Thursday, August 9, 2007

The Calculus of Interest-Free Loans and it’s Logical Derivatives or Consequences - Part V

It’s permitted to loan money with interest to non-bnai brit as it’s permitted to sell them non Kosher foods. The bnai brit have neither partnership nor alliances with non- bnai brit. It’s forbidden for bnai brit to marry non- bnai brit.
גמ"ח and partnership loans apply only among bnai brit. Midrash Rabba: מצורע יז:ב וראה ד:י , learns both the negative and positive components of sharing a soul connection with ones peoples. Building a partnership requires more than not slandering or other malicious actions among our peoples. The willingness to empathize with our peoples’ plight, or even more, forming a partnership to share the distress of life together, redeems the spirituality of the bnai brit peoples.
A brit that does not elevate or even refine the soul, such a brit lacks Torah.[1] Halachah has authority not because this respected authority rules in this way or another; rather that the bnai brit peoples clearly designate the way in which we dedicate our walk before the Elokim; something comparable to placing a mezuzah upon our doors and gates. Parents must elucidate this most essential distinction unto their children. A child can easily grow to resent that others have already determined the destiny of our lives. The Oath/britot determines the destiny of our people. The Torah and Talmud only serves to prove the point: Your can bring a horse to the trough, but you can’t make him to drink!
Torah mandated governance must never allow or even maintain - state owned lands. The first act of a Torah mandated government – returning and restoring the land inheritance unto the sons and daughters of the alliance. For people who possess land have land as collateral and therein can conduct their business interests. Herein stands the redemption of the shmittah and the jubilee.
Torah potentially holds a big vision. A small Torah limits its view to archaic ritual observances. This Torah feels uncomfortable with the modern democratic mandate and its founding principles of human rights. A small Torah fails to comprehend fundamental distinctions. Namely, that a people do not become a people because of equal rights. Rather a people become a people by mutually accepting to keep and honor defined and specific obligations. Theתרי"ג commandments serves as the most basic and profound example.
Religion or common and shared belief in god(s) does not forge a people. Doing a commandment לשמה requires a soul connection. Consequently, a Torah that serves only as ritual garments of religious observance yet fails to ignite and dedicate the soul, such a
Torah touches Avodah Zarah. Something like a Cohen placing a maimed animal upon the altar.
The act of creation as found in בראשית harmonizes opposite and opposing forces. So too דרך ארץ works to establish an Av/Toldah partnership between middot tohorot and tumahot. As דרך ארץ requires neshamah, so too sanctifying the holiness of Shabbat.
Sanctifying a matter requires a קום ועשה. The 10th trial of Avraham serves as an example. Our father offered up his son. To return without cutting a brit would have destroyed the spirituality of that unique moment in time. Hence our father offered up a ram in the place of Yitzchak and elevated his Ruach unto a Neshama. The Elokim formed a partnership with our fathers, the ram as a loan brought salvation unto the Neshama/Yitzchak.
The book of Kohelet confronts the visitation of death. This wisdom learns that all living should toil with their souls, for this qualifies as the essential labor of man on this earth. Refining the soul carries life unto future generations, like young trees sprouting forth from a dead stump. All peoples face death but some must experience its bitterness sooner than others.
(קהלת ז) ומוצא אני מר ממות את האשה וכו'Yitzchak did not have to endure great hardships in finding a suitable wife. Yaakov by contrast, endured great hardships to marry. Lacking a wife, a man has no house, for from the wife comes suitable heirs. The wives of our fathers developed a soul connection. This partnership matured into great fear of heaven, not so the wife of Job. The worst nightmare that can occur to a man – that his relationship with his wife stagnates to only a physical connection. Herein lay the curse of King Shlomo’s political marriages. . Hedonism includes the profit motive. What portion does Hedonism share with fear of heaven? All men have their day under the Sun, every person has equal opportunity to elevate their souls. The wisdom and light of Torah shines unto all generations. All peoples can redeem and work upon their souls and the souls of their peoples by cutting an oath/brit together as a nation. The number of his days under the sun, so to speak, gives a value unto the life of a man.. The living spirit that breathes, hedonism neither strengthens nor prolongs. This truth equally applies to both private individuals and public government officials. Great leaders understand this and guide their nation down the pathways that make the souls live both in this world and the next. Walking before the Elokim carrying this crucial soul obligation defines fear of heaven. Among the non bnai brit barbarians, great lions have arisen throughout history. During the dark nights of the European exile, the Jews existed like dogs that ate scraps at the tables of priests and kings. The goyim despised their token dogs. But with Torah, dogs could redeem their animal souls, whereas lions roared, died and returned unto the dust. Israel has witnessed the rise and fall of many cruel and terrible empires, whose arrogance have cast both religions and nations unto the trash heaps of history. All the rivers flow into the seas yet the seas remain unfilled. . Hidden mysteries and cryptic mystical languages serve as only the garments of kabbalah. The essence of Kabbalah focuses on redeeming the souls of the bnai brit peoples. Our Kabbalah teaches: when there are no men, strive to be a man. . The oath/sworn lands teach of a משל/נמשל partnership. The land does not cut a brit. Rather, Adam cuts a brit upon his souls. If the Torah fails to redeem the animal soul of our peoples, then the oath lands stand desolate and profaned, and our disgraced peoples must struggle to survive accursed galut. . Non bnai brit chase profit as if it gives life. But profit motives behave more like a mirage in the dessert for thirsty souls. The tree of life, it’s so close and near to every human being. That every life, all peoples or nations, who cut an oath/brit – these chosen, who dedicate fidelity and faith - receive the Divine permission to approach the tree of life, to eat and enjoy. Unto where must a person travel to approach the tree of life? No further than the soul of man. Non bnai brit pursue the profit motive – knowledge of good and evil – like dogs returning unto their vomit. From these two trees came the middot tohorot and tumahot. Redemption requires discernment. The sons of Yaakov lacked discernment when they sold Yosef unto slavery. Yaakov remembered Yosef’s dream, he mourned that his children had abandoned the brit Nefesh of Noach. His grief slowly entered their souls, and the sons of Yaakov became enlightened unto their crime. Still the die their actions had cast, the galut had begun. Galut does not come when the bnai brit discern their peoples and sanctify the Nefashot of their bnai brit peoples. . The shmittah and Jubilee redeem the lands. But the primary reason they bring redemption in their shadow – not because our people let the land lie fallow, that’s an obvious given. Rather the shmitta and Jubilee establishes the credit and banking system and therein shapes and forms the economies of all Torah constitutionally based societies! Business works on capital. Capital requires credit. Credit depends on collateral. By limiting debt, the shmitta and Jubilee redeem the lands because they restore a business line of credit. Lacking the shmitta and jubilee, powerful aristocracies develop and monopolize and eventually control national wealth. Cutting a brit changes the soul of a non bnai brit person. Making a formal oath with the Torah, places binding obligations upon the soul. Traditionally weddings employ fixed and established religious rituals, nevertheless a man must maintain faith with his wife in order that this marriage develops into something more than just living together. Equally so, cutting an oath/brit requires that a person maintain fidelity with ones’ souls. Different international currencies trade at different values. It’s forbidden to loan money and link it to currency speculations.

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