seeking for money and sex and power through the guise of holiness

One of the causes of the Enlightenment  was people knew that there will always be people that hide their seeking for money and sex and power through the guise of holiness. That is how the church was in those days. The Enlightenment wanted to put a stop to using religion as a means for worldly power.

There is a similar problem in the Torah world. My recommendation is to separate Torah and Money. As we know anyway, true ordination stopped during the time of the Talmud. So anyone who claims to have ordination nowadays is by definition a fraud. The only person however that I know  that spoke about this was Reb Nachman. For some reason, other religious leaders never brought this up, and in fact many were part of the scam. It is not my custom to bring up Reb Nachman here because that many make him into  a deity. Still, that does not detract from the good things he said.

[People do associate him with the movement that the Gra put into excommunication even though he was really his own man.]

Though I have been recommending Litvak yeshivas on this blog, I am still aware of the drawbacks. One person mentioned to me a better idea of having a "Beit Midrash,(study hall)" not  a yeshiva. A Beit Midrash is what it sounds like. A "study hall" for learning Gemara. No one gets paid to learn Gemara. And no one gets thrown out if they are learning Gemara. Simple. Just the opposite of modern day yeshivas where no one is there unless they are getting paid, and it is a private club for the rosh yeshiva and his friends, No real study of Gemara is allowed. [If you don't believe me just try to learn Gemara in any yeshiva that comes to ask you for money. You will see the reality behind the fiction.]



[A word of caution about Lithuanian yeshivas I think is in order even though the great ones like Ponovitch and Brisk and Merkaz HaRav are admirable. They learn Torah well and keep it well.

Mudsharking

black man, white woman

The ultimate and irreversible repudiation of one’s identity is to have children with someone of another race. This is a particularly stinging repudiation when done by a woman, and it is especially true in the context of the state-engineered genocidal assault on White nations, from aggressive desegregation in the United States to the massive importing of immigrants into European homelands. Fifty years ago in homogeneous places, a White woman who crossed racial lines may have been benevolently dismissed as a rare curiosity. Today, she is an unwitting tool in a global war on our people.

[The unspoken idea of Russia, is that the assaults on the white race is an attack on them.] 

There is no spoon. There is no wife.

There is no spoon. There is no wife.
 If you do decide to marry, you need her be ready to serve her needs by law, culture by command of religious leaders. You are not getting a wife. You are getting a legal, and financial and now religious liability. She knows and is proud of it. 

 Most young men looking to marry are looking first of all to lock down a woman for permanent, steady access to sex (they’re in for a MAJOR disappointment) and perhaps secondarily for a helpmeet (gonna get let down there too) or to have kids (which both the wife and the State will waste no time in reminding him constantly are theirs, NOT his).


 The modern Western women brings a large wardrobe, shoe, handbag and accessory collection to the marriage, as well as an expensive, difficult-to-fix-car. She has a well-stamped passport and can tell you what restaurants in town provide the best cuisine, if she doesn’t come with an eating disorder that makes her look down on you. I refer specifically to the various schools of vegetarianism / ovo-/lacto-/pesco-/vegan, “dark vegan”/ fruitarian. Billy will be doing his own cooking in his own pots and pans, because those “will be contaminated with meat”. Needless to say too, she comes with that greatest of assets, a pre-stretched vagina, thinking that her “experience” makes for great bonding because “she knows herself”.

We live in a strange world where any young man who is responsible, industrious, saves money, morally upright, compassionate and caring is MARKED by female predators as a man to marry/ have a kid with/ divorce and strip him of everything he ever did in his life 
[And to raise the kid she had with some Alpha Male. Cucked for life. That is forced to raise  and support the offspring of some other man. ]


I was perfectly aware of this problem many years ago. My solution was to marry the daughter of the Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva. בת תלמיד חכם. But that did not work very well. 
[Reb Freifeld decided I was no good. And at the Mir I simply was out of my league. ] 

It does not work though if the Rosh yeshiva is a fraud as many are nowadays. In Israel especially being the head of  a yeshiva has noting to do wit Torah and everything to do wit money and power. 

Therefore: there is no wife.

Religious leaders are the worst in this regard. They advice to men to be cuckold.

[A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife. In evolutionary biology, the term is also applied to males who are unwittingly investing parental effort in offspring that are not genetically their own.]

The cuckoo is famous for being brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species, 

Thus the cuckold husband is raising the children of  some Alpha Male.


Feminism nurtures every grievance, no matter how impossibly small, to ensure that feminists spend every day consumed with misery and anger. Moments of joyfulness are fleeting, and usually involve celebrating the harms done to men 

the religious are crazy

My opinion about Israel is that it is important, but hard to make it there. I don't write about it because I have nothing new to say. I cherish every minute I merited to be there. The people that are against the State of Israel are  insane.


I had a great time when I was there and I felt what I could only describe as a tremendous spiritual light while there.

But what makes it so hard? I am really not sure. I think there was a kind of period of awakening when Bava Sali was alive. After that the עת רצון "time of grace" disappeared.

The best advice now is to learn the Oral and Written Law, and wait for God's grace to return.

We actually see in the Torah the major concern of God is to keep the Torah. Issues about Jewish identity or nationality do not come up there.

My major opinion about Israel is not based on Rav Kook. I never got into his books, though I briefly saw a few paragraphs on an I-phone my learning partner showed me.

My opinion is based on Reb Moshe Feinstein and Reb Aaron Kotler. Both said the same thing. דינא דמדינה דינא "the law of the country is the law." [Tractate Bava Batra chapter 3 חזקת הבתים]

That is neither saw it as some grand metaphysical goal to have  a state. But neither did they consider it bad as Reb Joel did. That is it has the status of any legitimate country.They did not think nationalism is a substitute for keeping the Oral and Written Law.
But they did not see it as a bad thing. That is: the religious are crazy. The make a mitzvah out of being dirty anti-Semites. No better than Nazis. Rather it is  a mitzvah to stay away from them.

The גמרא does give rules to how to decide a law. The trouble is these rules often conflict. Going by the majority is one rule in rare places.

The גמרא does give rules to how to decide a law. The trouble is these rules often conflict. Going by the majority is one rule in rare places.

I have mentioned some of these rules before in other essays. For example the list of sages of the משנה has an order. רבי יוסי comes first then רבי יהודה etc. A משנה with no name סתם משנה is considered the law. The trouble is often this conflicts. For example money in a doubt חולקים is  of the סתם משנה  with no name. Therefore it should be the law. But in a ברייתא it is said in the name of סומכוס against the חכמים so it is not the law except in one case where the רמב''ם brings in  a certain case.

Therefore it is best to have a session in the טור בית יוסף get a good idea in each place how the law is decided. 


The main thing is not to ask anyone's opinion but to do the learning yourself so you know what the Torah requires of you. Or to go to a legitimate Litvak yeshiva and ask the Rosh Yeshiva

Reb Chaim Chidushei HaRambam

I do not have a Reb Chaim Chidushei HaRambam But it occurred to me that Bava Metzia pg 14 would be a good place to use his idea of "zvei dinim." Two laws. That is you have a lender borrower and one who bought one field from the borrower and then a later person. To Tosphot in the second answer he holds the lender would have to go after the second field. The reason would be because of zvei dinim. That is we know the lender can't go after sold property when free property is viable {bnei horin} So when the second field is sold and becomes the second sold property does ten lender collect from it because the power of collecting from free or sold property is one law. Just that there is an order to which one. Or is it two laws? If it is two laws then a new law now applies to the second property and the lender would have to go after the first field which preceded in its obligation. It seems like a perfect place for this idea to apply! Anyone have a Reb Chaim to see if in fact he says something like this? א מציעא י''ד ע''ב would be a good place to use the idea of שני דינים של רב חיים הלווי That is you have a מלווה לווה and one who bought one field from the borrower and then a second buyer . To תוספות in the second answer of אפותיקי he holds the lender would have to go after the second field. The only reason he goes after the first is because it has been made an אפותיקי. The other answer of תוספות that he goes after the first field because כבר חל שיעבודו עליו means he has collect his debt from the first field The reason would be because of שני דינים. We know the lender can't go after sold property משועבדים when free property בני חורין is available. So when the second field is sold and becomes the second sold property, does the lender collect from it because the power of collecting from בני חורין or משועבדים is one law. Just that there is an order to which one. Or is it two laws? If it is two laws, then a new law a new חלות now applies to the second property and the lender would have to go after the first field which preceded in its obligation.בבא מציעא י''ד ע''ב יהיה מקום טוב להשתמש ברעיון של שני דינים של רב חיים הלווי כלומר יש לך מלווה לווה ואחד שרכש שדה אחד מהלווה ולאחר מכן קונה שני. תוספות בתשובה השנייה של אפותיקי הוא מחזיק שהמלווה יצטרך ללכת אחרי השדה השני. הסיבה היחידה שהוא הולך אחרי הראשון היא כי זה כבר נעשה אפותיקי. התשובה האחרת של תוספות כי הוא גובה מן השדה הראשון כי כבר חל שיעבודו עליו לכן הוא גובה את חובו מן שדה הראשון. הסיבה תהיה בגלל שני דינים. אנחנו יודעים המלווה לא יכול לגבות נכס שנמכר (משועבדים) כאשר נכס חפשי (בני חורין) זמין. לכן, כאשר השדה השני נמכר לרוכש השני , המלווה מחויב לגבות ממנו בגלל הכוח של איסוף מבני חורין או משועבדים דין אחד. רק שיש סדר. או שזה שני חוקים? אם זה שני חוקים, אז דין החדש חל כעת חל על הנכס השני, והמלווה יצטרך לגבות משדה הראשון שקדם בחובה.

Space and Time

My own feeling about these things is kind of like Kant  mentioned. That is I think as Kant did there are two levels. One is which space and time are real and that is clear in the kind of experiments we have that test General Relativity like GPS things that you find in taxis. The other level is Quantum Mechanics in which space and time do not exist until they are measured. This in fact seems like something Kant was aware of as noted by Dr Kelley Ross in California.

What is being measured in the two slit experiment does exist. If it did not there would be nothing to measure. But its character as a wave or particle depends on how you measure it-with one slit or two.
This is exactly how Kant described things in themselves-they exist but their existence is unconditioned reality. Their character is however half dependent on them and half dependent on the mind

These two levels of reality are helpful for me in my religious point of view based on the Old Testament (the Oral and Written Law). Often, I have to say some statement in the Old Testament is referring to this hidden level of reality, --not the phenomenal world.  That is this world is conditioned reality while the hidden world is unconditioned reality.

I have on my own understood the Old Testament along these lines for years but did not write about it.

That is what you measure in Quantum Mechanics is expectation values just like you do when learning Probability Theory. That is the bracket notation in Quantum Mechanics is exactly the same thing as the expectation value in Probability. The ket vector is the original state and the bra vector is the final state and the observable is in the middle.

But don't talk to philosophers about any of this. They don't understand this stuff at all and either ignore it and think it is not relevant for metaphysics which they deny exists. Or they get it wrong.

[In plain English you have to have with QM either independent reality or locality. Since we know Locality because of Relativity therefore independent reality has to be thrown out. Simple as pie.]See this talk by Murray Gell-Mann