I do have to apologise for an error in information imparted in my last post. I wrote at the end of my post that this week's parsha was the last parsha. It is not. There is the parsha that we read on Simchat Torah - Vezot habracha. That parsha is the last parsha of the Torah. Ok, so the parsha Hazinu is the last Shabbes parsha but it is not the last parsha. The Torah ends with a lamed of the word Israel and begins with a beit from the word bereshis and when you put the letters lamed and beit together you have lev which is heart in Hebrew. Thus truly the Torah is a divine and eternal document.
This Sunday night we start the holiday of Succot or the festival of booths as it is also known in English. We build a succa which is a small ( or in some cases ) or large structure which has a roof of palm fronds. There we eat for seven days. It isa temporary structure. It serves to remind us of Hashem's mercy in our journey. The body is also a temporary structure to house the soul which is divinely connected entity. Who we are, what we will be and what we were is all dependent on Hashem and how we use the gifts and talents we are given. Yes there is opportunity in life but we have to move ourselves and we cannot afford to sit on our hands or heels. We need to use our hands to do mitzvot and move.
I can't talk. I wanted to write down a beautiful poem I thought through driving back from Warragul last Thursday and in the scheme of things it got lost amid other things. A poem or story can be a wonderful garment you stitch together in your mind musings on many things then you get distracted and it becomes a rather tattered remanent fluttering in the wind. Then you have to reuse what you have in rather interesting ways. It was a poem about the eternity of Israel and the Israeli people. It will come to me again in a different form, perhaps better and stronger than ever.
A gut vok and Yom tov. Hopefully there will be time for another post before Yom Tov tonight.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Hayom yesh li bayit hadash
היום שחתמתי על הסכם חכירה של שלושה חדרים בתוספת חווית הלימוד בויקטוריה. יש עצי פרי, נקטרינה, אפרסק, משמש ושזיפים. יש גם שלושה עצי זית שהם רק בן שנים, כך שאנחנו צריכים לחכות לפחות שנה כדי לקצור אותם. יש לול תרנגולות ושלוש גינות ירק אני צריך לחפור ולהתכונן למפעל לשבועות הקרובים. אני גם צריך להתחיל בחיפוש אינטנסיבי לעבודה ברגע שהם הגיעו לפשרה בבית חווה זה. תרנגולות לקנות מתקני האכלה ולהקים כמו גם השקיה בטפטוף.
Ok so now I have to daven harder as there is much to do. I am researching the best veggies to put in once I have prepared the beds. I am thinking of organic tomatoes, zucchini, squash, carrots and beans.
The thing is that seasonal veggies are good for the health and I am looking forward to great lentil soups with my home grown vegetables and eventually chicken soup with older hens or roosters. Also organic and schected every six months after a year or two of laying. I am also going to follow the advice of a friend and give mieser (a tenth of all produce as income) to people in the community who are needy so if you are wanting free range and believe that you could be a recipient let me know or message me privately. Should be up and running by December.
Gut Shabbes. Have to read and study some Chumash. Last parsha this week. Hazak, hazak, hazak.
Ok so now I have to daven harder as there is much to do. I am researching the best veggies to put in once I have prepared the beds. I am thinking of organic tomatoes, zucchini, squash, carrots and beans.
The thing is that seasonal veggies are good for the health and I am looking forward to great lentil soups with my home grown vegetables and eventually chicken soup with older hens or roosters. Also organic and schected every six months after a year or two of laying. I am also going to follow the advice of a friend and give mieser (a tenth of all produce as income) to people in the community who are needy so if you are wanting free range and believe that you could be a recipient let me know or message me privately. Should be up and running by December.
Gut Shabbes. Have to read and study some Chumash. Last parsha this week. Hazak, hazak, hazak.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Advice on safe sex for the older woman - is it really necessary?
I often come across articles that make me laugh out loud at the ridiculousness of them. This article I read post Yom Kippur was one. It was worth a few good moments of chuckle. It is not that I am a prude. I am not. However the thought of a mature woman going on an RSVP dating site to trawl the pages for someone to literally have sex with at the drop of a hat is both astonishing and downright dangerous. I am not just talking about STD's, but lots of other dangers such as dangerous psychotics looking for just such silly women to take advantage of and to use like a prostitute. If a man wants cheap sex, let him go to one of those places, I say and pay for what he wants.
The article focuses mainly on women who are in their fifties and did not grow up in the age of aids and did not have the dubious benefits of "no sex with out condoms" etc. However it is not just aids you should be wary of, there are many other physical and emotional dangers that such behaviour could bring into your life. I always thought older women should have more sense. We should have put aside the follies of youth or an earlier age and become more conservative and sensible. One would have hoped.
When I was teaching in NSW in the Riverina, a so called behaviour expert told me I needed help and counselling because I must be depressed. The reasons I was supposed to be depressed was because I was living alone with my then two year old child and not having sex or not in relationship with someone. (.????) Hardly a sufficient criteria for depression one would think.
Sex is one of the least basic needs. A roof over one's head, enough to eat, clothes to wear and a few friends - good friends that is who are emotionally supportive and not destructive to your state of mind are far more important.
I would have thought most old women would have gone past the need for sexual adventures after the big 50 and most of us even earlier. Never being a fan of sex for sex 's sake, I find the pop psychology obsession with the idea of "sex is necessary to be a healthy functioning human being" quite silly and quite demeaning to women and men too. It puts us on the level of animals who copulate instinctively and without reflection and thought. That is why humans get married before they have intimate relations or should and then there is no need for condoms or other nonsense and people are valued for more than the physical desire or lust that is only momentary.
Here is the article.
http://www.theage.com.au/queensland/safe-sex-campaign-targets-older-women-20120926-26l7d.html
Personally I find it quite horrifying that older women would behave in such a fashion like some stupid girl of seventeen or eighteen
who has had no moral guidance. We need to value ourselves and not behave in such a fashion that makes us the
laughing stock of not only younger women, but men as well. It is bad enough being old, we do not want to make ourselves look
ridiculous and undignified as well. As I said, older women need to behave with wisdom and common sense not like young girls. We need to act our age and have decorum.
Hope everyone had a good fast.
Gut Yom tov.
The article focuses mainly on women who are in their fifties and did not grow up in the age of aids and did not have the dubious benefits of "no sex with out condoms" etc. However it is not just aids you should be wary of, there are many other physical and emotional dangers that such behaviour could bring into your life. I always thought older women should have more sense. We should have put aside the follies of youth or an earlier age and become more conservative and sensible. One would have hoped.
When I was teaching in NSW in the Riverina, a so called behaviour expert told me I needed help and counselling because I must be depressed. The reasons I was supposed to be depressed was because I was living alone with my then two year old child and not having sex or not in relationship with someone. (.????) Hardly a sufficient criteria for depression one would think.
Sex is one of the least basic needs. A roof over one's head, enough to eat, clothes to wear and a few friends - good friends that is who are emotionally supportive and not destructive to your state of mind are far more important.
I would have thought most old women would have gone past the need for sexual adventures after the big 50 and most of us even earlier. Never being a fan of sex for sex 's sake, I find the pop psychology obsession with the idea of "sex is necessary to be a healthy functioning human being" quite silly and quite demeaning to women and men too. It puts us on the level of animals who copulate instinctively and without reflection and thought. That is why humans get married before they have intimate relations or should and then there is no need for condoms or other nonsense and people are valued for more than the physical desire or lust that is only momentary.
Here is the article.
http://www.theage.com.au/queensland/safe-sex-campaign-targets-older-women-20120926-26l7d.html
Personally I find it quite horrifying that older women would behave in such a fashion like some stupid girl of seventeen or eighteen
who has had no moral guidance. We need to value ourselves and not behave in such a fashion that makes us the
laughing stock of not only younger women, but men as well. It is bad enough being old, we do not want to make ourselves look
ridiculous and undignified as well. As I said, older women need to behave with wisdom and common sense not like young girls. We need to act our age and have decorum.
Hope everyone had a good fast.
Gut Yom tov.
Monday, September 24, 2012
The Airline shidduch between Qantas and the UAE line
B"H
I was sent an article today which concerns me quite a bit. An elderly Jewish doctor is being held in the UAE on trumped up manslaughter charges. If you read my blog please get thie information out there and share. This is highly irregular and makes me understand now why I was so uneasy about the Qantas UAE Airline merger. The guy was on a plane transit through Dubai.
Anyway here is the link and hopefully someone has the power to help this old guy who only spent his life helping others especially sick kids.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Release_of_Prof_Cyril_Karabus_detained_in_UAE/?tphrzdb
Please sign the petition.
I was sent an article today which concerns me quite a bit. An elderly Jewish doctor is being held in the UAE on trumped up manslaughter charges. If you read my blog please get thie information out there and share. This is highly irregular and makes me understand now why I was so uneasy about the Qantas UAE Airline merger. The guy was on a plane transit through Dubai.
Anyway here is the link and hopefully someone has the power to help this old guy who only spent his life helping others especially sick kids.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Release_of_Prof_Cyril_Karabus_detained_in_UAE/?tphrzdb
Please sign the petition.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Teshuva - a poem
When the winds of change begin to blow away
The old year's foibles, bad habits ingrained
Are scrubbed vigorously down to the bone
Where and when are seeds of repentance sown
Is not for earthly judges to gauge how stained
The souls and deeds of others may be, but to pray
For their own deeds that need forgiveness.
To judge other less, for how you see best
Is what you need to understand more
Than how rich or how poor
The harvest of friends and foes alike.
Before you tell others they need a psych
Fix your own mental health issues and do not
Create issues for others who might not be
As lucky as you, before G-D
We stand equal
If not in this world
Then then the next.
The old year's foibles, bad habits ingrained
Are scrubbed vigorously down to the bone
Where and when are seeds of repentance sown
Is not for earthly judges to gauge how stained
The souls and deeds of others may be, but to pray
For their own deeds that need forgiveness.
To judge other less, for how you see best
Is what you need to understand more
Than how rich or how poor
The harvest of friends and foes alike.
Before you tell others they need a psych
Fix your own mental health issues and do not
Create issues for others who might not be
As lucky as you, before G-D
We stand equal
If not in this world
Then then the next.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Bullying in teaching, same sex marriage and Islamic riots
B"H
What a week it has been. A good and hard working principal pulled down and sacked by small minded and jealous individuals on a board because of pay descepancies. Seems absurd that Louise Adler and Ahmed Fahour, two individuals with little educational expertise can pull down a woman who spent fifteen good years devoting herself to a school, it's students and it's educational vision. Their belittlement of her contribution to MLC will not go unnoticed. I feel for Rosa Storelli. She comes across as dedicated and professional, as someone who truly loves her job. I fear for her state of mind after what they have done stripping her of her dignity and shoving her out the door like some naughty little servant who they have scapegoated for their own errors.
The board rejected an attempt at mediation and I think I know why. What would come to light would not be any inadequacy on the part of Rosa Storelli, there may be more to this story than meets the eye. When a group refuse to mediate, what you have is an admission of guilt. Rosa would be vindicated and they would end up with egg their faces. I hope she sues them and has enough support in the school community and those connected to the education community to be successful in court.
Trouble is when you have been emotionally brutalised by a group of people determined to get rid of you for unjust reasons it leaves emotional wounds that take time to heal. I hope Rosa has professional help as well as her own resources to see her through.
The same sex marriage bill did not pass the Senate. That was to be expected. The vote was 26 to 41 against. For all those people who suggested we are old fashioned and homophobic because we do not support same sex marriage, I say phooey. We can be sensitive and caring towards gay people without marriage. Gay partners have the same rights as de facto partners do and most are treated as spouses are in many respects except one that it does not have the sanctification of marriage. I do not support same sex marriage but in every other aspect I have respect for gay people and support them emotionally in their struggle to be treated with respect like any other human being. I do not agree with same sex marriage though.
Talking of respect, we see the absolute lack of respect for others in the Muslim extremists. Take Christopher Stevens the USA embassador to Libya. This guy is a public servant who represents and serves his country. He may have even been very decent person and sympathetic to Muslims, but on September 11th his Embassy was broken into by these people who are supposed to worship G-D. His personal dignity was violated and he was raped and killed by these scumbags who dare to call themselves religious Muslims. I believe personally that some one who really believes in G-D does not lie with another man like a woman, does not rape anyone especially not little girls, whatever religion the belong to.
Some of their supporters and other Islamic idiots planned to have a demonstration in Melbourne. A peaceful demonstration, of course. What a load of garbage. With feelings running so high on both sides, I cannot see how this could ever be a peaceful demonstration as the organisers of such an event well know. It would a disaster and turn into a violent and chaotic punch up and I would imagine we could very well have people killed if such a demonstration takes place.
Those who do turn up to such an event are only looking for a bit of excitement and an excuse for a fight. If you are really peaceful you stay home and write letters to the paper or blog. You do not need to be on the streets of Melbourne carrying placards.
Haven't the police got their work cut out for them enough already without having to deal with these idiots demonstrating ostentatiously for 'peace?' Yeah right!
What a week it has been. A good and hard working principal pulled down and sacked by small minded and jealous individuals on a board because of pay descepancies. Seems absurd that Louise Adler and Ahmed Fahour, two individuals with little educational expertise can pull down a woman who spent fifteen good years devoting herself to a school, it's students and it's educational vision. Their belittlement of her contribution to MLC will not go unnoticed. I feel for Rosa Storelli. She comes across as dedicated and professional, as someone who truly loves her job. I fear for her state of mind after what they have done stripping her of her dignity and shoving her out the door like some naughty little servant who they have scapegoated for their own errors.
The board rejected an attempt at mediation and I think I know why. What would come to light would not be any inadequacy on the part of Rosa Storelli, there may be more to this story than meets the eye. When a group refuse to mediate, what you have is an admission of guilt. Rosa would be vindicated and they would end up with egg their faces. I hope she sues them and has enough support in the school community and those connected to the education community to be successful in court.
Trouble is when you have been emotionally brutalised by a group of people determined to get rid of you for unjust reasons it leaves emotional wounds that take time to heal. I hope Rosa has professional help as well as her own resources to see her through.
The same sex marriage bill did not pass the Senate. That was to be expected. The vote was 26 to 41 against. For all those people who suggested we are old fashioned and homophobic because we do not support same sex marriage, I say phooey. We can be sensitive and caring towards gay people without marriage. Gay partners have the same rights as de facto partners do and most are treated as spouses are in many respects except one that it does not have the sanctification of marriage. I do not support same sex marriage but in every other aspect I have respect for gay people and support them emotionally in their struggle to be treated with respect like any other human being. I do not agree with same sex marriage though.
Talking of respect, we see the absolute lack of respect for others in the Muslim extremists. Take Christopher Stevens the USA embassador to Libya. This guy is a public servant who represents and serves his country. He may have even been very decent person and sympathetic to Muslims, but on September 11th his Embassy was broken into by these people who are supposed to worship G-D. His personal dignity was violated and he was raped and killed by these scumbags who dare to call themselves religious Muslims. I believe personally that some one who really believes in G-D does not lie with another man like a woman, does not rape anyone especially not little girls, whatever religion the belong to.
Some of their supporters and other Islamic idiots planned to have a demonstration in Melbourne. A peaceful demonstration, of course. What a load of garbage. With feelings running so high on both sides, I cannot see how this could ever be a peaceful demonstration as the organisers of such an event well know. It would a disaster and turn into a violent and chaotic punch up and I would imagine we could very well have people killed if such a demonstration takes place.
Those who do turn up to such an event are only looking for a bit of excitement and an excuse for a fight. If you are really peaceful you stay home and write letters to the paper or blog. You do not need to be on the streets of Melbourne carrying placards.
Haven't the police got their work cut out for them enough already without having to deal with these idiots demonstrating ostentatiously for 'peace?' Yeah right!
Getting away from politics and into FOOD
B"H
I am putting up something that will shock many people. It is an article on genetically modified food and it's impact on our intestines. With a world where the general public is not being told the truth about genetically modified foods and their impact on our guts, this article is an eye opener.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/15/genetic-roulette-gmo-documentary.aspx?e_cid=20120915_DNL_artNew_1
I am putting up something that will shock many people. It is an article on genetically modified food and it's impact on our intestines. With a world where the general public is not being told the truth about genetically modified foods and their impact on our guts, this article is an eye opener.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/15/genetic-roulette-gmo-documentary.aspx?e_cid=20120915_DNL_artNew_1
I will let the article speak for itself. I am hoping to have my own veggie garden and there are good few fruit trees as well as three olive trees on the property, I looked at today. There is a chicken coop and I am going to have real free range hens roaming in the garden alongside a tethered goat that I will milk.
The high incidence of cancers and other conditions is very scary. Especially if you have children.
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