Secular Jews

The Goal; The Beginning-Ten Utterances.

October 24, 2011
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Rabbi Yitzchak Luria (The Ari)-Author of The Ten Luminous Emanations) had great respect and honor for Rabbi Moshe Cordovero (Ramak)

The entire Universe the world and everything else that anyone in the past present and future was created, In the Beginning, by The Ten Utterances of G-d. If you don’t believe that this is possible then you might enjoy reading this piece mystically inspired piece. This being a classic type of article, that I simply love to write about or speak about and yes even think about, my regular readers will need to go and get a cup of tea, set their cell phone to vibrate and give yourself the 15-20 minutes or so, that will be needed to really get what this article is trying to explain.     First things first I do not at the moment posses an advanced degree in metaphysics, physical chemistry, or quantum mechanics. I do have a fairly solid understanding of the concept known as the Rad Shift, whereby objects which are moving away from one at great speeds display a sort of distortion of the light spectrum as their movement approaches speeds close to the speed of light. I do not really get how time moves backwards, yet I am continuously amazed at how maybe a month or so back we were

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This Week’s Torah Portion-Ki Seitze.

September 8, 2011
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Graphic Representation of the Ten Sefirot

One thing I learned fairly recently, is that the Torah Portion of the week starts to “exert it’s influence on us” after Tuesday. Therefore the Torah Portion of the week which has information specifically relevant to our lives for right now, is the portion which will be read, or publicly lained in Shul this coming Shabbos. The name of the Parsha is Ki Seitzei, and is the portion of our Holy Torah which will be lained (read publicly from a Torah Scroll requiring a minimum of ten Jewish men- a minion to be present) this Saturday, Shabbos in synagogues and shuls all over the world. The portion is in the 5th book of Moshe (our teacher) which is also called Devarim (or Deuteronomy) in the non-Jewish world. The portion starts at Deuteronomy chapter 21:10 and ends at Chapter 25:19. When I resume writing this piece I will be discussing Mitzvah (commandment) given to chase away the mother bird, before taking the egg. While I normally do try to avoid using non-Jewish sources, sometimes expediency requires otherwise, in this case, its merely the words translated into English that are needed. Deut 22:6-7 (Jewish) )6 “If, as you are walking along, you happen

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