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Broken “Peace” Broken Vav… Pinchas

Dear Friends, tonight I’m venturing into a new realm, one of the Torah and the essence of the Zohar and how these things are around us all the time.

As we’ve seen last week in NICE France, and just minutes after in the U.S.A. with the police being gunned down there seems to be no hope in sight. For now, I”ll put aside my security discussion to one of the spirit and our collective need to expand our vocabulary and the power of words.

In this weeks Torah portion, Pinchas, there is something very interesting. You see, typically in the entire Torah, which by the way has to be letter and form perfect in ever instance globally, we have a letter that otherwise would render the entire Torah un-Kosher, and that is a “broken vav”. This is as shown in the picture, a fractured “Vav” in an otherwise joined letter in the Hebrew alphabet. The word is “Shalom” which means Peace. It also is used as Goodby and Hello which is a translation from Peace.

The powerful interpretation of meaning at this time in our existance and around the globe, with such violence and hate that seems to be filling the air-waves each minute, is that we must bridge this gap. This broken or gap in the letter Vav is a symbol that we must exercise extra effort to bring these two parts together. You might say join right and left or bridge mercy and harshness and realize that this is the only way to create unity and peace. To add to the illustration, the word disease can be broken into two parts as well, “dis-ease” or if you will, not at ease. If you think about it, when we collectively are not at ease and we allow words that cause division to spread and permeate young minds, we’re creating a momentum that cannot be reversed without a greater degree of effort than that which was used to initiate it, or set it off.

If you imagine a rock at the top of a hill. One little push sends this mass tumbling down with enough force to wipe out an entire villiage. Where as if you recognize that stored potential and ensure that it cannot be easily moved to create such damage, you’ve served the entire village, even though they may not be aware that you have just saved their entire lives and all that came or would come after them. Similarly, we have a duty to recognize that each of us have a duty to recognize hate and people that are in pain and not to turn our heads away from them but embrace them to help steer the potential energy into a positive path.

Another interesting or powerful element contained in this portion or chapter in the Torah, is that also in the first section you have the word or name of “Pinchas” spelled with a very small letter of a “Yud”, smaller than it is normally written in the Torah. This means or symbolizes that Pinchas had a small ego, since the Yud stands for the ego. It in addition is one of the letters that is said to represent all the other letters and the first letter in God’s name. As we see all the Police around the world that are standing between chaos or dis-ease as represented by the broken Vav, we can think that they too are like Pinchas. They are sacrificing their lives for us in their purity of action and effort and certainty. (I’m speaking globaly, nobody’s perfect, but stay with me on the high road here please). It is that simple. They go out there every day and stand up for the rule of law, and to ensure that we have the luxury to drink a nice cup of coffee, spend time with our children, study our religous books, or take a nice quiet walk along a garden path.

So, as we enter this week, I wish that each of us in our respective countries, cities, streets, homes, places of work and worship embrace an extra effort to be sensitive to the gaps that we see in relationships and all around us and do our small part to induce Love, Light, and respect for each other.

I guarantee as they say, with love there is room on the head of a pin for the world to exist, but the opposite is also true, with hate, there is no room on the planet for two people filled with hate. When we visualize that broken Vav as coming together, and the small Yud, we reduce our Ego (The need to be right and take for our selfish desire) and enable healing and love to bridge that gap, thus saving the entire world.

You can do it, I can do it, we can do it. Enjoy your one life you have to live, give a smile to a stranger. Make their day, I’m certain that it will make yours. Sha

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Al Qaeda vs U.S.A. & ISIS vs Russia either way, “Infidels” win… in the long run

airport baggage 1A quick look at history will show that when attacked, stronger forces will rise to the challenge to crush the opponent.? Japan learned very quickly in WWII, Germany of course as well, Israel’s neighbors all attacked and were decimated in short order each time, Al Qaeda did after 9/11 and now ISIS will after this most recent foe-paw by ISIS.? You see, when they were busy picking at the edges of ritualistic be-headings, out right genocide in the dark and unknown areas of their “caliphate” region, nobody was willing to actually DO anything because the pain of a little annoying bug biting your leg can be ignored with some little balm or a band-aid.? But, when you down a Russian bound plane filled with innocent Russians, especially when you have Putin in power, well, that my dear ISIS miss guided humans is simply the kiss of death, or in other words, your demise.? Good riddance too.

You see, Russia doesn’t care about how they operate, so ISIS is screwed.? That’s the simple answer.? The U.S. under? president Obama has abdicated the region to Russia, and perhaps that’s for the best.? Russia can do things that the U.S. with the Democratic party and liberals would just not be able to live with.? They, the Democrats or Liberal progressives would rather error on the side of letting hundreds of thousands of Syrians for example die, rather than actually utter the scary words of “boots on the ground” to assist doing what’s right or standing up for the repressed.

On the other hand, Russia is on the march, setting up a very nice base of operations in Syria, from which they can launch attacks and very cleanly eliminate any foe.? Egypt has a very hard choice to make now that it has served as the focal point for the “low hanging fruit” for ISIS to attack Russia and Russians.? Let Russia take control of their security and supplant the U.S.A. in the region together with their weapon systems, or say thanks and turn to another source for bolstering their total lack of ability to deal with the Sinai ISIS threat.

That my friends is also another post regarding Sinai, but suffice it to say, there is a very easy solution to that entire region of Egypt… Stay tuned.

It is my belief that Russia now has to demonstrate with the absolute resolve that ISIS and their entire leadership should be systematically and totally removed from the living.? This will take time, money, and “boots on the ground” and perhaps the U.S.A. will even lend a hand or perhaps a small Unmanned Ariel Vehicle to assist.? (For sure, 50 advisers are a “me too” response by the U.S.A.)

This unfortunate event as well will have some very strong consequences for the future of air travel in general.? This has shown that no matter how many times you scan “granny” or some little kid with his stuffed doll, your biggest weak link is with the checked baggage handlers that can be bought off or threatened to load a package at any time.

The U.S.A. is broke, just like Russia was at the end of the cold war era, but the U.S.A. can grow its way out of their current situation pretty quickly, with of course the correct course of action, and not by dumbing down to turn into the EU, a region in decline in every aspect.? Russia is not that strong either, but it is the way they operate and how they control their actions that can make them successful in this fight with ISIS.? Their control over the flow of Oil in the region is also of note, i.e., look for higher oil prices when supply is slowed down.

If the Russian forces take out a bunch of people in the process of going after ISIS, then well, collateral damage is the price.? Ukraine, Crimea, Georgia, now Syria, are all areas where Russia operates with the gate of a possessed or determined beast.?? Just politically removed enough to argue that they, the Russians, are there to “help” the folks against the you name them, bad guys.

I’m happy to feel that perhaps the weak and ignored people of the region will now have a champion in their corner in the name of the Russian focus, that will actually stand up to these barbaric misguided lost human souls.? The world may not be ready to actually stand up for what’s right, but for now, at least, Putin is working to stem the flow of murders into Europe and squash the burgeoning repression and annihilation of non Muslims in the region as well.