Transformative Prototypes in Religious Mysticism

According to Wikipedia, Saturnalia, is the feast with which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn, which was on 17 December. Over the years, it expanded to a whole week, to 23 December. And is the prototype precursor to the Western worldview as celebration of Christmas on 25 December.

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Nous:	#15
Time:	18:15 hrs
Date:	2009.12.25
Torah:	#40 #2 #5 %81 = #47
Dao:	Mastering Guiding Discourse, Revealers of Virtue
Tetra:	#1 - Centre
I-Ching:	H61 - Inner Truth
Latin: Solus {Alone; Eternal God} Alt: Lakbel {Journey in the Circuit of God} { 1. HELPS IN CONSOLATION AND THOSE WHO WISH TO HAVE CHILDREN 2. MORALS 3. RELIGION & PIETY 4. Smat } Partial Solar Eclipse 25 December 2000
Eliud {God is my praise}

Male Idea	#359	Telos		#397	Female Idea
Three Treasures	#67	67	67	#67	Three Treasures
Value and Function of Non-Existence	#11	78	92	#25	What's behind it all?, Imaging the Mysterious
Three Treasures	#67	145	148	#56	Abstruse Myterious Virtuosity
To Guide with Names, Reason's Realisation	#1	146	163	#15	Mastering Guiding Discourse, Revealers of Virtue
Extremes and Reversals, Greatest Virtue	#45	191	207	#44	Moderate Values, Setting Up Precepts
Impossible Advice, What can Be Done?	#10	201	253	#46	Guiding Contentment, Moderation of Desire
Numbing Effect of the Conventional, Abstaining from Desire	#12	213	255	#2	Contrast of Terms, Self-Culture
Employing Deeming, Daring to Act	#73	286	316	#61	Virtuous Humility at Using 'Beneath'
Employing Deeming, Daring to Act	#73	359	397	#81	Propounding the Essential

Saturnalia became one of the most popular Roman festivals. It was marked by tomfoolery and reversal of social roles, in which slaves and masters ostensibly switched places--"I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius." [1 Corinthians 1:10-31 (KJV)] In February/March 41 CE, Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus was asked by the Emperor Claudius (41-54 CE) to divorce his cousin, Roman Emperor Augustus’ (30-14 CE) great niece Domitia in 33 and marry his niece Agrippina the Younger. He was an intelligent, humble and witty person, famous for his epigram that there had never been a better slave or a worse master, referring to the Emperor Tiberius (14-37 CE) and his heir, Caligula (37-41 CE).

Did the Apostle Paul earlier baptize the Roman Caesar Caligula and the reputable Passienus Crispus (d. 47 CE) as step-father to Nero? Therefore given this ancestral spiritual prerogative, had no problem in later making an appeal to Caesar Nero's jurisprudence and whom he met as a 21yo in 58 CE as the fourth year of his rule. Whereas Rome's earlier emperors (as technically Rome's first citizens) rose to power on the back of great deeds to which the inclusion of July and August within the calendar attests. Nero, like Caligula, obtained power by the privilege of his birth as the bestowal of Julio-Claudian dynastic favour from his grand-uncle Emperor Claudius. Born on 15 December 37 CE into great wealth and luxury with little training in administration, Nero was an indolent victim of his own elite status. Who, after the destruction of the city by fire in July 64 CE, began the persecution of Christians (ie. Jewish piety and uncircumcised Gentile proselytes). Which continued until the legalizing of Christianity by Constantine the Great in 313 CE.

Super: #379 / #67 - Three Treasures; I-Ching: H10 - Tread Carefully; Tetra: #48 - Ritual; Ego: #286 / #73 - Employing Deeming/ Daring to Act; I-Ching: H46 - Moving Upward; Tetra: #7 - Ascent

Latin: Gloria {God who comforts the oppressed} Alt: Menkel {Cease Strife Before God] {
1. HELPS HEAL THE ILLS OF THE SPIRIT, RELEASES FROM PERSECUTORS
2. MEN OF VIRTUE
3. FAITHFULNESS, INDUCES OBEDIENCE IN SUBORDINATES
4. Homoth
} Jesus {He is saved/A savior; a deliverer] of Nazareth {Sovereign; one chosen or set apart; separated; crowned; sanctified}; #15 CE

[#3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet, #20 - Left without Language/ Different From the Vulgar, #52 - So What?/ Returning to the Origin, #73 - Employing Deeming/ Daring to Act, #79 - Recognizing Agreements/ Keep Your Obligations, #1 - To Guide with Names/ Reason's Realisation, #16 - Being a Guide/ Returning to the Root, #35 - Great Guiding Signs?/ Virtue of Benevolence, #7 - Intentional Reversal/ Dimming Radiance]

The daemon shown below for 17 December relates to Nous Category of Understanding @ #72 - "Self-Love, Holding Oneself Dear; Tetra: #79 - Difficulties; I-Ching: H39 - Obstacles" which has a further #330 - ANGEL MITZRAEL @ #73 - "Employing Deeming, Daring to Act; Tetra: #7 - Ascent; I-Ching: H46 - Moving Upward" correspondence as autonomic homoiotic sapiental kabbalistic paradigm, to the Christian Passion as Soul of the Messiah in the 7th strata: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage-DOULOO under-HUPO the elements-STOICHEION of the world-KOSMOS: But when the fullness of the time was come {ie. "Seventy weeks (as 490 years x 364 days) are determined for your people and for your Holy City, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy." [Daniel 9:24-27]}, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law {ie. Our Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen [Galatians 1:3-5]}, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak-ASTHENES and beggarly-PTOCHOS elements-STOICHEION, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. {Sun and Moon of the 6D cycle of 2 x 1092 days as 3 x 364 days solar or 3 x 354 + 30 days lunar cycle: Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years" [Genesis 1:14]} I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." [Galatians 3:28-4:11]

Super: #267 / #12 - Numbing Effect of the Conventional/ Abstaining from Desire; I-Ching: H6 - Conflict; Tetra: #25 - Contention; Ego: #247 / #3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet; I-Ching: H46 - Moving Upward; Tetra: #8 - Opposition

Latin: Facies {God above all things} Alt: Anael {Ship of God} {
1. SERVES TO OBTAIN THE FRIENDSHIP OF A PERSON
2. ASTRONOMY & PHYSICS
3. THE SENSITIVITY OF THE HEART
4. Ptiau
} #34 CE

[#70 - Difficulty in Knowing How/ Difficult to Understand, #17 - Politics, #3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet, #3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet, #21 - Guiding and the Physical/ Emptying the Heart, #63 - Origins in Reversal/ Consider Beginnings, #26 - Ambiguous Reversals/ Virtue of Gravity, #36 - Natural Reversals/ 'Secret' Explanation, #8 - Worth of Water/ Easy By Nature]

This cypher-chronos connection to the sum #330 as the HRUMACHIS 'oth 6D = 6 * 364 as 2184 day cycle to the solar/lunar calendar as evident by the Spirit moving across the waters in the Genesis narrative, also has a computed inclusion of the 12th as vCyan on Vernal Equinox of 20 March 1996 + (5*364) + 182 = 12 September 2001 as the 1st day of 7th solar month and the 17th as vCoral on the #369th day as New Moon of 17 September 2001 / 18 September = 1 Tishri 5762: "And after {#346} three {#615} months {#98} we departed {G321} in a ship {#310} of Alexandria {G221}, which had wintered {G3914} in the isle {#528}, whose sign {G3902} was Castor {G1359} and Pollux {G1359}. And landing {#1125} at {G1519} Syracuse {G4946}, we tarried {#990} there three {#615} days {#154}.

And from thence {G3606} we fetched a compass {#1021}, and came {G2658} to Rhegium {#241}: and after {#346} one {G3391} day {#154} the south {#690} wind blew {G1920}, and we came {#826} the next {G1206} day to Puteoli {G4223}: Where {G3757} we found {#1535} brethren {G80}, and were desired {#1038} to tarry {#990} with them seven {#386} days {#154}: and so {G3779} we went {#826} toward {G1519} Rome {G4516}.

 

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Nous:	#72
Time:	17:40 hrs
Date:	2009.12.17
Torah:	#70 #40 #40 %81 = #69
Dao:	Self-Love, Holding Oneself Dear
Tetra:	#79 - Difficulties
I-Ching:	H39 - Obstacles
Latin: Festinus {God raised above all things} Alt: Shaahyah {Contemplate God} { 1. HELPS DESTROY ENEMIES PROTECTS PRISONERS 2. VIGOUR, VOYAGES 3. RESEARCH 4. Sagen }
Azor {A helper; a court}

Male Idea	#373	Telos		#436	Female Idea
Self-Love, Holding Oneself Dear	#72	72	72	#72	Self-Love, Holding Oneself Dear
Natural Guides and Nursing Virtuosity	#51	123	132	#60	Skill Rulership, Maintain One's Place
Fantasies of Avoiding Death, Value of Life	#50	173	212	#80	Primitivist Independence, Remaining in Isolation
Culturing Perspectives and Intuition	#54	227	216	#4	Using Guidance, Sourceless
Military Stratagum, Quelling War	#31	258	274	#58	Political Reversal, Adaptation to Change
Inconstancy of Achievement, Practicing Placidity	#9	267	333	#59	A Sensible Guide, Hold Fast To Reason
Origins in Reversal, Consider Beginnings	#63	330	387	#54	Culturing Perspectives and Intuition
Numbing Effect of the Conventional, Abstaining from Desire	#12	342	417	#30	Government without Coercion, Be Chary of War
Military Stratagum, Quelling War	#31	373	436	#19	Argument for Ethical Anarchism, Returning to Simplicity

Categories of the Understanding
#373	3 Categories [temporal]	#436	4 Categories [temporal]
#2, #70, #300, #1	Valor	#30, #6, #400	With, by
#3, #70, #300	To be tossed about, to be shaken, the shaking of earthquake; Earthquake	#9, #40, #7, #70, #200, #40, #70	A very little time
#373	English Words: admission; adoptable; album; assembler; bassoon; capitol; chessboard; contain; cup; defector; despoiler; destine; ejector; emission; enlightened; ethos; fierceness; floodgate; greeting; haggardness; ham-fisted; headstand; idiopathic; incubi; indoors; laudable; logrolling; methadone; onshore; optical; phlegmatic; scansion; shell-shocked; those; tonnage; topical; unaided	#40, #30, #6, #300, #50, #10	Slandering
		#436	English Words: appraiser; arguable; biochemist; blister; bristle; crucial; errant; fascinating; ferule; flippant; fungoid; hangup; heartsick; hedonist; horseshoe; imagination; irritable; latte; lave; makeup; malefactor; maltose; maraud; master; millionth; molasses; nonmetal; paraphrase; percentage; phonographic; programmable; rainproof; ransomer; ranter; record-breaking; refuel; remnant; stream; tapper; tassel; trample; unfeigned; vale; veal; vela

And from thence {G1564}, when the brethren {G80} heard {G191} of us, they came {#891} to meet {G529} us as far {G891} as Appii {G675} forum {G5410}, and The three {#615} taverns {G4999}: whom {#270} when Paul {#781} saw {#819}, he thanked {G2168} God {#284}, and took {#924} courage {G2294}.

"The Sages said: '[For] three sins a person is punished (lit., 'it is collected from a person') in this world, and he has no share in the World to Come: idolatry, incest / adultery, and murder. And the spreading of evil gossip (lashon hara) is equivalent to all three.' The Sages said further: 'Anyone who speaks lashon hara, it is as if he has denied G-d, as it is stated, "...those who said, 'Because of our tongues we will overpower, our lips are with us, who is master over us?' ... 'I will now arise in judgement', says the LORD, 'I will give deliverance to my people; but as for the wicked, I will make evil testify against them.'" [Aramaic Targum Psalm 12:5-6]. And the Sages said further, 'Three does lashon hara kill: the one who says it, the one who accepts it, and the one who is spoken about. And the accepter more so than the speaker."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "Seems you are claiming that God is a three-way polygamous, incestrious, gay marriage! Blasphemy!! And by YOUR own standards!"

Guardian Snow (American Yahwehist): "I find that word "blasphemy" tossed about too often."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "I agree, but the idiotic moronic twit Ike repeatedly did so, which is why I turned it back on him, but of course he is far too thick to understand that."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Hmmm. 'the idiotic moronic twit Ike.'

And yet it's Tim who can't get it through his thick skull that marriage was established in God's image, and God's image is marriage.

Or should we say that he doesn't want to, lest he find he has embraced the heresy of "politically corrected christianity?"

Merlin (merlinator@gmail.com): "Merlin knows not why so many christians are afraid to love as Jesus teaches. Merlin has been trying for a while now to get even one person on christnet to try to love to see what happens. There seems a fear that love may change many, a fear that when we love we won't be the same person.

We all give up something to be with god, our own personal sacrifice is what is important. To give up this world tho not our business in the world. To give up our hatred and confusion tho not our quest for truth and grace. We all gotta give of ourselves, and it is easiest in love, cause that love leads it's own life in us with Jesus showing us the way to the father mother god.

And when we do give up on this world and begin to love, we find where we are in the world and the good we may want to promote in this world with our love. We are not here to fight, we are here to learn to love. That takes trying to love, correction: that takes loving.

It is amazing what happens, Tim sees it in Tim, others have found this love also. It is as scary as it may seem to love as Jesus asks us to love. The benefits out weight the worst that can happen to us. For when we love we are more open and aware of the world around us. We see the character and good in everyone, we see everyone we meet potential no matter where they may be at that moment. Love and the hanger door to the universe opens for us all."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Your blasphemies of THROWING OUT GOD'S WORD..."

Guardian Snow (American Yahwehist): "Personally, I've become callous to hearing it because I see it next to my name on a daily basis. Merlin is an interesting case but let's face it, you are casting your time to the wind by talking to him.. He's not going to change and suddenly become straight."

Merlin (merlinator@gmail.com): "What does this comment have to do with reality?"

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Everything. The Word, the Works, and the Spirit have to agree. When someone says something that doesn't agree, they're trying to pull a fast one, which is what you've been doing all along. [snip]"

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Now, what the hell did that have to do with my statement?

JESUS said there were three things that testified to Him: The Word, the Works He did, and The Spirit. If something doesn't AGREE with one of these three things, SOMEBODY is PULLING YOUR LEG. And Merlin SPECIFICALLY DENIES THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE.

Of course. He has to. The minute one examines Merlin's lies in light of what scripture says, it quickly becomes apparent that Merlin is ALWAYS saying the OPPOSITE of what the Word says.

Then people like you are taken in by his "whorish" lies just because he couches them in the word "love" as many times as he can, when what he is talking about is about as far away from "love" as east is from west.

You have to be one really weak and pathetic "Christian" to be taken in by that kind of B.S."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "Indeed. In fact, I believe that is actually impossible for any gay person to do. IMO however, that is not the point. The point is that Merlin has a far, far better grasp on the CORE message of the Gospel than Ike has, since the core message is 'Love God, Love thy Neighbour'."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Thanks for demonstrating how much you AREN'T Christian, Tim, and that you reject the basic tenants of the Gospel, which you do every time you endorse Merlin's "antichristian" doctrines.

Jesus and the boys said one thing. Merlin says the opposite. Tim agrees with Merlin. Go figure."

Guardian Snow (American Yahwehist): "...and for the most part, I doubt that any reasonable person would give him a second thought."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "I don't know him, but I don't write off *everything* he says just because he is somewhat unconventional. There remains the fact that he expresses unconditional love as being the key,"

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Unconditional love?

God never taught it.

Why would I?

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him [condition prima facia] should not perish, but have everlasting life." [John 3:16]"

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "...and on that much I think he is closer than Idiot Ike to the truth, even if he is still way off. "

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "...said one blasphemer to the other."

Guardian Snow (American Yahwehist): "I would be curious to learn more about your opinion and other people on the topic directly. I think it's a disgusting practice but... if you didn't base your understanding simply on the idea of homosexuality as sin.. why would you disagree with the practice?"

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "I make a distinction between sexual *orientation* (that is, whether a person finds people of their own sex or the opposite one *attractive*, whether or not they act on that), and sexual *activity*. The reason I make that distinction is that I believe that whereas sexual activity IS a choice, sexual *orientation* is not."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Neither is heterosexuality, and pretty much every man is given to the desire for heterosexual behavior. But this is only evidence of the CORRUPTION OF THE FLESH man lives in.

This STILL in NO WAY substantiates THE ABOMINATION of same-sex marriage."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "Thus it is as nonsensical to say "It is a sin to have a homosexual orientation" as it is to say "It is a sin to have black skin" or "It is a sin to be left-handed"."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Rationalistic nonsense.

God never wrote a prohibition on being black or left-handed.

He DID prohibit SAME SEX, just as He prohibited every OTHER form of sexual behavior that DIVERTS FROM THE DIVINE IMAGE, i.e. MARRIAGE.

But Tim plays a game of selective perception when it comes to comparisons, doesn't he?"

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "Thus, to be 'gay' (in the sense of orientation) of itself just *cannot* be a sin."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "The hell it can't.

The FLESH is BORN IN SIN, and IS SIN."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "Moving on to sexual *acts*, whether someone finds something 'disgusting' or not is not the issue. There are some people who find the idea of ANY sexual activity 'disgusting'. Some find the notion of oral sex disgusting, others think it normal. Feelings of disgust are irrelevant."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Good thing "feelings" are irrelevant in the law."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "From the Christian point of view, almost anything in the Fallen world is intrinsically sinful. Also it makes little sense to consider one sin 'worse' than another, since we consider ANY sin, even the tiniest, little, itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny sin to be kingdom-excluding and deserving of death, in God's eyes."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Says Tim from his rationalizations...again.

Fact is, the law had different weights and measures for different acts, and homosexual activity was on THE DEATH LIST. That any violation of the law breaks the whole law in NO WAY changes the fact that there were MAJOR and MINOR sins, Tim."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "Thus IMO it is unfair to pull out the sins of one particular group and hold up *their* sins as being worse than our own. IMO that is scape-goating or distraction. We are ALL sinners."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "Which, again, in no way mitigates the fact that the law has MAJOR and MINOR sins.

But, of course, Tim doesn't READ the law anymore, does he? Someone lied and told him it was completely irrelevant, as per the growing apostasy--I also [snip-yawned] the rest without reading it."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "Because it was all based on your misunderstanding of my position, or more likely your deliberate obtuseness because you have been clearly caught in the act of blatant prejudice. "

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "The only 'prejudice' I hold is the one against antibiblical lies, especially the ones trying to rewrite the story for the sake of political correctness (which will be the downfall of us all)."

Tim Reason (timreason@hotmail.co.uk): "Well, I ignore political correctness, because it is rubbish. I will stick with the majority of Christians, and let you go off on your own way."

Thom Madura (tommadura@optonline.net): "The majority of christians are catholics and their leader said this "Pope Pius IX in an encyclical in 1854 said this:

"It must, of course, be held as a matter of faith that outside the apostolic Roman Church no one can be saved, that the Church is the only ark of salvation, and that whoever does not enter it will perish in the flood."

So - are you saying you are a catholic - or not if you are not a catholic - then YOU are not with the majority of christians."

(ru) dolf: "Just make sure this political liberty as religious freedom of yours concerning Apostolic baptism of opportunistic divorcees and friends of Caesar, doesn't lead to less-majeste as slander of the Sovereignty of State."

Randy ® [Sody] Barbara (pulpitfire@gmail.com): "Dolf. Seriously. Are you a spam-bot, or are you just totally nuts?"

Jude Smart-Alex-ander (ashmwrks@bellsouth.net): "He's not nuts even though, on the surface, he appears to be. :) "

Mark "I" Tindall (me@home389): "Dolf is far more intelligent than Randy Young."

Jude Smart-Alex-ander (ashmwrks@bellsouth.net): "True."

Randy ® [Sody] Barbara (pulpitfire@gmail.com): "Are you experimenting with artificial intelligence or something?"

(ru) dolf: "I do own a copy of mdbs GURU for Windows/32 and have an artificial intelligence interest. I have an interest in homoiotic sapiental kabbalistic reality. Having just seen a news story about a computer virtual reality {ie. A graphical environment which simulates the real world as the sensory reality to which a person is intently focused or interfaced} of Iraq war zones and its psychosomatic use to deprogram soldiers with post traumatic stress syndrome. My informal interest is equivalently concerned with the autonomic modelling of human and terrestial events against my virtual cube for artificial intelligence purposes and this project has, following the GURU Artificial Intelligence 4th Generation Language Scripting tool's first selection for usage by the Victoria Police Force, taken some 24 years of metaphysical philosophical and theological conceptual thinking.

At the following URL, I am concerned with an event.zen@row:col being a telos supernal and ego entry event.telos@super:ego in the hierarchy for that telos entry.

http://www.grapple.id.au/grapple.html (safari only)

What I'm informally looking at is the ability to set a watch oCUBE.setWatch: function (zen, row, col, telos, sup, ego) on specific Categories of Understanding for any given event upon a date year@month:day or time hour@minute:second and observing by the oCUBE.compareSet: function(setA, setB) where these categories intersect within other sub-Categories in other areas of the virtual cube.

I wish to see if any appraisals of other phenomenal events such as speech@date:time can be made at these specific intersection points and whether they are able to contribute to coherency as any sense of being relative to time, containment and cohesion as unity of apperception, determination of verity and hence amenable to rules based statements and analysis--given that this is a variable array _GIZMO navigated within the document:

_GIZMO[zen][row][col].watch[telos + '@' + sup + ':' + ego] = {
    watch: telos + '@' + sup + ':' + ego,
    date: now.getFullYear() + '@' + (now.getMonth()+1) + ':' + now.getDate(),
    time: now.getHours() + '@' + now.getMinutes() + ':' + now.getSeconds()
};"

Eric Fisher (ericfisher2@webtv.net): "Good grief... looks like it's still recess at the govt. school... some things never change..."

Diana [Saskia] Lonnie (shechinah7@reborn.com): "---))) Hi Eric, it is nice to see your name here again. I hope life is treating you well."

Jude Smart-Alex-ander (ashmwrks@bellsouth.net): "Talking about change, how's the "change" going with you, Erica? :) Attracted to this particular thread ('Beating death of a gay teen' or 'Saying no to rabid anti-homosexualists') for any personal reasons? :) I was thinking about you yesterday because I came across your name in my files. :) "

(ru) dolf: "Jude Done That" or "Jude Smart-Alex-ander"?

Jude Smart-Alex-ander (ashmwrks@bellsouth.net): "I'm sorry but that makes me want to punch somebody... the ones responsible."

(ru) dolf: "A punch and judy show or a crazy with multiple personality disorder?"

[B]	Sup	Ego	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
#1	30	29	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
#2	39	38	31	32	33	34	35	36	37
#3	48	47	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
#4	57	56	49	50	51	52	53	54	55
#5	66	65	58	59	60	61	62	63	64
#6	75	74	67	68	69	70	71	72	73
#7	3	2	76	77	78	79	80	81	1
#8	12	11	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
#9	21	20	13	14	15	16	17	18	19

Nous:	#7
Time:
Date:
Torah:	#6 #300 #200 %81 = #20
Dao:	Intentional Reversal, Dimming Radiance
Tetra:	#56 - Closed Mouth
I-Ching:	H12 - Stagnation
Latin: Adorandus {Just God} Alt: Kahtiel {Weariness of Signs of God} { 1. AIDS AGAINST FALSE, UNJUST ACCUSATIONS 2. JUSTICE, NOBILIY, MAGISTRATES & LAWYERS 3. THE WORD 4. Thumis }
Jesse {Gift; oblation; one who is}

Male Idea	#389	Telos		#405	Female Idea
Natural Guidance, Function of Emptiness	#5	5	5	#5	Natural Guidance, Function of Emptiness
Increasing Evidence, Gaining Insight	#53	58	53	#48	Forgetting Knowledge
Argument for Ethical Anarchism, Returning to Simplicity	#19	77	100	#47	Ignorant Guides, Viewing the Distant
Destructive Envy, Harmed Through Greed	#75	152	156	#56	Abstruse Myterious Virtuosity
Great Guide, Trust in its Perfection	#34	186	196	#40	Reversal, Avoiding Activity
Ambiguous Reversals, Virtue of Gravity	#26	212	269	#73	Employing Deeming, Daring to Act
Point to Reversal?, Humility's Increase	#22	234	346	#77	Natural Guide, Heaven's Reason
Controlling Feelings, Overcome Delusion	#74	308	398	#52	So What?, Returning to the Origin
Propounding the Essential	#81	389	405	#7	Intentional Reversal, Dimming Radiance

Categories of the Understanding
#389	7 Categories [temporal]	#405	8 Categories [temporal]
#1, #2, #10, #300, #6, #70	n. Father of Succour	#4, #400, #1	Tender grass
#1, #2, #10, #300, #30, #6, #40, #9, #80, #300	n. Father of Peace	#5, #200, #200	To rise, to be high, to swell; mountain
#9, #80, #300	To be greasy, fat; to be dull, stupid	#10, #6, #300, #80, #9	n. Yah is Judge
#50, #9, #70, #20, #200, #40	A vineyard is planted	#40, #70, #200, #90, #5	Terror; a crash (as striking terror)
#200, #1, #4, #50, #10, #50, #2, #70, #2	On the other side of the Arnon	#20, #30, #10, #4, #40, #300, #1	The loan of every hand (loan pledged by hand)
#5, #70, #200, #2, #10, #40, #2, #10, #50	Between the two evenings (time for killing the paschal lamb and for offering daily evening sacrifice)	#40, #300, #60, #5	Booty or prey
#389	English Words: bullheaded; carter; cartload; chairmanship; crater; crenelate; dependant; dropper; earphones; epitome; football; frankincense; gingersnap; glockenspiel; handspring; harlot; heartland; jerkiness; lacrosse; makeshift; mammoth; medalist; militiaman; misdealt; moonscape; pinto; piton; point; retold; shameless; spearfish; stoked; tracer; unlace	#10, #70, #50, #5, #70, #200	Caller and answerer (ie., every living person)
		#405	Engish Words: antechamber; arbitrage; blastoff; bombast; buffalo; calculable; centigram; clothier; deferential; deferment; desalinate; desolate; diagrammatic; electrician; fanciful; fermented; finalist; first; ghoul; incipient; included; indulge; isolate; jostle; joule; kaffeeklatsch; listing; malefaction; merchandiser; microcosm; moderate; moue; nonrandom; occlude; peerless; pesticide; phonetic; pitch-dark; pule; quiche; replete; satire; scratch; self-absorbed; sensor; slept; smote; spelt; striae; sue; tenor; toner; use

Jude Smart-Alex-ander (ashmwrks@bellsouth.net): "Neither of them are aware of their own self deception although surely many have tried to get them to look."

Randy ® [Sody] Barbara (pulpitfire@gmail.com): "Attack the Bible, defend homosexuality. You're the one who is deceived."

Jude Done That (ashmwrks@bellsouth.net): "Blindly follow stone-aged men's perception of God not to mention their COMPLETE WISDOM (har har har) regarding what homosexuality was/is. ;) Bye bye now

I attack the LIE of inerrancy. Sorry, you're too FundaMENTAL to know the difference."

Ike E 2009 (xhermaneickleberry@gmail.com): "There's that blasphemous underlying assumption again that the law was just a "cultural fluke" of the time, nevermind that Jesus FULLY UPHELD the law and the prophets, which means you CAN'T believe in Jesus Christ if you don't BELIEVE IN THE LAW, otherwise, there isn't anything to have GRACE from. Absolute idiocy."

Jude Done That (ashmwrks@bellsouth.net): "Oh, yeah? If "God" instituted ALL the laws of the OT, why do you full-of-ignorance FundaMENTALists just choose some of them to follow ESPECIALLY since it is clear that the 11 apostles continue to follow Mosaic law vs. Paul who told the Gentiles they didn't have to follow the law except for about THREE exceptions. :) "

Nicodemus (Ancient-of-Days@Heaven.Net): "Is [it] safe to pray?"

(ru) dolf: "It is, afterall, not so long since Catholics prayed weekly for 'the conversion of England.'"

Jude Smart-Alex-ander (ashmwrks@bellsouth.net): "Look, either start acting somewhat normal and having somewhat normal conversations or just don't talk to me, okay? If you don't respect my request, you won't see me respond to you again. If that's what you want, then just don't respect my request."

Nicodemus (Ancient-of-Days@Heaven.Net): "Where do you want to start?"

An important side point which bears mention regards the Rambam's first statement -- that violators of cardinal sins receive no share in the hereafter. The commentators make it clear that this is only without repentance. Certainly man may repent all his sins -- till his last moments on earth, and by so doing merit a share in the World to Come. The Rambam himself, in his Laws of Repentance (3:14), after listing categories of heretics and the like who receive no share in the afterlife, states as follows: "When is it the case that each of these has no share in the World to Come? When he dies without repentance. But if he repents his wickedness and [then] dies in a state of penitence, behold he is among those who receive a share in the World to Come. For there is nothing which stands in the way of repentance. Even if he denied G-d his entire life and at the last moment returns, he has a share, as it states, ''Peace! Peace to the far and the close!' says G-d, 'and I will heal him'' [Isaiah 57:19]."

The Rambam there continues that even if such people regretted their actions in the inner recesses of their hearts and at the last moments of their lives, their repentance is to some extent efficacious. It really is a world of love. G-d did not create us just to punish us make our lives difficult, but so that we'd cleave to Him and merit His closeness. No one, no matter how sinful he has been and regardless of his age and track record is "doomed". G-d waits till the very last moment for our devotion.

And when {#375} we came {#826} to Rome {G4516}, the centurion {G1543} delivered {#1050} the prisoners {#529} to the captain {G4759} of the guard {G4759}: but Paul {#781} was suffered {G2010} to dwell {#895} by himself {G1438} with a soldier {G4757} that kept {G5442} him.

And it came {#184} to pass, that after {#346} three {#615} days {#154} Paul {#781} called {G4779} the chief {G4413} of the Jews {G2453} together {G4779}: and when they were come {G4905} together {G4905}, he said {#838} unto them, Men {G435} and brethren {G80}, though I have committed {#965} nothing {#689} against {#686} the people {#301}, or {G2228} customs {#284} of our fathers {G3971}, yet was I delivered {#1050} prisoner {#529} from Jerusalem {G2414} into {G1519} the hands {G5495} of the Romans {G4514}.

[B]	Sup	Ego	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
#1	37	78	29	70	21	62	13	54	5
#2	6	38	79	30	71	22	63	14	46
#3	47	7	39	80	31	72	23	55	15
#4	16	48	8	40	81	32	64	24	56
#5	57	17	49	9	41	73	33	65	25
#6	26	58	18	50	1	42	74	34	66
#7	67	27	59	10	51	2	43	75	35
#8	36	68	19	60	11	52	3	44	76
#9	77	28	69	20	61	12	53	4	45

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
28	29	30	1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31	1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8

Nous:	#23
Time:	06:50 hrs
Date:	2009.7.4
Torah:	#40 #5 #300 %81 = #21
Dao:	Constancy of Guiding Concepts, Emptiness & Non-Existence
Tetra:	#26 - Endeavor
I-Ching:	H18 - Arresting Decay
Latin: Verus {God saviour} Alt: Nanael {Pray to God} { 1. HELPS TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH ALL 2. OCCULT MAGIC & THEOLOGY 3. LEARNING 4. Teut or Theuth }
Mahalalel {Praise (fame) of God}

Male Idea	#390	Telos		#337	Female Idea
Unlearned Virtuosity as Simplicity	#65	65	65	#65	Unlearned Virtuosity as Simplicity
Achieving Oneness, Root of Order	#39	104	120	#55	Abstruse Mysterious Signs
Construing a Guide, Practise Reason	#62	166	143	#23	Constancy of Guiding Concepts, Emptiness & Non-Existence
Destructive Envy, Harmed Through Greed	#75	241	156	#13	Status, Loathing Shame
Status, Loathing Shame	#13	254	175	#19	Argument for Ethical Anarchism, Returning to Simplicity
What's behind it all?, Imaging the Mysterious	#25	279	187	#12	Numbing Effect of the Conventional, Abstaining from Desire
Controlling Feelings, Overcome Delusion	#74	353	236	#49	Sage's Constancy, Trust in Virtue
Important Distinctions, Trouble from Indulgence	#24	377	267	#31	Military Stratagum, Quelling War
Status, Loathing Shame	#13	390	337	#70	Difficulty in Knowing How, Obtuse

Categories of the Understanding
#390	13 Categories [temporal]	#337	5 Categories [temporal]
#6, #300, #2, #8, #60, #4, #10	n. Kindness is Returned	#1, #30, #6, #300	n. Wild Beast's Lair
#10, #70, #10, #300	n. Gatherer	#1, #30, #10, #90, #6, #200	n. God is Rock
#10, #70, #300, #10	n. Yah Makes	#10, #6, #300, #6, #10, #5	n. Yah presents
#10, #300, #70, #10	n. Saving or Salutary	#40, #2, #90, #200, #5	Fortification, citadel
#10, #300, #80	To rub off; to make bare or smooth, to polish; to shine	#337	English Words: addition; balminess; beardless; blue; bookkeeper; clientele; conjoiner; cootie; dilapidated; edition; epithelia; fearless; fiction; flats; heights; inspired; job-sharing; kinematic; lube; lug; oatmeal; old-fashioned; passing; patella; pectin; proceeds; self-reliance; self-seeking; sporadic; traceable
#20, #70, #300	Anger; vexation
#40, #20, #300, #30	A stumbling block; an occasion of a fall or harm; temptation or enticement
#40, #300, #10, #7, #2, #1, #30	n. God is a Deliverer
#10, #50, #40, #200, #10, #40, #40	Waters of Nimrim
#50, #40, #300	To communicate or disclose
#50, #300, #40	To blow or breathe
#70, #20, #30	To wind or coil
#390	English Words: aperitif; bombproof; clung; comradeship; darter; dirt-cheap; earliness; graphite; instal; lacunae; leftism; leotard; lineament; lost; lots; lull; martin; nestle; parsnip; passion; placental; remorse; retard; sheepherder; sighting; slot; springlike; tailor; thickener; trader

Who {#780}, when they had examined {G350} me, would have let {G630} me go {G630}, because {#15} there was no {#267} cause {G156} of death {#631} in me. But when the Jews {G2453} spake {G483} against {G483} it, I was constrained {G315} to appeal {#272} unto Caesar {#332}; not that I had {#1405} ought {#510} to accuse {G2723} my nation {#334} of. For this {G5026} cause {G156} therefore {#520} have I called {#1038} for you, to see {#819} you, and to speak {G4354} with you: because {G1063} that for the hope {#325} of Israel {#349} I am bound {#281} with this {G5026} chain {G254}.

And they said {G2036} unto him, We neither {G3777} received {#730} letters {#185} out of Judaea {#496} concerning {G4012} thee, neither {G3777} any {#510} of the brethren {G80} that came {#366} showed {G518} or {G2228} spake {#866} any {#510} harm {#578} of thee. But we desire {G515} to hear {G191} of thee what {#270} thou thinkest {G5426}: for as concerning {G4012} this {G5026} sect {G139}, we know {G1110} that every {G3837} where {G3837} it is spoken {G483} against {G483}.

"Rabbi Yochanan the sandal maker said: Every assembly which is for the sake of Heaven will eventually endure. And one which is not for the sake of Heaven will not endure."

The theme of this week's mishna is that assemblies or gatherings -- even (or especially) for worthy causes -- will not meet success if the participants are not acting with sincerity and for the sake of Heaven. If parents are active in a school board meeting in order to put the principal in his place, or if families join to form a synagogue -- basically in order to make a statement to the *other* synagogue they're breaking away from, the effort will ultimately fail. (And the synagogue or school does not have to physically collapse for it to be clear that the undertaking was a shameful failure.) Bad motives and bad agendas make for bad institutions. We are all human and carry our share of bones to pick and axes to grind. (I'm sure I could come up with a few more metaphors.) But if the underlying purpose of our meetings and undertakings is for anything short of the sake of Heaven, the results will be as fleeting and temporal as human beings themselves tragically are.

(I was once asked to attend a synagogue meeting (of a synagogue I rarely attended) specifically to vote against a certain individual for synagogue president. I did so partly because the requester was not one I could easily refuse, and partly because the case against that certain individual was fairly convincing. (Note how I leave out virtually every detail. ;-) So perhaps it was justified, but still... Religious causes should not become fronts for airing our personal dislikes and vendettas.)

It's worthwhile to draw an important distinction here. Generally speaking, the Rabbis view insincere deeds quite favorably. The Talmud writes often that it is better to learn or perform good deeds insincerely, for insincere deeds lead to sincere ones (Pesachim 50b). Better to "do" -- study Torah out of not-fully-committed curiosity, or perform mitzvos (commandments) for reward or recognition. The doing itself is valuable, in fact invaluable. Good deeds themselves wield an influence on a person and touch the soul." [© 2009 by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld and Torah.org, Pirkei Avos: United We Stand, Chapter 4, Mishna 14]

And when they had appointed {#1501} him a day {#154}, there came {#828} many {#975} to him into {G1519} his lodging {G3578}; to whom {#270} he expounded {G1620} and testified {G1263} the kingdom {G932} of God {#284}, persuading {#904} them concerning {G4012} Jesus {G2424}, both {#305} out of the law {#430} of Moses {G3475}, and out of the prophets {G4396}, from morning {G4404} till {G2193} evening {#391}. And some {G3588G3303} believed {#904} the things which were spoken {#838}, and some {#70} believed not.

And when they agreed {G800} not among {#450} themselves {G846}, they departed {G630}, after that Paul {#781} had spoken {G2036} one {#215} word {#149}, Well {G2573} spake {#866} the Holy {G40} Ghost {G4151} by Esaias {G2268} the prophet {G4396} unto our fathers {#489}, saying {#838}, Go {G4198} unto this {G5126} people {#301}, and say {G2036}, Hearing {G189} ye shall hear {G191}, and shall not understand {G4920}; and seeing {G991} ye shall see {G991}, and not perceive {#819}: For the heart {#136} of this {G5127} people {#301} is waxed {G3975} gross {G3975}, and their ears {G3775} are dull {G917} of hearing {G191}, and their eyes {G3788} have they closed {G2576}; lest {#503} they should see {#819} with their eyes {G3788}, and hear {G191} with their ears {G3775}, and understand {G4920} with their heart {#136}, and should be converted {G1994}, and I should heal {#421} them. [Acts 28:11-27]

I'd like to now begin by examining the second statement of the Rambam. I feel it holds the key to understanding the others. The Rambam states (quoting Talmud Erchin 15b) that speaking lashon hara is akin to denying G-d. Now this statement seems extreme. We recognize, of course, that great damage can be done with loose lips, yet how in the world can any action, no matter how heinous, in any way approximate atheism? We all sin, sometimes seriously. Yet none of us could imagine in the darkest recesses of our hearts that G-d does not exist. (The Theory of Evolution? Don't make me laugh.) If so, how could the Talmud even venture such a comparison?

A straightforward explanation is actually implied by the Rambam himself elsewhere (Laws of Tumas Tsara'as 16:10). He explains that people who speak lashon hara do not content themselves with speaking about the lowly. Their cynicism then turns to the righteous, then to the prophets, in whose words they cast aspersions. Ultimately, such people will speak ill of G-d Himself, denying His goodness or justness. Thus, with such sins, one thing leads to another until the gossiper in some way denies G-d. [© 2009 by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld and Torah.org, Maimonides on Life -- Cynicism: The Joy of Inexistence, Part I, Chapter 7, Law 3(a)]

[b]	Sup	Ego	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
#1	11	18	13	74	81	76	29	36	31
#2	16	14	12	79	77	75	34	32	30
#3	15	10	17	78	73	80	33	28	35
#4	56	63	58	38	45	40	20	27	22
#5	61	59	57	43	41	39	25	23	21
#6	60	55	62	42	37	44	24	19	26
#7	47	54	49	2	9	4	65	72	67
#8	52	50	48	7	5	3	70	68	66
#9	51	46	53	6	1	8	69	64	71

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
29	30	1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31	1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9

Nous:	#9
Time:	16:40 hrs
Date:	2009.12.3
Torah:	#1 #30 #4 %81 = #35
Dao:	Inconstancy of Achievement, Practicing Placidity
Tetra:	#32 - Legion
I-Ching:	H7 - Army
Latin: Animus {Propitious God} Alt: Yeielel {Howl to God} { 1. HELPS HIDE THAT WHICH ONE DOES NOT WISH TO REVEAL, SECRETS 2. PLAGUE & RABIES 3. HEALING 4. Viroaso }
Noah {Rest, Repose; consolation}

Male Idea	#390	Telos		#290	Female Idea
Inconstancy of Achievement, Practicing Placidity	#9	9	9	#9	Inconstancy of Achievement, Practicing Placidity
Government without Coercion, Be Chary of War	#30	39	30	#21	Guiding the Physical, Emptying the Heart
Employing Deeming, Daring to Act	#73	112	73	#43	Absolute Negation, It's Universal Application
Know-How as a Disease, Disease of Knowledge	#71	183	152	#79	Recognizing Agreements, Keeping Obligations
Employing Deeming, Daring to Act	#73	256	154	#2	Contrast of Terms, Self-Culture
Natural Guidance, Function of Emptiness	#5	261	167	#13	Status, Loathing Shame
Point to Reversal?, Humility's Increase	#22	283	184	#17	Politics
Skill Rulership, Maintain One's Place	#60	343	222	#38	Consequences for Virtuous Discourse
Ignorant Guides, Viewing the Distant	#47	390	290	#68	Coinciding with Nature, Complying With Heaven

Categories of the Understanding
#390	16 Categories [strutural]	#290	21 Categories [strutural]
#300, #20, #30, #40	kol (H3605): 1 - all, the whole; 1a - all, the whole of; 1b - any, each, every, anything; 1c - totality, everything;	#30, #3, #7, #200, #10, #40	gezer (H1506): 1 - part;
#1, #100, #80, #1, #3, #5, #200	harpax (G0727): 1 - rapacious, ravenous; 2 - a extortioner, a robber;	#6, #20, #200, #2, #10, #2, #10, #40	rabiyb (H7241): 1 - copious showers, heavy showers; 1a - as bringing fertility; 1b - of prophetic influence (fig);
#50, #200, #4, #80, #50, #6	radaph (H7291): 1 - to be behind, follow after, pursue, persecute, run after; 1a - (Qal); 1a1 - to pursue, put to flight, chase, dog, attend closely upon; 1a2 - to persecute, harass (fig); 1a3 - to follow after, aim to secure (fig); 1a4 - to run after (a bribe) (fig); 1b - (Niphal); 1b1 - to be pursued; 1b2 - one pursued (participle); 1c - (Piel) to pursue ardently, aim eagerly to secure, pursue; 1d - (Pual) to be pursued, be chased away; 1e - (Hiphil) to pursue, chase;	#10, #90, #80, #50, #50, #10	tsaphan (H6845): 1 - to hide, treasure, treasure or store up; 1a - (Qal); 1a1 - to hide, treasure, treasure up; 1a2 - to lie hidden, lurk; 1b - (Niphal) to be hidden, be stored up; 1c - (Hiphil) to hide, hide from discovery;
#40, #70, #200, #30, #10, #40	`arel (H6189): 1 - uncircumcised, having foreskin;	#30, #2, #200, #10, #8, #40	beriyach (H1280): 1 - bar; 1a - of wood; 1b - of city gates; 2 - of tribulation, a fortress, of the earth as a prison (fig.);
#40, #100, #200, #50	qaran (H7160): 1 - to shine; 1a - (Qal) to send out rays; 1b - (Hiphil) to display or grow horns, be horned;	#6, #4, #20, #200, #10, #50	dekar (Aramaic) (H1798): 1 - ram;
#30, #4, #300, #50, #6	dashen (H1878): 1 - to be fat, grow fat, become fat, become prosperous, anoint; 1a - (Qal) of prosperity (fig.); 1b - (Piel); 1b1 - to make fat, anoint; 1b2 - to find fat (of offering - acceptable); 1b3 - to take away ashes (from altar); 1c - (Pual) to be made fat; 1d - (Hothpael) to fatten oneself (of Jehovah's sword);	#50, #80, #100, #10, #50	nephaq (Aramaic) (H5312): 1 - to go or come out, bring or come forth; 1a - (P'al) to go out or forth; 1b - (Aphel) to bring forth;
#30, #70, #40, #200, #40, #10	`Amramiy (H6020): 1 - a branch of the Kohathite family of the tribe of Levi and descendants of Amram, the father of Moses;	#20, #70, #50, #100, #10, #40	`Anaqiy (H6062): 1 - a race of giants, descendants of Anak, which dwelled in southern Canaan;
#50, #300, #10, #20, #10	neshiy (H5386): 1 - debt;	#80, #90, #70, #10, #40	petsa` (H6482): 1 - bruise, wound;
#6, #3, #300, #80, #1	Gishpa' (H1658): 1 - an officer of the temple slaves returning from exile with Nehemiah;	#40, #70, #40, #30, #100, #10	`Amaleqiy (H6003): 1 - descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau;
#5, #90, #80, #10, #200, #5	tsephiyrah (H6843): 1 - plait, chaplet, wreath, crown; 1a - plait, coronet, diadem;	#40, #4, #200, #6, #40	darowm (H1864): 1 - south;
#5, #80, #90, #10, #200, #5	petsiyrah (H6477): 1 - price, charge; 1a - meaning dubious; 1b - perhaps (CLBL) sharpening or (BDB) bluntness;	#30, #40, #200, #8, #2, #10	merchab (H4800): 1 - broad or roomy place, wide, expanses;
#5, #4, #100, #1, #10, #70, #200	hedraios (G1476): 1 - sitting, sedentary; 2 - firm, immovable, steadfast;	#30, #10, #100, #40, #70, #40	Yoqme`am (H3361): 1 - a city of refuge in Ephraim given to the Kohathite Levites;
#70, #50, #70, #200	onos (G3688): 1 - an ass;	#6, #70, #10, #200, #4	`Iyrad (H5897): 1 - son of Enoch, grandson of Cain, and father of Mehujael;
#40, #300, #10, #7, #2, #1, #30	Mesheyzab'el (H4898): 1 - ancestor of Meshullam who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem; 1a - perhaps the same as 2 and 3; 2 - a head of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah; 2a - perhaps the same as 1 and 3; 3 - father of Pethahiah and descendant of Zerah the son of Judah; 3a - perhaps the same as 1 and 2;	#80, #4, #200, #6	peder (H6309): 1 - fat, suet;
#50, #10, #20, #70, #80, #70, #30, #10, #50	Nikopolis (G3533): 1 - There were many cities by this name, -- in Armenia, Pontus, Cilicia, Epirus, Thrace -- which were generally built or had there name changed, by some conqueror to commemorate a victory. The one in Titus 3:12 seems to refer to the city was built by Augustus in memory of the battle of Actium on a promontory of Epirius. The one in the subscription of Titus seems to refer to Thracian Nicopolis, founded by Trojan on the river Nestus, since he calls it the city of Macedonia.;	#5, #80, #200, #5	parah (H6510): 1 - cow, heifer;
#300, #5, #20, #5, #10, #50	tikto (G5088): 1 - to bring forth, bear, produce (fruit from the seed); 1a - of a woman giving birth; 1b - of the earth bringing forth its fruits; 1c - metaph. to bear, bring forth;	#2, #40, #200, #3, #40, #5	margemah (H4773): 1 - sling; 2 - (CLBL) a heap of stones;
		#2, #5, #2, #1, #10, #70, #200	bebaios (G0949): 1 - stable, fast, firm; 2 - metaph. sure, trusty;
		#90, #200	tsor (H6864): 1 - flint, hard pebble; 1a - used as a knife;
		#1, #2, #10, #70, #7, #200	'Abiy`ezer (H0044): 1 - a Manassite, called 'son' of Gilead, also son of Gilead's sister; 2 - a Benjamite, warrior of David;
		#40, #10, #20, #100, #70, #50	mikron (G3397): 1 - small, little; 1a - of size: of stature, of length; 1b - of space; 1c - of age: less by birth, younger; 1d - of time: short, brief, a little while, how little!; 1e - of quantity: ie. number, amount; 1f - of rank or influence;
		#30, #200, #60	racac (H7450): 1 - (Qal) to moisten;
#390	English Words: aperitif; bombproof; clung; comradeship; darter; dirt-cheap; earliness; graphite; instal; lacunae; leftism; leotard; lineament; lost; lots; lull; martin; nestle; parsnip; passion; placental; remorse; retard; sheepherder; sighting; slot; springlike; tailor; thickener; trader	#290	English Words: armored; benighted; biographical; blinders; carcinogenic; dental; dietician; do-gooder; face-to-face; federalism; hardship; illicit; incision; irremediable; kidnapping; lessen; loss; lot; nonfood; oatcake; oops; pectic; pitch; polls; prop; resole; sailor; shepherd; shrinkage; teepee

In this law the Rambam quotes a short selection of rabbinic statements regarding the severity of lashon hara as gossiping. We asked how the Sages could have possibly made so sweeping a statement by equating lashon hara to denying G-d. True, gossiping is terrible and can destroy lives, but how could any sin be compared to the denial of G-d Himself? "And even {G2531} as they did not like {#952} to retain {#1405} God {#284} in their knowledge {G1922}, God {#284} gave {#1050} them over {#1050} to a reprobate {G96} mind {#720}, to do {#965} those {#70} things which are not convenient {#858};

Being filled {#1088} with all {#281} unrighteousness {G93}, fornication {#316}, wickedness {#319}, covetousness {#311}, maliciousness {#52}; full {G3324} of envy {G5355}, murder {G5408}, debate {#315}, deceit {#374}, malignity {#144}; whisperers {G5588}, backbiters {G2637}, haters {G2319} of God {G2319}, despiteful {G5197}, proud {G5244}, boasters {G213}, inventors {G2182} of evil {#311} things, disobedient {G545} to parents {#728}, without {G801} understanding {G801}, covenantbreakers {G802}, without {G794} natural affection {G794}, implacable {G786}, unmerciful {G415}:

Who {#780} knowing {G1921} the judgment {G1345} of God {#284}, that they which commit {#1381} such {G5108} things are worthy {G514} of death {#631}, not only {#280} do the same {G846}, but have {#1405} pleasure {G4909} in them that do {#1381} them." [Romans 1:28-32]

The answer provides us a very basic understanding of the workings of the human mind. Last week Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld posed further: Why in fact *do* people speak lashon hara? At times of course it's because *he* hurt *me* very badly on some past occasion and so I yearn for sweet revenge. But as we know, some people are just chronic speakers of lashon hara. They always see bad in others -- in other individuals, in other ethnic groups, in other types of Jews (especially ones more religious than they), seemingly for no provocation. Now what kind of pleasure do such people get in being so cynical? Why assume the worst? Why do some people have such a drive to see ugliness and failings in others? What do they gain from it?

As an interesting aside, the Talmud (Ta'anis 8a) states that in the End of Days, all the animals will approach the snake and ask it why it bites without eating, seemingly for no personal benefit of its own. [© 2009 by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld and Torah.org, Maimonides on Life -- Cynicism: The Joy of Inexistence, Part I, Chapter 7, Law 3(b)]

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