what are you asking for?

"Asking God for a good coming year, is almost, a waste of time.. when through the power of speech!
You can ask God, for a year, beyond imagination!
A year, past your capacity to imagine of endless goodness and the maximum amounts of fulfillment achievable in this world.
A year, witnessing billions of dreams come true, for people all around the world.
A year, where every human on planet Earth witnesses the entire universe achieve its final correction, through positivity."

- someone asking God for a life beyond imagination, as he approaches Rosh Hashanah

Made in God's image?

The #Torah says man was created in the image of #God (#Genesis 1:27).

Many great sages throughout history have asked the question: what does it mean man was created in the image of God?

Does it mean God the creator of everything physically resembles man? because if he does... #chimpanzees and #baboons also share almost 99% of the same DNA man does.

Why doesn't the Torah say; man, chimpanzees and baboons were created in the image of God? Or is it, the 1% that separates man and chimpanzee the Torah speaks of?

The #kaballah says, when the Torah states man was created in the image of God - it was speaking of man's ability, to create reality with it's speech.

For example: When Man (Adam) was 1st created in its purest state, he gave names/perceptions to every aspect of creation (Genesis 2:18–23). Exercising Man's God given ability to create reality through speech.
Another example is: 26 generations after the Creation of #Adam. When man was at its darkest state of consciousness in #Egypt. God revealed the secrets of the universe through #Moses (laws of Torah) giving the Israelites the spiritual tools to change their reality (leave #Egypt).

Where does God 1st exact this power of speech to create reality in the Torah?

Simple.
#Bereshit 1:3 - "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light".

..#Mankind is the only species in the universe with the ability to speak and create reality - as it was expressed by Adam in the Garden of Eden, when naming all of #creation.

To the point: I've heard people of all religions say at one time or another; "be careful what you ask for!"

Equality is powerful

When you think about it:
Moses's power over the most powerful individual and nation in the world - After talking directly to God. Wasn't the fact, Moses felt better/at a higher level (superior) than the Pharaoh/Egyptians - but it was in the fact, Moses knew, he was equal (created by the same source). #phhhh

Pharaoh's weakness, was the fact he thought, he was superior to Moses and the Israelites (a ruler). Arguably, the reason why the 10 plagues brought egypt to its knees. Was because the Egyptians had no belief in God - if Pharaoh and the Egyptians believed in God to some degree.. they would have rejoiced & celebrated - transforming the 10 plagues into 10 miraculous miracles (retaining their status).

Lesson of the story: the most powerful self-perception a person can have - is one of being equal (to all of mankind) not superior, not below but equal. Run away.. from all ideologies, manipulating you into thinking your superior; no human, is superior to another..

rising like the SUN every morning..

"There's an interesting correlation between Rising to the Top and the Sun Rising every morning.
Before the Sun rises - no one can imagine or physically see it's (sun= biggest star in the galaxy) stages of progression; until it appears (When people wake up!).

Similarly, an individual rising is unknown, overlooked, taken for granted until they become mainstream.
Moral of the story is: don't expect a cheerleading squad until after you score the touchdown.
Gd makes it impossible for average people to see you rise, in the same way - the Sun is concealed, until people wake up and remove the sleep from their eyes!"

- Shariff Mordechai Hazan

it's easy to shame a white women for acting black..

Part of me wonders.. if all of this media backlash against professor #Rachel #Dolezal. Has to do with an underline disgruntlement with #whitewomen publicly celebrating/supporting Black Culture in 2015?

For example: #iggyazalea, #mileycyrus, #arianagrande , #kyliejenner , #kimkardashian are arguably the most visible/influential - women/white women in American pop culture today.

All of the women I've listed - have openly either embraced black culture in terms of persona and attitude or have an #african-#american man as a significant other.

Have you ever heard of the "Racial Integrity Act" of 1924?

- The "#Racial #Integrity #Act" required that a racial description of every American citizen be recorded at birth and divided society into only two classifications: white and colored (essentially all other, which include American Indians). It defined race by the "one-drop rule", defining as "colored" persons with any African or Native American ancestry. It also expanded the scope of Virginia's ban on interracial marriage (anti-miscegenation law) by criminalizing all marriages between white persons and non-white persons. In 1967 the law was overturned by the United States Supreme Court in its ruling on Loving v. #Virginia.

Even though we do have #barackobama as the leader of America - a predominantly white country. I still wonder are there still undertones of past "racist colonialist ideology" being played out subliminally n American media? Is professor Rachel Dolezal, be publicly shamed for being a white woman, lovin #blackness ?

running as the world transforms..

"There’s a powerful lesson with the Splitting of the Red Sea:


1st of all, what did the Israelites do in order for the splitting of the Red Sea to happen?
Simple. They listen to God.

What happened next?
God alters the physical reality (the entire galaxy and beyond) in order for the Israelite’s dreams to come true. “The Splitting of the Red Sea can be looked at as a historical happening and a metaphor”. Expressing God’s removal of all challenges preventing someone’s dreams to come true.

What’s the lesson?
Put your trust in God and he will transform the entire world to serve your success. Meaning, only God creates challenges and only God can remove them. So put your trust into the master of all creation."

- Shariff Mordechai Hazan

#Shomer #Negiah - as it relates to dating opposite #sex

#Reading this #quote by #author Thomas Mann,
made me think about the #Jewish concept of #Shomer #Negiah
- as it relates to dating opposite #sex :

"Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of a slight interest and disinterest because of modesty. Between them there is #listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an #unsatisfied, #unnaturally #suppressed need for #communion and also a kind of tense #respect."

- Thomas Mann,  Death in Venice and Other Tales