A NEW RELIGION
  • Intro
  • A) Seven Themes
    • I. Relating to the above
    • 2. The Premise
    • 3. You know the truth
    • 4. There is meaning
    • 5. Appreciation and humility
    • 6. Help
    • 7. Living
    • A) Commentary
  • B) Realizations
    • 1. Realizations Introduction
    • 2. Aspects
    • 3. Roots of the New Religion
    • 4. My journey just to God
    • 5. Meditation and talking to God
    • 6. Christianity
    • 7. Judaism and Islam
    • 8. Local Indigenous and Eastern traditions
    • 9. New Age Individualism Isolation Evolution Devolution
    • 10. Gravitational Bands and The American Indian
    • 11. Transcendentalism and Deism
    • B) Commentary
  • C) Information
    • 1. Three Religions Judaism Rosenzweig History Torah 1.A thru E
    • 2. Three Religions Judaism Evidence 1.F thu L
    • 3. Three Religions Moses Torah Exodus 2.A thru C
    • 4. Three Religions Judaism Exodus Mythicism 2.D thu E
    • 5. Christianity Intro Versions Timing Sources 3.A thru C
    • 6. Christianity Arguments For and Against 3. D. thru J
    • 7. Christianity. Mythicist - Atwill 3. K thru L
    • 8. Islam-Sadar Ali Bukhsh-4.A thru C
    • 9. Islam: Hussein, Ali essays - Pro/con research 4.D thru K
    • 10. Islam: Nevo, Koren, Spencer 4.L. thru P
    • 11. Islam: Spencer, Mizrachi, Lewis, 4.Q thru U. 5. Summary
    • C) Commentary
  • General Comments
  • Wisdom/Truths
  • Contact
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Wisdom/Truths

Various writings and poetry from sages and thinkers from the past and present with some emphasis upon Judaic   sources are shown.  The purpose is to enliven and stimulate our spiritual sensibilities on many levels.  This is one..  While 'A New Religion' seeks to relate to the above in a fresh way, these writings are part of the soil that can nourish this effort..

January 22nd, 2018

1/22/2018

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23. Embrace

Intimacy with God, a sense of God's closeness and embrace, an existential realization that we are not alone—these are the answers to our prayers, not the specific fulfillment of a verbal request.



(Bradley Shavit Artson)


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God of All

1/22/2018

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22. God of All
Everything you see enwraps holiness; take away the outer shell and gaze at the spiritual beauty.


Hillel Zeitlin


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All Thank You

1/22/2018

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21. All Thank You
 
It is not You alone, or we,
  or those others who pray,
all things pray, all things
  pour forth their souls.
The heavens pray,
  the earth prays,
  every creature and
every living thing prays.
In all life, there is longing,
Creation is itself but a
  longing,
a kind of pray of the
  Almighty.
Micha Joseph Berdyczewski


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A person who shuns the office of judge

1/8/2018

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20.


('Torah' referred to here can be interpreted in the broader sense of teaching or instruction, which of course is universal.  I find this writing interesting because who would think judgeship can serve spiritual refinement and attainment.  I always wondered about the Jewish people's emphasis on the law
and saw it as just the practical world.  To see it as a way to refine one's soul is enlarging.)


A person who shuns the office of judge

Judgeship brings one into the classroom closest to reality.  There a person encounters the rifts, the pains, the errors, and the suffering of the person gone wrong, and even of the intentional evildoer.  There, mercy and discernment are melded together and seek to beat a pah toward what is worthy, out of the muddy trail of life itself.  Anyone who has studied Torah and is not prepared, on the basis of what one has learned, to sit in the most contentious encounters casts off responsibility and burdens the world with frustration, which imposes costs on the litigants in the form of animosity, robbery, and false oaths—the desecration of the divine name in a world in which people consign their communities to corruption.

But one who treats the judicial process lightly is a fool—One who approaches being a judge lightly and without refinement, acting as a precipitous pace that crushes the fine strands of human experience, makes the court into a firing squad aimed at the depths of Torah.  One has learned nothing from it—not to listen, hear, learn, or teach.

Rabbi Ishmael teaches that a person need first to take the world's sorrow and corruption onto one's own shoulders, and then to take respo0nsibility with trepidation, refinement of heart, and moderation, in order to find the loose thread that leads to the sails of the spirit, and mend them.
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One with whom people are pleased

1/8/2018

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19.

(A good case for keeping the 'other' in the loop)

One with whom people are pleased

Hanina ben Dosa upends the conversation and states:  It is not your autonomous search for a worthy cause that fills your life with value, but directing yourself beyond yourself—toward the other—that fills it with purpose.  You will not rescue yourself from emptiness; your fellow human being will.  Your fellow will be the witness who will affirm that you exist, that your life has meaning, that the world could not exist without you.  Only together will you determine whether life has meaning; you and your  fellow people will determine that from within the delicate connection between your life and theirs.
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Holiness

1/8/2018

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Holiness

“Holy are You, holy is Your name, and holy ones praise You each day!  Holiness for us is the perfect blending of love and awe.  It is a knowing that we stand before the greatest of all terrors, and yet a knowing that causes us to flow with kindness and compassion, with love for all creatures and the One who is their life.

Arthur Green

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  • Intro
  • A) Seven Themes
    • I. Relating to the above
    • 2. The Premise
    • 3. You know the truth
    • 4. There is meaning
    • 5. Appreciation and humility
    • 6. Help
    • 7. Living
    • A) Commentary
  • B) Realizations
    • 1. Realizations Introduction
    • 2. Aspects
    • 3. Roots of the New Religion
    • 4. My journey just to God
    • 5. Meditation and talking to God
    • 6. Christianity
    • 7. Judaism and Islam
    • 8. Local Indigenous and Eastern traditions
    • 9. New Age Individualism Isolation Evolution Devolution
    • 10. Gravitational Bands and The American Indian
    • 11. Transcendentalism and Deism
    • B) Commentary
  • C) Information
    • 1. Three Religions Judaism Rosenzweig History Torah 1.A thru E
    • 2. Three Religions Judaism Evidence 1.F thu L
    • 3. Three Religions Moses Torah Exodus 2.A thru C
    • 4. Three Religions Judaism Exodus Mythicism 2.D thu E
    • 5. Christianity Intro Versions Timing Sources 3.A thru C
    • 6. Christianity Arguments For and Against 3. D. thru J
    • 7. Christianity. Mythicist - Atwill 3. K thru L
    • 8. Islam-Sadar Ali Bukhsh-4.A thru C
    • 9. Islam: Hussein, Ali essays - Pro/con research 4.D thru K
    • 10. Islam: Nevo, Koren, Spencer 4.L. thru P
    • 11. Islam: Spencer, Mizrachi, Lewis, 4.Q thru U. 5. Summary
    • C) Commentary
  • General Comments
  • Wisdom/Truths
  • Contact