Dear babababrain, Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
My translations are only intended for me, not someone else. It is up to each of us to study and find for ourselves what life is all about. As for me I love it when I find something that applies to reality from my own searching. Nothing is a waste of time if you grow spiritually from the experience, what ever it may be. I have come to understand the complex nature of reality and how creation science works from spending time translating, so how can that be considered a waste of time?
Well, I don't agree that simply because a text gives rules divorce means that marriage was intended. I myself believe that those teachings were added at a time after man had adopted the practice of marriage (if they are found in the Aramaic text at all).
Actually the text makes a lot more sense backwards than it does forward and from the little I have translated so far has to do with death and what happens after death. There isn't anything simple about the Torah.
If you merely presume that other worlds exist and are saying that this is what is taught, may I suggest you read a more of Kaplin's work.
You are surely entitled to your opinions about my theories about life and its creation. I wouldn't expect anything less of another person who has not walked a mile in my shoes, especially when dealing with this type of topic.
By all means do not take my word for it, play around with doing some translations backwards yourself. You will be utterly surprised and amazed. Are you familiar with the Maru Foundation?
Meru Foundation Research: Hebrew Alphabet, Genesis, Geometric Metaphor, and Kabbalah
If the above link does not work try this address:
www.meru.org/
Stan Teten has done some amazing work with his form of translation. He has a set of video's entitled "thinking allowed." There great! This is the amazing thing about how Source composed the text, no matter what set of rules you apply you get some pretty vital information.
In one of your first responses to me you said that you were Orthodox and later you say that you are reform but don't like the title Orthodox. Can you explain this because the two are not the same. I understand that a person who attends a Reform temple holds the plural existence of all the traditions, however the Orthodox would not agree with you that you are Orthodox. They are two separate divisions of Judaism, with differing views and in addition we have both Haredi and modern Orthodox with the Haredi being the strictest in their beliefs.
When dealing with the philosophy of the truly Orthodox Haredi, they perceive the generation of other denominations to have historically been engendered by heretical intent and the 1800's widespread denigration of religion. They view Reform Judaism, Reconstructctionist Judaism and Conservative Judaism as heretical non-Jewish movements whose actions are more damaging to the continuity of the Jewish people than any physical threat. Some Haredi leaders have stated that Reform is philosophically further from authentic Judaism than Christianity and Islam. As such, Haredi authorities have strongly fought attempts by the Reform and Conservative movements to gain official recognition and denominational legitimacy in Israel. Haredi groups and authorities will not work with non-Orthodox religious movements in any way, as they view this as lending legitimacy to those movements.
Where do you get the idea that and angel (messenger) can not commit a wrongdoing? Where do you get the idea that thy do not have free will? What you are truly saying is that because you are a Jew and don't believe this that it is a what Jews believe but you do not speak for the whole of Judaism nor for your own branch of it as a whole. Please provide me with any Jewish text that states that an angel can not fall, or lose its integrity.
Humans were created as angelic beings and what makes an angel more or less, is their energy holding capacity or the amount of consciousness they are able to hold. What you are terming angels who were considered less than humans has to do with the number of DNA strands they hold. Humans were created with 12 strands of DNA while some of the angels (those called fallen) only have 9 and others have 11.5. The Angels who never fell as far as holding their integrity and are here to help have up to 48 strands. However, at present most of the population only has 2 strands of DNA plugged in and the other strands have been termed junk DNA. Once plugged in those other strands allow a person to pull in higher dimensional frequency without doing harm to the human body such as dying or going mad (in the case of someone who has plugged in almost enough strands but not quite enough for the frequency they pull in).
I don't quite understand what you point is about messengers, especially the postman? However a messenger is someone who comes with a message of some sort and I believe we are in agreement with this. The message can come from any source including the one delivering the message. Anybody who give another person a message even if it is from the person giving it, is a messenger. In this case they are the agent of their own thoughts being sent out to another.
Other dimensions, worlds, havens, sepherots, tree of life, Jacob's ladder and other titles are given to these higher realms through out Jewish literature, scripture and what is called Myth or Lore. My I suggest you read the Sefer Yetzirah by Aryeh Kaplan for starters or the Book of Enoch which I know you don't consider canonical. I can point you to many other text if you chose to pursue this path.
You wrote:
>>>Torah verses (although of course relating to their context) can nonetheless always be understood as sentences or at least as distinct grammatical and syntactic structures - otherwise you're removing the peshat from them and that just won't do.<<
I agree somewhat with this but when new rules are applied to a language that were not originally intended, this changes the overall meaning in the text. So you can say your rules are better because you like what it makes the text say and that is fine for you but I see much more in the text that is vital for my personal growth, by letting go of the manmade rules that have been applied to the Hebrew language.
You are certainly entitled to your views and I appreciate you sharing them with me. I am not out to convince anyone of anything and would not care to waste my time in the effort it would take. I find it hard enough to convince myself of anything much less anybody else. Therefore I believe we have exhausted this discussion.
You have not provided any evidence for what you are stating other than making the remark that this is what is taught in Judaism however you do not speak for all of Judaism, nor for all of the branch you are a part of, which is supposed to take all other branches into account.
Love and Light, Midge
