Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom
The name Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom (Hebrew: פֶּלֶא יֹועֵץ אֵל גִּבֹּור אֲבִיעַד שַׂר־שָׁלֹֽום) is a prophetic name or title which occurs in Isaiah 9:6 in the Hebrew Bible. It is one of a series of prophetic names found in Isaiah ch.7-9, including most notably Emmanuel "God with us", and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Hebrew: מַהֵר שָׁלָל חָשׁ בַּז) - "He has made haste to the plunder!" - in the previous chapter (Isaiah 8:1–3), which is a reference to the impending plunder of Samaria and Damascus by the king of Assyria. The meaning of Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom is variously interpreted as "Wonderful in counsel is God the mighty, the Everlasting Father, the Ruler of Peace" (Hertz 1968), or "his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace" (KJV).
The name is translated in the Latin Vulgate and most English Bibles. Though the name could be left untranslated,[1] and is so in the Jewish Publication Society of America Version (1917), though this caused discussion among the translators and led to an English translation in the New Jewish Publication Society of America Version (1985).[2] The Latin Vulgate reads that his name will be called "Admirabilis consiliarius, Deus fortis, Pater futuri saeculi, Princeps pacis" (the Douay-Rheims version translates this as 'Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace').
Edersheim (1883) notes that this verse is applied to the Messiah in the Aramaic Targum.[3] In rabbinical interpretation, such as Joseph Herman Hertz (1968) citing Rashi and Luzzatto, the name is taken as referring to the 'crown prince.'[4] Rashi, having applied Emmanuel to Hezekiah also applies the Pele Yoez, "Wonderful Counsellor" prophecy to Hezekiah, saying that God "called the name of Hezekiah "Prince of Peace"."[5] In the Greek Septuagint the name is translated, "Messenger of Great Counsel" as a description of the prince: "he shall be named Messenger of Great Counsel, for I will bring peace upon the rulers, peace and health to him."[6][7]
The uncommon term "El-gibbor"[9] is typically translated as "Mighty God."[10][11]
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Lonely Thoughts on Devotion
I was just contemplating why I am so draw to events in the Sedra. It is because I know when I go to Schul or do things with people from Schul that I can freely share my feelings and contemplate G*d without holding back. I don't like when people impose their beliefs on me so I try to hold back to make others comfortable. I can see in someways they are the ones who are at peace with themselves. I am full of fire. The troubled Nevim play on my emotions urging me to search my own flaws. The Psalms turn me to G*d within me and I know that Melek David, Moshe, and other Israelites lived lives like mine. And knowing that there lives mean something, but knowing that their lives were for the Torah which has been passed down in reverence means they lived not just for something but for the Holy One. All G*d's attributes must be understood as eternal.
How can one be close to G*d if they don't turn to him? I trust in him. Fear it is taught is one of man's response to G*d. It becomes awe instead of fear only when we accept that we are the work of 'his hands.' One should make this their shield as did the Avot.
The Torah must be carried with both hands, each step holding it must be for the Yotzer! The sweetness of the melody mixes with the awed expectation of the birkot to follow.. And then filling the sanctuary with kvodo of incomparable holiness.
Yet, I also have visions of war. I see how hard it is for people to form successful supportive relationships. I thank G*d for the community that I am part of and for my family.
Sometimes imagine the worst. I mean today, I kept thinking what would happen if Israel was attacked in mass? G*d forbid! Would it start a new rabbinical period? I think that only Forgiveness for not living the covenant would matter after that. It is so real to me because it actually happened that way with the Temple; and not once but twice. Then I imagine how hard it would be to survive in all those different cultures, only to be oppressed, exploited, and usually driven out. Yet from that emerged another height of history with migration to eastern Europe. That period makes my heart soar and only the tragedies and finally the destruction of those communities in the Shoah so heart breaking and terrifying. Yet, Israel itself was founded again!! It is in the hands of the Children of Israel and the House of Yaakov that remain it Holy and dedicated to "".
It is hard to go through my day when I want to study and pray. So that is my aim. I work so I can study. I plan so in the future I will be able to do good full time.
How can one be close to G*d if they don't turn to him? I trust in him. Fear it is taught is one of man's response to G*d. It becomes awe instead of fear only when we accept that we are the work of 'his hands.' One should make this their shield as did the Avot.
The Torah must be carried with both hands, each step holding it must be for the Yotzer! The sweetness of the melody mixes with the awed expectation of the birkot to follow.. And then filling the sanctuary with kvodo of incomparable holiness.
Yet, I also have visions of war. I see how hard it is for people to form successful supportive relationships. I thank G*d for the community that I am part of and for my family.
Sometimes imagine the worst. I mean today, I kept thinking what would happen if Israel was attacked in mass? G*d forbid! Would it start a new rabbinical period? I think that only Forgiveness for not living the covenant would matter after that. It is so real to me because it actually happened that way with the Temple; and not once but twice. Then I imagine how hard it would be to survive in all those different cultures, only to be oppressed, exploited, and usually driven out. Yet from that emerged another height of history with migration to eastern Europe. That period makes my heart soar and only the tragedies and finally the destruction of those communities in the Shoah so heart breaking and terrifying. Yet, Israel itself was founded again!! It is in the hands of the Children of Israel and the House of Yaakov that remain it Holy and dedicated to "".
It is hard to go through my day when I want to study and pray. So that is my aim. I work so I can study. I plan so in the future I will be able to do good full time.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Thoughts on the Soul
The purpose of the Soul is to contain meaning (Torah) that the world be renewed (like the dreamer's soul) through G*d's holiness.
The Soul (as in single) G*d is one. Each of us individual ones. QED we are one in G*d.
The Soul is our particular being. Thus G*d is the soul of creation, The Torah is the Soul of Talmud. Israel is the Soul of Humanity. (G*d is more than the soul of creation but it is a interesting idea.)
The Soul is that which endures experience not just in that which survives but that which experiences it.
The Soul "Fills, sees, sustains, is pure, and dwells innermost"
The Soul 'returns to' heaven and is refreshed. One extrapolation from this might be that there is no reality without G*d. Without G*d there is nothing immutable by which to establish reality (The work of our hands, the universe, our purpose.) When we establish our own unique values they still have no value without a language of agreement, G*d connects us with meaning, G*d gives the words meaning, G*d is the why, the how, and the very moments of life. G*d is beyond and within.
The Creation of man involves G*d's spirit and breath. The Creation of the world is still present to G*d as is eternity. We can know this only from our connection to the Creator. Israel is commanded to remember Creation and to guard Shabbat.
We have two souls on Shabbat. One is connected to all observant Jews throughout time, to the Avot. Only through this door are they bound to life. Just as only through G*d is life 'unending' for mankind. Again I think of the power of Kaddish.
The Soul is an incorruptible connection to G*d.
Soul as breath, breath as a cycle. One whole of a inhale and exhale.
Soul as the base class that our self at any moment instantiates. (Like in programming.) Or the expression "He spoke in the spirit of Lincoln."
Soul fills the body as G*d's glory fills the world.
(Again I am wondering if by glory they mean presence.)
Soul is outside of time but is also somehow a response to G*d's presence which we experience in time?
Soul belongs to G*d. (all does of course.)
Soul for Christians is what is judged and this idea is limiting.
Maybe when I make constructs up like "Israel is like the soul of mankind." What if Only the soul has reality. Only Israel must suffer for all the world, so that through them G*d can influence humanity. (That isn't to be bigoted, just a possible formulation. One which no doubt kept the Shabbat candles going through centuries of exhile.)
The proverb said Man's spirit is the light of the G*d, searching the inmost depths. G*d we know is "unsearchable" (another psalm so just as weigthy.) Light makes it easier to search. Our being is a expression derived from The un-abstracted being, the unlimitable being, Yet is not the impersonal Buddhist negation of being, Meaning is not to be rendered meaningless and canceled out. That would be a pointless chaos of equations unrelated, having order only by chance. A hell in which nothing could be understood.
The Soul (as in single) G*d is one. Each of us individual ones. QED we are one in G*d.
The Soul is our particular being. Thus G*d is the soul of creation, The Torah is the Soul of Talmud. Israel is the Soul of Humanity. (G*d is more than the soul of creation but it is a interesting idea.)
The Soul is that which endures experience not just in that which survives but that which experiences it.
The Soul "Fills, sees, sustains, is pure, and dwells innermost"
The Soul 'returns to' heaven and is refreshed. One extrapolation from this might be that there is no reality without G*d. Without G*d there is nothing immutable by which to establish reality (The work of our hands, the universe, our purpose.) When we establish our own unique values they still have no value without a language of agreement, G*d connects us with meaning, G*d gives the words meaning, G*d is the why, the how, and the very moments of life. G*d is beyond and within.
The Creation of man involves G*d's spirit and breath. The Creation of the world is still present to G*d as is eternity. We can know this only from our connection to the Creator. Israel is commanded to remember Creation and to guard Shabbat.
We have two souls on Shabbat. One is connected to all observant Jews throughout time, to the Avot. Only through this door are they bound to life. Just as only through G*d is life 'unending' for mankind. Again I think of the power of Kaddish.
The Soul is an incorruptible connection to G*d.
Soul as breath, breath as a cycle. One whole of a inhale and exhale.
Soul as the base class that our self at any moment instantiates. (Like in programming.) Or the expression "He spoke in the spirit of Lincoln."
Soul fills the body as G*d's glory fills the world.
(Again I am wondering if by glory they mean presence.)
Soul is outside of time but is also somehow a response to G*d's presence which we experience in time?
Soul belongs to G*d. (all does of course.)
Soul for Christians is what is judged and this idea is limiting.
Maybe when I make constructs up like "Israel is like the soul of mankind." What if Only the soul has reality. Only Israel must suffer for all the world, so that through them G*d can influence humanity. (That isn't to be bigoted, just a possible formulation. One which no doubt kept the Shabbat candles going through centuries of exhile.)
The proverb said Man's spirit is the light of the G*d, searching the inmost depths. G*d we know is "unsearchable" (another psalm so just as weigthy.) Light makes it easier to search. Our being is a expression derived from The un-abstracted being, the unlimitable being, Yet is not the impersonal Buddhist negation of being, Meaning is not to be rendered meaningless and canceled out. That would be a pointless chaos of equations unrelated, having order only by chance. A hell in which nothing could be understood.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Hold your Head Up High
Av, your miracles daily attend me and my life is unconditionally devoted to
your sanctification, to Torah and Leshon HaKodesh. No matter what sacrifice is necessary it is my will to cultivate myself for the work of Israel. I claim as my purpose, my reason your Holy Name. In doing so, I commit my soul that though art my L*rd and there is no other. This world is constantly instantiated and sustained by your word alone. It has no meaning except in response to the Torah. We can have no justice from our own creations; they are but fanatsies.
Av, I know that no righteousness comes from the self only from you. Every talent and all strength you have granted your creation is but a conceit if not returned. Let us return it in acts of goodness. Let us return it in faith unto and love for thee.
Blessed art though L*rd of the universe who made me a man of Israel.
Blessed art though G*d of Truth and revelation.
I will trust in thee, I will not give up hope.
your sanctification, to Torah and Leshon HaKodesh. No matter what sacrifice is necessary it is my will to cultivate myself for the work of Israel. I claim as my purpose, my reason your Holy Name. In doing so, I commit my soul that though art my L*rd and there is no other. This world is constantly instantiated and sustained by your word alone. It has no meaning except in response to the Torah. We can have no justice from our own creations; they are but fanatsies.
Av, I know that no righteousness comes from the self only from you. Every talent and all strength you have granted your creation is but a conceit if not returned. Let us return it in acts of goodness. Let us return it in faith unto and love for thee.
Blessed art though L*rd of the universe who made me a man of Israel.
Blessed art though G*d of Truth and revelation.
I will trust in thee, I will not give up hope.
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