Archive for December, 2006
REBBEGOD ON SADDAM
By the grace of G-d
Sadam is dead – another prophecy fulfilled
On Shabbos Parshas Bo Nun-Aleph (January 1991) the Rebbe King Moshiach Shlit”a spoke of the destruction of Bavel (Babylon, Iraq), “May it be the will of Hashem that the nations of the world will continue to destroy and destroy, until the true victory”. At that time the Rebbe instructed not to widely publicize the Sicha, for “the time will yet come”….
The whole Sicha and other articles on this subject can be found here
Iraqi authorities hung the former dictator just before dawn on Shabbos after he was convicted in a months-long trial of being responsible for the 1982 killing of 142 men and boys in the town of Dujail. Saddam led his country into multiple conflicts that cost over a million lives. He launched 39 Scud missiles on Israel unprovoked during the 1991 Persian Gulf War and financed Palestinian terrorist groups among other things.
PS.It’s interesting to note that the war in Iraq started on the 16th of Adar 5763 the day exactly 12 years after the Rebbe King Messiah spoke about the future victory of America in it’s war against “Basra” (Iraq) like it says in Isaiah 63 “Who is that coming from Edom in crimsoned garments from Basra etc.”)(majority of war casualties on our side primarily among the British soldier were in Basra specifically ) . Sadam was captured on 19th of Kislev (Chassidic new year
- day of liberation from prison of the 1st Rebbe of Chabad ) he was brought before the judge the 1st time on 12th of Tamuz the birthday and the day of liberation of the 6th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch (the father in law of the Rebbe King Moshiach) from the Soviet internal exile in 1927 and his final appeal was denied on 5th of Teves known as “didan notzach” – we won the day celebrated by Chabad Chassidim since 1987 when the federal court found that priceless books stolen from Chabad library by a relative of the Previous Rebbe of blessed memory who claimed they belong to him as part inheritance belong to all the Chassidim and must be returned to Agudas Chassidei Chabad.
And finally Sadam was executed by hanging this Shabbat 9th of Tevet the day preceding the 10th of Teves the start of the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonian emperor king Nevuhadnetzer that led to the destruction of the 1st temple of Somomon and the 70 year old Babylonian exile.
PPS. There are those who don’t fast on his day as the Rebbe King Messiah said in 1991 that Rabbis should decree that these fasts no longer apply since Messiah is finally here and we are in the process of redemption when as the sages teach these 4 fasts associated with the destruction of the temples shall be turned into days of rejoicing.
May we soon see the rebuilding of the holy temple in Jerusalem with complete and final redemption when all nations will serve G-d in one accord.
With respect and blessing.
Rabbi Ariel Sokolovsky
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Moshiach Info Center,
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22 comments December 31, 2006
year 2200
Rachmanalitzlan said: in year 2020 the aitiastim will be much more then it use to be its grownig and grownig more and more and in year 2200 there will be no more belivers you walk on the street you will be a shame if you a beliver , gay people will be the must even stright men will try to become gay, Chasidim or Misnogdim will be only 1 comunity in the stats 2 in isreal in the UK there will be no more religen thay beginig alredy todat and in year2100 thay not ganna let in religen people , even ortodoks people (said rachmanalitzlan) thay not any more religess thay only keaping traiditionl things not even 1 dame thing for god , for god thay say , IF THERE IS A GOD LET HIM PROOFIT , “rachmanalitzlan how can we let it hepen” , we just got a phone call from Chine from one of my people he said over here there is no more religen but the chasidim here trying to keapet in a very qeiyit way thay just got bustet by the F U R(fuck up religen) so thay movet to the undergrount side of Chine thay say IT WAS MORE SAVE FOR GAY PEOPLE iN THE 90IS THEN RELIGEN HERE, a big rabby in isreal just gave a coment saing no body belivs thay only WANNA to belive , … do you remeber the MAMAD AR SINEI (when god gave the 10 coments on mount seina)? if the ansowr is no thay say you A KOYFER BAEKER(not a beliver) , so at the and of the day no body remembers so no body belivs dont try to fool your self by saing i belive get use to say i am A WANNA BELIVER there is no belivers NO MORE , RacmanaLISHAIZVON vishes you a heppy new year and we should all became WANNABELIVERS kol tuv
2 comments December 31, 2006
anarchist rabbi threatned by lubavitcher
Anonym hat gesagt…
re the ketores hasamim; we have already moisered you, so watch your step. youll be spending new years in jail
anarchistrabbi responds:
Anonymous Lubavitcher,
I know who you are, you psychotic fuck. Until we met last week, I didn’t know you personally and had no beef with you – only with your cult. YOU decided to start with me and my community; intimidating, harrassing, and threatening innocent people who have done you no wrong. YOU have made this personal.
I shall give you some good-hearted advice. DON’T FUCK WITH ME! I FUCK BACK!
I hate having to have to descend to your level; but you are intimidating, threatening, and harassing people who have done you no harm. Why? Because you have some sort of personal vendetta? Because you gain some sort of religious high from destroying people’s lives?
Listen up and listen well: I have a lot of dirt on you and your entire extended family. I know all about your nepotism, bribery, and politrickal string-pulling. I will go public with the information unless you back off immediately.
…With love for all, and piss in your kasha.
71 comments December 31, 2006
DONMEH WEST Neo-Sabbatian Quote of the Day
B”H
“In the Neo-Sabbatian blessing one says over a forbidden act, there is a difference between whether one ends it with the Hebrew word assurim or issurim. ‘Assurim’ deals with ’setting captives free,’ while ‘issurim’ deals with ‘making forbidden things permissible.’ Amirah used the latter when blessing the forbidden heleb (‘fat’). I, however, use them interchangeably, depending upon the kavonnah (‘mystical intention’) of the blessing.
“For example, when performing a ‘forbidden act’ for the Tikkun of releasing the Holy Sparks within it and raising them back to God, using assurim, ’setting captives free,’ seems more appropriate than issurim, ‘making forbidden things permissible.’
“It is, after all, the act of liberating the Spark of Holiness from its klippah (‘evil shell’) of sin that is more important than the performance of the sin itself. Thus, for the Tikkun of Repairing God, it would seem to be more appropriate to bless the act of liberation than to bless the act of sin.
“Remember, this is NEO-Sabbatian Kabbalah we teach and practice and, therefore, cannot be looked at from the perspectives of either Orthodox Judaism or even ‘Orthodox’ Sabbatianism. To be bold about it, Amirah may have ‘made the forbidden things permissible,’ but we ’set the captives free.’”
2 comments December 31, 2006
…Or Is It Spiritual Abuse?
Have you been a victim of spiritual abuse? (I have modified the text to make it less Christian-centric):
Some writers conceptualize a set of discernible characteristics of spiritual abuse. Ronald Enroth in Churches That Abuse identifies five categories:
1. Authority and Power – abusive (institutions) misuse and distort the concept of spiritual authority. Abuse arises when leaders of a…group arrogate to themselves power and authority that lacks the dynamics of open accountability and the capacity to question or challenge decisions made by leaders. The shift entails moving from general respect for an office bearer to one where members loyally submit without any right to dissent.
2. Manipulation and Control – abusive (institutions) are characterized by social dynamics where fear, guilt, and threats are routinely used to produce unquestioning obedience, group conformity, and stringent tests of loyalty to the leaders are demonstrated before the group. Biblical concepts of the leader-disciple relationship tend to develop into a hierarchy where the leader’s decisions control and usurp the disciple’s right or capacity to make choices on spiritual matters or even in daily routines of what form of employment, form of diet and clothing are permitted.
3. Elitism and Persecution – abusive (institutions) depict themselves as unique in God’s plans and have a strong organizational tendency to be separate from other…bodies and institutions. The social dynamism of the group involves being independent or separate, with diminishing possibilities for internal correction and reflection. Outside criticism and evaluation is dismissed as the disruptive efforts of evil people seeking to hinder or thwart God’s plans.
4. Life-style and Experience – abusive (institutions) foster rigidity in behaviour and in belief that requires unswerving conformity to the group’s ideals and social mores.
5. Dissent and Discipline – abusive (institutions) tend to suppress any kind of internal challenges and dissent concerning decisions made by leaders. Acts of discipline may involve emotional and physical humiliation, physical violence or deprivation, acute and intense acts of punishment for dissent and disobedience.
The previous post included, many posts I have noticed here on “the Cow” have had one sentiment in common. “Screw you, O charedi world, with all of your monochrome legislation, I am angry.” How much of that is the voice of a victim of spiritual abuse?
Spiritual abuse is not necessarily manifested as physical or sexual abuse. This is psycho-emotional abuse inflicted on the spiritual psyche, and lambasting groups of people and angry screaming does not stop the abuse. Only increasing visibility and mobilizing victims to recognize the fact they are being abused does that.
Many times, spiritual abuse is passed off in the religious community as being “normal” or “expected”, leaving the victim to curse their community or their religion, never realizing “I was just abused by institution X”. Placing the blame on Judaism, Orthodoxy, etc. effectively takes the blame off of the abuser. If you have been spiritually abused, or know of an abusive institution which creates said abusive environment, please comment here.
Y-LOVE with a public service announcement on an emerging field which needs to be examined in-depth…
16 comments December 31, 2006
peyote panoptic
midday. tropic sun in a sizzlin skull.
ungus infectoroomus up the mayan trep, terippin,
pyramiding to that oculus all-no-knowing – the back of your bill – green too, goes without saying – & other colors too (blood – on the stabbed backs of 4 matadored burros, ¨ole! ole!¨-) &
beyond the spec. aspaklariya hameire scoping
palenque poet at mayan rave: ¨hey, on top of chiapas, everyone{s an artist, everything{s art.¨
appeared, in medias res,
chasidishe mame-gantzl rhymes
omar reb layzr, mdarf koyfn gleyzr,
omar reb nixen, mdarf es fixin.
khazak khazak vniskhazeyk,
my mother baked a chocolate cake,
and in the cake there was a lake,
and in the lake there wa a fish,
and in the fish there was a…HAHAHAHA
-islamoyid
4 comments December 30, 2006
‘On the Secular new year’
When Jews tell me ‘Happy New Year,’ I respond with “It’s not my new year–or yours.” They laugh. “Oh, are you trying to make a dati/frumm statement?” Actually no. It’s deeper than that…
A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar in
New Orleans with some friends for New Year’s Eve. At about 11:50pm, I fell over and couldn’t breathe and didn’t know why. It turns out that I was hit by a stray bullet shot from 5-7 miles away, shot up in the air, in “celebration” of the new year, by some stranger who would never know that he or she almost ended my life. Luckily, thank GD, emergency surgery saved me and I did wake up on January 1st , in the hospital ICU, Intensive Care Unit. What was a nice Jewish girl like me who studied well, served on student council, did mitzvahs, and believed in peace doing with a bullet in her stomach? How in the world could this be?!
Hospital staff told my family and I that actually this happens every year on December 31st. There are many cities that have a problem with people shooting guns up in the air to “celebrate the new year,” only apparently, many people don’t know that what goes up, must come down. What kind of “celebration” is it anyway, if it ends your life?
At first I denied that anything had changed. I went back to the university and tried to keep everything the same. But nothing would ever be the same again. The shooting had opened my eyes in a new way, changed my perspective on the world. Suddenly, I learned that “safety” did not exist, the physical world seemed like a big illusion, or trick. All I could count on was/is Spirit; everything else could disappear. I was angry and depressed for many years afterwards, trying to figure out ‘Why me?’ ‘What’s the meaning in suffering?’ ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ and ‘How could people be so clueless and careless about the value of human life?’ Job had asked many of the same questions. Over time, my anger has turned to an insatiable hunger for living life to its fullest, to breathing, speaking, creating art, laughing, singing songs on Shabbas for the sake of seizing the moment because who knows when we’ll move on to another realm. I have to say, in spite of the pain, part of me is also grateful for having a peak at worlds beyond the physical, at the grey spaces between near-death and still alive, at the worlds where you have to close your eyes in order to see.
If I had to choose one lesson to tell the world about this experience, I’d say ‘Every action has a reaction, even when we can’t see it with the human eye.’ The person who shot the gun has no idea how much pain & tzurras he caused me and my family. If you think you’re just living in “your world,” with “your box,” minding “your business.” Think again. All is One. Echad. We are inter-connected, affecting each other more than we know. Please, dear hippalas (hippy Yids) who are reading this and to all, let’s do our part to wake up to a greater consciousness and spread it. Blessings for health, happiness, love, and life balance.
p.s. Don’t be pressured to think you have to celebrate big for dec 31st. celebrate your life in some authentic way & it just may help lift up all the tzurras that’s happening in the world that night.
-Orah Chai
13 comments December 29, 2006
dmt
Art Bell was on last night with a guy from England, whose name was Graham Hancock.
He has a new book out, Supernatural, which was published Oct 06. I think it is very important book. Will try to get it.
It deals with need for new mindset and new religion. He (Graham) was very encouraged that US supreme court ruled recently to allow iawaska (sp, South American vine, reference by William Burroughs, and many others) religious use in ritual religious services, based on shamanistic tradition in Amazon, S.A. (Brazil area) which has DMT in it; and opens mind to spiritual dimensions via activation of pineal gland portal of consciousness.
-arkait
1 comment December 29, 2006
Dreams about the men in my life
Dream:
I went to some new age woman for some kind of psychological help. Wrote her a check. She said something critical about me and about money. I said “if you’re going to insult me, don’t take my check.” grabbed it back.
I felt a little bit guilty and went over it in my mind, but stuck to my guns. “She’s giving me the wrong kind of help, it’s not lifting me up but bringing me down.”
I began to pack up my stuff but kept losing the check, but eventually found it. but all along, kept on planning in my head about going to the bank, cancelling the check, etc.
packed up all my stuff, and she was all nice and friendly. I can’t remember exactly how now. She offered my some kind of practical help which was useful and accepted but I don’t remember the details.
I think I was joined by someone else at this time, but I don’t remember exactly.
On our way home we were accosted by some homeless man asking for money to get to a certain vacation spot, the only place he had ever known real happiness. I thought about it but refused, feeling very bad.
The psychological woman is Na”n for sure, and I am trying to get my “check” back- my self esteem and confidence, my own perspective.
I don’t know if the homeless man symbolizes anyone, or if he is Hummus. As far as I know I’m not seeing Hummus out of pity, maybe initially but not anymore. I saw him as a nebech but not anymore. L’hefech I’m using him- as a present rebounder and future sperm donor. But I may eventually decide the “cost” is too high to go on “vacation” with him. Even a life in rural Thailand or wherever.
Neshama Carlebach has a story about her father- after giving a concert to a load of truckdrivers, he was asked, did you ever dream you would be here? No because god doesn’t fulfill my dreams, where God brings me is even better than my dreams Hummus is better then my best sex drive dream
-sarimonya
3 comments December 29, 2006
tommy lapid: there’ll never be peace
Drop this cherished illusion
By Yosef (Tommy) Lapid
Does anyone really think it is possible to reach a settlement with the Palestinians that will guarantee peace between us?
I can understand that there are those who believe it may be possible to reach a settlement. And I can understand that there are those who hope it is possible to reach a settlement. But does anyone really think it is possible to make peace with the Palestinians – I mean, really think so?
How can one not see the rift among them, their inability to administer their own lives, Fatah’s helplessness, Hamas’s abysmal hatred, the murderousness of the popular resistance organizations, the destructive influence of radical Islam, the interference of Iran and the belief – so deeply rooted in almost every Arab heart – that, sooner or later, Israel will disappear off the map?
How can anyone see all that and still think there is a chance for a peace settlement? Or that all the different Palestinian factions, so hostile not only to us but to each other, will somehow find a way to cooperate in order to reach a settlement with Israel?
EVEN IF Israel agreed to withdraw to the 1967 borders (and it doesn’t); even if Israel agreed to allow the refugees to return to Israel within the 1967 borders (and it doesn’t); would Hamas ever recognize the right of a Jewish state to exist in the heart of the Muslim Middle East?
After all, Hamas’s entire raison d’etre is founded on its refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist. Its members would sooner convert to Judaism than relinquish that principle.
True, anything is possible. But not in the foreseeable future. Not in this generation. And if not the Palestinians, then radical Islam will make sure there is no peace agreement with Israel.
Iran on one side and al-Qaida on the other are threatening not only Israel, but the regimes in Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt as well. Israel isn’t even their first target, it is their last.
WHAT SHOULD we conclude from all this? That the time has come to emigrate from Israel? Maybe give in to the Arabs’ demands? Perhaps put an end to the Zionist enterprise and close up shop?
Never. Israel will continue to exist and flourish, as it has existed and flourished since the establishment of the state, thanks, among other reasons, to the Arab boycott, which forced it to export computer software to America and Europe instead of making plastic toys for the market in Damascus. (Did any of us ever imagine that the shekel might one day become stronger than the dollar, or that we would export more than we import?)
Yet, while the leaders of the Islamic countries have not accepted Israel’s existence in principle, they have accepted it in fact – and only because they know they cannot wipe Israel off the map without themselves being wiped off as well.
And that, rather than any pie-in-the-sky, illusory hope for the brotherhood of nations, is the basis for the relationship between us. In the entire Muslim world, numbering over a billion people, one would be hard-pressed to find even a dozen willing to stand up and justify Israel’s existence.
THIS DOES not mean we should forget about striving for peace. We must behave as if we believed that it was possible to achieve a peace settlement. Why? Because if we do not strive for peace, the result will be war. And we do not want war.
But even as we strive for peace, even if we follow the road map, we mustn’t delude ourselves. We won’t arrive at peace, not here.
But it may be possible to reach a modus vivendi, a balance of terror and a balance of mutual interests that will enable us to lead our lives more or less normally. And not just for a year or two, but for generations.
If we foster no illusions, we won’t be disappointed.
6 comments December 28, 2006
Marijuana Ranks As Top US Cash Crop
Washington, DC: Cannabis is the largest cash crop in the United States, outpacing the production of corn and wheat combined, according to an economic analysis released this week.
According to the study, “Marijuana Production in the United States, 2006,” domestic marijuana production has increased ten-fold in the past 25 years from 1,000 metric tons ( 2.2 million pounds) to 10,000 metric tons (22 million pounds) and now has an estimated annual value of $36 billion.
“Despite their best efforts, the [government] has been unable to curtail the growth of domestic marijuana cultivation in the United States, let alone make any progress toward suppressing, abolishing, or eliminating this market phenomenon,” the report states. “The focus for public policy should be how to effectively control this market through regulation and taxation in order to achieve immediate and realistic goals, such as reducing teenage access, rather than to continue to sacrifice achievable goals in exchange for unachievable long-term goals that have failed to materialize over the last 25 years.”
According to the report, marijuana cultivation in California is responsible for more than a third of all US pot production.
Cannabis ranks as the top cash crop in twelve states and is worth more than $1 billion annually in five states: California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii, and Washington.
A 1998 NORML report estimated the value of domestic marijuana production at that time at approximately $25 billion.
For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500. Full text of the report, “Marijuana Production in the United States, 2006,” is available online at drugscience.org.
1 comment December 28, 2006
LATEST LIVE TALK BY REB YAKOV LEIB
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Left Behind Video Game
The Left Behind video game encourages you to celebrate the birth of Jesus by wasting dozens of people at a time, using a variety of Christ-sanctioned weapons.
Left Behind: Eternal Forces allows you to command the tribulation force, uncover the truth about worldwide disappearances, and save as many people as possible from the antichrist.
Lead the Tribulation Force from the book series, including Rayford, Chloe, Buck and Bruce against Nicolae Carpathia — the antichrist.
Defend yourselves from the forces of the antichrist. Engage in physical and spiritual warfare!
Use Prayer and Special Abilities to boost the Spirit of your forces! Command over 30 unit types through dozens of missions and online player action!
Defend against the spiritual influences and physical warfare of the antichrist’s army through the power of prayer and worship!
– Left Behind: Eternal Forces game synopsis
If you haven’t bought it already, I strongly advise everyone reading this to log on to leftbehind.com and buy the game. It is the perfect American holiday gift. Celebrate the birth of Jesus by wasting dozens of people at a time, using a provocative variety of Christ-sanctioned weapons! You can even operate tanks to destroy whole areas of New York City! Who knows, you might even get to kill Ethan Hawke (“slumming” in a ball cap and dirty jeans) in a Marxist bookstore-coffeeshop on 8th street! Kill, kill, kill!
Merry Christmas, America.
Watch the video trailer HERE.
Continued HERE
– Matt Taibbi, alternet
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Disclaimer
I hereby submit that from this point forward all Sifrei Halocha, Mussar, Kabbala, Chassidis, etc…. have a bright yellow sticker stating the following “Please be aware as you study this book that the person who wrote this lived and died a very long time ago. He never saw the internet, television, St. Marks St., digital photography, mass media, weapons of mass destruction, or McDonalds. The odds of him knowing or writing anyting relevant to your daily existence are, statistically speaking, slim to none. For future reference, please use Google and Wikipedia, like all the normal people. Books are dead anyway.”
-Na Nach Nachma Nachmanhuechad
6 comments December 27, 2006
I Wish…..
That the Alter Rebbe had followed his true calling and just left Mezeritch for Vilna, like he wanted to. I think it is that one impure moment of indecision that created all the klippah of chabad- the arrogance, the condesension, the narcissism, the inability to listen to others or accept any truth but Shneur Zalmans’. If it wasn’t for your Mitzvah Tanks’, vodka, and hot daughters/sisters, I’d say the helll with the whole lot of you.
13 comments December 27, 2006