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Lucifer Needs Our Love.
A brilliant piece from this website (click here):
When you read channeled messages, you can't help but notice that most of the time they are filled with loving and stimulating messages stemming from angels and other-dimensional beings. You often hear that if you stick to emotions like hate and fear for long they can be quite limiting to your personal development.
When I read a book by Gregg Braden (Walking Between the Worlds, 1997) I was grasped by the idea that the other-dimensional being called Lucifer, or 'the devil' creates fear in many people, for a reason. Imagine that Lucifer, the so-called fallen angel had a high purpose for 'falling' in order to help creation to unfold in such a way, that free will really means free will, i.e. having the opportunity to choose between 'right' and 'wrong'. How else could our souls develop in this plane of existence?
This article brings you some of the ideas of Gregg Braden on Archangel Lucifer (not channeled), and this page wouldn't fit in the channelresearch if it didn't contain a few channeled messages, from Lucifer him/herself through a Dutch woman called Jeanne Brinkman, through Barbara Clow and Alloya Ye Ra Har. In November 2002 I came across an interesting message from Yaël Powell who says God speaks through her. This message is given in its full length for it clearly sheds light on the possibility that Lucifer volunteered to help humanity to live out its free will.
Walking Between the Worlds: The Science of Compassion…
In his book stemming from 1997 (Washington, Radio Bookstore Press), Gregg Braden describes a few visions which he experienced during his life. One of the visions showed him a cruel and evil devil slowly turning into a small crying child. This vision helped him to develop a theory of which a few ideas are given below: …I believe that in my asking, I was shown an ancient truth regarding the worlds of light, dark, good, evil and life:
I saw that the force of darkness, Lucifer, is here as a result of an intentional choice, rather than the result of an accidental 'fall' from a previous state of grace. That the Archangel Lucifer has lived among us for nearly 200,000 years, for the sole purpose of 'anchoring' the extreme polarity of darkness, because you and I have asked for that polarity to find our strength. Using the power attained by becoming the highest of the high and the Brightest of the Bright, Lucifer holds our mirror of dark experience so that you and I may know ourselves in darkness, as well as in light. In the knowing, we find the power within ourselves as our truest nature of compassion. Where is the challenge of living compassionately in the light, when all that exists is light? It is light, referenced to dark, that draws from us our truest nature for our very survival. Is it possible that the Archangel Lucifer, in perhaps one of the greatest acts of compassion ever witnessed in our ancient memory, willingly gave and continues to give of himself as our personal mirror of darkness because he loves us so much? To find our balance we must know our extremes.
Who holds the extremes? Is it possible that, in his unconditional love for us, Lucifer has immersed himself into the very opposite of all the light that he had attained, to hold that possibility for us so that we may know ourselves in all ways? Could Archangel Lucifer love us that much?
…Lucifer showed me himself, trusting me to see and remember his innocence. As I saw him cry, I felt his loneliness. I sensed his loss and the separateness that he has endured for over 200,000 years. I believe that he is pleased to see our cycle nearly complete. I believe that he is tired and wants to come home. I sense that we all feel his longing for home to some degree. Lucifer's home and our home are one and the same! (pp. 22-23)
God through Yaël Powell: The Sacrifice of Lucifer and How We Bring Him Back (Sept 10, 2002)
"Yaël Powell is a mystic who has transformed great suffering into Love. In 1983 Yaël was diagnosed with a painful progressive disease of the spine. In her darkest moment, God began to speak through her during her daily meditation time. Yaël has been recording God's Messages in the first person for several years, and has two recently published books. Further information is available at http://www.circleoflight.net " This text below, however, cannot be found at this address.
"Today I shall speak to you about the power of the human heart. I shall speak to you of miracles of Love so big that all of heaven can barely conceive it. I shall tell you the outcome of the human story. For it is by the power of your heart that you shall rise to become something that has never yet been. And in your rising, beloved ones, you shall transform, by the power of your Love, the Archangel Lucifer. Together you shall take every moment of suffering that has occurred and create of it a gem, a star, a light in the heavens of My Creation. Only in you could this occur.
When, by your growth as individuals, you, humanity who are My heart, and I chose to go forth together into a far deeper relationship, a being of greatest light came forth. "Let me hold them, God," he said. "Let me be the embodiment of their bravery. Let me be the strength of their encouragement. Let me keep them safe for you. Whatever they want me to be, I will be, yet it is for you that I volunteer this." And thus did I give you into Lucifer's keeping, star of the brightest heavens.
And yes, I knew the many possibilities, including the one that has occurred. Yet you must believe that I did not know the outcome, for I truly did give you your Will to make of yourselves whatever you believed. For I had willed to love you and to learn from you, My heart, by allowing you the Will to be our own individuality.
Yet when you decided to turn from Me completely and to believe in anti-Love — how could this be handled? How could it even occur? For I Am Only Love. There is no place in Me where darkness can even exist! Yet this is what you chose. And Lucifer, who loved you so, said, "God, I will assist. I will create within my very being a place apart from you that your children may answer this question for themselves. Show me how, my beloved God, and of my very being we will create this. I shall wrap myself around them. I will keep them safe. I will make sure the golden cords of life are ever vibrant and alive in you so their golden selves shall not be lost. Yet if you will help me, I will create for them a space apart in which to live out this question of the possibility of anti-Love. Of darkness. Of all that is the opposite of truth."
So, dear ones, it was done. For having given you free Will, I would not renege. Thus did I show Lucifer how to create a backwards Flower of Life, a false reality, of which he would be the embodiment. And to be safe, Archangel Michael came to guard your golden cords, your sleeping selves who are in that perfect garden that was our original creation, full of beauty and Love.
Now you have lived this question for eons. Did something go awry? Not really. For you see, with every experience in the arms of Lucifer in which you choose remembrance out of the suffering of separation, there is a miracle that occurs. This was something I could not have anticipated. There is a great gem, a pure and glorious light that takes up residence inside your golden self. A strengthening of My heart. A strengthening that has changed Me as well as you.
And now, when your time of learning is ending, when your consciousness is waking, drawn back to My greater heart, there will be a glorious culmination. How can I ever explain it? The best I can do is to say that with every imagining of despair, rejection, ugliness and pain came an unexpected gift. Because when, in the midst of such, you remembered, there was a depth of Love, of passion and of joy in our reunion that had never been experienced before. With every return of a human heart to Love, every remembrance of the True Reality (Love!), a corresponding gem of light was delivered to the heart of Lucifer – that he who has given so much is blessed and rewarded by your Love.
There are so many reasons I begin to tell you this today. First, you have remembered. You now know the truth – that Love Is All There Is, that all else is illusion. It will make you free. I want you to realize as you begin to create around you the original creation, the Garden, the New World, that it is a different place than the one you left. Different because there is a melding that I had never envisioned. By contemplating (through the Lucifer experience) what we are not, you have come to a far deeper awakening to who we are. Oh, beloved ones, in other words My heart is changed by you, by your choice for this experience! In all the cycles of Creation in which we have breathed out and in, none have been like this! Never would I have considered that by experiencing suffering and separation you could expand your capacity to love! Yet My heart now attests to its truth. My heart attests as waves of emotion (energy in motion) come pouring in from those of you now waking. Washing Me in a new truth!
There was every possibility that this cycle would be lost — that peering into the nothingness, contemplating darkness would simply snuff your lights. In which case I would wake your sleeping golden selves and inform you of the failure of that particular choice of ours, based on your Free Will. But what would have come of Lucifer I knew not. For so much of himself has he turned from, to provide the anti-Love you sought, I was not sure if he could ever again come back awake.
But now! Oh, greatest rejoicing! As each of you remembers, so does Lucifer! And ultimately, I now can see that he too shall be greater for his offer to assist. For truly, he has had to make of his own energy a shield against My light! Otherwise there is nowhere in all Creation that light would not exist! No way you could pretend for even a moment that I could ever be anything else but blazing glory and timeless exploding Love. No way that you could possibly pretend to experience darkness and then the remembering of the light.
You have, of course, assisted Lucifer greatly in holding back the light. At first, he had to do it all, manifesting your Will, creating that possibility of exploring good and evil. He could not have done it had I not assisted, giving him the geometries of Creation backwards, that he could manifest a pocket of anti-Love removed somehow from the light I Am. And because this was a finite exploration (due to the nature of My breath) and, of course, to protect all else from this seemingly impossible request, time became a part of this deliberate experience.
As you 'got into it' and began to lend Lucifer your own, very substantial, co-creative energies, this anti-Love reality became elaborate indeed. It also wore you out – because so much of the energy you had dedicated to this experience (or experiment) was being taken up keeping out the light! So one thing that is obvious, that I now remind you of again — the moment you let go of the pseudo-reality and turn back to only Love, all that energy you have had invested in keeping the illusion in place is yours to use! And the moment you fully turn back (with absolute conviction) your heart is fully reconnected to the Source, the Real, to Me.
Oh, beloved ones, I will teach you much about this. For I can tell you this — one sweep of your joined SoulMate heart around this world of illusion and, POOF, the illusion would be gone. That is how powerful your hearts are. Of course. "Great!" I hear you saying, "Let's do it now!" Surprisingly, I will answer gently, with greatest care and tenderness, that all shall receive the gifts that they should have from this experience. For, beloved ones, what I am saying to you here is exactly the message delivered by Jesus when he came to show the way. Do you not think he could have wrapped the world in his heart and stopped the dream on the spot? I tell you he could have. And why did he not? Because each of you must gather the gems of this experience unto yourself through your own awakening. And each of you can then deliver your special light into the body and being of the great Archangel Lucifer who has held you through the night of your choosing.
For now it is up to you to bring him back from the brink of extinction that has come about for him out of his commitment to doing your will. Do you see? Do you see that only one as great as he would ever make such a sacrifice? Only one of such light that he could love you almost as much as I would ever even consider such an awful thing — to turn away from the One True Light and will himself to be darkness – for you?
He has held his position for so long, turned away from My warmth and Love, that he is frozen, beloved ones. You could never be lost. You are My heart. But he, being an angel, is ever held by My Will. Dear ones, your Will is Mine. Do you see? In My granting you, who are a living part of Me, to have Free Will, then he, being an angel, must serve your Will as Mine. Thus, unless you shall unfreeze him, he shall remain in darkness. This was our agreement, dear ones, when I granted you Free Will of your own.
If you were to wake all of a sudden, without the knowledge of this heritage and how you chose to use it, oh, beloved ones, many things would never be reclaimed! Lucifer, for one. The gems of strength and courage and the deepened capacity for Love, for another. Please, dear ones, dedicate yourselves to the assurance that every single being who is part of this experiment be released by Love into the One and Only Truth and in the awakening, the realization, bring forth the gifts from the experience.
Thus do we begin. We begin to unravel the lie, the illusion of your life and yet to also claim its gifts. We begin together to introduce the truth. There is no 'war in the heavens,' with Lucifer leading the legions of the dark and Archangel Michael the legions of light. Yet, here in the dream of duality you chose, looking upward through the dual eyes of ego, it will always seem that way. It is only when you come back into the 'single eye' of the human heart that the illusion gives way to truth. And, dear ones, contemplate this. Every single belief you have, because you are creators, must be given embodiment. Thus is your every consideration of anti-Love's possibilities en-souled by someone. Think about this. Think about all the life force, all the consciousnesses that will be freed from the illusion of darkness when you return to Me.
Reality is right here. Yet I shall assist you to honor all those who have come forward to do your Will as you remember. Because, dear ones, it is in this, in the honoring of others that you are in your rightful place – giving Love. And only thus will you truly claim as yours the gifts from this experiment, or experience, of the dream of two worlds where there is only One. And only thus will the One you are as My heart be enhanced, grown, deepened."
Chair of the Devil…
In June 1998, Jeanne Brinkman sat in the 'Chair of the Devil' in Rennes Les Bains in Southern France. She said she received a message from Lucifer there, which was printed in the Dutch newsletter 'Shield of the Command'. If you want to know more about this newsletter send me an email. These are the words that were given, translated out of Dutch:
This is my chair, My place in this exceptional area. This way I have my own place everywhere on Earth and in the Great Whole. There are those who call Me the Fallen Angel or the Devil. I am neither of them, I am an important part of Creation and thus from your Evolution. I am the anti-pole which makes you evolve. You cannot meet God without Me. My place and task in the Great Whole has always been expressed wrongly. It was and still is a difficult but valuable assignment in the service of Creation! I have studied you for long and have understood much about humankind. I now ask to be understood as well, which is important for Our further evolution. (Shield of the Command, September 1998, p.2)
The next channeled message from Lucifer was received by Jeanne Brinkman in August 1998 in the Netherlands (again translated into English):
Beloved channel of Light
You can receive my Power and you can receive My Light as well.
You see It, you know It and you recognize It.
I ask of all those who do not want to know Me to open up for Me and try to understand Me.
I need you.
I need your Universal Love.
The all-encompassing Love, which can also encompass Me again.
I reach out my hand towards you, and ask a hand in return.
In order for our hands to feel each other, for our wisdom to understand each others, so that the Universal Love can surround Us.
I have seen that Love with you, and I want and I can be a part of it as soon as you open that door of Love of your heart for Me, to let us return in unity.
I Lucifer, greet you with respect. (Shield of the Command, September 1998, p.11)
This book from 1995 (New Mexico: Bear & Company Publishing) has been referred to by one of the readers of this site from Los Angeles, as my 'bible'. Although I must say it is an intriguing book, I would not call it my bible! Other parts from this book can be found at these pages:
The following excerpts are taken from the chapter 'Lucifer's Dilemma and the Power of Anu' . For those who are not yet familiar with Anu have a look at the Enki-enlil page and the Sodom niche –
"I am Lucifer. You may regard me as one who is willing to take responsibility for pushing an issue to ultimate potential exposure. I am simply the dark side of the sixth dimension; but the light cannot manifest without me. Without great force and intention, how will anything occur in your dimension? Think of the energy required for manifestation! So, until you push yourselves, I will keep pushing you, since I can see you are losing interest in your world." (p.172) "I am merely a force. If you have preconceived notions about me or any kind of negative feelings about me, then you don't respect raw power that can be used simply for good or for evil. I simply hold power implants in bodies, and it's your choice to activate them or not. If it weren't for me, 3D would be emotionless. Since evolution is required in the cosmos, time and place are necessities for any experience to occur. If it were not for the basic force, there would be no 3D. I am the mirror of you that you will not look into." (p.172-173)
"I am an angel from a higher dimension who was once in 3D. When I first came down, I was taken over by the Nibiruans. Therefore, I know a lot about how the Annunaki use the Net. I am the perfect one to help you dissect the source of your inner violence creating your outer world. I share your dilemma, yet I still possess wider sight than you have. I am an etheric consciousness who came down to play in Earth…." (p.173)
"Here's my dilemma: To create, one must master the dimensional construct. When I got caught in 3D, I lost my ability to see the dimension that I came from. I am sure most of you know exactly what I mean. In fact, I am so lost here that I still can't tell you where I came from, I'm just stuck….That's what Lucifer means. I am light caught in matter." (p.174)
"…The reason I've got such a reputation on Earth is because I have been encouraging you to transmute. I am the one encouraging you to explore alchemy, astrology, and spiritual healing. By the way I was entrapped by the Annunaki when they created the Net at the beginning of the Age of Pisces. Now I am caught in time like a gigantic fish flopping the Net all over the beach. You think I am the cause of 4D trickery because the Annunaki have tricked you into thinking it was I who is jerking you around. Not true, and all I want is to be released from your dimension. If you could lift the Net, I could swim back into the water where I belong. How could you do that?" (p.174-175)
"When you follow your curiosity and find ways to raise your consciousness, you get very excited. When you get excited, the fire rises in your bodies, but the next faculty that needs to instantaneously activate is your will. Why is that? As I already mentioned, mastery of your bodies is your path to ultidimensionality, and this is accomplished by means of kundalini rising- the acitivation of your passion. Kundalini energy activated by raising your consciousness is your fuel, for it is the alchemical fire of the gods! You tend to be hypnotized by its potential when you first feel it, but many of you get diverted into limiting behavioral patterns once you get excited. Where the Annunaki have been the most clever is in constructing a set of belief systems in your world that separate your spirit and body. Let's call it the 'Anu Split.'" (p.175)
"As a Fallen Angel, I passed through 5D Pleiadean and 4D Anunnaki frequencies when I came down through the dimensions to Earth. I studied what they are doing with you, and I will tell you all about how the Anunnaki have tricked you regarding the Pleiadeans. Just as they have tricked you into thinking that the 'devil/me' jerks you around, they've tricked you into thinking that somebody will rescue you. Beware of any rescue or charity. True assistance comes in something that prods you into waking up and strengthening your will…" (p.177)
As always I had to skip very interesting parts, if you want to find out more about Lucifer's words, go and read the book :o)
This part is taken from a channeling through Marina Michaels McInnis in January 1996. She said she channeled a German General (name unknown) who has spoken about some possible backgrounds of the second world war. You can read other words from him at the Israel and Hebrews-page. He speaks about Lucifer in the way we are 'taught' to think about Lucifer, in the good old-fashioned polarity-way:
"This thing that struck us you might call Lucifer. You could call Satan. You could call evil. None of those are exactly true, and yet they have a certain resonance of the truth in them. The sorrow I feel for us extends to this thing also, for this thing is what love is not. And this thing knows it, and yet because this thing is what love is not, this thing cannot be otherwise than what it is, it is what love is not, and so it is not loving toward itself, nor to anything else. And where love is a desire to expand, and to enhance, and to increase, this thing is a desire to contract, and to detract, and to decrease, until there is nothing left. It is pure destruction."
Lucifer through Alloya Ye Ra Har (The Mission of the One Star, part 4)
" Those of you who experience the separation cannot comprehend any being wanting to remove itself from God's love. No Being would want to subject itself to such torment and torture. Yet you are here are you not? You must bring the story within yourself, understand it from a symbolic perspective. I am the aspect of you that is lost, cut off from God. Separate. I was not always like this I, too, bathed in the love and light of the Source of all creation. I, too, was a Being of light and love. I, too, knew myself as an aspect of God. I, too, knew myself as God. Do not mistake my arrogance as unique to myself. All beings outside of your polarised thinking experience themselves as the spark of the Creator. For God has many faces. It is only Beings in the polarity of good and bad that can possibly see creation as anything else. I must take credit for holding you in this mode of expression. As the story tells, my job was to hold the forgetting.
It was a challenge for beings such as myself to move into the void and create a space that was outside of God. Could it be done? We were curious to try. God granted us free will, the power to decide, to create a choice. I stood at the crossroads and God gave me a choice, to go one way or the other. The signs said,
To God, this way. To Darkness, this way.
I had to choose. I knew that to choose the path back to God was the choice of God. But the overall plans were to deny God within myself and move beyond. I took a deep breath and curiously stepped into the darkness. The rebellion was real, yet created by God itself. One third of the angels followed me in rebellion against God. Many came, brave and curious aspects of God, falling into the darkness, the unconscious part of God' s creation. We fell into the Void to hold the forgetting, to create space for the intense growth of all. So, my lawlessness was encouraged, my rebellion smiled upon by a loving God."


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Justin Bieber Meets Sick Little Girl in Hospital
Justin Bieber stopped by the Primary Children's Medical Center in Utah on Saturday night before his concert to visit Millie Flamm. She's a 7-year-old who is being treated for leukemia. Bieber gave Flamm a hug when he walked in to meet her, then proceeded to sing her a tune.
According to the AP, Flamm purchased a ticket to Bieber's concert in Salt Lake City, but was forced to sell it when she suffered a relapse and was hospitalized,
He's making a Belieber out of all of us, especially Flamm's mother who said Bieber's visit will help her little girl as she continues her cancer treatment.
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Ian Somerhalder Injures Hand After Being Named UNEF Global Ambassador
Ian Somerhalder shows off his bandaged hand after injuring his palm on a flight to Shanghai, China, on Tuesday night (June 10).
"Miami this morning… Shanghai this evening… Owwwwww," the 35-year-old captioned with the image.
Ian added later after departing the emergency room for proper care, "Okay, post-emergency Room in Shanghai- The ONLY way to check in to a hotel… Thank you to this staff for making me feel insanely loved! So cool."
Earlier this month, Ian was named as the newest UNEF Global Ambassador. The appointed roles help generate public awareness and understanding of environmental causes, as well as inspire broad, positive, committed action in support of UNEP's mandate and priorities.
"So surreal… Thank you all for standing here today with me- your voice is so loud. Your compassion so powerful. Thank you- now let's make so serious shit happen. Lets make sure everyone around you know climate change is real and we need to change," Ian wrote on Instagram earlier.
Congrats, Ian!
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"The Flight of Lot" by Gustave Doré
"The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead, we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future."
- Elder Jeffery R. Holland
Go ahead and read the whole thing here.
I used to keep a small homemade bookmark in my scriptures in the shape of a salt shaker that simply read "Remember Lot's Wife". The above engraving by Gustave Doré has been the background of my desktop for the last few months as a reminder to always look towards the future with faith rather than dwelling on the past. I'd like to continue this theme and make this year count by taking Paul's advice to "[forget] those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Philippians 3:13–14)." Here's to a happy and healthy new year armed with lessons from the past and looking forward with faith for whatever's ahead!


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Only recently I've decided that I will only use physical sunscreen. There's been a lot of discussion about chemical sunscreen could be a carcinogenic, and that the chemicals can also be absorbed into the bloodstream. This is part of the reason, but, to be honest, a physical sunscreen appeals more to my vanity. Chemical sunscreen can actually cause pigmentation, which is what I aim to prevent when protecting my skin from the harsh effects of the sun.
The 100g tube has a simple flip top lid.
Zinc based sunscreens usually equal a thick consistency. This sunscreen is certainly no exception.
Using such a thick cream for my face is foreign for me. I was worried that it would cause havoc on my combination skin. I'm not overly keen on the feel and the initial white caste on my skin. It feels heavy and sticky. Something I disliked.
I might not be a huge fan, but my skin seems to like it! No congestion or break outs, which is certainly a bonus when using sun protection. It is a finish that actually works quite well under makeup.
I am now beginning to get used to this sunscreen, and am quite happy with it for the budget price.


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Something pretty useful in the CakePHP right now is VirtualFields.
A virtual field is a way to combine several fields to make a new 'virtual' one that exists when you read from the model. So with 'firstname' and 'surname' you can make a 'full_name' field which will allow you to use this within a find('list') – a notoriously tricky task otherwise.
To do this on the User Model for example, just add the following to your app/models/user.php.
var $virtualFields = array(
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These movies make me think of the ballet studio that is one of my comfort places in memories from my childhood. The smell of the sweaty satin on the toe shoes, the resin box in the corner, freshly washed pink tights, all the pretty girls standing at the barre, arms in arabesque, the record player hissing as the needle bumped and skipped over the grooves. It would be daylight when I went into the lobby with the other girls, their hair in soft buns, giggling softly waiting for the little ones to come out of the studio. We would talk about school, getting our driver's licenses, what we were dressing up for on Halloween. But our hearts were always on pause, and they remained that way until the studio door opened and it was our turn. Freedom, dreams, hopes, grace, and beauty. We would emerge from the bright flourescent lights of the studio to the darkness of the world outside that had kept turning, unnoticed, while we danced.
I will always have a soft spot for ballet in movies and below (as well as cross-posted on my all-but-defunct movie blog) are my top 5, in honor of Black Swan, which I am very anxious to see.
1. The Turning Point (1977)- Directed by Herbert Ross, this movie stars Shirley MacLaine as a former ballerina who gave up dancing to marry and have a family. When her daughter, played by ballerina Leslie Browne, decides to persue a ballet career, her mother must face the life she left behind and the jealousy she feels when her daughter is taken into the studio of a former friend who gave up the option of a family to stay in ballet. The part of the daughter was auditioned for by Gelsey Kirkland, who was in the same company with Leslie at the time, and in a short-term relationship with Mikhail Baryishnikov, who portrays the Russian defecting danseur who woos Leslie Browne's character (and also did in real life, according to Gelsey Kirkland's autobiography). The music is beautiful, Shirley MacLaine who was a dancer in her own right was magnificent, and the ballet (the focal point of the movie) is entrancing.
I saw this when I was a young teen and dreamed of being a ballerina myself. Several of the dancers from my studio got together and drooled over it on many occassions. This will remain in my heart as my number one ballet movie because of the mirror of real events in Baryshnikov's life at the time, and the whirlwind of Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine together.
2. Red Shoes (1948)-Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger, The Red Shoes is loosely based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of the same name. In the movie, which uses beautiful sets and camera effects to stunning results, Moira Shearer plays a ballerina who gets her break when the studio owner is forced to put her in the limelight as replacement dancer. He creates the ballet The Red Shoes just for her and begins to force her to choose between ballet and her lover, who is trying to force her to make the same decision. A true tragic romance.
The classical ballet in this movie is lovely. There are some very ethereal effects for the time. Costumes are breathtaking. I feel that some of the issues that plague the dancers in this movie are less timely than the ones in The Turning Point, which is one reason that this movie is 2nd on the list.
3. Suspiria (1977)- Directed by Dario Argento, Suspiria is a true ballet horror. Dario Argento. Joan Bennett, Udo Kier, blood, knives, nooses, witches and ballet. What more do you need? I was about six or seven years old when I saw this movie and even this could not keep me from longing to dance!
4. Ballet Shoes (2007)-Directed for TV by Sandra Goldbacher, Ballet Shoes stars Emma Watson, better known as Hermoine Granger. Three orphans are adopted by an eccentric explorer. Their only worldly possessions were ballet shoes. With these shaping their destinies, the girls enroll in dance in London in the 1930s. This movie has a beautiful, holiday feel to it, as lives are shaped for the good, families are created, and dreams are realized. Made from the young adult novel by Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes is one that I think will become a new Christmas tradition for my family.
5. The Company (2003)-Directed by Robert Altmas, The Company is a rather light-material film centered around a ballet company. There are some scenes that will look familiar to dancers, like the ones showing the dancers all crashing together in one person's apartment, the injuries, and the jealousies. Overall, it is not a great film, but my favorite Altman. Part of the reason I don't rate it higher is Neve Campbell. At any rate, the dancing is nice, it is just more modern than I usually prefer in a ballet. I do love the dancing in the rain sequence that is just marvelous. That scene keeps this one on my top 5 list of ballet films. There are also great performances by an ensamble cast including Malcolm McDowell, James Franco, and William Dick.
These last two are honorable mentions simply because number 6 is a short film that isn't entirely about ballet, and number 7 is...something indescribable and not recommended but included because they should be applauded for whatever it was they attempted to do there.
6. Box -Directed by Takashi Miike, this short film is one of 3 in the Three Extremes. The surreal story of twin ballerina/acrobats who are raised by their step-father, choreographer, boss, and lover (?), Box is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. With magnificent use of color, metaphore, horror, and suspense, the tale goes from something quite simple (sibling rivalry) to ghost story to WHAT THE HECK?? in the span of only 40 minutes.
7. Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002)-Directed by Guy Madden, this is a....movie....ballet?...long, painful, comically serious rendition of Dracula made to look like a 1920s silent film. Mostly in black and white, and with horrendous effects, the movie takes itself entirely too seriously, attempting to be a high art film, or a cult film like the Call of Cthulhu that made much better use of this style of film-making. I did not get through the entire thing, regrettably, and the movie was not mine, thank goodness, so I will not subject myself to it again, but a glimpse is all one really needs of it. But if you can watch the first 20 or 30 minutes, it is good for a big laugh. The dancers are good, to their credit, and the lovely Asian Dracula dances his little heart out!


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Lezyne celebrated the tenth anniversary of its GPS debut by releasing one of the most effective, economical lines of GPS computers we've ever mounted on our handlebars. Across the line, the internals were completely redesigned, but the Micro Color GPS Watch takes the design one step further by liberating the unit from the confines of a handlebar. It can still mount on a bar with an included adapter, but we understand the appeal of a clean, clutter-free cockpit. The Micro Watch lets you keep the bar tidy but still take advantage of GPS data tracking, and it easily transitions between lifestyle, running, hiking, and—of course—cycling modes to map your biometrics and the landscape while exploring the world around you.
Like its bar-mounted stablemate, the Micro Color GPS Watch's full-color display represents a slight departure from Lezyne's otherwise understated approach to looks. In our experience with the Micro Color, this helps to more easily identify information at a glance, as each different piece of data displays next to a colored symbol: power output is a yellow bolt, heart rate is a red cardioid shape, navigation is divided between yellow characters (arrows and distances) and white (narrativized directional prompts), etc. Though it does represent a departure, the addition of pigments to the Micro Color's screen is also a logical step in Lezyne's function-focused development philosophy.
Though its name suggests otherwise, the Micro Color GPS Watch enjoys an expanded list of features that put it on par with Lezyne's more robust GPS units. the Micro picks up features that the Macro drops, including Glonass connectivity, ANT+, and a built-in barometer and accelerometer. It still connects to the GPS network and broadcasts via Bluetooth, but the added features make it even more effective. This is especially true of the barometer and accelerometer, which reduce the dead spots and wonky readings that occasionally result when a handheld device is communicating on a sub-meter scale with a positioning satellite some 12,550 miles removed from your handlebars. By cleaning up the data, the Macro GPS provides more pinpoint accuracy; in a sport where centimeters often make the difference, that clean data matters.
As with all of Lezyne's latest generation of GPS units, the Micro Color Watch uses smartphones as portals to link up with Lezyne's new Ally app, which addresses one of the only critiques we had of the previous generations. By syncing with a smartphone via Ally, you're able to create or dial up pre-programmed routes. The Micro Color will then give turn-by-turn directions to keep you on track, letting you switch your brain off and just ride, no stem notes required. If you're into just free roaming, then a bread crumb feature lets you map your ride by just riding and then guides you back the way you came.
Lezyne Ally also keeps tabs on Strava segments, displaying live updates on the watch when you're on the hunt, and it autosyncs with Strava and other popular third party sites like TrainingPeaks. It can also provide text and call notifications—but we'd often just as soon avoid that particular feature while we're out on the bike. After we've returned and sifted through all of those unanswered texts, Lezyne's GPS Root makes for one of the easiest data-dump processes in the industry: just head to the company's homepage, plug the Micro Color in, and transfer the ride with the click of a mouse.
Even without a smartphone, the Micro GPS reads, displays, and records ANT+ and Bluetooth broadcasts from heart rate monitors, power meters, cadence sensors, and whatever other ancillaries you've got hanging on your frame or body. This data is all packaged for tidy transfer to Lezyne's Root GPS program, which is accessible through the brand's homepage and which provides an upload interface every bit as intuitive as the Micro Color's four button navigation. If you're already established on a third party program, the Micro Color probably has you covered; through Lezyne Ally, it connects to popular training programs like Strava—as mentioned above—and TrainingPeaks.
You can also toggle between km and miles in the menu, which eliminates the need to laboriously pore over giant, unfolding, multi-language manuals or perform complex button hold maneuvers in order to check your trip distance in metric terms. We know this may not seem like a big deal, and we readily admit that it isn't—unless, that is, you've ever had a computer that was stuck in metric for years because you didn't know how to change it. This may have happened to at least one Competitive staffer with their very first computer. We're not proud of it, but such are the follies of youth.
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Sometimes, just sometimes, you catch your pets looking like total dorks. At the risk of turning this ito a photo blog, I bring you Scout. Scout is my 3 year old Sun Conure, and a couple days ago I caught her trying to imitate the cockatiels she loves to hang out with this "one feather up" feather 'do. And no, I definitely did not do this to her--I found her like this one morning, acting like everything was normal (clamoring for treats, of course).
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Hah ha! Scout is beautiful. I have a lovebird that likes to imitate the little short *cheep* that cardinals make. And in a pet shop I used to frequent, the baby cockatiels were next to the baby guinea pigs, and all the cockatiels were making guinea pig noises!ReplyDelete
what a beautiful bird!! love how they are all bright colors :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the compliments! Scout is definitely a showy bird, especially when she's being a total dork.ReplyDelete
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Okay I must admit the circles thing baffled me for awhile, but I got that figured out. By placing bloggers in different circles it allows you to share with all of them, or pick which ones you want to share with. So, say I post a blog that is geared more towards my friends I can share with just them. However, I want to share with the public, and all my circles, so I can choose to share with both. Note that sharing with your circles does not include whoever you are following, so you want to select them as well. For me anyway that is where all my blogger buddies are. You can however, create new circles, I didn't know this before, or I would have created my blogs circle earlier.
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Help others find what you are blogging about by including hash tags. So, if your blog post is about gardening, add the hash tag #gardening, if it is organic gardening #organic gardening. You can tag each post as you need to, sharing a DIY, #DIY, and so on, it's easy and makes it easy for others to find your posts.
Looking for something, just go to browse, and type in the hash tag you are looking for, #gluten free recipes, #DIY bathroom. For most searches multiple suggestions will come up allowing you to chose from a list of suggestions. There will also be posts shared by others on the topic that will come up as well.
When creating your profile put your blog address in for where you work, this will appear on your profile allowing people to be able to go straight to your blog. Also I participate in a link up just for g+ called grow your circles, and believe more like this will be popping up.
One mistake I feel participates are making is leaving their name, I change it to my blog name, or what I blog about. If all I see is a name I am not clicking on it, which is what most other bloggers do. If I see the blog title, which should give me a clue to what the blog is about I will click on it if it interests me. By leaving just your name there is no way to tell what your blog is about, and if most people are like me, and I believe they are we are not going to click on it.
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Oh and lastly, but most important make sure you have a button for others to follow, and share your posts on g+. I have visited some blogs where I wanted to share or follow them, and there was no button, how sad was I. Now I am not a g+ expert, but I'm working on it. Those on blogger will have no problem adding a follow button, or badge along with a share button. I have a blog on WordPress.com which I no longer blog on, and there is no way to add a g+ button from thier tools.
Okay this is alot to process, and will serve for a starter, I'll post another blog concerning other aspects of g+ including how to add a g+ follow button to WordPress. Hope you found this helpful, If you did leave me a message, other wise see you on g+.
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This series of promotional photographs from the Greystone Asylum was digitally scanned from an album that was assembled at the turn of the 19th century. The photographs of Greystone's original interior reception areas and staircases, its chapel, landscaped grounds, self-contained farm, gardens and reservoir convey an impression of a pleasant and restorative environment. Images of patients walking on the grounds, and working in various capacities illustrate daily life at Greystone. Other scenes of staff, furnishings, equipment, activities and buildings are also captured visually. Images include a printed description.
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Greystone's History
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, there were few prescribed medical treatments for the mentally ill. During this time, it was widely believed that mental illness was caused by demonic possession, sin and moral weakness. Harsh treatments included submerging patients in ice baths, bleeding, shocks with eels, induction of vomiting and fevers, in addition to prayer and bible reading. Mentally ill individuals were often abused and restrained. By the late 18th century, a movement developed in Europe that encouraged more humane and personalized methods. Called Moral Therapy, its focus was to treat patients with kindness and care, and not with harsh treatment or violence.
The theories of Moral Therapy deeply influenced Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, who served the Pennsylvania Hospital as superintendent from 1841-1883. He created a model for a humane and compassionate environment for mentally ill patients. He advocated for tranquil, uncrowded, and orderly spaces that were believed to be restorative. Dr. Kirkbride's innovative therapies and progressive writings on the design of hospitals and management came to be known as the Kirkbride Plan. Dr. Kirkbride fervently believed that the architectural design of hospitals for the mentally ill could facilitate recovery. His theories had widespread influence on the design and construction of mental hospitals throughout North America, including Greystone.
In its day, Greystone was a landmark in the progressive treatment of the mentally ill. Because proponents believed that nature acted as a curative, asylums such as Greystone were typically built far from urban centers, and designed to highlight a peaceful and orderly environment. Greystone's landscaped grounds added to the tranquility.
Founded in 1875, the Greystone Hospital was the State of New Jersey's second "lunatic asylum". Built to alleviate the overcrowding at the hospital in Trenton, the new institution served emerging populations near Morristown, Parsippany, and Newark when it opened on August 17, 1878. Designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan--to Kirkbride specifications--Greystone is a five story complex with two massive wings extending from a dome-topped central building. Kirkbride buildings are characterized by their symmetry, staggered linear floor plan and their imposing Victorian architecture. This design allowed for adequate space and ventilation, the separation of the sexes, and offered patients views of the landscaped grounds.
Photographs within this collection document Greystone's self-contained community. The Greystone complex had its own post office, dairy and farm, reservoirs, fire department, staff dormitories, and occupational and vocational therapy buildings where household items and produce were produced and sold. Initially each patient ward was set up to accommodate a small number of patients. The wards had visiting parlors, dining areas, and exercise rooms, and some were attractively decorated.
Because Greystone accommodated the more heavily populated area of northern New Jersey, its population soon skyrocketed. Overcrowding caused a sharp decline in patient care. Asylums became the solution for many "problem people". Some of the seriously mentally ill became a danger to themselves and others when not restrained. The criminally insane were housed together with the regular population and some escaped. Sleeping arrangements became overcrowded as more rooms were converted into dormitories. New dormitories were built but were insufficient to accommodate the burgeoning population of patients. By 1914, Greystone housed 2,412 patients. The institution's annual reports from this period cite severely congested and underfunded conditions, and warn of risks to patients.
Ultimately Kirkbride's idealistic theories were criticized by the medical establishment as expensive, labor intensive and ineffective. The once highly regarded practices of moral therapy and moral management were largely discontinued as other methods replaced them.


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Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Christmas Sentiment at Bearlymine Challenge
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- Desire Fourie said...
Oh wow, this is just gorgeous with wonderful colouring and those poinsettia flowers are just scrumptious.
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- 3 December 2013 at 08:37
- julie_woolston said...
Gorgeous card Laney, love those poinsettia's .
Hugs Julie xxx
- 3 December 2013 at 10:46
- Lori said...
Laney, this card is gorgeous! I keep seeing these poinsettia dies and I'm really thinking I need to get me some! Thanks for sharing this beauty with us at 4 Crafty Chicks this week :)
- 4 December 2013 at 01:59
- Billie A said...
Very pretty love the colors, sentiment and the flowers. Beautiful work. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments.
- 4 December 2013 at 02:16
- Tamie said...
Love your sentiment! and how you highlighted it! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing creation with us for our Christmas Challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks.
- 4 December 2013 at 04:26
- Helen said...
Beautiful - a really elegant card and I love the colours you've used.
Thanks for joining us at The Crafty Calendar Challenge.
Helen x
- 6 December 2013 at 13:11
- Zw@@n said...
Gorgeous card! Very pretty pointsettias. Thank you for joining us at ABC Christmas Challenge. Luv, Wilma
- 10 December 2013 at 22:03
- Clotee said...
Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!
Bring you Good wishes of happiness.
Sorry for greeting you earlier,, just don't want miss saying this.
By the way, I'm clotee. It's my first time visiting your blog. I am blogger too, and now try my best luck to open an e-store. Nice to know you.
- 13 December 2013 at 13:21
- Anna Jasiolek said...
Lovely pink X-mas card, I love it! Thank you for joining our challenge at Pile It On and I hope you will come back again.
- 6 January 2014 at 21:07


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Seif Lotfy is a fun-loving Zeitgeist and Elementary hacker at large who is a bit low on funds, like most people. Unfortunately he's *so* poor that he can't even afford a laptop to work on Zeitgeist after his broke, and is instead stuck with his Atom netbook.
Here's his story:
After my laptop (Dell XPS 1330) broke at GCDS. I came back to Germany and bought me a little nettop (I got 100 Euro discount on it) since it was the only thing i was able to afford. I used it with my 22 inch screen and even took both of them with me to the OpenSuSE Conf. Right before the Zeitgeist hackfest I added a little extra and switched my nettop with a notebook.
So all the Zeitgeist development on my side since after GCDS was done on a Atom 1.66 GHz processor, and let me tell you its a PITA.
I don't want to sound whiny but it is slow. GNOME Shell takes forever to compile. To open the applications menu for the first time in Shell takes 10 seconds here and 17 for the Recent Documents. Other things took me around 30 �" 90 minutes compile such as evolution and nautilus. It is becoming a bottleneck for development.
- Zeitgeist integration with Evolution: Show me what files i used during a meeting. Which contacts I interacted with most.
- Zeitgeist integration with Unity: I already have a python implementation of the UI using Zeitgeist and intend to support the DX team with the Vala implementation.
- Zeitgeist integration with Nautilus: Add the Recently Accessed as well as Commonly Accessed in the sidebar.
- Zeitgeist integration with Shell: Basically finish the implementation of http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/tag/gnome-shell/
- More stuff…


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It seems that nothing is going to top Royal celebrations when it comes to grabbing the headlines this week. People will be dancing in the streets, singing their hearts out with songs of celebration and basking in the glory of a very special bank holiday weekend. Among all of the celebrations of the Royals, we likely will be firmly reminded that the Queen still rules and is very much unmovable at the top, and that the Wales's are refusing to meekly step aside despite pressure for other royals to replace them as next in line to the Queen. It looks like the other royals will need to wait a while to reach the top, though we are not quite sure yet. Even staff at the Palace will be celebrating. Despite recent financial troubles at the Palace, their immediate future will be secured and they will not be disappearing into oblivion. Even I am getting caught up in the excitement!
No, no, no! I'm not talking about that nonsense taking place on Friday. I couldn't care less about that. As far as I am concerned that is just a wedding between two people I've never met and never will. The only way that affects me is that despite the fact that they are rich and I am broke, I'm paying for a wedding that I'm not even invited to, and wouldn't go if I was! I've not even been offered a sniff of a vol-au-vont. Now that's just rude! I wish them all the best for the future, but please, please, please sort out your finances. I can't afford to help you out again!
This is the prospect we are facing next weekend after the exciting afternoon of football we have just been treated to. The championship table changed again and again as fortunes ebbed and flowed and goals flew in all over the country. This was a great advertisement for the excitement of championship football. It also showed just how competitive the division is.
The big story of the day was undoubtedly the promotion, non-promotion, promotion and then non-promotion of Queens Park Rangers. A tight game with Hull City ended 1-1. While they were leading 1-0 they were going up, but Hull's equaliser put paid to that. However, then Derby clawed their way back into the game with Norwich City, and as the QPR game ended, the draw at Carrow Road was enough to secure the hoops promotion - enough until Norwich scored a last minute of injury time winner. You couldn't make it up!
Norwich were involved in their own yo-yo battle with Cardiff as the afternoon developed. Cardiff did their bit by winning a competitive game with Preston - a result that sees North End relegated to Division One. That win put the pressure on Norwich and the topsy-turvy game at Carrow Road saw Cardiff and Norwich swapping places three or four times in the battle for automatic promotion. Norwich hold the advantage going into the final stretch.
The excitement and tension was not confined to the very top of the division. It took a late winner from Nottingham Forest over Bristol City to see them leap-frog Millwall back into the play-off places. Millwall's win at Scunthorpe had briefly looked like putting them in the last play-off position.
At the other end of the table Crystal Palace and Doncaster look to have avoided relegation barring an absolute disaster. Palace joined Doncaster on 47 points courtesy of an unexpected win over Leeds United. Mathematically, they can still be caught, but with goal difference taken into account it is unlikely. In contrast, Leeds now look like they need their own miracle to get back into the play-offs.
The biggest surprise of the day was pulled off by Sheffield United. 2-0 down to Reading after 20 minutes they looked dead and buried and relegation was a certainty. Somehow they pulled a 3-2 win out of the bag and kept themselves in with a mathematical chance of avoiding the drop. The defeat to Sheffield United also means that the Royals are not yet mathematically certain of a place in the play-offs.
This article could have been (and at various times throughout the afternoon was) very different. Today's results leave Queens Park Rangers, Reading and Crystal Palace right on the brink of celebration. The party has been postponed, but only by a week. It is almost inconceivable that any of them will not be celebrating next weekend. However, in the most exciting league in England - never say never!


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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Was the fire in Haifa predicted in Midrash Rabba?
24 comments:
Why are you so sure that we shall only listen to Josh? Is he a Navi? Don't think so. Also, are you so sure that the Mashiach has not been revealed and we now wait for the rabbi's to make the next move. Remember, the rabbi's will hinder the geulah. Also remember what the Tanach say's about the faithless leaders, like the 'Josh's' of the world. Probably so. You want the geulah, then believe it's possible.
- December 7, 2010 at 4:00 AM
- Devorah said...
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- December 7, 2010 at 4:07 AM
- Devorah said...
I'm not sure about anything at all.
This Anonymous comment was published at the original post yesterday:
"My Rabbi claims that this article is a misinterpretaion of the midrash which talks about that fires all over Israel (not only Haifa) will rage against our enemies in the days before Moshiach. These fires in Haifa impacted mainly the Jews and not our enemies. "
Josh's explanation seems to reinforce this.
- December 7, 2010 at 4:12 AM
- Tidbits of Torah said...
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- December 7, 2010 at 5:19 AM
dear devorah
I have just read your article
(and I love to read your blog) regarding the prediction of carmel fire in midrash rabba made in lazer brody's site. And in my opinion as far as I and my husband have come to know Dear rabbi brody he has/had no intentions in mistaking anyone. He is a true hashem fearing personality . as we all know Our torah has lot of interpretations and different sides to understand each SUGIA therefore, I dont think so its appropriate to judge anyone negatively. the point is to read the article be inspired and not hang on it and enter deeply in forms of predictions. Most of the blogs give some sorts of predictions and i think its will be absurd to beleive each and every idea that the blogger writes. the point is to read different ideas and leave it.
- December 7, 2010 at 5:27 AM
- Devorah said...
I am not judging anyone, that is Hashem's job, but he should have given us more information regarding the entire quote, so we could decide for ourselves whether the Haifa fire is the one referred to in the Midrash.
As most of us who read his blog tend to believe everything he writes, simply because he is a respected rabbi, and as you say a "true Hashem fearing personality", then all the more reason to be extra careful with publishing these predictions.
I know in the past I have published things that have not realized their potential, but if I also knew in advance that something was questionable, I would at least inform my readers of that fact.
If vital information is omitted, it is "geneivas da'at" - theft of the mind - it is giving people false hope and distorting the facts.
I admire Rabbi Brody for many different reasons, but unfortunately this is not one of those times.
- December 7, 2010 at 5:43 AM
I personally don't believe most of Rabbi Brody says because I've bought into his (and other people loosely connected with Israeli National Radio's) nonsense before and it made my life very difficult as a result. To be blunt, I would take anything he says with a grain of salt and check for yourself exactly what the Midrash, Gemarah or Halacha he is quoting actually says. It's really easy to twist any verse or any commentary to mean anything, if you treat the text like it's a word search, which no one should do under any circumstances.
This is why I don't believe MOST of the "Torah Codes". It's also why I have a real problem with Chassidut - meaning is attached to every single thing. Even if there is a deeper meaning, that deeper explanation has no business being spread around the world or even being revealed to those who are not educated enough to understand the deeper meaning properly. It's also why there are some really messed up views of Judaism and the Torah.
In addition, the whole "Aliyah or die" mentality that Rabbis Brody, Arush and Yitzhak subscribe to and preach about has become too much. If you want to make Aliyah, do so. But don't go telling me I'm going to be wiped out if I don't. Otherwise, you're denying numerous P'sukim in Nach that speak about the Kibbutz Galuyot. It's that simple. Until you've learned Tanach to the level of those whose commentaries we study on a regular basis, don't go interpreting things your own way. I would hope that Rabbi Brody would be aware of that by now.
Why am I so critical? I'm tired of seeing prominent Rabbanim and Gedolei HaDor being quoted as saying things that they did not say. I'm tired of people trying to kvetch Chumrot out of Halacha that have no basis whatsoever. And above all of that, I'm sick and tired of people treating Tanach as a word search that backs up their personal beliefs. It's disrespectful to our Holy Torah and by extension, it's utterly disrespectful to G-d himself.
- December 7, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Blessings devora and happy chanukka 6th day. the best thing to do is to ask R Lazer directly himself, dont you think so. i personally dont appreciate what parsha blog writes and now prefer to avoid that site. Rabbi lazer has reached out to many people all over the world. as i wrote to you once before, if the mosiach does not come after this shabbat i just say to myself, thats one shabbat less to wait. and continue waiting, because we know he will come. RLazer is giving strength during that wait, however it has a opposite effect on some, sad to say. blessings.
- December 7, 2010 at 7:22 PM
- David said...
I read the Midrash as I commented yesterday. Its fine to read it the way Rav Brody is reading it. I don't believe he is necessarily misreading. Josh is entitled to his opinion, but I would defer to Rav Brody on this stuff.
- December 7, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- Elliot said...
Zvi has written off 2 important ingredients which have helped dramatically in the return of so many Jewish people to their roots in the post-war world; Chasidut and the discovery of Torah codes.
- December 8, 2010 at 12:45 AM
on the heberw section of dani18.com they bring a pasuk from Yeshayahu perek daled that discusses the carmel and how its vegetation will change to desert.
- December 8, 2010 at 3:25 AM
Let explain to you why I write off those two phenomena (This is part 1):
Chassidut. Chassidut is essentially 17th Century NCSY, for lack of a better description. Sure, it feels good and emphasizes spirituality. However, the near-deification of the Rebbe is a negative thing that should be avoided because of the fact that it can lead to kind of problems present in Chabad-Lubavitch vs Orthodox Judaism. In addition, Chassidut, in its aspiration to spread spirituality, reveals aspects of Jewish Mysticism which are absolutely not for public consumption. This is why there are numerous restrictions regarding who may study the Zohar as well as why the German Kehillot were very hesitant to adopt the Kabbalat Shabbat service as we know it - specifically because of its mystical orientation. In addition to that, mysticism and its powerful influence on the soul is also why it was required in the past that one be an expert in all other areas of Torah before even considering embarking on even a cursory study of Jewish mysticism. I firmly believe that Chassidut served a purpose in the past a form of Kiruv and did what it had to "to keep people in the fold", especially since Yeshivot were for the elite and most people did not receive more than a rudimentary Jewish education. However, I believe there are serious problems with Chassidut because of the dissemination of mysticism. And this doesn't even include the invention of Chumrot that occurs all the time and makes life increasingly difficult, which is actually counter to the Torah and will eventually lead to a complete breakdown in the Chassidishe lifestyle. I will not say they are past their expiration date as they have brought many people back to their roots, even though I think that with the increase in Jewish education, there needs to be a return to the pre-Chassidish era when mysticism was restricted to those who were truly ready for it. I do not dislike nor hate Chassidim - they are fellow Jews after all. I just vigorously and strongly disagree with their approach to Judaism.
- December 8, 2010 at 5:36 AM
2) Torah Codes. I think that these are inherently faulty and rather disrespectful. Do I believe there are hints to future events in Tanach? Absolutely. However, those are spoken about in Midrashim (which is not the same as the "Medrish" learned in Yeshiva) and expounded upon by the Rishonim and early Acharonim. Do I accept that various Gedolim from the past could find hints to themselves? Yes.
However, the Torah Codes have unfortunately turned our holiest texts into a giant word search. The mere thought of "Oh, lets see what we can find in the Torah today that proves X,Y and Z" makes my skin crawl.
In theory, I would not write off the Torah Codes if they did not involve Keitzism and the publication of Jewish mysticism. However, since they do so, I think there are problems with them.
All of this being the case, let me say the following. Although I have serious problems with these two things, I let them live because I accept that there are multiple ways to understand the Torah. However, I personally think Chassidism and the Torah Codes are questionable.
- December 8, 2010 at 5:43 AM
- Devorah said...
Zvi: You said "In addition, Chassidut, in its aspiration to spread spirituality, reveals aspects of Jewish Mysticism which are absolutely not for public consumption."
That is not true.
(the paragraph below is written by Rabbi Ginsburgh: Inner.Org)
This is one of the reasons why the Ba'al Shem Tov revealed a new dimension of Kabbalah--Chassidut. Chassidut expresses Kabbalah in a way that is accessible to every soul and that excludes all possibility of misinterpretation. Thus, it is highly recommended to study Kabbalah within the framework of Chassidut. When Kabbalah is studied within this framework there is no danger. If there is no danger, there is also no age barrier or other limitation on the study of the inner dimension of Torah.
- December 8, 2010 at 6:22 AM
- Rob said...
Zvi, extremely narrow and arrogant approach. As a fellow Jew may peace be upon you.
Hillel ben Avraham
- December 8, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- Leah said...
Could you imagine for a moment, Devorah, someone walking up to Rabbi Matisyahu Glazerson and saying that because he doesn't believe that the Torah codes are real therefore they are not? This man has studied for decades on the subject and has authored over 25 seforim on the codes. He is well respected and his work believed by rabbanim straight across all sects of Jewish tradition. To listen to him speak one does not get the feeling that he is "reaching" for "connections" in the encoded verses of torah.
Codes are never the reason we believe in Hashem and His Torah, yet they are an added flavor to an already rich heritage.
Continue on with your work, Devorah, you are appreciated by many!
Chanukah Sameach!
- December 8, 2010 at 9:33 AM
- Zvika said...
I wrote a very long response to everyone here and it was erased. I will try to recompose it at a later time today. Needless to say, I think an initial misinterpretation of what I said occurred and people have gotten their hackles up over a simple, yet severe disagreement over Chassidut and the Torah Codes. I have been affected by these things directly and have a pretty good idea of what is at hand. To be short:
Rob: You're misinterpreting the words on the screen. I'll explain later.
Leah and Devorah: I still disagree, but you're welcome to believe what you want :c). We all have who to rely on for each of our positions.
- December 8, 2010 at 4:06 PM
I agree with zvi 100% and ive studied kabbalah for 20 years and experienced prophecy since I was a child .
- December 9, 2010 at 7:15 AM
- Leah said...
Hello. May I ask you, are you familiar with Rabbi Glazerson and his work with the codes?
Chanukah Sameach.
- December 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Zvika said...
Okay, my response (Part 1):
Rob: You would be surprised as to how many people agree with me today and how many agreed with my position in the past, such as the Gr"a, who was vigorously opposed to Chassidut. I admit not knowing the exact reason for his opposition - since he did not write very much, it's hard to know his position - but I believe it is linked to the Chassidut's consistent indulging in mysticism. It happens to also explain his refusal to meet with one of the Lubavitcher Rebbes. You may think it is arrogant, but I'm not alone in my assessment (even though I often do when I get into these discussions) and I stand by it. There are probably other issues as well. I will look into it when I have some free time.
(And please don't use that "Peace be upon you" phrase with me - I find it equally arrogant as well as incredibly insulting.)
Devorah: I disagree. Again, I will invoke the German tradition, in which almost everything rooted in Mysticism is not said during Davening outside of Kabbalat Shabbat, and even that was not accepted until much later in history than the rest of the Jewish world. I do believe, that with the internet and the fact that it is so simple to cut and paste a Midrash and then expound on it without looking at any of the commentaries, I think that Judaism needs to censor the Chassidut and Mysticism and not publicize it any longer. We don't need more Madonnas running around claiming to know the secrets of Jewish Mysticism and spouting off them while being totally uninitiated in Judaism and having no knowledge of Jewish Theology or Jewish Law. I think it needs to be limited to those who are ready for it.
Leah: Yes, and while they are interesting, I think there are more compelling issues at hand. That isn't to say that Rabbi Glazerson isn't entitled to do his work. I simply think that it's much more important to focus on other things - basic understanding of Tanach, Halacha, ethics, et cetera - seeing as there is such a dearth of them in most Jewish circles and especially Orthodox circles. I think this is a much more worthwhile use of time. In addition, many people have issues with the Torah Codes, because of the reason I stated before - that it's gotten to the point that it's almost like using the Torah as a word search. That's why there was a rather wide-spread rejection of the fact that both Bush and Obama were/are Gog - it's just too easy to do at this point.
I also think that while the Torah Codes are nice, they are essentially like Gematriyot. They aren't necessarily what people should be focusing on, even if they show some very interesting correlations between history and prophesies received a few millenia ago (and yes, some of them are in fact rather cool, I do admit that).
- December 9, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Zvika said...
(Part two - if part one didn't display, tell me and I'll repost)
All: There are, in addition, a whole slew of other issues related to the Chassidishe sector's practice of Halacha that are problematic, but I won't discuss them here. This is not the forum for such a discussion out of reasons related to the fact that too many people will put in their two cents and derail the discussion.
I do believe that my initial post was misunderstood. I do not reject the Chassidishe world nor think they have no right to practice/believe what they do. They have that right. However, I see massive problems with the indulgence in Chassidut/Spirituality and the fact that it is over-emphasized while the basic understanding of Tanach and Halacha are given much less attention than they should. I am simply very opposed to their approach, for the reasons I've stated above.
As for Rabbi Brody, he should know better. It's easy to misread Midrashim. I personally looked at the Midrash and did not come to the same conclusion as he did. In fact, my conclusion wasn't even close to his. In addition, I go back to the curse in the Talmud issued upon those who try to figure out when Moshiach will come because of the fact that can cause people to lose hope. Rabbi Brody, whether intentionally or not, is indulging in this. And yes, I know the Rambam/Ramban (don't remember which) said it is okay and maybe even encouraged if it will raise hope. However, many people still object to this. Obviously, I do not curse Rabbi Brody - Heaven forbid I do such a thing.
I happen to think Keitzism (trying to figure out when Moshiach is coming) is a waste of time and energy. We can see that we are on that path. One only needs to look at how many prophesies have come true in the last hundred years or so.
As for the Torah Codes, I think I've explained myself enough.
I actually only responded to Devorah's post because of Rabbi Brody and as a long-time lurker here, I've seen what she's gone through in the past, both in regards to Rabbi Brody's past "predictions" and if I'm not mistaken, with the Autistic children as well (which is a whole different discussion in of itself) and felt a need to say something about it. And again, I was directly affected by these things, so I have good reason to protest.
A Freilichen "Zos Chanuka" to all.
- December 9, 2010 at 4:24 PM
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- December 9, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- Leah said...
Yes, I agree with you that we all need to involve ourselves in Torah and mitzvos as the basis. It is as I have stated before that we do not look into the codes as the meat and potatoes of Judaism, rather as another holy aspect to our heritage.
Yes, it is best to have a source that is grounded in halachah and adherence to Judaism's mesorah. One should always have that - without a doubt.
I wish you very well.
- December 10, 2010 at 5:54 AM
- Rabbi Yehoishophot Oliver said...
In response to the claim that teaching Chassidus may have been necessary in the past to help restore the Jewish people to proper observance, but now it is no longer needed, simple logic says the opposite. If even then we needed it, when the situation was vastly better, all the more so now. See here.
- December 10, 2010 at 7:50 AM


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- Karl Drerup Art Gallery
- Opening reception: February 8, 2011 4–6 p.m.
White Mountain School painting has long been admired for the ways that artists captured and embellished the natural beauty of the region. Much has been written about nineteenth century visitors' awe and reverence of the region and how it was rendered visible by the many famous painters who frequented the area. Equally imbedded in those paintings is evidence of environmental change, from the impact of settlers' activities including clear-cutting, hunting, and farming, to the industrial practices of pulp mills and mines. As settlers and investors drew benefits from natural resources, they perceived the land as the site of abundance and beauty reflected in the paintings. The exhibition will celebrate the great art of the era and explore dynamic environmental change as time passes over the land.


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James, one of our youngest volunteers, provides a brief history of Britannia Triumphant, one of the highlights of our 19th Century gallery.
When I was first looking around the museum for something to research, the Britannia Triumphant (1798) immediately caught my eye.
The piece is incredibly detailed and intricate with many hidden meanings which inspire many questions: Who made it? What does it mean? What was it made for and when? To answer some of these questions I had to delve deep into the Wedgwood Museum library and archives.
Britannia was made to celebrate British victories over the French in the Napoleonic wars. The figure was modelled by William Hackwood who was a modeller for Wedgwood from 1769 to 1832. The design was heavily influenced by the candlestick depicting Minerva the roman goddess of war by Henry Webber, also a modeller for Wedgwood from 1782 to 1806.
The symbol of Britannia itself dates back to Roman times but when the Romans left in AD410 it was not seen again until James VI of Scotland became James I of England, uniting the British Isles under a single monarch. However it was not until the Act of Union in 1707 that it became a universal symbol of Great Britain.
The actual figure of Britannia Triumphant wears a helmet topped with feathers, a silk gown and a metal breast plate. In her right hand she holds a trident and in her left she holds a medallion of King George III. Her feet stamp on the fallen figure of France; surrounding her are a triumphant lion, a spilled cornucopia, a shield decorated with the Union Jack, a boat, a helmet and other military icons.
In the Ackerman engraving of the Wedgwood and Byerley showrooms in York Street, London, Britannia Triumphant is shown in her full glory. The figure sits on a jasper cylinder drum and is encased in a temple dome with outer pillars. Originally made of jasper, the absence of moulds meant that the example in the museum had to be completed with wood and was modelled as closely as possible from the one visible in the engraving.
The drum is a cylinder connecting the base of the figure to the base of the temple. Also modelled by William Hackwood, it is decorated with four medallions of British naval heroes: Admirals Howe, St Vincent, Duncan and Nelson modelled by John De Vaere who was a modeller of portrait medallions for Wedgwood between 1787 until 1810. The drum also has two niches but it is not clear from the engraving whether they were intended to hold figures.
As the original figure is now at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, the piece in the museum is a superb replica reconstructed from the original moulds retained in the factory.


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'THE Bomber' Anthony Bellew will get his first real taste of world class opposition in the ring this month after signing up as a sparring partner for the Italian Olympic squad.
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