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Chaim Meyer Scheff
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May 25, 2026, 11:10 AM
Smallest Bang: A Sequential Male-Development Baseline
Parallel Parsing Torat-Moshe from Biological ‘TWO-initially’ (בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית), rather than Cosmological ‘At-beginning’ → ‘reveals’ modestly expressed strict-sequential life-analogous descriptions: familiar & accessible when Internally-Experienced vicariously; wherein Names (people & places) are ‘clinical/attribute’ Descriptions, while numbers & units convey ‘perceptual/emotional’ Significance...
May 12, 2026, 4:04 PM
Biggest Bang: Post Modern Torat-Moshe Creation Model
Is ‘creation’ beginning(Time) starting-moment Determinate? Modern Cosmology (specifically: ‘The Big Bang’ -plus- quasi-instantly subsequent Events) asserts an unobservable Extrapolation (Model), based upon (most) everything we have come to understand from: Precise Measurements, Controlled Experiments, and many successfully-derived Predictive Formulas....
Apr 27, 2026, 2:35 PM
J’Accuse…! The ‘Fall and Rise’ of Torah-True Education
Dearest Reader: For YOUR enlightenment, while concurrently sustaining Incurable symbol-referent Confusions among THEIR (Predominantly Illiterate) believers → there still are some few Positive facets to Idolatry ⇒ since each idol’s physical details facilitate orally transmitting aspects of that culture’s primordial...
Mar 17, 2026, 1:55 PM
Pharaoh, Yosef, the Gaza Invasion/Pogrom, and (today) Iran
Dearest Kith & Kin: Looking over our history during the most ‘recent’ long & tiring Galut (exile - diaspora - captivity), including our many miscellaneous ‘positions’ in the service of respective governments, our tireless vicarious attempts at charitable social-welfare...
Feb 25, 2026, 10:11 AM
Judicial, Legislative, Executive, & Educational REFORM
To Inspire OUR Instant National, Political, Social, and Cultural Maturation - Recall: Yosef, Moshe, and Esther → each in their historic moment ⇒ saved ALL Israel. So what did these National Saviors have in common? each also spoke...
Jan 26, 2026, 12:13 AM
Physical Judaism Appreciated – Introduction
Physical Judaism Appreciated - Looking Behind the Spiritual Veil - Some Helpful Facts ⇒ Many books deal with quasi-ineffables: thoughts, intentions, meanings, morals; altruistic values, ethical dimensions, spiritual growth; theological primacy, philosophical unification, divine doctrine; causes, reasons, beliefs; origins,...
Jan 23, 2026, 5:45 PM
Personalizing: Tzimtzum, Tikun Olam, and Tefillah
Tzimtzum - meaning "contraction" or "withdrawal" - is a kabbalah-hashkafa concept - typically used for portraying a pre-primordial act of withdrawing G?D? infinite-light to create a (somewhat) "vacant space" for this (somewhat) finite world to exist. ⇒ (Alternately!) Tzimtzum can...
Jan 19, 2026, 8:33 PM
tZIONism: ReDefined/ReDeclared by Context/Details
tZion is a geographic place name -and- its surrounds (specifically: Our Authentic Ancestral Homeland); likewise, perhaps much more importantly, tZionism is Our Reflexive Ideology, Belief, & Aspiration that ‘From tZion WILL Come Forth …’ a scalable living Specification for...
Dec 14, 2025, 10:25 PM
Simplified Jewishness: The Shema (#2) with ‘instructions’
Sharing another edited revised covid-diary extract of Feelings about our single most familiar six word declaration: The Shema; my own ‘translations’ → as six⇒lines/stanzas/or-long-though paragraphs; likewise -sometimes- appended another ‘version’ of those next whispered six words too ⇒ and...
Dec 6, 2025, 10:33 PM
Simplified Jewishness: A Shema anthology – diary
Sharing my edited covid-diary extract of Feelings about our single most familiar six word declaration: The Shema; six ‘Standard’ and four ‘more Modern’ translations, & Then some of mine → six lines/couplets/or-stanzas - as paragraphs; sometimes appended-with ‘versions’ of...
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