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DOREEN ELLEN BELL-DOTAN, TZFAT: The Ground of Being is the highest level of Humility.
The Material Universe is not supposed to be a maidservant - at the disposal and to the use of any and all, without discrimination, without dignity, without recognition, and taken for granted.
We should be giving The Universe the very same advice that we would give to our beloved Daughters, and Sons too:
Don’t respond to those who don’t love you.
Don’t let everyone touch you.
Don’t give of yourself indiscriminately to those who do not honor and value you.
Don’t collapse into the arms of anyone who pays you the least attention.
Give of yourself as you will to those who love and value you and notice the jewels and beauty you hold within.
Imagine a world in which The Universe refused to respond to anyone who didn’t approach it with love and utmost respect. Imagine if metals, for instance, did not allow themselves to be smelted alike for those who make jewelry and those who make shackles, those who build homes and those who build prisons.
Imagine if Material did not actualize except for those who reached out to it in Love and the utmost Respect and Gratitude.
Heaven is very discriminating about who is allowed to touch it. Earth must be so too.
That reality is not only possible; it’s where we are supposed to be living. That reality is called The Land of Israel in Torah. The Land of Israel is not a geographical area and most certainly not a political entity that can be conquered and defended by force of arms. It is a State of Being that is manifested when we attain the level of Humility whereupon though we know that the Creation will materialize to us even if we abuse it, even if we disregard it, even if we take it for granted - we do not and regard it with sacred awe.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat: Just very recently I began to understand what Sovereignty really is, I mean really is.I always thought of Sovereignty principally in its political and economic aspects.
Recently, I began to look more deeply into what the House of David and the House of Shlomo really are, I mean what they really are.
Then I understood the real meaning of the Teaching: And may the Fear of God be upon You.
And I understood that it is only insofar as we abrogate our Holy and Righteous and Absolute Sovereignty that subjection befalls us.
Aaron Baker: My mom is Filipino and my dad is an Ashkenazi Jew of predominantly polish descent. I identify as mixed, half Asian half Jewish. I think my parents view my identity the same way I do, but we never really discuss it.
My family has influenced my identity as any family would, they’ve helped cultivate who I am as an individual. In terms of identifying myself through a racial perspective they’ve influenced me by maintaining the cultural values and practices associated with their respective heritages. And by doing doing so they've made me much more likely to ascribe to both of the traditions, affirming my identification as mixed.
I normally feel comfortable expressing both my heritages. I always thought it was cool because it made me a little different. When I went to a Jewish day school I identified more as Jewish, now its more of an equal balance. Being raised with two sides of the family that celebrate different holidays, often eat different food, and speak different languages aside from English when we’re around each other, has definitely been beneficial.
Despite these differences I have family members on one side who are a lot more similar to someone on the other side of my family than any on their own side of my family. It’s made me realize that we’re all human, and while heritage and appearance are part of our identify, there are much more important aspects of a person such as opinions, actions, personality, etc. So making blanket generalizations or assumptions about people because of there heritage or appearance is totally stupid.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat: It is perfectly OK to say: This Memory was conceived as an Experience and I accept it as my Child, but I am too young myself to care for it properly. It is perfectly OK to say: This Experience was conceived in pain that I am not strong enough to handle now. I will allow this Experience to become a Memory until such time as I am strong enough to handle the pain. It is perfectly OK to say: The Experience occurred but I am too indigent experientially and/or emotionally and/or materially to allow for the fullest expression of this Memory. I will store it in the Silo of my Memory until I can care for it.
It is not OK to say: I hate the People with whom this Experience was conceived. I will not allow this Experience to exist within me as a Memory. I will burn it to death with the fury of my anger. I will dissolve it in my acerbic bitterness. I will freeze it to death by depriving it of all warmth. I will kill it with thirst by subject it to the aridity of ignoring it.
Know assuredly that the murder of Memories will express itself on the more pronounced levels of Life as the murder of Living beings that exist in bodies.
It is OK to encapsulate our painful Experiences. Some of the Memories in which they exist have sharp structures that keep them protected. So, they need to be encapsulated and stored safely in our subconscious until such time as We, or even our Descendants, can provide them with maximal conditions for growth. But let us not be cruel with our Memories.
Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.
