SAYS WHO?

   Any source of news in print or online, on podcast, wherever, seems to be choosing to pass on news that is news only in their eyes and compromised by falsehoods. Anything which will convince its patrons to walk with them rather than seek out, if possible, a more nonpartisan source. Mind you that it is not only the purveyors of the news who promote this kind of misbehavior, but also those who patronize it, those who seek out it out. Clicking over and over again until they find the news that suits their taste.

Moreover, it has been found over the centuries that the better speaker, not necessarily the truth speaker, will be the one who carries the audience. Adding insult to injury, much of what it is contained in the words of those more talented orators are far from the truth. The truth would not be pleasing to the ears of those listening, to the ears and mindsets of those who devalue the truth and support the words crafted to attract and sooth, to confuse and to induce them to follow the wrong Pied Piper.

And it works. Too well. And for too long. 

Why does nobody form a union of brilliant minds dedicated to the truth rather than to opinions? Leaving behind their personal preferences or wishes of what would be, what should be. Why can they not come to an agreement actually defined and understandable in manner? What motivates humans? Do they have the wherewithal to create, or must they merely understand what is created, has been created for them and live together in a comfortable plane of compromise, understanding and acceptance. Can we not live a good life based on that which was created and then branch out with thoughts and processes emanating from that initial tree of creation and find a unity within? Room within for all? 

We know there is a possibility. We know because we have engaged in both sides of that argument.  Proof of that arises from within my life and yours and is both secular and religious in manner and application. Daily, we pick up a book, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and it matters not. Whatever it is the author has created from his mind, the minds of his readers will interpret as they wish. As they find meaning within that connects to their individual selves. As new creation grows from the initial creation.   

There is another side to creation. The Lord G-d has created a world for us to live upon, to improve upon, even as we improve ourselves. Sadly, we have been seriously lacking in fulfilling that task. From those very clear explications, we messed up. We interpreted using the arrogance of mankind. We remained willfully blind to the truths within. Instead of following the words and profound truths and thoughts of the creator, of taking lesson and meaning from all that was relayed to us, via this initial creation, we decided to become the creators ourselves, thinking we had to leave the original words to others as we chose new ones for ourselves. 

The initially created words set upon us the responsibility to grow these words and to create from them the bloom of new creations, positive in tone and intent and meaning. We, humanity, did so many times as we sought for justice and rights for all, for a society which benefitted its population rather than oppressed it. Those who interpreted the words correctly, tried and strived to imbue their new creations, the branches of the initial one, with intelligence and compassion, with honor and respect to all living beings. 

Those who did not, created and imposed their own false creations as an overlay to the true and original ones. Hence, they thereby diminished within the minds of all the truth of that original Creator and His creations. The first line of the Bible "In the beginning, G-d created the heavens and the earth." It does not say that he did so with the idea in mind of a stasis of disorder, crime and bloodshed. He rather allowed for new branches, new ideas, new creations stemming from the original, hewing close to it in its intent and goals.

Humanity, being overfull of hubris and self-importance, decided they cannot mesh all the thoughts within one theme. They claim a mammoth abyss which precludes the ability, the desire, with which to comprehend and build to greater depths and heights and widths all that could be found and brought to life. Ideas of creation which would infuse the original Creation with the gifts of new levels of creation, in thought and deeds.

One of the very first things we must do to improve the state of life upon this planet is to emphasize its glories rather than its apparent flaws and try as hard as one can. To find the point where differing ideas actually meet and touch and set forth new blooms, leading to creations which will enhance the original one and allow us to understand its possibilities and probabilities of proper and noble ideas rather than for self-glory and enhancement of one's own wealth. 

If we are to do that, we must explore further the meaning and the manifestations of human consciousness. We must find ways wherein those who are supporters of one theory as opposed to another, learn to delve deeper, to understand better and actually see within their own mind the unity that can be found in these seemingly opposing theories. It can be done. Yes, sometimes with great difficulty, but available, even new ones which had never before made themselves known to us, rise to the surface.

Read some of the following quotes which I assure you come from very different sources and see if and where you can find the possibilities, at least a way to start trying to work together to improve the situation and conditions of mankind, the lives of all including oneself.

"Coincidence is G-d's way of staying anonymous"

"With our thoughts we create the world."

"Whatever you ask for in prayers it will be yours."

"You have the power of G-d."

"Everything is created twice; first in the mind and then in reality"

"Everything you can imagine is real"

Yesterday, today, tomorrow.

For all eternity.

Thinking within the minds of man and woman is a good thing. As long as we understand where the energy, the power to create new blooms according to truth and the best part of humankind originally arise.

Says who?

All of us.

But only with the truth.

V'ACHSHAV? AND NOW?

  So, in fact, what do we expect of the world today? Will there be a strong and unbreakable link between the current events and the events that will be taking place in the near future? Is there something now wherein I can actually have some effect in a positive manner on the fate of the world and its inhabitants?  Or is it the case of "farfallen"? No use. What will be will be. We will have to remain here in a stasis, unable truly to have any effect upon this troubled world of ours. Is the only thing left for us to do in any kind of positive and penetrating effect is the deepening of the depth of our fears? In our turning to our Creator and pleading in sincere manner, in sincere repentance and thusly to effect change upon the future spreading itself out before our very eyes.

Is this what we have to see? Is this what we must know deep inside the veins and arteries and sinews of our bodies and minds? To truly understand that we are the determiners of our own fate? That our Lord above acts as a recording secretary and mathematician who frequently adds up the summary of all that we have done and spoken? Who then takes on the difficult task to decide whether we have crossed a line of no return or in fact does there remain a single, small, narrow, rocky path back to where we should be, to what we should be, to all that the world should be.  

The responsibility of what will be the inevitable non-returnable non-reversible state of the here and now does not reside only upon the shoulders of one or two, or thousands of a particular state of mind in body, biological, physical, and political. It is an onus of duty which devolves upon the world.

 It calls for an understanding and acceptance that we now, via our actions and words, in our understanding of the power of the individual and the masses, internalize the ability and the duty to never give up, and move forth, both individually and en-masse, to never give up. This we learn from Avraham Avinu who challenges the Lord on His decision to destroy sinful cities. Perhaps, Abraham  thought, there are enough of the few to overcome the faults of the many and hence inject a new possibility of new and better futures for all. Of all.

 Whether we are successful or not is not the point. The point is never to throw our hands up in the air and say there was no other way. There was no other fate. We are to be doomed to wither away on the poisons we have sowed. There remains that possibility of the Lord who not only records, but who also understands and forgives and allows for yet another chance to do the right thing. To live in the right as we are meant to do. In fact, just as a few good deeds can redeem an individual, so too can the few righteous people among evil doers. It need not necessarily mean the redemption of all, but even the few can reseed and revive the barren earth. Revive the greenery that must be part of every person's life. 

This wondering and questioning, the seeking of the answer to what now, devolves not only upon the leaders of nations but also upon the individuals of those nations. If there is enough resistance to evil plans, to selfish policies, to harmful mindsets, possibilities of redemption can arise. But there is also the question, v'achshav, which lingers in the air. When something happens in the life of an individual, causing one to stop, to take the time to think and understand the meaning of what has happened, we must hear the knocking on the door and react and behave accordingly.

Sometimes we human beings lose our way. We realize we are now offroad. Groping in the dark. Tripping on the pebbles and rocks. Falling into   holes of the roadway. We're wondering in that darkness in those frightening moments whether we have indeed reached the point of too little, too late? We send up our pleading words to the heavens above and beg for forgiveness. We make promises to do better, to be better, but even within those moments we also know the frailty of humans and try though we might, fight as hard as we can, we will inevitably fail and fall down once again in the darkness. But we also hang our hopes that enough of us, our individual self, will be better. Will learn from the moments of fright, at least enough to rethink, reevaluate and rebuild in the "what now”.

The past few days, even a few weeks, have been a tad frightening for me and for family with me. It was a painful time for me, both physically and emotionally. Nor is it over yet, as lasting effects will remain for some time. However, at one point, thinking the worst was happening, I had to think long and hard about the "and what now" in my life. There have been dismaying changes, backwards steps taken, but I am determined to come back, if not better, than at least approaching it and always on the way forwards.

I am extremely grateful for the care and concern and aid I have been given and the chance to at least improve myself.

Yesterday, today, tomorrow.

We are always facing challenges. The question is, will we be able to meet the challenges, better ourselves, and better the world around us. To create not only a good v'achshav, but also a hopeful positive Atid - future in as best a manner as we can.

SSE YOU SOON

 Due to medical reasons, I have not posted in a few days. I hope to start posting shortly

THE NAME GAME

  

 Sounds like an interesting title, does it not? However, it is far more than that. The names are etched deeply within the hearts and souls of all right thinkers around the world. Neither is it a game. Only the games of the violence of the Roman Empire and their gladiator system of entertainment play equally, even over the top with 'deadly games'. Certainly, those of the same barbaric lines of thought and 'justification' call out in blood-soaked tongue and guttural voices of hate urging its continuance. Unfortunately, there are too many of the same bent and hence the consequential championing of the worst of the worst sins of modern society grows exponentially with barely a voice being raised against these bloody games.

None of the names involved are names of those who willingly participated. Who took upon themselves the consequences of involvement within such a horror that has plagued mankind for millennia. The only way it has changed is in the number of names etched permanently into the flesh and blood of their friends, rheir families, those who were 'accused' of the same crime - which in actuality was truly a crime, only in its continual and permanent ingathering of the names of the innocents who bore those names.

There were many nations and peoples of this world who have been subjected to horrors of deadly threats of annihilation, of detachment from the roles of humanity, but no other has been a source of horror and a refuge for the ugly, continuously, down through the ages with rarely a voice raised in protest. No aid promised nor provided. It has become one of the most reliable of the crimes of   humanity. 

Even more terrifying are the cheers and support and participation it receives from growing hordes of humankind apparently needful of exercising the worst of their traits, the lowest of the low of humankind. I do not believe that we are approaching this matter properly as we try to display our 'humanity' before and to a disbelieving and uncaring world. The convinced are just not willing to hear the truth of the words of those few who oppose the horror. The willful, engendering and enabling of such as has been wreaked upon fellow human beings. 

Unfortunately, at the cost of much spilled blood, harm to the nation, and swaths of infrastructure damage, all our efforts to gain friends and shed   "allies" who give haven to those who wish to slaughter us have been grossly unsuccessful. More costly are the results of that lack of insight into the twisted minds of those arrayed before us in bloody enmity armed with ghastly plans which too often have come to fruition at great cost to us as a people, as a family.

Once upon a time, hoping, praying, we could actually find some of our traditional enemies and from those rejoicing in refreshed ancient memes of hate, we, once and again, as always, found only disappointment and a feeling that we are facing   enemies who bring down mountains upon us and all we have to fight and defend ourselves are pebbles and unreliable 'friends' who have no understanding of the meaning of true friendship.  

Furthermore, so sorry and sad to say, we have wasted much valuable time, energy and funds, squandered the blood which too often was considered to be the unavoidable cost of our maintenance of independence and recognition. Then there are those who mistakenly believe that there are enough likeminded who wish for peace and buy into their apparently false fronts. 

Once upon a time I had a hope that this path might   succeed, even against all odds, but always the realities, the blood, the cries of the bereft and the wounded, that a true peace, a peace trustworthy in every aspect is nigh unto impossible. The ways and manners of thoughts and thinking, the values of the societies are too distant to ever reach a true and solid accommodation. 

Now, I believe, along with many others that a peace can be achieved only via unity within our own people and a true understanding to the depths of their every sinew and bone, that peace will come only and always, when we are strong, in every which way it matters when dealing with hostile and neighboring nations.

 It can be a peace, making room for, if not amiable, then acceptable relationship, and a definite knowledge that peace must prevail and the   consequences of attempts to overthrow that peace will be met with iron gloves sans the velvet glove coverings. That way has come and gone, long ago  proven to be inadequate and unsuccessful in maintaining peace. 

The following paragraphs will be statements made by others or numbers that I thought relevant to the posting.

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

One day the truth will be clear, and the way will be clear, and we truly will have a time when nation shall not lift up a sword against another nation and the power of these weapons will imbue creations of metal made to improve the lives of all people on this earth.

And the truth of the promises will be evident to all whether they wish to see and hear the truth or not.

The nation will finally understand the importance of unity, of brotherhood, and the power of the many promises that G-d has made along with the fulfillment of our duties as well. To obey the laws of our Torah, to be a light unto the nations of the world.

JewHatred does not disappear, whether there are Jews in the neighborhood or not. The absent Jew is just as good a target as a real Jew. We know it and we must act accordingly - with strength and knowing that we will survive. Always.

"There is no difference between Hamas and Fatah."

"A few years ago I met a Palestinian. During a conversation regarding peace between our people, this was his response. He looked at me calmly and said: You Israelis are strong now. The USA is your bigdaddy. But I want you to know that the moment we feel you're weak-we'll come in and slaughter you all."

"For years we have tried to convince ourselves that the other side are people who think like us and that if we just gave them a better life and a state of their own, everything will work out. We tried the carrot   approach...on Oct7 it all blew up in ouIf we want to live in our country with security and have even a semblance of good neighborliness with the Palestinians, then we must be exceptionally strong. 

Militarily, diplomatically, politically. And above all we must project a unified nation to those who surround us.

The Palestinian side must be weak. And remained weakened.

Arab citizens of Israel ... have a choice. Be part of this country or you belong on the other side of the fence."

Truth in every word.

THE CIRCLE OF LIFE

  Once again we were right. It was not, as presented, "a minor altercation" between two pilots. The crazed copilot had somehow become radicalized and had decided to take this plane down, drilling down through the sky to the ground, for ultimate destruction. Yet another tragedy in the making with not even seconds to spare, no quiet contemplation of what to do, how to react. No, it was spinning and descending with fatal results guaranteed.

But that did not end with the crazed co-pilot succeeding. It took four brave and desperate souls aboard to take immediate, instinctual steps to save their lives, their families, and the passengers aboard. maskless junction. Deliberately timed to mesh with horrible memories which took place on October 7th and 8th and 9th and 10th -and continuing on until today. 

However, then and now, despite the righteous and natural responses of a people tired of being denied a right to live and thrive, butchered at the whim of hating crazed murderers of blackened souls, we received not accolades for bravery, not offers of aid, but rather curses and blame and massive truth denial. 

Once again, into the pool of blackened souls who had received their just dues, came new arrivals reeking of new yet ancient old as time itself, the same old, same old hate, the same old justification of the dastardly goals and deeds. Along with them, were the blood soaked pens of those of the media who tried to play this down. Not a hijacking, merely a personal spat between two pilots which evidently took a wrong turn. 

The world glommed onto this fake news, not really undeserved, they feel, as once again, the attacked are downplayed, any truth is quite difficult to discern among the gross falsehoods and now the wonder is whether the real underpinnings, the whys and hows, the enablers and the funders, all the characters will be publicly named and brought to justice. Or, more likely, to be given haven, lionized, and rewarded. Already there is the reluctance of Saudi Arabia to cooperate openly with Israel in the investigation.   

 There were no shouts and screams and calls for revenge. What was seen instead were the people, individually and in groups, gathering together. To pray for the return of the passengers, back to the arms of those awaiting them. No rifles displayed and shot. No, the words were those of concern, of love, and of silence in the face of yet again another display of bloody hate directed at the Jewish nation. 

The same at the return, only this time the voices were in prayers of gratitude and joy. Spontaneous song and dance erupted throughout the land. Gratitude for their safety and rescue. Thanks that yet again, another hero of the nation appeared at the right time and did what was necessary for survival.

What will the world learn from this event? What will they take to heart? For the future, what can we distill from the almost tragic event?  

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

 Will it ever end?

But until such time, we will continue to trust in the Lord and the guidance He provides.

WHO ARE WE? WHO SAYS SO?

  Those are the key questions and the even more key answers that we must find for ourselves - if we can. The most important result that emerges from such an introspective examination into our souls should be, would be, if we are honest in our conclusions - the truths that should provide structural and emotional support of ourselves. It should be answers, or at least directional answers on a map of our true being. True thoughts without hedging even if their honesty proves to be uncomfortable. In fact, if that is the case, we must be able to reach back inside and more closely define perhaps what we had thought was true but was no longer true or remains even more affixed to us than we had thought - or had admitted.

Another important fact that that comes into play in this matter is how much of that self-evaluation is caused by the inclusion, or exclusion, of the opinions of others. Do you accept their definition of you or their boundary lines into which you must remain and crossing those boundary lines will not be acceptable to masses of other people.

In fact this self-introspective evaluation is something that not only one nor two or thousands of our people should be doing for all of the people of the Jewish nation and the world, must look deep within and deside who indeed we are. In an aside, most of the population of the world is seriously lacking in the truth of who they are. Too much of their thinking and behavior are driven by the whims and thoughts of others. 

Even as they know they must, for their own sake, and for the sake of the world in general, think for themselves, who they are and what they wish to be, it is simply too easy to give others one's own self. To make the hard choices. Easier if we cede that privilege and responsibility. Let others pick up the slack and opine those opinions.

What we call people of the world must to do to is to look and delve deep within ourselves and find that last piece of Independence. That little piece that cringes with every false step one takes. With every principle abandoned. Every ideal, every bit of idealistic soul with which one is born, and we ignore or are immune to the knowing, feeling, of a slow fadeout and absorption into the cacophony of life.

We become deaf to the little voice within which tries to remind us of the proper way of life. It is uncomfortable. It's challenging and it brings upon us limitations which we would rather not have. So who exactly are you? Who exactly am I? Who exactly are our people? That question is most difficult to answer and even more difficult to pry honestly out of rather reluctant people, of those who would rather forgo that effort. Too uncomfortable, perhaps too unsafe, for the lifestyle which one has chosen to live.

 Some take a stand, make a decision and stay strong in the face of consequences of those actions. Those Jews who stand at the dais castigating their family within the Jewish people, debasing and  disavowing the State of Israel, choosing to separate themselves from the body politic of Jews and Judaism, from the various themes of life which run through it - well, the time will come for all of us to truly evaluate our lives and face the judgment that awaits all of us.

At times we do not have to wait too long for that judgment. Within our lifetime, here on this surface of the Earth, our turning our backs on others that are of our own will face demands of recompense in the now. The souls that are abandoned alongside, in muddy, dirty, smelly trenches will make themselves seem and felt and heard at most in opportune times. These people will come upon the hard truths of life.

One who turns on one's own is never once again to be part of the whole. Memory forbids that to happen. These memories are of lifelong trauma, not only about our lives, but the lives of generations of the Jewish people. It is a trauma of genealogy. The fact that we are indeed one of the Jewish people and how much we deny it, will return almost immediately upon hearing of tragedies reminiscent of those rained upon the Jewish people over the millennia. 

This morning as the world awoke, the chills took off. They reverberated in our minds and hearts, down our spines. What we heard was a replay from the hijackings of planes and the loss of life and the kidnapping of people some decades ago, and only a mere blink of an eye ago. It is a chill of the spine that breaks our hearts at the same time. 

We raise our voices to the Heavens Above and say, ad matai, until when, when, when will You hear the voices, the cries, see the blood spilled, hear the voices of Your people? When will You declare it  Enough, but not enough in the sense that we are indeed worthy of most severe consequence, but rather the enough of seeing others beat down on Your People? 

Today's event did not end as the tragedy we had feared; how much more of this can we take? How much more of events and the sinful inhumane behavior of all those who have declared us as unworthy of naught but that? Our heads and our stomachs a roil and and a broil with what could be, what has been and might be down the block or around the corner.

Worse and growing even more so, is the behavior of the world deeming us as 'others', of not worthy of our peoplehood, our nationhood, our beliefs, our very existence. But we will stand no more for this.   There is no difference between the swords of the Crusades and the knifes of the terrorists or the missiles of our enemies.  

We know our history. We know our responsibilities. We know that we must pay attention to those within who are as bad, as dangerous, perhaps even more so, as they trash and deny their own. Themselves.

Their questions and answers are false. 

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

Amcha! The password of recognition of those in hiding, fighting, the beasts of the Nazis.

Amcha = Your nation.

They have denied, forgotten or deliberately so, but the knowledge and the feeling are alive in the hearts of most of us. 

"TWAS BRILLIG ..."

  If you do not remember those iconic two words, they are the first two words of the very first sentence of the most famous nonsensical poem ever, written by Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky". To be found in the novel Through the Looking Glass. It is as nonsensical now, as it was then. It just about delineates the level of nonsense within modern day societies, and perhaps it goes even deeper than that. 

Certainly, there are severe consequences, to existential levels, as we insist that nonsense, those contradictions can be made to sync, to satisfy all involved. The current conditions, situations and thoughts of modern-day society actually, perhaps   are even more nonsensical, confusing and meaningless. Yet we persist in trying to make sense of it, to force a sense into it which can never find a comfortable place for it, and in fact, is eventually, sooner than eventually, spit out and added to the heap of failed solutions and ideas of humanity.

For the situation to remain status quo all we must do is nothing. Let the world cook itself in its own juices and then display astonishment and confusion and innocence in laying blame. On anyone, someone, any other than themselves. Certainly, "twas brillig", but Jabberwock, the evil, is slain by a hero and all is well. Is such a hero available to us? Has such a hero been available through the history of mankind? If they were they were certainly far and few between and mostly let go undiscovered and undervalued. Perhaps we never even knew that we were to go searching for such a being and even those who backed such a search, it was so weakly presented that nothing of long-lasting vitality came through.

In scanning the paper this morning and checking on emails ignored over the past couple of days, it hit me as representational of today's world. How its brilliant nonsense rings through as applied to today's times, how similar it is to the surface nonsense of the poem, but without the possibility as it stands right now, for a hero to stand out and actually shake the world by its stubborn neck and bring it to its senses, or at least on the proper road or direction to it. 

I hear in the back of my mind the compelling voice of Bonnie Tyler, raspy and full. Singing out in surety how she needs a hero. One who knows right from wrong. One who is as noble as Don Quixote. One who has the courage to dream the impossible dream and do one's best to get there, or die trying. One who can understand the idealism of possible young heroes as they sing "One Day" or the rather resigned and disappointed voices of those whose lives have seen the challenge, lost the challenge, and sing wistfully of those were the days.

It seems that on the surface, even possibly, hopefully, deep within, that most want those imagined times, those good times, to become true to life, actuality and reality. That which we had thought impossible coming to fruition. A pipe dream of many through the ages. With politicians calling out for peace. However, how do we achieve that when even among the best of us, those who have dedicated at least a part of their lives, a part of their souls, in this search, for a genuine peace are among the whole of humanity which cannot parse the contradictory sentences and thoughts and policies. Those policies that preclude the others and yet both policies must have a play in life of individual states.

One day, that dreamed of one day, will find breath within a heart, strength of character and brains, able to resolve the impossible contradictory espoused policies and find a way through the murky atmosphere, to find, create, a path through to open soft and fair winds for humanity.  

How to reconcile truth with lies tossed about? How do we prove the innate humanity within all, even as they rebel against that thought lest they fall by the wayside, appear weak and tired, worthy of isolation and destruction. How do we break the tainted rope tying people to their worst depths and convince them of the right way and then manifestly, grossly wrong. That which ruins the positive prospects awaiting a righteous people.

Are we supposed to find our own way to the heights or might we get some help from those better than we are, perhaps even from the One Above? Can we reconcile thoughts which challenge our unity? Can Israel remain a Jewish stare, but also a democratic one? Can the followers of Islam ever give up their calls to riot and rampage, to murder and boast fo it, to consider that dying while brutalizing others is a sacred cause? Can the Jews round the Remain tightly within their current states? Or are the facts too devastating? There are difficult questions and answers and the truth must be faced  

These and so many other questions are aloft, awaiting solution and resolution.  Worried. What is the wrong way and what the right? Are we afraid that even the USA has turned its back not only on the Jews of the world, but also on their own? How will we manage to sew together in as seamless manner possible, the entire Jewish people or are we doo These and so many other questions are aloft. The waiting solution and resolution. Worried. What is the wrong way and what the right? Are we afraid that even the USA has turned its back, not only on the Jews of the world, but also on their own? How will we manage to sew together in as seamless manner possible the entire Jewish people? Or are we doomed to always be plagued by the presence of those within who seek only the negative and persist to walk on this ugly path, turning on their own, even as they turn on their people in general.

Yesterday.

Today.

Tomorrow.

Do we not think it is a time for change?

 If not now, then when?  

HABAYTA

  Home. A place where one is always welcomed, looked after. A place of love and cherished memories. Of some more painful but shared with so many others. A place where one is recognized as a member of the family even if one was a stranger a mere second ago. A place where, no matter what your cousin looks like, or language spoken, or some invisible lines distinguishing levels of observance and classification - no matter what - the home is shared, with yes, family squabbles, some large and consequential and others small, usual family nitpicking, but always, Habayta. Always Home. 

The people of the world have long misunderstood the importance of that word. Of the historical and emotional identifying baggage that's tied to it. So closely that it is impossible to separate. No matter how many voices are raised against it in enmity, in confusion, in vile hatred. No matter.

That family of Jews along with those who truly understand and internalize history, who venerate the Bible and the truth of the words within, who have seen its words come alive in modern times, that is the family who knows the essence, the importance and the Truth of its words and its meaning to humanity.  All of humanity. There is reference to the nations of the world, to the 70 nations of the world and the importance of their inclusion at least into the Noahide laws of society and civilization. 

All are welcome to share in the goodness and celebration of a world finally making or taking the proper turns and decisions in life and avoiding traps and pitfalls awaiting those who deny the very evident truths of life. Who hear the promises of the Lord yet refuse to acknowledge them.

These are the people who's very being seemingly is made of bones and veins and arteries and sinews are soaked in vile stinking juices whose reek permeates the air and does not allow for the freshness of Truth to penetrate. The concept of home as only a person of Jewish descent can understand, can carry within one's very being, can feel within one's heart, is apparently doomed to a forever hostile world, to face off against them. To deny their Home. Their Habayta.

 Even if it takes a long time to get there and has been denied over the millennia. Even if the cost has been and continues to be of most unimaginable depths and heights at one and the same time, that Home is always first and foremost in our hearts, our minds, our very souls. 

Throughout history nations have been denied the place they called their birthplace, but it has not been consistent nor permanent and homes have been returned, retrieved and retaken time and time again. But never has one people been consistently denied the truth of their homeland for all of history. For all of time. From the time of Abraham who had to pay to buy his own land back so that he could bury his wife. To Jewish residents of lands where they were denied a place there and in fact, a  place anywhere on this earth. 

From cutting words to inciting words. Words of true violence to acts of violence, along with demands for official recognition and approval of the morphing of words and thoughts into acts and deeds of such horror that one could not understand how one man can do such things to another. And yet it's continued. Sometimes abating a bit and at other times growing so loud, so overpowering, to a pitch of unimaginable terror, urged deeds of violence beyond any comprehension.  

Once again we are denied the right to be a nation within our homeland. The land which had been promised by G-d Himself. A promise cemented by covenants. By history itself. By the words of the Prophets and the truth of their words, of what would and could be. The promise of goodness and the words of punishment for straying, for disregarding all that had been commanded upon us by the Lord Himself.

The Jews were to be the nation of perhaps the examples of what could happen, of good and bad, if one were to turn away from that we had done so improperly before. Now to choose the right. To turn away from that which was wrong. To accept and live the knowledge that there was an eternal bond between the Creator and His Creations.  

After the centuries of unbelievable bloodshed and the unimaginable, yet so very real terrors of the Shoah, we thought perhaps we were to be allowed to return to our forever home. To have that promised ingathering from the four directions of the world. North to South and East to West.  To rebuild our homeland. To rejuvenate it. To become in deed. In fact. The Land of Milk and Honey. To reclaim it from the desert it had become, from the miasmas of the swamps, and become a vibrant productive member of the nations of the world.  

From the time its most recent reinvigoration as a nation the people of Israel have been fighting,  to ensure its permanence, to serve not merely or only as a home for those within its borders, but always to those without. To those who remain scattered among the more or less hostile nations and peoples of the world. 

Sadly, we faced the truth that for some reason, for no reason at all, the idea of a legitimate functioning actuality of a homeland for the Jews was anathema to be fought. To create long term plans and conspiracies and plots to bring it down. Over and over again.

But this time around, there was a different situation. Perhaps because we Jews were tired, oh so tired in body and soul of the consistent fighting merely to survive, that, no, this time there would be no backing down. This time the mantra was 'we are going to win as we must. This is our land to be shared with others who wish to live in peace and harmony. Always to know that this was to be the rejuvenation of a permanent Jewish homeland. The home of all the Jewish peoples we had rescued from those four corners of the world, the living life of a long ago Promise.' 

We will always win. We knew we had to win. This time there was no other place for us to go. We have no other land no matter what we're temporarily allowed, as a welcoming place. It never remained remain so.

And for so many of us the shock of this virulent, antisemitism, this JewHatred has been a literal shot to the heart. It was made even more clear to us that even when we were clearly the victims of a barbaric attack waged upon innocents, upon people dancing, upon people celebrating the holiday, taking a walk, playing with their children, we were to be denied even that 'status' and were declared to be the aggressors.

 Why? Because we knew we had no other choice and we had to fight hard to impress that point upon those who wish to see us dead, who indeed saw us dead on October 7th and ongoing. No matter how many 'ceasefires' for that hatred never died. Those bullets never ceased to be fired. Those missiles perpetually fell from the skies.

 But now we're home. Our place of refuge was being challenged to its very last breath.

And when 1000 musicians got together in an ancient arena and played the songs, the tune, the words of the forever plea, request, demand of the Jewish people to be home, to be Habayta for once and for always it indeed carried two pleas. 

 One was the plea for the return of the hostages so brutally imprisoned, beaten, raped and tortured, for a return, their return, after such a long time, to their HOME.

But as we watchED with tears in our eyes and as we heard and revoiced and replayed this national anthem there was another Habayta that we were pleading for. To have that Habayta we had been promised so long ago but never been fully given as promised. It was way overdue. Way past time. 

And so, we sang these words, we used our instruments to convey these thoughts, this pleading, and we looked not down to the devil, not in dirge, but in words of determination, of challenge and yes, pleading, as we raised our heads, our eyes, our faces, our hands to the Heavens Above where the ultimate Homeowner resides.      

Always

Yesterday.

Today.

Tomorrow.

Always and forever.

HABAYTA.

NOPE, NOT TODAY.

  Nope. Many times that nope. As I sat down this morning, primed with the thought that came to me during the night, my eyes glanced quickly at the little daily piece of info: time and date. Whoa! How could I have missed the import of that information? Most probably because we are in our Homeland, our place of peace, of history, of nation. Oddly enough, according to the majority of the world, this is exactly the place not to seek peace and certainly note find it. Not in this place on earth which seems to have an affinity for woes of violence and eternal threat and death. 

Well, that is not my problem. That is the problem of those whose thinking is twisted. Whose hate consistently boils within. But for me, this is a place   where a glance out of my window spreads a biblical scene of millennia age in its most recent portrayal. Daily new life in an ancient homeland. Forever facing challenges, forever in dispute, yet forever coming out as the victor. And always   another upcoming holiday providing for thought and appreciation, for searches to keep things as they are, yet always seeing to give rise to ever new moments and hours and days. 

Assurances of even better times to come. And of pride and love and a realization that we, along with our partner, a third of our entity, that we at least can see new branches and growth of family moments, of family achievement, along with the eternal hope that we have passed along principles we have held dear, of goals achievable yet often difficult to maintain. In fact, this family is what we see as the future of an ancient people. Who have held on to       a fabric of belief, of prayer, of values challenging     even as they provide the basis of a life hopefully well and properly lived. 

 So what is it that can drive other thoughts of other blog postings? It is our 59th wedding anniversary. A wedding that remembers what it is that a marriage means, far more than the wedding itself. The wedding lasts for hours, its memories forever, in one way or another. But the marriage is what counts, even if of brief duration, also in one way or another, but aways remaining behind and ahead and with us in so many, many manners. 

Always there are consequences. Always there are moments of confusion and miscalculation as to importance, with the import of some deed or statement vastly underrated as to its eventual place within the history of that marriage, of that family.

Two of the thirds making up this marriage, Gerry and myself, worked very hard to build a proper life with ancient and time-tested values. We took strength from those values, even if the reasoning was not always clear to us at the time. It often took years to fully understand the events of our lives, but always together, always with belief and trust in G-d, and many times with great patience and a building understanding of what indeed has taken place.

So, from two rather young, rather unknowing of what life held for us, what love truly means and entails, set out on a journey, which thanks to our efforts and the oversight of Hashem, we have made it to this point.

59 years of marriage. To 120.   

TOGETHER.

Yesterday.

Today.

Tomorrow.

Thank you, Hashem, and for allowing us to build a future with our children and their children and on down the years.

Amen.

And yes, for those who need to ask, we love each other even more than we did at that beautiful wedding.

A FEW DAYS AND SO WHAT HAS CHANGED?

  Frankly, nothing much has changed at all other than for the worse. Perhaps the pain has subsided just a tad as I push the envelope trying to get more freedom and ease in movement, but it ain't exactly easy. And when I look to the outside world, I don't see anything that got much better there either. Israel, despite all of its loss, all of its bloodshed once again in overflowing quantity, is still blamed for the ugliness of October 7 and for its aftermath.

Frankly, it is very difficult to comprehend. Since when has it been a sin, a crime against humanity to defend oneself, to defend one's nation when it is under attack? The only way that works out is for people to change the definition of truth and lies, distinguish real from fantasy in the erroneous direction which benefits their crooked perusal of reality and the absolute immorality of trying to foist all blame and all harm and all accusations against those who have many justifiable reasons to point out the fallacy of those who refuse to admit the truth. Those who look for excuses to whitewash their own crimes against humanity as they accuse others of doing all they had done; the evil they had pursued as they skewed the truth six ways to Sunday!  

It has worked before. Over thousands of years. The same lies covered in false words growing in sophistication even as they and their falsehoods fall deeper and deeper into the worst of humanity. The stunning quickness at which these words of danger and hate were accepted and built up. The believability of the falsehoods and denials of actuality surrounding those horrific days and all the days and months and years that have followed are     echoes of brutal pasts.

And then it is insisted that these words of hate and enmity, of a humanity never changing, certainly not for the better, to be quoted. As if words direct from the mouth of the One Above. The only one who knows the truth of it all, the motivations of all, and can separate the misled from the leaders and their twisted motivations. 

Their hands are open, their mouths are open, speaking words of pleading, of understanding, of repentance. Acknowledgement that they have indeed done wrong, that they have violated the words of the covenant, of the contract between Hashem and His children. The pleading, the appeal is to the Lord Above but unfortunately too many times evidently the phone lines to the phones of the heavens are clogged, broken, out of service. When will the repairman come? If I knew the answer to that well, I guess it would be the same as if you knew the answer to that.

There is much that we humans do not understand. There is much that we have done wrong over the centuries, yet we have equally as stubborn, continued. to choose the wrong road. That is the road that too many people, the majority of people continue to cling to.

And so, we are in the unenviable situation with the offenses against us having been turned around and used as weapons of accusation against us. And the world buys into this ugliness. For it suits their needs. It cleanses their hands. They claim it justifies all that they do. For if we, the Jews and our righteous supporters, dare to protest, dare to fight back or worse, gain the upper hand, it is deemed as if we have offended Nature itself. 

In fact, simply by surviving it seems we have broken the rules, or have taken out contracts with the Devil himself, for how else to explain the very annoying fact that these people, this stubborn. persistent nation, the targets over the millennia of those who crave to shed their blood, whose desire is to inflict cruelty upon them, as much as possible, as long as possible, should not have been able nor capable of survival. Not only survival but always, it seems uncannily are able to return to their feet, survive and thrive. 

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. We have had to be the tough ones since time immemorial. Such has been our past, our yesterday. 

And it looks no better as we examine our todays we are living,

And certainly, our tomorrows have no great hope.

But that would be wrong. For every year, every century, after every dastardly attack, after all the calamities and accusations rained upon us, despite all the malicious lies and the incorrigible behavior of our enemies, Am Yisroel Chai - Lanetzach.  forever

 The nation, the people of Israel

live forever.

There is no reason to think otherwise.

History is history and no amount of lying or deadly wishes can make it otherwise.

One day. One day, hopefully soon, we will be vindicated with clear and transparent truth. 

One day.

And in the meanwhile, we remain strong in our faith. Promises made and kept. Threats also have befallen us as we were warned.

And hence there is no reason to doubt our history in its entirety.

We are strong. We are invincible. 

And we are the men, women and children of the Jewish nation.

ETERNAL AND FOREVER WISHES.

  Dear Readers,

Unfortunately, I took a bad fall yesterday and will need a few days to get back to par. In the meanwhile I wish all a New Year filled with peace and happiness. May all our deeds work for the good and may we find a unity sadly lacking at present.

These have been the messages those who know what is good for humanity and may we all come to realize that before it is too late.

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow -

for all time. 

NO, YOU ARE MOST DEFINITELY NOT!

  I hate to bust your bubble, but you are most definitely not what you claim to be. And actually, I'm not sorry to bust your bubble. There's something very wrong here.  Speaking in mameh lashon" words that are very clear to those who would deny them though the label sticks. and the meaning is clear.

What you and people seem to forget is that once a Jew, always a Jew, a profoundly deep privilege. It often demands a great price for that privilege and too often, throughout history there have always been those among the nation who refuse the burden of this privilege. Perhaps it frightens them. Perhaps they feel that this designation "Jew" separates them from the rest of society. We can discuss all day long this in a waste of time.There are always people, weak of nature, weak of pride who turn away from the word Jew.  Yet even as they refuse their "Jewishness" in the very next sentence or even the one prior to it, they reclaim it in a twisted manner.

From the time of the Exodus, when some of these enslaved Jewish people expressed an intention to remain mired in their slavery. From the traveling group who instigated and aroused negativity and doubt among the Nation. To those who did not trust, despite all they had seen and knew, that their Lord would not desert them.  

In fact, who had not deserted them but rather supported them and guided and guarded them, with problems arising from those who had not the faith necessary to remain committed and trusting of their Guardian.   Almost constantly throughout the ages, there appeared to be at least one person, or groups of people, who felt comfortable denying their identity or shifting it so that it was almost unrecognizable.  Then, if it was an advantage, politically, economically, pulling it out of the closet, but always sure and definite of remaining apart from the general body of the Jewish nation.

So, Mr. Ed Miliband in your oh so proud position as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, you are not a proud Jew, most definitely NOT!  

A proud Jew walks tall, erect and proud, not hiding nor downplaying his Jewishness. walks with his head erect. Eyes and ears and mind open and clear. Ever ready to defend his people and contribute to their wellbeing. 

It is the Jew who recognizes the importance of Israel and the very personal acts of salvation and rescue it has provided for those in need, for those who are oppressed in other lands of the world. For those who KNOW that having a Jewish state, the land of Israel is critical. For those who have taken to heart, through all the centuries, all the tragedies, all the prayers and reminders and promises and exhortations to return. To return to our Homeland. To help build and rebuild countless times, to always have a segment of the nation on that land.

What are you and others like you doing, intending when you falsely, deeply, erroneously, traitorously trash a nation which is a modern-day miracle. It is now on its way in many aspects to indeed becoming a nation holding up a light to other nations of  earth. Thus, fulfilling the Promises of the Lord, the threats and punishments and the return to that land of milk and honey - and AI, and chips and literature and culture and research and of course, always with a lending hand when other nations are in need.    

No, Ed, my boy, my not so friendly chap. When you trot out your supposed pride in being a Jew, it is only when it suits you politically or economically. To give you a heads up in the filthy game of governmental, political power plays and ploys in that area.

So, instead of paying pride to your nationality and your ethnicity, to indeed acknowledge with pride all that the Jewish nation has accomplished. Despite all the hate and the opposition and the determination to demean, debase, belittle and disappear us from the face of this earth, against all that, how much the Jewish people have accomplished. 

And your reaction to all this is to hide, cowering from those who hate Jews, buying in on the lies of centuries, past, present and most probably future. Worse, and most inexcusable of all is that you use that suddenly remembered connection to your personage as a Jew, and use it to further endanger them, the State of Israel, and yes, you dangerous moron, yourself and your children.

The bad people have always managed to find a stranglehold upon the rest of the Jewish people.  Forever their evil instincts overpower any good ones that they have, if they have any at all. This ugliness of self-denial of self-abnegation crosses the pond, as you say, into America. 

These people too, are to be considered traitors - not thinking properly, not thinking with pride, not thinking with acknowledgment of the truth of the situations besieging and besetting Jews around the world, including our state, Israel. Certainly, they do not understand how dangerous this adoption of the coloration of the liberal is to the people. Why is he dying to jump onto the train of those whose every other word, if not every word, consists of blame and threats against the Jewish people, of which he is one. 

When claiming their coloration as liberal, the now false liberals who buy into the hate for Jews, the intense desire and calls for the end of Israel and all who live within, this is what they are protecting and growing round the nation and in fact, round the world. When you, Jeremy Ben-Ami, most certainly NOT a son of his people, boasts that he has raised and will spend $4 million on opposing all Jewish and non-Jewish candidates who support Israel, he is aiding and abetting, empowering the very ones who have called out for your death. Along with the deaths of all Jews, even those who hate themselves, who deny their Jewish blood.   

This questioning and complaining that, well, if Israel, if the Jewish people would consider it enough and be grateful for the rather shaky permission of being allowed, non-guaranteed living space within nations of the world, the haters and non-thinkers are dead between the ears. How many times have we even been granted rights and then have them brutally denied once again. 

 The very book that most other religions follow or base their own religions upon, state that Promise of Hashem to us, His people, His Chosen people. Sometimes not so good to be so chosen, I guess, as we are supposed to serve as exemplary models for others but inevitably, because we are people, subject to errors of thought or behavior, we are not perfect. But we do try, I believe more than any nation.

There is always a learning process. All people and all nations have a process. However, the worst of this learning process is when people refuse to learn from errors and repeat them over and over again.

It is too bad when always,

Yesterday

Today and most probably well into

 Tomorrow

we continue to go wrong in some way, and then fail to meet the challenge and go right where we had previously gone wrong. But what we do know, always and forever, that we are not alone and all the human hatred and denial cannot touch the Promises of the Lord.    

WHOSE IN CHARGE?

  Do you remember that old TV show where someone was in charge, and I believe it turned out to be Charles. Somehow, every time there was a problem, a question of possibility, probability, positivity, and morality, he always managed to come out on top of the decision and teach some moral lesson to those of whom he was in charge. Nice world that would be if indeed that would be the case. Unfortunately, if we were doing percentages on proper decision making and proper leading choices, I believe we would be in the lower end of the percentage of choosing, of making the right decision.

In fact, even if we did originally anticipate at the outset some miracle, that by some strength of character, we would make the proper decision, the end would not be the anticipated, hoped for one. That is, it would then be tampered with, kneaded and reshaped from top to bottom and the outcome would not be recognizable as emerging from the original decision.

Why would that be the case? In fact, why am I so sure that would be the case? Because that indeed has been the case almost since the beginning of mankind. Certainly, if we looked into governments today or of the past, recent or ancient, we could very clearly see the uncertainty of the makers of those decisions. We can almost see through this stall, into the mind and be witness to the calculations and machinations of decision making among our very poorly chosen leaders. Politics, longevity in office, money raising, influence and so much more come into play.

The question then arises as to why we, the people who are supposedly exercising our right to choose these leaders, why do we almost consistently in the best records we have, allowed the dregs of the bunch so much leeway into possibility of office while those we truly, definitely need, are too often left by the wayside, stunningly so, too short of time to recoup, reload, and do the right thing. and be prepared for tie next surprise attack.

I can find no answers that make sense. I can't find any pathway through the bedraggled and overrun darkest jungle, the one where the very heart is  indeed the heart of darkness. What then happens? When we meet constant defeat at the hands of those we know are doing wrong; When we find no path able to be chopped through, nothing discernable   beneath the matted jungle floor - what do we do? What can we do? And the key question - what in actuality do we really want to do?

Charles had the time, the stamina. and the will to help his rather hapless and hopeless humans in his charge, to lead them. Most importantly, he would gently aid them in seeing the truth that is not too far, but too often hidden behind and/or beneath dark glowering clouds. And when the eyes and the ears fall into the habit of not seeing, not hearing, not listening, to return to the real, that which must be acknowledged is nigh unto impossible much of the time. Too much of the time.

Now leave the theoretical and return to the empirical, that which is real, that which too often backs us into a corner from which we have not a clue as to how to emerge safely and soon and wiser. Instead, what we do is to repeat B, which is actually a repeat of A. And if we go back just a bit of time, we will find that X, Y and Z preceded A. It seems we are either out of ideas or if not, too lazy to perfect, and come out on the proper winning side.

Why do we do this? Why do we humans never seem to learn to do what is right, to avoid the wrong? Perhaps because those with the opportunity to maneuver themselves into positions of influence and power do indeed want to take up that opportunity. They do not wish to let it go by. Too good to pass up or so they think And the bottom line is that we find our way back to the ever-returning morass of troubles and woes and ills. Somehow, we can never see our way clear to the opening of possibilities, even to probabilities encouraging and necessary to the progress of mankind.

What I feel most difficult to understand is why the scum of the Earth rise to the top and the good of the Earth sink below the surface always enmeshed and enmired in the goop from whence they cannot escape. Are humans that stupid? Do we really think, believe, as we see in the papers and on the newscasts every day the exchange of idiotic threats and promises. None of which come true. Yet out of the mouth in ever constant flow, inanities, threats, promises, alliances, breakups, not really wishing to lead in a positive way. Instead, they really wish to lead in a manner in which nothing much is demanded of them. To exchange words tit-for-tat. A constant overflowing stream of the worst of mankind. To abjure responsibility for gross errors and for time and time again, to place humanity in times of existential threats.

And of course, being human, they make or commit these errors over and over again on the same groups of people they deem 'worthy' of hate or too weak to fight back. To retaliate meaningfully in such a manner that the evil stops on the closest dime.

I hate it. I hate those who insure its survival. Its never-ending ugliness, the bloodshed. The world threatened. As the axis trembles more and more. As the wrath and the disappointment of the Lord make themselves ever more visible. 

 Yesterday.

Today.

Tomorrow.

Can we not do better?

Do we truly not want to do better?

FIRE AND ICE

 Have you ever had the feeling that your blood was a boil? That you were burning up from the inside, that even as that fire raged within, along with it came a personal Ice Age, freezing the very blood in your blood system?  How does one reconcile these two very weird sensations, very opposite emotions? Why would somebody feel such a conflict within and what could possibly lead to such an contradictory state of being?

To understand that, both you and I must go back in time. A bit of time, an hour of time, an eternity of time? A millennium of time? I don't even know if it makes a difference. But let's take present time as it is sufficient to the purpose thereof, if such a statement can even be made and expect to be understood and believed. Modern times have turned treacherous to the Jewish people and while not a new phenomenon it is certainly new to many of us at least in its degree and in the distance it has spread. Not to mention the blink of an eye in which this has taken place.

One might think that the normal question, or questions to ask are those seeking to delve into the mysteries of this plague and must seek out within the traits of the persecuted, of the Jewish people, as to why this is indeed a recurring event. When these searchers make their "discoveries", they expect us to heed their words and "understand" what we have done wrong over the millennia and change our ways; hence making us responsible for the hate thrown at us in ever increasing volume.

But that is so clearly not the answer. It is rather, I believe, a character defect of the haters as they shriek it about throughout the lands of the earth and unfortunately manage to convince others to 'join in the fun'. In fact, the numbers of those who have attached themselves to this murderous pastime,   who buy into this ugliness, have increased beyond all that we thought - hoped - had been diminished beyond return in any serious manner.

How mistaken we were! How shocked, yet not so shocked were we as we saw the clock turn backwards The voices of hate grow louder and words carry farther, longer, and it seems there is no way of shutting this ugliness down. Worst of all, it has been a shock to the hearts of our souls, for now it is clear that once again, the worst of humanity has gained the upper hand and expects to exercise that hand to the utmost of their abilities. If no opportunity arises, why they will create one, so clever are they!

It is so very confusing to me as to how people can think that this is the right road to travel, the right thing to do. To spread, share and grow their crooked and nasty beliefs with others. That they are right to wreak violence, hate and isolation upon this group of people who have done nothing but give good to the world, but that is a no, never mind for reasoning is not to be found within this emotion. That is what it is. It is exactly an emotion, evil, cursed emotion which endows people with the ability to be self-righteous and act proud as they do things, say things for which they would have been slapped silly by their parents or grandparents.

Take a look around the world. Nation  follows nation, following the twisted misfit Pied Piper and dance to his crooked tunes. Salivating over the liberty, the backwards freedom that the exercising of hate gives them. This hate enables them to bring down hell on Earth on people for no cause other than their own ugliness inside.

 It is a return of all the times through history when Jews have been the demeaned, the least of society. We were to be grateful to remain in whatever country and take the abuse, the hate, the violence, the torment and remain silent and compliant. The hatred of the Jewish nation arose out of jealousy and the wonder as to how this people survived it all. Not only that, but they managed time and again not only to survive but thrive. To rebuild the land which they had been given by the Lord Above, the only one with that right.

That was too much for these evil people and so time and again, even antisemitism was at least quieted down, held in abeyance. They struggled hard to return it to life and too often, so sadly managed to reinvigorate it and do the worst they could. But those faults, were within their black souls not within the Jewish people. 

We, the Jews of the world, this proud nation, thought that we had seen the worst of it during the horror of the Holocaust. We thought for sure this could never, would never ever be allowed to return. Certainly not in violence, not in deaths, not in numbers, not in anything. We thought the worst was over. It was not. It is not.

Today in a world which supposedly has learned where it went wrong and vowed never to go there again, that was evidently a lesson not caught and/or taught as they reneged on their promises. As they reinvigorated the horror, even as the world stood by once again and worse, unimaginably, joined in. Once again, vile names. Accusations. Isolation. Abandonment to haters. Violence unthinkable and increasing in exponential manner.

The world stood by while the attacks against Israel persisted. Grew in depth and violence with much death resulting. Whenever Israel responded as any independent, legitimate nation and state had the right to do, they were cursed. They were accused of being inappropriate in response. What should we do? Work out an algorithm which says that X amount of attacking Muslims, Arabs, Gazans, Hezbollah are equal to X numbers of Jews - civilians, children that they purposely set out to slaughter.

The truth and the facts were denied. The lies were instead accepted as truth. The violation of all codes of decency - using children as shields, using hospitals and community centers and places of worship and schools as headquarters so they could shout to the world how Israel did such terrible things. Digging tunnels and entryways and exits from within homes, from under cribs, from kitchens, from anywhere.

Each time Israel suffered under these attacks, the missiles, the rockets, the terrorist attacks and infiltrations and responded, they went in, did what they must to beat them back, and then left before finishing the job, as it should have been. Why? Because the crocodile tears of the world flowed from their eyes crying for pity upon these people who have no sense of decency. Even as Israel has the right no, the obligation to defend its people no matter what it takes. We will not stand by and bare our throats and our chests to the knives and bullets of our enemies, who hate us above all else and who will not rest until they succeed.

Well, that success will never be. No matter how wrong the nations behave. No matter how Israel is denied its rights and the right to exist. No matter who spouts hate, calling for murder. Calling for the disappearance, the total disappearance of the Jewish people. No, no matter where they live, no matter how much they have fooled so many. No matter how much the foolish Jews deny themselves. No matter how loud the chant of from the river to the sea, the claim of Palestine, a country and a nationality which never existed until modern times when it was created. When they refused, the sizable territory because they wanted it all. Two state solution never was, never will be, until these perpetual enemies of the Jewish nation are re-educated and taught properly. 

The chant of Mat al Yahud -death to the Jew rings constantly through the air. Be it in Arab territory. In nations around the world. In America. Never any cooperation. There were only calls for death, plans to wreak horrible events upon them, to be the best terrorist that they could be. 

And so when October 7th, 2023, took place, when the massacre, the echoes of the Holocaust rang through Israel, through the world. When the siren sounded, when the screams of the Nova dancers, of the children being burned alive, the babies thrown into ovens. The old and the young, the men and the women, the infants hauled off into a brutal captivity. When the beast choked the 9 month old baby and his 4 year old brother and their mother. When they starved their captives. When they beat them, when they raped them. 

The world stood by. The world could care less. The world accused us, accused Israel of the attack, of invasion under no provocation, even faking it all. When the truth came out, these horrors of the invasion, when they couldn't deny that fact, they claimed it came about because of righteous reasons. What righteous reasons? Because they couldn't kill enough Jews in each of their other attacks? Or  because the Jewish nation got their act together and chased them out of Israel and back into Gaza, there to remain until they disarmed, until they disavowed war.

Go watch Fauda especially season 5 Episode 7 and 8 and see the horror. Bleed with that horror. Never mind the warning that it is almost unbearable to see, and those who underwent these tortures not to watch. Take it in through your eyes the hatred that these Muslims had had for Jews. The lies they consistently told. Oh, we will never hurt you, for you are Muslim, or Islam tells us not to kill women and children - and then do exactly that - and worse. Kill them all was their true credo.  

My hatred for you people is beyond measurement. I sat there watching this horror and the fire and the ice burned in my blood. I hate you all. You are all fucked up people and I wish upon you all that was wished and brought down upon us.

I call upon all of you out there, those of you who know right from wrong, those of you who know the truth, to stand up tall, to stand up straight and shout out the truth. If you claim you read the Bible, then read it again. See the truth. Live by the truth. For those of you who think you can just stand by and say nothing, well, they'll be coming for you as well. The idea of the caliphate, the idea of Shariah law, the idea of the Muslim religion being the ruling religion. It hasn't ever gone away. It just has hidden itself under lies. But it is for sure there and I call curses down upon you and I call curses upon all those Jews who deny who they are. As they join in lines with those who chant for our death, for their own death! We call upon the wrath of Heaven to fall upon those who curse us, who isolate us, who wish us dead and disappeared. And all those adults who poisoned our young, and enabled this twisted world to flourish.

To Hell with you.

 I wish you all dead. 

To feel the pain of the fire and the ice that I feel.

I wish you gone.

 Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

This cannot and will not continue. 

We will not stand aside. 

We will not stand silent. 

We will not allow for our enemies to freely wreak their hate upon us.

Mene, mene, Tekale Oohfarsin.

Your sins, your violations, your actions, your desecration of the nation of Israel. Your refusal to obey the rules of the Lord on high. 

They have been counted. 

They have been weighed and measured. 

The consequences are coming to you and perhaps have already arrived in the awful events of Nature.

Do not think punishment can be avoided. 

Read the Bible. Read the words of the patriarchs.

 Read the words of the Prophets. 

Read the threats and the promises of goodness.

 Where do you think you are right now? 

Where do you think you belong?

I know where you belong.

F***You.

Please note that due to the holidays the next posting will be either Monday or Tuesday.

In the meanwhile, let us all pray that Hate be banished and the negative emotions go for good.

IS IT REALLY SO-?

  I spent a good part of the day today reading through about four days' worth of newspapers that I hadn't had the chance to do before. I don't know whether to say that it was more uplifting than disappointing or overall, more disturbing at what I read and what it all meant, at least to me.

It seems that many, many people around the world have their own ideas about what has been happening and what can/or should be done about it. What must be done about it? Or how we have to give up all hope and give in to the helplessness of overwhelming odds and remain a species which never seems to learn to do the right thing, which never seems to learn from its experiences and hence is doomed, foretold, to live through these things over and over and over again.

 Are we doomed to be the jackass species which never seems to be able to pull itself out of the mud pit into which it is jumped feet first? Do we enjoy ourselves pontificating great warnings and suggestions and then proceed to ignore it all? All so that our predictions prove true, gaining a reputation as a great foreteller with a deep understanding of the foibles of the human race? 

  Every word that then emerges from their mouths are treated as pearls of wisdom, of specific directions and suggestions as to what we must do. How we must understand the ways of life and the ways of the world. And, of course, it all must be filtered through their tongues and eyes and mouths and ears. Apparently, only what is inside their head between their ears that is applicable to the joys and the woes of the world. And of course, those woes have simply come about because their singular advice was rejected or not followed exactly as they should have done.

What we get as a result of overdone, overgrown cases of hubris and self-abnegation from those who really do know better, with better advice, but who are so intimidated that they find themselves paralyzed and unable to speak up. Too often it is the case of too little, too late or they have convinced themselves that for sure, some compromise can be drawn. but with too many timorous steps, their points of compromise are overlooked, denied, deemed insufficient or too weak or too extreme and they die before they have fully lived.

Always there are questions remaining behind, analyzing too late what went wrong. What was missing? Who bollixed the whole thing up and when they deem some unlucky person that One, woe befalls him/her and lives are changed drastically. As a result, the understandable conclusion is drawn that it is better to shut one's mouth, keep one's nose to the grindstone, never challenge the look with one's eyes or allow for a revealing tic of a muscle.

Many echoes of questions unvoiced remain. Who's really at fault in this matter? Why did we, the rest of the people, allow the fallacies to remain unchallenged? Why did we allow hypocrisy to rule the day and never call anyone on it? Why did we always give in to the excuses of looking at other people condemning what they do rather than looking behind us and seeing it in our own backyard or already in our front yard for that matter.

What is the matter with us? Why can we not see ourselves in an honest reflection? Why must we constantly find ourselves doing the very same things in the very same way and getting the very same results and thinking that is okay. Worse, we then try to do it again and again and again hoping for a miraculous change in fortune but not arriving does it: the very definition of insanity.

Why do we allow politics and specifically certain blocks of politicians and supporters to rule the day? To push aside any possibility of improvement, of positive change. Why do we allow them to interfere? Why are we badgered into passing their demanded rules? Even when we know that these results will bring troubles and woes with not a whisper of any positive movement. And yet we continue to cheer that naked emperor riding his ever more broken-down nag trying to convince himself and his people that all is well.  

What are the results of these repetitive failures? These delusions, these eminent inanities masquerading as pearls of wisdom? Simple. Open your eyes and look around. See the truth. Look past the obfuscating smog and dark clouds and the ringing bells of danger. Block all that out and allow only true reason and comprehension to work its way out into the open.  

Obscenely wealthy Uber rich build their multiple homes whilst hundreds of thousands go homeless.

Wasteful epicurean delights are placed before these people whilst billions around the world go hungry - even as most of the food is trashed. Tariffs issued due to Ego Wars make necessities of life more costly and unaffordable. More go without than with.

Nations are held to different standards, and the one is never called to task while the other is always called to task with no explanations, no reasons accepted. Only condemnations.

As life grows more uncertain, even frightening, the people of the world resort once again to hate, to prejudice, deep and ingrained. Murderers suffused with evil rampage through the lands and return to barbaric customs, which we had mistakenly thought to have long ago erased. 

I believe worst of all, for this allows for very little room to find the way through this morass of ugliness, is the eagerness and skills and enthusiasm with which we have engaged in the most evil aspects of mankind.

We pile our anger and accusations on an ancient people, the Jewish nation despite all the best efforts of mankind, have managed through thick and thin to come from the dangers and darkest and deepest of dungeons to the highest points. It drives people crazy.

We ignore the fact of Russian false claims as the horse is pulling their only wagon to beat down Ukraine into rubble. Constantly shooting purposely. at infrastructure, at civilians themselves. Why is this violation not called to account? They are the ones who invaded.

Why is it Israel is more called into account when they did the most horrible thing out there, evidently. Managed to survive the gross horror of October 7. And yes, rightfully so. They reacted in most forceful manner. Because the people of Israel, the people of the Jewish nation, are tired of this. We're so tired when constant attacks are waged against us. 

Now we are turned away, turned on, by nations and peoples ramped up on crack of hate and enmity.      So yes, perhaps we "overreacted", but I don't think so. How do you overreact to someone who only wishes to destroy you, to disappear you? For settling the lands of Judea and Samaria, for those lands were promised to the Jewish people from the beginning of time by the Lord God Himself. Nor did we go in and grab those lands. 

Those lands were the source of invaders, and we fought back. And so we hold them. They were and are and always will be the land of the People of Israel. Are we the only nation in the world, the only people in the world who are forced, who are demanded to return that which actually belongs to them? The land which we developed? I can name many, many nations around the world who are living in lands that they took over from other people who were there before them. But that evidently is not to be mentioned

I could go on and on and on. For example, I thought we had abolished slavery. So why, in those poor, embattled lands of Sudan and Somalia and Eritrea and Moslem lands are people capturing women and children? And selling them as slaves. The very people that the world cries over as the oppressed who are actually the oppressors. And yet we are deaf, dumb and blind to the truth of that.

Is it really so?

 I am afraid so.

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Will we ever see a time of the light of truth, the hearts of generosity and the acceptance of all mankind as fellow members of a species gifted with the possibilities of going far, rather than seeing only the differences and exaggerating them and hurting others because of them?

How much more patience Will the Lord Above    have with these people? Have we not been warned enough. Volcanoes, earthquakes, huge storms, deep droughts, floods, rampaging fires, viciousness of people, extinction threats.  

Where the hell are our brains? 

Where the hell are our hearts?

I hope we can find them soon before it is too late.

If it is already not so.

IT'S COMMUNICATION!

  "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." So spoke a corrupt and brutal man with power over those incarcerated within the prison he oversaw. A small man with little to speak of, placed in a position of power over those who cannot fight back, and who takes advantage of the situation to do his worst, all the better for his ego and self-importance. 

Unfortunately, these types of officials who matter not much and add less than that to the benefit of others in the world, are in the position of primacy these days and hence, the communication is negligible, if at all. And further hence, that is the underlying reason for combination of such that has the world chasing its tail, with nations competing for the "Biggest Bag of Hot Air" award. Much to our regret, the harm caused by these oh so little people add to an aggregate sum which threatens the world and world order.

These small, brained creatures resemble the dinosaurs of old who maintained order and ranking by using sheer size and weaponry available, that which came with birth. Those are our supposed leaders of today who use what they have, brutality, meanness, greed, influence and money to fight their way to the top, using all as steppingstones and paying no never mind to the trail of destruction and tragedy they leave behind.

These people are the scum of the earth raised to power via circumstances and lack of understanding, attention from the very ones whose lives are at stake, and even apathy, either not caring or having given up hope of better times.  To combat these combined deficiencies is difficult and unfortunately, the ones whose stars shine brightly in such times are the very ones who should have been thrust aside but are not.

Hence, welcome to the world of today, where the intellect of the leaders is limited and diluted by a lack of decency and by overwhelming desire to gain and hold power, influence and accumulate great wealth and attain longevity in office. One of the saddest moments is when a former leader of greatness and achievements forsakes it all and grasps with greedy hands and nasty mouth onto his/her power and their self-interest and refuse to concede to the truth and go out with a proud legacy left behind, one that will live through history. 

Now take a stroll through the ranks of our world leaders and then go back and reread the first sentence of this posting and all that follows. Is not that the truth? These leaders are not leading at all, unless into perdition and danger, into hopelessness and a future tainted with danger and loss, lives denied the advantages and benefits of the best traits of humanity, which are instead derided and denied room to grow and flower.

If we understood where we went wrong, we could hopefully restart the world where that was a well-known fact, a world of goodness and sharing, where we can acknowledge that we are one, no matter how small the divisions we artificially introduce. 

Those divisions indeed foster the lack of true and meaningful communication and instead build walls where there should be none, dividing where there should be unity, where we finally have internalized the fact that while the possibilities are infinite, nothing good will take place unless we truly feel the need to share, to seek justice, to shun hate and prejudice. A world where equity is not a term to brutally misuse but a word of true meaning and righteous application. 

Will we ever see such a world, for till today we have not yet been so privileged. We need to work harder, to actually feel the necessity of this truth. However, when looking at leaders, at the results of recent elections and upcoming ones, well, despair can make a highly visible presence within societies plagued by the ugliness and mistrust, and total lack of communication, either on purpose or by circumstance. 

Politicians who refuse to change, who think that by shifting a word or two promising that which had been promised before, yet never achieved reality, will be excused, and their incompetence, and the danger they pose for societies round the world, must be removed from positions where they make ever more permanent the worst of society, the worst of leaders, and the worst present and future of the world.

Until that happens, we, the people of the world, will never achieve what we must if we are to create a positive outlook and a better level of achievement. Without true effort meeting success at improving   communication amongst all the peoples of earth, with truth within the words, well, same old, same old. Much to our distress.

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

Is it not time to reach for the stars rather than remain in the muck?

Let us talk with each other rather than at each other.