God, Religion, Jews and Christians – what is common in all that from Jewish intellectual perspective? Part 3 – The world of Religion

Thus after about two and a half millennium of building a better world, God decided to enhance the process of defining the Good and the Evil in the course of building a better world. God decided to enhance this process by selecting a small group of humans and assign to them a special mission of being the Chosen with a sole task of the Chosen to help the others in learning the God’s guidance on building a better world for everybody.

And that was the beginning of the world of Religion – a human world with Judaism as religion for the Jewish people and Christianity as the religion for the Gentiles with all love-hate relationships. (Although there are many other religions in the world of Religion the topic of this article is the Judeo-Christian relationship only.)

Here is what happened after this God’s decision.

• In the course of about 400 years – From Abraham through the Egypt slavery and the Sinai desert to the Mount Sinai – God prepared one, selected by Him, human tribe for the mission of the Chosen. This tribe is known in the history as the Jewish people.
• On the Mount Sinai through Moses God delivered His instructions on how to build a better world for all His humans. Those instructions were codified in the Torah and were intended for all His humans – to be delivered to all the humans through the Jewish people. It didn’t mean only through the Jewish people. If somebody among the non-Jews is able to get the instructions directly from God, God would appreciate it. If somebody needs help in understanding the God’s instructions, the Jewish people have to provide the help.
• At this point in history the world of Religion had begun to shape – to shape by the humans, not by God. And the HUMAN world of Religion has to deal with the following fundamental challenge imposed on us the humans in the Torah:
  We the humans think and speak not the God’s way – how to translate the guidance of the Torah into an understandable human language?

God, Religion, Jews and Christians – what is common in all that from Jewish Intellectual perspective. Part 2 – the World of God.

The world of God had been created by God Himself in the Torah-described Six Days of Creation with Adam and Eve as the first humans. There was no Religion that time – no Jews, no Christians, no other religionists. All people who were descendants of Adam and Eve were as we would say these days non-religious; all of them were the people of One God.

The people of One God were doing what One God had created them for – they were creating, they were building a better world for all. They were building a better world without Torah and Talmud, without instructions of prophets and sages.

How do I know all that?

It’s simple: God’s instructions are coming to people directly from God to the people’s souls through, as scientists may say these days, the invisible spiritual (energy) field and genetic recombination. The God’s instructions are not coming through any human-written materials – God doesn’t think in a human way and doesn’t write as the humans do. Naturally, since the spiritual (energy) field and genetic recombination are subject to God’s laws of probability, various people interpret the God’s instructions in a different way within the allowed by God boundaries.

Why do I believe that the humans from the very beginning were building a better world in spite of the absence of any written material with the commandment to do so? Just because I know God created the humans in his own image and likeness – the image and likeness of Creator.

God, Religion, Jews and Christians – what is common in all that from Jewish Intellectual Perspective?

Part 1 – Introduction

This discussion is intended to provide the thoughts for contemporary intellectual interpretation of the Torah for Jews and Gentiles – not the traditional interpretations by the religious authorities.

The following points are proposed for discussion:

• We the humans live in two worlds – in the world of God and in the world of Religion. Those two worlds are different – the world of God was created by God Himself and is governed by the God’s unwritten laws while the world of Religion is made by us the humans and is governed by our human’s mostly written laws.
• In the world of God, all people are judged by their efforts to continue the God’s creative work in building a better world for everybody along the lines of individual interpretation of God’s unwritten commandments that an individual human receives directly from God.
• To better understand the God’s commandments on building a better world for everybody we the humans created the world of Religion.
• In the world of Religion, all people are split into communities with similar interpretation (understanding) of the God’s commandments. In this world of Religion the people create the unique-for-every-community prayers and rituals aimed at getting spiritually closer to God and obtaining a clearer guidance on building a better world. All religious communities are spiritually different and therefore all prayers and rituals are different.
• The communal prayers and rituals were supposed to be a preparatory step to the real actions in building a better world along the lines of the better understood God’s commandments. However, it didn’t go this way. Many religious communities made the prayers and rituals the paramount life goal – the people in those communities are judged by their adherence to the collective prayers and rituals, not by their efforts in building a better world.
• The Jewish people were split into many spiritually fighting groups as well. Some of them interpreted the Torah commandments as the building of a better world together with and for everybody; some of them interpreted the Torah commandments as preserving their faith in a spiritual isolation.
• Two millenniums ago one of those Jewish groups, which believed in building a better world for everybody with everybody, created the foundation of Christianity.

And at this point in history the rift between the Jews and the Christians began in spite of their common spiritual foundation which encourages the building of a better world for everybody along the lines of the One-God commandments.

(To be continued)

The Big Government as a Torah-defined Evil

The Big Government is an EVIL since it enslaves us spiritually, and sometimes even physically. God led us from Slavery of the Pharaoh’s ancient Egypt to be Free People – the Big Government is leading us back to Slavery.

One of the most divisive questions in preserving Jewish Unity is how we have to treat a government – as a GOOD or as an EVIL. And this is not an empty rhetorical question – one of the most important stories of the Torah is our escape from slavery of the Pharaoh-Government in ancient Egypt.

This paper provides my answer to this question – my interpretation of the Torah commandments.

The Big Government is an Evil while a small government is a mandatory part of a package of Good we should accept and live with.

How to distinguish between the Big Government and a small one?

Judaism – True and Pagan

Yes, there is True Judaism and there is Pagan Judaism. And Pagan Judaism may exist in any of the current denominations of Judaism – orthodox, conservative, reform, or humanistic.

How could it be if all Jews either believe in One God or are skeptical about the existence of God of any kind? The answer to this question could be found in Jewish history.

• The Jewish people left the ancient Egypt about 3300 years ago to escape the slavery and to begin the new life in the freedom. The definition of the freedom was defined as the life under a set of moral rules from a Supreme Power above us called One God – the same God for everybody, instead of the life under a set of rules imposed on them by a human god called Pharaoh.
• In Egypt, the Jewish people were still pagan in spite of the fact they were members of the Abraham’s tribe – the prophet Abraham who found One God and promised worshiping Him. However worshiping one god doesn’t mean the end of paganism. If somebody select one god of many available for worshiping – because this god is promising a better “deal” (better “goodies” for less sacrifices) – that doesn’t end the pagan life.  The end of the pagan life requires the change of the life’s moral principles – a painful transition from the pagan moral rules to the completely different moral rules of One God.
• The set of new moral rules from One God was received at Mount Sinai through Moses, and this set was called the Torah. Those moral rules were indeed different.
• The old pagan moral rules were simple: you have to bribe your god by various “sacrifices” and your god will deliver the “goodies” to you by securing your military victories over your enemies: in the pagan world, there was only one way to secure all material means for survival and this way was to kill your neighbor-enemy and take all his material possessions for yourself. In contemporary terminology it is called the redistribution of wealth. The pagan moral rules assumed no personal responsibility – you bribe god and god delivers.
• The new moral rules of the Torah were completely different. The Torah’s moral rules compel you to continue the God’s creative work in our world aimed at increasing the amount of all material “goodies” in the world for the benefit of all people – not just for the benefit of military conquerors. The goal of traditional sacrifices was changed – now a sacrifice is not a bribe but rather an enhancement for better understanding of the God’s rules. The goal of human life was changed – not just to survive but to create, to continue the creative work of One God which was began by Six Days of Creation. The human creative work has to be conducted in all spheres of human life and activities and everybody have to have equal opportunities to realize their creative potentials and to benefit – spiritually and materially – from own creative work. If you capable to work you should benefit from your own work and not from expropriating the material wealth produced by other human creators. You have to become personally responsible for your own life, and the life of your family, community and people. The handicapped and elderly have to be helped but through individual charity/mitzvoth – not through government redistribution of wealth.
• Not everybody was able to make a transition from the pagan rules of bribing a god and personal irresponsibility to the Torah’s rules of serving God and personal responsibility. Those people who are not making the transition are spiritual slaves – they are still in the slavery of the proverbial Egypt – not in physical but in spiritual slavery.  They are not participating in the God’s creative work and therefore they are not serving the One God the Creator. They are performing rituals in their homes and synagogues and therefore are pagans and spiritual slaves. And you may find such pagan worshipers in all denominations of Judaism.

In order to find out what kind of Judaism a synagogue practices a few simple questions should be asked:

1. What is your definition of the mission of Jewish people as the Chosen one?
2. What are you trying to define in the course of your Torah studies?
3. How you’re defining the separation of the Church and the State?
4. Do you believe in the existence of Judeo-Christian spirituality as the moral foundation of our country, the USA?

A synagogue is practicing the True Judaism if the answers to the questions above are:

1)     The mission of the Jewish people as the Chosen one is to be God’s partners in everlasting creative work which began with the Six Days of Creation, with the purpose of making our world a better place for everybody as it’s prescribed by Torah

2)     In the course of studying the Torah the definition of the better world for everybody and the actions on how to build it are being searched

3)     Although no religious denomination may become an official spiritual voice for the government, the moral prescripts of Torah have to be guiding concepts in the government’s legislative work.

4)     The Judeo-Christian spirituality is the moral foundation of our country and the Jews have an obligation to work together with the Christians in building a better world for everybody.

A synagogue is practicing the Pagan Judaism if the answers to the questions above are:

1)     The mission of the Jewish people as the Chosen one is to be performing religious rituals, celebrations and services at synagogues in spiritual isolation from the entire world

2)     In the course of studying the Torah the definition of better religious rituals and their history is being searched

3)     No religious denomination may become an official spiritual voice for the government and the government’s legislative work has to be guided by a human atheistic ideology – not by the moral Torah prescripts as the foundation of a Judeo-Christian society

4)     We the Jews and they the Christians have nothing in common – we the Jews have only one wish that they live us alone.

And here is an opinion of orthodox rabbi Eugene Korn that is essence supports my thoughts presented in this post.

Just who and what promotes assimilation of Jews

Assimilation of the Jews is not promoted by those who try to comprehend the concepts of the Torah for the Jews’ life in the Most High’s wide world by an intellectual interpretation of the Torah.

Mostly, the adherents of the traditional interpretation of the Torah, who attempt to hold the Jews in spiritual isolation from all the Most High’s wide world, promote assimilation of Jews, sticking labels on all who leave spiritual isolation for the Most High’s wide world of the type, “he is a missionary,” “he is a Christian,” “he dared to have an opinion that contradicts the opinion by all the esteemed rabbis,” and the like.

Let us begin with the statistics.

Русскоязычным Еврейским Миром владеет русская мысль, а не еврейская

Русская мысль оценивает все социально политические события в духе классовой борьбы и передела мира между слабыми и сильными. Естественно, надо быть в группе сильных, а для этого надо иметь всемогущее, какого-то рода диктаторское правительство, создающее мощное государство. В таком государстве все люди перестают быть свободными индивидуумами, живущими по своей интерпретации их миссии в этом мире, а становятся духовными, а иногда и физическими рабами мощного государства. Мощные государства не вечны: став мощными, они «жиреет», перестает производить и защищаться, и становиться жертвой другой группы, ставшей более сильной.

Настоящая еврейская мысль оценивает все социально-экономические события с точки зрения соответствия этих событий требованиям Десяти Заповедей, кодифицированных в Торе и Библии, то есть с точки зрения построения лучшего мира для всех здесь живущих.   

Феноменом русской мысли грешат большинство талантливых и почитаемых русскоязычных авторов, которые анализируют социально-политические события в США и в Израиле. Сюда входят и те, кто называют себя атеистами и не верят в наличие особой еврейской духовности, то есть в наличие особых правил жизни, данных нам Всевышним и закодированных в Десяти Заповедях и во всей Торе. И сюда же, как это звучит ни странно, входят и многие из тех, кто называют себя религиозными.

Атеисты поступают так, потому что они не признают того, что есть над нами власть выше нас, которая управляет нами по каким-то духовным (моральным) и материальным законам, которые мы не в силах изменить.

Квази-религиозные оценивают социально политические события по существу таким же образом – не потому, что они не верят в наличие Всевышней Силы над нами и в Ее законы, которые мы изменить не в состоянии. Они оценивают социально-политические  так, потому что они не знают, как применить еврейскую духовность для оценки социально-политических событий во внешнем мире за пределами их религиозной изоляции.

Я покажу это на примерах горячо дебатируемых в настоящее время вопросов (1) будущего США по результатам последних выборов, (2) возможного изменения внутренней и внешней политики Израиля по результатам последних выборов, и (3) целесообразности легального нахождения оружия в руках простого населения.

Dire consequences of the Western civilization losing its Judeo-Christian roots

Yes, the Western civilization is losing its Judeo-Christian roots and doesn’t defend them anymore from hostile attacks of foreign ideologies. And this retreat now is being led “from behind” by Barak Obama. The following analysis from a trustworthy “Spiegel” of Germany details this situation.

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Global Leadership Vacuum: Europe Incapable, America Unwilling

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-global-leadership-vacuum-europe-incapable-america-unwilling-a-880945.html

An Analysis By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Munich

February 1, 2013

US Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Germany this week in an effort to strengthen trans-Atlantic ties. Global politics have come to a standstill in recent years, with the United States unwilling to show leadership and Europe and other major powers unable to fill the vacuum.

Economic decline of USA is rooted in country’s spiritual decline

That’s true – the economic decline of the USA is rooted in our spiritual decline. And our spiritual decline is evident from the facts described in my paper “How One Must Understand the Separation of the Church from the State – both According to the U.S. Constitution and According to the Torah” at http://intellectual0judaism0really.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/how-one-must-understand-the-separation-of-the-church-from-the-state-both-according-to-the-u-s-constitution-and-according-to-the-torah/

The paper describes how the separation should be understood and how this question is deliberately twisted by political and religious leaders. The follow-up discussion of the paper clearly showed an undeniable connection between the distorted understanding of the separation issue with the spiritual decline and a strong bond between the spiritual and economic deterioration.

Here are most interesting parts of the follow-up discussion. The thoughts of my opponents who, in my opinion, defended the twisted interpretation of the constitutional state-church separation are labeled by ‘X’ and presented in italics; my thoughts in defense of the correct, again in my opinion, constitutional state-church separation are labeled by ‘VM’.

What the Jews themselves can do to prevent new holocausts

We, the Jews, have accused everyone for not preventing the Holocaust:

the peoples of Germany who allowed the Nazis to come to power;

the countries of Europe who allowed themselves to be run by the Nazis;

the United States who didn’t destroy the railroad lines to the extermination camps by bombing them and who did not accept the Jewish refugees from the Nazi Germany;

the Pope who didn’t stand up for the Jews publicly;

and many others.

And we have rightly blamed all of them.

But we are afraid to acknowledge publicly that we might have been able to do much more ourselves in preventing the Holocaust, but we didn’t. Such an acknowledgement is very important now to figure out what we, the Jews, can do now in preventing new holocausts.  

How One Must Understand the Separation of the Church from the State – both According to the U.S. Constitution and According to the Torah

How this question is deliberately twisted by political and religious leaders.

Let us begin with two official documents where the question of the relationship of church and state is examined.

From the American Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776:

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.  And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, ratified on December 15, 1791:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The Chosenness of the Jewish People: A Constant Struggle of the True with the Heathen

The struggle of the true Jew with the heathen in the Jewish nation began from the moment of our receipt of the Torah on Mt. Sinai, from the moment of the formation of the Jewish religion, and it continues to our time.

Heathenism has been preserved into our time not only just in the wild tribes of Africa. Heathenism’s essence consists not of any kind of African tribal rituals. Heathenism’s essence consists in the belief that a multitude of gods exist who are all-powerful in any kind of specific area of our numerous desires.

If my life’s goal is only sex, I enter into an agreement with the god of sex – I carry out all his instructions, and he guarantees me unlimited sex.

If my life’s goal is only military victories, I enter into an agreement with the god of war – I carry out all his instructions, and he guarantees me unlimited military victories.

If my life’s goal is not to be responsible for all the deeds done by me myself, I enter into an agreement with the god of Marxism – I carry out all his instructions, and he gives me instructions about every aspect of my life, removing from me the responsibility for everything that happens.

If my life’s goal is to do everything that comes into my head without any limitations, I enter into an agreement with the god of Liberalism – I carry out all his instructions, and he protects me from all the attacks of people who are dissatisfied with my actions.

And so forth.

That is the sense of the many gods of heathenism. And not only can the people of a wild African tribe be affected by such heathenism, but also people of elevated Western intellectualism.

And in that is the fundamental distinction of heathenism from monotheism – monotheism demands compliance with a single morality and integrated laws for creation regardless whether you like it or not.

Judeo-Christian spiritual unity: the Soloveichik who loved Jesus

I have written many papers on the Ten Commandments and the Torah in general as the mutual spiritual foundation of Judaism and Christianity. And I pointed out that we the Jews shall consider the Christianity as a result of our “Chosen mission” efforts aimed at helping non-Jews to understand the Torah and live in accordance with Torah Commandments – not in accordance with the religious rules of Judaism that we the Jews had developed but in accordance with the religious rules of Christianity that have the same Torah-based spiritual foundation.

I found references to some rabbis currently supporting the idea of mutual Judeo-Christian spirituality. And finally, here is a reference to one of the great rabbis of the past – a rabbi from the great rabbinical dynasty of Soloveichiks who supported the same idea of Judeo-Christian spiritual unity.  

Совместима ли еврейская духовность с духовностью русской культуры

В моих разговорах с русскоговорящими американцами или израильтянами (это могут быть и евреи, и неевреи) я часто их спрашиваю о том, как приобщаются они к американской или израильской культурам, которые отражают американскую или израильскую нравственность.

И в ответ я слышу – мы люди русской культуры.

Тогда я спрашиваю – а что это такое русская культура? 

Update December 2012 – The Satanic New World Order of Obama

On November 16, 2012, I posted in this blog an article entitled “The Satanic New World Order of Obama” – http://intellectual0judaism0really.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/the-satanic-new-world-order-of-obama/

The article provided my assessment of the Obama’s world vision and of his work on implementation of his vision. The article made the following major points:

• Obama is an extremely gifted and determined leader. The hated-by-many outcomes of his policies are precisely what he is trying to achieve – not the result of his poor and inexperienced leadership.
• What he is trying to achieve is a new world order where an UN-based world authoritarian government will impose on all countries, all peoples and all individuals a sort of Islamo-Marxist “social justice”.
• In accordance with this “social justice”, a UN-based world authoritarian government will forcefully take the wealth accumulated by prosperous countries, peoples and individuals and redistribute it to poor countries, peoples and individuals, with all available tools of forceful redistribution – world-wide mandatory laws in all areas of wealth creation – the laws in social, labor, health, environment, immigration, education areas.
• Since the Obama’s new world order is based on the anti-Judeo-Christian principles, it deserves to be counted in the satanic class of events.
• There are major obstacles on the road to implementation of the Obama’s Islamo-Marxist world-wide “social justice”. They, as described in the article, are:
  •  The spiritual power of Judeo-Christian moral principles. One has to denigrate the Judeo-Christian spirituality and its moral codification in the Ten Commandments as something too extreme and outdated and not suitable for governing a contemporary nation and the entire world. To do this you have to begin with denigration of the originators of this spirituality, the Jewish people and their spiritual heart, the state of Israel.
  • The spiritual unity of the people which encourages looking for a common ground for peaceful coexistence. One has to split a nation and the world into numerous feuding factions that would be unable or unwilling to find a compromise for peaceful coexistence. One would have to present himself as a savior to the dissatisfied who would lead them to defeat all other groups in that society.
  • The inequality of material wellbeing between so-called rich and so-called poor.  Somebody in power should confiscate the assets of society’s wealthy groups and redistribute this wealth among underprivileged groups – for now, these underprivileged groups would be satisfied and give their leader unconditional support.
  • The constitutional separation of powers preventing an establishment of authoritative government. Somebody would have to establish a dictatorial government to preserve and reinforce one’s power as a human god over the citizens/slaves of society.  That is the end – a satanic new world order is established.

The past-month advances in moving toward the new world order of Obama are impressive and they are described below in the words of many publications of the month.  

(1)  Obama covertly encourages EU leaders to present the Israel’s decision on building new homes in Jerusalem as something foreign to the goal of the Middle-East peace. It looks like Obama is trying to delegalize the state of Jerusalem as the eternal spiritual capital of the Jewish people and the physical capital of the state of Israel. 

The solidarity of the Jews is in their diversification if one abides by the Torah

One can single out the two groups of Jews in Judaism who worry about the future of the Jewish people. 

The first group is the Jews of the traditional interpretation of the Torah. They firmly believe that their understanding of the essence of the Jewish existence is uniquely correct and unshakeable because it is based on the experience of Jewish people through the millennia. Everything that lies beyond the scope of their understanding of the “correct” in any kind of publication causes their immovable or agitated reaction. The result of such a reaction is the following ideas in the press: it is the expression of a heretic, such-and-so a rabbi long ago already refuted it, it contradicts such-and-so a tradition, aha – he is a reformist, he does not believe in the holiness of the oral Torah, he simply is uneducated about Judaism, and so forth.

The second group is the Jews of the intellectual interpretation of the Torah. They firmly believe that their comprehension of the essence of Jewish existence cannot be uniquely correct, because life is complex and changes constantly, because God is even more complex and the comprehension of Him cannot be confined only to one. If they see in some kind of publication something that lies outside the scope of their understanding of “correct,” they are happy for it:  they see that the interpretation of the Jewish essence, afforded by the first group, does not make it possible to understand modern life, and they hope that the new things appearing in the interpretation will allow them to embrace modern life better while remaining 100 percent Jewish.

Мир Всевышнего и мир религии

Существует два мира – мир Всевышнего и мир религии, и мы уходим из мира Всевышнего, когда замыкаемся в мире религии    

Мир Всевышнего это реальный физический и духовный мир, в котором мы живем. Этот мир создан не нами. Он создан кем-то или чем-то выше нас. Кто-то или что-то выше нас создало физические и нравственные законы этого мира.

Мы определяем суть этого кто-то или что-то по-разному. Одни из нас, которые считаются религиозными, приписывают этому кто-то или что-то качества всемогущего человека, который зовется Богом. Другие, которые считают себя нерелигиозными, называют это кто-то или что-то Природой. Но как бы мы не называли это кто-то или что-то над нами, мы все понимаем, что оно существует. И оно существует вместе с созданными им физическими и нравственными законами.

Эти законы позволяют нам воздействовать на наш мир в каких-то заданных пределах. И наше воздействие делает этот мир лучше или хуже. Всевышний (Природа) позволяет нам делать и то, и другое – и нести личную ответственность и за то, и за другое.

Так вот для того, чтобы определить, что такое лучше и что такое хуже, мы – «человеки» – создали мир религии. Мы создали мир религии не для того, чтобы изолировать там себя от мира Всевышнего, а для того, чтобы понять, что такое ДОБРО и что такое ЗЛО в мире Всевышнего. И поняв это, выйти в мир Всевышнего и начать воздействовать на него в направлении ДОБРА. В этом самое существенное предназначение мира религии. 

The Satanic New World Order of Obama

“What? A new world order organized according to the satanic values of Obama? How dare you think that way! Don’t you understand that Obama is trying to bring the USA back to normalcy after the devastation that Bush caused? Obamaism. – Stop inventing new “ism”s. We cannot handle the existing ones”!

That’s the first reaction of many to this title. So let me address this.

By definition, “Satanic” means something that is the opposite of the Judeo-Christian code of morality. Even if Satan and satanic things belong to the realm of mythology, the use of this mythology is a useful analogy in any discussion of the realms where the spiritual and the material are interconnected.

Judeo-Christian spirituality is rooted in the Ten Commandments and the Torah (Old Testament) and detailed in the Talmud and New Testament. Judeo-Christian spirituality has guided the development of political, social and economic institutions throughout the history of Western Civilization. Judeo-Christian spirituality is the guiding light for most citizens of Western Civilization – Jews and Christians, religious and non-religious, atheists and agnostics, church-goers and church haters, people in power and out of power. 

Why Romney lost and therefore the moral and economic decline of the USA will continue

Why Romney Lost and therefore the moral and economic degradation of the USA will continue 

Below is an article with the title “Why Romney Lost” on why the Republicans lost in the bid for the presidential seat. Although I fully agree with the article it omitted a few very important reasons of Republicans’ defeat. Here are those reasons.

• Obama promised to work on creating the fair society – you remember his slogans like “social justice”, “fair share”, “fair redistribution of wealth”, etc. And Romney failed to demonstrate that Obama’s social justice is a sort of Marxist justice with a Muslim Sharia flavor. He failed to demonstrate that such social justice is incompatible with the Judeo-Christian spiritual foundation of our country.
• Americans are very much supportive of a social-justice system – however, we haven’t heard anything about Romney-style social justice. Romney suggested only “employment opportunities”. When “employment opportunities” clashed with “social justice”, the “social justice” won.
• Romney, and the Republican Party elite, failed to make a point that a true social justice can be created only on Judeo-Christian moral principles that require helping those who cannot help themselves through individual charity/mitzvah – not through a Marxist government’s redistribution of wealth.

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Why Romney lost

NOVEMBER 7, 2012 BY FLOYD AND MARY BETH BROWN

Dick Morris, Michael Barone, and Karl Rove all got it wrong. They thought Romney would win. Let us tell you why we never thought Obama would lose. 

Как причины антисемитизма объясняют духовные и языческие евреи

Духовные евреи видят корни антисемитизма в нежелании языческого мира принять нравственность Десяти Заповедей (нравственность Торы), к чему призывает весь образ жизни евреев, в то время как языческие евреи объясняют причины антисемитизма языческо-марксистскими концепциями перераспределения богатств.

Недавно я обсуждал этот вопрос с одним моим приятелем. Он великолепно знает еврейскую историю, считает себя религиозным евреем, посещает хабадскую ортодоксальную синагогу. Он нормальный современный ортодоксальный еврей, который считает, что интерпретация Торы ортодоксальными евреями единственно правильная, что предписания Талмуда должны выполняться, но реальная жизнь часто не дает этого делать.

Обаме нужны еще четыре года правления, чтобы добиться окончательной победы над США

Почти все страны мира хотят видеть Обаму избранным на следующий президентский срок, но не большинство народа в его собственной стране. Почему?

Я отвечаю на этот вопрос – почему почти все страны мира поддерживают президентство Обамы, но не большинство его собственного народа, в англоязычной статье, приведенной дальше.  

И ответ на этот вопрос прост – Президент США Обама помогает другим странам мира в продвижении духовных и стратегических интересов этих других стран в ущерб духовным и стратегическим интересам самих США.  Почему? А потому, что Обама считает, что большинство бед нашего мира связано с доминирующей политикой США в нашем мире – США не дают другим странам доминировать в мире.

Иными словами, Обама считает, что иудейско-христианские принципы человеческого существования, лежащие в основе нравственности нашей страны и корнями уходящие в Десять Заповедей, никак не лучше, чем мусульманская нравственность по Корану и Шариату, чем коммунистическая нравственность по Марксу, чем нынешняя российская языческая нравственность по Путину, чем нынешняя европейская нравственность перераспределения богатств, чем нравственность Мусульманского братства, и т.п.

И в исполнении своей миссии ликвидации ведущей роли США в нашем мире Обама оказался превосходным лидером – он достигает того, чего не смогли сделать ни Сталин, ни Гитлер, ни Мао, ни Кастро, ни Ахмадинджад…

Еще четыре года – и миссия будет закончена…

Поэтому президентские выборы этого года являются судьбоносными и для нашей страны, и для Израиля, и для всего мира. 

People of almost all countries but the USA want Obama to be reelected for the next four years – why?

People of almost all countries but the USA want Obama to be reelected for the next four years – why?

People of almost all countries but the USA want Obama to be reelected for the next four years.  This is the result of an international public opinion poll as described in the article below. 

Еще одна причина голосовать против Обамы: он восстанавливает наших детей и внуков против нас

Да, это так. Обама разрушает нашу традиционную иудейско-христианскую мораль, заменяет ее моралью языческой, и тем самым восстанавливает детей против родителей.

Как это делается? Просто. Обама ускоряет до предела изменение системы образования в нашей стране. 

Что Израиль делает правильно и что неправильно?

Как же все-таки разобраться в том, что Израиль делает правильно, и что неправильно? Количество статей в англо- и русскоязычной прессе с критикой правительства Израиля и его премьер-министра Нетаньяху увеличивается с каждым днем. Все ругают правительство Израиля и обвиняют Нетаньяху во всех возможных политических грехах. Но в большинстве случаев эти мнения-поругивания  основаны не на фактах реальной политики, а на эмоциях или религиозных постулатах. Но правительство Израиля должно действовать не на основе эмоций населения или на основе какой-то одной из многих часто конфликтующих интерпретаций Торы, а на основе существующих конкретных реальных угроз существованию самого государства. 

How to figure out what is right and what is wrong in American politics

Each country has her own definition of what is GOOD and what is EVIL and this definition is unique and makes the country and the people of this country unique. Each country is strengthening the GOOD and constraining the EVIL in domestic and international affairs.

Politics is a tool for creating government and public forces capable and aimed at strengthening the GOOD and fighting the EVIL.

So what is the moral foundation for defining the GOOD and the EVIL in our country?  

A Yom Kippur pledge: to always examine what is forbidden by tradition to examine

A Yom Kippur pledge “to always examine what is forbidden by tradition to examine” is what Chief Rabbi of Great Britain Lord Sacks believes every Jew should pledge on Yom Kippur. And that’s precisely what I am examining in most of my papers.

Below is an article by Rabbi Sacks with my emphasis in italics.  

Обещание на Йом Киппур: всегда подвергать сомнению установившиеся нормы

Обещание на Йом Киппур: всегда подвергать сомнению установившиеся нормы

Эта то обещание, которое – по мнению ортодоксального раввина Сакса – каждый еврей должен дать на Йом Киппур. И Раввин Сакс обосновывает это в нижеприведенной статье на английском языке,  обосновывая это ссылками на авторитеты Торы. Поскольку это то, что я постоянно делаю в моих статьях, я решил привести эту статью в оригинале; самое существенное в оригинале я выделил курсивом.   

Non-religious Jewish-American philosopher Ayn Rand fulfilled her “Chosen” religious obligations

Jewish-American philosopher Ayn Rand didn’t receive any Jewish education; she never studied with a rabbi and never belonged to a synagogue. Technically, she was not religious. Nevertheless, her creative achievements in making our world a better pace for everybody are spiritually Jewish. How could it be so for a person who proclaimed herself non-religious? An answer to this question could be found in considering the two realms of Jewish life as the “Chosen”.    

Что делать: Тора и президентские выборы этого года

Под звуки фанфар закончились конвенции республиканской и демократической партий, которые утвердили Ромни и Обаму их кандидатами на должность Президента США на приближающихся выборах в ноябре этого года. Ромни и республиканцы ухудшили свои предвыборные позиции, а Обама с демократами их улучшили. А это означает, что вероятность возврата нашей страны к духовности Торы/Библии снижается, а вероятность торжества чего-то языческого увеличивается.

Обе партии – и республиканская, и демократическая – привели нас к нынешней печальной ситуации. Но третьей – иудейско-христианской – партии пока нет, и нам надо выбирать «наименьшее зло» из двух. И наименьшим злом является республиканская партия. И вот почему. 

The Difference Between Traditional and Intellectual Interpretations of the Torah

The principle difference between traditional and intellectual interpretations of the Torah consists of the following.

The traditional interpretation of the Torah proceeds from the assumption that the Most High created our world unchanging in principle – either nothing changes in our world or something changes in a certain way beforehand. And if that is so, then there must be some kind of unambiguous interpretation of the Torah explaining everything that occurs in our world unambiguously. One needs to seek out and obey this interpretation. The adherents of the traditional interpretation of the Torah think that such an interpretation of the Torah has been found. And all attempts to look for something else are anathema and an avoidance of Judaism. Though the adherents of the traditional interpretation of the Torah don’t even concur with this statement, but think essentially that the Most High is fully knowable and they have experienced him in their own interpretation of the Torah.  

The intellectual interpretation of the Torah thinks that the Most High created our world as changing constantly and that the Most High Himself is fully unknowable. Therefore, the Torah cannot have an unambiguous interpretation.  One can know the Most High and the Torah only through multiple interpretations of the Torah and the test of these interpretations against the facts of real life. 

Spiritual closeness of Jews and Christians and traditional rabbis’ efforts to prevent it

In my papers I’ve made the following points concerning the Judeo-Christian spiritual closeness and collaboration:

Very likely what happened on our earth nearly two thousand years ago in fulfillment of God’s covenants is most important, but it all was distorted by history and the religious streams quarreling with each other until it was fully unrecognizable. 

Истинные причины еврейской ассимиляции

Ассимиляции евреев способствуют не те, кто пытаются осмыслить концепции Торы для жизни евреев в большом мире Всевышнего интеллектуальной интерпретацией Торы.

Скорее всего, ассимиляции евреев способствуют сторонники традиционной интерпретации Торы, которые пытаются удержать евреев в духовной изоляции от всего большого мира Всевышнего, приклеивая всем, уходящим из духовной изоляции в большой мир Всевышнего, ярлыки типа «он миссионер», «он христианин», «он посмел иметь мнение, противоречащее мнению всеми уважаемого раввина» и т.п. 

The true Christians are the true friends of Jews, Israel and Torah – and Romney speech in Jerusalem confirms it

I published quite a few papers on the true Christianity that was created by the Jews as realization of their mission of the Chosen people – a mission to bring everybody to the life by Torah. In those papers I called upon the Jews to strengthen Judeo-Christian collaboration in spite of many sins the gentiles committed against us in the name of Christianity, and in spite of the fear by many traditional Jews of Jewish assimilation under the influence of Christian ideas. I have been making a point that Jews are assimilated not as a result of Christian influence but rather as a result of not seeing a good Torah-based guidance for their real life in the non-Jewish environment.  

Ортодоксальный раввин выходит в большой мир Всевышнего

Ортодоксальный раввин выходит в большой мир Всевышнего

И это хорошо, потому что к этому призывает Тора.

Я уже упоминал в комментариях к одной моей статье, что Главный раввин Великобритании ортодоксальный раввин Сакс определяет суть еврейства как и я его определяю в моих многочисленных публикациях на эту тему. Эта суть это продолжение созидания в большом мире Всевышнего по Его Проекту с тем, чтобы сделать наш мир лучшим местом для всех здесь живущих, созданных по образу и подобию Бога – созидание с особой ролью в нем еврейского народа как народа избранного. Раввин Сакс описал это во многих своих книгах и речах, в том числе и в видео обращении к международной студенческой конференции Hillel: 

Существует ли единый еврейский народ, или под этим именем скрывается множество разобщенных групп

Существует ли единый еврейский народ, или под этим именем скрывается множество разобщенных групп

Наша дискуссия по различиям между традиционной и интеллектуальной интерпретациями Торы приводит к этому вопросу – не настолько ли мы разъединены духовно, что понятие «еврейский народ» это, скорее всего, миф. В чем же все-таки основные расхождения – не в эмоциональном восприятии, а по существу.

Мне представляется, что по существу эти расхождения незначительны  по сравнению с тем, что объединяет все еврейство, и я попытаюсь показать это.  

Written Torah (Tanakh) is more important for guiding contemporary Jewish life than Oral Torah (Talmud)

That’s an opinion of the new Reform Judaism leadership. They are calling for shifting the Torah studies from Talmud to Tanakh, and they are elevating the rulings of contemporary rabbis to the level of Talmudic rulings – that’s what the paper below by JTA describes.

Let’s hope that by paying more attention to the Written Torah the Reform-Judaism movement stops sliding from the guidance by Torah to the guidance by “social justice”.  

The Jews should not be scared of Judeo-Christian spiritual collaboration

But some of us scared. Those who scared are members of so-called Jewish spiritual getto. Most of them, although not all, are representatives of traditional interpretation of the Torah who believe that God selected the Jews to be the Chosen People for the sole purpose of separating themselves from the rest of the God-made world and performing whatever is possible of the 613 mitzvah-laws. Those laws, they believe, prohibit any spiritual collaboration with Christians since such collaboration is harmful to Judaism and lead to assimilation or converting to Christianity.  

Почему основной Холокост был совершен в Советском Союзе

Совсем недавно в Чикаго была проведена англоязычная конференция по Холокосту для преподавателей истории холокоста американских школ. Это была своего рода уникальная конференция, о которой мечтал многие годы, и способствовал ее осуществлению, мой друг интеллектуальной еврейской духовной ориентации Матус Столов. На протяжении многих лет он доказывал, что основной холокост был осуществлен советскими (русскими, украинскими, белорусскими, литовскими, латвийскими) коллаборационистами, в то время как основные усилия историков направлены на изучение холокоста в странах Западной Европы. И наконец-то историки холокоста повернулись лицом к главному холокосту, совершенному нацистами в странах бывшего Советского Союза с активным участием бывших, а возможно и настоящих, советских граждан. 

In the Torah, Jews and Christians may find appreciation of Judeo-Christian friendship

In Torah’s spiritual guidance, Jews and Christians may find appreciation of Judeo-Christian friendship. Christianity may be considered as the result of Jewish efforts in spreading the morals of the Torah among the non-Jews. And a paper by Neil Rubin below is evidence that many Christians understand this. Unfortunately many Jews treat Christians as enemies … 

Интеллект и традиция о том, что это такое быть евреем

Большинство моих духовно-еврейских публикаций в той или иной степени затрагивают вопросы еврейской духовности – что это такое быть евреем. Это вопросы о смысле еврейской жизни во всем нынешнем глобальном мире. Ответы на эти вопросы трудно найти в организованных религиозных еврейских общинах: ортодоксальные общины пытаются отгородиться от внешнего глобального мира, а реформистские общины пытаются слиться с ним. Я говорю это не понаслышке – это результат моих тридцатилетних поисков ответов на эти вопросы со многими раввинами во многих общинах.