Fomenko

12 Tuesday Apr 2022

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“When the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, had a difficult task before him, he would go to a certain place in the woods, light a fire and meditate in prayer—and what he had set out to perform was done. When a generation later the “Maggid” of Meseritz was faced with the same task he would go to the same place in the woods and say: We can no longer light the fire, but we can still speak the prayers-and what he wanted done became reality. 

Again a generation later Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov had to perform this task. And he too went into the woods and said: We can no longer light a fire, nor do we know the secret meditations belonging to the prayer, but we do know the place in the woods to which it all belongs–and that must be sufficient; and sufficient it was. 

But when another generation had passed and Rabbi Israel of Rishin was called upon to perform the task, he sat down on his golden chair in his castle and said: We cannot light the fire, we cannot speak the prayers, we do not know the place, but we can tell the story of how it was done. 

And, the story which he told had the same effect as the actions of the other three.” Gershom G. Scholem.“ Schocken Books, 1954.

Water-gathers

10 Sunday Apr 2022

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Far from the air breathed by noisy people, the distance separates you from the surfaces, it does not cover any of them, you have finished walking the labyrinth, circulating in the architectures, tasting its lines of flight, colliding with its angles, sliding through the programmed virtual circuits of the past where others tell you, you drive, the leaves of the trees hollow out in pockets of wind, you forget the road, only let the water gathers you.

The earth,the wind fall and flow, the water gathers, the water rises, the water rises in silence, connects night to day, grows on the horizon, the water trembles the wind, suspends the round flights, wrinkles the clouds, water collects the remaining crashes of frosts and blazes, water disperses the wandering flowerless flowers, water collects the weary clouds and the sweat of the earth, water recomposes the lost colonies, the water loses memory and marries all forgetfulness, the rain falls, the water wriggles, dazzles as far as the eye can see, the water cracks, springs up in the caves, gleans the seeds, takes shelter in the fruits, water will not extinguish the fire, water will prefer the night.

Neither bow down or prostrate

17 Thursday Mar 2022

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“All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate would kneel and prostrate themselves before Haman, for so had the king commanded concerning him, but Mordechai would neither kneel nor prostrate himself” Esther 3:2

“But man seeks to bow before that only which is recognized by the greater majority, if not by all his fellowmen, as having a right to be worshipped; whose rights are so unquestionable that men agree unanimously to bow down to it. For the chief concern of these miserable creatures is not to find and worship the idol of their own choice, but to discover that which all others will believe in, and consent to bow down to in a mass. It is that instinctive need of having a worship in common that is the chief suffering of every man, the chief concern of mankind from the beginning of times. It is for that universality of religious worship that people destroyed each other by sword. Creating gods unto themselves, they forthwith began appealing to each other: “Abandon your deities, come and bow down to ours, or death to ye and your idols!” And so will they do till the end of this world; they will do so even then, when all the gods themselves have disappeared, for then men will prostrate themselves before and worship some idea.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Your “horse” to acquire a language

15 Tuesday Mar 2022

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“I never could understand people like Tolstoy, in love with the family archives with their epic poems made of domestic memories. I repeat: my memory is not of love, but of hostility, and it labors not at reproducing, but at distancing the past. For an intellectual of mediocre background, memory is useless, it would suffice for him to talk about the books he had read, and his biography would be complete, where for fortunate generations, the epic poem was spoken in hexameters and in chronicles, for me, there stands a gaping sign, and between me and the century there lies an abyss, a ditch filled with time that murmurs :What did my family wish to say? I do not know. It had been stuttering since birth, and yet it had something to say. This congenital stuttering weighs heavily on me and on many of my contemporaries. We were not taught to speak but to stammer – and only by listening to the swelling noise of the century and being bleached by the foam on the crest of its wave did we acquire a language.” Ossip Mandelstam

Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Nijinsky saw a dying horse on the street, and you what have you seen to create a language ?

Scissors -2 From Bosh to Hegel

15 Tuesday Mar 2022

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Instead of the dialectic of moral laws, life comes within its rights: in The traditional antinomy of “Pick the fruits of the tree of life and do not pick those of the tree of wisdom (the science of good and evil)”, barely born, the hope of transforming the world is disappointed. And as a result of this ironical history, the results obtained were totally different from those expected. Schopenhauer will call it “blind will” of a titanic world, Nietzsche will call it “Dionysos“, Kant ” Seeeinhorn (the unicorn of the sea)” and Hieronymus Bosch “a strawberry“…this Perpetuum mobile against which it is absolutely necessary to fight because before everything you have to love life above all logic, you have to focus on the simple happiness of petting an animal. Life in its raw state. Hegel says something like: “the animal in itself always lives in paradise” meaning right here on earth… As far as I am concerned, my awareness of my finitude falsifies my entire journey. Tourist eager to see everything before departure… Could I at least send postcards to these billions of people who are certain of their home?

The nature of goals

11 Friday Mar 2022

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« We must examine the nature of goals. The essential thing is either the goal or the desire to attain it . We can see that the desire is greater than the achievement. That, it is an end in itself. As the Rambam said : there is no end in the world, other than the praising of his name » Rav. Y. M. Harlap …(…)…The world simply is, the end is god and he is of course unattainable. Men is left with the quest. Leibowitz yeshayahu.