Editorial notes: The short story below was found in Shai’s Google Drive notes and is clearly incomplete. The Brain Storming section at the end of the narrative alludes to the continuation of the story An apocryphal Braisa, non-canonical and existing only in Arabic: “Rabbi Yona was lost at sea. Can a man’s name be changed in absentia to avert an ill-luck? […]” Thus I have heard, when...
I could never find an audience in my mind, and so I have invented the unborn child’s face to address. Hello, child of Judah and Benjamin and Levi, sons of Israel, son of the one who was laughed at, son of the Nations. I don’t know what your parents taught you. I don’t know what the world is telling you, nor what you think of all these things. If you are anything like I was at your age, then you...
This is an ode to that which it will never allude; or, A shadow of the sun.
You are not this,
Nor this.
You said “that”,
Instead of that.
That which was something,
May have been
Something
Else.
Liberating
To untie a knot
By tangling.
To be
Come
Never
Been;
Is
Always
Sometime.
The strong
Nuclear Force
Gets stronger –
Equal and
Opposite
Re:
Actions.
This stayed at
Rest.
Now so did
That.
B/S: W/u about letter ayin, connecting Yaakov’s ladder, and Absolute truth/law vs absolute beauty; the idea for samech sofit within reish. which implies the waning of the moon and thus explains how the Mishkan can be built from within Malchut, and thus links to the rope of Kadosh which links to Korach’s judgment which links to the red cow but also, in general, the two goats of Yom...
[Editor: This is more “charity case” less “business proposal”] Begin by introducing the experiential state of sati as resulting from instructions The concept of bare attention The concept of purity of experience Pause to introduce bhakti yoga as experiential and resulting from instructions Situating bhakti by comparison within mindfulness of deportment theory Pause to introduce form vs concept...
[Editor: Poor and looks barren] This is probably antithetical to the goal Not happy with this. Plan: Opening room for hope [Optional section, dry but makes methodology justified – how to test belief systems [Optional section: cleaning the board; religion vs Judaism, and implications for approaching a test here. Marking targets for pilot investigation in principle Specific example route...
{Part 1 – 25/10/2016} Schema: Form of high Will for sake of Name Intend to read by this manner Intend to read by the manner of #1 and the result of #2 Intend to realize the balance between kindness and severity of result of #3, whilst reading in the manner of #1, with the result of #2 Intend to realize the balance between Left and Right L2, i.e. between those things that are...
A map to a pathway: Dear You[1], We can tell each other how our life has been, which in essence (and writ small) is a tiny postcard, or map of where/what we’ve done and how we got there. The Earth is a single globe, and everything is One (everyone understands this in their own way, but we mostly agree that All is Greater than the self which separates itself from it). This means that every map in...
{Part 1 – 10/04/2017} Channuka is like Pesach Channuka is the story of a defeated nation which manages to rebuild its army and rebel against its conquerors. Pesach is the story of an enslaved nation which is emancipated against all odds. Both these holidays are about freedom. On Pesach, we are meant to discuss freedom. In my own life, I have become more free by the addition of a custom...
[Editor: Has potential, but lacks momentum until a vector is adumbrated for the answer] Every year Edge.org designs a question for the leading intellectuals and innovators to pit against their visions, with the hope that the rest of us may thus gain some insight into their mind and understanding[I]. After deliberate deliberation, we will be reincarnating our approach which had become stale and...
