8 Postmodernity, Postrabbinism and Primeval Israelism text

8 Postmodernity, Postrabbinism and Primeval Israelism

Opening

This is a whodunit. It is a study meant to smoke out the culprit in the meltdown of humanity, when all the time culture was meant to be a lift-off with great anticipations. The ones at the helm of our world must have done something very wrong telling by the sorry state of civilization. And yes, you cannot blame it on God, not after the revelation of the Torah Teaching of civilization to humanity. Wonder no more why the world is broken.

Only the Torah is revealed, all else is made-up. At long last we’re turning the page and the Torah is rightly understood. Humanity is saved and now we can safely erect the social edifice of civilization on sound foundations and help in saving Creation.

Caveat

Given the richness of its content it is Podtextcast or XPodcast not your regular Podcast. Some people may find the kabbalistic, theological, philosophical, and scientific content unsettling to their beliefs, values and interests. Listener discretion, study in group, as well as reading the text while listening to the podcast is highly recommended.

Dedication

To creatives of  a noble cause.

Quotations

Bible. “Only the Torah is revealed, all else is made-up, unless derived from Gen 1:1a/alef.”

Hans Christian Andersen. The Emperor’s New clothes. ““But he hasn’t got anything on,” a little child said…“But he hasn’t got anything on!” the whole town cried out at last.”

Daniel 2:32-33. “Statue head of gold, arms and chest of silver, belly and thigh of copper, legs of iron, with feet of iron and clay.”

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

Karl Marx. “Religion is the opium of the people.”

Summary of the Episodes

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 a house, you sure want it to have good foundations. XPodcast number six (6) starts the edification of the social construct and number ten (10) is its finale.

Episode 1. Lie and Truth, Big Lie and Big Truth 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 trying to fix things because we really don’t know how we know that we know what we know.

Episode 2. Enlightened Democracy is dead. Long live PaRaDiSe Postmodernity! The Peoplist State consists in going from a three (3) to a five (5) power State. That is, on the one hand, the Government would consist of the Legislative first (1^st) power for laws and the Executive second (2^nd) power for order, and, on the other hand, the People consisting of the Judicial third (3^rd) power for justice, the News Media fourth (4^th) power as overseer of information, and the University fifth (5^th) power for Administration of the budget. Additionally, transition from one person one vote to one person triad votes, and children entitled to vote by way of their parents or legal guardians.  

Episode 3. Bigger Lie and Bigger Truth II. The Bigger Lie is that the takeaway of the Bible is the Golden Rule. The Bigger Truth is that the One Commandment in the Torah is the Universal Principle of Knowledge as found at Genesis 1:1a/alef. This One Commandment encompasses all the six hundred and thirteen (613) commandments of the sages including the ten (10) commandments given to Moses at Sinai.

Episode 4. Age of Empowerment of Postmodernity, by PaRaDiSe chat with God. Life is all about chatting with God. All we have to do to get the blessing of creative self-therapy of empowerment is to chat with God. The sweetspot for chatting with God is at Deuteronomy 6:8, with ultimate point-origin in Genesis 1:1a/alef.

Episode 5. Biggest Lie and Biggest Truth III. The Biggest Lie is escapism of Messianism,  and Mysticism, and defeatism of Crisis as usual. The Universal Principle of Knowledge is the Biggest Truth. Genesis 1:1a/alef empowers us to integrate civilization and help save Creation.

Episode 6. Civilization on Israel one, Greece second. The case is made for a creative civilization based on primeval Israel, then derivatively on classical Greece. But for Israel to constitute civilization requires having Genesis 1:1a/alef as the cornerstone of 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.

Episode 7 Ample examples from science, philosophy and religion are provided as evidence of the existence of the underlying Universal Principle of Knowledge at work in the Torah Bible.

Executive Summary

The thesis is simply that the point-origin of the Torah is at Genesis 1:1a/alef as Alef/BeReshIth A/InBeginningOf (א/בראשית). The Torah is the layout of civilization. So, civilization is primeval Israelism of PaRaDiSe. As creative creatures we’re a spark of the infinite source of light. On the side of Modernity as secular there’s no Secret-S/, and we have the principles of Aristotle-P, Plato-D and Socrates-R separate. On the side of Rabbinism as religion, we have Oral Torah-S/, composed of Messianism-D Mysticism-R Crisis-P.

Who’s who? What’s what?

The world is broken because it’s split between secular Greece and religion Israel. But the question remains, is Israel founded on Greece or is Greece founded on Israel? This isn’t a trivial question. Greece is founded on Israel, but at present the problem is that Israel under Rabbinic Judaism has no cornerstone principle for foundation. So, at present as things stand neither founds either. Wonder no more why our world is bewildered. This essay pretends to put things straight once and for all.  

Please be advised that we’re using the term Rabbinism generically to stand for all religious and secular faith authorities in charge of things related to the Torah. 

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The Gatekeepers of the “W”s

At present and for the last three thousand years we’ve had a situation of gatekeepers of the knowledge of the Torah. These gatekeepers are in charge of the who, when, where, why, how, and what of the matter in question. That pretty much covers everything.

Like Pinocchio, a lie begs a bigger lie and so forth to keep the first lie standing. If you enter the wrong door of the labyrinth of the Torah and things don’t come out as expected, you will start making up stories to account for the state of things until you’re outside of time and space altogether. In a nutshell, Messianism and Mysticism to face habitual.

Messianism of the Oral Torah of the radical right is taking over, and Mysticism of the radical left is taking over as well. Both are way offside and by the wayside. Just like Messianism of the Oral Torah hijacked the Torah as Written Torah, Mysticism of the Zohar Kabbalah equally hijacked the Torah by the Shechinah as the wife of God. Both ended producing estrangement more so than closeness. In code, Plain-P takes over Remit-R, and then over Discover-D, and finally passes as Secret-S. The left tried to center the radical right and only served to become radical left itself, further throwing daylight between God and humanity. It went from cold reason to hot passion. This is reminiscent at the world stage of the Age of Romanticism of Passion following the Age of Enlightenment of Reason. 

Concerns

Moses is the first amongst his peers. The way to understand the consonants of the acronym PaRaDiSe is as God Secret Sod–S/ Hidden-Discover Derash–D Connecting-Reflect Remez–R Surface-Plain Peshat–P.

What we’re proposing is a Teshuva Return (תְשׁוּבָה) to the original Torah, to Teaching 101 at Genesis 1:1a/alef. The tradition of Moses has strayed way too far from the point source of the Torah at Genesis 1:1a/alef with Nevi’im Prophets, Ketuvim Writings and Talmud, and in general with the Oral Torah understanding of things. All this is the combined force behind the brokenness of our broken world. What we need is to integrate civilization-PRD and help in saving Creation-S/.

Even if Moses passed it on as tradition, those who came after him still had to be at his level to fully understand it, and there was none like him. Much like whispering something from ear to ear and comparing the beginning with the end message. Not the same, much like a relay race the baton keeps getting dropped and may even end up changing lanes. And besides, the leadership both regal and religious were notoriously corrupt, telling by the accounts of the books of the Prophets.

The problem with the Oral Torah tradition is that it’s insinuating that the Torah is incomplete, and thus opening the door to Messianism. The Torah is complete with nothing missing. Its essence is hiding in plain view all this time courtesy of misreading and misinterpretation of the text.

Another problem is Mysticism. This we resolve by PaRaDiSe primeval Kabbalah as just plain  Napolitano gelato made of triad flavors vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, and not like PaRDeS medieval Kabbalah of exotic and artificial flavors.

Perhaps, underlying all these concerns is how to express Alef A (א) S(, (S parenthesis) which is transcendent, beyond our experience and of language. Normally things, say this thing, is identified as existent as “this is”. The way around it is by way of Elohim. Since we can’t say that Alef as YHVH is, what is said is YHVH Elohim YHVH God, or else YHVH Elohéynu YHVH our God. That is, the Creator YHVH is unpronounceable, so the next best thing is the pronounceable God, or our God, as YHVH Elohim (יְהֹוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙) or YHVH Elohéynu. You can say anything in language, but not nothing as everything. There’s only this roundabout way. Otherwise, some people simply call it HaShem the Name (השם), or else Adonai Our Lord (אדונאי), or simply leave it as spelled out without further ado as YHVH God (יהו֤ה).

Let’s fact-check if this is accurate. YHVH talks to Moses, without the YHVH Elohéynu tells Moses. Or directly as YHYH ‘elay YHVH told me (וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהֹוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י). With other people it says YHVH Elohéynu (יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ) as in what does He demand of you (שֹׁאֵ֖ל מֵעִמָּ֑ךְ). This will become clearer with the illustrative example that follows.

Leviticus 19:1-2

19:1 Vaydaber Adonai. And spoke Adonai.

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר׃

And spoke YHVH, to Moses saying:

Comment: Most of the following material is covered in previous podcasts, so we won’t spend more time explaining.

This point origin of Genesis 1:1a/alef is much like one of those space telescopes which uncurl once off the rocket and into position set-up before it actually starts taking snapshots of the universe for the cosmological narrative.

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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 podcasts are its divulgation.

Working Hypothesis

Our working hypothesis is that somehow the knowledge of the archaic Fertile Crescent of Egypt and Mesopotamia dovetailed unto Israel. Then the influence of Israel spread out to Greece, and through it far and beyond. This is past the working hypothesis stage and well into full-fledged thesis.

I arrived at the Principle from scratch. But regarding addressing the concerns I start off with the Principle and apply it to the problem out there in need of updating in order to arrive at a solution. I don’t try to rediscover the wheel, there are plenty of problems resolved out there but in dire need of upkeep. (No le busques tres pies al gato.)

The problem of interpretation in translation is three-fold. From within the tradition, and from before Revelation and afterwards. Namely, from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Canaan, and from Greece, respectively. The problem is that Rabbinism, infrared and ultraviolet as well as Haskalah, comes up with M&M to face Crisis as usual due to their lacking the point-origin.

The unviability with this approach is that the Torah foreseeing such an eventuality expressly forbids such a venture. This is in Deuteronomy 30:11-14 where it clearly states that the Commandment is close at hand to resolve habitual Crisis, and not in the heavens of Messianism nor is it beyond the seas of Mysticism.

The problem nowadays is that ancient Hellenism and the archaic Fertile Crescent have permeated everything. Everywhere you look it has been touched by it, it shows up in every pore. Everything needs correcting from the bottom up. The thing is that you can’t really change anything unless you restart everything from the point-origin. Nothing really changes unless you change everything.

Strategy

The definition of strategy is “a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty”. Our strategy is to apply the point-origin thesis to showcase the inconsistencies mostly due to adjustments to fit their narrative of Modernity in Greece and of Rabbinism in Israel. This requires taking samples from all across the board of culture and the Torah. Modernity and Rabbinism are flipsides of the same coin. If Rabbinism-D, then Modernity-P, with habitual Crisis-R, all under today’s broken civilization-S/.

Furthermore, Modernity and Rabbinism are like the Giant portrayed by Daniel.

Daniel 2:31-34

2:31

מַלְכָּ֗א חָזֵ֤ה הֲוַ֙יְתָ֙ וַאֲל֨וּ צְלֵ֥ם חַד֙ שַׂגִּ֔יא צַלְמָ֨א דִּכֵּ֥ן רַ֛ב וְזִיוֵ֥הּ יַתִּ֖יר קָאֵ֣ם לְקׇבְלָ֑ךְ וְרֵוֵ֖הּ דְּחִֽיל׃

“O king, as you looked on, there appeared a great statue. This statue, which was huge and its brightness surpassing, stood before you, and its appearance was awesome.

Comment: Here Daniel starts his account of the dream of the king, who apparently had forgotten what he dreamt

2:32

ה֣וּא צַלְמָ֗א רֵאשֵׁהּ֙ דִּֽי־דְהַ֣ב טָ֔ב חֲד֥וֹהִי וּדְרָע֖וֹהִי דִּ֣י כְסַ֑ף מְע֥וֹהִי וְיַרְכָתֵ֖הּ דִּ֥י נְחָֽשׁ׃

The head of that statue was of fine gold; its breast and arms were of silver; its belly and thighs, of bronze;

Comment: Crisis as usual. Formidable from the bully pulpit. Note that it’s missing the Crown.

2:33

שָׁק֖וֹהִי דִּ֣י פַרְזֶ֑ל רַגְל֕וֹהִי (מנהון) [מִנְּהֵין֙] דִּ֣י פַרְזֶ֔ל (ומנהון) [וּמִנְּהֵ֖ין] דִּ֥י חֲסַֽף׃

Its legs were of iron, and its feet part iron and part clay.

Comment: In charge of the army with monopoly of violence and of the budget. But fragile by all accounts.

2:34

חָזֵ֣ה הֲוַ֗יְתָ עַ֠ד דִּ֣י הִתְגְּזֶ֤רֶת אֶ֙בֶן֙ דִּי־לָ֣א בִידַ֔יִן וּמְחָ֤ת לְצַלְמָא֙ עַל־רַגְל֔וֹהִי דִּ֥י פַרְזְלָ֖א וְחַסְפָּ֑א וְהַדֵּ֖קֶת הִמּֽוֹן׃

As you looked on, a stone was hewn out, not by hands, and struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.

Comments: Successive civilizations emanating from Greece will eventually fall, having only flimsy foundations of Messianism and Mysticism. This refers to the cornerstone in the Torah of the point-origin which will debunk Modernity and Rabbinism.

2:35

בֵּאדַ֣יִן דָּ֣קוּ כַחֲדָ֡ה פַּרְזְלָא֩ חַסְפָּ֨א נְחָשָׁ֜א כַּסְפָּ֣א וְדַהֲבָ֗א וַהֲווֹ֙ כְּע֣וּר מִן־אִדְּרֵי־קַ֔יִט וּנְשָׂ֤א הִמּוֹן֙ רוּחָ֔א וְכׇל־אֲתַ֖ר לָא־הִשְׁתְּכַ֣ח לְה֑וֹן וְאַבְנָ֣א ׀ דִּֽי־מְחָ֣ת לְצַלְמָ֗א הֲוָ֛ת לְט֥וּר רַ֖ב וּמְלָ֥את כׇּל־אַרְעָֽא׃

All at once, the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were crushed, and became like chaff of the threshing floors of summer; a wind carried them off until no trace of them was left. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth:

Comment: With their downfall will come Postmodernity and Postrabbinism of the Age of PaRaDiSe Empowerment from there onwards.

Translation is interpretation

Verily translation is interpretation. We see it at every turn and corner of the discourse. The text is adjusted to fit an agenda, precisely that of the reign of Rabbinism of the Oral Torah. Needless to mention it violates all rules of biblical hermeneutics of not adding nor subtracting, nor leaning right or left to favor a party. Deuteronomy 4:2, 17:11, and others.

Postmodernity and Postrabbinism

The question on our minds is what comes after modernity. Well, Postmodernity. And after Rabbinism, well Postrabbinism. But what do these two post periods look like? The following thoughts should provide us with the right sense of orientation. Afterwards, we do closure. The difference between this episode and the previous one is like the difference between the foreground and the background.

The truth of the matter is that Rabbinism and Modernity have much to their credit. After all, it took us from the Dark Middle Ages to Enlightenment up to the foothill of the III Millennium. Of course, it also helped instrument Crisis as usual as a thing we’ll all gotten to accept as part of the way things are. This Lie is dispelled in the first Podcast entitled Lie and Truth, Big Lie and Big Truth I, so we won’t go into it here.

Both Modernity and Rabbinism were ninety-nine percent right (99%) and only one percent (1%) wrong. Of course, the part they got wrong is the One, as in Day One, and not First Day. But that aside, my guess is that what comes post these times will somehow build on top of it, much like the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico. That said, it would still have to have a restart from the point-origin as the Universal Principle of Knowledge. This refers that the One God displaced all forms of idolatry. Given that cornerstone change, many customs remained unchanged. The idolatry referred to is getting rid of Messianism and Mysticism and Crisis as usual. People will continue eating tacos before as after, pizzas, or burgers. You get the idea.

By Postmodernity is meant past the bondage of Greece. By Postrabbinism is meant past the hold of Messianism and Mysticism in Israel. By primeval Israelism is meant being free to return to the original Mosaic meaning before the train-wreck of our times. This is reminiscent of free from the bondage of Egypt, a restaging of biblical times.

I beg the reader to not confuse rabbinism with the rabbis of the Jewish congregations. Rabbis are good. Rabbinism is bad. The problem is that rabbis have to carry the baggage of rabbinism.

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The Gripe

The gripe I have with Rabbinism is Messianism, but with Cohenism as well, and with Kingship might I add. And in general, with everyone who has been in charge of things in Israel since Revelation. What keeps me up at night is why is the world just as broken before Revelation as well as after the giving of the Torah. After all, the Torah is the Teaching of how to do your job on earth as He does His in heaven, all proportions kept. Our job being civilization and His is Creation. There’s nothing wrong with Creation, then why is civilization so wrong? The secular and religious leadership needs to be held accountable for its performance at the helm of things of the world.

The solution to the problem that we’re herein coming up with could just as easily been done back then as we’re doing right now. Furthermore, civilization as Modernity is based on Greece, and Hellenism has been around since the times of the TaNaKh, Prophets and Writings. And if Greece could do it back then, and it’s founded on Israel, why couldn’t Israel do it itself? The question makes sense since what we’re herein proposing certainly isn’t new. The Torah has been around and has remained unchanged in the slightest since we know of.

Someone or some group has to be held accountable, for all suffering to all concerned, and I mean all. And no, we can’t blame it on God by asking where was God? Our failings are our failings. As leadership and followers, we need to start by taking ownership of our performance. We have simply been doing everything but what we were supposed and had to do. All we had to do was chat with God while studying the Torah. And they had us doing was praying.

If you miss the One percent (1%), not the first percent (1^st %) out of the one hundred percent (100%), then you missed the message for arriving late at the opening ceremony, irrespective if you later on got the remaining ninety nine percent (99%) right. The one (1) happens to be the one of the one hundred (100), the rest are zeros (00), which means that the (99%) amount to zip (00%).

Cornerstone and Keystone

Previously we compared and contrasted the Mind of Greece with the Heart of Israel. Now we’ll do likewise, on the one hand, with the cornerstone of Israel and on the other hand, with the keystone or capstone of Greece. Interestingly, the cornerstone is foundational, whereas the keystone or capstone is crowning of the edifice. What gives support from below and what keeps them together from above. Cornerstone is more like the Secret-S/, whereas the keystone is more like Remit–R.

Torah and Oral torah

Torah and Oral torah, with the torah of Oral torah written with small “t”, is fine. What is objectionable is passing as Oral Torah, written with capital “T”. That is, equating the Oral torah (small “t”) tradition with the Torah, degrading it as Written Torah. Calling the Oral torah by the name of Oral Torah (capital “T”) is simply disrespectful. It sounds too much like using God’s name in vain, not that the Torah is the same as God, just that it is Holy and should be treated with awe.

Hijacking the Torah

The Oral torah (lowercase “t”) of Rabbinism de facto hijacked the Torah by the subterfuge of calling it Written Torah, and thus elevating itself from lowercase to uppercase Oral Torah. And the world as a whole and the world as parts have paid dearly the ransom price for the hijack.

Rabbinism went from caretaker of the Torah to outright ownership.

Offerings and Contributions

The next thing in line is the question of sacrifices, animal and vegetable, and after the akedah excluding human sacrifices, the mineral. There were three basic kinds of korban sacrifices (קָרְבָּן‎). Animals, grain, and money. The word korban offering (הַקרָבָה) derives from kiruv approach (קירוב), meaning gaining closeness to God through the sacrifices.

Leviticus 1:9

1:9

וְקִרְבּ֥וֹ וּכְרָעָ֖יו יִרְחַ֣ץ בַּמָּ֑יִם וְהִקְטִ֨יר הַכֹּהֵ֤ן אֶת־הַכֹּל֙ הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חָה עֹלָ֛ה אִשֵּׁ֥ה רֵֽיחַ־נִיח֖וֹחַ לַֽיהֹוָֽה׃        

Its entrails and legs shall be washed with water, and the priest shall turn the whole into smoke on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to YHVH.

Comment: The odor of the olah burnt offering (עֹלָ֛ה) was meant to be réyach nichóach pleasing to YHVH (רֵֽיחַ־נִיח֖וֹחַ).

There were various types of korban sacrifice (הַקרָבָה). Namely, chat’at sin (קָרְבַּן חַטָּאת), olah burnt (קָרְבַּן עוֹלָה), and shelamim peace (קורבן שלמים). This is beyond me. Just mention it to be taken up later on. However, the point being that prayer and faith are rabbinical not biblical.

Narrative of Israel

Nowhere does itsay in the Torah that Israel should have a king to rule over the nation. Israel was ruled by Judges and later by Kings during the post Second Temple period.

There is a disconnect between the Torah Teaching (תורה) and the Nevi’im Prophets (נביאים). Herein is clearly stated what should be the role of His chosen people and nation. Namely, “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”. But let’s quote directly from the Torah and not trusting memory for such a delicate matter.

Exodus 19:5-6

19:5

וְעַתָּ֗ה אִם־שָׁמ֤וֹעַ תִּשְׁמְעוּ֙ בְּקֹלִ֔י וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֑י וִהְיִ֨יתֶם לִ֤י סְגֻלָּה֙ מִכׇּל־הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים כִּי־לִ֖י כׇּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Now then, if you will obey Me faithfully and keep My covenant, you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples. Indeed, all the earth is Mine,

19:6

וְאַתֶּ֧ם תִּהְיוּ־לִ֛י מַמְלֶ֥כֶת כֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְג֣וֹי קָד֑וֹשׁ אֵ֚לֶּה הַדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

But you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel:

Comment: However, in spite of the above, the people request a king to Samuel, as appears in the historic book of I Samuel (8:22). From this we now quote.

8:22

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהֹוָ֤ה אֶל־שְׁמוּאֵל֙ שְׁמַ֣ע בְּקוֹלָ֔ם וְהִמְלַכְתָּ֥ לָהֶ֖ם מֶ֑לֶךְ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵל֙ אֶל־אַנְשֵׁ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְכ֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ לְעִירֽוֹ׃ 

And the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed their demands and appoint a king for them.” Samuel then said to the men of Israel, “All of you go home.”

Comment: With all due respect, but this is like interacting with Google maps. You type where you are and where you want to go, and the application provides you alternative routes. And irrespective of which route you take, the long or short one, the system will continue to provide instructions as to where to turn to reach your destination. Same here. God instructed them to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, and they chose otherwise, more aligned with the times of kingdoms. Yet, based on their choice God kept helping them follow the optimal path. But this doesn’t mean anything more than that. If you’re going to ruin yourself, at least do it the least harmful manner.  

The quest that keeps me up at night is why was the master key to the Torah missed? Yes, missed alike by Nevi’im prophets-S / Cohanim priests-D Rabbis sages-R, Levities religious functionaries-P, and the Haaretz people in general. It was with the passage of time and with the disappearance of prophets that the Cohanim take their place. And with the destruction of the Temple the Cohanim gave the control to the Rabbis and sages, especially since the diaspora.

But going back to the passage in question with “Indeed, all the earth is Mine” as background, and foreground “you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”. The Torah doesn’t belong to anyone, it isn’t anybody’s property. It’s the teaching to humanity to civilize and save creation given through Moses to the Beney Israel Children of Israel.

Nowhere does it say to turn the Torah into a religion. But rather, learn from the Torah which means Teaching, how to be teachers of humanity. But for Israel to lead it has to first get its own house in order. The Torah is not monolithic nor is it a religion. Rather it’s Torah-S/ Religion-D Philosophy-R Science-P. The Torah is one, granted this is not under discussion. But how it-S/ unfolds to us is as Triad-PRD since we live in a universe of mass-P space-R time-D.

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Post Diaspora

It is hard to name the period we’re in. It’s post Temples, and post Cohenism Priestism. It’s certainly within Rabbinism. With the destruction of the Temples Cohenism ended and came back while rabbinism surged and paused and took over. The question now is when will the reign of rabbinism come to an end after over two Millenia? The Zohar Radiance (זוהר) in the thirteenth century Sepharad bringing with it Medieval Kabbalah. This added Mysticism to Rabbinic Messianism. But other than that, did little to change the status quo. It certainly didn’t debunk it rather helps to reinforce the fight against Crisis as usual by instituting escapism with freedom of choice.

Perhaps it’s taking it too far, things relevant to present times, though maybe not to our theme, is whether to live or not in Israel. Like in post first Temple times when the Judeans didn’t want to return to Israel from their exile in Babylon. The question I’m entertaining is what follows next? Is it going back to post rabbinic Cohenism understood as kingdom of priests and holy nation?

What comes to mind is the people exclaiming “speak through Moses lest we die” in Exodus 20:16.

Exodus 20:16

20:16

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה דַּבֵּר־אַתָּ֥ה עִמָּ֖נוּ וְנִשְׁמָ֑עָה וְאַל־יְדַבֵּ֥ר עִמָּ֛נוּ אֱלֹהִ֖ים פֶּן־נָמֽוּת׃

“You speak to us,” they said to Moses, “and we will obey; but let not God speak to us, lest we die.”

Comment: This may very well have been the case, and then Moses reassuring the people that is okey.

20:17

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶל־הָעָם֮ אַל־תִּירָ֒אוּ֒ כִּ֗י לְבַֽעֲבוּר֙ נַסּ֣וֹת אֶתְכֶ֔ם בָּ֖א הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וּבַעֲב֗וּר תִּהְיֶ֧ה יִרְאָת֛וֹ עַל־פְּנֵיכֶ֖ם לְבִלְתִּ֥י תֶחֱטָֽאוּ׃

Moses said to the people, “Be not afraid, for in order to elevate you, has God come; and in order that there shall be fear of Him, upon your faces, so that you shall not sin:”

Comment: The idea is the evident need or interlocution of Moses between God and the people. But that was then, and now is now. And Rabbinism is not Moses, so the choice we have is to chat with God, as herein proposed with Deuteronomy 6:8, or else go astray. 

But chat with God means by taking the sign of PaRaDiSe unto our hand, and leading humanity.

Another question is the counting of the Temples. We refer to the First Temple and the Second Temple, and mention is made of the sequel. But does the Mishkan Tabernacle (הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן) count as the first or as the one?

Exodus 25:8-9

25:8

וְעָ֥שׂוּ לִ֖י מִקְדָּ֑שׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּ֖י בְּתוֹכָֽם׃

And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.

25:9

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

Exactly as I show you, the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, so shall you make it:

Comment: Is it the case that Exodus happened holistically-S/ and not triadically PRD. This would mean that the Mishkan is Secret Sod-S/ while the third Temple still needs erecting. But was King Salomon’s Temple the Derash-D or the Peshat-P? The Second in either case would be the Remez Remit-R. My guess is that it was Peshat Plain-P. This means that the third one would be Derash Discover-D. Not a temple in the ordinary sense of the word.

I can’t visualize going back to sacrifices, but what could be beyond synagogue prayer? What would chatting with God look like on a social scale?

Lachrymose history of humanity

Use of anachronism of the modern term “Jew” throughout instead of the corresponding term for each historical period. Starting as Hebrews with Abraham, then Beney Israel Children of Israel, with Jacob Israel. Later on, as Judeans from Judea and Ephraim from Israel. Much later came the term Jew. What is the backstory to this usage? Lachrymose history shines light on our eyes to blind us of the bigger picture of the one percent (1%) failing within the  ninety nine percent (99%) success of religious secular and religious scholarship all across the spectrum of beliefs.

The first mention of Yehudi Jew (בִּיהוּדִ֥י) appears in Jeremiah 34:9.

לְ֠שַׁלַּ֠ח אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־עַבְדּ֞וֹ וְאִ֧ישׁ אֶת־שִׁפְחָת֛וֹ הָעִבְרִ֥י וְהָעִבְרִיָּ֖ה חׇפְשִׁ֑ים לְבִלְתִּ֧י עֲבׇד־בָּ֛ם בִּיהוּדִ֥י אָחִ֖יהוּ אִֽישׁ׃

That everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and that no one should keep his fellow Jew enslaved:

Comment: No hard questions please, is the favorite saying of a Jewish History professor on YouTube. Not saying that driving on the wrong side of the road is safe driving any more than a head-on collision. But how do we know if we’re coming or going? I understand “no hard questions please” to mean keep narratives separate to make life easy. Which is fine but comes at the price of a broken world of our own making by choosing these parallel non-touching paths.

The lachrymose history of the Jewish people is a name coined by Mr. Baron.

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Gematria of PaRaDiSe

What is the gematria of PaRaDiSe as S/PRD? Pe P (פ) is 80, Resh R(ר) is 200, Dalet D (ד) is 4, and Samech S (ס) is 60. Doing the math, we have S = 60 =>6/ PRD = 80 + 200 + 4 = 284 => 14 = 5, or 6/5. But PaRaDiSe as S/PRD is a concept statement, not two parts of a sentence. If we then add then we get 6 + 5 =11 => 2. This is telling us that they are equal  as 1 = 1, and go hand-in-hand, as 2. If we move the base by subtracting five, we will get 1/0. That He is all, and we are nothing, or else that we’re one digit from Him, as ten (10), with Him as one (1). Or words to that effect. Recall in all this to be guided by the Kshartam Bind them (וּקְשַׁרְתָּ֥ם) of Deuteronomy 6:4. That is, to view them Him Creator and us Creative creatures of Creation, as indissoluble or entangled.

Age of Enlightened Reason

The end of the Age of Enlightened Reason may bring down Rabbinic Judaism. Both date from Antiquity of Greece and Rome. 

Rabbinic Judaism is based on the TaNaKh. Mosaic Judaism is based solely on the Torah. Primeval Kabbalah is based solely on Genesis 1:1a/alef.

It’s a no-brainer. Everything is preceded by God. Including BeReshIth Beginning of Creation of the Torah. Hence it starts with an integrated prestart as Alef/ BeReshIth A/ InBeginningOf (א/בראשית).

Based on Greece is lacking foundations. Recurring crisis but back to business as usual? What I do know is that the more you put weight on the building, the more you’re pushing your luck.

I will engage but is all futile. It has no foundations, what gives it its support is PaRaDiSe common sense of tradition. Our world is going dark as we speak.

The belief is that by addressing present day issues we’re going to solve them. Short-term fixes only create the long-term problems. The issues approach is just patchwork. It makes things worse by delaying the empowering comprehensive solution. Fixing one thing at a time only makes things worse all the time. It has to be a both-and more so than an either-or and end up starting with the short-term and postponing indefinitely the long-term.

Address both ends. Short-term fixes and long-term solution. Strengthening the parts at the price of weakening the whole.

Prayer and Chatting

The problem with prayer is that it is a one-way street. Imploring for a favor, and getting it. Much like a child crying to its parents for a toy, and then the parents buying the toy for the child.

Chatting, on the other hand, is a two-way street. We ask and receive reply. We have a problem and request instructions. We have an ache and want to know how to proceed to alleviate.

All we have to do is ask the “Ws” on approaching life and the good and steering away from the noise of death and bad. Just keep the line open of ears and heart for replies and putting on the yoke, if need be, to plow the field, and not be stiff neck about it. The universe wasn’t created just so we could be happy.

Prayer is like for a child asking mom and dad for a toy. Chatting is more like one becoming an adult. Humanity should know better by now. As civilization we’re past our childhood stage, our teen-age ages, we’re now young adults and it’s high time we started acting like such.

Faith and practice

Christianity orthodoxy and Judaism orthopraxis. Thoughts-S / Doxa-D values-R Praxis-P.

The advantage of the Faith approach is that you have only the present to worry about, the past is no longer an issue, and the future is already taken care of.

Faith saves. But can a person alone be saved? But aren’t we part of a greater whole? Will faith then save the person and Messianism save humanity?

The problem I see with “have faith and be saved” and “have faith and Messianism will save us all”, is that in the meantime things continue broken and people suffering. In any case, what is the fate of the faithless? Meanwhile, we’re just sitting on our hands while the faithful and faithless suffer in this life till kingdom come.

Wishes

If you were to ask me what my triad wishes are, I would reply to harness the triad-PRD of Religion-D Philosophy-R Science-P into Teaching-S/. Or alternatively as Wisdom-D Knowledge-R Understanding-P as Creativity-S/, or Wisdom-D Enlightenment-R Erudism-P / into Revelation-S/. You get the idea of the table of equivalences.

Meaning in Hellenism and M&M

Things in the Age of Enlightened Reason of Hellenism are like in Genesis 1:2-3

Genesis 1:2-3

1:2 Veha’áretz haytha. And the earth was.

וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י תְה֑וֹם וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מְרַחֶ֖פֶת עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַמָּֽיִם׃

Veha’áretz haytha tóhu vavóhu, vechóshekh al peney tehom; verúach Elohim, merachéfeth al peney hammáyim:

And the earth was crisis and chaos, with darkness, over the surface of the deep; and a wind from God, sweeping over the water:

1:3 Vayyómer Elohim. And said God.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר׃

Vayyómer Elohim, Yehi ‘or; veyehi ‘or:

God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Comment: This regrettable state of things in modernity is evident in the lack of meaning in life that seems to be prevalent. The belief is that the only way to find meaning in life is by embracing Messianism and Mysticism.

Star of David and Shield of Salomon

Triad and Ellipse come from Star of David and Shield of Salomon, respectively.

The Ellipse is the Shield of Salomon. The Triad is the Star of David.

The Main Triad unfolds as Triad of triads, which makes four right triangles. The Star of David is made of two isosceles triangles which are made up in turn of two right triangles, making four triads of PaRaDiSe.

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The Claim and the Charge

Following the previous thought of Israel being a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. The claim is that Israel is the Chosen People, and the charge is to observe the Commandment One.

Deuteronomy 7:6 The Claim.

7:6 Ki ‘am kadosh. For a people holy you are.

כִּ֣י עַ֤ם קָדוֹשׁ֙ אַתָּ֔ה לַיהֹוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּךָ֞ בָּחַ֣ר ׀ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ לִהְי֥וֹת לוֹ֙ לְעַ֣ם סְגֻלָּ֔ה מִכֹּל֙ הָֽעַמִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה׃

For a people consecrated you are, to YHVH your God; in you did He choose YHVH your God to be for Him a people treasured, of all the peoples on the face of the earth:

Deuteronomy 7:11 The Charge.

7:11 Veshamarta ’eth hammitzvah. And observe chatting with The Commandment.

וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֨ אֶת־הַמִּצְוָ֜ה וְאֶת־הַֽחֻקִּ֣ים וְאֶת־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֧י מְצַוְּךָ֛ הַיּ֖וֹם לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם׃

Observe chatting with The Commandment, and chatting with the laws, and chatting with the rules, with which I command you today to perform them:

Comment: From Western tradition there’s the moral precept of noblesse oblige, that to those more fortunate more is demanded. This is ordinarily understood as giving charity. While there is definitely nothing wrong with giving charity, but in the Responsa issues arise when a person of dubious character gives to charity and requests his name be added to it. This matter is anecdotal, but the core is whether Israel should be leading in any way or form. This comes to the fore within our proposal of founding the new era on Israel, and only then on Greece. You cannot lead from behind, other than in a symbolic manner. We’ve seen that leading with Messianism and Mysticism didn’t do much to alleviate Crisis as usual. 

Our thesis is that the Commandment One is clearly the sign at Genesis 1:1a/alef which happens to be the point origin tip of the guiding thread of PaRaDiSe.

Names matter: Israel and Jacob

During the Creation Story God requests that HaAdam the Adam (הָֽאָדָם) name all the animals in the Garden.

Genesis 2:19

2:19 Vayyitzer YHVH Elohim. And formed YHVH God.

וַיִּ֩צֶר֩ יְהֹוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים מִן־הָֽאֲדָמָ֗ה כׇּל־חַיַּ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ וְאֵת֙ כׇּל־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וַיָּבֵא֙ אֶל־הָ֣אָדָ֔ם לִרְא֖וֹת מַה־יִּקְרָא־ל֑וֹ וְכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִקְרָא־ל֧וֹ הָֽאָדָ֛ם נֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּ֖ה ה֥וּא שְׁמֽוֹ׃

And YHVH God formed out of the earth all the wild beasts and all the birds of the sky, and brought them to the Human to see what he would call them; and whatever the Human called each living creature, that would be its name:

Comment: Are names just arbitrary convention. Would it even matter if HaAdam had named the giraffe by the name lion, or the lion named giraffe? This takes us to the notion of Hebrew being a holy language. Not like English or Spanish with letters signifying sounds and not much more. Not so with Hebrew, the letters signify numbers and have meaning and there’s the math of gematria.

Jacob’s name was changed to Israel for the reason already cited. But at the national level today, there are many countries whose names are confusing. Take for instance Mexican United States for Mexico, as aligned in its time with the United States of American. Would it matter if it aligned its name accordingly? And the same for other countries too numerous to mention whose official name is different from the name used on maps. My impression is that names matter, starting with naming one’s children, and nicknames, and so on.

Comment: The topic in this section is the name given to Israel, as a people. There are various choices out there. In the Prophets various names are employed. In the Torah it’s basically Beney Israel Children of Israel (). In the Prophets, in the southern kingdom it’s Israelites, Judeans, and at one-point Jews. The northern kingdom was Efraim. As we saw above the name of Jacob was changed to Israel for a reason, and nowhere are the subjects called Children of Jacob.

Israel is Yis-ra-El (יִשְׂ-רָ-אֵל), one who fought with God and with men and prevailed as in Genesis 32:28. Jacob and Israel are like different octaves of the same person. Jacob was tricky whereas Israel was exemplary, all proportions kept human very human still. Something along the lines of Israel Betzélem and Jacob Demuth.

Genesis 32:28

32:28 Vayyómer ’elayo. And said to him.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו מַה־שְּׁמֶ֑ךָ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר יַעֲקֹֽב׃

And said to him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Jacob.”

Comment: The angel requests Jacob what was his name.

32:29

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לֹ֤א יַעֲקֹב֙ יֵאָמֵ֥ר עוֹד֙ שִׁמְךָ֔ כִּ֖י אִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּֽי־שָׂרִ֧יתָ עִם־אֱלֹהִ֛ים וְעִם־אֲנָשִׁ֖ים וַתּוּכָֽל׃

Said he, “Not Jacob, shall be said anymore to be your name, but Israel; for you have struggled with the Divine and with men, and you have prevailed”:

Comment: Is-ra-el Yis-ra-El (יִשְׂ-רָ-אֵל). Struggles with God is chatting with God and dialoguing with men.

We saw before that Israel stands for. But what does Yehudi Jew (יהוּדִ֥י)  stand for in Jeremiah 32:9? Well, Ye-hu-di Jew (י-הו-די) is yod y (10), heh h (5), vav v (6), dalet d (4), yod y (10). This adds up to eight (8). (10+5+6+4+10= 35=>8) The number eight (8) stands for the letter het h (ח) and means tent wall, divide, half. On the other hand, Yis-ra-El Israel (יש-ר-אל) is yod y (10), shin sh (300), rah r (200), alef a (1), lammed l (30). This adds to one (1) which stands for the letter alef one (א) meaning head. (10+300+200+1+30=541=>9+1=>10=>1)

My sense in this brief math exercise is that Israel can lead, forward whereas Yehudi stands divided. But does it really matter? Yes, it does matter, and quite a bit. This aligns with the charge spelled out in Exodus 19:6 of Israel being a “kingdom of priests and a holy nation”. Can a house divided even stand, much less amount to much?

Comment: The name Yehudi Jew (יהוּדִ֥י) is rabbinic, the name Yisrael Israel (יִשְׂרָאֵל) is biblical. One is made up all the while the other is revealed. I’ll leave it there for you to conclude.

Blessing unto the world

Humanity receives blessing through Abraham.

Genesis 12:1-3

12:1

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהֹוָה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם לֶךְ־לְךָ֛ מֵאַרְצְךָ֥ וּמִמּֽוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖ וּמִבֵּ֣ית אָבִ֑יךָ אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַרְאֶֽךָּ׃

 And said YHVH to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house; to the land that I will show you”:

12:2 Ve’e‘eskha legoyi. And I will make you a great nation.

וְאֶֽעֶשְׂךָ֙ לְג֣וֹי גָּד֔וֹל וַאֲבָ֣רֶכְךָ֔ וַאֲגַדְּלָ֖ה שְׁמֶ֑ךָ וֶהְיֵ֖ה בְּרָכָֽה׃

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you shall be a blessing:

Comment: This is where God lets Abraham known what He has in store for him.

12:3 Ve’avarkhah mebarkheykha. And I will bless those who bless you.

וַאֲבָֽרְכָה֙ מְבָ֣רְכֶ֔יךָ וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ֖ אָאֹ֑ר וְנִבְרְכ֣וּ בְךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הָאֲדָמָֽה׃

I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and all the families of the earth, shall bless themselves by you:”

Comment: There is mention of families of the earth, or civilization proper. No mention is made of religion as such, separate from nation.

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Learn by heart not script

Let’s now see what the Torah says regarding learning things.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

6:6 Vehayu haddevarim. And take the instructions.

וְהָי֞וּ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֧י מְצַוְּךָ֛ הַיּ֖וֹם עַל־לְבָבֶֽךָ׃

Take instructions these, with which I charge you this day, to heart:

Comment: It states to learn them by heart not to script them. They are not meant for acting them for living them.

6:7 Veshinantam lebaneykha. And impress them on your children.

וְשִׁנַּנְתָּ֣ם לְבָנֶ֔יךָ וְדִבַּרְתָּ֖ בָּ֑ם בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ֤ בְּבֵיתֶ֙ךָ֙ וּבְלֶכְתְּךָ֣ בַדֶּ֔רֶךְ וּֽבְשׇׁכְבְּךָ֖ וּבְקוּמֶֽךָ׃

And impress them upon your children, and you shall speak of them; when you stay at home, and when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up:

Comment: It states to publicize them, not to keep them to yourselves. Family and outside to the public. As your ministry. Leadership is expected of each of us. By exerting ourselves it brings out the leadership in us.

The things you find hateful, there you’ve found an obligation.

Israelism and PaRaDiSism

Is-ra-el/ ism and Pa-Ra-Di/iSm. There is a one-to-one correspondence between Israelism and PaRaDiSism.

Bléssed or Blessed or Holy is God?

This is a concern of mine insofar as Spanish speaker. Blessings are what God gives humanity. God also wants us to be holy as He is Holy. In Spanish Bendito eres Holy you are, and Bendecido eres, blessed you are, are not the same thing.Like in the prayer Baruch attah Adonai. Blessed are you Adonai. In following is my understanding of things. This kind of things keep me up at night, and I wouldn’t mind improving my sleep. Allow me to quote from the Prophets, since prayer is rabbinical as we’ve just proved. I will abbreviate.

Isaiah 6:3

6:3 Vekara’ zeh ’el zeh. And said one to the other.

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

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

Comment: YHVH-S /Hosts/ Holy-D Holy-R Holy-P.

Ezequiel 3:12

3:12 Baruch kebodah YHVH. Blessed is the presence of God.

וַתִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִי ר֔וּחַ וָאֶשְׁמַ֣ע אַחֲרַ֔י ק֖וֹל רַ֣עַשׁ גָּד֑וֹל בָּר֥וּךְ כְּבוֹד־יְהֹוָ֖ה מִמְּקוֹמֽוֹ׃

Then a spirit carried me away, and behind me I heard a great roaring sound: “Blessed is the Presence of YHVH, in His place”:

Comment: What is blessed, or bléssed, is the presence of YHVH.

This settles the matter, for us who are bewildered with shortcuts. The prayer is really translated as “Baruch attah kevod Adonai, Blessed is the presence of YHVH, and not Blessed are you YHVH. Or else, “attah you” are understood in place of “your presence”. That is, either Baruch attah Adonay Blessed are You Adonay, or else Kadosh Adonay Holy Adonai, and so on.

In simpler terms, this is alternatively explained by the use of the comma. Like in “Let’s eat children” and “Let’s eat, children”.

Conclusion

Modernity is Greece in the big picture, and Rabbinism is Israel in the small picture. They are consorts. If one prospers the other prospers. But unfortunately also if one falls the other falls as well. They are like flipsides of the same coin. So, where do we go from here? That is the guiding question in the next episode.

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