Who will create the future and what must be left behind?
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Sunday, August 31, 2014
When You Take (Deut 21:10 - 22:7 & 22:23 - 23:9)
How shall we deal with that which we overcome?
How much power shall we give to that which we worry over?
Should people still inherit from their parents? If so, equally?
What should be done with a wayward child?
What should be done with an adult guilty of a capital crime?
How much power shall we give to that which we worry over?
Should people still inherit from their parents? If so, equally?
What should be done with a wayward child?
What should be done with an adult guilty of a capital crime?
What should be done with possessions that have become separated from their owners?
What should be done if transport, either electrical or physical, is defective?
What should be done if a species or its offspring are vulnerable?
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Magistrates (Deut 16:18 - 17:7 & Ch 18)
Shall we pursue anarchy?
Which political direction is the best?
What shall we sacrifice to Greater Good?
What shall we do with people that don't understand?
Which political direction is the best?
What shall we sacrifice to Greater Good?
What shall we do with people that don't understand?
Which group will focus on supporting people, instead of the land?
And how will they be nourished and supported?
As we go forward into the future, who shall we avoid?
What practices and beliefs should we abhor?
How will we know?
To whom shall we listen?
How can we know that an oracle was not spoken by YHVH?
Sunday, August 17, 2014
See (Deut 11:26 -12:11 & 13:2-19)
What is the point of any commandments?
Why follow them?
What difference do they make?
What about alternative commandments? Aren't they just as valid?
Why follow them?
What difference do they make?
What about alternative commandments? Aren't they just as valid?
What does YHVH want of me?
What are today's sacrifices?
And what should we do with them?
What are today's sacrifices?
And what should we do with them?
Why not magic?
Doesn't the unexplained indicate the power of YHVH?
How do we respond to false ways of thinking?
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Because (Deut 7: 12-26 & 9: 4-24)
But why should we care about rules?
How can we eliminate actions and beliefs more popular than our new way?
How can we keep from taking on that which we hate in others?
Physically, what can be done to move away from the old and toward the new way?
What must be avoided?
How can we eliminate actions and beliefs more popular than our new way?
How can we keep from taking on that which we hate in others?
Physically, what can be done to move away from the old and toward the new way?
What must be avoided?
What will be the cause of our success?
How do we keep our self-aggrandizement in check?
Where does all this writing come from?
How is society going wrong now?
What must immediately be done to save us from destruction?
Where else do we go wrong?
When exactly?
Sunday, August 3, 2014
And I Pleaded (Deut 3:23 - 4:8 & 4:41 - 5:10)
If the Mashiakh had a will, what would it be?
Will We manage to keep Mashiakh out of our future?
Has Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Holocaust been enough?
For what great way of life is there that has power so close at hand?
What great organization has laws and rules as perfect?
Will We manage to keep Mashiakh out of our future?
Has Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Holocaust been enough?
For what great way of life is there that has power so close at hand?
What great organization has laws and rules as perfect?
But what about when we make mistakes?
Who were the bad or misguided people? Where did they live?
Who were the bad or misguided people? Where did they live?
What does Mashiakh command us to do?
What message does our leader convey from YHVH?
What is the first commandment?
And what follows from that commandment?
Sunday, July 27, 2014
The Words (Deut 1: 1-10 & 22-45)
What does the existence of the Mashiakh mean?
To whom is it speaking? Why?
Where does its message apply, to whom does it matter?
To whom does it not matter?
What holds back this realization?
Won't the future over all be good, be better assured with the realization than without?
To whom is it speaking? Why?
Where does its message apply, to whom does it matter?
To whom does it not matter?
What holds back this realization?
Won't the future over all be good, be better assured with the realization than without?
What emotion is our primary adversary?
What emotion do adversaries on both side most try to elicit?
How have we known the way?
What emotion do adversaries on both side most try to elicit?
How have we known the way?
Who will be allowed to be alive to see it?
How will we know when we have reached the future meant for us?
How will we choose the correct path?
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Journeys (Num 33: 1-49)
Who are with us?
Who will be left behind?
Where has this made a difference?
Where will I retire?
Who will be left behind?
Where has this made a difference?
Where will I retire?
Then where will you continue to make a difference?
Monday, July 14, 2014
Religions (Num 30: 2-17 & Ch 32)
With whom shall we communicate most directly?
How can any capable person be dishonest when their very existence is at stake?
How might an individual become wiser and stronger?
How can any capable person be dishonest when their very existence is at stake?
How might an individual become wiser and stronger?
But what if people are happy with the way things are?
Should they not help their neighbors to make the others' plight better?
Should they not help their neighbors to make the others' plight better?
How will they both help and protect their own gains?
Who has done this?
Who has done this?
Monday, July 7, 2014
Chaim (Num 25:10 - 26:4 & 26:52 - 27:5)
How will we recognize when bold action comes from our heart?
How will we recognize when it doesn't?
How many count?
How will all the people of the world be allotted a means toward sustenance?
How will we recognize when it doesn't?
How many count?
How will all the people of the world be allotted a means toward sustenance?
What are the legitimate schools of science?
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Thomas (Num 22: 2-20)
But won't our enemies want to fight?
What's to keep our power from being intimidating?
Who, with what power, can attempt to curse us?
What's to keep our power from being intimidating?
Who, with what power, can attempt to curse us?
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Ritual Law (Num 19: 1-13 & 21:10 - 22:1)
What procedure might purify a leader to serve the people?
How might science must team with ritual to protect from impure influence?
When will re-purification be needed?
How might corruption with its concomitant death and deprivation be rooted out?
What forces in society need to be overcome?
Where are they?
How might they be overcome without taking on some of their worst traits?
How might purifying wells of new ideas be found and protected?
What is the best way to save the land and people from bad ideas?
How might science must team with ritual to protect from impure influence?
When will re-purification be needed?
How might corruption with its concomitant death and deprivation be rooted out?
What forces in society need to be overcome?
Where are they?
How might they be overcome without taking on some of their worst traits?
How might purifying wells of new ideas be found and protected?
What is the best way to save the land and people from bad ideas?
Monday, June 16, 2014
Yigal (Num 16: 1-15 & 17: 1-7)
Will it be easy?
Won't our ability to convince others be obvious?
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What should we do when we're wrong, when some of us make mistakes?
Won't our ability to convince others be obvious?
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What should we do when we're wrong, when some of us make mistakes?
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Send for Yourself (Num 13: 1-20 & 14: 5-35)
What will the new world we're creating be like?
How can we get some idea of whether we will succeed?
What difference does it make that we're afraid, that we lack faith in our power to create a better future?
How can we get some idea of whether we will succeed?
What difference does it make that we're afraid, that we lack faith in our power to create a better future?
Sunday, June 1, 2014
When You Rise Up (Num Ch 8 & 10: 1-28)
How will we illuminate the world?
How will we be heard?
How will we be heard?
How will we begin?
How will we replace misguided practices of the past?
How will we replace misguided practices of the past?
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Take (Num 4:21 - 5:4 & 5:23 - 6:12)
How shall the various specialists, physicists, physicians, and the rest, support our community?
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How will we help each other to be true to one another? To realize the love we feel?
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How will we help each other to be true to one another? To realize the love we feel?
Sunday, May 18, 2014
In the Forests (Num 1: 1-23 & Ch.2)
When and where do we realize what Mashiakh has to teach us?
And how many realize the message and wrestle with its meaning?
Which representatives of all people shall we record?
What should be their minimum age? Who is able to see and hear the message?
Since it would be awfully lengthy to name every individual, who are the representatives of groups that have ideas to contribute?
Who in Sunni Islam? And how many total?
Who in Shia Islam? And how many total?
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How shall we live relative to each other?
How do we order ourselves so that each gets their fair share?
And how many realize the message and wrestle with its meaning?
Which representatives of all people shall we record?
What should be their minimum age? Who is able to see and hear the message?
Since it would be awfully lengthy to name every individual, who are the representatives of groups that have ideas to contribute?
Who in Sunni Islam? And how many total?
Who in Shia Islam? And how many total?
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How shall we live relative to each other?
How do we order ourselves so that each gets their fair share?
Sunday, May 11, 2014
My Laws (Lev 26: 3-13)
"'If you follow My laws and faithfully observe My
commandments, rain will fall in its seasons, so that the earth shall yield its
produce and the trees their fruit. Your threshing shall overtake the
grape harvest, and your grape harvest shall overtake the sowing; you
shall eat your fill of bread and dwell securely in your land.
"'I will grant peace in the
land, and you shall lie down untroubled by anyone; I will give the land
respite from vicious beasts, and no bullet shall cross your land. You
shall give chase to your friends, and they shall run before you for
sport. Five of you shall give entertainment to a hundred, and a hundred
of you shall give entertainment to ten thousand; your friends shall run before
you for sport.
"'I will look with favor upon
you, and make you fertile and sustain you; and I will maintain My
covenant with you. You shall eat even when old, grain long stored;
and you shall have to die when old so that there is room for the young.
"'I will establish Myself in
your midst, and I will not spurn you. I will be ever present in your
midst: I will be your One, and you shall be My people. I YHVH am
your One who brought you out from the old order to be its employees no more,
who broke the bars of your yoke so that you walk erect.'"
Sunday, May 4, 2014
On Lone Mountain (Lev 25: 1-7 & 39- 26:2)
YHVH spoke to Mashiakh on Lone Mountain: "Speak
to the people who wrestle Me and say to them:
"'When you enter the future
that I assign to you, the future shall observe a sabbath of YHVH.
Six-sevenths of your fields you may sow and six-sevenths of your vineyards you
may prune and gather. But one-seventh shall have a sabbath year of
complete rest, a sabbath of YHVH: you shall not sow one-seventh of your
field or prune one-seventh of your vineyard. You shall not reap the
aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untrimmed vines;
it shall be a year of complete rest for one-seventh of the land. You may
not eat whatever the land during its sabbath will produce -- you, your
employees, and your purchasers who should live near you may not eat of its
yield. Only your animals and the unaffiliated in your land may eat of its
yield.'"
"'If another wrestler continues to
suffer financial difficulty and must become employed, do not subject the
individual to the treatment of a temporary worker. The employee shall
remain with you as a contracted worker with full benefits; employment
shall be guaranteed for forty-nine years. Then the worker along with any
dependents shall be free of any residual debt obligation; they shall
return to being the chief executives and owners of their family holdings. --
For they are My employees, whom I freed from the old order; they may not
give themselves over into employment. -- You shall not rule over any; you
shall fear your One. Such male and female employees as you may have -- it
is from the immigrants round about you that you may acquire male and female
employees. You may also acquire them from among the nations that have not
yet immigrated, they may be recruited from places near and distant. These
shall become your employees: they may continue to be employed to your
successors, for so long as they desire. Such you may treat as employees.
But as for your fellow wrestler, no one shall rule over the other.
"'If a foreign company has
prospered among you, and a wrestler in financial duress becomes employed by
that company, or a subsidiary of it, the employee shall have the right of
redemption by a fellow wrestler. A wrestler shall redeem the employee,
ideally someone close to the employee or the employee's predecessors; or,
if the employee prospers, self-redemption becomes an option. Asset income
shall be computed over the subsequent forty-nine years as sufficient to cover
what would have been generated by employment. If many years remain, the
former employee shall pay back for the redemption in proportion to the
employment salary; and if few years remain, the employee shall so
compute: a one-time payment for redemption according to the years
involved. While employed, the employer shall not appear to rule over the
wrestler. If no redemption has been achieved, employment shall not
continue beyond forty-nine years. For it is to Me that the ones who
wrestle are employed: they are My employees, whom I freed from the old
order, I YHVH your One.
"'You shall not believe in magic
for yourselves, or set up for yourselves elaborate beliefs or dogmas, or place
figured stones in your land to worship upon, for I YHVH am your One. You
shall keep My sabbaths and venerate My university hospital, Mine, YHVH's.'"
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Speak (Lev 21: 1-15 & 22: 17-33)
What difference does it make that there's a Mashiakh?
What does the Mashiakh mean to me? To the world?
Who cares?
Who knows more than others? And what knowledge matters?
Why do I write this?
What matters? Who matters?
Who are we? Our bodies, do they matter? Does it matter what we do to them?
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YHVH spoke to Mashiakh, saying: "Speak to Eliyahu and his followers, and to all the people who wrestle with me, and say to them:
"'When anyone of the wrestlers or of the strangers among them presents censored information as news in exchange for good fortune or as a gift of information that they offer to YHVH, it must, to be acceptable in your favor, be controversial and accurate, from writing or drawing or photography. You shall not impart any that contains fiction, for it will not be accepted in your favor.
"'And when a person offers, from what is heard or seen, an uplifting gift to YHVH in an explicit exchange of favor or as a gift, it must, to be acceptable, be accurate; there must be no fiction in it. Anything without vision, or poorly edited, or altered, or with gossip, gossip edited, or insubstantial -- such you shall not offer to YHVH; you shall not put any of them on the website as gifts to YHVH. You may, however, present as a gift a powerful story or a drawing with exaggeration or abridgment; but it will not be accepted in exchange for good fortune. You shall not offer to YHVH anything with its future potency imperiled or reduced or limited or removed. You shall have no such practices in your land, nor shall you accept such from a foreigner for offering as sustenance for your One, for they are altered, they contain fiction; they shall not be accepted in your favor.'"
YHVH spoke to Mashiakh, saying: "When a powerful story or a drawing or a photo is created, it shall stay seven days with its creator, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a gift to YHVH. However, no fact from what is heard or what is seen shall be publicized on the same day with its creator.
"When you give thanksgiving news to YHVH, give it so that it may be acceptable in your favor. It shall be enjoyed on the same day; you shall not leave any of it until morning: I am YHVH.
"You shall faithfully observe My commandments: I am YHVH. You shall not profane My holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the people who wrestle Me -- I YHVH who sanctify you. I who brought you out of the world to be your One, I YHVH."
What does the Mashiakh mean to me? To the world?
Who cares?
Who knows more than others? And what knowledge matters?
Why do I write this?
What matters? Who matters?
Who are we? Our bodies, do they matter? Does it matter what we do to them?
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YHVH spoke to Mashiakh, saying: "Speak to Eliyahu and his followers, and to all the people who wrestle with me, and say to them:
"'When anyone of the wrestlers or of the strangers among them presents censored information as news in exchange for good fortune or as a gift of information that they offer to YHVH, it must, to be acceptable in your favor, be controversial and accurate, from writing or drawing or photography. You shall not impart any that contains fiction, for it will not be accepted in your favor.
"'And when a person offers, from what is heard or seen, an uplifting gift to YHVH in an explicit exchange of favor or as a gift, it must, to be acceptable, be accurate; there must be no fiction in it. Anything without vision, or poorly edited, or altered, or with gossip, gossip edited, or insubstantial -- such you shall not offer to YHVH; you shall not put any of them on the website as gifts to YHVH. You may, however, present as a gift a powerful story or a drawing with exaggeration or abridgment; but it will not be accepted in exchange for good fortune. You shall not offer to YHVH anything with its future potency imperiled or reduced or limited or removed. You shall have no such practices in your land, nor shall you accept such from a foreigner for offering as sustenance for your One, for they are altered, they contain fiction; they shall not be accepted in your favor.'"
YHVH spoke to Mashiakh, saying: "When a powerful story or a drawing or a photo is created, it shall stay seven days with its creator, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a gift to YHVH. However, no fact from what is heard or what is seen shall be publicized on the same day with its creator.
"When you give thanksgiving news to YHVH, give it so that it may be acceptable in your favor. It shall be enjoyed on the same day; you shall not leave any of it until morning: I am YHVH.
"You shall faithfully observe My commandments: I am YHVH. You shall not profane My holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the people who wrestle Me -- I YHVH who sanctify you. I who brought you out of the world to be your One, I YHVH."
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Mindful (Lev 19: 1-10)
YHVH spoke to Mashiakh, saying: "Speak to the whole community of those that wrestle with me and say to them:
"'You all must be mindful, for I, YHVH your One, am mindful.
"'You shall each revere your mother and your father, and keep My sabbaths: I YHVH am your One.
"'Do not turn to superstition or materialism for yourselves: I YHVH am your One.
"'When you give an uplifting meal to YHVH, give it so that it may be accepted on your behalf. It shall be eaten on the day you give it, or on the day following; but what is left by the third day must be composted. If it should be eaten on the third day, it is an offensive thing, it will not be acceptable. And the one who eats of it shall bear guilt, for profaning what is sacred to YHVH; that person shall be cut off from their family.
"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your land; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I YHVH am your One.'"
"'You all must be mindful, for I, YHVH your One, am mindful.
"'You shall each revere your mother and your father, and keep My sabbaths: I YHVH am your One.
"'Do not turn to superstition or materialism for yourselves: I YHVH am your One.
"'When you give an uplifting meal to YHVH, give it so that it may be accepted on your behalf. It shall be eaten on the day you give it, or on the day following; but what is left by the third day must be composted. If it should be eaten on the third day, it is an offensive thing, it will not be acceptable. And the one who eats of it shall bear guilt, for profaning what is sacred to YHVH; that person shall be cut off from their family.
"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your land; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I YHVH am your One.'"
Sunday, April 6, 2014
After the Death (Lev 16: 1-10 & 17:8 - 18:21)
YHVH spoke to Mashiakh after the death of the two children
of Eliyahu who died when they drew too close to the presence of YHVH.
YHVH said to Mashiakh:
"Tell your brother Eliyahu
that he is not to come at will into the operating room behind the line of
sterility, in front of the operating table, lest he die; for I appear in
the light over the table. Thus only shall Eliyahu enter the operating
room: with well-established expertise for purification and with
controversial information that has been censored. -- He shall be dressed in a
sacral linen tunic, with linen breeches next to his flesh, and be girt with a
linen sash, and he shall wear a linen turban. They are sacral
vestments; he shall bathe his body in clean water and then put them on.
-- And from the community that wrestles he shall take two items of new controversial
information for purification and a former controversy to be given in
confidence.
"Eliyahu is to offer his own
established expertise for purification, in exchange for himself and for his
household. Eliyahu shall take the two new controversies and let them
stand before YHVH at the auditorium of the University; and he shall hold
an election upon the two controversies, so that one becomes marked as YHVH and
the other becomes marked as Id. Eliyahu shall bring forward the controversy
designated by vote as YHVH, which he is to publicize for purification;
while the controversy designated by vote as Id shall be left among the people
before YHVH, to exchange and to send it off to obscurity as Id."
"Say to them further: 'If one
of My wrestlers or of the strangers who reside among them offers censored
information or a gift, and does not bring it to the entrance of the University
to offer it to YHVH, that person shall be as if cut off from their people.
"'And if anyone of the wrestlers or
of the strangers who reside among them takes advantage of any implications, I
will set My attention against the person who takes advantage of the
implications, and I will cut that person off from among their kin. For
the life of the gift is in the implications, and I have assigned it to you in
exchange for your lives upon the stage; it is the implications, as life,
that effects the exchange. Therefore I say to the people who wrestle Me:
No person among you shall take advantage of implications, nor shall the
stranger who resides among you take advantage of the implications.
"'And if any wrestler or any
stranger who resides among them hunts down a fact or an idea that may be
enjoyed, that person shall pour out its implications and cover it with time.
For the life of all gifts -- its implications is its life.
Therefore I say to the people who wrestle Me: You shall not take
advantage of the implications of any gift, for the life of all gifts is its
implications. Anyone who takes advantage of it shall be as cut off.
"'Any person, whether citizen or
stranger, who enjoys what has died or has been torn by beasts shall wash their
clothes, bathe in water, and remain infectious until evening; then that
person shall be clean. But if the individual's body and clothes are not
washed, that person shall be accounted guilty.'"
(18) YHVH spoke to Mashiakh, saying: "Speak to
the people who wrestle Me and say to them:
"'I YHVH am your One. You
shall not copy the practices of the old order where you dwelt, or of the new
order to which I am taking you; nor shall you follow their laws. My
rules alone shall you observe, and faithfully follow My laws: I YHVH am
your One.
"'You shall keep My laws and My
rules, by the pursuit of which all shall live: I am YHVH.
"'None of you shall come near
anyone within your immediate family to uncover nakedness: I am YHVH.
"'Your parent's nakedness, that is
the nakedness of either parent, you shall not uncover; they are your
parents -- you shall not uncover their nakedness.
"'Do not uncover the nakedness of
you parent's spouse; it is the nakedness of you parent.
"'The nakedness of your sibling --
your father's offspring or your mother's, whether born into the household or
outside -- do not uncover their nakedness.
"'The nakedness of your son's
child, or of your daughter's child -- do not uncover their nakedness; for
their nakedness is yours.
"'The nakedness of your parent's
spouse's child, who was born into your parent's household -- they are your
siblings; do not uncover their nakedness.
"'Do not uncover the nakedness of
your parent's sibling; they are your parent's flesh.
"'Do not uncover the nakedness of
your parent's sibling: do not approach their spouse; they are your
aunt or your uncle.
"'Do not uncover the nakedness of
your child's spouse; you shall not uncover their nakedness.
"'Do not uncover the nakedness of
you sibling's spouse; it is the nakedness of you sibling.
"'Do not uncover the nakedness of a
man and his child; nor shall you marry his child's child and uncover
their nakedness: they are kindred; it is depravity.
"'Do not uncover the nakedness of a
woman and her child; nor shall you marry her child's child and uncover
their nakedness: they are kindred; it is depravity.
"'Do not marry an individual as a
rival to their sibling and uncover their nakedness in the other's lifetime.
"'Do not come near a man or a woman
during their period of impurity to uncover their nakedness.
"'Do not have carnal relations with
anyone's spouse and defile yourself with them.
"'Do not allow any of your
offspring to be offered up to war, and do not profane the name of your One:
I am YHVH.'"
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