Rick's Café American: 4 Jul 2009

Saturday, 4 July 2009

Israel Matzav: Denial ain't just a river in Egypt....

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt....

It's also the Suez Canal.

A senior Egyptian security official on Saturday denied reports that an Israeli submarine had sailed the Suez Canal last month as part of a naval drill.
"Egypt does not allow Israeli warships to enter our territory," Army Radio quoted the official as saying.

On Friday, defense sources reported that an Israeli submarine had sailed the Suez Canal to the Red Sea last month, describing the unusual maneuver as a show of strategic reach in the face of Iran.

Israel has long kept its three Dolphin-class submarines, which are widely assumed to carry nuclear missiles, away from Suez so as not to expose them to the gaze of Egyptian harbormasters.
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Israel Matzav: Tommy Hilfiger: Iran and North Korea, but not Israel

PORTUGAL : MANUEL PINHO (MINISTER OF ECONOMY AND INNOVATION) GETS THE SACK FROM SOCRATES' GOVERNMENT

The minister for the economy, Manuel Pinho, was sacked (actually; convinced to resign) by his boss, P.M. Socrates, after being spotted making a gesture (photo above) at a member of the comunist opposition.

The surreal about this situation is that mr. Pinho wasn't sacked because he was a bad minister ( he really was one, as all his fellow ministers are) but because he made that inconsiderated gesture.
Really Mr. Prime Minister Socrates, as elections are aproaching you are loosing the grip and leaving behind your dream of a majority.

The Torah Revolution: Bernie Madoff and Bernie Madoff bashing

Israel Matzav: Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren

ZORBA (SIRTAKI) - 2

ZORBA (SIRTAKI)

Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: CHUKAT/BALAK: ANTIDOTE TO ZERO SUM FEAR

CHUKAT/BALAK: ANTIDOTE TO ZERO SUM FEAR

by Rabbi Baruch Binyamin HaKohen Melman

How much of life is seen as a zero sum game? How often do we view our neighbor's gain as our loss? This jealousy/covetousness is the source of evil. When we believe that there is not sufficient abundance in the universe for all of us we resort defensively to a hoarding posture. So, homeopathically, we must eliminate this zero sum thinking with a ritual which embraces the same!

This week we learn about the snake victims. From Eve until today the snake is our nemesis. Seldom are two parshiot more fittingly tied together than Chukat and Balak. On the deepest level they are so intimately connected. The snake is the eternal metaphor for the evil inclination, inherent in the central human condition of free choice, Bechirat Chofsheet.

Ironically the symbol for healing is the snake on a pole (Numbers 21:8). Aetiologically, it is falsely attributed to Greek origins. But more than irony is the homeopathic truth which is revealed: The cure is implicit in its (diluted) essence.

The Torah is a blueprint for life affirmation and the implicit negation of death. We are instructed to concoct the antidote to death contamination/impurity. How fitting in the parsha where we see the deaths of Miriam, Aaron, and the snake victims. We are to take a completely red cow- a parah adumah temimah,and slaughter it and burn it completely. Its ashes serve to ritually and spiritually purify us in the face of death and death contamination. The word "tumah" (impurity) itself is the root of the English word "conTAMinate."

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Sefer Chabibi Deepest Torah: CHUKAT/BALAK: ANTIDOTE TO ZERO SUM FEAR