#jewish homesteading

[thepomegranatewitch]

Garden is overrun with pioneering volunteer species and the soil is mostly clay, but I picked these (wild radish) for some backyard salad foraging.

Image description. A lightly tanned left hand in a white linen sleeve holds a metal colander one third full of white and pastel purple four petaled flowers and bright green seed pods. It is golden hour, and tall plants of the the flowers, wild radish, take up the majority of the frame around the colander. The top fifth of frame has cloudless blue sky.

[greenflower21]

DAMN I genuinely love it when Star Trek episodes are Jewish trauma AND resilience coded

[pebblegalaxy]

The Cost of Free Land: A Deep Dive Into America's Legacy of Indigenous Dispossession and Immigrant Settlers #TBRChallenge #bookchatter #BookReview

Review of The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren Rebecca Clarren’s The Cost of Free Land is a groundbreaking exploration of the historical intersections between Jewish settlers and the Lakota people, centered around the broader issue of land dispossession in America. Clarren’s book is personal and profound, as it grapples with her own family’s history…

[architectureandfilmblog]

The villa of Commandant Höss: a "paradise" which shared a wall with Auschwitz.

ARCHITECTURE OF GENOCIDE: THE ZONE OF INTEREST (2023)

Before I saw this film, I'd assumed that it would illustrate the way architecture can be used to facilitate denial or self-deception. Like PARASITE (2019), in which one - in that case wholly fictional - family creates a lavish domestic retreat from which they can't see the overcrowding, poverty and suffering that surrounds them. But although Hedwig Höss speaks of planting vines to cover the wall they share with Auschwitz, there's no pretending this neighbour isn't there. The Höss's live in a pristine 1937 villa, with a manicured garden where they have parties and their children swim in a pool, and this juxtaposition is chilling. But they can still see the chimneys, and hear the screams, and nobody is denying what's next door.

This is one of the most horrifying movies I've seen, and that's due to the banality of the domestic scenes. We aren't watching a stereotypically deranged mass murderer, or even a psychopathic commandant at work inside the camp. Instead we see a comfortable house, a beautiful garden, two parents who love one another and their children. And who've somehow been able to assimilate the fact that millions are being murdered behind their garden wall.

The film is based loosely on a novel, but also on research into the lives of the real Höss's. A replica was built of their villa and garden, only metres from where the real home still stands. It's suggested that the real Rudolf and Hedwig considered themselves homesteaders, reclaiming rural territory for the 'master race', as was the Nazi ideal. In the film, Hedwig repeatedly emphasises the role of building and grounds as a status symbol. Their villa had been taken from its Polish owners and architecturally altered to fit the Höss's image. Most of the items inside would have been plundered from Jewish homes, and others, such as stools, and the wheelbarrow full of smaller seized items, would have been custom-made by prisoners. This isnt a home that is genteel in spite of the camp next door. On the contrary, everything about it, down to the fur coat on Hedwig's back, exists as a result of persecution and genocide.

The Zone was an exclusion area of over 40 sq. km around the camp, created after Poles and Jews were expelled from nearby villages. It's jarring how idyllic it appears in the film, with meadows, birdsong, a gently babbling river. While obviously not as horrifying as human apathy, the indifference of a place to the evil it houses is disconcerting, especially if you're in a profession like architecture or urban design, where places are thought to be somehow expressive of what occurs within them. We do see the horror occasionally seep beyond camp walls - a practiced scramble to leave sun loungers as crematoria smoke seeps into the garden, a wash of ash infiltrating the picturesque river.

It's likely that the filmmakers were using the extreme example of this family to remind us of our own ability to become apathetic and desensitised to the suffering of strangers, particularly when we feel our personal safety and comfort may be threatened. (Current campaigns to essentially criminalise poverty in the form of homelessness in certain cities, come to mind). Obviously the murder of millions is an evil on a completely different scale, and I have to believe that 99% of us wouldnt be capable of the Höss's actions, but it's a chilling and worthwhile reminder nonetheless.

[todaysjewishholiday]

17 Menachem Av 5784 (20-21 August 2024)

Many people are familiar with the stories of Ashkenazi Jewish mass migration to the United States, seeking refuge from pogroms, economic hardship, and drafts into the czar’s army. What is less well known is the story of extensive migration from the same Eastern European shtetls to the plains of Argentina.

That story begins on the seventeenth of Av in 5649, when 824 Russian Jews landed in Buenos Aires, eager to start a new life together free from the constant threat of violence they’d lived with in the pale of settlement. They had been given a fabulous vision of the wonders of life in the Argentine countryside by the Argentine immigration bureau in Paris. The reality proved rather less rosy, but the new arrivals were determined. Since the entire Jewish population of Argentina had been under 2000 persons at the time of their arrival, that initial group of 824 was a significant increase to the nation’s Jewish community.

Denied their first homesteading location when the landowner they’d purchased it from decided he could get a better price, and finding the second property they were promised utterly lacking in any of the housing or farm goods they’d been told it would have, the settlers reached out to the French Jewish railroad magnate and philanthropist Baron Maurice Moshe Hirsch for financial aid for their settlement.

Hirsch was not only happy to assist, he thought the idea of Russian Jewish immigration to Argentina was brilliant and created an expansive plan to fund Jewish emigrants seeking to establish new lives in agricultural communes in the Argentine grasslands. To this end, Hirsch established the Jewish Colonization Agency, which funded land purchases and the costs of emigration and farming equipment for Russian Jews seeking to follow in the footsteps of that initial group of 824 settlers. Within 30 years, the Jewish population of Argentina had swollen from under 2000 to over 150000.

The initial group named their farming settlement Moïsesville in honor of the Baron. The cooperative structure of the Jewish settlements, who pooled resources for purchases of seeds and farm equipment, made them resilient in the face of the challenges of rural living. They learned from the surrounding gentile farmers and ranchers, adopting to the gaucho lifestyle but with distinctly Jewish touches. It is this legacy of successful rural agricultural communities that differentiated Jewish immigration to Argentina from Jewish migration elsewhere in the Americas.

The success of Jewish settlement in the hinterlands also swelled the urban Jewish population, and Buenos Aires soon became a major hub of global Jewish life and literature, with three separate Yiddish language daily newspapers, numerous Yiddish publishers, and an active Yiddish theatrical scene. In addition to the large influx of Ashkenazim, Sephardi Jews from Morocco and the Ottoman Empire also came in large numbers, which meant that in addition to Yiddish a visitor to a synagogue in Buenos Aires in the late 5600s might also hear Haketia, Ladino, or Judeo-Arabic. Over time, the children and grandchildren of these immigrants became primarily Spanish speakers. Argentina now has the largest Jewish population in South America and the seventh largest in the world, but is no larger now than it was a hundred years ago and is approximately half the size of the Argentine Jewish population’s peak. For the most part, the Jewish gauchos are a thing of nostalgic memory rather than a contemporary reality, but the migration they spearheaded has grown into a community with deep roots in Argentine soil.

[hero-israel]

"Among the living nations of the earth the Jews are as a nation long since dead. With the loss of their country, the Jewish people lost their independence, and fell into a decay which is not compatible with existence as a whole vital organism. The state was crushed before the eyes of the nations. But after the Jewish people had ceased to exist as an actual state, as a political entity, they could nevertheless not submit to total annihilation -- they lived on spiritually as a nation. The world saw in this people the uncanny form of one of the dead walking among the living. The Ghostlike apparition of a living corpse, of a people without unity or organization, without land or other bonds of unity, no longer alive, and yet walking among the living -- this spectral form without precedence in history, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, could but strangely affect the imagination of the nations. And if the fear of ghosts is something inborn, and has a certain justification in the psychic life of mankind, why be surprised at the effect produced by this dead but still living nation. A fear of the Jewish ghost has passed down the generations and the centuries. First a breeder of prejudice, later in conjunction with other forces we are about to discuss, it culminated in Judeophobia. Judeophobia, together with other symbols, superstitions and idiosyncrasies, has acquired legitimacy phobia among all the peoples of the earth with whom the Jews had intercourse. Judeophobia is a variety of demonopathy with the distinction that it is not peculiar to particular races but is common to the whole of mankind, and that this ghost is not disembodied like other ghosts but partakes of flesh and blood, must endure pain inflicted by the fearful mob who imagines itself endangered.

Judeophobia is a psychic aberration. As a psychic aberration it is hereditary, and as a disease transmitted for two thousand years it is incurable."

"To sum up then, to the living the Jew is a corpse, to the native a foreigner, to the homesteader a vagrant, to the proprietary a beggar, to the poor an exploiter and a millionaire, to the patriot a man without a country, for all a hated rival."

Leon Pinsker, 'Auto-emancipation' (1882)

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[a-queer-seminarian]

Puerto Rican Jewish poet & activist Aurora Levins Morales speaks on solidarity & the history of antisemitism

From her poem "Red Sea":

...We cannot cross until we carry each other, all of us refugees, all of us prophets. No more taking turns on history's wheel, trying to collect old debts no-one can pay. The sea will not open that way.  This time that country is what we promise each other, our rage pressed cheek to cheek until tears flood the space between, until there are no enemies left, because this time no one will be left to drown and all of us must be chosen.  This time it's all of us or none.

I was deeply moved by an article on Levins Morales' website in which she examines modern-day Israel through a zoomed-out lens of millennia of antisemitism:

‘Long before that state was founded out of the ashes of genocide and at the expense of a colonized Arab people, Jews were the shock absorbers of Europe's class societies, "Middle Agents" drafted into being the local representatives of distant and definitely Christian ruling classes who alternately exploited and persecuted them while squeezing the life blood out of Europe's peasants and workers.'

People are often confused by anti-Semitism. They see many US Jews accumulating wealth, moving up, gaining positions of influence, and they say, "What oppression?"... 

The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East…’

Levins Morales explains those “buffer” roles in detail, describes how Latin@s are often put in these roles as well, and then brings up an author who said of Israelis, “given all they’ve endured, they should know better.” She responds to this with this insight:

‘Trauma doesn't make people into better human beings. Most of the time, trauma just makes people terrified and easier to manipulate. It makes starving Irish tenants fleeing a devastating famine willing to own slaves or homestead Native American land or police the ghettos they used to live in. It makes the formerly kidnapped and enslaved willing to set up shop in Liberia and hold their African kin in contempt. It makes the survivors of Hitler's Final Solution be willing to become harsh colonial masters, agents of US oil greed and militarism, to bulldoze the villages of Palestinians to make Jewish settlements, torture and kill those who resist, and still insist they are the victims here. People who have faced destruction don't necessarily know better.’

While naming that trauma doesn’t make people “better,” just leaves them terrified and grasping at any sense of security they can, Levins Morales is also sure to note how Jews have always been “disproportionately present in movements for social justice wherever [they] have landed.” To her, fighting antisemitism means supporting Jewish integrity, the Jewish commitment to justice and compassion. 

Furthermore, solidarity with the people of Israel and Palestine alike depends on our clear stand against antisemitism in our own communities, because, she says, 

'The central justification for Israeli militarism and the subjugation of Palestinians is the belief that Jews are alone in the world, that no-one will fight for us, that the next time Jews are blamed and attacked, most of the world's people will stand by and watch.'

Only through all of us standing up to antisemitism and standing side by side with our Jewish neighbors, she says, can Jews feel secure enough to “abandon the middle agent role and get the backs of other peoples, knowing that they also have ours."

It is this vision of interdependence and mutual aid that Levins Morales brings into her poem “Red Sea," which imagines the kind of liberation when Moses parted the Red Sea happening today — but only if we support one another.

[hairtusk]

when I'm posting my long-hair-long-dress content I am not doing it in a white christian homesteader tradcath way, I'm doing it in a jewish prettiest-girl-in-the-shtetl sort of way don't get it twisted

[thedeafprophet]

i loved playin with soft 'cottagecore' aesthetics and lookin into homesteading stuff back in my stardew days.... but let me tell you as a jewish person, going through 'aesthetic' tags could be a bit of landmine with Certain Types:tm: of blogs.....

[internetfriend-movedmoved]

Hello fellow Palia self shipper ^^ I self ship with Einar. If you are okay with me asking, do you have a Palia S/I? ^^

I DO !!!!!!

his name is shiloh ehehehe . shiloh sweeney :) he's a homesteader ... and also a trans girl and egl fashion enthusiast . jel designs his dresses and he models !!! he's also disabled (has ehlers danlos syndrome) and jewish (im working on worldbuilding judaism into palia as a lil side project)

he's also . very much an anti-Order kind of person (the government regulating Flow/magic in the game)

i picture him being a tarot reader and other stuff as well, which is considered an illegal business by the Order ... for ... magic reasons idk . he doesn't exactly care tho . he aligns himself closely with zeki as a result, though .

he also has a hopeless crush on sifuu and hodari . and he is very confused at the existence of einar (a golem??? i thought those were fictional...)

[luckylolabug]

What made you decide to have Seb's family be Mormon???? Just curious lol

Oooh, boy, time for me to stand on my Newsies box and shout from the rooftops. My time has come.

Longer explanation under the cut, but TL;DR it's a lot of context clues based on the very minimal we see in the show, compared to my own personal experience growing up in Utah where a HUGE chunk of my school and also my best friends were from LDS families. Take it with a grain of salt of course, everyone's allowed to headcanon their own thing!

Long answer:

Partially, because he comes from a homesteading farming family, and my personal ideal is that puts him out near Farmington which as far as religions go, is 78% LDS by population. That's a HUGE chunk, and there's too many kids in drama club for at least ONE of them to not come from a predominantly mormon upbringing, honestly likely more than one. But if I'm picking someone out of their group that is most likely to lean into it, it's Seb. Sorry not sorry.

Mormons have traditionally large families, I say this with love. We don't know his family PERSONALLY but we know they bought out three entire rows of bleachers to come see his performance. I had moments before then in Season 1 (which I'll touch on in a second) where I started slowly leaning towards my personal thought process that he might come from an LDS upbringing, but it was the moment he pointed his giant family out that really sealed the deal for me. Also, sorry, but it's a giant family of blondes with blue eyes in Utah? The theory writes itself.

A lot of the happy-go-lucky and almost naive at times energy he has is SO surrounded in that culture to me that it's really hard for me unsee it. I went to school with at least six guys that looked and spoke exactly like Seb did as far as his wording goes, and every single one of those was either a deacon or had some leadership role in their church in high school.

This one's a bit more personal, because I went through my own similar experience (though my family is Jewish and not LDS) as well as physically watching one of my best friends in high school go through the exact same plotline. But the smidge we get in season 4 about not being out to his dad yet and being nervous about it really hit my religious trauma like a TRUCK, and my friend who went through it when we were in HS (her dad was a bishop, so it was REALLY hard for her to admit her sexuality for a long time) has said the same thing. Coming out experiences in general can be extremely scary before they're freeing, and when you're growing up as a queer person in Utah, you're not only worried about your family, but also the fact that a seriously good chunk of the state population is religious and conservative. I never personally came to terms with my own sexuality until I moved out of the state after I graduated, but my entire upbringing there was pretttttty pressurized and I felt like I had to follow a lot of social standards that didn't apply to me at all. Hiding a big part of yourself from the people you love sucks!

Another projection, but it tracks, is finding who you really are as a theater kid. (Think the brief "Im home" scene when he's in Sharpay's costume for the first time) I had *multiple* LDS friends (plus me as the group's Jewish gal) who fell into theater and discovered how to be themselves because of it, and it was almost like a second person entirely. A place and group of people that you could finally be who you were supposed to be around. That's sort of the vibe I'm going with as far as Seb's character development in my re-write series, because it's incredibly important to me.

Anyways. Thank you for asking because clearly I have SO many thoughts on this subject.

[things-that-made-me-feel-better]

i was thinking about oppenheimer and how oppenheimer had jewish family and so did einstein and they were both in america during (most of) world war two and i started wondering about how jewish people travelled from the middle east with christianity and islam in the first place, a bunch more research, AND THEN

i found a bunch of german/austrian/jewish people with the last name 'oppenheimer' or 'oppenheim' and found out that oppenheim is a town in germany that had a large jewish population before tensions began to rise around 1900 when some of the jewish people fled, becoming known as 'oppenheimer' because thats where they were from :D oppenheim means (something)-homestead in german. currently working on figuring out what oppen means in this context

[whitepolaris]

Welcome to Necropolis!

Incorporated in 1924, the city of Colma actually has a lot more dead residents, an estimated two million, then it does living, around 1,200. There are seventeen cemeteries within the city’s two square miles, accounting for approximately 73 percent of the total acreage of the town. Some of the boneyards contain some fairly noteworthy former folks, such as denim pioneer Levi Strauss, publishing potentate William Randolph Hearst, and Tombstone gunslinger Wyatt Earp. 

So just how did this city end up with so many dead occupants? The Colma official Web site, www.colma.ca.gov/briefhis.html, tells the story colorfully, if not always with the best grammar.

A California State Law was passed in the late 1800′s, State Penal Code 297 stated-prohibited any burials anywhere except an established cemetery such as one by a city or county, church, ethnic group or military. You could no longer bury a body on the homestead or along a wagon trail. 

San Francisco had many cemeteries established by the time gold was discovered. Hundreds of thousands arrived bringing diseases, followed by deaths and filled their cemeteries to capacity. 

Cemetery owners started looking for new locations to expand or relocate their burial grounds. They were frustrated in their attempt to buy San Francisco property. Land was too valuable for cemetery to use said real estate promoters. 

The San Francisco City Fathers passed Bill #54 & Ordinance #25 on 3-26-1900 stating that no further burials will be allowed in the City & County of San Francisco. With no further burials, they became a place of neglect and vandalism. They then became a health hazard. 

Colma became the chosen area for cemeteries. . . . 

In August of 1912 the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors declared intent to evict all cemeteries in their jurisdiction. 

On Jan. 14, 1914 Removal notices were sent to all cemeteries, branding them as “A public nuisance and a menace and detriment to the health and welfare of city dwellers.” Ordinance 2597. 

There were many delays to this order as the cemeteries and some citizens fought to have it revoked. By Nov. of 1937 the legal battles were over and bodies not removed were now ordered to have removed. 

Colma cemeteries now inherited hundreds of thousands of additional bodies. 

This led to the incorporation of the cemetery area that became known as Lawndale on August 5, 1924. . . . We kept Lawndale until the United States Postal Service informed us there was a Lawndale in Southern Calif. We went back to the name of Colma. This was on Nov. 17, 1941. 

City of the Dead

I live here in San Francisco and wanted to write to you about the city of Colma. It is often called the City of the Dead due to the fact that it has many cemeteries, which include Jewish cemetery, Chinese cemetery, pet cemetery, and so forth. It is known that this town has more dead people than living. The reason there are so many cemeteries is because in San Francisco it is “not allowed” to bury people. Some kind of ordinance that passed in the early 1900′s I think. You should check it out. -Leticia

[stephenjaymorrisblog]

Sde Teiman

(The Auschwitz for Palestinians)

Stephen Jay Morris

8/1/2024

©Scientific Morality

Like the left, the Jewish People will never be united. Why, because Jews have their own individualistic vision on what Jewish people should be like. Revisionist Zionists have their vision, and the Socialist Zionist have theirs. Secular Jews and Atheist Jews want to be left alone in their rejection of Judaism, particularly Judeo-Fascism.  As far as the Jewish religion goes, it’s split three ways: between the Conservative, Reform, and Orthodox Jews.

The Likud Party was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon. Like the German fascist movement, “The Nazi Party,” they had the misnomer and erroneous title, “The Nationalist Socialist Party.” The Likud party called themselves, “The National Liberal Party.” In truth, there was nothing liberal about them. Eventually, they recruited the Settler movement in the West Bank, which has become the Brown Shirts of the Likud Party. They are not Settlers. This movement should be named, “The Kosher Squatters.” However, they are not Jewish homesteaders. They steal Palestinians’ houses by force and never have to pay a mortgage. That is a Jewish dream. Just kidding.

Now, most American Jews are not religious. Most immigrated to the U.S.A. to escape Jewish religious rigidity, though a lot of Jews resented the political right in America. Many fell in love with President Roosevelt during the Depression and became devoted Democrats. Some Jews became members of the Socialist Party and the dreaded Communist Party, respectively. Then there were my kind of Jews—the Anarchist Jews of New York. They were a fun bunch. Right wing Jews hated the shit out of them!

Back to Israel. Judeo-Fascism has taken hold of Israel. Next will come “Kristalnacht” whereby Israeli Squatters will break the windows of Palestinian shop keepers. Is it so far fetched that Palestinians will be hauled into concentration camps?  Well, they have and continue to be.  Since December 2023, there exists a place to which Palestinian males are taken and detained, without charges or access to legal counsel—a camp called, “Sde Teiman.” While there, Palestinian men are humiliated, mistreated, and tortured. Many have died. The IDF soldiers running the place must have been given a crash course about the notorious French writer, Marquis De Sade. You say Israel has the right to defend itself? Then answer this question: How is Israel defending itself by ramming metal sticks up Palestinian men’s ass holes, starving them, torturing them with electricity and beatings, and other abuses. You tell me! Oh, then on Tik Tok, there are IDF soldiers wearing the lingerie of dead or displaced Palestinian women and dancing around, laughing. Yeah, that will teach evil people to behave! Yes, it’s true: you always become what you hate. It never fails.

If there is a God, why in the burning pits of hell does God need the Israeli Defence Force to do his deeds?! Theocracy is the dumbest form of government! No matter it be Islam, Christian, or Jewish! And, if God does exist, why in the fuck does Israel need a military?! Or an Iron Dome? How come God never gives a State of the Union speech? The Communists are correct—Religion is poison!

So, do you think I’m antisemitic? If you do, you must be a Trump supporter. Stupid as fuck!

[theestervashti]

"The Extortion." From Esther 1: 19-20.

The Esther Torah says there must be a way for individual persons to attain to all that is promised them by rule of law. We are under the supreme delusion this means there are no longer any ways for man to be as happy as he can be and this is ridiculous. Real, legal happiness called Shabbos by the Jewish sages can only take place if it does not harm the interests of others. Shabbos is therefore the Royal Decree. Thou shalt be happy, thou shalt not break the Law or the laws by doing so.

The reason the story of Esther opens with a man notorious to history, called Xerxes, "a prohibition against heresy" is to incite an end to religious practices that put a stop to man's easy natural sources of happiness. The only mention of happiness in the Torah and Tanakh are found here. King David, a huge gay, ruffian, nudist, and interloper who seduced the king's son was the only man in history said to understand happiness:

1 Chronicles 29:9:

King David also was extremely happy. ... Then the people rejoiced because they had given voluntarily, since with a devoted heart they had freely given to the LORD ...

also

1 Kings 4: 20:

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore; they ate, they drank and they were happy.

The next frame speaks also to another level: Self-government. Self-government begins inside the self but it is a product of public government external to the self. The stifling of the urge to govern oneself in a legally acceptable manner is a crime for which man will not repent.

In ancient times, his need to oppress others was so stubborn, David and Solomon alike worshipped a holy horror terror at times, the goddess Ishtar in order to cement the power of the law to free the people from ignorance and oppression.

Notice there are no laws or decrees in the Torah that explicitly state women must respect their husbands or husbands must respect their wives. Children are told to respect their parents, but respect for one's partners is but implied. A royal household of any composition will not survive long enough to pay attention to the homesteads of the persons it is responsible for governing if this is not explicitly stated.

This might be the reason Queen Vashti and the Noble Women abstained from a discussion between the king and his prince whore concubines from all around the world; surely that was set for a stage for fornication and adultery, which cause scandal and upheaval in governments of all kinds.

Royal couples are given every advantage. There is no reason one can't find a handsome chap or lady to hook on one's arm and do more than just pretend to fall in love. The reality of this fantasy, the epic love story all the little gay boys and straight girls fantasize about life long has the potential to fruitfully order the world from great to small as the Torah below states:

19 “Therefore, if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she. 

20 Then when the king’s edict is proclaimed throughout all his vast realm, all the women will respect their husbands, from the least to the greatest.

An edict is an emergency declaration that is designed to save lives. That monkey gorilla in Oklahoma who wants the Bible to be taught in public schools is a good example of someone that does not understand the meaning of an edict.

A public school, however, can register the importance of human equity even in very tiny little kids as a result of firm understanding of the Torah, this would be a legally appropriate approach to teaching young human beings to coexist without compromising each other's growth or independence.

Growth from youth until expiration at old age is called "a vast realm" by the Esther Torah. The realm will only devolve into conflict if the laws of the and, signified by women personalities are not tempered by the compassionate heroics of the men. One might think this is done the opposite, but this is how the Hebrew language works. One cannot make stern strict religious laws without considering whether or not mankind is actually better off or not.

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 19: The laws of magic and science, "Persia and Media" state Vashti and Xerxes cannot renew their relationship. The verse says "let this be written" meaning let it be memorized then engaged. The Number is 9530, טהגאֶפֶס‎ ‎, "climb up."

The line of succession is an internal exercise in addition to one that is external. From Adam to Moses, from Moses to Joshua, from Joshua to Jesus and then some we know mankind will not settle unless it does more than sing hymns and pray. These elements in the Torah, Tanakh, and Gospels each have an ingot of the Glory of God hidden within them.

The line of succession up to the very steps of the King of Emperor must be manned or womaned by persons of superior intellectual skills, noble characteristics and the ability to make mistakes but not be wicked. Laws are not enough. Follow through by persons who are not corrupt is a must if our world systems of government are to save us all from the schmucks.

v. 20: From the least to the greatest. The current king or queen must be less of a man than the one coming up. This is a tough cock to swallow, but that is how the Torah works.

As stated above, also in the Bhagavad Gita, the strategic partner of the Torah, it is said, "as public officials perform in office, so will the people follow." True love must not be a myth. This is an abomination.

From BG 3:

"Those who restrain the external organs of action, while continuing to dwell on sense objects in the mind, certainly delude themselves and are to be called hypocrites.

But those who control their knowledge senses with the mind, and engage the working senses in working without attachment, are certainly superior.

Those who do not accept their responsibility in the cycle of sacrifice are sinful. They live only for the delight of their senses; indeed their lives are in vain.

But those who rejoice in the self, who are illumined and fully satisfied in the self, for them, there is no duty.

Such self-realized souls have nothing to gain or lose either in discharging or renouncing their duties. Nor do they need to depend on other living beings to fulfill their self-interest.

 You should also perform your duties to set an example for the good of the world. Whatever actions great persons perform, common people follow. Whatever standards they set, all the world pursues."

The Number is 8089, חאֶפֶסחט‎‎, "extorted."

We cannot extort people into a state of happiness that is ridiculous. Adam and Eve could not be exorted into obeying God they were disobedient and were going to screw around anyway. The entirety of the Torah explains how they were to regain God's favor and it included volunteering to follow the edicts within the Torah, the most important of which is to help your partner(s) achieve Shabbos.

The Esther Torah says respect for the Shabbos in this manner will affect the happiness of all mankind if it is performed top down. When the houses of government are in disarray, the world gets damned, just as Krishna and the goddess both have said.

Now we must do the opposite, save the world by rebuilding the house, and fast, like gods and goddesses of lightning, like good gods of justice.

[imperfectly360]

I told Rick Rick that I really like Hannahballarina the ballerina from ballerina farm and Rick Rick is so amazing and told me he will sacrifice Alyssa and their two children so that I can live my dreamy homestead life with him. He told me he will do it right away. I'm so happy Rick Rick will demolish his family for me. He's everything I hope for. He's everything I need. We could both care less about ham hocks and demon children and make joint decisions that make us both happy. Rick Rick understands my heart and we live to please one another. Bye Alyssa! We are considerate and caring and are really sensitive with each other. Rick Rick wants to see me milk cows and smash patties and fry fritter tatters together with other smorgasbord and scoop out that big gourd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rick Rick! Has told me a candle a day keeps our fire burning a forever and that he will soap up my toes every day with well water from the jack and jill hill!!!!! I love Rick Rick he even told me I can keep Alyssa's gnarly slippers from our own mountain goat idk how Alyssa got her paws on them but they sure aren't hers and we snatched them back real quick. Rick Rick told me he doesn't remember Alyssa who anymore. I told Rick Rick, same. We just double sear our potatoes in maple glaze and much on cherry tomatoes all day that we apricot London and champagne because tree bark love music pets and bird to the chicken and wake up eggs zucchini mushrooms gluten magnesium skinny cow popcorn becomes Meijer small bin box bulk small 1.25 feed sunflower enrichment extra foamy squeeze cotton cloud mommy blankets clean linen naked baby no clothes moccasins bb love clean pampered butt powder clean dirty animal no more spaghetti with garlic bread carbi barbi deer rabbit nature milk and kitchen thrift store flea market garage sale yard sale lemonade stand cookies lonely soldier wolf bush berries tent sad boy never cry again whopper big Mac 8 dollars pay lovers lane Starbucks sweet drink more please thanks good boy see you l8r lol apron hairnet nanny Jewish homebody bake bread good morning rise and shine I love Rick Rick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!