Open Letter

Well i finally have something in common with Donald Trump: i've been permanently suspended from Twitter, silenced, left to languish in Twitmo forever...well, i had a good ride.  It started with SB8. Once i found out about this evil anti-choice bill and its provision to create an Informant website where private citizens were to snitch on anyone they suspected had helped a woman to access abortion services, i went berserk. I cannot imagine anything more vicious, inhuman, or more damaging to society than empowering vigilante posses to ruin other people's lives they had no business with in the first place. And for a BOUNTY of 10,000$!  Barbaric. Cruel. Not to mention, entirely unconstitutional and a land mine to the rule of law.  I had called the organization, Texas Right to Life, who put up the website, to confront them, and ended up talking with a woman in the Houston office for about three hours. I was outraged. I confronted her on how unChristian and totally against the t...

(Tales of the Hasidim p.100 "The Sign") In this tale, the Baal Shem forces an unwilling disciple to bless him, just as Peter was forced to allow Yeshua to wash his feet... p.103 "In Exile"  "The Maggid of Mezritch said: 'Now, in exile, the holy spirit comes upon us more easily than at the time the Temple was still standing.  'A king was driven from his realm and forced to become a wayfarer. When, in the course of his wanderings, he came to the house of poor people, where he was given modest food and shelter, but received as a king, his heart grew light and he chatted with his host as intimately as he had done at court with those who were closest to him.  'Now, that He is in exile, God does the same.'"  *Is the Shechinah the same as the Holy Spirit of the Christians? The Ruach HaKodesh?  *God more easily befriends the humble  https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2438527/jewish/The-Shechina.htm

Chabad, Lessons in Tanya, Iggeret HaKodesh, middle of Epistle 4:  [talking about the exile of the Shechinah as it is manifest in each soul, that is, the soul in exile to Babylon  (state of sin)]  "Of this it is written, 'And you shall excise the foreskin of your heart'... "In principle the spiritual service of circumcision is that of repentance. With regard to exile our Sages teach that 'If Israel repent they will be immediately redeemed'. Repentance thus leads to the redemption (on a personal scale) of the Divine spark within each individual soul and (on a cosmic scale) of the Schechinah, from their respective exiles. In spiritual terms, the act of circumcision likewise removes a veil of concealment and allows the innermost point of the heart to be revealed."  Now, anyone who has read the New Testament is familiar with Yeshua's and Paul's teachings on repentance and circumcision of the heart:  For a description of true holiness (circumcision of t...

From Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber  p. 89 Tale entitled "The Two Strangers" (about Rabbi Barukh of Mezbizh)  "In the hundred and nineteenth psalm, the psalmist says to God:  'I am a sojourner on the earth, hide not thy commandments from me.'  Concerning this verse Rabbi Barukh said:  'He whom Life drives into exile and who comes to a land alien to him, has nothing in common with the people there, and not a soul he can talk to.  But if a second stranger appears, even though he may come from quite a different place, the two can confide in each other, and live together henceforth, and cherish each other. And had they not both been strangers, they would never have known such close companionship.  That is what the psalmist means:  "You, even as I, are a sojourner on earth and have no abiding place for your glory.  So do not withdraw from me, but reveal your commandments, that I may become your friend."  (end of passage)  Ultimatel...

Tales of Hasidim p.72  "Love"  "The Baal Shem said to one of his disciples:  'The lowest of the low you can think of, is dearer to me than your only son is to you.'"  Complete Jewish Bible p. 1246  Mattityahu (Matthew) Chapter 18 verses 12-14  (Words of Yeshua) "What's your opinion? What will somebody do who has a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away? Won't he leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides and go off to find the stray?  And if he happens to find it? Yes! I tell you he is happier over it than over the ninety-nine that never strayed!  Thus your Father in heaven does not want even one of these little ones to be lost."  and this from the Introdction by Martin Buber (Hasidic Tales): p. 19 "One such utterance is the basis of one of the Rabbi Pinchas' major teachings:  that we should 'love' the evil-doer and hater 'more' in order to compensate for the lack of the power of love he himself has caused in his p...

Hasidic Tales p. 71 - 72 "With the Sinners"  "The Baal Shem said:  'I let sinners come to me, if they are not proud. I keep the scholars and the sinless away from me if they are proud. For the sinner who knows that he is a sinner, and therefore considers himself base-- G-d is with him, for He "dwelleth with them in the midst of their uncleannesses."  But concerning him who prides himself on the fact that he is unburdened by sin, G-d says, as we know from the Gemara:  "There is not enough room in the world for myself and him."'  Complete Jewish Bible p.1317  Luke 18 verses 10-14 (words of Yeshua)  "Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Parush and the other a tax-collector.  The Parush stood and prayed to himself, 'O G-d! I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity-- greedy, dishonest, immoral, or like this tax-collector!  I fast twice a week, I pay tithes on my entire income.'  But the tax-collector, standing far off...

Tales of the Hasidim, Martin Buber, p. 59 Tale entitled "The Seventy Languages" in which the Baal Shem Tov speaks to his disciples in ordinary language but they hear or experience other languages:  "The Baal Shem began to say words of the teaching, but what he said seemed to have nothing to do with the subject of the question, and his disciples could not glean an answer from his words...In the middle of the Baal Shem's address, Rabbi Joseph rapped on the table and called out:  'Turkish!' and after a while:  'Tartar!' and after another interval:  'Greek!' and so on, one language after another.  Gradually his companions understood:  from the master's speech, which was apparently concerned with quite different things, he had come to know the source and the character of every single language-- and he who teaches you the source and character of a language, has taught you the language itself." This experience was enabled in order to answer ...