On Ariel Castro and his kipnapping of three girls.

Sort of sad that the guy who did this to these girls (as John  Gambling) interviewing Steven Portnoy) was a popular guy. It is sad our society in general. Obviously someone who does this his attitudes have to be perverted in his general attitudes and in a more normal society this guy wouldn't be popular in the first place. And his two brothers didn't know about it either. Seems strange that they didn't know "anything" about it. http://www.wor710.com/cc-common/podcast/single_page.html?more_page=1&podcast=johngambling&selected_podcast=the_john_gambling_show_5_1368094366.mp3

I do think our society deserves some blame as a whole that nobody even says there is something strange about this guy. It would be one thing if this guy was a recluse but he wasn't. See the link above with this interview with John Gambling. Reposted from Facebook. 

In addition one of the boyfriend of these these three girls was constantly harassed even though he had nothing to do with it time and time again.

Thankfully though they are freed. 

The most disgusting part was that through abuse he forced five abortions and who knows if these women can  ever have children after this ordeal by this man who was living a double life. 

How I celebrated the Shabbos during my Childhood and as a Teenager.

I was thinking about this. The bible does say we should work six days and rest on the 7th day.

However, as a kid growing would play sports sometimes on the Sabbath and if alone would usually play certain board games sometimes by myself. The first certainly isn't in the spirit of the day and the second was just doing something I liked without writing or using electricity.

Also I would read for school that I had an assignment for which also isn't in the spirit of the day. (This Challah bread looks moldy but whatever)

Would not write or use any electronics. That was the main  way to keep the Shabbath although you could read books related to school which as a kid as your main activity during the week.

So how did this impact me? 

Have to say into my 20's it certainly gave the impression that technology was bad. Certain activity that uses electronics may be work but others are not. Turning on a light certainly is NOT WORK. Building a fire was work but thanks to the invention of the light bulb creating light is no longer something that requires work as hitting a switch no one can claim is work.

Did watch too much TV as a kid and it was good I didn't do it on Saturday. Same with playing games on the computer. But that is an issue for 6 days of the week as well.

Do think it creates an environment of turning the time into a day to just dislike technology and that is not a good thing. As this has made the lives of both men and women much easier. It also creates people that lack a certain amount of humility by this as well as those who made life easier for all of us we can't use on Saturday even though hitting a switch is no more work then getting out of bed.

It did affect my early years when I was working as well that I didn't even think about the advantage of using technology as would do some accounting work on paper rather then using Excel.

Also so many people on Shabbos will focus on work just not use computers or electricity. Instead of using it for activities not related to work.


This especially comes into play now with e-readers which were specifically made for reading books and not having to stare at a LCD back lit screen that causes eye strain. If you have limited space e-readers are great in that you don't have to keep so many books around. It isn't work.

Although one item I have to admit is that as a kid I use to play sport dice game on the Shabbath and sometimes now when I am bored and lonely on my Sabbath I play a game similar to this on the computer. I have better things to do with my time then that but once in a while I admit I do it and play a statistical baseball game on my computer which was similar to what I did as a kid although doing it using dice and cards to keep score. 

Friday Night Shabbat at Lower East Synogague. The singing of a Friday night prayer while some women were talking.

Sadly Rabbis and organized religion does play on envy between the genders to benefit themselves at the expense of their own people.  Photo from:. www.preservationnation.org

Some Jews claim that a women singing is somehow a problem calling it Kol Isha. I don't see what the issue is why shouldn't women sing when appropriate.  The idea it will make men act badly or just with uncontrollable lust is just absurd. 

Nothing biblical about it. But then when a song is son you hear guys singing it while women are chatting in their section of the shul. To me it is very annoying as if the women don't take the prayer seriously and men should pray or sing while they chat. I don't see the torah requiring Jews to pray 3 times a day in which they force the men to do this instead of sacrifices but the think is for sacrifices in appearing at the temple men were only required to show up three times a year not three time a day.

As this was going on I walked out it just made me uncomfortable to see men singing while women are just chatting in the women section. To be fair it was 2/3 women but still.

To me it just seemed like false prayer. We can pray to God as much as we want but if the female of our people just use this as an excuse to chat doesn't seem to be good for unity in a family. 

If you feel prayer is important (which in my own view prayer can't just be by wrote and wasn't required three times a day) but regardless if the men are doing something for God the women should want ot be part of rather then just chat about other things which that kind of attitude does not create a healthy environment as women just want men to use God so they can get ahead of their own men which is not a good thing and wanting to keep their own men does create serious problems.

Friday Nigh Sabbat Dinner at the Lower East Side Syngogue. Why 13 for Bar Mitzvah question I asked the Rabbi

   I went tonight to a dinner that I ended up being there for only 30 minutes as seemed like very few people but would've stayed anyway except the atmosphere really turned me off.

  Anyway, it started by the Rabbi saying hello and was nice enough.

  Someone then asked about if women ever say in front and men in the back and the Rabbi said when we had a Bat Mitzvah as he said this was the only Halachic way to do it and this was the first Bat Mitzvah in the shul.

  It got me to ask when when did Bar Mitzvah's start and why 13? Since someone Bat Mitzvah's as I feel Bar Mitzvah was an invention as well.


  As the torah only mentions the age of 20 a number of times. With serving in the Legion to protect their camp and with the sin of the spies only those over 20 were punished. So, where does 13 come from? The Rabbi answered that this was for the military but I asked also about the Sin of the spies and he said well maybe those under 20 didn't commit it.

Photo from.www.preservationnation.org  Pretty sure this was the shul I was at. 

  In most Western Countries 20 or 21 was the age you could vote originally

  Which I also mentioned and said well they likely got that from the bible. And he said it doesn't matter but I again asked why 13. I told him when I was 13 I still had a boys voice and not a man's voice.

  He responded by saying that this is the age where you could know right and wrong and in America if you committed a crime at 15 or so you wouldn't be considered fully liable and be considered a juvenile  but under Judaism you would be.

  So he was putting down America as well that he would think harsher punishment for anyone over 13 while America makes a distinction between those under 18 and at one point it was 21.

This false claim that 80% of Jews died in Egypt.

  Because they wanted to stay. And most claim they died during the plague of darkness. This is a view promoted by Rabbis but it has no biblical evidence. Sadly you have some self righteous who love to use holidays to promote hatred of their fellow Jew in a way that is hateful and shows no mercy unlike our own God and the type of people God wanted as leaders. Chaim Ben Pesach and Debbie Schussel are two examples of this kind of hate and lack of mercy to their own people simply because others (some who don't know any better) don't see things the way they do even though both of them like all of us have flaws in their own right.

  God punished one generation for being afraid to settle in Israel but let the children go in.

   The bible is clear during the sin of the spies that most Jews were not killed because of this. Their punishment was they could not go into Israel because they were afraid and attacked Moses and Aaron and Joshua and Caleb who told them not to listen to the other 10 spies who told them to be afraid to settle in Israel and they complained they should have stayed in Egypt. Yet the punishment was not to kill most of them but to force them to wander while allowing their children to enter.

  And in the plague of Darkness for God to just punish without warning would not be appropriate. 

   As how would this affect the other 20% who stayed alive. It just doesn't match the type and way God punishes in the bible. Which is usually mixed with mercy and some dialogue in this case they weren't yet ready to leave and God punishes on actions and behavior not just some thought that may go through your mind but you don't act on.

  Why 80% though

   Of course where did they plunk 80% from as well? My own thoughts are that basically 80% don't like the Rabbis at least among men and so in their mind they have no right to live. Of course the Rabbis being men don't have mercy like God does because they are just men and in this case men with very vain qualities like many religious leaders in organized religion which we imitate this in our own religion even though the family was the first source in the bible before any prophet even.

  This is terrible though and hatred being promoted by our religion

    As clearly the way God punished in the bible was to punish the parents but have mercy on the children of these parents. Not to completely destroy them which God originally proposed to Moses and Moses fought for his people of the consequence of doing this as it would make God look bad as well. But organized religion sadly can't see beyond their own agenda's.

  Any comments?

  See numbers chapter 13-14 for this whole episode.

Happy Passover to everyone.

Wanted to wish everyone a happy passover. Sadly even though God saved the first born Jewish males I as a Jewish first born male spend most of the holiday alone and at this point feel almost as in many ways as a first born male am left to hang in the wind.

Photo from www.thecompetentcook.com

How my father and grandfather got out of Hungary.

Had lunch today with my father. And learned about how my Grandfather out of Hungary which he got out during the few weeks the borders were open in 1956 and was able to bribe the government to get the rest of the family out. He was put in prison for horror or horror's running a business but that ended up being a good thing as he was close to the border and able to get out and then got the rest of the family out and was temporarily in Austria where he was able to make money to bribe the government to get the rest of the family out.

Looking at Leviticus 15 again. Very Politically Incorrect.

Taking a look. To us modern people it is offensive for men to make their bedding and clothes impure if they release semon and a woman has a 7 day impure people of anything she sits on or reclines on.

I guess though it has to do with sexuality being used in the right way with women trying to use their attraction to mate and have children and a man as well not just wanting a pretty girl for pleasures without any consequences.

Although sadly the Rabbis have corrupted this by this only affecting married women and then this only applies to the husband and therefore unmarried women they admit are ALWAYS impure. Men too really don't have a mikvah either. And maybe they can work in an exile type existence but if there was a temple God warned not to have these impurities. (Leviticus 15:32-33)

A judge dismisses charge of a father breaking the nose of her daughters boy friend

    Currently reading part of the book Banished: A Memior.

   http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15791137-banished

  

    About a woman who is family joined the hated Westboro Baptist Church. What got me though is a judge (before they joined) allowing her father to break the nose of a 14 year old boy who was a neighbor and they were becoming friendly and were interested in becoming boyfriend and girlfriend. The parents of they teenage boy sued her father and the father did this because he was offended by the 14 year old's letter to his daughter in which he spoke of some sexual fantasies and they didn't do anything yet the judge dismissed the charges because of these notes as if some innocent notes by a 14 year old boy allows the father to break his nose and tell him to stay away from his daughter. It shows the mentality of some judges that actually hate any affection between a man and a woman and not only that. Allowed the father to place a restraining order on the 14 year old teenager who HE ATTACKED to stay away from his daughter. This is going on in America. Really sick. Yet this judge (which had no connection to the church and was before they joined by he got intereted) allowed the father to assault a 14 year old teenager simply for some love notes that she rights in the book were mostly innocent.



    This judge allowed this man to get out of control by throwing out charges in a clear assault. Why? It seems the judge himself has the same mentality of the father and to beat up any innocent relationship between two teenagers. Likely the judge has little affection in his own marriage so a little affection (even if a little immature) which enraged the father gives the father the right to beat up a 14 year old teenager and the teenager is the aggressor not this out of control father who obviously is jealous of any male friendship her daughter would have and reading this he was verbally and physically abusive to her as well. This is the mentality of many judges who also destroy marriages as they actually have the same type of jealousy of women being married and being influenced in some area's by their husbands.

  This also shows how in reality serious abuse in family is very much present and in fact with judges like this may be more common then in the past in the United States. By this disgusting church exists because of some of our overall injustice or many judges who only use their position to abuse others and therefore side with the wrong side. If this judge would have charged this father with assault and was punished maybe this guy would not become more and more radicalized as is the case in the book. 

   This is just terrible that this sick judge would allow a father (and this was before they were fully involved in this hateful church) to do this based on a note and you don't hear about these things because it doesn't fit some of the socialist agenda's. This girl was less then 100 pounds were her father was very big. 

  This doesn't make us a country to look up to.

Hugo Chavez and Anti-semitism.

From the Wikipedia entry on Hugo Chavez in which he also created much hatred of Jews in the country during his rule which wasn't common before his rule. Allegations of antisemitism. From wikipedia.

On 24 December 2005, Chávez stated that "[t]he world is for all of us, then, but it so happens that a minority, the descendants of the same ones that crucified Christ, the descendants of the same ones that kicked Bolívar out of here and also crucified him in their own way over there in Santa Marta, in Colombia. A minority has taken possession all of the wealth of the world."[238] Accusations of antisemitism have been leveled against Chávez because of these comments.[239] However, Steve Rendall and Jim Naureckas of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting questioned that interpretation, which they said was largely claimed by right-wing opinion journals.[240]

Hugo Chavez is dead at 58.

Yeah. The vicious dictator is dead. A man who is net worth was 2 billion although he claimed to be for the poor. He liked these idea of socialism because he can see how he can use one person's jealousy of another to steal that persons property. Of course the person being jealous wouldn't get it, only the government would.

Listening to Michael Savage in which me mentions despite this rhetoric of equality naked money and bribery was more prevalent then what they say in the past.

In addition crime skyrocketed because those who supported Chavez and got his handouts could do as they please.

This photograph was produced by Agência Brasil, a public Brazilian news agency.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/05/hugo-chavez-dead-at-58-good-riddance.html.

Islam downplays Rebecca and Sarah and uses feminism to attract women instead.

And yet women who come from a Jewish father try to imitate Islam and other religions in wanting to focus on what men have and feminism and imitate the socialism of other societies that have kept these other societies down. We shouldn't imitate it. 

 

    I do work locally with those who are Egyptian and their native tongue is arabic. Despite what people think the women are pretty vocal and many are into feminism although it doesn't make them happy. The reality is that Mohammed had to put down the contribution of Rebecca which the area she knew more then Issac was the nature of her children. Feminism has women focusing on area's that in the end will have somewhat less credibility then a guy will and takes away area's that they clearly would have more leverage. So in doing this Mohammed and Islam has to go easy on women in other ways although it doesn't make them happy. In fact they feel the Jewish bible is too harsh in some cases towards women which God demands we don't have mercy on women that would promote paganism in Israel as they would end up negatively influencing others. http://www.answering-christianity.com/isaac_and_ishmael.htm 

• Isaac and Ishmael in Islam and Christianity - Proof that Ishmael was the son to be sacrificed.

  www.answering-christianity.com

   

  This the title of the article (above). And this was to address Christians by the way but applies to us as well as in many cases they see women in the light of what they think Rebecca who they think wasn't acting properly here and making up her own rules and this story was just how the bible got corrupted. But as mentioned below if women truly acting in the ways of Sarah and Rebecca are enemies would see that yes these women in these area's did have superior understanding then the men did.

   

  It is sad though that Jews don't seem to get that if women truly acted in the ways of the Patriarchs they would have to conclude that God's word to the Jews is true and it is clear why in those area's it was Sarah and Rebecca who had more influence then the men. But when want to be feminist they don't make themselves any better then any other women of any other culture. Obviously this means they don't accept what Sarah did either in that it was she who recognized that Ismael could not be part of the covenant. Although this is not the case of a father favoring the younger child as in fact Abraham was troubled by this and God did tell Abraham that Ismael would be a large and prosperous nation.

China kidnaps pregnant women and forces abortions

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/story/2012-07-25/China-forced-abortions/56465974/1

If you violate the one or in some cases two child policy. Isn't that great. There is more "equality" in birth rates among Chinese as you could only have 1 or 2 children and if anyone has more China does this. Of course the equality is based on pushing birth rates down which is what happens in any case of this that whatever the item is the equality is reached by pushing levels to a lower level and not raising anyone up to a higher level.

This is horrible though. This is pure evil what the Chinese government is doing. Kidnapping pregnant women and forcing abortions. A very abusive government.

Baby busts don't reduce the population until two generations after.

It is interesting that in terms of populations baby busts don't effect the population total until two generations afterwords if they live on average till 75 or so. The population ages but the population does not decrease until two generations after which also many times is why the problem isn't addressed as the end result doesn't happen right away

Turn 40 in about 5 months.

Can't believe turn 40 in about 5 months. My life is pretty lonely but I guess things could be worse although I really don't want to end up without anyone coming after me which because of my age now and mostly working so-so jobs that may be fate which I blame behavior in the past by my own family and the so called Jewish community for the situation that I now face as I can't turn back the clock.

•  My own family and other Jews who call themselves Orthodox like Greeks and Russians (although I think this comes from Greeks) and my extended family have felt that using my prime years was a good time to put me down and use me as a scapegoat and try to ..
•  Jews are sacrificing Jewish men and some Jewish women and their won children for various disgusting causes and I don't know what is going to be because to do this or support this God clearly warns us in the bible if we do this we will suffer serious punishments.

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    Some additional thoughts for those who checked my blog out here. The age issue is an issue for a number of reasons on my own side including the age you can be when a woman is still of childbearing age and you can get her pregnant and I don't know what my wife to be on the pill and on FDA drug which long term use is not good for her anyway and reduces her own muscle tone as it reduces the lesser amount of testosterone a women produces to lower levels. While God meant sexual intimacy to be something that gives a person pleasure it also though should have attached to it some responsibility as otherwise the other person is just there for our own personal pleasure and that isn't a good thing. Also it seems wrong for Rabbis somehow to claim using a condom is wrong but using a woman using a drug is ok although the pill does reduce a woman's libido. That is just how I feel at this point and when intimacy is seen as an act that has social responsibility to it then we want to make the world a better place so people can support children they may have from this act.