My comment on Dalrock:

My impression is that when a woman says, “It is over,” there is nothing more one can do.

And his response:

This is nearly always the case. The exception that comes to mind (and proves the rule) is if the woman decides divorce would be harmful to her personally. One of the patterns my wife has commented on is she has never caused a divorcing woman to reconsider by explaining how much this will harm her children. However, if the woman becomes convinced that divorce will harm her personally, suddenly she will have a change of heart “for the children”.

But the husband is in a poor position to deliver the message that divorce will harm the woman. Another relative might be able to, as might another woman. The most effective focus is generally on the woman’s realistic dating/remarriage prospects. This is most easily framed as “You know how men are. They are too selfish to commit to an older woman/woman with children!” This, along with pointing out the real life results of the divorcées the woman knows (not the marketing job, but the details of the real replacement man).

There seems to be a kind of contradiction in the Rambam. How much of the Law of Moses is natural Law and how much is only because of revelation? In the Guide you see two different things. One is that the laws of the ancient Greeks natural law [as known by Abraham the patriarch] was necessary step towards Matan Torah [giving of the Torah]. So they are different in essence. Yet the Rambam also gives natural reasons for the laws. Maybe he thought the reasons were a necessary, but not sufficient condition?
That is reason that would create conditions for the mitzvot but not the entire cause.

English Literature in high school and college is depressing

Instead of the greats Chaucer, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Sophocles, they force people to learn stupid books by blacks


The issue is the quality of the thought of the great writers, not their color, nor sex. This is why English Literature in high school and college is so depressing. They force you to learn second rate hacks just because of their race or sex. Just see an average anthology of English Lit. what garbage they are forcing down people's throats.


But philosophy might be a good idea, or music and art courses. First year Philosophy usually deals with Plato and Aristotle which are in fact important.
The Rambam and Saadia Gaon both wrote books describing the world view of Torah and their books are not possible to understand without background in Plato and Aristotle.

thunderous creation-

Life is very precious. Be happy for every minute and every breath, and for the privileged of being a part of thunderous creation--the universe.
Learn Musar i.e., the books of Ethics of Torah written in the Middle Ages which represent straight Torah. It is very different from what is taught as Torah today which is crooked, pseudo Torah.

Also the books of Musar of the school of thought of Israel Salanter are important. 

Musar is a tool to work on one' character. People can misuse it I admit. But still I think it is effective when used right. 

What I recommend as far as Musar goes is to go through the entire set. That is every single word of the basic classical works, plus the basic works by the disiples of Reb Israel Salanter

Ideas in Bava Metzia chapters 8 and 9 edited I did what I think are some spelling corrections. Tosphot I am thinking of as either male  plural as authors of Tosphot. or sometimes male singular. The buyer is "מסופק"
Ideas in Talmud Did some grammar corrections. Lashon Hara is לשון הרע is masculine. But I also thought to use לשון רעה at least once to show that לשון itself is feminine.

r76  [r76 in midi format]  [In midi you can download the notes and that is the reason i am putting the link here]

I thought to expand a drop on the idea I wrote about Kant Hegel and the Ari based on some math. The idea in simple terms that I put on my blog was if you take an identity element and three other things, you get a kind of triad. This is the basic idea behind a certain thing called an algebra. But do not let the word scare you. There is nothing scary about it. It is just three things with an identity element. But what Cayley- Dickson  Algebra does is expand on this to make a 8 component group and then  16 and then 32 etc. It is reminiscent of what Hegel was doing and also the Reshash (Shalom Sharabi).

This would in itself not be that interesting if not for seeing how these Cayley Dickson Algebras are significant aspects of reality as in Special Relativity and String Theory. That already seems to hint at the idea that they are somehow a part of the metaphysical structure of the world.