Wednesday, July 5, 2023

WE CAN ALL LEARN FROM JONAH

There are many interpretations of the Book about the prophet Jonah, and much meaning to be found in it.  One noted Rabbi wrote an article years ago called "The Story of Your Life."  In his article, Rabbi Shais Taub makes a case for why the story of Jonah the prophet, in the Book of Jonah, is profoundly relevant to our own life. 

On the meaning of Jonah, Rabbi Taub wrote:

"I know what you’re thinking. This has got to be a metaphor, because I have never boarded a seafaring vessel bound for Tarshish to escape prophecy, gotten caught in a storm, had the crew throw me overboard, and been swallowed by a fish." Nonethless, the Zohar says that this is the story of your life.

The journey of Jonah is like the journey our soul goes through in our life. The soul, Jonah, is like a hapless passenger, that has traveled far away from G‑d, yet never really left G‑d behind. 

The Rabbi says, "Like Jonah, we delude ourselves into thinking that G-d is “out of range” in our life.  Like Jonah, we take this perceived distance as an indication that we have been dismissed from our mission."

In the story of Jonah, “The Almighty rouses a furious tempest” to shake and break up the boat while Jonah was down in the hull sleeping. The ship's captain went down to stir up Jonah. In a similar sense, people and events shake our soul from its complacency and from answering a calling. Many of us pursue personal satisfaction. At some points in life a messenger may come to wake us from our slumber. A voice of conscience stirs from within and asks us. “What is your occupation?” What have you done with your life? Why are you here? Why were you sent?

At that moment, truth may arise, like it did for Jonah son of Amittai (Truth). Then, if we listen and obey, we may change our direction to serve a purpose that G-d has for us. 

Is a captain calling you? Are you going in the direction of your purpose?

Monday, July 3, 2023

MR. 4TH OF JULY


TRULY EXTRAORDINARY -- On July 1st, despite viscious accusations and ceaseless efforts to destroy him, Trump draws a crowd estimated at 50,000 to a tiny town in South Carolina. As amazing as it is to do this one time, Trump can easily repeat this across the United States. 

It is truly remarkable that a twice impeached, multiple times indicted, 77 year old man can draw massive crowds of adoring supporters. We have not witnessed anything like this in American politics in our lifetime with the exception of John F Kennedy. 

Trump is a phenomenon. He represents much more than the mainstream media or his haters understand or are willing to give any value to. 

Trump doesn't fit the presidential mold and yet his leadership is sure to be legendary.  He is the quintessential "Washington outsider" whose success threatens the "establishment" and the elite more than any President in history.  

Powerful secretive controlling forces in America wanted Kennedy dead. The same is so for Trump. For now they have weaponized our justice system to stop Trump. If that method fails, Trump's life is in danger. Trump must know the tremendous risks he is taking and yet he boldly campaigns. 

In effect, Trump is willing to take a bullet for America and Americans. Every time he steps out in public he risks his life to fight for the American dream. The people know it - and they love him for it. 

Trump embodies the spirit of the 4th of July! 

Epilogue:  President Trump's 4th of July speech at Mount Rushmore 3 years ago was incredible.  


You see Lincoln and Trump above side-by-side. In 2020 I posted this blog about why it is "Hard to tell the difference between Lincoln and Trump."



Sunday, June 18, 2023

FATHERS DAY

Do you overthink holidays? Do holidays evoke feelings of guilt, shame and unworthiness or inadequacy?

Holidays that are dedicated to the roles we have in life, such as fathers day, mothers day, valentines day, bring into focus our performance. We make comparisons and hold ourselves or others up to social standards and ideal expectations. We measure ourselves against others. We are reminded that we have to be the "greatest" or the "best ever," because its not enough to be just "OK" or a "not that bad" a dad. 

How do we define success and failure when it comes to fatherhood? Are their shades of fatherhood -- in other words, aspects we do good at and others we were poor at. Of course there are. It seems like we can't help feeling on fathers day like we are being scored by ourselves, our wife and our children. All of us know the reality, so there is no place to hide. 

The holiday is meant to celebrate and be grateful for fatherhood. So let's start with the basics. Are you a child and are you a parent? Then you qualify! You recieved life and if you have children you gave someone life. Dayenu -- That truly is enough! Period, stop. There is no greater gift. But lets take it another step or two.

Did you love and provide for a child? OMG, that is tremendous!! I did not say how much did you love and provide. Imagine how awful it would be to measure a father based on the value of the house you grew up in! 

We all have a father, whether we know them or not. The orphan has a father. A person whose father left or died when we were very young, still was fathered. Can we be grateful for a father who was killed in war even before we were old enough to form a memory of them? Absolutely. 

The fact is that none of us are perfect. I know I could have been a better father. And I had to accept my father's performance too. One of the wonderful things about being a grandparent is how it affords us a second chance. 

I think the problem with father's day is like a lot of other problems in life. It is how we think about it and the expectations we have and are put on us. You know who is the best one to help us with all of that? The Lord, Hashem, Avinu - our Father in heaven. He is a God of second chances. 

"It is to one's glory to overlook an offense" Proverbs 19:11

Ultimately, Father's Day is like any day or every day. It is a day to wake up and thank God for everything. And if we are suffering, to turn to God for help and understanding. 

Perhaps one of the best ways to celebrate fathers day is to be a better son, or daughter, and accept our father and love them, regardless of how they measure up, just for the life they gave us. In some respect, I think that is what the 5th Commandment to "Honor our parents" is about. Today is like every other day - it is a day to do mitzvot. 

"And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”  Malachia 4.6

Happy Fathers Day!

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

IMPOSSIBLE...

HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN IN AMERICA??

AN ILLEGAL, WELL PLANNED CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROUGH A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND SEND INNOCENT MEN TO PRISON. 

- The Clintons and the DNC planned and paid for it. 

- Barack Obama and Joe Biden knew it was a hoax.

- Director Comey and the FBI knew it was a hoax.

- Pelosi and Schumer had to know!

- The CIA knew it was a hoax.

- The 2 year Mueller investigation was a sham. 

-  Tens of millions of Taxpayers' dollars wasted.

- Congress and our Justice system employees who are paid to serve, instead wasted hundreds of thousands of hours of time chasing one hoax after another.

- Innocent lives and reputations were ruined. 

- Congressmen like Nadler, Schiff and others pendalled lies and damaging allegations for years.

- Officials with sworn oathes to protect the Constitution and uphold the law defrauded the country and purjured themselves before Congress and Courts. 

- Most Leftist mainstream media failed to practice their professional ethical standards. They dedicated an inordinate portion of their airtime to attacking Trump and analysis showed that 95% of their coverage was negative. The mainstream media literally became the propoganda arm of one political party and villified credible investigative journalists and anyone who questioned "the narrative." (The same happened with Covid.) 

ALL of this went on while President Trump had a nation to run! ALL of this was a terrible distraction from major issues! ALL of this damaged the image of Trump, the Presidency and our Country! ALL of this happened while Trump was seeking a second term!! 

Consequently, 80 million people were deprived of their Presidential choice in 2020. 

As a result of all the conspirators our nation has been torn apart, down to the level of even families and friendships. 

Nobody has been held accountable!! AND, it didnt stop with Crossfire Hurricane. 

  • Ukraine corruption with the Bidens was real and should have been investigated!!! 
  • Intelligence Chief and FBI Director Wray new the Hunter Biden Laptop was real when they got 50 signatures claiming it to be Russian disinformation. 
  • President Biden knew he had confidential documents strune about his garage and in a China funded office at UPENN when the FBI raided Trump's home for documents while he was in active good faith discussions with the National Archives about. 
  • His home state of NY, where he has created thousands of jobs and built incredible properties, is relentlessly prosecuting him in order to ruin him and stop his Presidency.
  • Just being an ally or supporter of Trump is enough for the Left to hate and scorn you.

THE DEEP STATE AND THE SWAMP WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY AND POWER! 

Senator Chuck Schumer said “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you." 


The day House Democrats voted to impeach him 
and hours before his raucous rally in Michigan that evening, President Trump sent an infamous tweet. Donald Trump warned his 80+ million supporters, the people who want to "make America great" or as Hillary calls them the "Deplorables,"  that "They're not after me. They are after you. I'm just in the way."  

HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN IN AMERICA??? 

It happened because people hated in their hearts, then they nurtured that into a grudge and took sin unto themselves. Fundamentally, it happened the way Hitler rose to power. 

No other ordinary human being could have endured the relentless attacks, the financial burdens and the constant humiliating public assualts day & night for the last 2,200+ days that Donald Trump has had to face!!!

IT IS NOTHING SHORT OF A MIRACLE THAT DONALD J TRUMP AND HIS FAMILY HAVE SURVIVED POLITICALLY LET ALONE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY THESE PAST 6 YEARS!!

Trump didn't just survive! It is hard to even imagine that he was able to accomplish more than any President has in decades! From monumental trade deals, to tax cuts, the highest wages and employment for Blacks and Hispanics, to Energy Independence, massive increases in NATO spending, the most secure border, defeated ISIS in one year, moved our Embassy to Jerusalem and a huge breakthrough in middle east peace with the Abraham Accords, PLUS much more!!! 

it is incredible that Trump survived it all AND is the Republican frontrunner for President for the 3rd time at age 76!  The Left won't even give him credit for that remarkable feat!

How is that ALL possible??!!

DON'T THE LAST SIX YEARS SEEM IMPOSSIBLE??

Sunday, May 14, 2023

MAKING SENSE OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION'S BORDER POLICY


This map shows the "2020 US Presidential Election By County & Vote Share." Suppose you are the DNC and your goal is to turn more counties "Blue."  How could you achieve that?  

There is a way that the DNC can turn more counties from "Red to Blue" WITHOUT needing to change one voter's decision. How? 

THE FLOOD OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO LARGE SANCTUARY CITIES CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS IS DESTROYING THE QUALITY OF LIFE, AND THUS DRIVING BLUE VOTERS OUT TO RED RURAL COUNTIES. 

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED JUST IN TIME FOR THE 2025 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION! 

Two million people fled America’s largest cities from 2020 to 2022.  

According to census data, "Metros" as a group lost population for the first time since at least 1990, and probably for decades before that. 17 of the nation’s 25 largest counties suffered population losses between April 2020 and July 2022, including Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, San Diego, and Seattle. Only a fresh influx of immigrants saved big cities from even more dramatic population declines.

The historic exodus, combined with chronic office vacancies and surging crime, pose profound and potentially existential challenges to America’s great cities. Big-city homicides rose by 40% between 2019 and 2022. 

OTHER BIG WINNERS FROM THE OPEN BORDER POLICY:

- Amazon 

- Big corporations that need cheap labor

- Wealthy homeowers that rely on landscapers and home care workers

GROWING THE PROBLEM:

The expiration of Title 42 last week will only worsen illegal migration into cities and add to the wave of American's leaving big cities in 2023 and 2024.

The Trump Administration implimented Title 42 in March 2020. It allowed for the rapid expulsion of unauthorized border crossers and asylum seekers. Since is was considered an "expulsion" rather than a "deportation," the migrants are not afforded the right to make a case to stay in the U.S. before an immigration judge. Under Title 42, most migrants could be returned to Mexico within hours, which is what the Trump Administration was doing. 

Conversly, the Biden Administration is simply releasing illegal immigrants without even setting a date for a court hearing. Without Title 42 we can expect millions of illegal migrants to stream across our borders and flood into Democrat sanctuary cities. 

BESIDES AN OPEN BORDER, WHAT OTHER DEMOCRAT POLICIES ARE LEADING TO INCREASED CRIMES AND OTHER QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES IN BIG CITIES?

  • Defunding the police
  • Cashless bail 
  • Not prosecuting crimes
  • Release criminals from jail
  • Overload hospitals and schools 
  • Flood streets with homeless

There is a right way and wrong way to do immigration.  The Biden Administration is definitely doing immigration the wrong way and anyone with simple common sense knows that!  Appointing Kamala Harris as the Nation's Border Tzar was a sure fire way to NOT fix the problem as t the border! 

The present immigration policy makes no sense unless you look at it as part of an overall sick partisan strategy to turn Red counties Blue. 

THE BIG QUESTION:

What we don't know is whether Democrats who fled the cities because of the Biden Administration's policies will vote for Biden/Harris in 2024. 

WAKE UP AMERICA!

Today we call it the "Great Reset," but the concept of destroying the economic system in order to achieve an overall objective of Democratic Socialism is not a new idea. 

In 1966, Cloward and Piven, both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work, "proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy."[

In his 2006 book Winning the Race, political commentator John McWhorter attributed the rise in the welfare state after the 1960s to the Cloward–Piven strategy,



Friday, March 17, 2023

WHAT SHOULD WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN?



My father's bar mitzvah bible -
A mazoretic translation of the hebrew tenach.

What should we teach our children? Could there be a more important question? The implications stretch way beyond our children to our children's children, to all they interact with, to our community and our nation. 

Some might answer "Love." But we show them love. They learn love by being loved. The same is to be said of hard work, respect and morality. Our children learn character by displaying these things for them. 

But what about wisdom? How shall we be wise and teach wisdom? Perhaps the answer is found in a book. But which book? It can't be a new book, because surely there were wise men long long ago.  

Where shall we find the wisdom of Solomon? The answer is in the question. Teach them Proverbs.

Proverbs 1:  

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%201&version=NIV

Proverbs 22: 

https://www.bible.com/bible/111/PRO.22.NIV

Historians believe that the Dark Ages ended when Constantinople, which was the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 CE. But I think it was about one year later. Why one year later? 

One year later, in 1454 Gutenberg put his invention, the movable type printing press to commercial use producing thousands of texts for the Church. One year later, THE FIRST BOOK was printed on the Gutenberg press - The famous Gutenberg "42-line" Bible using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. It is called the "Forty-Two Line Bible" because the pages are printed with two columns of 42 lines each. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution." 

Only 38 years later, in 1492, Columbus first set foot in the Americas. The first European settlers brought their Bibles to the "New World." America is the only Covenant Nation after Israel. 

By the time of the American Revolution, the influence of the Bible was deep and profound. The signers of the Declaration of Independence knew their Bible well.  

George Washington noted, "…religion and morality are indispensable supports… let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion…"

Isaiah 46:9-10

Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, 

Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’

Friday, March 10, 2023

ARE YOU A RACIST?


DO YOU BELIEVE???

... race is a "social construct" created and maintained by western Europeans Whites to justify their ONGOING oppression and exploitation of Blacks on the basis of their inferiority, immorality, or incapacity for self-rule?

... whites purposely continue to FORCE Blacks and Hispanics to live in racially segregated and impoverished neighbourhoods BECAUSE they are Blacks and Hispanics?

... whites DESIGN our system SO THAT Blacks and Hispanics receive less and inferior medical care than Whites and consequently lead shorter lives?

... because all Whites are inherently racists their conscious and subsconcious racist behaviour is directed at Blacks and Hispanics in the form of “microaggressions,” which are verbal or behavioral slights?

Simply put, do you believe that America IS systemically racist TODAY and that the whole of American society is designed by Whites to oppress and exploit Blacks and Hispanics? 

ARE YOU A RACIST? 

If you are White you are. That is, according to Critical Race Theory. 

I OBJECT TO THAT ACCUSATION! 

Just because there are racists, bigots and antisemites in American society, not to mention Blacks who hate Whites, does not mean that any of those things DEFINES America. 

It is easy to make the case that CRT is by its very nature and message, a racist ideology. Therefore, teaching CRT is in itself an ACT OF RACISM.

Should we teach ABOUT racism and the history of slavery, as well as antisemtism, in schools and colleges? YES, OF COURSE!! Florida Law ALREADY REQUIRES that THESE topics be taught!!  CRT is NOT that!  It is a THEORY that makes harmful distortions and accusations. 

America's schools should NOT be teaching that ALL Whites are racists and America IS a systemically racist nation. Critical Race Theory promotes hate and instills a desire for vengeance. That is why DeSantis banned ONLY teaching CRT. Don't fall for the media lies!

Besides, as the video below shows, everyone is a little bit racist.

Nobody is denying that Blacks on average have issues and challenges. Black lives do matter, and it is possible that Black lives don't matter enough to those who they should matter most.