REAL TORAH
Temple Shabbat Shalom Announces Notes for an empirical check list of Torah and her teachings: A Get REAL project! (Not for the fearfull and fainthearted) Listen I do know that this is way too much. But I must teach! The 14 Books of the Mishnah Torah are based on an...
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Aikido Feet (Ten Theories Of Everything) The sound of one hand clapping? Slap your own face. Turn the other cheek. Awaken the Ai. Learn this Torah Teaching: Kabballah Five into five. The Big Bang renamed: Ai-ki-do. Love The Word that is...
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KABBALLAHWALKY The Final Age® twill be perceived By those Ascending Mountain A With whimsy is the Word rephrased The Fathers are outraged! Beware the Ologies my peers Religions bind and dogmas klatch Beware the Funde Mental Bird and shun The Frumious soul savers...
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QUEST ION INGS: THE GRAIL AND THE TABLETS OF TIKKUN (A Real Final Solution) The Grail is found in the quest of Ascending the A Mountain. The Ark of the Covenant is found within. The Riddle of the Ages? “It has been taught: The First Five Principle...
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1:1 Moby Dick, and now this, a rabbi rewrites the Bible? Has anyone ever read Moby Dick cover to cover? My rewrite contains even more blubber, see Final Kabballah. 1:2 The Azza reminds: A to Z or Z to A The Final Age Testament is a FAT Bible. The final...
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Ten Words to Heal the World The most basic and concrete introduction to Kabballah and Universal spirituality are taught in this workshop. Call (518 )893-0808 QUEST ION INGS: THE GRAIL AND THE TABLETS OF TIKKUN A Real Final Solution The Grail is found in the...
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A Devar Jonah Conversation Ari.A Alpern (This version is set up to start a conversation) A salam Ah laykum. Shalom A lay chem, Peace be Upon You. And upon you Peace. Welcome to our devotional conversation on the Quran. We will read and recite together, from “The...
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Bar Mitzvah Boy Syndrome? Yes.Time To Grow Up Time magazine the late spring of 2011 asks: Sex, Lies, and Arrogance: What Makes Powerful Men Behave So Badly? Why is it that the higher one rises in a power hierarchy the more likely they are to commit indiscretions?...
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Beyond Sunday School: A Call to the Children of Israel. If you, like many, stopped your spiritual education at age 13 or 12, you may see the world like an adolescent. Similar to The High Priest Aaron, of blessed memory, modern rabbis are not able to prevent the dance...
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My “I Have a Dream Speech” of Shabbat Shalom ( In memory of Rabbi Edwin H. Friedman ) Rabbi Friedman of blessed memory is my main rabbinic mentor. In his final book, A Failure of Nerve, the good rabbi challenges each of us to have our own “I have a dream speech.”...
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A: Mastering the Final Name. Be a Baal Shem Tov A Review Say A, The Final Name, or Ah, as in say Ah Aleph God In A Beginning add lamed say Ale, or A lah Plural of majesty Al o heam, not L o him in A Beginning creating continuously, in your goodness Ma ah say B...
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On Reading Wallace Stevens with Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary Poetic allusion must be "recognizable not only to a coterie of poets and gentlemen scholars, but to a whole culture as well." John Hollander My diction is ary Sitting pretty upon this Arête I...
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Gnomologia of Elijah For Theo, who prefers poetry You are the task, (as Rebbe K teaches), and no disciple, far or wide; and the Teacher, and the Savior of your own life. So what is Decisive? Sinai? Calgary? Only The A Ascent. Arête, Says this Prophet of...
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Announcing: A REAL Event in Ten Acts Sealah! Act One: From A to Z A to Z As easy as A-lijah ascending Zion Meeting Moses And Kafka on the way All Knowing The decisive thing, The truth beyond the coffin Is taught and learned. Sealah! Ari-A one To the zebra shawled I...
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Taiku The burden of Elijah T.A.I.K.U.? All solved? Haiku. Well versed! (For Ezra, Once Again) A legal debate in the Talmud the Rabbi’s are unable to settle is referred to as a Taiku, an acrostic for “Tishbi will resolve.” That would be me. Oy. It’s not enough that...
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Alenu Agonistic A ; Alenu Agnostic A Is A equal to not A? What may we really say about God? If the Negative is given (As with rabbi mm and k) Is the positive merely Idolatry? Is certainty not idolatry? I am not sure. Is it upon Us, Alenu, To solve the...
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Poems before Prophecy A Poets Prayer: Ezra. Help. Do poets pray? What if a becomes e And we are consumed in this conversation? Collaborations? Poetry as duet? A seminary for prophets? Ezra. Let us go then and keep it succinct. An event poem. Include a match with...
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Final Beliefs: Repetitions (Scripts for A Conversation; in 18 parts) Part 1. "The prologues are over. It is a question now of Final belief. So, say that Final Belief must be in a fiction. It is time to choose. " Wallace Stevens Part Two: Shalom Shalom A number of...
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Final Solutions to the Jewish Problem (One) If X is equal to Z over Y And Y is equal to ? Then ABC Jehovah? If Z is any Jew, Suffering, Servant Is Y any question? If J becomes K LmnoP? Let P = Priest of Politics or Psychology; and even of Poetry. Q is minded Gospel...
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The Final Belief: Recite and Read (One Rabbi's Appreciation of the Quran) (Before beginning): Spend one full year organizing An Ecumenical Conference On how to read Scriptures Which only you attend. While the Quran, according to some Muslims, is not to...
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House God Right
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Broken and Stained glass
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Ellul: The Ascent to The Days of Awes: A Seder and Siddur Introduction : Imagine this: New Years Eve, Times Square, a million people with hats and horns awaiting midnight. But wait. Everyone is sober. Prayers are flashing on the big screen: O Lord, Lord, a God of...
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Good News: ( What one Rabbi and one student taught me about the Gospels.) When I attended rabbinic school in Jerusalem the only person who read the Gospels was the Dean, an erudite scholar of Semitic languages. I would be the only disciple to follow in his footsteps....
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Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good. This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous. It is in that thought that we collect...
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