5 Biggest Lie Biggest Truth III

Daniel 5:25-28. “The writing on the wall. Meme, Meme, Tekel U-Pharsin.Age, Ended, Failed, And Crisis as usual.”

Deuteronomy 10:17. “For YHVH is your God…who doesn’t show favor and doesn’t accept bribe.”

The Episodes

First Episode. Lie and Truth Part I. The opening episode is about why the world is broken and what to do about it. Why is the world broken? The Lie is that the world is broken because it’s a broken world. The Truth is that the world is broken because we break it. That is, we keep breaking it in fixing things because we really don’t know how we know that we know what we know. 

Second Episode. The Peoplist State. We’ll be going from a three (3) to a five-power (5) State. That is, on the one hand, the Government consisting of the Legislative first power for laws and Executive second power for order, and, on the other hand, the People consisting of the Judicial third power for justice, the News Media fourth power as watchdog, and the University fifth power for Administration of the budget. Additionally, one person one vote to one person triad votes, as well as entitling children to vote by way of their legal guardians.  

Third Episode. Bigger Lie, Bigger Truth Part II. The Bigger Lie is that the takeaway of the Bible is the Golden Rule. The Bigger Truth is that the One Commandment is the Universal Principle of Knowledge as found at Genesis 1:1a/alef. It encompasses all the six hundred and thirteen (613) commandments of the sages including the ten (10) commandments given to Moses at Sinai. In math, six hundred thirteen commandments go to ten go to one Commandment. (613=>10=>1)

Fourth Episode. Chatting with God. All we have to do is chat with God to get the blessing of creative self-therapy of empowerment. The foundations for chatting with God are establish in Genesis 1:1a/alef, spelled out in Deuteronomy 6:1-9, with sweetspot verse 6:8.

Fifth Episode. Biggest Lie, Biggest Truth III. Messianism, Mysticism, and Crisis as usual.

Episodes one (1) to five (5) are foundational. Nobody buys intangibles. No one buys a house because it has great foundations. Rather what’s above ground is what sells, and only after marketing puts it out there. But when you do decide to buy it, you sure want it to have good foundations. Foundational XPodcasts 1-5. Later House and Marketing.

Executive Summary of Fifth Episode

The Biggest Lie and the Biggest Truth Part III. The Biggest Lie is escapism of Messianism, Mysticism, and defeatism of Crisis as usual. The Biggest Truth is the existence of the Universal Principle of Knowledge at Genesis 1:1a/alef which empowers us to integrate civilization and help save Creation.

Ample examples are provided from across the whole Bible TaNaKh as proof that it is the case that there is an underlying principle of knowledge at work in the Torah. Now with the Lie, Big Lie, Bigger Lie and Biggest Lie exposed, debunked, and out of the way, Israel can finally play its anointed role in history.

Homework

No prior knowledge is assumed other than familiarity and interest with the quest of chatting with God for the creative self-therapy blessing of empowerment. All concepts and vocabulary required will be provided in due time. Also, since we’re starting smack in the middle and not at the beginning, in order to highlight its importance in detriment to systemic creative exposition, we will have to leave the theory for homework to the listener.  

The assignment is to consult my self-published books at Amazon to get a good handle on the empowering approach of PaRaDiSe. These books are PaRDeSism Human Science 101 published in 2018, PaRaDiSe the Age of Unveilment of Genesis 1:1a/alef in 2019, Principle of World Caring in 2020, and Saving Creation in 2021. For ease of understanding, there are seventy (70) or so videos on YouTube on topics from the books. Additionally, there are the other podcasts in this series on inaugurating PaRaDiSe Posmodernity of Empowerment at my website PaRaDiSism dot org.

The books are the source. The XPodcasts are its divulgation.

The Universal Principle of Knowledge

I may not know ninety-nine percent  (99%) of things, but I do know one percent (1%). I may have missed all the trees, but I did catch a glimpse of the forest.

The Biggest Truth is the Commandment One of PaRaDiSe at Genesis 1:1a/alef of the Universal Principle of Knowledge that the whole-S / is made of Triad parts-PRD.

The PaRaDiSe approach consists of whole creative-S / triadic-PRD as  holistic-D, systemic-R and heuristic-P.  The bottom-line is that six-hundred thirteen (613) commandments of the sages reduce to the decalogue (10) at Sinai, and ultimately reduce to the One Commandment (1) at Genesis 1:1a/alef. (613=>10=>1). The One Commandment (1) is coined as the acronym PaRaDiSe.

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Rules of Torah engagement

Messianism and Mysticism both negate the precepts expressed in the Torah. No other prophet ever arose greater than Moses (Deuteronomy 34:10). Don’t add to the text nor subtract from the text of the Torah (Deuteronomy 4:2, 13:1). Don’t deviate to the right or to the left in interpretation. (Deuteronomy 17:11). This matter has been amply elaborated in past episodes, so we will not delve into them beyond their mention.

Regarding Messianism. All that matters is contained in the Torah. There’s nothing missing in the Torah to be brought later on from the future as the Oral Torah tradition of Rabbinism claims.

Regarding Mysticism. There’s nothing to read between the lines. There is no reading white on white, all is black on white. And there’s nothing out of view as Medieval Kabbalah claims.

Regarding Crisis as usual. There is no need for defeat any more than for escapism. We can overcome adversity by just paying attention and pushing aside the claims of Scholarship.

Torah and Oral Torah

Torah and Oral Torah is fine. But what isn’t fine is Oral Torah claiming that The Torah is the Written Torah. The only condition is that any tradition prove its claims by deriving them from the point origin of the Torah at Genesis 1:1a/alef. That is, from Alef/BeReshIth A/InBeginningOf (א/בראשית).

You cannot qualify the Torah, it’s like limiting the limitless. You can associate your view, limited opinion, with the greater whole but staging a coup de état doesn’t give legitimacy, it’s still spurious.

I learned the Torah by reading what’s there, not by being told what’s there.

God is not tricky, nor a bully

The Torah was meant to be a cake walk, as easy as a, b, c, and 1, 2, 3. A lesson well taught is well understood, and there’s no need for outside help nor second guessing. If good teaching is clear, how much more so is the Torah Teaching (Bible) of God.

In what follows is the demonstration that God is not tricky nor is He a bully.

Deuteronomy 30:11-15

30:11

כִּ֚י הַמִּצְוָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ הַיּ֑וֹם לֹא־נִפְלֵ֥את הִוא֙ מִמְּךָ֔ וְלֹ֥א רְחֹקָ֖ה הִֽוא׃

Surely, this One Commandment, which I commandment you, today; is not a wonder to you, and is not distant:

Comment: Three things are laid out in this verse. Firstly, there’s only One Commandment, which is what you’re commanded to perform. Secondly, it is not in the heavens, but on earth. Thirdly, that it’s within our reach in civilization.

30:12

לֹ֥א בַשָּׁמַ֖יִם הִ֑וא לֵאמֹ֗ר מִ֣י יַעֲלֶה־לָּ֤נוּ הַשָּׁמַ֙יְמָה֙ וְיִקָּחֶ֣הָ לָּ֔נוּ וְיַשְׁמִעֵ֥נוּ אֹתָ֖הּ וְנַעֲשֶֽׂנָּה׃

It is not in heaven; that you should say, “Who among us can go up to the heaven, and get it for us, and let us hear it, that we may do it?”

Comment: It states that it is not in the heavens, that it’s on earth. This rejects Messianism outright as something coming from outside the earth like from heaven, or the future which is the same thing.

30:13

וְלֹא־מֵעֵ֥בֶר לַיָּ֖ם הִ֑וא לֵאמֹ֗ר מִ֣י יַעֲבׇר־לָ֜נוּ אֶל־עֵ֤בֶר הַיָּם֙ וְיִקָּחֶ֣הָ לָּ֔נוּ וְיַשְׁמִעֵ֥נוּ אֹתָ֖הּ וְנַעֲשֶֽׂנָּה׃

And it is not across the sea; that you should say, “Who among us can cross the sea and get it for us, and let us hear it, that we may do it?”

Comment: It reaffirms that it’s on earth, and within reach. Mysticism is rejected outright.

30:14

כִּֽי־קָר֥וֹב אֵלֶ֛יךָ הַדָּבָ֖ר מְאֹ֑ד בְּפִ֥יךָ וּבִֽלְבָבְךָ֖ לַעֲשֹׂתֽוֹ׃        

Rather, very close to you is the thing; in your mouth and in your heart, to do it:

Comment: You can’t possibly miss it. Just stop listening to others claiming to know better. It was meant to be known directly without any need of intermediary agents.

30:15

רְאֵ֨ה נָתַ֤תִּי לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙ הַיּ֔וֹם אֶת־הַֽחַיִּ֖ים וְאֶת־הַטּ֑וֹב וְאֶת־הַמָּ֖וֶת וְאֶת־הָרָֽע׃

See, I set before you this day, the life and the good; the death, and the bad:

Comment: Crisis as usual is rejected as necessary to the human condition. We are free to choose between, on the one hand, life and the good, and on the other hand, death and the bad.

Overall, the above verses clearly negate time escapism of Messianism, space escapism of Mysticism, as well as defeatism of Crisis as Usual. Rather, it’s affirming that you cannot possibly miss the One Commandment. It’s simply primeval common sense of PaRaDiSe! That the one whole-S is known by us-/ as a triad of parts-PRD.

God is not tricky, nor a bully, but we still have to do our part. But of no one is expected what’s beyond one’s capacity or reach. No embodied self is expected to break the time nor the space barrier. What we all need is already hardwired in us in the Torah at Genesis 1:1a/alef.

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Concealed and revealed

After having clarified what to look for, the Torah also clarifies what not to do or not to look for.

Deuteronomy 29:28

29:28

הַנִּ֨סְתָּרֹ֔ת לַיהֹוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וְהַנִּגְלֹ֞ת לָ֤ׄנׄוּׄ וּׄלְׄבָׄנֵ֙ׄיׄנׄוּ֙ׄ עַׄד־עוֹלָ֔ם לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת אֶת־כׇּל־דִּבְרֵ֖י הַתּוֹרָ֥ה הַזֹּֽאת׃        

Concealed things, concern YHVH our God; but with revealed things, are for us and for our children, to eternity, to apply, all the words of this Torah:

Comment: If the Torah tells us that it’s easy, take God’s word for it. To do PaRaDiSe and to avoid spatiotemporal escapism of Messianism and Mysticism, as well as accepting mass defeatism of Crisis as usual. The Torah emphasizes that revealed things “are for us and for our children” with dots over all the letters of the two words. Perhaps the dots are there solely for emphasis to signify that it’s equally understandable by adults as by children. This means that the Torah is meant to be understood by preK to postPhD, by unschooled children as well as by learned adults. And for all time meaning in the present (to eternity), and tangible (to apply), and all the Torah, no exceptions of special texts to keep secret. We see children learning language from mom on a daily basis. Though language is very complex for us adults, it’s picked-up every day by toddlers at home from the parents. So, humanity-S/ as life-P, intelligence-D and language-R are passed on unknowingly.

The gematria of three (3) dots plus seven (7) dots give ten (10) dots, which reads one zero (1 0) which reduces to one (1). By themselves the adults won’t make it, nor by themselves will the children make it either. We are perfectly empowered from cradle to grave to understand this thing jointly as a family, all proportions kept.

The Torah is telling us not to accept defeatism of Crisis as usual. That the thing is within everybody’s reach. And conversely, it’s telling us that the concealed are only for YHVH our God to understand. This negates any Messianism from the future as well as any Mysticism of the interstice spaces of language.

A personal note. I recovered the missed gilah revealed (גילה) Hammitzvah Commandment One (המצוה) on account of being both-and, adult and child, yet, neither not knowing too much nor too little. Like being in the right place and right time to make a difference. I knew a unique combination of physics, philosophy, symbolism, business, as well as having grown up in the border of two most dissimilar nations. Just the right amount of success and failures to not give up and keep searching after listening to the calling of my heart.

This sound like saying that there are children and adults, and non-children and non-adults, the neither-nor, and then there must be the adult-children and non-adult-non-children, the both-and. In any case, I must fit somewhere in the rim of things.

King Salomon’s wisdom

Let’s now include from the human side of things what our wisest person had to say on the matter. The wisest man to ever live was undoubtedly King Salomon, the son of King David.

Ecclesiastes 1:1-2, 12:13

1:1

דִּבְרֵי֙ קֹהֶ֣לֶת בֶּן־דָּוִ֔ד מֶ֖לֶךְ בִּירוּשָׁלָֽ͏ִם׃

The words of Koheleth son of David, king in Jerusalem:

Comment: King Salomon was the wisest person of all time and he was king in Jerusalem.

1:2

הֲבֵ֤ל הֲבָלִים֙ אָמַ֣ר קֹהֶ֔לֶת הֲבֵ֥ל הֲבָלִ֖ים הַכֹּ֥ל הָֽבֶל׃

Utter futility, said Koheleth, utter futility, all is futile:

Comment: All is futile, unqualifyingly so all is futile.

12:13

ס֥וֹף דָּבָ֖ר הַכֹּ֣ל נִשְׁמָ֑ע אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִ֤ים יְרָא֙ וְאֶת־מִצְוֺתָ֣יו שְׁמ֔וֹר כִּי־זֶ֖ה כׇּל־הָאָדָֽם׃

The sum of the matter, when all is said and done; awe with God and observe His commandments, for this applies to all humankind:

Comment: If all is futile, that leaves nothing unaccounted for. This can only mean that he’s talking about the point-origin, not the cone which is utterly futile. That is, revere God-S/ observe His commandments, but not the cone field as just mentioned, but the origin which must then mean observe the One Commandment-PRD! Chat with God!

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Did the Torah Bible actually happen?

Two questions. Did the Torah actually happen, and what does Revelation mean? What does be constructed or made-up mean? Only the Torah is revealed, all else is made-up. Revelation means revealed by God to Moses. Everything else is man-made. Man-made is made-up. But it must still make common-sense.  

The Torah happened holistically not triadically. That is, it happened S/PRD, and not as S/ in heaven and P, R, D separately on earth. If it didn’t happen triadically, then there’s no way of understanding it holistically. Within Enlightenment thinking of the Age of Reason we’ll never figure it out. It requires creativity of the Age of Empowerment by PaRaDiSe. This would be the next task on the timeline.

The answer to the question did the Bible Torah actually happen, is of course it happened holistically-S/, and triadically-PRD in mass space time, but not separately in mass-P, space-R and time-D. We play the part of the forward slash (/) joining the holistic to the triadic into a narrative as S / P R D. Allow me to explain.

Deism in the Archaic period in Israel was knowledge, what today survives as religion. Humanism in Greek Antiquity was knowledge, what today survives as philosophy. Mathematism in Modernity is knowledge, what today we call science and technology. But Deism, Humanism, and today’s Mathematism, they’re all knowledge first and foremost. And overarching them all would be the Universal Principle of Knowledge as PaRaDiSe. Succinctly, PaRaDiSe–S/ Deism-D Humanism-R Mathematism-P.

We will understand things better in the measure that we are creatives ourselves. If it’s revelation it can only happen holistically-S / triadically-PRD. You can’t have Revelation-S / happening non-triadically as separate P–R–D. This is what has been going on in this regard. Only the Torah is Revelation-S/, all else of the Tanakh Bible is P–R–D. The so-called Oral Torah is Inspirational-D, the Prophets are Enlightened-R, the Writings are Erudition-P. We bind these two S / and P R D into a narrative as PaRaDiSe. That said, let’s not confuse the narrative-/ with the holistic-S and the triadic-PRD.

Torah and PaRaDiSe

The Torah is much more than religion. Within the PaRaDiSe approach we have Torah-S/ Religion-D Philosophy-R Science-P.

The thesis of Messianism of the Oral Torah tradition is that the Torah (Bible) as Teaching of Moses is incomplete. That the missing MasterKey is to be added later by a chosen one coming from the future or from the past. The thesis of Mysticism is that the Torah Teaching is written in undecipherable code except by a selected few.

These two are false escape dichotomies to the present world of Crisis as usual. The real choice to escapism from left and right and defeatism of center is the PaRaDiSe approach presented.

Tree of Knowledge and PaRaDiSe

It is important to say a few words about the Universal Principle of Knowledge of PaRaDiSe and the Tree of Knowledge of good and bad mentioned in the Creation Story of the Book of Genesis. They are not the same thing, though it may seem otherwise. I will abbreviate for clarity.

Genesis 2:9                                                                                                                                   

2:9

וַיַּצְמַ֞ח יְהֹוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה כׇּל־עֵ֛ץ נֶחְמָ֥ד לְמַרְאֶ֖ה וְט֣וֹב לְמַאֲכָ֑ל וְעֵ֤ץ הַֽחַיִּים֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַגָּ֔ן וְעֵ֕ץ הַדַּ֖עַת ט֥וֹב וָרָֽע׃

And caused YHVH God from the ground, to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight, and good for food; with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and bad:

Comment: The ground as source and a triad of trees are mentioned. Namely, ground-S/, pleasing fruit trees-P, the tree of life-D, and the tree of knowledge of good and bad-R. It clearly mentions the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad, not Tree of Knowledge of Truth and Falsehood. The Tree of knowledge of good and bad refers to consciousness, what we consider morality. On the other hand, the Principle of Knowledge of Empowerment is that we were made creatives of the Creator and then created creatures of Creation. I’ll abbreviate for clarity.

Genesis 1:26-27

1:26

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ וְיִרְדּוּ֩ בִדְגַ֨ת הַיָּ֜ם וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וּבַבְּהֵמָה֙ וּבְכׇל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וּבְכׇל־הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

And God said, “Let Us make humankind in Our image, after Our likeness; they shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.”

Comment: We’ll have more to say about this later on, for the moment suffice to say that we were made in God’s image, the inside, after His likeness, the outside. This is guaranteed insofar as we partook in the making of Humankind, as it explicitly says, “Let Us make Humankind”.

1:27

וַיִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ אֶת־הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם׃

And God created humankind in the divine image, in the image of God created it; male and female created them:

Comment: We were given intelligence, much like a spark out of the infinite light source. That is, knowledge of truth and falsehood, or Epistemology.

Now let’s go back to the Tree of Knowledge of good and bad, once having established human beings as intelligent.

Genesis 2:15-16

2:15

וַיְצַו֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֔ים עַל־הָֽאָדָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר מִכֹּ֥ל עֵֽץ־הַגָּ֖ן אָכֹ֥ל תֹּאכֵֽל׃

And commanded YHVH God, the human, saying; “Of every tree of the garden, you may surely eat”:

Comment: That the fruit of the garden is for human sustenance.

2:16

וּמֵעֵ֗ץ הַדַּ֙עַת֙ ט֣וֹב וָרָ֔ע לֹ֥א תֹאכַ֖ל מִמֶּ֑נּוּ כִּ֗י בְּי֛וֹם אֲכׇלְךָ֥ מִמֶּ֖נּוּ מ֥וֹת תָּמֽוּת׃

But as for the Tree of Knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of it; for on the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die:”

Comment: This knowledge of good and bad is Ethics.

The question now is how all these relate to each other, so as to have them clear on our minds. Within the PaRaDiSe understanding of things, it is as follows.

Being-S / Truth-D Good-R Beauty-P

Metaphysics-S/ Epistemology-D Ethics-R Esthetics-P

The Tree of Knowledge of good and evil refers to Ethics-R, or Good-R. This is normally understood as free will.

The Principle of Knowledge of PaRaDiSe is the whole above scheme of S / PRD. Humans have intelligence-S/ as distinct from animals which have instinct-D, or plants which have impulse-R and minerals which have order-P.

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TaNaKh and PaRaDiSe

Though I usually refrain from citing secondary sources, there is room for exceptions with the corresponding caveat. This is justified insofar as it clarifies a point in the above argument, but so long as they’re derived from the Torah.That is, that the Universal Principle permeates all the TaNaKh Bible, both Nevi’im Prophets (נביאים) and Ketuvim Writings (כתבים). Let’s take a look at Job 28:27 as background to Job 42:5.

Job 28:27

28:27

אָ֣ז רָ֭אָהּ וַֽיְסַפְּרָ֑הּ הֱ֝כִינָ֗הּ וְגַם־חֲקָרָֽהּ׃

Then He saw it and recorded it; He called it and also perfected it.

Comment: That is, “Then He saw-P it and recorded it-R; He called-D it and also perfected-S it”:

42:5

לְשֵֽׁמַע־אֹ֥זֶן שְׁמַעְתִּ֑יךָ וְ֝עַתָּ֗ה עֵינִ֥י רָאָֽתְךָ׃

I had heard You with my ears; but now I see You with my eye:

Comment: Clear mention is made of seeing You with Eynei My Eye (עֵינִ֥י רעתךָ) in the singular-S, while hearing with Ozen Ears-PRD (לְשֵֽׁמַע־אֹ֥זֶן) is in the plural. Here hear represents the senses-PRD while my eye represents oneness with the Creator as S/.

The Totafot reminders fall between the eyes to be seen by the one Eye of synthesis-PRD and transcendence-S/. The third eye is also known as the inner eye.

The second example showcasing the use of PaRaDiSe throughout the TaNaKh Bible is taken from the Prophets with Isaiah 6:3.

6:3

וְקָרָ֨א זֶ֤ה אֶל־זֶה֙ וְאָמַ֔ר קָד֧וֹשׁ ׀ קָד֛וֹשׁ קָד֖וֹשׁ יְהֹוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת מְלֹ֥א כׇל־הָאָ֖רֶץ כְּבוֹדֽוֹ׃

And one would call to the other, “Holy, Holy, Holy; YHVH of hosts; fills all the earth, His presence”:

Comment: And one angel would call to the other, “Holy–D, Holy–R, Holy–P; YHVH of hosts–S/; fills all the earth His presence”:

It expresses PaRaDiSe. The prophet Isaiah knew it intuitively, in his inner or third eye. That is, it was chatted to him as drippings between his eyes, in line with Deuteronomy 6:8.

Messianism as Oral Torah

Origins of the Messianism hypothesis. Our pretension is to delve deep enough to dispel the Messianism conjecture as the lifeline to humanity. Deep enough to point in the direction that the Torah is the lifeline to empower us to do our job on Earth. If you can derive Messianism from PaRaDiSe, then it’s okay. If not derivable, then it’s just made-up, or man-made.

Messianism bifurcates the oneness of the Torah into a duality of Written Torah and Oral Torah. Messianism is the result of lacking the Universal Principle of Knowledge of PaRaDiSe for integrating civilization. The Talmud is great in its own right but turns into something else when it passes as Oral Torah.

Messianism is perfectly sealed, impossible to test and refute. Hope is waiting past the finite. Enslavement domination. Today the choice is between leave it to the coming of Messianism, or else what can we do to make our world whole?

But we are meant to be holy as He is Holy. There is no basis for a standby role in the Torah. So, it’s a yes and a no too. We’re creatures, so it’s a yes, but we’re also creatives, so it’s a no. This passive role is assigned in the Nevi’im Prophets (נביאים) and Ketuvim Writings (כתבים) and elsewhere thereafter in the tradition in tertiary sources.

Sage-S / Deify-D Charisma-R Cult-P. Oral Torah-S / Messiah-D Cult-R Sagism-P.

Mysticism as Sagism

Sagism is Rabbinism. On the right hand, Messianism. I cannot help but notice the tendency towards the cult of the personality, just short of cuasi-divine characters. Sages (OBM. Of blessed memory) just like when mentioning The Holy One (Blessed be He), and Moses Rabbenu (Peace be unto him). That’s the downside take of things of the Oral Torah. Cult to sages is just one step away from deification as charismatic leadership. This is in stark violation of the Second Commandment of the Decalogue of not having other gods or make idols before YHVH.

On the left hand, Mysticism. Mysticism predates the Sépher HaZohar Book of the Radiance (ספר הזוהר). In Oral Torah tradition there’s a long tradition of secrecy of Sagism. There is what is called building fences around the Torah. While it is good to keep things protected, fences also can bring about a sense of property.

The origin of the word Zohar Radiance (זוהַר) comes from Daniel 12:3.

12:3

וְהַ֨מַּשְׂכִּלִ֔ים יַזְהִ֖רוּ כְּזֹ֣הַר הָרָקִ֑יעַ וּמַצְדִּיקֵי֙ הָֽרַבִּ֔ים כַּכּוֹכָבִ֖ים לְעוֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד׃ 

And the knowledgeable, will be radiant like the radiance (Zohar) of the firmament; and those who lead the many to righteousness, will be like the stars forever and ever:

Comment: Sagism comes from Chokhmah wisdom (חָכמָה).   

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Ninety-nine percent (99%) right, One percent (1%) wrong

In general, religious and secular both kept and undid humanity, because it’s ninety-nine percent (99%) right and One percent (1%) wrong. Got all the trees and missed the one forest altogether. Credit and blame are flip sides of the same coin. 

Religious practices and academic studies keep separate Deism-S / Humanism-PRD. Only being creatives slash (/) can we join them and stop keeping them separate. The One Commandment is to be creative slash (/) between Creator-S and Creation-PRD.

The main difference between ninety-nine percent(99%) right medieval Kabbalah and One percent(1%) right primeval Kabbalah is Teaching 101 of PaRaDiSe. It’s all in the math, six hundred thirteen goes to ten goes to one (613 => 10 => 1!) Numbers speak louder than words. Newton was on it with his mathematical principles of physical philosophy, that there’s an underlying numerical skeleton to literal substance, so to speak. Gematria, in other words.

Messianism and Mysticism

Moses freed the Beney Israel Children of Israel from bondage in Egypt in the sense that God frees us from idolatry of all sorts of superstitions. Just as it was done in archaic times, so today from esoteric philosophism-R, scientific technologism-P, and messianic religionism-D. What differentiates Mosaic Torah from the occult sciences, including medieval kabbalah and its table of corresponding equivalents, is the Universal Principle of Knowledge. This is the PaRaDiSe application to integrate civilization and give a helping hand in saving creation. Without it, be it Oral Torah tradition, or any other equivalent one, it falls irremediably back into Messianism and Mysticism. Case in point is the sorcerer Balaam in the Balak story (Numbers 22-24).

We have already been freed by YHVH through making us creatives of the Creator, and then creating us as creatures of Creation. Messianism is a backstepping flagrant denial of the Torah. We choose to be creatives, realize our potential, or else to be destructive, in denying our powers.

The only friendly compromise solution I can come up with is if by Messianism as coming of anointment is meant opening a live line with God in chatting. Then it’s okey, but it’s always been there so it isn’t coming, just recovered. It sounds like reinventing the rolling stone calling it wheel. And the same goes with Mysticism. The only friendly compromise I can imagine is if by secrecy is meant nothing other than PaRaDiSe, as the occult-S/ manifesting as Triad-PRD. Then we’re of the same mind and can jointly face up to Crisis as usual in our midst.

Ultraviolet and infrared polarization

It seems to be the norm today for things to polarize. Right-wing ultraviolet of Messianism, and left-wing infrared of Mysticism. We seem to be missing the point of infinity. The simplest is the universal, from the infra-right Messianism of the Oral Torah Tradition and from ultra-left Mysticism of the Zohar.

Both infrared and ultraviolet Messianism and Mysticism are beyond human view, respectively. Messianism is beyond time and Mysticism is beyond space hiding things in the interstices of words and letters against a blank paper. And the visible spectrum is Crisis as usual.

M&M and Crisis as usual

Is M&M of Messianism and Mysticism the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and bad of the Garden of Eden? M&M on the outside is Crisis as usual on the inside. The Tree of Life would then be PaRaDiSe. The Nachash Snake is Mysticism, and the forbidden fruit is Messianism. The Tree of Knowledge of good and bad of dualism. It was off-limits because it would be misunderstood.

Tree of Knowledge would be Greece. Tree of Life would be Israel, but with point origin in Genesis 1:1a/alef. Let’s do it right this second time around. There may not be a third chance. I mention it in passing, though it is beyond the scope of this essay and certainly of my paygrade.

The writing on the wall

There is a generic interpretation underlying the specific of the context. The following is the standard interpretation of Daniel 5:24-28. Historically correct as reply of Daniel to King Belshazzar of Babylon. But there’s more to it than meets the eye.

The writing on the wall Mene, Mene, Tekel, U-Pharsim is so cryptic that it lends itself to various interpretations, for then and for now as well as we’ll shortly have occasion to view.

I take it to mean Peshat Remez Derash / Sod. The repetition of Mene, Peshat, as Mene, Mene can be interpreted as what underlies it is Remez. That’s why the Peshat is “Count”, and the Remez is “Finished”, as ending the counting and moving on. The Tekel would conclude as Derash “Fault”, meaning weighed on the scales and found at Fault. But this is the process, its unfolding as triad. The next step is its unitary source, its oneness or wholeness. 

The U– just means “And”, same which we signify as separating the process from unity with forward slash (/). The next of Pharsim reminds me of Elohim God/s (אלהים) in Genesis 1:1. Here it doesn’t mean the plural of gods or powers, but rather a God which is the universal of gods or powers, as Master of the Powers. The God of gods. Same applies here. Pharsim is Crisis as Broken of brokens. Crisis one, or Crisis as usual. This is so because it is beyond reason. Much like the concept of forest which includes all the trees but is not another tree itself.

More in alignment with our theme of PaRaDiSe as S/PRD but inverted as PRD/S,  it would now take the shape of “Age, Ended, Fault, and Crisis”, respectively. But let’s quote directly from the text to confirm what was just said.

Daniel 5:24-28

5:24

בֵּאדַ֙יִן֙ מִן־קֳדָמ֔וֹהִי שְׁלִ֖יחַ פַּסָּ֣א דִֽי־יְדָ֑א וּכְתָבָ֥א דְנָ֖ה רְשִֽׁים׃

He therefore made the hand appear, and caused the writing to be inscribed.

Comment: Supernatural phenomena are at play here to convey a message to the King.

5:25

וּדְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽין׃

This is the writing that is inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, U-Pharsim:

Comment: The message is in code. This requires Daniel, the code breaker interpreter of dreams to appear in the scene.

5:26

דְּנָ֖ה פְּשַֽׁר־מִלְּתָ֑א מְנֵ֕א מְנָֽה־אֱלָהָ֥א מַלְכוּתָ֖ךְ וְהַשְׁלְמַֽהּ׃

And this is its meaning: Mene. God has numbered [the days of] your kingdom and brought it to an end:

Comment: Mene can mean numbered as verb or mina (a unit of money) as noun. God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Daniel interprets the writings on the wall. The first word Mene means count. It appears twice for emphasis as Mene, Mene, meaning that the number of days given have been accounted for and have come to an end. The first is Mene-P, the second is Mene-R.

5:27

תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּ בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃

Tekel. You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting:

Comment: Tekel can mean weighed as verb or shekel as noun. You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

This word Tekel means that the king’s is accountable and found lacking. This third word is Tekel–D. 

5:28

פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃

Pharsim. Your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.

Comment: U means and. Pharsim (the plural of Pheres) can mean divided or half mina or a half shekel. Your kingdom is divided and multiplied. Pharsim in Hebrew as permanently broken or Crisis as usual.

It would read in a greater sense: Crisis-S/ Count-P Finished-R Fault-D.

It is the negation of PaRaDiSe. Crisis brought about by keeping things separate, or else keeping them monolithically. It is a valid generalization to anyone acting as king in its own sphere of influence, and living a carefree live.

The writing on the wall is for all of us to heed. At the end of the day, we’re all accountable for what we’ve done with our lives. This is the message to us from Daniel.

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Untouchable Consequences

The consequences to our argument are left to the reader-listener to make them for themselves. Our argument is at the level of the core, at the Torah. Not at the TaNaKh, whole Bible inclusive of secondary sources Prophets and Writings, much less of tertiary sources of the Talmud and others. And that’s just referring to the Jewish tradition. This doesn’t touch the Gospels of Christianity, much less other Abrahamic religions like the Koran of Islam. Without a doubt this is above my paygrade.

But one thing must be said. It’s not a question of believing this or that and that there’s nothing more to be said about it. After all, beliefs form part of a triad as well, not surprisingly. Who we are-S / is made up of Beliefs-D Values-R Interests-P.

So, there’s no easy way out of the mess we’re in. Or that we got ourselves in, courtesy of our religious authorities throughout the ages. It’s like getting rid of an asbestos ship when no one wants it even if free. Any way you look at it, it comes with a price tag, and it isn’t a bargain.

The above refers to the Torah and the Messianism conjecture of the Oral Torah tradition. Consequences taking it to later dates is beyond the scope of this essay and is the subject of a different conversation. Our argument is solely that Messianism is made-up, man-made in the Oral Torah tradition. That there’s nothing in the Torah to support such a claim. Nothing beyond that is intended herein.

The Biggest Lie refers that Messianism is included in the Torah. This is the argument by extension of the Oral Torah tradition, that at Revelation two Torahs were given. One in written form, the written Torah, and the other in oral form, the Oral Torah. That is, that pretty much anything that the sages can make-up is derived from the Torah, hence legitimate. Their claim is that there’s no fence between the Torah and the Oral Torah.

The Biggest Truth is that what is revealed from the Torah, the one and only, is PaRaDiSe.

This is the extend of our argument. Anything beyond that would be separate topic for another conversation. It is not of interest here within our focus of attention which is inaugurating the Age of Empowerment and leaving behind the Age of Enlightened Reason.

Principle as Beginning

Principle is beginning. This is necessarily one since the beginning only begins once. But then, how can it move on, continue, if it has no parts to move? Can it still be one, so what is it afterwards? So, Alef A (א) is ox head, one, the Creator as God. We’re somehow Beth B (ב) house, two, the creatives as house of God. Next comes Gimmel C (ג) as camel, three, as movement. But where to? Next comes Dalet D (ד) as door, four, the field outside.

So, God is One. Then triad as we’re moveable house of God in the field. That is, One-S / House-D Moveable-R Field-P.

The Lifeline

The point of focus is the lifeline. Our reason of being. How to be holy as He is Holy. (Leviticus 21:8) How to be one with the One. How to approach this theme.

Now that we know that the Biggest Truth debunks the Biggest Lie, we can restart and get it right this time around. Please view the next XPodcast. The Torah is the lifeline to empower us to institute civilization in the world.

The Biggest Lie is that the lifeline is Messianism and Mysticism to save us from Crisis as usual. The Biggest Truth is that the lifeline is the Universal Principle of knowledge in the Torah Revelation of the Torah itself. Torah means the teaching of empowerment. Of what else? It certainly wasn’t meant to teach us to wait around till outside help arrives or till we decipher what wasn’t coded to begin with, other than in common sense of PaRaDiSe. Precisely when that’s the very reason for the Revelation of the Torah to humanity.

But it has to be studied and understood correctly. Bad instruction is worse than no instruction at all. The Torah makes no mention of any Messianism or Mysticism, nor to embrace Crisis as usual. The key is finding the tip of the guiding thread. While it may be true that we won’t know anything for sure until we know everything, still, surely there’s something we can do in the meantime better than sitting on our hands.

Going back to the PaRaDiSe cue. There’s the whole-S / triad-PRD. Let’s apply it to our point of interest. There seem to be three things, sort of a triad, which are entangled into a whole. One is life-P. We can pass it on swiftly, though not knowing what it consists of. Same seems to apply with language-R. We can all learn from our parents, the mother tongue, and can further learn other languages. But we’re oblivious as to what language is. Creativity-D seems to be the third element which we pass on. It likewise goes under various other names, like intelligence. Whatever it is, it is qualitatively different, though quantitatively similar to that shared with the animal and vegetal and mineral kingdoms, in descending degrees. Let’s call ourselves the Adam-S / in order to keep things tidy.

The guiding thread seems to be the above triad-PRD thread, and the tip would then be the above whole-S. Let’s focus on this whole made and triad created.

Part of the problem we’re having today is that we’re trying to explain the whole through the lens of parts. Only with the three aspects together as triad can we access being at one with the One of God.

Language-R seems to be between creativity-D and life-P. The creativity seems to connect with the made (Betzélem) whereas the life connects with the created (Demuth).

This I would express as Elohim–S / Hashamáyim–D ‘Eth–R Haaretz–P, where ‘eth stands of language. Language is between creative and created. With this in mind let’s now translate and get the interpretation right this time around.

The instruction book for empowerment is the Torah. But how do we start reading it? It goes back to how do we learn to speak. We learn our mother tongue from our mother, who learned it from hers and so on. Same with life. It’s passed on with love. Same with creativity. It’s passed on somehow. All these are infinite series going back no one knows how far, to a point origin, to leave it at that. The question is how do we acquire the wholeness of it all? By the Torah.

But how do we read it? There has to be a tip of a guiding thread. This is plain common sense. In code it is simply Tip-S/ Guiding Thread-PRD. This is the right door to the reading of the Torah. The right door to the Labyrinth if you prefer. There’s the beginning-PRD, there’s the source of the beginning-S, and then there’s us binding them-/.

Nothing less will do. This is the ripple, the cornerstone of the social edifice. Anything more will only serve to complicate things. Shaddai Suffice (שַׁדַּי)! Anything beyond this only gets in the way. So, it’s said in the IT business. If you want to lose something, bury it in information.

What if you don’t believe in God? Can you still chat with God? My guess is that He can chat with you all the same. As for you, it doesn’t matter what you call it, it is still messages coming in on the third eye. Like in regular chatting on the internet for service. It could very well be a robot, and probably is, but the chatting goes ahead just fine.

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Made (Betzélem) Adam and Created (Demuth) ‘Eth HaAdam

We have both aspects as Betzélem creative (בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ) of the Creator and as Demuth creature (כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ) of Creation. Being enslaved creatures of Creation instead of empowered creatives of the Creator. The S / PRD as Betzélem / Demuth, with we creatives as the slash (/) joining the Creator with Creation. We’ll only quote the relevant part of the verses.

Genesis 1:26

1:26

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ וְיִרְדּוּ֩ בִדְגַ֨ת הַיָּ֜ם וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וּבַבְּהֵמָה֙ וּבְכׇל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וּבְכׇל־הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

And Elohim said, “Let us make Adam in Our image, after Our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.”

Comment: In Betzélem image (בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ) we were made, and in Demuth likeness (כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ) we were created. The creative and the creature aspects, the S/ and the PRD, to make up PaRaDiSe. In  the following we’ll leave out the ‘eth dialogue-with (אֶת) for convenience.

1:27

וַיִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ אֶת־הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם׃

And God created language-with HaAdam in His image, in the image of God created-it; male and female created-with them:

Comment: He made Adam Betzélem Adam–S/ in its image, He created Demuth ‘eth HaAdam–PRD in Its likeness. Why is created mentioned thrice in Genesis 1:27? My guess is that the first mention is meant to connect with the previous fact of Let’s make Adam (Betzélem) in Our Image, just to dispel doubts with the next created ‘eth HaAdam (Demuth) after His Likeness. The making employs “Adam”, as someone, whereas the creating employs “him”, or “it”, as no one special, as ‘eth HaAdam language with The Adam.

Manipulation

Oral Torah is deviating infrared right as Messianism and Sagism is deviating ultraviolet left as Mysticism. Crisis as usual is zero in the middle.

You can’t just add the Oral Torah and make-up Messianism nor subtract PaRaDiSe by canceling it (Deuteronomy 4:2, 13:1). Nor pretend as in Mysticism that you’re not doing it all the while you’re deviating right or left surreptitiously by Prophets or Writings, or others. (Deuteronomy 34:10)

Keeping Religion-D the Oral Torah of Messianism separate from Philosophy-R Science-P, is what’s avoiding the Triad-PRD, and hence the possibility of whole-S/ occurring. This is the back-story of the Messianism conjecture.

Once established religion does teshuvah, all things will fall into place, including Religion-D, as part of the Triad PRD. The Age of Empowerment of PaRaDiSe can only happen once we let go of the Age of Enlightened Reason of Dualism. Letting go of what is precious to us is not easy, as we’ll see soon enough. Attachment is tough to let go.

From Offerings to Prayer

In the Torah mention is made throughout of sacrifices, or offerings to God. God in mentioned as YHVH Elohéynu YHVH Our God (יהוה אלהינו). There seem to be a variety of offerings, burnt, grain, peace, guilt and sin. These are in the book of Leviticus and elsewhere. This topic is mentioned in order to adequately frame the discussion.

The Biggest Lie of Messianism, Mysticism and Crisis as usual underlies all else. The Biggest Truth is that the lifeline of PaRaDiSe is easy as pie. The problem is that missing the tip of the guiding thread of Knowledge, you’re left in the dark. Any doing is just opinion, chaos of hit and miss, stumbling and getting up just to break things in an effort to fix things. This includes prayer. 

There’s nothing wrong with prayer per se, it’s with institutional prayer as it exists in practice. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Prayer is seen as praying to God. It’s the “to” God that’s the problem. Similar to meditation. Nothing wrong with meditation per se, but it again doesn’t exist in a cultural vacuum. Normally it’s practiced as meditating “on” God. On the other hand, chatting is “with” God. YHVH our God is a personal God, not something or someone to study on a petri dish, or to put under a microscope, or whatever.

The essential difference consists of this. While “praying to” and “meditating on” God carries implicitly a distancing, this is not the case with “chatting with” God, which carries with it a karov nearness (קָרוֹב). Though care must be taken not to take it to mean “talking with” God. This would be different, and while it can and does certainly happen, it’s not up to us to initiate it. It’s rather God’s prerogative to call on us to have a conversation with Him.

After all is said and done, prayer is fine if understood as chatting with God. Or alternatively, as preparation for being in the right frame of mind. Showing reverence, of course. The problem is that Messianism uses it as an escape tool to the infrared of the spectrum beyond the reach of time. This goes entirely against the grain as mentioned in Deuteronomy 30:11-14. That the one and only Commandment is of easy access at our fingertips and in our mouths and hearts. I quote to refresh our memory. “Surely, this One Commandment which I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling. No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it.”

Prayer is one of those good things used for a bad purpose. Praying for Messianism to come from the distant future. All that we do is pray for the coming of Messianism. Approaching God through praying to God. Pray as petitioning, like a subject to a king requesting favors. There are many fine prayers, amongst them the Amidah, the thirteen attributes of Mercy, and many more too numerous to mention. 

Allow me to say a few words regarding the origins of prayer. Tefilah (תפילה) is the Hebrew word for prayer. The word itself contains a range of meanings. The Hebrew root pelel (פלל) connotes reckoning, referring to “executing judgement” as in Exodus 21:22, or as “thinking” in Genesis 48:11. In this sense, the word tefilah (תפילה) may also refer to a process of accounting or contemplation as pilel (פילל). In general prayer is synonymous to think, entreat, supplicate, plead.

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Origin of Prayer

In any case, it went from sacrifice to God to pray to God. Sacrifice was a way of approaching God, as karov closeness or nearness (קֵרוּב). Animal sacrifice as worship was a distinctive feature of archaic times in the Fertile Crescent civilizations. As for prayer, it appeared in the book of Genesis as follows according to tradition. The context is assumed. I’ll simply focus on the key verses.

Abraham Shacharit morning prayer. Genesis 19:27 as arising to the place. 

19:27

וַיַּשְׁכֵּ֥ם אַבְרָהָ֖ם בַּבֹּ֑קֶר אֶ֨ל־הַמָּק֔וֹם אֲשֶׁר־עָ֥מַד שָׁ֖ם אֶת־פְּנֵ֥י יְהֹוָֽה׃

Arose early Abraham, in the morning; to the place, where he had stood there, in dialogue-with before YHVH:

Comment: The word ‘eth language with (אֶת) is key to understanding the passage. It says that Abraham stood there as before to chat with God. It’s not prayer as a one-way affair, but rather a to and fro as in chatting, or speaking to God.

Isaac Minchah afternoon prayer. Genesis 24:63 as chat in the field.

24:63

וַיֵּצֵ֥א יִצְחָ֛ק לָשׂ֥וּחַ בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה לִפְנ֣וֹת עָ֑רֶב וַיִּשָּׂ֤א עֵינָיו֙ וַיַּ֔רְא וְהִנֵּ֥ה גְמַלִּ֖ים בָּאִֽים׃

And went Isaac to chat in the field, toward evening; and looking up and saw, and there were camels, approaching:

Comment: Here with Isaac the word used is literally lesúach to chat (לָשׂ֥וּחַ). It is not clear whether he came from checking on his servants or chatting with God. But it does not say anything about praying to anyone or to God.

Jacob Maariv evening prayer. Genesis 28:11 He encountered the place, and stopped there.

28:11

וַיִּפְגַּ֨ע בַּמָּק֜וֹם וַיָּ֤לֶן שָׁם֙ כִּי־בָ֣א הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ וַיִּקַּח֙ מֵאַבְנֵ֣י הַמָּק֔וֹם וַיָּ֖שֶׂם מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יו וַיִּשְׁכַּ֖ב בַּמָּק֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃

He encountered the place, and stopped there, for the night, because the sun had set, he took from the stones of the place, placed them around his head; and lay down, in that place:

Comment: This is a complex verse consisting of various sections. We start off with the ordinary translation. The first section states that he encountered the place. This is clearly saying that there is something there since it mentions encountered and not just arrived there. Then it says that he spent the night there because the sun had set. Next that he took some stones and placed them around his head. Finally, it says that he laid down in that place. In the next verse it mentions the dream he had, but that is about dreaming and not about chatting nor praying.

So, we return to the first part of “he encountered the place” is the section of interest. Doing research, we find that the word vayifga’ encountered (וַיִּפְגַּ֨ע) actually additionally means to meet, to cause to entreat. This is more in line with chatting with God entreating Him about the present situation he was in.

Also, “and stopped there, for the night”. What did he do there before going to sleep, is the question. The key word is vayalen stopped (וַיָּ֤לֶן). Doing research, we find that it can mean both to lodge and to complain. We discount lodging because of the word encounter. This leaves to grumble, to murmur, or to complain. Complaining to God as praying to God is hardly admissible. This leaves as the only possible interpretation for what Jacob did was to chat with God to share his concerns.

So, then, in all the three cases Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob chatted “with” God, in no case did they pray “to” God, as such.

Prayer is rabbinical not biblical. The Torah clearly states at (Deuteronomy 4:2, 13:1) not to add or take away, nor lean towards benefiting yourself or lean away in detriment to others (Deuteronomy 34:10). Because it is so easy to twist things to fit a preconceived narrative. By not biblical because it doesn’t say anything about tefilah (תפילה) prayer to God anywhere in the Torah. That is, the word tefilah (תפילה) prayer doesn’t appear anywhere in the Torah.

From now on it’s the morning, afternoon, and evening “chats with” God.

Prayer’s first appearance

Prayer first appears with Rabbinism in the TaNaKh Bible starting with the prophet 1 Samuel 1:11. There Hannah prays to God for a child in the presence of Eli the Cohen Gadol High Priest.

I Samuel 1:11

1:11

וְהִ֖יא מָ֣רַת נָ֑פֶשׁ וַתִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל עַל־יְהֹוָ֖ה וּבָכֹ֥ה תִבְכֶּֽה׃

Ans she in her bitterness of soul; she prayed to YHVH, weeping all the while:

Comment: Here for the first time the word tefilah (וַתִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל) is used to signify to pray as to intercede. That is, in the Torah of Moses prayer to God doesn’t appear, rather it’s “chatting with” God. However, in the Prophets of Rabbinism it first appears.

The Torah is the Teaching of God, all else is adhered to it. Only the Torah is revealed-S/, all else is either inspired as the Prophets-D, or enlightened as the Writings-R, or else rationalized as the Talmud-P, and later works as well. Only the Torah is revelational teaching.  

Things would improve if we chatted “with” God instead of praying “to” God, or meditating “on” God. We are integral part of God, of His own making as Betzélem creatives of theCreator before we were somehow created as Demuth creatures of Creation.

But then again, for that to happen we would first conditionally have to take charge of things. Follow Deuteronomy 6:8. “Bind the sign, unto your hand; and then I’ll reply, between your eyes.” This means ask as grownups in a conversation and He will respond accordingly. Talk to God as if to a first amongst peers, no disrespect meant. As junior partners, as apprentices in training. It’s “with”, the One of which we’re part of, not “to”, as Alien, or “on”, as a Thing.

That is the question, rather the answer in question format. The answer begs the question. What does it mean to take charge of things? We weren’t meant to pray for a lifeline. We are the lifeline to help save creation by integrating civilization. In contemporary coding, we are the creative creatures since Revelation by the giving of the Torah Teaching instructions of empowerment. We are the Messiah, Mashiach, the Mosaic. The savior of the world is humanity itself.

There’s one Universal Principle just like there’s only one YHVH God.

Deuteronomy 10:17.

כִּ֚י יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם ה֚וּא אֱלֹהֵ֣י הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים וַאֲדֹנֵ֖י הָאֲדֹנִ֑ים הָאֵ֨ל הַגָּדֹ֤ל הַגִּבֹּר֙ וְהַנּוֹרָ֔א אֲשֶׁר֙ לֹא־יִשָּׂ֣א פָנִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א יִקַּ֖ח שֹֽׁחַד׃

For YHVH is your Elohim, He is Elohim of elohims, and Adonai of adonais; the Mighty, the Great, and the Awesome, who shows no favor, and takes no bribe:

Comment: If there’s a God over gods, there’s humans over all kingdoms, then by added measure there’s the Universal Principle over all particular principles.

All proportions kept, we’re like God, keychain that is. There’s only one of us as unique creative creature of Creation by the Creator. 

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Praise, Bless and Worship

Is there mention of Tefilah Prayer (תפילה) in the entire Torah? None whatsoever! Should any more need be said in this regard? Tefilah (תְפִלָה) is the Hebrew word for prayer.

There’s Barukh blessing (בְּרָכָה), but this is quite confusing since it’s we who need blessings from God not God from us.

As for halel praise (הַלֵל), it doesn’t appear in the Torah either. It starts appearing with the onset of Rabbinism with the Prophets Nevi’im (נביאים) and Writings Ketuvim (כתבים).

What does appear in the Torah is to worship God. It appears in the Decalogue and translates as Avodah Work (לַעֲבוֹד).

Exodus 20:1-3

20:1

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֵ֛ת כׇּל־הַדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה לֵאמֹֽר׃        

God spoke all these words, saying:

Comment: This states to pay heed to what’s to come. First in line is prime in importance.

20:2

אָֽנֹכִ֖י֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֧ר הוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֣ית עֲבָדִ֑͏ים׃

I YHVH am your God; who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage:

Comment: This is the first commandment of the Decalogue. Freeing Israel from the house of bondage. Bondage or servitude as worshiping in any shape or form goes at the top of the list.

20:3

לֹֽ֣א־יִהְיֶ֥͏ֽה־לְךָ֛֩ אֱלֹהִ֥֨ים אֲחֵרִ֖֜ים עַל־פָּנָֽ͏ַ֗י׃

You shall have no other gods besides Me:

Comment: This means that Israel is not to work for or worship any god but YHVH Elohim.

From this we understand that worship-S/ is work, be it material-P or spiritual-D or mental-R.

Just to make it crystal clear this point is emphasized immediately afterwards in verse 5.

20:5

לֹֽא־תִשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֥֣ה לָהֶ֖ם֮ וְלֹ֣א תׇעׇבְדֵ֑ם֒ כִּ֣י אָֽנֹכִ֞י יְהֹוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ אֵ֣ל קַנָּ֔א פֹּ֠קֵד עֲוֺ֨ן אָבֹ֧ת עַל־בָּנִ֛ים עַל־שִׁלֵּשִׁ֥ים וְעַל־רִבֵּעִ֖ים לְשֹׂנְאָֽ֑י׃

You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I your God YHVH am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who reject Me:

Comment: This restates the point that bowing down-D is the same as working-P as serving-R.

From our own experience at the workplace, we know that we are part of a network. Orders are received, executed, and account given of them. There is a two-way street of communication. This networking is nothing other than chatting online or in any of various forms. Be they in conference, in talk, in conversation, in dialogue, but it’s all about one having language with the other.

From this the only conclusion is that worship/work in the Torah translates as chatting/work in the world today. Yes, from the employer with the employee. But it’s a “with”, between humans. It’s not an “on” like programing the work on the computer, nor “to” like to the machine or to the pet.

Ark of the Testimony as Chat Booth

In following we’ll say a few words more to impress on the listener the primacy of “chatting with” God in the Holy of holies.

Exodus 25:8-9

25:8

וְעָ֥שׂוּ לִ֖י מִקְדָּ֑שׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּ֖י בְּתוֹכָֽם׃

And make Me, a sanctuary; that I may dwell, amongst them:

Comment: It says make me not let them make me a sanctuary. That it’s in order to fulfil a personal purpose between Him and every one of us. For that purpose, is says that He may dwell amongst them. Due to context, it’s Sanctuary.

25:9

כְּכֹ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִי֙ מַרְאֶ֣ה אוֹתְךָ֔ אֵ֚ת תַּבְנִ֣ית הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן וְאֵ֖ת תַּבְנִ֣ית כׇּל־כֵּלָ֑יו וְכֵ֖ן תַּעֲשֽׂוּ׃        

Exactly as I show you, the design of the Tabernacle; and the design of all its vessels, so shall you make it:

Comment: Due to context, it’s Tabernacle.

The question that immediately comes to mind is, what for? To dwell amongst them. For what purpose? To chat! Recall in Numbers 7:89 that Moses would communicate with God in the Tent of Meeting, at the Ark of the Testimony.

Numbers 7:89

7:89

וּבְבֹ֨א מֹשֶׁ֜ה אֶל־אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵד֮ לְדַבֵּ֣ר אִתּוֹ֒ וַיִּשְׁמַ֨ע אֶת־הַקּ֜וֹל מִדַּבֵּ֣ר אֵלָ֗יו מֵעַ֤ל הַכַּפֹּ֙רֶת֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־אֲרֹ֣ן הָעֵדֻ֔ת מִבֵּ֖ין שְׁנֵ֣י הַכְּרֻבִ֑ים וַיְדַבֵּ֖ר אֵלָֽיו׃ 

When Moses entered, into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him, he would hear the Voice speaking to him, from above the cover that was on top of the Ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and spoke to him:

Comment: This clearly states that God would chat with Moses from between the Cherubim. This between says that between Moses’ eyes, the chat would occur on the third or inner eye.

This is reinforced in Exodus 25:21-22 with more or less the same wording. But additionally, with slightly different wording and context in Exodus 19:42.

Exodus 19:42

19:42

עֹלַ֤ת תָּמִיד֙ לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם פֶּ֥תַח אֹֽהֶל־מוֹעֵ֖ד לִפְנֵ֣י יְהֹוָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אִוָּעֵ֤ד לָכֶם֙ שָׁ֔מָּה לְדַבֵּ֥ר אֵלֶ֖יךָ שָֽׁם׃

A regular burnt offering throughout the generations, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before YHVH; for I will meet with you there, to speak to you, there:

Comment: Explicitly, it reinforces to meet with Moses at the Tent of Meeting as previously mentioned to speak to him.

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Crying out, and Thought as Chat

Another case where chatting is clearly visible is in Exodus 14:15, and many other verses as well.

Exodus 14:15

14:15

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהֹוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה מַה־תִּצְעַ֖ק אֵלָ֑י דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶל־בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְיִסָּֽעוּ׃

Then YHVH said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to Me”; tell the Israelites, to go forward:

Comment: This clearly states that Moses would chat with God, in this case desperately requesting instructions to resolve an emergency situation.

Another situation where chatting is exemplified occurs in Genesis 8:20-21.

8:20

וַיִּ֥בֶן נֹ֛חַ מִזְבֵּ֖חַ לַֽיהֹוָ֑ה וַיִּקַּ֞ח מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הַבְּהֵמָ֣ה הַטְּהֹרָ֗ה וּמִכֹּל֙ הָע֣וֹף הַטָּה֔וֹר וַיַּ֥עַל עֹלֹ֖ת בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

Then Noah built an altar to YHVH; and, taking of every pure animal and of every pure bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar:

Comment: Again, the altar which is the chat booth.

8:21

וַיָּ֣רַח יְהֹוָה֮ אֶת־רֵ֣יחַ הַנִּיחֹ֒חַ֒ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהֹוָ֜ה אֶל־לִבּ֗וֹ לֹֽא־אֹ֠סִ֠ף לְקַלֵּ֨ל ע֤וֹד אֶת־הָֽאֲדָמָה֙ בַּעֲב֣וּר הָֽאָדָ֔ם כִּ֠י יֵ֣צֶר לֵ֧ב הָאָדָ֛ם רַ֖ע מִנְּעֻרָ֑יו וְלֹֽא־אֹסִ֥ף ע֛וֹד לְהַכּ֥וֹת אֶת־כׇּל־חַ֖י כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשִֽׂיתִי׃

Smelled YHVH the pleasing aroma, and YHVH said in His heart, “I will not continue to curse again the ground because of humankind, since the concocting of the human heart are evil from youth; nor will I continue again destroy every living being, as I have done”:

Comment: Here it states the “YHVH said in His heart”. This can only mean that God was permanently chatting with humankind, even by way of His thoughts. That the chat line was open be it in His thought or in spoken language. This is similar to the so-called “live mike” where a person speaks its thoughts unknowingly that it’s live. Not that God wasn’t aware of what was happening, but rather that the chat channel remained open in any modality, twenty-four seven (24/7).

Empowerment of the Heart

The Empowerment of the heart is spelled out in three steps. Love as defined in Deuteronomy 6:5. The heart is its receptacle in Deuteronomy 6:6. And what to do thereafter in Deuteronomy 6:7.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7

6:5 Ve’ahavtah And you shall love.

וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכׇל־לְבָבְךָ֥ וּבְכׇל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכׇל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃

You shall love-S, language-with-/ YHVH your God; with all your heart-D and with all your soul-R, and with all of thy might-P:

Comment: Love is defined in PaRaDiSe terms to confirm things and leave no room for doubt.

6:6 Vehayu. And it shall be.

וְהָי֞וּ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֧י מְצַוְּךָ֛ הַיּ֖וֹם עַל־לְבָבֶֽךָ׃

And will be-S / these things-P which I charge-R you this day to your heart-D:

Comment: It’s an “If/then” relation between verses 6:5/6:6. The “If” part corresponding to us of Ve’ahavtah And you shall love-PRD, and the “then” part corresponding to God of Vehayu And it shall be-S /. As a set it’s Whole 6:6-S / Triad 6:5-PRD. This is stating that the staging of PaRaDiSe is in place. If we’ve made merits, it will happen. If we decide to chat with God, He will be there to chat with us.

6:7 Veshinantam And impress upon them.

וְשִׁנַּנְתָּ֣ם לְבָנֶ֔יךָ וְדִבַּרְתָּ֖ בָּ֑ם בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ֤ בְּבֵיתֶ֙ךָ֙ וּבְלֶכְתְּךָ֣ בַדֶּ֔רֶךְ וּֽבְשׇׁכְבְּךָ֖ וּבְקוּמֶֽךָ׃

And you shall impress them upon your children, and you shall speak of them; when you rest at your home, and while you walk on the way, when you lie down, and when you arise:

Comment: First it’s defined, then put in place, then spread the word. Blast off!

Anyone who sees it gets it right away, yet nobody can describe it. What is it? The strange enchantment of love. Yet doesn’t keep me from trying. Love-S / Enchantment-PRD, Time-D Space-R Mass-P as the laws of motion.

Conclusion

Blessings and Curses leads to the best of all possible worlds, according to theodicy. Not that we understand it. There’s the Joseph story of bad things happening for a good reason. Joseph’s enslavement to save the Beney Israel Children of Israel from famine. (Genesis 45:5) There’s the Salomon story of good things happening for a bad reason. King Salomon’s 600 wives and 300 concubines, and wealth and horses, and what not, all lead after his passing to the division of his kingdom into Judea and Israel.

We’re paying dearly for holding on to the Big, Bigger, and Biggest Lie. Our fate is of our own doing. It is due to escapism of Messianism and Mysticism, and to defeatism of Crisis as usual. Futile happiness is the meme version that we witness on social media.

The secular and religious leaders of all stripes and colors got it ninety-nine percent (99%) right, got all the trees alright, but missed the one percent (1%) forest all together. How else can one account for a world being just as broken before Revelation as after Revelation, when the whole point of the Torah Revelation was to teach us civilization?

Well, now that the Lie and Truth has been finally established, the question is what comes next?

End

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