To Be Rescued from Dark Side Torah

 Even though the study of Musar [mediaeval books on ethics] was emphasized by Israel Salanter as away to gain correction of faulty character traits, it has the further advantage of world view-- that is of gaining a world view not contaminated by modern confusions.

To some degree the effect of modern confusions can be mitigated [lessened] by the study of midrash, still midrash is not systematized. Musar is systematic and does not depend on philosophical sophistication or previous knowledge of tenach or gemara.

There is also  advantage that pseudo Torah is generally taught instead of Torah. musar shields from the Torah of the Sitra Achra [Dark Side Torah.]]

 It is not who is in the White House is the problem in the USA. Great republics do no depend on who lead but on the collective spirit. If the ideals that America was founded on are weak, that is the real threat.  

[i am being short as usual. what i am hinting at is Nero and the fact that the Roman Empire managed and even expanded and grew in power even with the most degenerate emperors.

Also i am making note that the department of disinformation [misnamed as the department of education] has a hand in the decay and erosion of American Values by it promotion of false ideologies,]

 marriage just seems like jumping out of an aitplane with a fifty fifty chance that your parachute might open. all the romance  seems to have been lost. Nowadays marriages seem like business transactions.  the guy gets sex and pays for it. until after the marriage when he pays for it without getting it. 

i have thought for a long time to depend on the Raavad and Ramban that see having a mistress as perfectly okay.

After I moved to a new apartment, I did not realize the problem with cockroaches. I do not know if they bite or other bugs come along with them. And I was getting bites and sores until I realized from where the problem was coming from. so i bought chlorine  but that worked only partially. Then I found this Israeli invention of a kind of paste that you leave on the floor and the bugs eat it and disappear, That works wonders. but the bites and sores remained. I found out there are bugs that burrow under the skin. So doctors might give different things to take care of skin disease. But this was not a disease. It is bugs that burrow.  I found alcohol, olive oil, peroxide, iodine and stuff they call חומצת מלח salty acid to help. But only after squeezing the infected area. For these bugs leave a protective covering that no ointment can penetrate until the liquid covering is squeezed out. 

 It was aggravating and disappointing that after I spent so much time and effort to join the yeshiva world  to discover the religous world that surrounds the great Litvak yeshivot [based on the gGra] to  be morally challenged. But I do not mean to exonerate the great yeshivot either. -they did a great evil by ignoring the letter of excommunication signed by the Gra. This left the door open for the Sitra Achra [Dark Side] to enter even into the great yeshivot.   

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how to blow a shofar. i have rarely heard this done right.

 tekia=one long. Count up to three.

Shevarim= three short. Each of length one.

Truah 9 bursts. 

So the first is Tekia shevarim truah tekia

_________ then ___ ___ ___ then --------- then _________

Do this all together three times..

Then Tekia shevarim Tekia _________ then ___ ___ ___ then _________

Do that three times.

Then Tekia truah tekia. _________ --------- _________

Do that three times.

You can see all this in the last two pages of Tractate Rosh Hashanah.