Parashat Emor (Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23)

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Yesterday’s parasha included the most famous one in Leviticus — Kedoshim as well as Acharei Mot. This week we study Emor: “The parashah provides purity rules for priests (כֹּהֲנִים‎, Kohanim), recounts the holy days, provides for lights and bread in the sanctuary, and tells the story of a blasphemer and his punishment. The parashah constitutes Leviticus 21:1–24:23.”

* When I was high school and college in the 1980s, LA was regarded a glamorous place filled with beautiful white women. Is it still regarded that way? In the 1980s, I longed to move to LA, but it wasn’t because I longed to be surrounded by Mexicans.

* LAT: “The killing of Jordan Edwards shows again how black males — even children — are viewed as a threat”

* Nature has color-coded plants and animals for evolutionary reasons.

* What if it all means something? In Orthodox Judaism, your every choice, every deed, every word has significance. If you have visited Israel, you know a place where living is intense. If your life drifts along and you have no meaning and purpose, then seek help. One possible path to meaning is to read the Bible.

* “Counting of the Omer (Hebrew: ספירת העומר‎‎, Sefirat HaOmer, sometimes abbreviated as Sefira or the Omer) is an important verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between the Jewish holidays of Passover and Shavuot as stated in the Hebrew Bible: Leviticus 23:15–16.” (Wikipedia)

* Lag B’Omer begins Saturday night, May 13. “The origins of Lag BaOmer as a minor festival are unclear. The date is mentioned explicitly for the first time in the 13th century by the Talmudist Meiri in his gloss to Yevamot 62b. The Talmudic passage states that during the time of Rabbi Akiva, 24,000 of his students died from a divinely-sent plague during the counting of the Omer. The Talmud goes on to say that this was because they did not show proper respect to one another. Meiri named Lag BaOmer as the day when, “according to a tradition of the geonim”, the “plague” ended.”

“While the Counting of the Omer is a semi-mourning period, all restrictions of mourning are lifted on this 33rd day of the Omer. As a result, weddings, parties, listening to music, and haircuts are commonly scheduled to coincide with this day among Ashkenazi Jews. Families go on picnics and outings. Children go out to the fields with their teachers with bows and rubber-tipped arrows.”

“The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, encouraged Lag BaOmer parades to be held in Jewish communities around the world as a demonstration of Jewish unity and pride.” (Wikipedia)

* The Torah is not a suicide document. So when it says to love your neighbor as yourself, it means your Jewish neighbor. You are not expected to love your goyisha neighbor who hates you. The Torah lays out a tripartite division: humanity, Israel and priests. As the priests are to Israel, Israel is to be to the world. Even resident aliens must follow the holiness code or else God will leave and He won’t bless the land with fertility and security. (Jacob Milgrom)

* “The magnified risk of priests who work inside the sacred sphere is best illustrated by the tragedy of Nadab and Abihu (10:1-3). The x-ray physician is far more at risk than is the patient. Thus those who work directly at the heart of danger must implement heightened precautions.” (Milgrom)

* For the ancient aryans of Northern Europe, their main battle to survive was against the elements, not against other groups. So when they ran into strangers, they tended to trust them because strangers could help you survive a harsh environment. This trusting trait was evolutionarily adaptive for that particular time and place but it is now maladaptive. Jews, by contrast, come from the Middle East. They’ve always been highly ethnocentric because their main battles were with other groups for resources, not against the environment. Jews are evolutionarily adapted to group competition.

* The Torah is not libertarian. The whole camp must stay holy, and by extension, the land of Israel, else the land will vomit out the people Israel, just like it vomited out its previous inhabitants.

* The Torah is concerned with sanctifying space and time. The holier the place and the person, the more restrictions.

* The Torah is not esoteric. There is no hidden knowledge that only the priests or privileged classes know. The Torah is for everyone. By contrast, we discuss Nazism & occultism. Ariosophy refers to the wisdom of the Aryans. Wise proverbs from Africa. I have a friend who’s obsessed with Caitlin Jenner and trannies and it is ruining his mind.

* Lev. 20:24: “I am the Lord your God who set you apart from other peoples. So you shall set apart the pure quadrupeds from the impure…”

* Jacob Milgrom: “Israel’s attainment of holiness depends on setting itself apart from the nations and from prohibited foods.”

* Sex and food prohibitions are linked. Ex. 34:15-16: “You must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for they will lust after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and invite you, and you will eat of their sacrifices. And when you take wives from among their daughters for your sons, their daughters will lust after their gods and will cause your sons to lust after their gods.”

* In Herman Wouk’s novel, Marjorie Morningstar, the “Jewish heroine finally succumbs to her seducer when she tastes pork for the first time. It is no accident that the author is a learned and observant Jew who understands that a breach in the dietary system may endanger one’s entire religious structure.”

* One of Christianity’s first acts was to abolish the dietary laws to abolish the distinctions between Jew and gentile.

* A crippled cohen can’t serve as a priest.

* “Israel was obsessed with fear of contamination of the dead…to wean Israel from the worship of the dead.” (Milgrom)

* “In Israel, there is no stigma attached to a raped or seduced single girl (Deet. 22:28-29) if she is the daughter of a layman. But a stigma may well exist if she is the daughter of a priest… Consider the case of a husband who finds that his bride is not a virgin; for her deception, she is put to death. However, a priest’s daughter who is neither married nor betrothed, but just promiscuous, is burned by fire. Finally, in view of the high degree of purity demanded of a priest’s bride in Second Temple times, it is plausible that in the biblical period rape disqualified a woman from marrying a priest.” (Milgrom)

* A Cohen can’t marry a divorcee or a convert.

* According to Plato, a prospective priest “must be screened to see to it that he is sound of body and of legitimate birth, reared in a family whose moral standards could hardly be higher.”

* “The list of blemishes for priests (21:17-23) was compiled match that for sacrificial animals.”

* “The impeccable appearance and behavior of the ordinary priest…is Israel’s responsibility.”

* For a rabbi, how many plooks until you’re out? How much illegitimate sex do you get before you are no longer a rabbi? It seems like Seventh-Day Adventist clergy have higher moral standards than many rabbis because the church is hierarchical while Judaism is congregational. If a rabbi owns his shul, who’s going to kick him out of it?

* “Holiness enters our life as a “still small voice” and will utterly transform every aspect of who we are and how we perceive and relate to the world around us, if only we allow that still small voice to to emerge and fill our reality.”

* Last show.

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America’s Future: Blackout!

I just watched the PBS documentary American Experience: Blackout about the 25 hours without power in New York City in 1977:

As Wednesday, July 13, 1977 dawned hot and humid, New Yorkers prepared themselves for another sweltering day. It was the first day of a nine-day heat wave that would become the hottest in New York City history. The once-booming city had been suffering years of economic decline. It was on the verge of bankruptcy; both unemployment rates and crime rates were high; police and firefighters had been laid off; municipal services, including sanitation and after-school programs, had been cut; and a serial killer named Son of Sam was still on the loose, keeping everyone on edge.

When a severe thunderstorm hit, the lights went out, and some eight million people plunged into darkness in New York City and surrounding areas. By the time the power was fully restored more than a day later, more than 1,600 businesses had been looted, more than 3,000 people had been arrested, and firefighters had battled more than 1,000 fires. The affected neighborhoods would never be the same.

I noticed that in the documentary the white areas of New York, whites got together and had a block party. I noticed that in the black and latino areas, blacks and latinos got together and looted.

As America imports more third-world people, it develops more third-world problems, such as infrastructure breaking down and crime increasing (the Ferguson Effect).

The talking heads on this PBS program blame the looting on class not race but the pictures show looters who are overwhelmingly black (with some latinos). Poor whites by and large did not loot. Poor east-asians by and large did not loot.

With sophisticated and intrusive policing, and with welfare flowing, a rich country like the USA can keep a handle on its black and brown underclass, but when the system breaks down, savagery triumphs.

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Lutherans Are Wrecking This Country With Their Reckless Support For Refugees

USA TODAY:

The number of refugees arriving in the United States has dropped sharply this year because of President Trump’s threats to bar their entry, even though his order for a total 120-day ban has been blocked twice by federal courts, a USA TODAY analysis of government figures shows.

The U.S. accepted 2,070 refugees in March, the lowest monthly total since 2013, according to State Department data. April ended with 3,316 refugees admitted, the second-lowest total since 2013.

“The statements from this administration about refugees are shocking to me,” said Kay Bellor of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which resettled 13,000 refugees in 26 states last year. “It’s language I’ve never heard used with refugees, who have always enjoyed bipartisan support because they’re the best part of what the U.S. does.”

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Where Is Your Happy Place?

A Mexican friend says Dodger Stadium is her happy place. She goes there and she always feels happy.

I want to say that for Jews, synagogue is their happy place. They go there and they always feel happy. But I think this is only true for a small number of Jews. Orthodox Jews tend to go to shul every day and you can’t expect a place you go to every day to always make you feel happy. I wonder if synagogue is a happy place for a higher percentage of non-Orthodox Jews than Orthodox Jews because non-Orthodox Jews go to synagogue less frequently and therefore it might be a more intense and uplifting experience.

For other Jews, going to a bank might be their happy place.

For some people, going to a party or a game or a club or a barbershop might be their happy place.

For the intellectually-inclined, going to a library might be their happy place.

For many Australians, going to the race track or a bookie or a bar is their happy place.

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Jews & The LA Riots

The 25th anniversary of the LA Riots was April 29.

At the time of the riots, I had been bedridden for four years (about 20 hours a day on average) by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and rarely watched TV or listened to the radio due to my headaches and exhaustion. I had no knowledge of what happened until the morning of April 30, Thursday, when I went to the office of PCP, Dr. Zane Kime, and the staff asked me if I heard about the fires in Los Angeles. I said no. I didn’t think about it much. So there were fires in LA, big deal.

I didn’t learn much more about the riots until Saturday night, May 2, when I tuned into KABC radio AM 790 to listen to Dennis Prager’s impassioned commentary. Prager was my hero and my moral compass and his comments, as usual, made sense to me.

The reception was in and out at our Newcastle home, 45 minutes drove north of Sacramento, so every word I could hear clearly from Prager, I treated it like manna from heaven. I longed to be back in LA where I had long thought (since watching MTV in 1982) my life would truly begin.

On June 26, 1992, Prager delivered this speech:

I want to talk to you about liberalism and what happened in my city. And yes, it is my city: I don’t want to be melodramatic, but just a few weeks ago the entire sky outside my house was black with smoke. If you have never had that sensation, then it is not possible for you to know exactly what it felt like. I get the chills as I tell it to you. My reaction was intense anger. I have been broadcasting on KABC, the talk radio station in Los Angeles for ten years. The station called me during the rioting and, asked me if I wanted to do two live hours, even though it was not my day to broadcast. I said yes, but then my family begged me not to go-which was quite understandable since on the block of my station a FEDCO, a huge store, was being burned and looted; and next door to my station a Sees Candy was being looted (presumably because the looters had a particularly great need for candy). But I didn’t go for another reason. I called the station and said, “I can’t broadcast. I am too angry. What I have to say will not calm the city.” By Saturday, I had calmed down just enough to give my commentary.

My theme was that I was living in a sea of lies, that Los Angeles and America were drowning in lies. Let me give you one example. As I was watching the local NBC television coverage of the rioting, this is the way one reporter described what he saw: “Here I am on the comer of (I forget the streets) and I see five black gentlemen throwing stones at cars.” I said on my radio show, “Can you imagine anybody ever saying, ‘I saw five white gentlemen in hoods burning a cross.’ And so, my motto – which I repeated in South Central Los Angeles to black listeners – became “If you can’t call a black thug a thug, you are a racist.” The inability to call a bad black person a bad person is part of the quarter-century liberal harvest that Betsy Hart, in her introduction, spoke of.

Dennis Prager writes May 2, 2017:

Unfortunately, there is now reason to believe that violence is coming. In fact, it’s already here. But as of now, it’s coming only from one direction. Left-wing thugs engage in violence and threats of violence with utter impunity. They shut down speakers at colleges; block highways, bridges, and airport terminals; take over college buildings and offices; occupy state capitols; and terrorize individuals at their homes.

In order to understand why more violence might be coming, it is essential to understand that left-wing mobs are almost never stopped, arrested, or punished. Colleges do nothing to stop them, and civil authorities do nothing to stop them on campuses or anywhere else. Police are reduced to spectators as they watch left-wing gangs loot stores, smash business and car windows, and even take over state capitols (as in Madison, Wisc.).

It’s beginning to dawn on many Americans that some mayors, police chiefs, and college presidents have no interest in stopping this violence. Left-wing officials sympathize with the lawbreakers; and the police, who rarely sympathize with thugs of any ideology, are ordered to do nothing by emasculated police chiefs. Consequently, given the abdication by all these authorities of their role to protect the public, some members of the public will inevitably decide that they will protect themselves and others.

This ability of the Left to get away with violence is one of the gravest threats to American society in its modern history. Since the Civil War, I can think of only two comparable eruptions of mob violence that authorities allowed. One was when white mobs lynched blacks. The other was the rioting by blacks, such as the Los Angeles riots 25 years ago, and the recent riots in Ferguson and Baltimore.

Today, authorities in what we once proudly proclaimed the “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave” are intimidated to the point of paralysis. And exactly what do they fear? Not violence – they have made peace with left-wing violence. What they fear is the left-wing media.

If Black Lives Matter is forcefully prevented from blocking tens of thousands of cars from entering or leaving San Francisco, the police and local authorities will be labeled “racist” by black leaders, a smear that will then be echoed by the New York Times and rest of the left-wing media.
Likewise, if a college president requests enough police onto a college campus to ensure that a Heather Mac Donald, a Charles Murray, or an Ann Coulter can deliver a lecture, some of the student-gangsters engaged in violence might be injured – and that college president will then be pilloried by the mainstream media. Furthermore, left-wing violence doesn’t succeed only where it takes place: It also succeeds where nothing happens.

The Left can now shut down places and events just by threatening violence. This is what happened last week in Portland, Ore. One leftist called in a threat to the annual 82nd Avenue of the Roses parade, saying that the Republican-party contingent marching in the parade would be beaten up. The business leaders organizing the parade canceled the whole event for the first time in its ten-year history. Had they had any reason to believe that, in left-wing Portland, the police would have adequately protected the marchers, one assumes (hopes?) that they would not have canceled the parade.

So, here’s a prediction: If college presidents, mayors, and police chiefs won’t stop left-wing mobs, other Americans will. I hope this doesn’t happen, because electing conservative Republicans and not donating money to colleges would be more effective. But it is almost inevitable. Then the left-wing media – the mainstream media – will enter hysteria mode with reports that “right-wing fascists” are violently attacking America. And that’s when mayors and college presidents will finally order in the police.

Watching docos on the 25th anniversary of the LA Riots I note that Joyce Karlin, the judge who failed to imprison a convicted killer of a 15yo black girl. “Karlin became a Superior Court judge in 1991 and that year presided over the controversial voluntary manslaughter case involving the Death of Latasha Harlins.[5] Karlin’s “light sentencing”[5] was met with outrage and protest from the African American community and was a catalyst for the LA riots.” (Wikipedia)

The judge in Simi Valley for the trial of the four LAPD officers for beating Rodney King was also a Jew — Stanley Weisberg.

Rodney King had a lawyer with a Jewish name — Steven Lerman, who was attacked on this black website:

I’m not sure if Black people bought into the whole “Larry H. Parker got me 2.1 million” thing, but for some reason when tragedy strikes and a lawsuit is eminent, it is the thinking of many Black people–both educated and not–that unless the attorney is white and/or Jewish, that attorney is no good. In other words, the white man’s ice is colder.

No one can tell me any different because I’ve heard it said over and over by Black people of all ages and in a variety of different colorful ways that all add up to the same thing–when it comes to a lawyer white is always right…

I want to say that the Lermans of the world don’t hang out in the hood chasing ambulances and listening to police scanners to know where to show up to promise us millions if we just sign on the dotted line. No, that’s what they keep a thirsty group of Uncle Toms on retainer to do for them.

You see the Uncle Toms, much like some of these news van tracking and camera hunting so-called community activists, chase the ambulances and the police scanners. They’re Black so they blend in and they convince families in the midst of their tragedies to sign on the dotted line with the attorney paying the Uncle Tom the most money on the downlow to snag the case for them.

And the Ezell Ford case was no different.

There was an Uncle Tom, who shall remain nameless because quite frankly he isn’t worth the additional Google mentions putting him on my blog would give him, who brought the Ford family to Lerman.

This Uncle Tom likes to refer to himself as some sort of diplomat in these types of cases. With the Fords, he doesn’t want you talking to them unless it goes through him and then he goes to Lerman and then comes back to you like he made the decision when really Lerman did. He’s a clinger, a hanger-oner of sorts who thinks he’s really doing big things.

You can thank this Uncle Tom as being one of the main reasons that the Ezell Ford name and story never really went nationwide (or countywide for that matter) much like deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and now Walter Scott did.

I personally witnessed this Uncle Tom straight up disparage and bad talk the police brutality activists including Black Lives Matter for holding protests and speaking out about the death of Ezell Ford–basically echoing the tone of his Massuh.

It was also this Uncle Tom who said that 102.3 KJLH wasn’t “big enough” for the Fords and that they need to be thinking national when it comes to media. He said the Front Page with Dominique DiPrima show wasn’t big enough and that the Fords need to be reaching beyond Black people.

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