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Send Gay-Rod to Cali

leah kleim sets california on fire

just got off the phone with la leah. she and her shliach family were forced to evacuate san diego so she and the family are staying by heshi in LA. true. i could not make this shit up. i see a network of holy losers crisscrossing the globe who can offer you nothing but their company and the backwash from the bottom of a bottle of georgi . the only problem is that heshi’s staying in some mansion with a walk-in freezer but besides that it’s perfect.

-shitalphin

Mean eyes fear Goyim

from A simple Jew

Yossele Kvetch comenting on RNachman and Don Ross

“It is a mean eye that causes one to see only ugliness and impurity in everything beyond the bounds of Israel, the unique nation. This is one of the most awful, debased forms of darkness. It damages the entire edifice of spiritual virtue, the light of which every spiritual soul seeks.”

Says Rav Kook [Mishnato shel HaRav Kook]:”

This piece is followed by comments, pilpuling about the mystery of when a voice in music is safe, differentianting between “vulgar” lyricked music and ye olde classickal music of yore, and the divine right of Rebbes to steal particular songs from the gentiles for purposes of defeating them, an old chassidic trick. Missing the point? It’s a good question: What’s safe and good to inhale from the host culture, and what’s not? Should we buy the kids I-pods? Cable? Pornography? What’s a wise filter? Because I meet modern Orthodox kids from all around, who have been lameified by their host neighborhoods and medias into shallow, petty standards of cool. Is this prevenatable? How can we filter a culture to get only the good?

—Yo

TASTES SO GOOD

RYAN GARKO, DRINK THIS:

 

Another one bites the dust.

Well thanks to all the money and power in the world. This one couldn’t be stopped.

I recived the news this morning that one of my old friends. Finaly killed herself.

She was found dead in her apt yesterday morning. She overdosed.

Why was a known drug addict and extremely suicidal young girl living in an apt by herself several blocks away from her family?

Because G-d forbid she would effect the other (frum) children in her family.

Welcome to reality.

This is a big ol FUCK YOU to her parents!!

-Shmutzi

I HAVE NO SHAME

this is from the top of my gmail page:

Funny Quote of the Day – Willem de Kooning – “The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.”

 

-shitalphin

while we were sleeping

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The Besht’s Cave

On Shamanism in the Carpathian Mountains

(An excerpt from Idel’s Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism, Chapter 4)

The techniques of the Besht at this time, according to his epistle, were related explicitly to ascents of the soul. In the Yiddish version of the legend that is quoted above, the Besht’s utter concentration of thought is described as beign out of this world. Shuch ecstatic or trance-like experiences were related to a certain way of life: hitbodedut and hanhagah on the one hand, and a certain type of Yihudim on the other. The hanhagah, or the regimen vitae, of the Besht is mentioned in a book by his acquaintance, Rabbi Meir Margoliot, as if it were an articulated issue. I propose that these mystical practices can be traced to earlier Jewish sources, but the Besht’s emphasis on the ascent on high and on mystical states of consciousness deserve further consideration. The first-person account of the ascent of the soul is a relatively rare phenomenon in Jewish mysticism; a confession that contains not only the names of the person but also the precise date is uncharacteristic of the reports on ascensions with which I am familiar before the time of the Besht.

Interestingly enough, ecstatic practices in which the soul is describes as leaving the body for several hours, during which oracular dreams were experienced, were known on the Moldavian side of the Carpathian Mountains. Though this is indubitably a very ancient Eurasian practice (as analyzed by Carlo Ginzburg), it may be relevant for our discussion to highlight evidence concerning the practice in region of Bacau around the year 1648 as related by a Catholic friar, Marcus Bandinus. The author mentions the incantatores, a term reminiscent of the term “incantation” used in the quote from the Besht’s epistle above. Indeed , the Hebrew expression for performing an incantation for the ascent of the soul, hashba’at aliyyat neshamah, is absent from all Jewish literature prior to the Besht. While ancient ecstatic practices generally were not received positively in Christian Europe, in this particular area alone the incantatores and incantatrices were highly regarded and, according to Bandinus’s formulations, were considered to be similar to the doctores subtilissimi et sanctissimi in Italy. Moreover, ecstatic practices were not restricted to the few but were open to everyone. The assumption is that this was not a Rumanian practice but one brought from Asia by a tribe of Magyars, known as Czangos, who stopped in the Moldavian Carpathians.

Thus, less than a century before the revelation of the Besht, in the immediate vicinity of the place where the founder of Hasidism spent his time in solitude, ecstatic practices similar to his ascent to heaven were known and preformed by Gentiles. These practices have nothing to do with Jewish sources but stem from Eurasian religious heritage. However, as I have pointed out in prior discussions, practices similar to those of the Besht are also apparent in earlier types of Jewish mysticism, some of which presumably were formulated in arias remote from the Eurasian zone. 

What therefore is the significance of the coexistence of similar practices in practically the same period and geographical area? There is no simple answer to the question. Detailed descriptions and analyses of Jewish mystical techniques have not yet been undertaken. A preliminary hypothesis is that, though the Besht’s and his contemporaries’ ascents of the soul caused a resurgence of a Jewish mystical practice that had been in existence for centuries according to literary sources, this practice experienced particular impetus precicly in the Carpathian region. In other words, one aspect of nascent Hasidism – the ascent of the soul – can be attributed to the consonance between Jewish mystical traditions found in much earlier sources as well as mystical-magical practices in vogue in the geographical area from which Hasidism emerged.    

 -atgate231

CHULENT DEATH THREAT

Anonymous said…

This above girl isn’t Leah, this is as u can see from the comment another dropout bitter soul who has gone away to the drugs and booze of the Chulent group.

those are unfournetly the dogs i represent to u, if u want to kill em all just go over to that chulent place in Manhattan and start shooting.

I hope Chaim Wertsberger will now dedicate all his talent to kill them becaouse he will not be the last if he goes away.

This is the only solution all those lubavitch shlichim who preach love and care, live in denial, every drug expert says if u fall once for the drugs u r trapped for life.

Leah may be the leader and the most voicful here but she has a whole well organized group behind here, i am now runig off but a gun if somebody has is now worth one dollar more than Hirsh paid, i pay for it now 50,001.

http://babyboiiluvu.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-gonna-happen.html

YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A CHULENT

SAME BAT TIME. SAME BAT PLACE.

PLUS!!!! DISCOUNT!!! JEWS SAVE MONEY!!! BARGAIN!!!
World Premier of Basya Schechter of Pharaoh’s Daughter musical
interpretation of selected poems from Abraham Joshua Heschel’s
diary—one of modern Judaism’s greatest spiritual authors—written
between 1927 and 1933 which appeared in Warsaw when Heschel was only
26 years old from his time living in Berlin. The show is a powerful
song cycle; mixing elements of Leonard Cohen meets Pharaoh’s Daughter
with the themes reflecting the foundations of Heschel’s
beliefs—struggles with radical spiritual striving to cure the world’s
ills. Musical direction Uri Sharlin, with Frank London – trumpet,
Megan Weeder – violin and Yoed Nir. – cello, basya schechter – guitar,
voice

The ticket cost is $30 but for those that could use a break there will
be a $20 Chulent discount (ticket cost $10) . These tickets can be
purchased Thursday night Oct. 18th at the Community Synagogue 325 E.
6th st. between 1st & 2nd Ave. (Please pass this along to those that
might be interested).

From Basya Schechter :

Want to let everyone know about a new special project that I’m
premiering on October 23rd, setting Heschel’s Yiddish poetry to music,
the evening is in concert with an incredibly powerful program from
Italy (See below) :

Ghetto Cabaret Diaries:
Tuesday October 23, 2007 8p.m.
The Concert Hall at New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street at Central Park West
Buy Tickets Now at:
http://www.oyhoo.com/shows/ghetto-cabaret-diaries

“Oy Vey” from Italy premieres “Diary of a Partisan”, Resistance songs
from the ghetto of Vilna/Vilius. The extraordinary diary of a Jewish
partisan, found within the confines of ghetto and moving to the
woodlands of Lithuania during the Nazi occupation. Songs and Music
with projection of historical photographs. Amerigo Fontaini, narrator,
Gabriela Soltz, Vocals, Daniele Poli, guitar, mandolin, bass, Ugo
Galasso, clarinet, Alessandro Moretti, accordion.

TO ALL THOSE WHO CAN’T AFFORD $10 – GET A FUCKING JOB!

Happiness overflows like a clogged toilet.

A list of failed Messiahs…. (from the time period ‘m looking at)

Talk amongst your selfs..
# Alexander the Great[1]
# Judas son of Hezekiah (Ezekias) (c. 4 BCE)
# Simon (c. 4 BCE)
# Athronges (c. 4-2? BCE)
# Honi the circle-maker
# Jesus
# Theudas (44-46) in the Roman province of Judea
# Menahem ben Judah partook in a revolt against Agrippa II in Judea
# Simon bar Kokhba (died c. 135), defeated in the Second Jewish-Roman War
# Moses of Crete (5th century)
# Isḥaḳ ben Ya’ḳub Obadiah Abu ‘Isa al-Isfahani of Ispahan lived in Persia during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (684-705).
# Yudghan, lived and taught in Persia in the early eighth century disciple of Isḥaḳ ben Ya’ḳub Obadiah Abu ‘Isa al-Isfahani of Ispahan
# Serene (Sherini, Sheria, Serenus, Zonoria, Saüra) (c. 720)
# David Alroy or Alrui (c. 1160)
# Abraham Abulafia (b. 1240)
# Nissim ben Abraham (c. 1295) active in Avila.
# Moses Botarel of Cisneros (c. 1413)
# Asher Kay (1502) a German near Venice.
# David Reubeni (early sixteenth century).
# Solomon Molcho (early sixteenth century).
# Hayim Vital (1542-1620)
# Sabbatai Zevi (alternative spellings: Shabbetai, Sabbetai, Shabbesai; Zvi, Tzvi) (1626-1676)
# Barukhia Russo (Osman Baba), successor of Sabbatai Zevi.

if you have anything to say about any of these guys in particular. let me know.

If you have anything to share let me know. you can also email me. I’m asking for intelligent opinions and views. Preferably ones that can be backed (by midrashim).

I’m currently in hiding, doing research for a paper. Boring myself to sleep. I want some more interesting facts, maybe text in English.
Come on, put those scholarly brains to work. Help a sister out.
You were all much help with the whole cholov yisroel thing.

Thanks,

-Shmutzi

I just read “The Israel Lobby”

(the book) over the weekend. You can read a shorter version online, here.http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html
After reading the book, my opinion was that although they present some compelling arguments, their continual reiteration (about one third of the book) that they’re not against the zionists entitys’ right to exist, that there is no jewish conspiracy, that lobbying is legitimate, etc. etc. was better proof than anything else. Has anyone else here read it?
The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state? One might assume that the bond between the two countries was based on shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, but neither explanation can account for the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the US provides.

Instead, the thrust of US policy in the region derives almost entirely from domestic politics, and especially the activities of the ‘Israel Lobby’. Other special-interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from what the national interest would suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that US interests and those of the other country – in this case, Israel – are essentially identical.

Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing that given to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct economic and military assistance since 1976, and is the largest recipient in total since World War Two, to the tune of well over $140 billion (in 2004 dollars). Israel receives about $3 billion in direct assistance each year, roughly one-fifth of the foreign aid budget, and worth about $500 a year for every Israeli. This largesse is especially striking since Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to that of South Korea or Spain.

  -mohammed

NEWSFLASH

SFC NEWS HQ HAS RECEIVED REPORTS OF A FRUM JUMPER O”H AT OCEAN PARKWAY AND FOSTER. WE WILL TRY TO KEEP YOU POSTED.

kugulag

once there was a way to get back homeward once there was a way to get get back home sleep pretty baby and do not cry and i will sing a lullibye- oh your going to carry that weight carry that weight a long time. beatles. once when words ment well and letters designated something i could talk about the totalitarian aspects of judism and the many fallen then as things became clear that we too were infected and inflicting ,our utter failure aparent ,the pain yefta lavavahem knocked you for aloop and we began to demand the return to ashwitchz as our god-given right like an early enough kuggul on friday night and the hunger oh the hunger now well on the way thoughts in the clouds the man with the foolish grin is speaking perfectly loud but nobody wants to hear him or the sounds he appears to make they dont like him the fool on the hilberg. – yakov  |  October 16, 2007 at 7:38 am