b100 b101 music files [these two I wrote sometime around 2000 A.D. The e files I think I wrote later around 2003. --using the nwc music writing program. Later transferred to midi . Then eventually I got access to mp3, but no longer.]

 I thought to share some old music files. So here is one from a few years back b100 mp3  [same in midi file b100 here is another b101.[b101 midi file]  And another e36 mp3. e36 midi file Here is a old P file also from around the year 2000. Here is another old e file.e34mp3 [e34 midi file]

i1 mp3 file (i1 midi file) 

and here is a file I am not sure if it is worth sharing b98 mp3 [b98midi]

here is gem I totally forget writing at all:j90mp3.j90midi

And others j81 j47 j2 file j3 file j6 [j6 midi file] i89 [i89 nwc file] (This i89 was almost finished but forgotten. I now had just add the last few measures.]) j10

Why share now? you might ask.  I do not know.  I was just writing it for me. [And it would take a lot of time to see what is worth sharing, and what would be worth sharing with editing. And besides tons of files were lost. 

 

music file i69

i69   (This seems to be a midi file, but it sounds like mp3) . Here is the nwc program file that it was written in:i69  [written in 2013]

[I have no new ideas, so i thought to share something from times long ago.] 

Why do I write music when the Gemara in Gitin forbids music vocal and instrumental? Tosphot says there this refers to drinking halls. And when i find a rishon to depend on, I usually depend on him. [Especially Tosphot who is always right, as David Bronson once told me.] [Tosphot is the most exact and logically rigorous of the Rishonim].--but also the most difficult.

 תלמוד תורה כנגד כולם That is there is a mishna in tractate Peah: that brings a list of the commandments that have no lower limit. E.g., charity. That means even the smallest coin. [It does not mean that one ought to give just the smallest coin. Rather that even with the smallest coin one has done a good deed.]And after that list it brings, "learning Torah is equal to them all." The Gra explains that even with one word of Torah, one has fulfilled the commandment of learning Torah.

The Rambam brings in laws of learning Torah that the things that he explained in the first 4 chapters of the Mishna Torah that are called "Pardes"  (Physics and Metaphysics as he explained in greater detail in the Guide for the Perplexed) are in the category of the Gemara  [That is learning the Oral Law in depth.] So  every word of Physics is included.

in the South, the government became federal, not local.

 

 Two things you see. The South was right that slaves would become welfare dependents.[They said that it was white people that were taking care of them because they could not take care of themselves. ] Also they said the slaves would try to destroy the USA as we see today.

But the great lesson of the Civil War is the endurance of the USA Constitution and this kind of government. And the ability of this kind of government to tackle difficult issues.

that everything in the modern Western world, from mathematics to nuclear families to pumpkin-spice lattes, is racist; that intelligence is a meaningless and unquantifiable concept;

https://malcolmpollack.com/2022/01/15/on-mass-formation-in-the-here-and-now/ 

https://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/

To participate in polite society today – or, to put that more accurately, to be able to keep your job, get a college degree, or avoid being deplatformed from most media – we are expected to go along with things that most people know in their hearts are simply not so: that sex and race are purely social constructs; that men can become pregnant and bear children; that biology and heritability have nothing to do with human traits, and with their statistical distribution in populations; that cultures and peoples can be mixed and jumbled together at random without affecting the cohesion and stability of formerly homogeneous societies; that “equality” means that people cannot vary in talents, abilities, and aptitudes; that the greatest threat to American society is “white supremacy”; that everything in the modern Western world, from mathematics to nuclear families to pumpkin-spice lattes, is racist; that intelligence is a meaningless and unquantifiable concept; that when different identity groups perform differently on qualifying tests for education and employment, those tests should simply be discarded; that for nations to control their borders is inherently immoral; that the interests of criminals trump those of law-abiding citizens; that parents should have no say in how their children are educated; that members of various, designated groups are not to be considered responsible agents; that the way to deal with rising crime is to stop arresting people; that the 2020 election was squeaky-clean; that the January 6th protest was an assault on a par with Pearl Harbor and 9/11 (while the three-day siege of the White House by BLM and Antifa, in which hunrdeds of officers were injured, and the First Family had to be evacuated, was not); that the protests of that summer were “mostly peaceful”; and no end of other obvious falsehoods and absurdities.

dead tzadikim

   In prayer, people ought to turn to God alone. Not to God through tzadikim saints or any intermediator. Even in the merit of tzadikim. If you think about the times of the prophets, there was a sort of clarity that one should worship and pray to God alone. Not through any intermediator. The modern equivalent of worship of idols is worship of dead tzadikim. [Or even live tzadikim]. 

  If they are tzadikim or not? is a good question. But worship is due to God alone. And the religious world is the opposite of worship of God. They worship dead tzadikim,-- all the rituals none withstanding.

And even if no one listens to the Gra, I still am obligated to warn people. [The Gra is not at all like the insane religious world. They use Torah as weapon to hurt secular Jews.

 Torah can guide people to the right way. It can guide one to Objective Morality. [That is the Oral and Written Law]]. But what makes this impossible to tell people is that the Dark Side has hijacked it. The Sitra Achra has taken over the religious world. So one can and must still learn and keep Torah, but far away from the religious  who have been taken over.

Rav Nahman did hint to this to the degree of warning us about Torah scholars that are demons in the Le.M vol I:12 but still in his time this problem had not extended outwards.  

However it would be possible to recommend the great Litvak yeshivot like the Mir in NY or any of the great yeshivot based on the Gra in Israel. However this is also an "ify" kind of answer, because things are not so simple even in the best of places. At least they teach authentic Torah. But the Sitra Achra can reach even there.   

There is something "off" about the religious world and I can not tell what it is. And I dare not speculate. [(At least it is clear that the religious worship dead people. Not God. That much  is easy to see. But is that the whole problem? Who knows?)] 

And even if no one listens to the Gra, I still am obligated to warn people. At least I have said what is clearly the case and anyone with the slightest bit of common sense can see this, still when people refuse to pat attention, I have fulfilled my obligation. 

[The Gra is not at all like the insane religious world. They use Torah as weapon to hurt secular Jews.