because more people are familiar with the term "eclipse"—and that phenomenon is also easier to see, with proper eye protection, without a telescope.

Bryce Canyon National Park, for example, holds an annual astronomy festival, and decided to move this year's event to take advantage of the May 20 solar eclipse. That doesn't mean, however, that the Venus Transit will be overlooked.

Kevin Poe is the "dark ranger" at Bryce Canyon—the park's key contact for programs focusing on the night sky. For 2012, however, both the May 20 solar eclipse and the June 5 Venus Transit offer daytime opportunities to help visitors enjoy and understand unusual natural events visible from the park.

“The Venus Transit is an event that’s several hours long," Poe explained. "Unlike [the May 20 eclipse], which is two hours long, with only five minutes of the annularity where the moon is almost completely in the way, the Venus Transit lasts for a longer time. So for that event, on June 5, we’re just going to make it an open house thing. It won’t be a grand festival, but we’ll let everybody know that they can come to Bryce on June 5 and look through a bunch of telescopes and watch it …as it slowly moves across the face of the Sun.”

Another park with an active astronomy program is Great Basin National Park in Nevada. A spokesperson says the park will have activities all day long leading up to the beginning of the transit at 3:00PM (PDT) on June 5. Participants can learn how astronomers used earlier Venus Transits to calculate the size of the solar system, and try it out for themselves. Special safe solar telescopes to view the transit will be available, along with a chance to build your own solar viewing telescope. Special safe solar viewing glasses will be available for purchase in the park bookstores.

As time for the event draws closer, other parks are expected to schedule similar activities. The National Park Service has created a web page for the event, which notes, "In the hours before sunset, every park in the contiguous United States, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands will be able to view most of the transit in the few hours before sunset."

Best views will be in "parks located in the Pacific such as Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and American Samoa," where observers will be able to see the entire event. (On the U. S. mainland, sunset will occur before the transit has finished.) "For serious photographers, the Pacific parks offer an amazing setting to photograph the entire sequence of Venus racing across the face of the Sun."

As is the case for viewing a solar eclipse, getting a safe look at Venus crossing the face of the sun will require some special precautions or equipment, although those items need not be expensive. Another option that won't require anything but a home computer will originate from a unique site located on the island of Hawaii, not far from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

The Mauna Kea Observatory, located at the 13,796-foot summit of Mauna Kea houses the "world's largest observatory for optical, infrared, and submillimeter astronomy." It's the highest point in the Pacific Basin, and normally a reliable spot for clear skies in June. For the Venus Transit, a cooperative effort by NASA, the Sun Earth Day Team and the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy will offer a live 'remote' webcast from Mauna Kea, showing the Venus Transit in its entirety in real time. You'll find more information at this link.

If you'd like to find out what time the Venus Transit will be visible from your home, a park or any other location in the country, you can use a "Transit computer" provided by the U. S. Naval Observatory. You can enter a city and state and determine the beginning and ending times that the transit will be visible, along with the all-important sunset time. Note that times are given in "Universal Time"; a chart at this link will allow an easy translation into your time zone.

The length of time the transit will be visible before sunset becomes longer the further west you travel in the U. S. In Hilo, Hawaii, the transit will be visible for 6 hours and 34 minutes. The viewing time in San Francisco lasts for 5 hours and 22 minutes, but in the New York City vicinity, it shrinks to 2 hours and 19 minutes.

A bit of trivia connects an earlier Venus Transit with a well-known American composer. John Philip Sousa, who was reported to be very interested in the 1882 transit, wrote his "Venus Transit March" in 1882-83 at the request of The Smithsonian Institution. Despite its name, the march wasn't written specifically in commemoration of the transit itself, but rather to honor Joseph Henry, a highly-regarded American physicist who died in 1878.

If you're interested in night sky and other astronomy-related programs, events and information from national parks around the country, you'll find lots of useful details on the website for Night Sky Parks.

5772 : Instead of this Picture, Will We See a Built Beis Hamikdash on The Temple Mount?
We may not see anything strange - but something tells me that we feel a bit strange.

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Seeing Amalek in Reality

Parshas Zachor

תִּמְחֶה אֶת זֵכֶר עֲמָלֵק מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם לֹא תִּשְׁכָּח

Devarim 25:19

"Wipeout Amalek + DON'T FORGET" -Are people forgetting something?

בשם גר''א זכר רב טובך בסגול תחת הזיי''ן כדעת הרד''ק וכן בפרשת זכור את זכר עם סגול

In the name of the Gr'a ''זכר רב טובך'' with the segul [the 3 dot vowel] under the זין like the da'as of the Radak, and thus also Parshas Zachor ''et zecher'' [with the segul].

Interestingly, "זין" means "weapon", fitting for the Mitzvah of Wiping out Amalek!

Chofetz Chaim: Chilchos Arbah Parshios

The laws of the four parshiot - Mishna Brura 685:18

"Be careful to read the words in their tune and their melody when you read parshas Zachor''

"know, that there are those who say [Gr'a], that you need to read "zeicher" Amalek

with a צירי tzeiri and those that say that you need to read ''zecher'' Amalek with a segol

Source: ועל כן מהנכון שהרורא יקרא  שניהם לצאת ידי שניהם - Mahril

"Therefore, it is fitting that the reader should read both of them to "go out" by means of both ways" - the emphasis is on "read" and not "say".  Sfardim "read" both and say one; Ashkenazim have the minhag to literally read and say both versions aloud.  However, the best way to do it, is as the Mishna Brura says:  "read".  With both ways, have in mind two and vocalize one - thus the entire mind is focused on the mitzvah.

Amalek is classified by the Gr'a as Erev Rav and the Erev Rav Amalek is deemed "baalei machlokes", thus it is of baalei machloket to consider this a "machloket" - this is simply a kavanah of two kavanot.  Ironically, if one were to ask, what is the machloket based on, the answer one would find is "I dont know!" (...due to the obscurity of the sourced Vilna Gaon) And if "learned" the response would be, "I forget." (...interestingly enough, many are not taught or even aware of the source being this obscure Vilna Gaon) The irony is, it isn't a machloket at all, it's a kavanah from the Gr'a from the Radak and brought down by the Chofetz Chaim as a tool of weaponry in the kriah to defeat Amalek. Thus to "forget" the source of the machloket is indeed ironic since the mitzvah in the psukim clearly says "you shall not forget!"  So when we read Parshas Zachor the ikkar kriah is to vocalize the tzeiri and have in mind the segol at the same time.  With this, one is definitely "yotzie" the mitzvah to read both while vocally pronouncing one; two single attempts is an expression and manifestation of sufek; sufek is the gematria of Amalek.

To beg the question: are you yotzie at all? Did you declare war on Amalek?  Thus the spiritual war in the mitzvah is brought down by the Radak, the Gr'a, and brought to light by the Chafetz Chaim.

This is the one mitzvah where it would be a Chilul Hashem to find sufek and machloket surrounding it. The objective is and must be understood clearly to wipeout Amalek.

The basis of the Gra is to show that two separate "parts" or ideas can actually be fashioned into one harmonious being as it is said in Navi: "they will become one in my hand".  From schism we find the repair of schism.  God forbid that Divine Schism should lead to disunity.  May the mitzvah of Parshas Zachor weigh heavily in the merit of bringing achdut to Am Yisrael.

May we witness the full wiping out of Amalek and eliminate sufek and baseless machloket this year with the fall of Erev Rav and Amalek...leading us to a Geulah Shleimah speedily in our days of 5772.
 Amen.

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