Some people see Kabalah as a negative thing. They group it together with attempts of things like the New Age cults and such. This was never my impression, but I think this opinion should still be considered.  After all how is it that it got to be so widely and wildly  accepted the  religious world? I am not sure how to answer this? From what I can tell there might be some reason to think the entire acceptance of it as a legitimate part of Judaism might have been a mistake.

In any case it is hard to see any good that comes out of it.

However sometimes it seems  people that were good  did learn the Zohar and the Ari. And that does not seem like a bad thing. After all the Ari is just developing a modification of a neo- platonic system and using it to explain the Torah. Still you have to wonder is there perhaps some kind of bad energy mixed up with the whole thing? Based on what we have seen for the last centuries as Kabalah became popular we certainly did not see people improving in any way because of learning it.

What might be going on is that people are putting anything that smacks of the Dark Side all in one trash basket and throwing it all out without inspecting the particulars of each case. Thus they would be putting the cult that the Gra signed the  excommunication on and cabala and new age and hinduism all together and saying that it is underneath all the same dark side.



In other words some people are instead of focusing on the positive aspects of their beliefs system are focusing on avoiding the Dark Side in all and every manifestation of it. This is probably a good approach. The reason is that it is easy to be distracted and to swallow the bait. I think people are the most interested in avoiding the Dark Side are probably thinking correctly.The question is how to identify the dark side? But they are not concerned with that. They simply dismiss anything that smells even slightly off.

Now I have never done that myself and I am probably at fault for this. As I look over things I have read I see I have studied in great depth and detail systems that were pretty obviously from the Dark Side. Maybe I did not care, or maybe I thought it would not effect me. Maybe I thought I was immune?

I have talked about kabalah in particular is some other essay. But just for now let me mention that Im Kal Da [even though] which comes up all the time in the Zohar is a translation of Im Kal Ze [even though in Hebrew]. It was a phrase invented by the Ibn Tibon family during the Middle Ages. [There were  ways to say "even though" in Hebrew during the time of R Shimon Ben Yochai, like "af al pi" or "af al gav." But Ibn Tibon was looking for something that made more sense, so he came up with this "im kal ze."] Therefore not one word of the Zohar can be from R. Shimon Ben Yochai. QED.

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Why American should not bow before the pressures of the Federal Government to enforce Queer agenda.

 Moral Principles are worth more than money.

A weakening of faith was the problem in Europe and it still is. Nationalism is not a substitute for numinous holy value. The complete rejection of the Middle Ages was a terrible mistake. In the Middle Ages it was the basic starting axiom that faith and reason are not at odds in any way.And the books written then in philosophy show a rigor that have never been excelled.
Later books of philosophy seems to excel in circular reasoning and often plain false principles that sound good at first.

How empty a man's life would be without a woman's touch

I hate feminists but I love women. I think that they are superior to men in many ways. I am in a college dorm and I can tell you there is a real difference when there are guys than when there are girls. How empty a man's life would be without a woman's touch and encouragement. He starts his first breath from a woman's touch. His pleasure and happiness in his life is from women. His comfort in his sadness is from a woman's love. Life would be empty and meaningless without women. That does not mean they are smarter or better at building bridges.

Girl Friends:

The Book of Chronicles, Volume One, chapter two [2:46] and four concerning Kalev ben Yefuna (כלב בן יפונה). He is the only person in the entire Bible that it says the unique phrase, וימלא אחרי השם "He walked completely after God." He had two girl friends.]

I have seen some different opinions about this. Christians seem to be unaware of the different between the Law of the Ten Commandments and having a girl friend. The Ten Commandments are referring to sex with a married woman. To show how this can be derived rigorously from the usage in the Torah is a good idea. But I do not have the books to be able to look it up.

Jewish people

 I see that the Jewish people are in a spiritual situation that is  serious . I have been hoping to emphasize the importance of learning the Avi Ezri  in the hope that learning that book would save our souls. 

Too many false prophets and demonic  religious teachers claim to represent Torah. 

The religious world is an scam pretending to represent Torah, while in fact seducing people into the Dark Side of worship of  religious teachers by means of using the appearance of Jewish rituals

So the book of Rav Shach I think is perhaps the only thing that can help. Everything else can be perverted. Even Musar and even Gemara, Rashi, Tosphot.

One should have a fast session in it and  an in depth one. The fast one should be just to say the words in order and go on until you have finished the whole book word for word. The slow one is more difficult to describe. To do a slow session in the Avi Ezri you will need to pick one chapter and get the sources associated with it like the Gemaras that it is written on and the Rambam also. 


[Appendix: The Avi Ezri is the book of Rav Elezar Menachem Shach on the Rambam. It is in essence close to the Chidusei HaRambam of Reb Chaim Soloveitchik. But slightly different. There are few or no יסודות (foundational principles). That is he does not depend on finding some underlying principle to explain things, but rather takes a common sense approach to answering contradictions and problems in the Rambam and the Gemara. It is deep while at the same time being much more understandable than the Chidushei HaRambam.

In the past I have said to learn it because it is a good thing. Now I am trying to make my point a little clearer. The difference is a doctor who says, "Take this medicine because it is good for you," and the doctor who says the same thing but puts it in this way,"Take this medicine so you do not die."


A יסוד is foundational principle. Reb Chaim depends on these very much. He starts in the normal way of finding some contradiction in the Rambam, or between the Rambam and the Gemara. Then he introduces a axiom. Then tries to answer the problem based on the axiom. Rav Shach also begins the same way, but skips the idea of introducing some axiom though he might end up with one.


Instead of Torah and the Oral Law people get interested in Kabalah

 Kabalah might be a negative thing. It might be similar to New Age cults and such.  After all how is it that it got to be so widely and wildly  accepted in the religious world? I am not sure how to answer this? From what I can tell there might be some reason to think the entire acceptance of it as a legitimate part of Judaism might have been a mistake.

In any case it is hard to see any good that comes out of it.

However sometimes it seems  people that were good  did learn the Zohar and the Ari. And that does not seem like a bad thing. After all the Ari is just developing a modification of a neo- platonic system and using it to explain the Torah. Still you have to wonder is there perhaps some kind of bad energy mixed up with the whole thing? Based on what we have seen for the last centuries as Kabalah became popular we certainly did not see people improving in any way because of learning it.


What might be going on is that people are putting anything that smacks of the Dark Side all in one trash basket and throwing it all out without inspecting the particulars of each case. Thus they would be putting the cult that the Gra signed the  excommunication on and Cabala and New Age and Hinduism all together and saying that it is underneath all the same dark side. This might be the best approach.

Life would be empty and meaningless without women

I hate feminists but I love women. I think that they are superior to men in many ways. I am in a college dorm and I can tell you there is a real difference when there are guys than when there are girls. How empty a man's life would be without a woman's touch and encouragement. He starts his first breath from a woman's touch. His pleasure and happiness in his life is from women. His comfort in his sadness is from a woman's love. Life would be empty and meaningless without women. That does not mean they are smarter or better at building bridges.

Girl Friends: See the Book of Chronicles, Volume One, chapter two [2:46] and four concerning Kalev ben Yefuna (כלב בן יפונה). He is the only person in the entire Bible that it says the unique phrase, וימלא אחרי השם "He walked completely after God." He had two girl friends.]