"Marx, Lenin Sartre, Nietzsche"

Socialism has become a kind of secular religion. It works up a great degree of frenzy in people. Just think of the words "Marx, Lenin Sartre, Nietzsche". You can feel your blood pressure rising. You can just hear people foaming at the mouth spitting saliva as they say these words. Try to do the same think with the two word"John Locke." You can't do it. The words themselves calm you down. You start to think about individual responsibility and  limited government.




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For roughly the thousandth time, the masters of social media in Silicon Valley are promising to do something about online hate speech. Bloomberg reports that an impressive-sounding group of tech giants — Facebook, Twitter,Google and Microsoft — have “pledged to tackle online hate speech in less than 24 hours as part of a joint commitment with the European Union to combat the use of social media by terrorists.”

It could be their are just trying to save their company and thus have given in to government pressure. Maybe it is like the Boy-scouts succumbing to pressure? 





But then the Boy Scouts also should have had that ability. Apparently they did not. I have also learned in private life it is a waste of time to stand up to the federal or local government in the USA. Government has just grown too powerful. I have suspected it is a result conspiracy by the KGB. That is I think the KGB concentrated its energies and finances to infiltrate American Universities and succeed so that the later generations of judges and politician all have been educated in the Lenin Marxism tradition.  That is while ordinary working Americans have retained traditional values the elite of government has becomes remarkably leftist. One bit of evidence I have for this is the required courses in American universities for first year students. Just looking over the texts themselves I was shocked at seeing them preach radical leftist socialism. 

 See the ytube video of Bezmenov. I admit to do this the KGB would have had to expend tremendous resources. But from what Bezmenov said it looks like they did.

There is one fellow who is a good friend of mine who thinks the KGB did not have the resources to pull off this kind of operation.  He worked there in one of the sub agencies. And it is hard to know how they could have done so. Still I think the evidence shows their fingerprints all over American universities.

"Doing repentance"

"Doing repentance" in the religious  world is thought to mean joining the religious  world. But I think that the social norms of the religious  world are very different from the Torah. "Doing repentance" is a worthy goal but I think it is the exact opposite of religious  world. The reason I say this is because the norms of the Torah and the norms and values of the religious  world are opposites.

Being strict in rituals way beyond the requirements of the Torah ought to be a warning signal in the first place. Why would people go so overboard about rituals unless there was something else they were covering up?


It is hard to point out any group whose norms are close to Torah. I think the closest you can get to actual Torah is Ponovitch and the great Litvak yeshivas where what the Torah actually says is what matters, not social norms. I mean to say there are places where the emphasis is on actually keeping and learning Torah.

the religious world

At this point in time I want nothing that has the slightest connection with anything to do with the cult that the Gra signed the  excommunication on. I made a terrible mistake getting involved in this terrible kelipa [evil] and I am super sensitive to anything that could even vaguely remind me of them. So when I say only Musar and the Gemara or Sidur HaGra I am being very specific. No offence intended for the sincere and good people whose names got to be associated with this movement. Still there is something very wrong with it. I am sure there are plenty of sincere and good people involved in Hinduism also but that does not make the religion kosher.
Not only that but I feel that the influence and infiltration of this movement into the religious world itself has ruined everything it has touched. Just saying.

Schopenhauer  dealt with the fact that women can have a negative side. And he saw the problem that England was worshiping women. He thought nothing good can come from that. Since I saw that the subject seemed uninteresting to me since he saw and explained the issue clearly. There is what to discuss however in terms of his concepts of the Ideas in the subject and how that relates to this but it seems off topic for this blog.

What I mean is he did not see fit to put a good deal of the positive traits we see in people into the ideas and the world of unconditioned reality [the dinge an sich]. Nor even into the subject.

So he did not put the ideas into the Will. A great move. But he did put them into the subject which he does not identify as the Will but rather as the opposite side of the coin of representation.


But let'stake a look at Jung. He at least saw fit to out human archetypes into the subject.

What I mean by a "great move" is that Schopenhauer thus solved a puzzle that existed since the middle ages. Divine simplicity. You could say the Ari also dealt with it in the same way, but Schopenhauer shows more in detail why his approach is necessary form a metaphysical point of view.
The Ari is simply mystical and does not concern himself with metaphysical aspects of his system 

Ideas in Bava Metzia   Ideas in Talmud

Tractate Bava Metzia page 14 and page 101

.בבא מציעא יד: קא

I think the רמב''ם held that if someone buys a stolen field from the thief and plants it he gets only the money he paid for the field back, not the expenses.



 He  looked at page י''ד and said it is not the same case as the case on page ק''א. On page י''ד someone stole a field and sold it and the buyer did work on it. The רמב''ם wrote the law just like Samuel קרן יש לו שבח אין לו he gets reimbursed for the amount he paid for the field from the thief   but does not get reimbursed for the improvements not from anyone, not from the thief and not from the owner.

And when the רמב''ם looked at page ק''א he saw a completely different situation. Someone went into the field of his neighbor and planted crops or did some improvements. There the רמב''ם decided as our גמרא does that ידו על התחתונה he gets the least amount either the improvement or the expenses.
In other words the property was not stolen. And even though קרקע אינה נגזלת still there was not even an attempt to claim the property as his own.


In other words what I am saying is that I think the רמב''ם must have looked at this סוגיא completely differently than רש''י or תוספות.



בבא מציעא יד: קא . אני חושב שהרמב''ם קבע כי אם מישהו קנה שדה שנגנב מן הגנב ונטע צמחים  שהוא מקבל רק את הכסף ששילם עבור השדה בחזרה, לא ההוצאות. הוא הביט בדף י''ד ואמר שזה לא אותו מקרה כמו המקרה בעמוד ק''א. בדף י''ד מישהו גנב שדה ומכר אותו והקונה עשה עבודה על זה. הרמב''ם כתב החוק בדיוק כמו שמואל "קרן יש לו, שבח אין לו", שהוא מקבל החזר עבור הסכום ששילם עבור השדה מן הגנב, אבל הוא לא מקבל החזר עבור השיפורים לא מאף אחד, לא מן הגנב ולא מן הבעלים. וכאשר הרמב''ם הביט בדף ק''א ראה מצב שונה לחלוטין. מישהו נכנס לתחום שכנתו ושתל גידולים או עשה כמה שיפורים. שם הרמב''ם החליט כמו הגמרא שלנו אמרה בפירוש כי "ידו על התחתונה", הוא מקבל את הכמות המינימלית או השיפור או ההוצאות. במילים אחרות הנכס לא נגנב. ואף על פי קרקע אינה נגזלת, עדיין לא היה אפילו ניסיוןשל זה שנכנס לתבוע את השדה כשלו. במילים אחרות מה שאני אומר הוא  שהרמב''ם בטח הביט בזו הסוגיא בבא מציעא י''ד אחרת לגמרי מאשר רש''י או תוספות



Link to Ideas in Bava Metzia
Link to Ideas in Shas

"Where can one be?"

"Where can one be?"  This is the question that needs to be answered for people that want to learn Torah? Some of the really great yeshiva like Ponovictch or Brisk are for smart guys. What if one is not so smart but still want to learn Torah?

Sadly most yeshivas nowadays are scams and pretend to answer this question when they go around to rich Jews trying to charity for their supposed public charitable  works. The general run of the mill yeshiva is a private club for the mahco man and his gang of thugs and has nothing to do with learning Torah.
So the question that a simple Jew asked me, "where can one be?" goes unanswered.  There simply is no place for a guy to go to sit and learn Torah for a few hours per day.  Not if he is sincere. [Mea Shearim he called "מאה רשעים"  "a hundred wicked" Mea Reshaim]

This question has bothered me for  along time. To some degree the Shar Yashuv Yeshiva in Far Rockaway was an answer for this dilemma because it was not specifically for smart guys. Nor was it a scam to make a slave population for the rosh yeshiva. It was genuinely for the sake of learning Torah for whom so ever wanted to do so.