Broken tooth
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
When I was a kid, I broke my tooth. There were always stupid people making fun of my broken tooth, which BTW has recently come out after multiple attempts to save it ...
I now have a flipper for appearance sake otherwise I look just like a bum wi...
I now have a flipper for appearance sake otherwise I look just like a bum wi...
Autobiography 3 Right Livelihood
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 1 year later | 4 comments
Right Livelihood.
One of the Buddha’s Noble Eight Fold Path is Right Livelihood and I have to admit that this has been a struggle for me for most of my life. (I am a Hippy at heart.) I enjoyed my work and sometimes I even made a good income, but ...
One of the Buddha’s Noble Eight Fold Path is Right Livelihood and I have to admit that this has been a struggle for me for most of my life. (I am a Hippy at heart.) I enjoyed my work and sometimes I even made a good income, but ...
My Autobiography 2 My Thirties
posted over 3 years ago, updated 2 days later | 1 comment
Ashram
I decided to leave the Boy Scouts and return to a real career. At that time it was programming. I also bought my first apartment building, which burned down in only 10 days. My next apartment building I bought (1973) was made of brick. (I...
I decided to leave the Boy Scouts and return to a real career. At that time it was programming. I also bought my first apartment building, which burned down in only 10 days. My next apartment building I bought (1973) was made of brick. (I...
Autobiography Beginnings
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 1 month later | 3 comments
My Autobiography Bernard Berlow: July 2008
Beginnings
I was born in Manila, Philippines on May 16, 1944, during the Japanese occupation. The night before my birth, my father tried to get to the hospital after curfew and was detained by some Jap...
Beginnings
I was born in Manila, Philippines on May 16, 1944, during the Japanese occupation. The night before my birth, my father tried to get to the hospital after curfew and was detained by some Jap...
Ashram
posted over 4 years ago | 3 comments
Many years ago I lived in an Ashram, a yoga community. I came there because the Guru had shaktipat, a kind of spiritual power, he could transmit shakti, energy, to others. I felt that shakti and I moved in. Now shakti comes in different forms. In ...
Kabbalah
posted over 4 years ago, updated 5 months later | 1 comment
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. (BeRaiSHiTh BaRA ELoHiYM ET HaSHaMaYiM VeET HaAoReTZ.) In Hebrew there are seven words, corresponding to the Seven Days of Creation. All of Torah is like a fractal with each letter within ea...
Vayyigash
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Judah pleads with Joseph on behalf of Benjamin, ”If you take him, it will kill my father,” to which Joseph responds, “I am Joseph, is our father still alive?”
This is to remind Judah that they hadn't cared about this issue in selling Joseph.
Fo...
This is to remind Judah that they hadn't cared about this issue in selling Joseph.
Fo...
A Homeless Jew in Lehighton
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
I met a homeless Jew in Lehighton, once. (Now a Jew in Lehighton is rare. And a homeless person in Lehighton is rare. But a homeless Jew in Lehighton is a once in a life time experience.) He wanted to prove to me that he was Jewish, so he recited ...
Jewish Enlightenment
posted over 4 years ago, updated over 3 years later | 10 comments
How and why was the universe created? Is this a question that interests you?
I find this whole subject of Cosmology fascinating. From the 19th century astronomer, Olber, who noticed that the sky was dark and demonstrated a paradox with simple geo...
I find this whole subject of Cosmology fascinating. From the 19th century astronomer, Olber, who noticed that the sky was dark and demonstrated a paradox with simple geo...
Dream of a Child
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
I had a dream last night. I started working in a large warehouse building. There was a child there. And the owner had hired two people to care for the child during the day, but at night the child was left alone in the warehouse. These two people ...
