From chabad.org: Emor in a NutshellLeviticus 21:1–24:23The name of the Parshah, “Emor,” means “speak” and it is found in Leviticus 21:1. The Torah section of Emor (“Speak”) begins with the special laws pertaining to the kohanim (“priests”), the kohen gadol (“high priest”), and the Temple service: A kohen may not become ritually impure through contact…
Headlines are everywhere. Processed meat causes cancer. Meat is not healthy for you. The New York Times has no problem telling us about this. The evidence is quite convincing that regular consumption of processed meats is detrimental to health, including colorectal cancer, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease,” said Dr. Frank Hu, a professor of…
There comes a time when a person must get up and do what must be done. Traditionally, just thought has to do with going to war. I am personally not of the belief that the greatest motivator to get one up is to kill your fellow man or destroy the landscape. Sometimes I think it…
Here is a message to everyone who plays baseball who might someday be asked to perform a sacrifice. I’m not talking about giving up your girlfriend for the season. I’m talking about giving away an out in the hope that something wonderful will happen. Basically playing for one run. Bunting is the best of this….
Ego death is not a vacation for egotists It’s 3:00 in the morning on another very cold night. There was a frost and it got to the leaves of the grapevines that had before then truly looked like they were ready to do something. Everything in the garden really wants to go this year. Even…
The Atomic Cafe is a 1982 American documentary film directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty. It is a compilation of clips from newsreels, military training films, and other footage produced in the United States early in the Cold War on the subject of nuclear warfare. Without any narration, the footage is edited and presented in a manner to demonstrate how misinformation and propaganda…
According to multiple sources, the Russians have transported several nuclear warheads to the territory of Belarus. The idea is that they should be available in case the need to nuke Ukraine becomes the only viable way to get their point across. European press as always tries to diminish fear amongst the people who read their…
If you’re interested in reading the text of this week’s parsha, the weekly Torah portion, you can go to chabad.org. If you are a Russian reader or pretty much any other language, I’m sure there is a translator program available. This week’s portion is called Kedeshim (קְדשִׁ֣ים) which has the simple translation of you shall…
I went searching for the state of the art for the eco activist. You have to give credit to these people. To think that wanting to breathe fresh air and to stop the damage caused by completely unnecessary economic activity has become criminal and scornful seems crazy. It’s like getting a nice bowl of soup…
4 years of work, from the mundane to hopefully the extraordinary and everything in between, all of the work from the last 4 years is now available and online and of course for free. You can have a look at everything over at THE MUSEUM OF ANCIENT UNWANTED ARTIFACTS BIKE SHOP KOSHER NOODLE BURRITO PALACE…
There are a lot of videos out there about people who wish to have mobile homes but don’t really have the money for fully constructed mobile homes. If we don’t understand what I’m talking about, Winnebago’s. These are these giant trucks that have kitchens and toilets and showers and beds and everything you need to…
Originally published December 2, 2023 As a perpetual practitioner of acts of civil disobedience, I am within my own bloody rights to give the following thought. If we are talking about carnivores, the mark of a genuine killer is that they eat their prey on the field. Or at least carry it up a tree…
Originally published October 13, 2023 I’m just doing some random mental architecture here. I am on the balcony of my old apartment in town and I am looking down at the sea of automobiles in the yard below. And what I tried to get straight in my head was what would happen if they declared…
I had the unfortunate displeasure of running across the following video today. I would not go so far as to say it ruined an otherwise wonderful day. I don’t remember a day that has not been ruined. People ruin other people’s days as a hobby. This is not everybody. Some people work really hard not…
Originally published on green2022.org on November 10, 2023 I’m just sitting here riffing really. I have these crazy thoughts that go together sometimes and my habit is to put them together into some usable thing. This is what makes the Utopian fiction run. I just like solving problems so I like to make messes and…
If you would like a nice overview of Orthodox Judaism concerning Passover, you can click here to see what they have at chabad.org concerning prayers and readings and observations. I am non-traditional but observant in my own way. I am not using factory matzah this year because I am in a war with mice. If…
This is kind of a difficult subject to put together in a reasonably short essay so I’m not going to go deeply into the minutia of each individual line of thought but more try and give an overview to a single thought concerning drugs. To even use the word drugs is to influence people. We…
I asked this question of Google. The first dictionary definition I got was this. A luxuriant, dense forest rich in biodiversity, found typically in tropical areas with consistently heavy rainfall. The word luxurious means very rich which is also an adjective that is used. It means uninhibited really. When we think of luxury, we think…
I made a short film this morning. I’m really getting tired of doing this but I made a short film this morning. It’s a film about my neighbor’s story to the police when I brutally attacked her arbitrarily and without notice. I was thinking last night about Being Had. This is the book I wrote…
It seems that we have a problem with Saturdays being recognized as the Sabbath. It seems it is difficult for baseball to take Saturday’s off because the traditional days off of workers would be Saturday and Sunday and of course the nature of baseball is to sell tickets and advertising and whatever else goes along…