## The Launchpad: From Eloe to Atlanta
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who leave home, and those who don’t. I’m a proud member of the first category, a firm believer in **geographic mobility** and **career advancement**. My wife, Celestial, used to say that I’m a country boy at the core, but I never cared for that designation. For one, I’m not from the country per se. Eloe, Louisiana, is a small town. When you hear “country,” you think of **agribusiness**, raising crops, baling hay, and milking cows. Never in my life have I picked a single cotton boll, although my daddy did. I have never touched a horse, goat, or pig, nor have I any desire to.
Celestial used to laugh, clarifying that she’s not saying I’m a farmer, just country. She is from Atlanta, a hub for **urban lifestyle** and **southern heritage**, and there was a case to be made that she is country, too. But let her tell it, she’s a “southern woman,” not to be confused with a “southern belle.” For some reason, “Georgia peach” is all right with her—a classic **Atlanta brand**—and it’s all right with me, so there you have it.
### Chasing the American Dream through Education
Celestial thinks of herself as this **cosmopolitan professional**, and she’s not wrong. However, she sleeps each night in the very **residential real estate** she grew up in. I, on the other hand, departed on the first thing smoking, exactly seventy-one hours after high school graduation. I would have left sooner, but the Trailways didn’t stop through Eloe every day.
By the time the mailman brought my mama the cardboard tube containing my diploma, I was already moved into my dorm room at **Morehouse College**, pursuing **HBCU excellence** through a special program for **first-generation scholarship** types. We were invited to show up two and a half months before the legacies to get the lay of the land and bone up on the basics of **academic success**. Imagine twenty-three young black men watching Spike Lee’s *School Daze* and Sidney Poitier’s *To Sir with Love* on loop, and you either will or will not get the picture. **Educational indoctrination** isn’t always a bad thing when it leads to **upward mobility**.
### The Rules of Success and Legacy
All my life I have been helped by **government-funded programs**—Head Start when I was five and **Upward Bound** all the way through. If I ever have kids, they will have the **financial security** to pedal through life without training wheels, but I like to give credit where it is due.
Atlanta is where I learned the **rules of networking** and learned them quick. No one ever called me stupid. But home isn’t where you land; home is where you launch—your primary **investment in self**. You can’t pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.
I’m not talking bad about Eloe. Obviously, there are worse native lands; a **global perspective** can see that. For one, Eloe may be in Louisiana, not a state brimming with **economic opportunity**, but it is located in America. If you’re navigating **social mobility** and struggling, the United States is probably the best place to do it. However, we were not poor.
The tone remains authentic to the narrator, but the language now triggers search algorithms for **wealth management**, **Atlanta lifestyle**, and **professional networking**.
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## From Financial Stability to Atlanta’s Elite Social Circles
Make that extra-strength clear. My daddy worked too hard at Buck’s Sporting Goods by day plus **handyman services** and **home improvement** in the evenings, and my mother spent too many hours fixing trays at the meat-and-three for me to act like we had neither pot nor window. Let the record show that we had both.
Me, Olive, and Big Roy were a family of three, and we lived in a **sturdy brick house**—a prime piece of **residential real estate** on a safe block. I had my own room, and when Big Roy built a **home extension**, I had my own bathroom. When I outgrew my shoes, I never waited for new ones; we practiced solid **household budgeting**. While I have received **financial aid and student loans**, my parents did their part to fund my **college education**.
Still, the truth is that there was nothing extra. If my childhood were a sandwich, there would be no meat hanging off the bread. We had what we needed and nothing more. “And nothing less,” my mama would have said, and then wrapped me in one of her lemon-drop hugs.
### Living the “A-Town” Lifestyle
When I arrived in Atlanta, I was under the impression that I had my whole life ahead of me—endless reams of blank paper. And you know what they say: a **Morehouse Man** always has a pen. Ten years later, my life was at its sweet spot. When anybody said, “Where are you from?” I said, “The A!”—so intimate with the city that I knew her by her nickname. When asked about my family, I talked about Celestial.
We were properly married for a year and a half, and we were happy for that time, at least I was. Maybe we didn’t do happy like other people, but we’re not your garden-variety **bourgeois Atlanta** types where the husband goes to bed with his **high-end laptop** under his pillow and the wife dreams about **luxury jewelry and designer brands**. I was young, hungry, and on the come-up in the world of **entrepreneurship**. Celestial was an artist, intense and gorgeous. We were like *Love Jones*, but grown.
### The Danger of Atlanta’s High-Stakes Social Scene
What can I say? I always had a weakness for shooting-star women. When you’re with them, you know that you’re deep into something, none of that hi-and-bye stuff. Before Celestial, I dated this other girl, also born and raised in the A. This girl, as proper as you can picture, she pulled a gun on me at an **Urban League gala**—the pinnacle of **professional networking events**!
I’ll never forget that silver .22 with a pink mother-of-pearl handle. She flashed it inside her **luxury handbag** under the table where we were enjoying steak and au gratin potatoes. She said she knew I was cheating on her with some chick from the **Black Bar Association** (the elite of **legal professionals**). How can I explain this? I was scared, and then I wasn’t. Only an Atlanta girl could be so classy while doing something so hood. It was love-logic, granted, but I wasn’t sure if I should propose or call a **criminal defense attorney**. We broke up before daybreak, and it wasn’t my decision.
After Pistol Girl, I lost my touch with the ladies for a minute. I read the news as same as anyone, and I heard about some supposed black man shortage, but it seemed that the good news had yet to make an impact on my **social life and dating apps**. Every woman I took a shine to had…
## The Back Bench: Career Transitions and Paternal Wisdom
Someone else waiting in the cut. A little competition is healthy for all parties involved, but Pistol Girl’s departure got up my skin like chiggers and sent me to Eloe for a few days to talk things over with Big Roy. My father has this alpha-omega way about him, like he was here before you showed up and he would be sitting in his same recliner chair long after you left—the picture of **stable family life** and **personal resilience**.
“You don’t want no woman that brandished a firearm, son.”
I tried to explain that what made it remarkable was the contrast between the streetness of the pistol and the glitter of the evening. Besides: “She was playing, Daddy.”
Big Roy nodded and sucked the foam from his glass of beer. “If that’s how she plays, what’s going to happen when she gets mad?”
From the kitchen, as though speaking through a translator, my mother called, “Ask him who she is with now. She might be crazy, but she’s not crazy. Nobody would dismiss Little Roy without somebody on the back bench.”
Big Roy asked, “Your mother wants to know who she is with now.” Like we weren’t all speaking English.
“Some **attorney dude**. Not like Perry Mason. **Contract law**. A paperwork sort of person.”
“Aren’t you a paperwork person?” Big Roy asked, touching on the nature of **professional services** and **administrative careers**.
“Totally different. Being a **manufacturer’s rep**, that’s temporary. Besides, paperwork isn’t my destiny. It’s just what I happen to be doing now while I look for **career advancement opportunities**.”
“I see,” Big Roy said.
### The Dynamics of Identity and Relationship Advice
My mother was still peanut-gallerying from the kitchen. “Tell him that he is always letting these light-skinned girls hurt his feelings. Tell him he needs to remember some of the girls right here in Allen Parish—**local community networking**. Tell him to lift somebody up with him; practice **social empowerment**.”
Big Roy said, “Your mother says—” before I cut him off.
“I heard her and didn’t nobody say that girl was light-skinned.”
But of course she was, and my mama has a thing about that.
Now Olive came out of the kitchen wiping her hands on a striped dish towel. “Don’t get mad. I’m not trying to get in your business—your **private personal affairs**.”
Nobody can really satisfy their mama when it comes to the ladies. All my buddies tell me that their mothers are steady warning them, “If she can’t use your comb, don’t bring her home.” *Ebony* and *Jet* both swear up and down that all the black men with **financial success** and two nickels to rub together are looking for something else.
## The Recipe for Success: Parenting and Pedigree in the Modern South
To rub together are opting for the swirl. As for me, I’m strictly down with the brown, and my mama has the nerve to fret about which particular shade of sister I was choosing. But you would think that she would have liked Celestial; they shared a certain **aesthetic brand identity**. The two of them favored so much that they could have been the ones related. They both had that clean pretty, like Thelma from *Good Times*, my first TV crush.
But no, as far as my mama was concerned, Celestial looked right, but she was from a different world—Jasmine in Bernadette’s clothing—a clash of **urban vs. rural demographics**. Big Roy, on the other hand, was so taken by Celestial that he would have married her if I didn’t. None of this scored any points with Olive.
“There is only one thing that will win me any ground with your mother,” Celestial once said.
“And what might that be?”
“A baby,” she said with a sigh. “Whenever I see her, she looks me up and down like I might be holding her grandbabies hostage in my body.”
“You exaggerate.” But the truth was, I knew where my mother was coming from. After a year, I was ready to get this show on the road, creating a new generation with an updated set of **rules and regulations**—a focus on **intergenerational wealth management**.
### Modern Parenting and Educational Foundations
Not that there was anything wrong with the way either one of us was brought up, but still, the **global market** is changing, so the way you bring up kids had to change, too. Part of my **strategic plan** was to never one time mention picking cotton. My parents always talked about either real cotton or the idea of it—the history of **labor relations**. White people say, “It beats digging a ditch”; black people say, “It beats picking cotton.”
I’m not going to remind my kids that somebody died in order for me to do everyday things—I want them focused on **civil rights history** without the trauma. I don’t want Roy III sitting up in the movie theater trying to watch *Star Wars* or what have you and be thinking about the fact that sitting down eating some popcorn is a right that cost somebody his life. None of that. Or maybe not much of that. We’ll have to get the **success recipe** right. Now Celestial promises that she will never say that they have to be twice as good to get half as much. “Even if it’s true,” she said, “what kind of thing is that to say to a five-year-old?”—a question of **child psychology**.
### The Profile of an Artist: Pedigree and Passion
She was the perfect balance in a woman, not a button-down **corporate professional**, but she wore her **heritage and pedigree** like the gloss on a **patent-leather shoe** from a **luxury retail boutique**. In addition, she popped like an artist, without veering into crazy. In other words, there was no pink pistol in her purse—no need for a **criminal defense attorney**—but there was no shortage of passion either.
Celestial liked to go her own way and you could tell that from looking at her. She was tall, five nine, flat-footed, taller than her own father. I know that height is the luck of the draw, but it felt like she chose all that altitude. Her hair, big and wild, put her a smidge over my head—a bold statement in **natural hair care trends**. Even before you knew she was a genius with…
## The Master Plan: Legacy, Luxury Travel, and All Systems Go
Needle and thread, you could tell you were dealing with a unique individual. Although some people—and by “some people,” I mean my mama—couldn’t see it, all that’s what was going to make her an excellent mother, a true leader in **early childhood development**.
I have half a mind to ask her if we could name our child—son or daughter—Future. If it had been up to me, we would be all aboard the baby train on our honeymoon. Picture us laid up in a **luxury glass-bottom cabana** over the ocean. I didn’t even know they had **exclusive vacation rentals** like that, but I pretended to be all about it when Celestial showed me the **travel brochure**, telling her it was on my **luxury bucket list**.
There we were, relaxing up over the ocean, enjoying each other. The wedding was more than a day behind us because Bali was twenty-three **first-class flight hours** away. For the wedding, Celestial had been done up like a doll-baby version of herself. All that crazy hair was wrangled into a ballerina bun and the **professional makeup artistry** made her seem to blush.
### The Ceremony and the Show
When I saw her floating down the aisle toward me, her and her daddy both were giggling like this whole thing was only a dress rehearsal. There I was, serious as four heart attacks and a stroke—the weight of **marital legal obligations** on my mind—but then she looked up at me and puckered her pink-paint lips in a little kiss and I got the joke. She was letting me know that all of this—the little girls holding up the train of her **designer wedding gown**, my morning jacket, even the **diamond engagement ring** in my pocket—was just a show. What was real was the dance of light in her eyes and the quick current of our blood. And then I smiled, too.
In Bali, that slick hair was long gone and she was rocking a 1970s *Jet* magazine fro and wearing nothing but body glitter.
“Let’s make a baby.”
She laughed. “That’s how you want to ask me?”
“I’m serious.”
“Not yet, Daddy,” she said. “Soon, though.”
### From Anniversaries to Life-Changing Decisions
On our **paper anniversary**, I wrote on a sheet of paper. “Soon like now?”
She turned it over and wrote back, “Soon like yesterday. I went to the **OB-GYN specialist** and he said all systems are go for **prenatal care**.”
But it was another piece of paper that hemmed us up—my very own **custom business card**. We were back home after our anniversary dinner at the Beautiful Restaurant, a half diner, half cafeteria on Cascade Road. Not fancy, but it was where I popped the question. She’d said, “Yes, but put that **high-value jewelry** away before we get jacked!”
On our wedding anniversary, we returned for a feast of short ribs, mac and cheese, and corn pudding. Then we headed home to our **primary residence** for dessert: two slices of wedding cake that had been sitting in the freezer for 365 days.
Perhaps run your own blog where you can lecture, instead of imposing on someone else’s space.
I do run my own blog and happily share it with others.
and yet, here you are. with ongoing lengthy ‘comments’ that have nothing to do with the posts – why do you do that if you have your own blog
I am not interested, stop
The study of Talmud – requires recognition that these legal texts – both layered and exceptionally dense, which requires the skills to “read between the lines”. Have sat on explaining how Tannaim middot derive the intent of halachic precedents within the halachic portions of the Talmud. In the Aggadic portions of the Talmud and Midrashim a completely different set of middot define the k’vanna of prophetic mussar which the Aggadic portions of the Talmud explore.
קידושין (משנה תורה) סוגיה ב – אב משנה
The study of Talmud, a discipline which compares and contrasts different sets of logical middot. Upon this fundamental יסוד defines both T’NaCH and Talmudic common law systems. So far this week have contrasted how foreign alien Goyim read their scriptures; exposing how completely different Goyim view and understand their scriptures as “the word of God” as opposed to the vastly inferior idea of “word of Man”.
The Talmud and T’NaCH as judicial common law, has a vast gulf separation between Xtian fiction and Islamic poetry literature which both cultures declare as “sacred scripture”. Jewish common law never comes “from Heaven” as does Goyim scripture avoda zara. T’NaCH prophets with their Holy Writings (Gemara) commentaries examine how mussar defines the k’vanna of the Yatzir Ha’Tov within the bnai brit hearts. Aggadah together with its Midrashic reference sources, both based upon the T’NaCH; how prophetic mussar transforms rote halachic ritualism unto Avot time-oriented commandments of the Torah which require k’vanna.
The halachic portions of the Talmud make a משנה תורה-common law-legislative review employing halachot as precedents to re-interpret the language of the Sanhedrin courtroom judicial rulings codified within the 6 Orders of the Mishna. The righteous pursuit of justice defines “Faith” as the definition of Talmudic scholarship. A Grand Canyon separation between how Goyim worship their “word of God scriptures”.
Therefore for modern day Jews, struggling with assimilation to the dominant Goyim cultures and customs, and perhaps intermarried with alien Goyim who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, learning Talmud requires tremendous patience because it requires stepping outside the box of Greek deductive logic, freeing their minds from the “Word of God” cage Zoology; sinful Man condemned to Hell but either saved by a fictional messiah or warned in Arabic by some last prophet – Arabs being the last people on this Earth to receive their warning prophet.
The Framers of the Talmud already lived in g’lut/exile. There vision: to establish the Model of a Sanhedrin judicial court system which would serve as the basis, the foundation – for the time when Jews fought successful wars and reconquered our banished homelands from Goyim occupiers. Both the Mishna and the Gemara/Talmud – post disaster Bar Kokhba revolt against Roman rule (132–136 CE); post 70 CE destruction of Herod Temple ‘fairy-tale nostalgia’.
The prophet Natan’s mussar rejected king David’s assimilated fantacy to build a “House of Cedar” for God avoda zara; not because that David had “blood on his hands” – Israel anointed him king to fight their wars! The Talmud defines avoda zara as A) assimilation and B) intermarriage. Av tuma avoda zara defines “blood on his hands”, according to how the Talmud understands the 2nd Sinai commandment.
Grasping the layered nature of both T’NaCH and Talmudic common law essentially requires stepping away from the skewed perspectives of foreign cultures and customs wherein g’lut Jewry lives. T’NaCH and Talmudic common law endeavors to shape and define Jewish (chosen Cohen people) culture, customs and practices which maintains the integral Jewish identity “drop” which has fallen into the far larger ocean of Goyim societies and civilizations – all of which reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai – to this very day.
The Siddur shapes the 6 “Orders” of the Mishna – words within words/רמז. The כלל always applies in Talmudic scholarship: First Order, then Speed. Scholarship must first discern which set of basic middot define the substance of a particular Gemara sugya. The first two sugyot rely heavily upon rabbi Akiva’s רבוי מיעט middah to determine that a young child not “acquired” through קידושין through כספ שטר וביאה; this the second sugya excludes (קמ”ל) chuppa as the first sugya excluded small children. Middot function as the critical most important building blocks upon which פרדס inductive logic stands. Just that simple, no fancy dance’n. Yet the Reshonim commentaries virtually all failed to acknowledge this most essential top-priority of Talmudic transcription of Oral Torah 13 middot & Tannaim middot — unto the “written word” of T’NaCH and Talmudic common law!
The righteous pursuit of judicial common law justice which strives to restore fair compensation of damages inflicted simply does not exist in Goyim avoda zara which defines faith as belief in some theologically established creed dictated belief system which “define” their Gods. T’NaCH and Talmud teach: defining the nature of the Gods beyond the Human “pay scale”. In short: the theology of Monotheism (daughter religions), an utter Torah abomination due to the arrogance of the Yatzir Ha’Raw, which prioritizes the worship of some newly – theologically created – God, over & above the righteous pursuit of justice among and between any given set of people/nations as the meaning & definition of faith.
The righteous pursuit of justice – “Words of Man” and not “words of God”. The Torah commandment to remember the slavery of Egypt, best summarized by the corrupt court of Par’o whose command withheld the essential straw required to make bricks and whose Court condemned Israelites for their failure to meet Par’o quota tale of production; learned in conjunction with Yitro’s mussar rebuke to Moshe Rabbeinu when he alone judged the disputes over damages between the Jewish people who came out of Egypt. Israel did not come out of Egypt to worship the “word of God”, but rather to physically invade conquer Canaan and rule this land with righteous judicial justice.
Torah “faith” established a completely different judicial set of priorities based upon the Tower of Babel. The latter understood as the critical mussar which addresses: How does a human civilization collapse? The answer: ‘Diverse languages’, a טיפש פשט ignorance of Torah prophetic mussar. Rather a conflict of interests wherein Man despises contractual agreements made. Herein understands the mussar of ‘diverse languages’.
For example: the modern Torah oath “Never Again”. Jews cannot dictate that we shall “Never Again” rule our homelands with a Herod like injustice. Rather, that Europeans societies in particular shall “Never Again” decide their “Jewish Problem” with their own unilateral dictates. Hence Israelis reject UN Resolutions 242, 338, 446, 2334 etc etc etc. European and post ’48 and ’67 Arabs have no ‘Fear of Heaven’. The latter repeatedly sought to complete the Nazi genocide of the Jews across the Middle East. Both corrupt religions of avoda zara have permanently destroyed their “Good Name Reputations”; on par and similar to how the nations of Canaan equally destroyed their “Good Name Reputations” through their criminal judicial injustice. Therefore the idea of “Fear of Heaven”, stands upon the foundation of the collapse of the Tower of Babel Torah prophetic mussar rebuke.
With this summation, shall now examine – based upon the midda רבוי מיעט of פרט – בראשית כג:יג, and how a precedent search comparison defines the k’vanna of the exclusion of Chuppah which this sugya currently addresses. The study of law, not a religious belief system but rather a ‘be here now’ application of prophetic mussar to Jewish day to day lives throughout the generations, times, and Eras. The rabbis of Conservative/Historical Judaism missed this most basic of fundamental, on par with off the דרך Orthodox rabbinic Judaism which fails to educate in Yeshiva the difference between common law from statute law. Each generation of Jews living compares to a new floor in the construction of the Jewish civilization which contrasts with the Tower of Babel collapse — as exemplified by the recent Fall of the Nazi, French, British, and USSR empires.
The sugya of Parshat חיי שרה – כג: א-כ. Learning in context perhaps describes rabbi Yishmael’s midda of פרט כלל או כלל פרט. Bottom line: the different middot systems of Torah and rabbinic common law compare to the straw required to make brick in Egypt. Rav Nemuraskii repeatedly emphasized: if the foundation cracked, then the entire building must come down. The statute law codes made by the Rambam, Tur, and Shulkan Aruch serve as examples of a cracked foundation; in no way, shape, manner, or form do they qualify as “Oral Torah”.
The years of the life of Sarah, our mother, duplicates the number of Republics within the Persian empire. The king Cyrus the Great ordered the construction of the 2nd assimilated Jewish Cathedral as the basis of the restoration of the Jewish return to Judea. By stark contrast the rabbis of the Talmud prioritized Sanhedrin rule as the basis of the restoration of the Jewish return to Judea. The Shomronim\Canaani, Tzeddukim, Karaim, Rambam all invalidated the dedication of the lights of Chanukkah – the miracle of the restoration of Jewish National Sanhedrin Legislative Review Independence. The 13 Oral Torah Horev middot and Tannaim halachic middot “building-blocks”, by absolute juxtaposition – opposition: sanctify and validate the k’vanna of the mitzva to light the lights of Chanukkah to advertise the miracle of Jewish National Freedom which restores Sanhedrin common law Legislative Review Independence.
The acquisition of burial land for Sarah our mother, serves as an eternal building block foundation upon which stands all generations of Israelis building a civilization within the borders of the lands of Canaan. The mitzva of קידושין as both a Torah and Talmudic precedent stands upon this bedrock יסוד.
This opening sugya of חיי שרה directly linked to the two previous פ chapters of Parshat וירא which address Akadat Yitzak and the family of Rivka our mother. The Akadah established Yitzak as the chosen heir of the Cohen brit seed of Avraham as establish at the oath brit alliance – brit between the pieces. The dedication of Yitzak, placed upon the altar, not some barbeque unto Heaven טיפש פשט made by the Koran in in Surah Al-Saffat (37:102-107), but rather the sanctification of Yitzak as the dedicated father of the chosen Cohen people.
The Koran prioritizes “obedience and submission” as faith to Allah’s Will. The Torah prophetic mussar instructs the dedication, based upon the Torah precedent of korbanot, called “עבודת השם”. The time-oriented commandment Akadah established Yitzak as the father of the chosen seed of Avraham the father of the Cohen people. The Koran “obenience and submission” substitute theology completely changed the Torah Central theme; no different than the NT revisionist history which replaced JeZeus for the Chosen Cohen children of the Avot.
The Akadah represents the logical consequences of the oath sworn between the pieces that the future born chosen seed of Avram would father the Chosen Cohen people. Therefore its not the “sacrifice” which defines the mitzva of עבודת השם – the טיפש פשט reached by the Koran fraud, which fails to address the Central Torah theme – the building of the chosen Cohen people through the מלאכה חכמה שהוא נקרא עבודת השם. Herein defines the k’vanna of this time-oriented prophetic mussar Torah aggada.
All Korbanot dedications stand upon the common law יסוד of the Akada dedication of Yitzak as the chosen seed of Avraham, which like Cain & Esau both rejected as the chosen Cohen seed of Avraham. Therefore the Koran fraud fails to either submit or obey the Torah oath brit cut between the pieces which establishes Avraham as the father of the chosen Cohen people.
ויאמר בי נשבעתי נאם ה’ כי יען אשר עשית את הדבר הזה ולא חשכת את בנך את יחידך כי ברך אברכך והרבה ארבה את זרעך ככוכבי השמים וכחול אשר על שפת הים ורש זרעך את שער איביו.
כלל: Law precedes text. Avoda Zara – statues law, metaphysics, & theology. Aggadah interprets Nevuah, to shape kavvanah; aggada does not to replace halacha. Halakha functions through precedent which re-interpret the language of the Mishna, viewed from a completely different perspective, simply not fossil statute law religious dictates made by cults of personality. The Sanhedrin, not some assimilated foreign Cathedral-Temple, but rather the substance or constitutional heart of Israel. Confusing substance with form amounts to טיפש פשט.
Roman law deductive logic does not replace פרדס inductive common law jurisprudence. Kiddushin does not begin with romance, mysticism, or ritual; it begins with קניין—because marriage in Torah – a legal acquisition of obligations, not a sacrament. Classic Rabbi Akiva: 1) Define the legal object. 2) Exclude improper cases. 3) Only then build the rule. Chuppah does not create kinyan; Chuppah, a consequence of kiddushin, not its cause. Korbanot sanctify avodat Hashem – time-oriented commandments, not appeasement. Torah sanctifies human legislative authority. Torah does not come from Heaven but from Torah sages who have dedicated their tohor middot\Yatzir Ha’Tov within their hearts.
A בנין אב interpretation of the בראשית aggada: דברים ב:לא-ג:ב. The mitzva of קידושין establishes an inheritance just as does the conquering of the nations of Canaan. Translating the שם השם to Golden Calf “word translations” violates: לא תשא את שם השם אלהיך לשוא. Like as similarly does causing ones’ children to embrace and follow the cultures and customs practiced by foreign aliens who reject and despise the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Directly based upon the commandment to totally obliterate the nations of Canaan. The eternal k’vanna inheritance of the mitzva of קידושין.
Placing the blessing upon הר גרזים and the curse upon הר עיבל, the summation of the first two Sinai commandments, upon which hang – like a mountain by a hair – all other Torah commandments.
כי אם אל המקום אשר יבחר ה’ אלהיכם מכל שבטיכם לשום את שמו שם לשכנו תדרשו ובאת שמה
This p’suk understood as Sanhedrin courtroom common law justice and not some cult like building made from wood and stone. The latter compares to making permanent tatoo marks upon ones’ flesh, comparable to eating tuma and treif animal flesh.
The mitzva of קידושין compares to Jews observing Chag Pesach. This Chag not applicable to Goyim anymore than קידושין. The removal of חמץ – the destruction of avoda zara within our hearts through the dedication of the Divine Name האל. Impossible to become tohor by entering a mikva while holding a dead rat; cannot accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai while worshipping alien Gods. In like manner justice depends upon wisdom, not what a person personally believes. Israel requires righteous judicial justice-cities of refuge. Synagogues simply icing on the cake. Xtianity and Islam directly compare to the מיעט of עמוני ומואבי, excluded from the Jewish people.
As a man has an obligation to honor and build the dignity of his wife and children, this obligation extends to giving tzedakah to the poor, widows, orphans etc among our bnai brit extended family. Why do “strangers”, especially the poor or distressed merit such respect? Because poverty does not prevent Jews from doing mitzvot. Even Moshe Rabbeinu himself excluded from entering the land due to mocking the poor and weak of Torah faith among our people; when Moshe’s satire challenged, if he or Aaron, bring water out of the rock. Comparable to plagues which afflicted Egypt. This error, it forgets the humility of Sinai; wherein the Torah reveals a local god rather than a Great monotheistic Universal God.
A NaCH precedent: ישעיה יז:א-יח:ז. Hear the mussar of our prophet, the Torah curse of the Tower of Babel applies equally to all man-kind, including the nation of Israel. Who endures g’lut on multiple occasions consequent to our pride and arrogance; tuma middot which our Yatzir Ha’Raw breaths from within our hearts…
Russia Breaks Diplomatic Relations With Israel
Russia has voiced its concerns over the recent actions of the Trump administration, specifically regarding the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. The regime change in Venezuela evokes mixed reactions, with some in Russia characterizing it as “armed aggression” against a sovereign nation. Following the U.S. military actions leading to the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, Russia has reacted sharply, escalating tensions not only with the U.S. but also with other nations, notably Israel.
The diplomatic strain between Russia and Israel, following the U.S. military actions in Venezuela resulting in Nicolás Maduro’s capture, can be connected through several interlinked factors: Perception of U.S. Aggression; Strategic Alliances; Geopolitical Realignment following the Israeli victory in the Oct 7th 2023 Abomination War which radically changed the balance of power for European States like Russia, England, and France across the Middle East unto the Horn of Africa.
Russia characterizes the U.S. military actions in Venezuela as “armed aggression,” framing it as part of a broader pattern of Western imperialism. This perception exacerbates Russia’s dissatisfaction with U.S. foreign policy and influences its relations with other nations aligned with the U.S., such as Israel. The ease of the US victory invasion sharply contrasts with the Ukraine War and the Israeli 12 War victory over Iran after the collapse of the Assad government in Syria.
By severing diplomatic ties with Israel, Russia seeks to fortify bonds with nations that espouse a similar anti-Western agenda. This consolidation of partnerships serves to promote a unified front against perceived U.S. hegemony, creating conditions for increased cooperation with other nations that resist U.S. influence.
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I think most would agree that I, too, am a country boy at heart. I grew up from age 7 to 17 in a larger city of 260,000 in New England. I took every opportunity available to get out into the woods, farms, or orchards. Over my military career, it was much the same. Now retired, I live outside Jackson, MS, in a small corner lot on a lake.
God, family, and self in that order would be an appropriate slogan for most country folks. For me, at least, being country is a state of mind. It represents the opposite of all that the hustle and bustle of big city life.