A Rabbi I know sent me this message. I believe he also posted it on facebook so
Im reposting it here, and it goes…
B"H
We have entered the month of Elul. Chodesh Harachamim. The month of mercy. We can all use some Divine mercy in our lives. G-d's way is middah keneged middah. A measure for a measure. When we show mercy to those who need it, He shows us mercy.Rivkah devorah's shloshim is coming up very soon. As of now there is no matzeva on her kever. The simple reason for that is because there is no money for it!The least Rivkah Devora deserves is to be remembered in a dignified manner. A stone incl. shipping and installation etc cost several thousand $$. If you would like to contribute or know of someone who might be interested in helping please contact us. Details on how to get money to the right place without invading people's privacy etc. is still being worked out. Possibly there will be a paypall button soon. In the mean time please get to work and put together money. We got $600 so far. Way more is needed. This is chesed shel emes. A kindness for which you will not receive a thank you note from the soul you did it for. You won't even get a thank you note from the relatives for then it won't be chesed shel emes. Hoping to hear from you soon!
Written by the Rabbi who started the facebook group for Rivka Devorah,
called " The Rebbe's Daughter"
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20308219403
The shloshim is on friday, THIS FRIDAY !
We intend to have a Thursday night cholent on the playa. If not Thursday then Friday night. If not Friday night then for shaleshides.Whoever would like to write a kvitel to be placed at the feet of the Man or at the Temple, write it here & I will have it written out to put there.As known, the Temple at Burning Man is a mokoym kodoysh, where thousands of kvitlach, messages etc. are left. They burn the Temple Sunday night, the night after the Man. This year's Temple looks awesome.If I have access to the internet on the playa, I'll try to post here some updates so everyone can be mitstaref in this awesome experience. Pray for me, that it shall be nichnas b'sholom v'yotzoh b'sholom. If I don't make it, you may curse me at my funeral & cast my bones to the vultures. Thanks in advance. YadadadadadaDA!!!! http://www.burningman.com – Z.I.Y. 
BRUSSELS (EJP)—Can a Jew be buried together with a bottle of Vodka ?
The Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE), which assists more than 600 rabbis across Europe on issues of daily life, was confronted last week with this very unusual halachic (related to Halacha or Jewish religious law) question after a member of a Jewish community in Germany passed away.
The man’s last will was to be buried with his best friend, a bottle of Vodka, with which he had never parted during his lifetime.
After hearing the weird request, the Jewish community’s rabbi immediately contacted the RCE's halachic experts in Brussels in order to determine if it is permissible to place a bottle of Vodka in the grave of the man.
Germany has become the home of a sizable Jewish community of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
The man, who lived in Karlsruhe, a city located in the south west of Germany, emigrated from the Soviet Union in the 70s and was not connected to the local Jewish community. However, a good friend of him, who is a regular participant of community events and an acquaintance of the local rabbi, delivered this last message of his friend to the rabbi.
"Every day he would drink a half a glass of Vodka in the morning and a half in the evening,” he told the rabbi.
The issue however actually raises a serious halachic dilemna.
On the one hand it is extremely important to fulfill the last wish of a Jew, but on the other hand it is unacceptable to bury any object together with the body of a deceased person.
The difficult question was then forwarded to Rabbi Yaacov Rozhe who serves as chairman of the Zaka Rabbinical Council and as representative of Israel’s chief rabbinate in the Medical Institute of Abu Kabir.
He replied that there is no halachic prohibition of placing the bottle near the coffin but under no circumstances it may be placed in the coffin itself nor beneath it so that no object interposes between the coffin and the ground.
With the implementation of this ruling the man and the bottle passed away side by side…
There were no better days for the people of Israel than the Fifteenth of Av .. "And the daughters of Jerusalem would go out dressed in white and dance in the vineyards located on the outskirts of the city. And everyone who didn't have a wife would go there." -taanit
"When the moon was first created, she was a glistening jewel. She did not merely reflect light, but rather transformed it and brought out its inner beauty. In her own way, the moon was greater than the sun — for the sun only shines from its surface, whereas the moon shone from its inner essence. And so will be, once again, and much more so, in the time to come." -Rabbi Isaac of Homil, Maamar Shnei Me'orot
- chi'ia ch'ung Chung-chia tribe: women and men began courting by dancing beneath the full moon in spring
-Hua-Miao tribe: designated a special
plot of land known as the "moon place" where the courting of young people in the village began.
-As late as the 19th century young married couples in France scampered 'round naked in the moonlight among the stones of Carnac as an infertility cure.
-The Polynesians still consider the preferred time for marriage at full moon.
" What is there in thee, Moon! that thou shouldst move my heart so potently?" -John Keats
Out of everyone, why Joba? Why not Rasner?
cuz luck stopped being a yankee fan
-psd yankee forum
I live, but not in myself,
and I have such hope
that I die because I do not die.
1. I no longer live within myself
and I cannot live without God,
for having neither him nor myself
what will life be?
It will be a thousand deaths,
longing for my true life
and dying because I do not die.
2. This life that I live
is no life at all,
and so I die continually
until I live with you;
hear me, my God:
I do not desire this life,
I am dying because I do not die.
3. When I am away from you
what life can I have
except to endure
the bitterest death known?
I pity myself,
for I go on and on living,
dying because I do not die.
4. A fish that leaves the water
has this relief:
the dying it endures
ends at last in death.
What death can equal my pitiable life?
For the longer I live, the more drawn out is my dying.
5. When I try to find relief
seeing you in the Sacrament,
I find this greater sorrow:
I cannot enjoy you wholly.
All things are affliction
since I do not see you as I desire,
and I die because I do not die.
6. And if I rejoice, Lord,
in the hope of seeing you,
yet seeing I can lose you
doubles my sorrow.
Living in such fear
and hoping as I hope,
I die because I do not die.
7. Lift me from this death,
my God, and give me life;
do not hold me bound
with these bonds so strong;
see how I long to see you;
my wretchedness is so complete
that I die because I do not die.
8. I will cry out for death
and mourn my living
while I am held here
for my sins.
O my God, when will it be
that I can truly say:
now I live because I do not die?
i've heard that nuchem rosenberg announced on the zev brenner show that infamous child molester YEHUDA KOLKO was working at a summer camp where he has access to children. any information about this would be welcome. I was also told that kolko goes around brooklyn with his head held high. one would think he'd be ashamed to show his face.
WHY IS THIS?
i've just been given an understanding of this that i should've figured out myself. one of the biggest litvishe gedolim paskaning in favor of kolko has molesters in his immediate family. all these supposed "gedolim" are afraid to throw stones because of their glass houses. it's a neverending cycle of cover-ups and of hands washing the other. yet they have the audacity to promote va'adei hatznius in every city.
yehuda levin had the balls to say on his radio show that parents should teach their kids not to let anybody touch them in certain places because there are mechanchim who are molesters. he was hauled into a gathering of roshei yeshiva where the noveminsker attacked him for trying to destroy the little bit of torah that's been built up in america.
i, myself remember when reb shneur kotler's son aharon was running around like a vilder yung. who knows what he did back then and who knows about it. and who really cares about somebody's chat'as n'urim except when it causes these "leaders of klal yisroel" to remain mum about predators and rotzchim.
it's a story as old as mankind. bottom line, we only have ourselves to police our communities. more and more victims must speak out.
i honestly feel sorry for the many decent frum people who naively believe their rabonim, rebbes and gedolim are looking out for them. now i understand shomer p'so'im hashem. halvay it was the case.
In honor of the upcoming Sabbatian holidays of "Festival of Luminaries" ("Chag haMe'orot") Tamuz 23 (this year, Saturday, July 26), and "Holy Sabbath" ("Shabat Kodesh") Tamuz 24 (this year, Sunday, July 27 - as known, in additoin to the weekly Sabbath, there was a separate Sabbatian Sabbath, which is only once a year, and can fall out on any day of the week), and in preperation of the upcoming month, herewith is enclosed, in addition to Amirah's natal chart above, a letter to his followers that he wrote in 1671 for the upcoming 9th of Av. As is known, that year (5431) was the most climactic and energized year of the post-conversion years. It is so renowned in the Sabbatian legend, that various sabbatian writers of the time (e.g. Chazan, Y.L. Tovah, both in his commentary and his hymns) refer to it as "The Year of (our) Redemption" or "The Year of the Turbun" (for that year, many converted, even before the sultan), and as is attested in the fascinating chronicles of Jacob Najara, Rabbi of Gaza and grandson of Israel Najara the poet, covering the months of Shevat to Av, with some text missing in middle (from the ms. "Sefer Yemot Mashiach," originally printed by Avraham Amariliu in "Sefunot," and now available in English translation in David J. Halperin's "Sabbatai Zavi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah" [Littman, 2007].)
The following letter follows another drama taking hold of Amirah's court: his abrupt divorcing of Polish Sara, and betrothing (even fucking) of the daughther of the Sofian Rabbi Aharon Majar; his renaming her "Sarah"; the allegations according to some that he bedded her during an orgiastic feast in the presence of other attendees; that he bloodied his mouth by biting her pussy (virginal blood? menstral blood?); that he later drops her for his original Polish Sarah, leaving Majar hanging; that he reinterpreted all the arayot (sexual taboos) from the negative to the positive; etc. etc.
So here he is , after divorcing Polish Sarah in Nisan, and right after his betrothal to Sarah daughter of Majar on 25 Sivan (possibly even sex, for it is called "the completion of the blessed mating" ["gmar hazivug hamevurach"]; Halperin translates "blessed match," which I think is wimpy and more appropriate for "shiduch").
Anyways, this is what Amirah writes, as included in the anonymous letter of a contemporary follower (possibly Nathan of Gaza):
…And on the Full-Moon of Av, Amira"h's light illuminated with such a light as was never before, and on Day 5 of that month he wrote a decree (gezeirah) to make 9 of Av "Festival of Joys" ("Chag haSimchot," also: "Celebrations") [for] 7 days, as you shall see the text of the decree as follows:
I DECREE ON ALL WHO ARE CALLED ISRAEL [i.e. all Jews], THAT ON THE NINTH OF THIS AV THAT APPROACHES IN PEACE, YE SHALL MAKE A GREAT HOLIDAY WITH GREAT JOY, FOLLOWING THE PROGRAM THAT I LAYED OUT IN THE YEAR 5426 [1666; as is known, that year Amirah sent out a general epistle to all of Israel as to how to conduct the upcoming 9 of Av. Amirah named it "Chag haNechamot," "Festival of Consolation"; it was then that he abolished the fast in its most widest influence; the letter even contains original liturgy to say during prayers for that day; there, he signs the letter "Shabatai Tzvi"].
AND NOW I ADD UPON MY DECREE, THAT YOU SHALL MAKE IT LIKE THE LAW OF PASSOVER AS TO [ESTABLISHING IT THAT] THE FIRST DAY BE SABBATICAL AND THE SEVENTH DAY BE SABATICAL, AND THE DAYS IN BETWEEN ARE TO BE LEGALY CONSIDERED AS "THE INTERMEDIATE DAYS" ("CHOL HAMO'ED"), AND CALL IT [WITH] A NEW NAME: "FESTIVAL OF JOYS" ("CHAG HASIMCHOT"). [To note, that in 1666 Amirah writes to observe it "as the day of Purim, literally." Now it is expanded into Passover.]
AND WHOEVER DEFIES MY ORDER (HAMAMREH ET PI) AND WILL NOT MAKE IT [9 OF AV] A HOLIDAY, I SWEAR UPON ME THAT "THE [i.e. his] BLOOD WILL BE DRAINED [or: INTO PIECES HE WILL BE MADE], AND HIS HOUSE BE MADE A DUNGHILL" [Daniel 2:5, what Nebuchadnezar told the Chaldeans when they could not repeat and interpret the dream of the 4-metal man].
THESE ARE THE WORDS (NE'UM) OF THE MOST LOFTY MAN (HAGEVER HUKAM AL), UPON GOD HIS LORD, MESSIAH, LORD OF ISRAEL (ELOHEY ISRAEL), THAT IS, THE ANTECEDENT UPON ALL ANTECEDENTS AND CAUSE OF ALL CAUSES (ILAT AL KOL HA'ILOT V'SIBAT KOL HASIBOT), THAT IS YDVD [i.e. YHVH] THE LORD OF MY FAITH (ELOHEY EMUNOTI) –
ISRAEL (YISRAEL) TZVI
[Then the anonymous letter continues:]
And Amira"h told us, that until now his name was Jacob (Ya'akov), for all his acts were in guile (be'ukvah, play on the name Ya'akov) like Jacob who took the blessings from Esau with gulie. And now he is "Israel," and so he signed in the decree. But in the [letter about the] liturgy for the year 5466 [1666], he signed "Shabtai," for this was his name during the birth [note: not only "from birth," but from the illumoination period called "The Birth" which culminated with the conversion].
And on that day after writing the decree, the wholly sage his honor our master Rabbi Avraham haYachini may the Compassionate One protect him came from Constantinople and he sent messangers throughout Turkey, and he [in Andrianople] he gathered all the city people to the Portugese Congregation [synagogue], and whoever did not want to come he excommunicated him. And he gave the decree over to the hand of the wholly sage his honor our master Rabbi Y. N. [Ya'akov Najara?], and he read it [out loud] from a high position in middle of the crowd. And several of the wealthy people of Constantinople that were here and also some of the city people went to the judge and to the officer of the garden, and Amira"h went there [too]. And he said to the judge and the the aforementioned officer, "If it does not favor your eyes what I do, write to his majesty the king and I will respond to the king.
And we made the Festival of Joys with much joy and many attendees at the house of Amira"h that he he has amongst the Jews [i.e. in the Jewish neighborhood], and also at Congregation Shansulus[?] there was a gathering of many. And during the eve of the Festival of Joys he [Amira"h] visited all the congregations, and whichever congregation that he saw were not praying the holiday prayers, he would disturb them (haya mevalvel otam).
[The letter then goes on to describing the next few days, how when there was some opposition Amirah himself went to announce the decree, and eventually went to visit the king.]
PS: hat-tip to Khepher for the natal chart
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