All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Gollum
The name of the character Gollum, from the Lord of the Rings, comes from the sound the character makes when he tries to hock the hatred out of his throat.
I predicted the day after the Inauguration that Obama would end up looking like Gollum.
In Jewish tradition, the golem is most widely known as an artificial creature created by magic, often to serve its creator. The word "golem" appears only once in the Bible (Psalms139:16). In Hebrew, "golem" stands for "shapeless mass." The Talmud uses the word as "unformed" or "imperfect" and according to Talmudic legend, Adam is called "golem," meaning "body without a soul" (Sanhedrin 38b) for the first 12 hours of his existence. The golem appears in other places in the Talmud as well. One legend says the prophet Jeremiah made a golem However, some mystics believe the creation of a golem has symbolic meaning only, like a spiritual experience following a religious rite.
The Sefer Yezirah ("Book of Creation"), often referred to as a guide to magical usage by some Western European Jews in the Middle Ages, contains instructions on how to make a golem. Several rabbis, in their commentaries on Sefer Yezirah have come up with different understandings of the directions on how to make a golem. Most versions include shaping the golem into a figure resembling a human being and using God's name to bring him to life, since God is the ultimate creator of life..
According to one story, to make a golem come alive, one would shape it out of soil, and then walk or dance around it saying combination of letters from the alphabet and the secret name of God. To "kill" the golem, its creators would walk in the opposite direction saying and making the order of the words backwards.
Other sources say once the golem had been physically made one needed to write the letters aleph, mem, tav, which is emet and means "truth," on the golem's forehead and the golem would come alive. Erase the aleph and you are left with mem and tav, which is met, meaning "death."
The "teacher of righteousness" referred to in the dead sea scrolls who I think is the same guy as Jesus says that there are only two separate kinds of people on the earth
sons of matter and sons of light which makes sense to me -
first of all ADAM is not the only human or first human he is the first human to be endowed with divine BREATH
so this means others live and make descendants who did not have this breath, sons of MATTER
Of course all one has to do to get that breath is ask repent and obey
first of all ADAM is not the only human or first human he is the first human to be endowed with divine BREATH
so this means others live and make descendants who did not have this breath, sons of MATTER
Of course all one has to do to get that breath is ask repent and obey
Interesting points. I never knew that. Do you know the original language of the texts or do you have an idea of really good translations? I am sort of hesitant when it comes to buying a translated work!
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Pastorious do you know what a GOLEM is in Jewish lore?
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Golem.html
In Jewish tradition, the golem is most widely known as an artificial creature created by magic, often to serve its creator. The word "golem" appears only once in the Bible (Psalms139:16). In Hebrew, "golem" stands for "shapeless mass." The Talmud uses the word as "unformed" or "imperfect" and according to Talmudic legend, Adam is called "golem," meaning "body without a soul" (Sanhedrin 38b) for the first 12 hours of his existence. The golem appears in other places in the Talmud as well. One legend says the prophet Jeremiah made a golem However, some mystics believe the creation of a golem has symbolic meaning only, like a spiritual experience following a religious rite.
The Sefer Yezirah ("Book of Creation"), often referred to as a guide to magical usage by some Western European Jews in the Middle Ages, contains instructions on how to make a golem. Several rabbis, in their commentaries on Sefer Yezirah have come up with different understandings of the directions on how to make a golem. Most versions include shaping the golem into a figure resembling a human being and using God's name to bring him to life, since God is the ultimate creator of life..
According to one story, to make a golem come alive, one would shape it out of soil, and then walk or dance around it saying combination of letters from the alphabet and the secret name of God. To "kill" the golem, its creators would walk in the opposite direction saying and making the order of the words backwards.
Other sources say once the golem had been physically made one needed to write the letters aleph, mem, tav, which is emet and means "truth," on the golem's forehead and the golem would come alive. Erase the aleph and you are left with mem and tav, which is met, meaning "death."
snip
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Golem_Hora/3744690
Psalm 139 (which is one of my favorites, BTW)
16
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
The word there for GOLEM is UNFORMED
King James and others use IMPERFECT
H1564
גּלם
גּוֹלֶם gôlem
go‘-lem
From 1563 a wrapped (and unformed mass, that is, as the embryo): - substance yet being unperfect.
H1563
גּלם
גָּלַם gâlam
gaw-lam‘
A primitive root; to fold: - wrap together.
A body without a soul?
Sometimes I wonder about our President.
;-)
The "teacher of righteousness" referred to in the dead sea scrolls who I think is the same guy as Jesus says that there are only two separate kinds of people on the earth
sons of matter and sons of light
which makes sense to me -
first of all ADAM is not the only human or first human he is the first human to be endowed with divine BREATH
so this means others live and make descendants who did not have this breath, sons of MATTER
Of course all one has to do to get that breath is ask repent and obey
Babba,
first of all ADAM is not the only human or first human he is the first human to be endowed with divine BREATH
so this means others live and make descendants who did not have this breath, sons of MATTER
Of course all one has to do to get that breath is ask repent and obey
Interesting points. I never knew that. Do you know the original language of the texts or do you have an idea of really good translations? I am sort of hesitant when it comes to buying a translated work!
AA
you can view it all on the web I will find my links and come back later on tonight with them may be real late but I'll get there
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