Month: July 2016 – ט״ו בתמוז תשע״ו

Did you know color blindness has a fix? I didn’t. It’s called Enchroma glasses. Here’s the latest article from Rafi Farber; his personal experience.

The last few words in Yerushalmi Kiddushin are famous:

רבי חזקיה ר’ כהן בשם רב עתיד אדם ליתן דין וחשבון על כל שראת עינו ולא אכל.

Not sure how to translate or copy this, but here is an approximation:

Rabbi Chizkiya and Rabbi Cohen both said in the name of Rav, “Man will be held fully accountable for any food which he saw and did not eat”.

I wonder: if one has color blindness or partial deafness or the like, and one is aware of the deficiency (according to the above Yerushalmi), must one seek out ways to experience the world in a fuller way? The answer is not obvious to me.

For basic analysis of the Yerushalmi, see here. By the way, it appears this Yerushalmi (properly understood) is obligatory Halacha.

P.S. Although modern Judaism has been corrupted by Cursedianity, in truth, we are not to have ‘contemptus saeculi’.

The Torah says (Devarim 22:6-7):

כי יקרא קן צפור לפניך בדרך בכל עץ או על הארץ אפרחים או ביצים והאם רבצת על האפרחים או על הביצים לא תקח האם על הבנים.

שלח תשלח את האם ואת הבנים תקח לך למען ייטב לך והארכת ימים.

An English translation can be found here.

There’s a pretty ancient (and pretty) boys choirs’ song on the unique Mitzvah of Shilu’ach Haken (or “Hakan”, if you prefer):

What I like best is the very concept of writing songs on the rare Mitzvos. As David said, “Your laws were my songs” (Psalms 119:54).

זמרות היו לי חקיך בבית מגורי

Yes, King David was blamed for it according to Chazal, but only because he also meant he remembered the Torah’s laws as well as song lyrics. The rest of the sentiment is fine.

So, uh, now we have a song for one rare Mitzvah of the 613; only 400 or so left to go!

It would be important to get our act together

B”H – This is just another indication of the State not being Jewish. Instead of writing petitions to the non-Jewish and anti-Torah institutions of the State, it is best to ignore and disengage from them and pretend our prescribed Jewish, Torah institutions on the Land: a Jewish king with his two Torah scrolls to head the executive according to halacha, Jewish Law, a Cohen gadol to run the Temple, G-d’s House, on the Temple Mount of Jerusalem, a Sanhedrin and righteous courts in every village on the Land to administer justice.

Per definition, no good can come come out from these “democratic” institutions as democracy itself is an alien and Hellenistic system that has nothing to do with Torah.

First step? Stop voting for kneset, stop sending petitions to them as if they were not the problem themselves.

– This is a comment on New Jew Temple Mount Water Ban is a Declaration of War!