Physics and Mathematics, Law of God

The Law of God has different aspects. In the world of human interactions it is the Oral and Written Law. In the physical world it is Physics and Mathematics. But it is one Law. That is how the Rambam {Maimonides} understood Torah. This is reflected in his writings often. One place is when he says one should divide his day into three parts. One 1/3 he says should be the Oral Law and in the category of the Oral law are the subjects of פרדס has he explained them in the first four chapters of Mishne Torah. {Physics and Metaphysics}.This is  but is a manifestation of the Rambam's world view of one law inside of everything, but if manifested differently according to the receivers. That is there is One Law but it is diffracted according to the subject matter.
He also does not think it is open to individual interpretation but neither to anyone else or any group.
To the Rambam the Torah has a definite meaning which is fixed for all time.

What is slavery?

Unpaid work. That is slavery. Right? And when white people are forced to support millions of blacks on welfare is that not slavery?

Is not the way we understand slavery to be some guy sitting on a chair drinking tea while his slaves work in the fields to support him? And when blacks sit home all day and do nothing and white people have to go to work and support them is that not slavery?

Women in the West are disaster-zones

After seeing some blogs on what is called the manosphere I can not help but agree. Women in the West are disaster-zones.  After they have their fun and some Alpha Male's child when in the teens and twenties, then they decide to get some Beta Male to pick up the slack. Their attitudes could hardly be worse. If character matters, women's character today is just about as bad as one could hope for..

There are people that blame Jews, and ignore the fact that Jews have the same problems. But there is a point that religious leaders in the Jewish world have been encouraging this for  a long time. And that is a true point. But the Church-ian world is the same.

Music for the glory of the God of Israel, Symphony

E Minor R41    F major minuet r40  r38 G Major    r39 3-4 time G minor   r44 A Minor

What I suggest is to stop hanging out with insane people because until the spiritual equivalent of toxo is discovered you might as well be careful. After all we see the effects of hanging out with insane people.

We know a parasite can make a male crab think it is a female. But that is not as bad as toxo. Toxo can cause a mouse to think of cats as sexually attractive. That is it is a parasite that can make one do self destructive things. But what else is out there affecting our behaviors without our knowing it?



The most interesting thing about cat woman disease is what Sapolsky mentioned: what else is out there that we are not aware of?
Obviously Howard Bloom has already dealt with this issue on another plane. The Super-organism plane.
But what about a spiritual parasite? Can there be the same as a spiritual equivalent of toxo? (toxoplasmosis).

What I suggest is to stop hanging out with insane people because until the spiritual equivalent of  toxo is discovered you might as well be careful. After all we see the effects of hanging out with insane people. There is no question that it is infectious. So far we do not know how it is infectious but we know it is. As the Rambam wrote "a man is drawn in his opinions the the people he hangs out with."

(1) The first night of Passover. Count the actual new moon as the first day of the month.
The way you count is you consider the first day--the day of the new moon to be the first day on the month. That is day 1. Then you count up from there until day 15. That gives you the first day of Passover.



(2) It is strange that the blessing for when the twelve constellations come [rise above] the horizon is not said anymore. Nor the blessing when any of the seven planets come into the constellation of the sheep.
(3) It is strange the opinion of the Rambam concerning Physics and Metaphysics is ignored when it is not the custom to ignore any of his other opinions.
(4) It is strange that the after blessing which refers to "nefashot" should be counted masculine when the word ''nefesh'' is in general feminine. Not always. But as a rule Nefesh is feminine.  In fact the only exception I can think of is in Leviticus. But the rest of Tenach {Old Testament} has it as feminine.



(5) Mazah is not any different than the pancakes you cook in the morning. The only real difference is that the dough should be thick in order to be considered as bread. But if you should make a normal pancake with oatmeal or wheat flour with water in a thick dough and spread in on a frying pan-that is matzah. Unless dough sits still for 18 minutes before being cooked it is the same as any matzah.
(6) Cleaning for Pesach is a good thing however it has nothing to do with bread crumbs. The Gemara says crumbs are nullified automatically even if you did not do so openly.

(7)  The reason people go overboard with these things seems to be to be a result of schizoid tendencies. Or perhaps some kind of evil inclination to get people to focus on things that are really just adding to the law in order to distract attention form what the Law does in fact require.
Some people just want the appearance of keeping the law so that naive will pay them to do rituals.
Pesach is a good example.

The Musar [Ethics] Movement 2.01

תנועת המוסר 2.01

The Musar [Ethics] Movement 2.01

This would be slightly different than the Musar Movement 1.01

The set of books the first Musar [Ethics] Movement was based on was three, חובות לבבות Obligations of the Heart, מסילת ישרים ואורחות צדיקים. [I do not know the common English translation. I think perhaps Paths of the Righteous, The Path of the Just.] This basic canon was added onto and so the actual books that people were concentrating on were about 30 and even more if you count the Maharal from Prague. In any case the literature was a lot.

But to launch another Musar movement with the purpose in mind as Reb Israel Salanter, I think would have to include the אור ישראל by one of the major disciples of Reb Israel Salanter, Isaac Blasser. And the מדרגת האדם by Joseph Josel Horowitz a later disciple of Israel Salanter after the original three.
Plus it would have to include Jewish philosophy which I think has been ignored at terrible consequence. That would be the אמונות ודעות by Saadia Gaon, the Guide of the Rambam, Ibn Gavirol, Crescas, Joseph Albo, Abravenal.



There are still details to work out. The First Musar Movement somehow got absorbed in yeshivas and is almost zero in effect today. It gets at best lip service, and some "mashgiach" [the person that in theory in charge of the spiritual welfare of the students] talks once a week. Yet it is well known that mashgiachs are just the people too stupid to be rosh yeshivas. They don't even know much about what is going on in Musar itself, much less Gemara. A mashgiach is a person talking about virtue who know nothing about it. How could it not be damaging? Why not get a football couch that knows nothing about football?

So it is hard to see where this might go. Still it is important, and without which nothing else can begin of much worth.

[Plus outdoor skills and physical fitness. Outdoor skills is for character development, plus survival skills.] Outdoor skills and physical fitness have to be a part and parcel of any Ethical movement. Ethics does not exist in a vacuum.

[Outside of all the above I wanted to say that things in Ethics you need to work on, it is a good idea to memorize them and say the paragraph right when you wake up in the morning. Like if you need to work on some trait,you find some statement in a Musar book that deals with that trait and say it over right when you wake up.]