Isaiah 51:1 – “Listen to me, you who pursue Righteousness and who Seek the L-rd; Look to the Rock which you were Cut and to the Quarry from which you were Hewn.”
Destination Yisra’el – “Your imagination is where the well of living water erupts from the aquifers of your unconscious soul. The soul is where the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) fills up your life with the ‘cup that overflows’. It is there, your Israelite Neshama (Soul) will transform your dreams so they will become the reality of your future life.
One of the givens residing within the one who has an ‘inspired life’ is the fact that, if you focus on success in life, your life will gravitate towards a successful life. If your mind is focuses on your failing job, dysfunctional marriage or your declining health, you will gravitate towards despondency and despair.”
These foundation stones imbedded as part of the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon, range in size between from thirty to thirty three feet in length, fourteen feet in height and ten feet in depth. The weight of each is estimated at 450 tons each.
Nine of these blocks are visible on the northern side of the temple foundation, nine on the south, and six on the west. There may be others below that have not been archeologically explored.
“You will never get out of the ‘tunnel-vision’ of your future until you see the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’. While keeping your eyes focusing upon the ‘Light’, you will reach the other side. So, do not despair!
The prophets continue to talk about those who have ‘eyes that can see’ and ‘ears that can hear’. Your vision of the future is your guiding path to where you will be in the next two to five years, so open your ‘spiritual eyes’ and stay tuned to your ‘spiritual ears’.
This ‘vision’ may also be your link for eternal life. For the first time in millenniums, this era called the ‘time of the End’ is today making a profound impact upon your life. Be aware, for you are being transformed, according to the promises of G-d, that He will transform you, clean up your spiritual uncleanliness, and take out your ‘old heart’ and put a ‘new heart’ within you.”
Above the six blocks on the western side are three even larger stones, called the Trilithon, whose weight exceeds 1000 tons each. These great stones vary in size between sixty-three and sixty-five feet in length, with a height of fourteen feet six inches and a depth of twelve feet. So far, archaeological excavations have thus far not been dug beneath all the sections of the Grand Terrace.
“Where you will be when the guela (redemption) of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel is completed and the G-d of Israel begins to bring His Lost Sheep of the House of Israel home, will depend upon your involvement in your vision of your future. If your vision is optimistic, depicting a hope for your future, then you will be placed upon the pathway for your Promise Land. If your vision of the future is in despair, then you will continue to be ‘beaten down’ and you will continue to struggle to allow the ‘Light’ to transform your life.
Take your ‘vision’ and plan big. If the ancients in the days of the pre-flood Patriarchs could build megalithic foundations by building buildings with stones larger any crane on earth can transport from quarry to building site today, consider what your future holds for you? If that concept inspires you, return back to the Source of your life, and His prophets who have spelled out your destiny 2,800 year ago.”
Another even larger stone lies in a limestone quarry a quarter of a mile from the Baalbek complex. Weighing an estimated 1200 tons, it is sixty-nine feet by sixteen feet by thirteen feet ten inches, making it the single largest piece of stonework ever crafted in the world.
Called the Hajar el Gouble, the ‘Stone of the South’, or the Hajar el Hibla, the ‘Stone of the Pregnant Woman’, it lays at a raised angle with the lowest part of its base still attached to the quarry rock as though it were almost ready to be cut free and transported to its presumed location next to the other stones of the Trilithon."
“If your life of destiny as a descendant of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel is included as part of the prophetic blessings and promises based upon the ‘Rock of your salvation’; then your life will unfold with each fulfilled prophecy given to you as signpost for your future.
Keep alive all the goals in life you want to be carried to your promised land. When you place these goals before your eyes, the fiery image will make a searing imprint upon your brain, and set the limits of your future life.”
“Consider the fact that if the G-d of Israel who created Planet Earth upon whom the ancients built megalithic buildings with mammoth foundation stones before the flood, then when He restores your life and body to participate in the coming ‘Kingdom of G-d’ on earth, can we imagine what we will be able to do with our lives during the future Messianic Age of Torah Enlightenment? Unquestionably this fact carries us to the limits of our imaginations.
Legends suggest that Enoch and Methuselah were among the ancients who built pyramids. Also in the TaNaKh, it describes how HaShem, the G-d of Israel who has many Zions, claimed that they were His Zion’s next to His Primary House in the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. These Ancient Zions included; Mount Herman, the ‘Gate-way to Heaven’ as the 1st Zion located in Lebanon near Damascus and Baalbek. They also includedMount Carmel, Mount Tabor, the Egyptian Altar at possibly Giza, and Mount Arafat near Mecca.
The Garden of Eden at creation was lost by rebellion and sin, but someday in the near future the Garden of Eden will be redeemed and restored. The transformation of Planet Earth with this restoration is being witnessed today with the seismic and tectonic changes today around the world. When completed, it will be rejuvenated with a new electromagnetic shield surrounding and protecting this planet. Also the forces of evil serving a life of “service only to themselves” will be destroyed by the forces of G-d.
It’s time to prepare for your future life. As the prophets of Israel have collected agreed, the Messiah son of David will shepherd His people, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel to the lands of their forefathers, and there they shall be His people and He shall be their G-d.”
Ezekiel 36:22-28, 33-36 (parts) - “Therefore say to the House of (the Lost Tribes of) Israel, “Thus says the Lord G-d…I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean…I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you…and cause you to walk in My statues, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
Thus says the L-rd G-d: ‘On that daythat I cleanse you (Lost Tribes of the House of Israel) from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.
So they will say, ‘This land what was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the L-rd, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the L-rd, have spoken it, and I will do it!”
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It is the promise by the G-d of Israel, that the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel at the ‘appointed time’ during the time of the ‘End’ will be redeemed and restored back to the land of their forefathers. Not only that, we will be restored back into fellowship with our brothers, the Jews of the House of Judah.
If you are a descendant of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, then your destiny has already been spelled out by the G-d of Israel, no different than your brothers and sisters in the House of Judah. To learn more about this redemptive process, Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail establishing in the region of Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness into a new homeland for the Return of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel when All Israel will finally be redeemed.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.
Strolling outside in G-d’s Nature gives us Assurance the He is in Control – Photo by Robert Mock
Adonai our L-rd directs all of our paths in which we go, so why are we so obsessed to understand the purpose of every footstep along the way? Proverbs 20-24
Emuna in the Hebrew language is having the complete trust in the G-d of Israel that He is the Sovereign Creator of the Universe. He is capable of governing and managing all the universes at one time because He is the “Keter” the Meleck Olam or the “King of the Universe”.
Yet, is it not strange that we truly believe that G-d is guiding our lives as long as we are getting what we want, and things are going our way? It’s as though we believe in G-d’s providence a long as we can sit on the mountaintops and watch the beautiful sunrises and sunsets passing in our lives. Yet how can we go from one mountaintop experience to another without going through the valleys below?
You need to comprehend that the L-rd of all creation is directing every one of your steps even when your emotions do not feel that He is by your side. Sometimes you feel stressed out and say to yourselves, things are not going right for me. G-d, I don’t understand what is going on?
Why should you understand everything is going on, if Adonai our L-rd is guiding each of your steps along the pathway of life? It’s ok to assure yourself that everywhere that G-d is taking you, that He is also guiding you along the right pathway of your life to complete your own redemption. If you are from the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, your destiny is assured, without conditions. That is the assurance of the Hebrew prophets of old.
The hard part is trusting in the L-rd. Sometimes it’s hard for you to believe in His prophets. The world appears to be collapsing and all those institutions that you use to support your self esteem, whether it is your religious institution that defines your way of life, or your life insurance company that promises to give your children a more promising life, or even your own country, whom you thought was blessed by the G-d of Israel, appears now to be disappearing from your life.
Are you ready to walk alone with Hashem, the G-d of Israel? Are you willing to conceive that “in the World to Come” that all of these institutions will have disappeared. Our purpose of life will be given a new start to us by G-d’s messiah as he introduces us to a more elevated and spiritual purpose of living, for the day of the messiah will become a day of Torah enlightenment for all mankind.
So it is true that after we walk through the “valley of the shadow of death”, we will “feel no evil” for at that time the true revelation will have broken forth in a new revelation; “G-d is with us! Out of the trials, chaos and confusion, we will now understand; Hashem, our G-d who first met our forefathers on the mount called Sinai is still in control. He was with us all along.
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To comprehend your destiny as one of the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, you might want to understand more about the Biblical Mandate for the Return of “Efrayim” the Lost 10 Tribes of the House of Israel to their Homeland in Greater Israel, Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Ministries for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.
Medical research has demonstrated that 75% of overweight people and 40% of normal-weight people suffer from a biological imbalance involving producing too much insulin. Why, and so what?
Let’s try to make is simple.
Eating too many carbohydrates in your diet promotes producing and increasing in your blood stream too much insulin.
Insulin is a fat storage hormone. It converts the carbohydrates you eat into stored body fat; and
The only way to control the insulin in your body is to control the amount of carbohydrates in which you eat.
Let’s look at it another way. Every time you eat, including snacks, the sugar absorbing in the body triggers the brain to release hormones and tell the pancreas; sugar is on the way, crank up the insulin production. We have one problem, insulin have two pathways in the body in which it can go; the “Superhighway” to the fat storage bins in the body, or the “Farm-to-Market” roads to the bloodstream. Guess where it usually goes?
As such, the increasing production of insulin in your body promotes taking the carbohydrates in which you eat and storing them in your liver (“fatty liver”) and in the other fat storage reservoirs in the body leading you to become overweight [>25 BMD (Body Mass Index)] or obese (>30 BMD).
When you lose weight (reducing carbohydrates in your diet), the reduced amount of fat in the ‘body fat’ storage bin cannot absorb the insulin coming down the “superhighway” so the freeway becomes jammed up. Now the traffic (insulin) is forced to go the alternative routes like the “farm-to –market roads” to the blood stream. It allows improved metabolism in your blood stream of the sugars (carbohydrates) in which you eat. Here is the human dilemma who live in affluent countries in which we can eat in abundance. So what do we do?
When we eat too many carbohydrates in our diet, the body through the pancreas continues to produce too much insulin which induces us into a cycle in which we create overpowering craving for carbohydrates. In other words, as soon as we get “hungry”, food is dancing in front of our eyeballs. The seduction is so powerful, that we are impelled to eat what we perceive; foods are or eventually create sugar.
So the more we eat simple carbohydrates, the more we crave and the cycle becomes endless. Not only that, the more carbohydrates we eat, the more insulin our body produces in the pancreas. The job of the insulin is to remove the glucose from the bloodstream as fast as possible, and then take these excess carbohydrates and store them in the “fat storage bins”. Therefore: more carbs – more fat, and the old fat then does not get burned up and metabolized. Therefore insulin is called the “fat storage hormone”.
“If G-d made it, eat it the way He made it!”
Yet, we have a problem. The reason most people cannot change their diet is from one reason alone; we crave food! Now we come back to the delirious experience of “food dancing in front of our eyeballs”. How to get rid of the “dancing carbohydrates” that “tempt” us to much, we invite you to open the BibleSearchers article, “How to Crash your Craving Diet in Two Weeks”.
The secret is revealed in one Mantra ("May the Almighty G-d of Israel illuminate our intellect to lead us along the righteous path") which says, “If G-d made it, eat it the way He made it!” If you have taken the disciplined path of eliminating all the processed sugars, artificial sweeteners, and foods (simple carbohydrates) that create quickly “sugars” like Potatoes, Pasta, Rice and Breads, then you are on the road to a quick recovery.
Suddenly you will experience the joy of seeing the weight melt off your body, your energy levels increase, and your cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood Lipid panels take at your doctor’s office all begin to return to normal. A healthy life begins to return to you.
The secret to permanent low weight maintenance is to create the proper diet of clean meats (kosher preferred), complex carbohydrates focusing on eliminating all flour from the diet, whole grain cereals, sprouted grain breads, and downsizing the carbohydrate rich foods like potatoes to less than one-fourth of each meal. This is what happens in your body.
“Low Blood Sugars à Suppresses Secretion Insulin (Fat Storage Hormone) à Increases Secretion Glucagon (Fat Burning Hormone)”
The secret has to do with balance. The curse of the American Diet is that we “carbize” every indigenous foods around the world by changing the ratio from 25% carbohydrates in a meal to 75% carbohydrates. Consider the following:
You are sitting in the Plaza at Florence Italy enjoying this serene environment in an outdoor pizzeria with the Uffizi Museum to your right with Michelangelo’s “David” standing fifty feet tall nearby, while you order a pizza meal. The waiter brings out a tasty six inch paper thin crusted pizza with a salad, and an eight ounce drink. Within days, you return to America and also order a pizza, Americanized. It’s a fifteen inch pizza with one inch crust and three inches of cheese “slobbering” all over the top. Forget the salad and along with it comes a thirty two ounce Mega Diet Drink with an artificial sweetener that is 250 to 600 times sweeter than sugar. Your craving lust for sweetness now returns.
You are dining in a family owned Chinese Restaurant when your order arrived, you also not that an elderly Chinese man is sitting nearby. You are curious about what and how he eats compared to you. Surprisingly the waiter brings both of you the same Chinese entrée ordered. Both of you get a small cup of rice; with one difference. You quickly ask the waiter, “Sir, I need a large bowl of rice, please!” Now you observe. The first thing you do is to turn over the large bowl of rice unto your plate, and “dribble the Chinese food over the rice”. Your notice, the elderly Chinese man is eating with relish the Chinese food adding a few kernel of rice to each bite. Your meal is 80% rice and 20% Chinese food. Your Chinese man sitting nearby’s meal is 20% rice and 80% Chinese food.
Such is our dilemma of American fast food restaurant eating. It is common knowledge in clinical medicine and research that a balanced meal with only one plate of food, with; one portion protein, one portion vegetables, one portion salad or a second vegetable, and one portion carbohydrate, will practically collapse the excessive production of insulin, and allow glucagon full access to begin utilizing your vast store of stored energy in the fats. Therefore to balance your carbohydrate diet and managing permanent weight loss, it takes limiting your carbohydrates to ¼th of your meal and then balancing it with macronutrients called proteins, fats, and complex carbohydrates which includes whole grain (as G-d made them, not “bran” added), fresh fruits (not juices or dried fruit) in order to stimulate the release of glucagon.
Just add one extra simple carbohydrate like a candy bar, donut, pie, ice cream and your blood insulin concentrations will increase up to 10-fold (1,000 times) within just a few minutes.
Consider the fact that just to get rid of excess glucose (sugar) in your diet, you pancreas will produce insulin levels 10-25 times above normal just to get rid of excess glucose (sugar). Not only that these increase insulin level will continue to remain elevated 2-3 hours even after you have finished consuming the offending sugars (carbohydrates). This is done for one reason only:
“The Role of Insulin is to remove the excess glucose from the bloodstream as fast as possible, and to store those sugars (primary as granulated sugar or honey) or extra carbohydrates as fat.”
Yet, when the insulin levels of high, it blocks the levels of glucagon from operating efficiently in the body. This means that glucagon’s primary role to unlock and burn up stored body fat for energy is hindered.
“Too much insulin (stimulated by simple carbohydrates) in the body, blocks glucagon from unlocking the fat, and to utilized (use up) the extra fat stored in the “Fat Banks”.
So let make it simple; excess carbohydrate consumption locks the doors to the fat storage bins! The results; more fat is accumulating in the body. It is thereby not available for conversion to muscle energy.
Not only that with elevated insulin levels, sodium is retained, which causes fluid retention and edema in hands and legs. This in turn causes high blood pressure and eventually congestive heart failure. This is a road to poor health.
So if you want to help your doctor to control your diabetes without using short acting insulin, then it is critical for you to “grab your destiny” and change the way you eat. The biggest secret is to:
Eliminate processed sugar (not fresh fruits) from your diet;
Avoid all artificial sweeteners, included Diabetic foods, Diet Drinks, all foods labeled as “Lite or Light” all foods or beverages advertised or promoted as Diabetic safe or low calorie unless it is purely nature in the form in which the Creator of the Universe created it to be.
Eliminate all flour out of your diet.
Choose only Whole Grain Cereals, such “Great Grains by Post with Pecans”. “Uncle Sam’s Cereal”, 5 minute Old Fashion Rolled Oats, and Ezekiel or other Sprouted Grain Cereal.
Avoid all cereals relabeled with the American Cereal Industry’s new fraudulent “Whole Grain Label”, which states “A Whole Grain Cereal is one which uses all three parts of the whole grain,” instead of “If G-d made it, eat it the way He made it.” They are trying to convince the America public that you can take “white four” the former “berry” of the grain, plus “bran” the former “shell or husk” of the grain plus add “wheat germ” and Eureka, we now have a Whole Grain Cereal. Wrong! The matrix of the grain is destroyed, so is its nutritional value.
Read the label: Kashi Cereals proudly labels their cereals on the back with; Whole Grain barley flour, Whole Grain Wheat flour, Whole Grain Oat flour and the fraud continues. If it is flour, it may be “Whole Wheat” but not “Whole Grain”.
In summary: Remember the facts that when the pancreas is producing insulin (high levels), less calories are burned up and more calories are transformed into fat. At the same time, when insulin levels are low, more calories are burned up and less calories are converted into fat while the body weight continues to decrease.
Your body fat cannot be burned up and utilized into energy at the same time when the body is busy converting excess carbohydrates (simple sugars) into more body fat. The cure for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks and obesity is really simple. Losing excess fat and controlling blood sugar levels is a matter of controlling insulin and your carbohydrate diet.
If you have wondered the difference between the Biblical concepts of Torah’s true “Culture of Life” as compared to a “Culture of Death”, you might desire to learn of the Biblical portrayals on what is and may be happening in your near future.
This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.If you want to learn more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that is hosting a Shomron / Samaria 13-day Succot Tour in October 2011 to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.
Also keep your servant from presumptuous sins, so that they won’t control me.
Then I will be blameless and free of great offense.
May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart
Be acceptable in your presence, Adonai my Rock and Redeemer.”
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If this is what G-d created, why would we not want to enjoy it in a World of Peace where all mankind are living in harmony with the Laws of G-d given on Mount Sinai. If you want to learn more, click the link and Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria.
Dental caries has been shown to be inversely related to total sun exposure, with those living in sunnier areas having about half as many cavities as those living in less sunny areas.
Increasing you and your family’s vitamin D levels appear to be a much better option compared to drinking fluoridated water, as there are many additional health benefits of vitamin D, and a number of adverse effects of water fluoridation, including dental fluorosis and potential reduction in IQ.
There are multiple connections between your oral health, heart disease, and vitamin D status, and higher vitamin D levels have been found to prevent health problems related to your mouth, heart, and cardiovascular system.
Vitamin D may also play a crucial role in cancer. Grassroots Health is now implementing the world’s first cancer prevention project and study to evaluate vitamin D as a preventive strategy against breast cancer. Participants are being sought.
By Dr. Mercola
Studies have linked geographical variations in dental health and tooth loss to sun exposure.
Dental caries has been shown to be inversely related to mean hours of sunlight per year, with people living in the sunny west having half as many cavities as those in the much less sunny northeast. As reported by the Vitamin D Council:
"There were also several studies reported on vitamin D and dental caries in the 1920s and 1930s. May Mellanby and coworkers in Sheffield, England, did studies on the role of vitamin D on teeth in the 1920s.
The first experiments were with dogs, where it was found that vitamin D stimulated the calcification of teeth. Subsequently, they studied the effect of vitamin D on dental caries in children, finding a beneficial effect.
Additional studies were conducted on children in New York regarding dental caries with respect to season, artificial ultraviolet-B (UVB) irradiance, and oral intake of vitamin D with the finding that it took 800 IU/day to prevent caries effectively."
Two proposed mechanisms causing this beneficial effect include:
Vitamin D beneficially affects calcium metabolism, and
Vitamin D, which is produced in your body in response to sunlight exposure, induces cathelicidin, an antimicrobial peptide, which attacks oral bacteria linked to dental caries
"Use of vitamin D appears to be a better option for reducing dental caries than fluoridation of community water supplies, as there are many additional health benefits of vitamin D and a number of adverse effects of water fluoridation such as fluorosis (mottling) of teeth and bones. ... Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations around 30-40 ng/ml (75-100 nmol/L) should significantly reduce the formation of dental caries. (The average white American has a level near 25 ng/ml, while the average black American has a level near 16 ng/ml.)"
Oral Health, Heart Disease, and Vitamin D
As you probably know, many public water supplies around the US are fluoridated, allegedly to help prevent dental caries. However, there's overwhelming evidence showing that ingesting fluoride is NOT the way to protect your teeth. On the contrary, fluoride is a potent toxin, and over 40 percent of American children and teens are showing signs of fluoride overexposure in the form of dental fluorosis—unsightly yellow or brown spots or mottling on their teeth.
The idea that vitamin D may help protect against cavities is very interesting, and actually makes loads of sense since we already know it is necessary for bone health. Vitamin D also upregulates a specific gene that produces over 200 anti-microbial peptides, some of which work like broad-spectrum antibiotics, including cathelicidin that attacks oral bacteria.
For example, gum disease increases your risk of several other serious diseases, including, pneumonia, lung disease, diabetes and stroke—and vitamin D deficiency has also been linked to an increased risk of all of these conditions! This is a beautiful illustration of the interdependency between seemingly disparate systems within your body.
Sun Exposure May Be Essential for Heart Health
The link between gum disease and heart disease may not be obvious, but chronic inflammation is a hallmark of both conditions and inflammation in your body plays a major role in the build-up of plaque in your arteries, which can lead to a heart attack. And vitamin D helps combat inflammation, as just mentioned.
Furthermore, according to research by Dr. Stephanie Seneff, the vitamin D produced in your skin in response to sun exposure will impact your sulfur status, which may also play a crucial role in heart disease, so there are many interrelated factors affecting each other, thereby raising or lowering your risk of a number of health problems.
So what does sun exposure have to do with heart health?
Your heart requires cholesterol sulfate for optimal function. When you are deficient in cholesterol sulfate (due to a lack of cholesterol in your body), your body tries to protect your heart by creating arterial plaque, because the platelets produce cholesterol sulfate in the plaque. Dr. Seneff believes that the mechanism we call "cardiovascular disease," of which arterial plaque is a hallmark, is actually your body's way to compensate for not having enough cholesterol sulfate.
Now, when you expose your skin to sunshine, your skin synthesizes vitamin D3 sulfate, which is a water soluble form of sulfur that can travel freely in your blood stream, making it readily available.
Oral vitamin D3, on the other hand, is unsulfated, and this form needs LDL (the so-called "bad" cholesterol) as a vehicle of transport. Her suspicion is that the simple oral non-sulfated form of vitamin D may not provide as much of the same heart-healthy benefits as the vitamin D created in your skin from sun exposure, because it cannot be converted to vitamin D sulfate, and therefore will not improve your sulfur status. This is yet another reason to really make a concerted effort to get ALL your vitamin D requirements from exposure to sunshine!
Your Vitamin D Level is directly related to Your Risk of Heart Disease
But that's not all. Dr. Carlos Camargo of Harvard University recently wrote an editorial about the growing number of studies that link low vitamin D levels to heart attack, heart failure, stroke, hypertension and diabetes. One recent study found that every 10 ng/ml lower blood vitamin D concentration resulted in a nine percent greater risk of death, and a 25 percent greater risk of heart attack.
As noted in Dr. Camargo's editorial, credit is due to the first man to discover the connection, an epidemiologist in New Zealand by the name of Professor Robert Scragg, who first noticed the association in 1981. His population-based case-control study found a strong inverse association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D level in the blood and risk for heart attack.
As reported by the Vitamin D Council, there are currently two large, population-based, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trials on the health effects of vitamin D supplements underway. One is at Harvard, which is looking at cancer and heart disease. The other is being done in New Zealand, and is focused on heart disease, infection and fractures. Unfortunately, the results from these studies are not expected to be available until 2017. Six years is a long time to sit around and wait for the results from these studies. I strongly encourage you NOT to wait and see. The evidence that optimal vitamin D levels are necessary for general health and disease prevention is overwhelming.
Vitamin D and Cancer
Two grassroots organizations are now focusing on vitamin D as a preventive measure for cancer. There are already over 800 studiessupporting the theory that vitamin D may prevent a large percentage of several types of cancer, and I'm very pleased to see that this information is starting to gain foothold. Vitamin D has a protective effect against cancer in several ways, including:
Increasing the self-destruction of mutated cells (which, if allowed to replicate, could lead to cancer)
Reducing the spread and reproduction of cancer cells
Causing cells to become differentiated (cancer cells often lack differentiation)
Reducing the growth of new blood vessels from pre-existing ones, which is a step in the transition of dormant tumors turning cancerous
The Vitamin D Council, a nonprofit educational corporation based in California, recently launched their "Vitamin D and Cancer" campaign, presenting 20 detailed summaries of the evidence. The summaries were prepared by epidemiologist Dr. William Grant, founder of the nonprofit organization, Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center (SUNARC). He also serves as the Science Director for the Vitamin D Council. I highly recommend reviewing these summaries, which can be found here. (Just select the type of cancer you want to review from the listing on the left.)
According to the Vitamin D Council:
"Some researchers believe the link between vitamin D sufficiency and a decreased risk in cancer is promising. A randomized controlled trial found a 77 percent reduction in all-cancer incidence when the study group supplemented with 1,100 IU/day of vitamin D plus 1,450 mg/day calcium. Says Dr. Grant, "Based on various studies of UVB, vitamin D and cancer to date, it appears that global cancer burden can be reduced by 15-25 percent if everyone had vitamin D blood levels above 40 ng/ml."
Some of the facts presented in these summaries include:
Geographical studies have found reduced risk in mortality rates for 20 types of cancer in regions of higher solar UVB doses.
Observational studies have found that the risk of breast, colon, and rectal cancer fall as vitamin D blood levels rise at least up to 40 ng/mL (100 nmol/L).
Those with higher vitamin D blood levels at time of cancer diagnosis have nearly twice the survival rate of those with the lowest levels.
UVB exposure early in life is associated with reduced risk of breast and prostate cancer.
World's First Breast Cancer Prevention Study Underway!
In addition to the Vitamin D Council's educational campaign, Grassroots Health is now in the process of initiating the world's first breast cancer prevention project and study, to investigate and evaluate vitamin D as a preventive strategy for breast cancer.
"We are looking now for some really serious funding to support that as a major research project," says Carole Baggerly, director and founder of Grassroots Health.
Help Promote Public Health by Participating in the D*Action Study
You can also become a participant in the still ongoing Grassroots Health D*Action study, which is evaluating vitamin D's impact on your overall health status. When you join D*action, you agree to test your vitamin D levels twice a year during a five year program, and share your health status to demonstrate the public health impact of this nutrient. There is a $60 fee each 6 months ($120/year) for your sponsorship of the project, which includes a complete new test kit to be used at home, and electronic reports on your ongoing progress.
You will get a follow up email every six months reminding you "it's time for your next test and health survey." To join now, please follow this link to the sign up form.
Make Sure You're NEVER Deficient in Vitamin D if You are Critically Ill
Dr. Paul Lee of the University of Queensland in Australia believes that people all over the world are needlessly dying because they have vitamin D deficiency. He believes severe immune dysfunction, bone hyper-resorption, blood poisoning, and hyper-inflammation in critically ill patients could all be resolved with sufficient vitamin D. He notes that the stress of surgery uses up tremendous amounts of vitamin D, and cites studies showing that death in the ICU and the CCU is two to three times higher for the vitamin D deficient.
"Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent and has been associated with a diverse range of chronic medical conditions in the general population. In contrast, the prevalence, pathogenesis and significance of vitamin D deficiency have received little attention in acute medicine. Vitamin D deficiency is seldom considered and rarely corrected adequately, if at all, in critically ill patients.
Recent recognition of the extra-skeletal, pleiotropic actions of vitamin D in immunity, epithelial function and metabolic regulation may underlie the previously under-recognized contribution of vitamin D deficiency to typical co-morbidities in critically ill patients, including sepsis, systemic inflammatory response syndrome and metabolic dysfunction. Improved understanding of vitamin D metabolism and regulation in critical illness may allow therapeutic exploitation of vitamin D to improve outcome in critically ill patients."
Exposing your skin to sunlight is the best way to get vitamin D as this will also produce vitamin D3 sulfate, which I discussed earlier. As a general guideline, getting about 15 to 20 minutes of sun exposure a day, with at least 40 percent of your skin exposed, will boost the vitamin levels above 40 ng/ml in many. However, this is highly variable and dependent on a number of factors, including your skin color, location and altitude, for example. If you're able to get out in the sun for an adequate time period each day, your vitamin D levels should be naturally optimized.
If you can't get enough sun exposure during certain parts of the year, I advise using a safe tanning bed to allow your body to produce vitamin D naturally. Safe tanning beds have electronic ballasts and produce less UVA than sunshine.
A third option is taking a high-quality vitamin D supplement. The most important thing to keep in mind if you opt for oral supplementation is to use natural vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) only. Do not use the synthetic and highly inferior vitamin D2. Unless you get a deep dark tan, it is wise to get your blood levels checked as that is the only way to know for certain you have reached therapeutic levels. To determine the appropriate dose, you need to get your vitamin D levels tested. Ideally, you'll want to be between 50-70 ng/ml. Based on recent research published by Grassroots Health from the D*Action study, the average adult needs to take 8,000 IU's of vitamin D per day in order to elevate their levels above 40 ng/ml, which they believe is the bare minimum for disease prevention.
For all those that are Planning to return to the Land of Israel in a covenanted relationship with Hashem, the G-d of Israel, we must also want to be in the most healthy condition we can be. As such, understanding good health is essential to our spiritual health. If you are a ‘chosen one’, then preparation to fulfill your destiny precludes that you must seek good health. If you want to learn more about your destiny of living in Israel as one in unity and brotherhood with the Jews of the House of Israel, you might want to click the link and Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria.
Rabbi Lazer Brody – “So many people are worried that their sons prefer Torah study in Yeshiva to university. Be proud and happy, and please don't worry anymore.
Hashem taught Moshe Rabbenu (The Prophet Moses) on Mount Sinai things that NASA is only discovering today, thanks to their advanced technological equipment. And, Moshe Rabbenu didn't have satellites or atomic clocks - he didn't need them.
My wonderful friends and colleagues at Israel National News have made a beautiful sanctification of Hashem's name by comparing NASA's latest research on the lunar cycle to what our sages in Talmud have known for the past thousands of years:
The Talmud states that the lunar cycle spans ‘29.5 days and 793 fractions of an hour’. In Talmudic terms, the hour is divided into 1080 parts.
793/1080 = 0.734259 hours.
0.734259/24 = 0.03059 days.
29.5 days + 0.03059 days = 29.53059 days for the moon to travel around Earth.
NASA Research concluded that the lunar cycle is 29.530588 days, two 1/1000ths of a second short of the Talmudic figure. More advanced research in Berlin came to a figure of 29.530589 days, only one thousandth of a second short of the Talmudic figure.
The Sinai tradition of the span of the lunar cycle is thus corroborated by figures reached via advanced satellites and atomic clocks.
Put down the astronomy book and start learning Tractate Rosh Hashana, the Rambam's laws of the new moon, and the Tiferet Yisroel's commentary on Mishnayot. If you're looking for a degree, go to university; if you're looking for wisdom, go to the Torah.
The Laws of Nature given to Moses on the Mount of Sinai was given not just to Jews of the House of Judah but also to the Lost Tribes of Israel, whom He claimed that someday He was redeem and restore to the land of their forefathers. That day is coming soon when Hashem the G-d of Israel stretches forth His great hand of judgment and cleanses the earth from the great pollution of man upon Planet Earth. He will then redeem and restore His own “sheep” back into a living relationship with Himself. If you are chosen, as a Lost Tribal Member of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, your destiny is to return to your Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel. If you want to learn more, click the link and Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria.
The day will come in the near future that the enmity between the Jews of the House of Judah and the Lost Tribes of Israel represented by the Tribe of Joseph or Ephraim, Joseph’s heir to the divine blessing, will end. In that day, we will all as one family, will join together in the fall celebrations of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Succot. Once again in almost three thousand years, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will be united as one family in covenant under Hashem, the G-d of Israel.
One day in the near future, all Twelve Tribes of the House of Israel will come together and worship as one with Hashem, the G-d of Israel the command that He gave to them on the Mount called Sinai.
Leviticus 23:24 – “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a sacred convocation, commemorated with loud blasts.”
The 40 Days of Reflection before Rosh Hashanah
For forty days in the month (Elul) preceding the 7th month of Tishrei, all the tribes of Israel will spend in reflection, introspection, and anticipation of a renewed and refreshed relationship with the G-d of our forefathers. This tradition preserved down over the last 3000 years by the Jewish people is called chesbon.
During the month of Elul, the shofar is blown each morning, except on the morning of the Shabbat. Here are the days of preparation getting themselves ready for Rosh Hashanah by introspection, turning inward, looking deep into our psychic and culling out the roadblocks that are keeping us from a living and spiritually healthy relationship with our family, our friends and our associates in our social cultural world around us. Yes, even our relationship in the gentile world around us is important for we are Hashem’s representative to all of them.
Rosh Hashanah is a time to celebrate with the blasts of the shofar. This special day is known by three different names; The Day of Remembering (Yom HaZikaron), The Day for Sounding the Shofar (Yom Herusah), and The Day of Judgment (Yom HaDin).
Actually the word, Rosh Hashanah actually means “Head of the Year”. Albeit the head, it is not the beginning of the year, because this day falls on the first and second day of the seventh month called Tishrei.
Actually there are four New Years in Jewish Hebrew culture:
Nisan 1, the New Year for Kings and festivals, during the 1st month of the Hebrew calendar.
Shevat 15 – Tu-B’Shevat, of the New Years of the Trees;
Elul 1 – the New Year for tithes of plants and animals; and
Tishrei 1 – Rosh Hashanah, the anniversary of the Creation of the World.
During this day, we are to absolve all our Charatah implies remorse, or a feeling of guilt about the past and an intention to behave in a completely new way in the future. The person decides to become “a new man.” But teshuvah means “returning” to the old, to one’s original nature. Underlying the concept of teshuvah is the fact that the Jew is, in essence, good. Desires or temptations may deflect him temporarily from being himself, being true to his essence. But the bad that he does is not part of, nor does it affect, his real nature. Teshuvah is a return to the self.
During “repentance”, it is important that you dismiss the past and start anew in your life. Yes, you can do this every year – a time of renewal and starting afresh for teshuvah implies that you are going back to your roots in G‑d and exposing them as your true character. It might be claimed that a true Tzaddik, a righteous person has no need to repent. It may also be implied that the wicked may be incapable of doing repentance but both of them may do teshuvah. The righteous Tzaddik, though they have not sinned, “strayed from the mark” during this year, also have an obligation to constantly strive to return to their innermost spiritual soul. This also includes the wicked, however distant they have gone away from G‑d. They have the privilege of always returning, for teshuvah implies the fact that we are not involve creating anything new, but are only rediscovering the latent goodness that has always remained within us.
On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the ritual of taschlich is performed. Crumbs of bread are tossed into water and the hems of garments are shaken. This alludes to the fact that sins are being cast away.
On the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah or on the second day of the festival, a Tashlich ceremony is performed. This one has a lot of symbolisms that are healthy for growing children to become involved. In a pond, pool, stream or river of moving water, we take crumbs from inside our pockets, each one a memory of something we want to leave behind in the New Year and cast it away from our lives; forever. The crumbs are thrown into the water is a ritual of casting away the sins in our lives and moving onward towards a new life.
This is a powerful ritual for families with children; time to talk about making mistakes, saying sorry to others for our behavior, changing our lives with a renewed vigor in order to walk away into a new life. This New Year will be a different and more elevating year in our lives. Yes, we, and even our children can learn to say; “Good Bye, mistakes. I do not need to do that again!” In this ritual we can teach our children and renew it importance in our lives to take control of our actions, and now begin a lifelong process of self-reflection in improving our lives and our relationship with G-d or our forefathers.
As we dip apples in honey, and eat challah braided bread cooked in the round, for an all-around good year, or a symbol of G-d as the Keter or the Crown of our lives and together we say in company:
May it be Your will, Ad-nai our G-d and G-d of our ancestors, that you renew for us a new, good and sweet year.
The Shofar Ceremony
In the days of ancient biblical times, the ram’s horn called the shofar was blown to announce the beginning of the New Year. Like a divine alarm clock, it awakens our spiritual inward self to reflect on how we can become better people.
During Rosh Hashanah in the synagogue, after the Torah and the Haftarah have been read, the service of the shofars begins. Included in the service are three shofar sounds;
Tekiah or the “Blast” that includes a long blast with a clean crisp sound;
Shevarim (broken sound) that includes three short calls; the
Teruah (Alarm): a rapid series of nine very short notes; and finally the
Tekiah Gedolah (the Great Tekiah); a single blast that is held as long as the blower can hold the note.
During the Shofar Service, it is a notzvah (commandment of G-d) to hear the sounds of the blasts of the shofar. Every day during each day of Rosh Hashanah the Shofar is sounded 100 times. At the end of Yom Kippur, the shofar is blasted for one long blast.
During the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, are the days in which we have the opportunity to apologize and make restitution and forgiveness from anyone we may have offended or hurt during the year.
This is a time of spiritual and physical repentance and restitution by reflecting upon our past bad deeds, and looking forward into the New Year to make a start of a new life.
During the ancient days, when the Temples of the L-rd were filled with millions of worshippers, Yom Kippur was a day that was filled with elaborate rituals, special sin offerings or sacrifice in exchange for the atonement with G-d by the High Priest of Israel, and forgiveness through him to the Hebrew community by the Almighty One of Israel.
The Torah explains the ceremonies in Leviticus 16 where it states;
Leviticus 16 - “The priest shall lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and transgressions of the Israelites, whatever the sins putting them on the head of the goat. Then it shall be sent off into the wilderness… the goat shall carry away all their sins.”
During this august service, called the Day of Atonement, the High Priest with only linen white garments enters behind the Immense Veil separating the Holy Place from the Holy of Holiest. There before the Ark of the Covenant, the High Priest confesses the sins of the people and there before the Shekinah Glory of G-d he utters the Holy Name of G-d, something that is never done any other time of the year.
Today in the Orthodox synagogues during this Holiest Day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur begins with a serious prayer called the Kol Nidrei (meaning all vows), a legal formula written in Aramaic that impeaches the G-d of Israel to absolve us from all vows and promises we have made during the past year. Also on this day, all Jewish adults fast. Just before the setting of the sun on the eve of Yom Kippur, a festival meal is eaten. Then for the next twenty five hours, an hour after sundown, they do not eat nor drink. Fasting is a way of clearing the brain, and removing all distractions and therefore better able to focus on prayer. Fasting has a way of showing our dependency upon G-d for without His bountiful blessing even with bread and water, our lives would be quickly vanquished. It also reminds us in our hunger of the millions, maybe billions of people around the world who are starving and never get a decent meal.
According to the Talmud, after a person eats or drinks; he has but one heart, a heart only for himself. At the same time, before a person eats or drinks, that is while he is fasting, he has two hearts; one for himself and one for all the hungry people around the world.
Yet, the main essence of Yom Kippur is resetting our spiritual time clock, returning to the “Spiritual Me”; returning to a focus on Hashem, the G-d of our covenantal relationship, and sensitizing the awareness of our blessings from “On High” and our responsibility to the people living in the greater world around us.
As Yom Kippur closes and between the days of G-d’s Day of Judgment and Succot, the G-d of Israel will also judge the rest of the gentile nations of the world, and then He will come to dwell with His people for eight days at Succot. As Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin wrote from the Orthodox Jewish Chabad organization:
Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin – “Everything about Yom Kippur, points to you: In times of old, one High Priest serving our one G-d in His one Temple on His one holiest day on behalf of His one people elicited G-d's atonement for the entire world. Today, one person, with one turn of his or her personal page, doing one good deed, or making one good resolution – can also change the course of the entire world for the good.
So this Yom Kippur, you hold the keys to the world's future.You have the power to tip the scales for all of humankind. Your good deed, your repentance, your primal cry – from the depths of your soul, will penetrate the Gates of Heaven and will elicit a reciprocal response from our One G-d.
May you merit the privilege to experience Yom Kippur in the deepest, holiest way. May you and each of your loved ones – and the entire world – be sealed in the Book of Life for a good and sweet year. And may we all merit to see the ultimate perfection of G-d's world with the coming of our righteous Moshiach.”
After Rosh Hashana, you may greet your friends and family with the following phrases:
L’Shanah Tovah Tikatayvu v’Tichataymu! - "May you be Written and Sealed for a Good Year in the Book of Life!"
“G’mar Chatimah Tovah” - “A Good Final Sealing”
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As the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel begin their Great Aliyah to the Land of Israel, a new dimension will be portrayed in the Fall Festivals of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Succot. The family of our Patriarch Jacob will have finally come home and now reunited with one another. This will be a prophetic event of a great magnitude. If you want to learn more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria
On August 29, 2011, the Australian X Factor, the “Continent Down Under’s equivalent to America’s Got Talent competition completed their first or premiere audition. Such is the beauty of our modern communication technology for soon after, BibleSearchers received this email from a Kol Ha Tor associate in South Africa, who received it from a friend in Australia: “I got this from a friend of mine in Tasmania. Turn on your speakers and listen to this guy Emmanuel Kelly sing. It will definitely bring tears to your eyes. The judges were all in tears. Folks, how could the world possibly see this video, and still sanction bombing Iraq? The Sons and Children of God are one, regardless of the bodies in which we happen to seemingly find ourselves in at the moment. Be forewarned, this video will bring tears to your eyes...”
Emmanuel told his extremely touching story to the X Factor Australian judges and local audience as 1.2 millionpeople around the world watched his performance at the audition that ended the series premiere; by singing John Lennon’s song, “Imagine”. The X Factor judges, Ronan Keating, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Mel Brown, and Guy Sebastian all gave Emmanuel a standing ovation as the raving audience that packed the house were now with tears in their eyes saluting a new Australian hero, Emmanuel Kelly. On that night, Emmanuel was living out a messianic dream of his life, and the life of John Lennon, the songwriter of the famous Beatles; a day when there would be no more war.
“Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one.”
Here is a song that brings new meaning to the coming age of the Maschiach Yisra’el (Messiah of Israel) when at a future Succot, Hashem will come to tabernacle (dwell) with His people. At that age and the future New Heaven and a New Earth, there will be no heaven, for the Throne of G-d will now dwell with man. Sin will be eradicated. The era of power, greed, and control will no longer be in existence and a brotherhood of all people will live in peace under the authoritative rule of the Maschiach ben Dovid (Messiah son of David), ruled by King David son of David. This is a life that Emmanuel and his brother Ahmed could dream and see fulfillment.
Emmanuel Kelly and his brother, Ahmed Mustafa was both born in war-torn Iraq. This life story came forth when the judge asked Emmanuel, “When were you born?” Emmanuel answered, “I do not know!” Stunned silence swept the audience and the judges were now transfixed. On that fateful night, Emmanuel shared his emotional story during his performance on the last night of the auditions of the series’ premiere.
At the presumed age of 17, Emmanuel was born in Iraq within three to four years after the war-torn years of 1991 when, Operation Desert Storm the U.N authorized American led Coalition of 34 Nations under the umbrella of the United States and America’s globalist President George H.W. Bush, won the war in three days in a lightning blitz from Saudi Arabia to Baghdad. This war opened a new type of horror to millions; today experienced by mysterious diseases, non-healing skin lesions, and gross deformities and malformation in Iraqi children and also children of the coalition’s military servicemen.
So we have to ask the question, is Emmett and his brother of Jewish descent? This is not outlandish for the Jewish people cohabitated with the Islamic Caliphate for 1260 years, between the years of 657 CE and the Declaration of the Balfour Agreement in 1917. So closed the time when the Jewish from Israel escaped into the wilderness during the Dark Ages when the pogroms against the Jewish were so harsh by Christian Roman Orthodoxy. Only the G-d of Israel knows whether Emmanuel is of Jewish descent, but he carries that fact as a distinct possibility, and also demonstrates that he has the soul of the Jew, yearning for the day of peace.
So did a child with a Jewish soul (neshama yehudi) rise to the platform of international acclaim singing a song of “Peace when there will be no nations?” This does not have to be a One World Order, but rather an era of Messianic peace.
The entire population of Iraq, Jews, Babylonian, and those of Islamic faith have lived in the land of the Babylonian Empire for the last 2,700 years. The prophets of Israel yet have proclaimed that the wrath of Hashem, the G-d of Israel would someday “make the land desolate”:
Isaiah 13:1-9 – “A prophecy concerning Babylon, which Isaiah son of Amoz envisioned: Upon the high mountain hoist a banner; raise a voice to them; wave a hand, and let them come out the doors of the nobles. I have commanded My dedicated ones; I have also summoned My warriors to (execute) My wrath, to be exuberant over My grandeur.
The sound of commotion is in the mountains, like that of an enormous people, the crescendo of the kingdoms of gathering nations; Hashem, Master of Legions, is assigning officers for the legion of war. They come from a faraway land, from the end of the heavens – Hashem and His weapons of anger, to devastate the entire land,
Wail, for the day of Hashem is near; it will come like a sudden attack from the Almighty. Therefore, all hands will grow weak and every human heart will melt. They will be terrorized; aches and pains will seize them; they will be in travail like a woman in childbirth. Each man will be astonished at his friend; their faces are faces of flame.
Behold, the day of Hashem is coming, a day of cruelty, rage and burning anger, to make the land desolate; and He will annihilate its sinner from it…And Babylon, the choicest of the kingdoms, the splendor of the glory of the Chaldeans, will be like G-d’s overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah.
It will not be inhabited forever and it will not be settled from generation to generation; no Arab will pitch tent there, and shepherds will not make their flocks lie there. Martens will lie there and their houses will be full of ferrets, owls will live there and demons will dance there; cats will howl in their mansions, and jackals in their palaces of delight. Her time is soon to come; her days will not long endure!”
The G-d of Israel put the young Iraq orphans, Emmanuel Mustafa Kelly and Ahmed Ustafa into the hands of Moira Kelly, one of Mother Teresa’a assistants in Calcutta for six months in 1986 and who returned again in 1987 to India to work with Mother Teresa’s mission. Afterwards, in 1988, she was honored as Australia’s Bicentenary Young Woman of the Year and the Advance Australia Ambassador Award.
Moira Kelly became the legal guardian of the cranially conjoined twins from Bangladesh, Trishna and Krishna, who were separated in 2009 during a 32-hour operation at the Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital with a 16 member team lead by Wirginia Maixner, director of neurosurgery.
She also is the legal guardian of X Factor contestant, Emmanuel Mustafa Kelly and his brother Ahmed Mustafa who were taken to the Mother Teresa Orphanage in Baghdad. Today Ahmed, as a quadruple amputee, is a swimming competition contender and preparing to represent Australia in the 2012 Paralympics in London.
Is it not strange that this young orphan from Iraq, named Emmanuel meaning, “G-d is with us!” has now risen to the platform where all the world will see the horrors of war and the secret curse millions have had to live because of nations seeking to control the oil reserves of the world. It was the Prophet Zechariah who spoke concerning the end of the age, when Hashem, the G-d of Israel would come, remember the Jewish people, and at the appointed time would bless them. This prophecy will be fulfilled by the very name of the Prophet Zechariah that has become a prophetic oracle in itself; “ Zechariah ben Berechiah ben Iddo” meaning, “Hashem Remembers, Hashem Blesses at the Appointed Time”.
Was Emmanuel appointed as an emissary of G-d before that “Appointed Time” when 140 nations on Planet Earth will be prepared to give a vote of affirmation in the United Nations for the creation of a Palestinian State within the State of Israel? This fact alone would effective serve as a roost on the hills of Samaria for the Palestinians to cast weapons of mass destruction upon the Jewish people? Would the G-d of Israel allow the creation of a new national state whose only national goal is to seek the total demise and destruction of the State of Israel?
These same countries minus the United States that invaded the ancient land of Babylon prophetically fulfilled the prophecy that spelled the doom of the once great breadbasket of the world along the Tigris and the Euphrates River. Today they are rallying around the Palestinian peoples. They are seeking to dwindle down the British Mandate that was to have been the Jewish homeland; now to only 10% of the original mandated land.
These are the same countries that are allied themselves into a coalition in 2003 and chose to rain upon the Iraqi countryside depleted uranium munitions; thereby releasing upon the ancient Babylonian landscape the atomic radioactive equivalent of 333,000 Nagasaki-type atomic bombs.
The world will now see the affects and curses upon all those affected by war and the effects of uranium munitions. The following is an award winning documentary film produced for German television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn, titled;
This 53 minute film exposes the use and impact of radioactive weapons during the current 2003 war against Iraq. The story is told by citizens of many nations. It opens with comments by two British veterans, Kenny Duncan and Jenny Moore, describing their exposure to radioactive, so-called depleted uranium (DU), weapons and the congenital abnormalities of their children. Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, a former colleague of Albert Schweitzer, and Tedd Weyman of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) traveled to Iraq, from Germany and Canada respectively, to assess uranium contamination in Iraq.
Cutting Edge Ministries has been at the forefront of exposing the affects of Depleted Uranium upon the Iraqi people and the military personnel from every country participating in the Iraq and Afghani Wars against Terror. A war supposedly against terror has been the most effective to produce terror around the whole globe.
You Might want to Read Cutting Edge Reports on Depleted Uranium
The Babylonians were the first to deprive the Jewish people of their national freedom given to them at the Mount called Sinai. At the time of the end, Babylon will be the first to feel the judgment of G-d upon the land of ancient Babylon. As the prophecy of Isaiah continues, it spells out the final destruction upon the Iraqi nation;
Isaiah 13:19-22 – “And Babylon, the choices of the kingdoms, the splendor of the glory of the Chaldeans, will be like G-d’s overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah. It will not be inhabited forever and it will not be settled from generation to generation; no Arab will pitch tent there, and shepherds will not make their flocks lie there. Martens will lie there and their houses will be full of ferrets; owls will live there and demons will dance there; cats will howl in their mansions, and jackals in their palaces of delight. Her time is soon to come; her days will not long endure!"
Yet, a day will come when all the nations of the world will turn against Israel. They will use the Palestinian people, a people whose leaders have a genetic hatred against theJews in Israel to be the fulcrum of seeking to destroy Israel. This is true for they have earned the title as being Amalek, the Ancient Tribe cursed for extinction by the G-d of Israel because of their genetic hatred towards G-d chosen people.
The model for the creation of a 2011 Palestinian State was already tried in 1938 when Adolf Hitler convinced the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that the country of Czechoslovakia should be forced by the global community to allow the Nazi Germans the right to protect the Sudetenland, the heartland region of Czechoslovakia whose population were culturally predominately of German descent.
Czechoslovakia, whose president was the one who proposed to the Treaty of Versailles that the Jewish people should have a national homeland would within twenty years (1918-1939) become the target of the globalist’s destruction. As BibleSearchers Reflections wrote in“The Jews, Hitler, the Holocaust and the Time of Jacob’s Trouble”:
BibleSearchers Reflections - “Nazi expansionism began in earnest in 1939. They had already taken over the Saarland by a plebiscite vote in January, 1935, and then in March 12, 1938, they took over Austria. In the Munich Conference on September 28 and 29, 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britainabandoned the most prosperous and most democratic country in central Europe, along with the leaders of France and Italy, when they conceded that the three million ethnic Germans living in the region in Czechoslovakia where they were a minority, could have autonomy within the center of the country of Czechoslovakia.
Chamberlain returned to England triumphant that he had brought, “peace in our time”, along with these words, “How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” By March, 1939, Germany had taken over Czechoslovakia and in six months, Britain was at war with Germany. Chamberlain was now history.”
Stranger facts could not be described for in 1938, as described in detail in the BibleSearchers Reflection article titled, “The Czech Sudetenland in 1938; a Model for the Palestinian Homeland in the Annapolis Accord in 2008”, America, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, so called “The Quartet” have also abandoned the most prosperous and most democratic country in the Middle East, when they pandered to the Hashemite rulers of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. They effectively sold the Jewish people’s homeland for a “Pot of Oil” just like Esau sold his own birthright for a “Pot of Porridge”
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britainabandoned the most prosperous and most democratic country in central Europe, along with the leaders of France and Italy, when they conceded that the three million ethnic Germans should have access to semi-independence while living in central Czechoslovakia.
Would it not be strange to find evidence of Divine intent when seventy years later (1938-2008), this same globalist strategy would be resurrected again this time seeking Israel’s demise? It was President George W. Bush, who presided over the Annapolis Conference of 2008, and brought to the global community the intent of creating by international support a Palestinian State? It is also interesting that in 1938 that there were three million ethnic Germans living in Sudetenland in central Czechoslovakia.
Seventy years later in 2008, the Palestinian population was polled byPalestinian pollsters. They found that in the West Bank and the disputed regions of East Jerusalem, there resided a population of 2.35 million Palestinians. Add to that number of the Palestinian population of 1.42 million in Gaza, we now have a total of 3.76 million Palestinian capable of fighting the Israeli Jewish people if they united into one Palestinian State. History has a sobering realism.
“Imagine” was one of the most prolific songs ever created by one of the Worlds great Musicians / peace activists. This song has stood the test of time and is an anthem for peace . John Lennon 1940-1980
And so we have John Lennon in 1971 who released the song, “Imagine” that rocketed to international fame. Forty years later, this one song that became one of the most remembered songs of all ages, was now sung in Australia by a young Iraqi man, who was orphaned with his brother at birth with severe congenital malformations caused by Depleted Uranium Munitions in the 1991 war called “Operation Desert Storm”:
1999 – “Imagine” was one of the top 100 most-performed songs of the 20th century;
2000 – “Imagine” ranked #23 in the 2000 best-selling singles of all-time in the UK;
2004 – “Imagine” ranked #3 on Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Songs of all Time;
2005 – Canadian Broadcasting Corp. named “Imagine” as the Greatest Hit of Songs in the past 100 Years;
2005 – The Recording Industry Association of America nominated “Imagine” as #30 on the List of 365 Songs of the Century bearing the most Historical Significance.
The question, did John Lennon tap into the Jewish soul, called theneshama yehidi, the aspirations for the day of messianic peace? Was John Lennon a lost and hidden Jew? This question has been asked before with no definitive answer.
We do know that the Beatle’s manager, Brian Epstein was Jewish and so was “John Lennon’s Jewish Lawyer”, Leon Wildes, who defended and emerged victorious in the precedent-setting decision called “Lennon v. United States. It secured John Lennon’s U.S. residency back in 1976 when a paranoid President Richard Nixon’s White House and the U.S. government sought to expel John Lennon from America when he called “Viet Nam an immoral war”.
And then there was the Jewish Alma Cogan, “John Lennon’s Secret Lover”, who was Great Britain’s greatest female recording stars of the fifties and early sixties. She packed theaters all over Britain, and was a dazzling performer on TV with her Jewish chutzpah. Overall she was a Jewish legend, who clocked up 20 hit records, more than any other British female singer as these hits spent amazingly a total of 109 weeks in the charts. Unfortunately she died prematurely at the age of 24 with metastatic ovarian cancer.
Then we read Aryeh Tepper’s book review in Jewish Ideas Dailyon the “high-octane, laugh-out-loud funny, and occasionally caustic "philosophical rampage,” titled, “John Lennon and the Jews”written by anAmerican immigrant who settled in Israel, now as a former member of the IDF’s tank corps, and a highly respected professor of Arabic literature and Islamic history in Israel, Ze'ev Maghen. Tepper found that Maghen was writing to the “population of tepid, English-speaking Jews whose love for their people has been displaced by the dictates of universalism and rationalism.”
Here Aryeh Tepper began to explore his own identity as he walked his own walk of rediscovering his own Jewish identity, when he said,
Aryeh Tepper - “At the age of twenty-four I dropped everything, moved to Israel, put a kippah on my head, and enrolled in a Haredi yeshiva.
Rebellion? In part. But the rebellion didn't stop there. Turned off by a romantic view of Jewish identity that was, at its worst, articulated in vulgar, tribal terms, and tired out from investigating the brilliantly-crafted but virtual realities of the Talmudic sages, I spent my third year in yeshiva sitting in my apartment, studying the rational humanism of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, driven by the philosophical hunger of Plato's Republic. Not surprisingly, I later fell in love with Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed.
Of course, love was what it was all about from the start, like the love for the country and people of Israel that I inexplicably felt when I first landed at Ben-Gurion Airport at the age of nineteen. Completely clueless about anything Jewish, I spent Shabbat walking the streets of Tel Aviv with a friendly soldier, charmed by the familial warmth shown to me by complete strangers.”
The clash of Judaism came when “against this vision of an expansive, non-discriminating God, Maghen reminds his readers that the God of the Hebrew Bible most definitely plays favorites—because that's the way real love works.” And to him, John Lennon expressed the great essence of the “expansive, non-discriminating God” that could only be realized in an era of peace when the Messiah of Israel rules with a “rod of iron”.
And Tepper concludes by stating that the author’ book was best “grasped as an intimate letter written from one Jew to his brethren” (John Lennon included):
Aryeh Tepper – “But John Lennon and the Jews shouldn't be judged by such grating and grandiose claims. The book is better grasped as an intimate letter written from one Jew to his brethren, hoping to free their minds and warm their hearts, and it reminds us that, 3,000 years after God and the Jewish people first exchanged vows on Mount Sinai, Judaism remains a stunningly beautiful, vibrant, deep, and often bracing experience with the capacity to drive sensitive and erudite souls like Ze'ev Maghen crazy with love.”
Squiddo – “A Kabbalistic story explains why Jews engage in Tikkun Olam, the process of healing, or repairing, the world. According to this story, G-d created the universe by absorbing so much energy that He exploded, rather like a spiritual version of the Big Bang Theory. When He did so, He shattered Himself. Thus, little pieces of G-d scattered all over the universe.
As Jews, we are supposed to find and reunite these lost pieces to make the world more whole. We do this by performing good deeds--helping others, working for social justice, and acting to make the world more like G-d envisioned it to be. A famous Jewish proverb explains, ‘He who saves one life, saves the entire world.’ John Lennon may or may not have been aware of Tikkun Olam, but he certainly followed its principles.”
Concerning the Beatle’s first manager, Brian Epstein, whose influence shot the Beatle’s to international fame, Rabbi Leiken on Rock’n Rabbi, “wrote an interesting blog, “The Jewish Beatle” which highlighted Brian Epstein’s Jewishness and Paul McCarthy’s statement, “If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian Epstein”:
Rabbi Leiken – “Brian Epstein’s family was a staple of Liverpool’s Jewish community, owning a prominent furniture shop and a music store called North End Music. Brian had his Bar Mitzvah at the Green Bank Drive Synagogue in Liverpool and was educated at the Beaconsfield Jewish school in Sussex. His Uncle Meier noted that “he was obviously well educated in Hebrew and Hebrew liturgy.”
Yet, the most profound statement by Rabbi Leiken, when he called Brian Epstein, the “Fifth Jewish Beatle” at the conclusion of the blog, we wonder what was his insight into the potential Jewish lives of all the Beatles?:
Rabbi Leiken – “The Beatles were never the same after Brian Epstein’s death. Some consider the event to have led to their eventual break-up. Brian Epstein’s Judaism was always an issue during the years in which he managed the Beatles. In the early sixties, Paul McCartney was warned by his father that being managed by a Jew was dangerous. John Lennon constantly brought up the Jewish factor in personal conversations. Brian even himself spoke about the challenges of feeling different in his autobiography A Cellarful of Noise. To compound his emotional fragility, Epstein’s ongoing interest in John Lennon seemed to always cause him pain.
Brian Epstein must be remembered as one of the great Rock and Roll heroes, who recognized the talent of four boys from Liverpool, cared for each as a parent would do and ensured their success in taking over the music charts. Brian Epstein, the fifth Jewish Beatle, died at the young age of 32 and is buried in the Liverpool Jewish Cemetery.”
The song “Imagine” clearly shows that over the last decade, the world has slowly begun to turn against the horrors of global war. The international sentiment has been moving against the imperial lust of globalists to harvest the natural resources of smaller and weaker nations for their own purpose. There is a larger and growing mood in the world for peace and pacifism. Even the “Spring Revolutions” in the Middle East have a large sentiment of wanting peace away from dictators and tyrants ruling over them. This will continue until the last tyrant and totalitarian dictator will be removed from Planet Earth by the Messiah of Israel.
According to the intent of the prophets of Israel and Judah, the Nation of Israel will be the last nations to hold out against a utopian quest for planetary peace by being ruled by a one world government dictating an ecumenical global religion.
As such, the Israeli Jews, who desire more than anyone else to live alone in peace and worship the G-d of Israel as he commanded to them at Sinai, will be forced to defend themselves in the rising tide of global anti-Semitism. Israel alone will begin to look like the last warmongering nation on Planet Earth. Such is the warping message of “Evil”.
No country of the world has had their national policies micro-managed by the nations of the world as the Jewish people in Israel. Yet, this is how the G-d of Israel desires, for when salvation does come at the end of the age, it will not come by the ingenuity of political leaders, with “Sampson Options” capable of destroying the whole earth. When the day comes that the Jewish people along with their tribal brothers of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel call upon Hashem, the G-d of Legions, as Zechariah prophesied by his own name; “Hashem will Remember and Hashem will Bless Israel at the Appointed Hour”.
Destination Yisra’el’s Series –
The Lyrical Songs of Emmanuel, a Lost Child of Israel gathering the “Sparks of Holiness” for the Redemption of All Israel
The prophecies are clear that the G-d of Israel will redeem the “Sparks” of the Hidden Jews of the Diaspora and the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel so that peace can restored to all the earth. This is not a conditional prophesy. Rather, it is a prophecy for both the Jews and the Lost Israelites, whenwe will be restored back into brotherhood; the Jews of the House of Judah and Lost Israelites of the House of Israel (Ezekiel 37).
This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.If you want to learn more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that is hosting a Shomron / Samaria 13-day Succot Tour in October 2011 to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.
Destination Yisra’el – “The promise of the Divine One to the Lost Tribes of Israel is that during our Redemption, we will be Redeemed from the lands of our dwelling and Restored or implanted back into the lands of our forefathers. These tribal homelands were given as an inheritance to any descendant of the Hebrews for all generations. G-d also promised that He will restore the Mountains of Israel in the region of Shomron (Samaria) and Judea back to the full inheritance of all the twelve Hebrew tribes.
Unfortunately we have experienced the curses of degenerative disease that includes coronary heart disease, diabetes, obesity, numerous inflammatory skin diseases, chronic obstructive lung disease, irritable and inflammatory bowel disease, and the list become endless. The vibrancy of health will also be that we will be living once again in a “Land” blessed by the One G-d of Israel once again like the land that Moses and the Israelites first saw that was reported to be a “Land flowing with Milk and Honey”. Now is the time to begin preparing our bodies for that day. The following article is credited to the family physician Dr. Mercola.
“The Types of Food that Will Slow Nearly EVERY Inflammatory Disease...”
You've probably heard of enzymes, and you probably already know they are important for your digestion. But you may not be aware of just how necessary enzymes are to every cell in your body—not just for digestion but for ALL your physiological processes. Enzymes are composed of amino acids and are secreted by your body to help catalyze functions that would normally not occur at physiological temperatures. They literally make magic happen and are absolutely vital to your life.
More than 3,000 different enzymes have been identified, and some experts believe there may be another 50,000 we have yet to discover. Each enzyme has a different function—like 3,000 specialized keys cut to fit 3,000 different locks. In this analogy, the locks are biochemical reactions. Enzymes drive biological processes necessary for your body to build raw materials, circulate nutrients, eliminate unwanted chemicals, and the myriad of other biochemical processes that go on without your even thinking about it.
For starters, here are just some of the activities in your body requiring enzymes:
Energy production
Absorption of oxygen
Fighting infections and healing wounds
Reducing inflammation
Getting nutrients into your cells
Carrying away toxic wastes
Breaking down fats in your blood, regulating cholesterol and triglyceride levels
Dissolving blood clots
Proper hormone regulation
Slowing the aging process
And small amounts of enzymes can affect profound changes! Enzymes are the catalysts that cause many essential biochemical reactions to happen—but they are not "used up" IN the reaction. They merely assist—meaning, they accelerate reactions—sometimes to a mind-boggling several million reactions per second! Enzymes lower the amount of energy needed for a reaction to occur. Without them, some reactions simply would not function in your body. But enzymes don't work alone.
Enzymes rely on other elements to accomplish their tasks, such as certain vitamins and minerals. These elements are called "coenzymes." You are probably already familiar with one of these—coenzyme Q10. CoQ10 is found in the mitochondria (power centers) of your cells where it is involved in making ATP, every cell's principal energy source. Another example is magnesium, which participates in over 300 enzyme reactions.
The Concept of "Enzyme Potential"
Dr. Edward Howell spent his entire professional life studying enzymes and can be credited with catalyzing enzyme research. Whether or not this is true, Howell believed you were born with a limited enzyme-producing capacity, and that your life expectancy depends on how well you preserve your "enzyme potential." His theory was that if you don't get enough enzymes from the food you eat, great strain is placed on your digestive system to "pick up the slack," i.e., produce enough enzymes to accomplish the task. A deficiency in digestive enzymes then reduces availability of your metabolic enzymes. Howell believed this metabolic enzyme deficit was at the root of most chronic health problems.
Enzyme Basics
There are three basic categories of enzymes:
Digestive
Metabolic
Food based
Digestive enzymes, as their name implies, help you break down food into smaller parts that can be absorbed, transported and utilized by every cell in your body. Digestive enzymes are extra-cellular—meaning, they are found outside your cells. Metabolic enzymes are intra-cellular—meaning, inside your cells, where they help the cell carry out a variety of functions related to its reproduction and replenishment.
Your pancreas produces most of these digestive and metabolic enzymes. Fortunately, you get (or should be getting) many enzymes from the foods you consume—particularly, raw foods. These directly help with your digestive process. The more raw foods you eat, the lower the burden on your body to produce the enzymes it needs, not only for digestion, but for practically everything. Whatever enzymes are not used up in digestion are then available to help with other important physiological processes.
Your Meal's Journey through Your Digestive System
Once consumed, your meal begins a complicated, multi-phased journey of breakdown and conversion into nutrients your body can use. This process is, of course, called digestion, and enzymes play a key role. There are eight primary digestive enzymes, each designed to help break down different types of food:
Protease: Digesting protein
Amylase: Digesting carbohydrates
Lipase: Digesting fats
Cellulase: Breaking down fiber
Maltase: Converting complex sugars from grains into glucose
Lactase: Digesting milk sugar (lactose) in dairy products
Phytase: Helps with overall digestion, especially in producing the B vitamins
Sucrase: Digesting most sugars
Digestion begins in your mouth, starting with saliva. Did you know that you produce about 1.7 liters of saliva each day? Your mouth is where enzymes (primarily amylase) begin to exert their action. Amylase in your saliva begins to break down carbohydrates.
As food passes into your stomach, proteins are worked on by protease. From there, the bolus of food passes into your small intestine, where lipase begins to break down fats, and amylase finishes off the carbohydrates.
Did you know that 90 percent of your digestion and absorption takes place in your small intestine? From here, the micronutrients are absorbed into your bloodstream through millions of tiny villi in the wall of your gut. But what happens when this process goes awry? Disease—or "dis-ease."
Insufficient enzyme production is at the root of much "tummy trouble" in our country. Digestive problems cost Americans $50 billion each year in both direct costs and absence from work. It is a sad fact that 90 percent of the food Americans buy is processed food. Diets heavy in cooked, processed, and sugary foods, combined with overuse of pharmaceutical drugs such as antibiotics, deplete your body's ability to make enzymes.
Enzymes may be relatively large, but their protein structures are fragile. The amino acids in the molecular chain link together to form certain patterns and shapes, which give enzymes their unique characteristics and functions. When something disrupts the chain's structure, the enzyme becomes "denatured"—it changes shape and loses its ability to perform.
"Heating your food above 116 degrees F renders most enzymes inactive."
This is one of the reasons it's so important to eat your foods raw. Raw foods are enzyme-rich, and consuming them decreases your body's burden to produce its own enzymes. The more food that you can eat raw, the better. Ideally, you should get 75 percentof your digestive enzymes from your food.
In addition to heat, enzymes are also very sensitive to shifts in pH, which is why different enzymes work in different parts of your digestive tract, based on the pH each enzyme needs in order to function.
Enzyme deficiency results in poor digestion and poor nutrient absorption. This creates a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms, including:
Chronic malabsorption can lead to a variety of illnesses. Think about it—if your body doesn't have the basic nutritional building blocks it needs, your health and ability to recover from illness will be compromised. Besides breaking down food, enzymes (particularly the proteases) can help with gut healing, controlling pathogens, and immune support. Your immune system begins in your gut—and if you have enzyme and digestive issues, chances are your immune system isn't functioning as well as it should be. Complicating matters, your capacity for enzyme production also declines with age.
How Aging Affects Your Enzyme Production
Research has shown that your natural enzyme production starts to decline by the time you're about 20. Studies show that, every ten years, your body's production of enzymes decreases by 13 percent. So by age 40, your enzyme production could be 25 percent lower than it was when you were a child. And by the time you're 70, you could be producing only ONE-THIRD of the enzymes you need.
Making matters worse, your stomach produces less hydrochloric acid as you age, and hydrochloric acid is crucial in activating your stomach's digestive enzymes. When digestion of foods requires such a heavy demand, enzyme supplies run short and your enzyme-producing capacity can become exhausted. Why does this matter? The high demand for digestive enzymes depletes your body's production of metabolic enzymes, which every cell in your body needs in order to function.
The Many Roles of Metabolic Enzymes
Now that you know how important digestive enzymes are for getting nourishment, let's take a look at another type of enzymatic activity—your metabolic enzymes. Metabolic enzymes are intimately involved with running your circulatory, lymphatic, cardiac, neurologic, endocrine, renal, hepatic, and reproductive systems, and maintaining your skin, bones, joints, muscles and other tissues.
Every one of your 10 trillion cells depends on these enzymes and their ability to catalyze energy production. As I said before, each of these enzymes is highly specialized as a function of its particular molecular structure. Consider these two examples:
RNA polymerase is an enzyme your body uses to transcribe DNA into RNA, which is used to make proteins.
Lysosomal enzyme, produced in the lysosome of each cell (also called the “suicide bag”), breaks down macromolecules and other foreign particles the cell has ingested (such as bacteria) so they can be disposed of. The lysosome is a microscopic garbage disposal!
One of the most important functions of metabolic enzymes happens in your blood. If you think about it, it makes sense. We know that bacteria, fungi, and parasites are comprised of protein, as is the shell encompassing viruses. Enzymes in your blood—primarily proteases (proteolytic enzymes)—serve to break down protein-based foreign bodies, effectively cleansing your blood.
As blood cleansers, these enzymes combat chronic inflammation, which left unchecked can lead to everything from autoimmune diseases, to cardiovascular disease and even cancer. Enzymes reduce inflammation in your body by:
Breaking down foreign proteins in the blood that cause inflammation and facilitating their removal via your blood stream and lymphatic system
Removing “fibrin,” a clotting material that can prolong inflammation
Reducing edema in the inflamed regions
It follows, then, that any disease caused by inflammation—which is practically every chronic disease we face today—can be benefited by increased levels of functional enzymes in your blood. I will discuss oral enzyme supplementation shortly. Although taking an enzyme supplement may be helpful, NO manufactured product can duplicate the positive effects of a nutrient-rich diet.
There are four ways to naturally increase your enzyme levels:
Increase your intake of raw, living foods
Eat fewer calories
Chew your food thoroughly
Avoid chewing gum
The very best way to get enzymes into your body is by consuming at least 75 percent of your foods raw. For many of you, you'll have to work toward this goal gradually. While all raw foods contain enzymes, the most powerful enzyme-rich foods are those that are sprouted (seeds and legumes). Sprouting increases the enzyme content in these foods tremendously. Besides sprouts, other enzyme-rich foods include:
The best way to bump up your metabolic enzymes is to provide your body with the raw materials and energy it needs to make them. By eating these types of foods, you supply your body with the amino acids and the enzyme co-factors needed to boost your own natural enzyme production.
Another way to lower your body's demand for enzymes is to reduce your caloric intake. Did you know the average person spends 80 percent of his available energy simply digesting food? By reducing overall consumption, as well as introducing more living foods, you reduce your need for digestive enzymes, which allows your body to put more of its energy into producing metabolic enzymes.
Which brings us to chewing. Quite apart from the esthetic pleasure of an unhurried meal, there are important physiological reasons to chew your food well. Chewing stimulates saliva production, and the more time you spend chewing, the longer your saliva enzymes have to work in your mouth, lessening the workload of your stomach and small intestine. Chewing also stimulates a reflex that sends a message to your pancreas and other digestive organs, "Gear up—we've got incoming!"
And don't chew gum.
Chewing gum fools your body into believing it is digesting something, so it pumps out digestive enzymes unnecessarily. Why waste those precious resources?
Digestive Enzyme Supplementation
If you suffer from occasional bloating, minor abdominal discomfort, and occasional constipation and suspect your enzyme production is low, you might want to consider a digestive enzyme supplement in addition to eating more of your foods raw.
Digestive enzymes should be taken WITH a meal. There are hundreds on the market, so how do you choose a good one? You should look for an enzyme formula with the following characteristics:
It should contain a mixture of different types of enzymes, to help digest all of the different components of your diet (including lipase, protease, and amylase)
The ingredients should be high quality, all-natural, and free of allergens and additives
The supplement should be labeled as to the enzymatic strength of each ingredient, not just its weight
It should be made by a reputable company with rigorous quality control and testing for potency
Besides digestive enzyme supplementation, there is another way to use oral enzymes—for systemic use. This requires taking enzymes between meals so they can be absorbed through your gut and into your bloodstream, where your cells can use them metabolically.
Systemic Enzymes—Playing Catch-Up with European Medicine
Getting enzymes from your digestive tract into your bloodstream isn't as easy as it would seem. As I've already discussed, enzymes are very susceptible to denaturing and must be helped to survive the highly acidic environment in your stomach. They are often given an "enteric coating" to help them survive the journey through your digestive tract. And then, there is the matter of absorption.
For nearly 100 years, medical dogma insisted that enzymes taken orally were too large to pass through the digestive tract wall. However, there is now a good deal of research that they can indeed pass through your intestine intact and into your bloodstream and lymphatic system, where they can deliver their services to the rest of your body... one of the mysteries of medical science.
Now that we know this is possible, systemic oral enzymes have been used to treat problems ranging from sports injuries to arthritis to heart disease and cancer, particularly in European countries. But most of the research has been published in non-English language journals. This systemic use of enzymes is just now taking off in the United States.
It is crucial that, in order for enzymes to be used systemically, they must be ingested on an empty stomach. Otherwise, your body will use them for digesting your food, instead of being absorbed into the blood and doing their work there. Let's take a look at how systemic enzymes can benefit your health by examining their applications for two major health problems we face today: heart disease and cancer.
How Systemic Enzymes Battle Heart Disease
It is now fairly well recognized that heart attacks and strokes are related to inflammation, which is why C-reactive protein (an inflammatory marker) can be predictive of cardiac events.
However, according to an excellent article about systemic enzymes by Michael Sellar, French researchers have proposed that bacteria might be a causative factor in coronary artery disease. Very high levels of bacteria were found in their patients' arterial plaques, possibly explaining elevations in C-reactive protein. C-reactive protein functions to stop the spread of bacteria in your body.
Since enzymes inhibit platelet aggregation, help your immune system combat pathogens, and break down fibrin (which makes up clots), they may offer significant benefits for vascular diseases like thrombosis, phlebitis, and varicose veins. Sellar quotes enzyme researcher Rudolph Kunze:
"Although enzymes reduce inflammation and we used to think that was all they did, we now believe that the central target of systemic enzymes is the immune system. It is my belief that heart disease is an immune disease very much, although obviously not totally, related to bacterial pathogens and other invaders."
Ten patients with inoperable pancreatic cancer were treated with large doses of oral pancreatic enzymes (along with detoxification and an organic diet), and their survival rates were 3 to 4 times higher than patients receiving conventional treatment. Proteolytic enzymes can be helpful in treating cancer because they help restore balance to your immune system.
Dissolving fibrin: Cancer cells hide under a cloak of fibrin to escape detection. Once the cancer cells are “uncloaked,” they can be spotted and attacked by your immune system. It is also thought that fibrin makes cancer cells “stick together,” which increases the chance for metastases.
German studies have shown that systemic enzymes increase the potency of macrophages and killer cells 12-fold.
For more about the difference between digestive enzymes and systemic enzymes, click here for a video interview with enzyme expert Nena Dockery. Hopefully you can now appreciate just how important enzymes are to your overall health, right down to the cellular level. Once you understand this, you may begin to see just how important it is to eat a diet rich in fresh, organic, raw foods. You may even want to try juicing some of your vegetables as a way of getting more nutrients—and enzymes—into your body.
It has been said, "You are what you eat." But really, "You are what you digest" is closer to the truth.
To the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, this is your promise:
Ezekiel 36:24, 28, 32, 34-35 – “I will take you (Lost Tribes of the House of Israel) from (among) the nations and gather you from all the lands, and I will bring you to your own soil…You will dwell in the land that I gave to your forefathers; you will be a people to me, and I will be a G-d to you…
I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the ruins will be built. The desolated land will be tilled, instead of having been desolate in the eyes of every passerby. People will say, ’this very land, which had been desolate, has become like the Garden of Eden; and the ruined, desolate and demolish cities have been fortified, inhabited!’”
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The prophecies are clear that the G-d of Israel will fulfill what He has promised to fulfill so that peace can restored to all the earth. Part of that prophecy is the restoration of All Israel. This is not a conditional prophesy and neither is it a Jewish prophesy, but we will be restored back into brotherhood and fellowship with our cousins, the Jews of the House of Judah (Ezekiel 27)
If you have wondered how biblical prophecy fits into your life, and how the Restoration of All Israel is part of G-d Divine Will and Destiny for His Chosen People, you might want to consider how to change your life to live in a land where health is paramount to redemption.
This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.If you want to learn more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
“According to the Talmud, there are six millennia to world history as we know it (Sanhedrin 97a); in the Kabbalistic understanding there is a correspondence between each millennium and the functioning of the world according to different spiritual forces. Just like there is a concept of physical DNA, so too, is there a concept of cosmic DNA, spiritual realities called sefirot which possess the potential for all that history can and will ever produce. They act as spiritual transformers, spiritual filters for the awesome and sublime light of God, resulting in the manifestation of different traits that form the basis of all creation and mankind.”
PHYSICAL DNA; COSMIC DNA
All together, there are ten such sefirot, filters or traits, which represent the spiritual "chain of command" between God and the world in which we live. Six of them have governed history since creation, and each one is associated with aspecific Torah personality who exemplified this trait, as follows:
Chesed, "kindness": 0 to 1000, Abraham;
Gevurah, "power/strength": 1001 to 2000, Isaac;
Tiferet, "beauty/harmony": 2001 to 3000, Jacob;
Netzach, "dominance/victory": 3001 to 4000, Moses;
Hod, "glory": 4001 to 5000, Aaron;
Yesod, "foundation": 5001 to 6000, Joseph
We are now in the year 5761 (from creation), therefore we are also in the sixth millennium, the one that is spiritually "powered" by thesefirah called yesod -- the one that corresponds to Joseph.
TWO MESSIAHS
The Talmud points out (Succah 52a), there are meant to be two Messiahs -- redeemers of Israel. The first one, according to tradition, will descend from the line of Joseph, and die in battle, while paving the way for the final Messiah, who will descend from the line of David. The Torah tells us that, just before Jacob died, he gave Joseph an extra piece of Israel -- the city of Shechem (Genesis 48:22). It was in Shechem that Joseph's brothers sold him down into slavery, and, it was to Shechem that the bones of Joseph were brought from Egypt hundreds of years later for their final burial.
It was here in Shechem -- called Nablus by the Arabs -- that the yeshivah stood, until two weeks ago, when it was viciously destroyed. Regarding the territory of Joseph, the Zohar, the chief work of the Kabbalah, has this to say:
Zohar – “In the time of the resurrection of the dead, many camps will arise in Land of the Galil, because that is where the Messiah is going to be first revealed, since it is part of Joseph's territory. It will be the first place to be destroyed. It will begin there ahead of all other places, and then spread to the nations. (Zohar, Vayakhel 220a)”
Shechem, according to the Talmud, is a place where bad things happen (Sanhedrin 102a.) It is a place "set aside for punishment," and at this time, this prophecy has come true. Arabs have ruthlessly murdered heroic Jews -- Jews who were self-sacrificing for the sake of Torah, for the sake of Israel, and for the sake of Jewish history -- and pillaged and destroyed the yeshivah, and burned many holy books.
And now, with the Israeli withdrawal from the site, in the minds of Arabs and Jews alike, Shechem represents a weak point in the Israeli chain of command.
But it need not be so.
IN SHECHEM, THIRTY-SIX
It is pointed out in the Kabbalah -- where so many secrets about Messianic times are revealed -- that the first letters of each of the words Baruch Shem kevod malchuto l'olam va'ed, spell the words, b'Shechem lamed-vav, meaning "in Shechem, thirty-six."
Baruch Shemis the second verse of theShema said twice a day. According to tradition, it represents our belief that God orchestrates the events of history, even when this fact is veiled by nature and "natural" cause-and-effect. This verse alludes to the day when God will stop working undercover and reveal himself to humanity in an obvious manner. In other words, it is a verse that alludes to the final redemption.
But, why "in Shechem thirty-six?" And "thirty-six" what? That's a question that opens up a Kabbalistic "Pandora's Box," for thirty-six is all about exile AND redemption.
The original primordial light of creation, the Talmud says, shone for thirty-six hours before God hid it. There are many phrases that have the same gematria or numerical value and they all point in the direction of one answer: the original primordial light of creation, which, the Talmud (Brochos 8:5) says shone for thirty-six hours before God hid itfor therighteous people of history. This light is redemption; when it shines, evil is banished.
This is why Moses was born with it, and exemplified it, and was even compared to it. He was also born in the Hebrew year 2368, thirty-six years after Egyptian servitude officially began following the death of the last of Joseph's brothers, Levi. This light is called Ohr HaTikun -- the "Light of Rectification." It shone for Adam on day six of creation; it shone again at Mount Sinai when the Torah was given; and, with the help of God, it is going to shine again, soon -- permanently -- for the generation of Messiah.
As we mentioned earlier, Ten Sefirot represent a "chain of command" between God and the world as we know it. Each of those Ten Sefirotare also meant to have a sub-set of Ten Sefirot of their own, but, during times of exile, we only have six. Six times six, of course, is thirty-six, and, it represents our potential to fulfill the purpose of creation.
This challenge is actually alluded to in one of God's own name, Elohim. Kabbalah teaches that this name is really made up of two parts: the first three letters add up to a numerical value or gematria of thirty-six, corresponding to the six sefirot we have examined; the last two letter have numerical value or gematria of fifty, representing one of the top three sefirot -- binah, which is associated with "fifty gates of understanding."
What does all this mean?
If we, the Jewish people, act as if God and Torah are all that counts, then, the light of binah is drawn down and becomes attached to the lower six sefirot, and, this, in turn, elevates these six sefirot upward towards binah. The result is redemption. This is actually what we were trying accomplish at the end of the Yom Kippur service, when we say the Shema once, Baruch Shem kevod three times, and Hashem et Elohim seven times -- one time for each level of heaven that, in exile, stands between us and the Divine Presence.
The Talmud says that, when falsehood rules the minds of men, this actually one of thesigns that Messiah is near.If, on the other hand, we act inconsistently with our belief in God, paying only lip service to His desire for creation and us within it, then, binah is drawn upward, the six sefirot downward, and falsehood and exile overrun creation.
The Talmud (Sanhedrin 97a) says that, when falsehood rules the minds of men, this is actually one of the signs that Messiah is not too far away. Judging by the reporting of the Israeli-Arab conflict by many prominent newspapers, we have entered that era. Even the name Shechem itself symbolizes this idea. The first and last letter are separated from each other by the letter kaf which symbolizes intellectual blindness. However, whenkaf is removed, and these two letters are allowed to unite, then they spell the word shem, "name," a euphemism for the Tetragrammaton, God's holy ineffable name -- Ha-shem, "the Name."
Yes, Shechem is a place set aside for punishment. However, that is only up until the time for redemption, and, when that time comes, then, the hidden light of creation will be unleashed, a light clearly associated with Joseph, and it will cause great miracles. Miracles that will clearly reveal the hand of God in history, and cause God's name to be unified, with or without our efforts.
How fitting it is at this late stage of history, while the Jewish people seem to be grappling for ground on so many fronts, that Joseph’s Tomb was decimated. I hope it is a good sign, for they know not upon which holy ground they tread, nor what powers of redemption they have unleashed. Perhaps the spirit of Messiah Ben Joseph? A year of miracles and peaceful redemption for all the Jewish people!”
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The History was Revealed by the Prophets and Confirmed by Archeology, the Judgment of the God of Israel was Sealed as they were Exiled to Khurasan in Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. They Disappeared into the Mists of History as they Migrated in Waves up through Georgia through the Caucasus and Followed the Tracks of their Cousin Dan who left his Name on the Rivers of his Passage (Don, Dniester, Dnieper, and the Danube) as they Migrated Northwestward towards Denmark. They Erupted into Northern Europe in the 3rd Century BCE as the Royal Scythians, Celts, Cymrics, Cimmerians, Goths, Angles, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Frisians.
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