Chaim Meyer Scheff
Loving Halacha, Mental-Health, and Egalitarian Sustainability.

ProLIFE: NOT AntiSemite/AntiIsrael AntiLIFE

Starting with ordinary persons – living anywhere in the world; just look at Simplified Reality – from their perspective. Are they happy WITH: (1) themselves, (2) their household, (3) their social services’ quality (food access, housing affordability, educational relevance, health care, etc.); (4) their public safety feelings, (5) their employment, (6) their neighbors; (7) their community, (8) their government, and (9) events & conditions during their lifetime?

For a ProLIFE person who is Mentally Healthy, Emotionally Stable, and Psycho-Spiritually Enlightened, repairing & perfecting personal-WORLDs comes from answering 1-9 (above). This ORDER of IMPORTANCE reflects Traditional priorities; which also strongly suggest specific ways & means for improving these ‘individual’ Happiness levels.

Update: The 1960’s counter-culture mantra “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out” desperately pleads for serious revision – appropriate for our times; perhaps “Mindfulness, Wellness, Altruism” -plus- “Inside-Out – Not Top-Down, and To Thyself Be-True”. Whatever the instant Slogan each person’s “Work, Rest, Cooperation, and Compromises” are basic ingredients → to achieve positive results. Specifically, actualizing the (1-9) betterment details demands Effort ⇒ Personal Effort.

The most effective ProLIFE activism Efforts, the best way to change the world for the better, and the obvious truth is that you must start by Asking Yourself: how you feel (Complicated with Ambivalence), how you think (Cognitive Dissonances included), whom you can share your feelings & thoughts with (that will Listen & give you Good Advice), and how you can somehow suddenly find a moment to help others (when a situation Arises). So, before you divide the world into religions, ethnic groups, economic classes, big geographic clusters, and nation-states, you would be wise to give top priority to Improving your own situation according to the You-Centric order-of-priority listed above. 

[NOTE: Embedded Links -below- include generic materials relevant for everyone; while specific references therein tend to highlight Jewish religious & cultural examples.]

(1) First, what would make YOU happier? (Answer) Accepting your situation in this instant now, Gratitude for being alive, and giving/receiving small acts of Kindness – including Sharing WORDS of Encouragement. These will ALL come back to enrich Your-Life experience. [LINK Instruction: online translate – as necessary, THEN scroll down until you BEGIN seeing categories that resonate with your personal identity & orientation → https://chiburim.sefaria.org.il/sheets/51635.1?lang=he] Additionally, successfully facilitating Quantum Entangling Happiness for others [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/resuscitating-shidduchim/], will surprisingly make you feel ecstatic; forever after.

(2) Next, change YOUR household dynamics by improving micro-collective Domestic Tranquility manifestations → including consciously/collectively eliminating all Domestic Violence – physical, verbal, and emotional – Active & Passive. These are the most important aspects that you can affect, improve, and stabilize. YES, they need constant attention, require dialog, kindness, patience, ever-changing compromises, and (sometimes) outside intervention; since everyone is growing, maturing, and aging; intermittently unhealthy, stressed, or tired; worried, traumatized, and/or just feeling contemplative.

(3) Then, regarding YOUR Social Services’ qualities & interactions (food access, housing affordability, education, health care, etc.), some require constant attention, while others demand engaging with a network of like-minded advocates for progressive improvements. 

Food Security can be easier than most people imagine. Sometimes, improving food access just requires investing in discussions with others – who are trying to receive better conditions; such as forming a food cooperative – for buying food in bulk (even simply in larger containers at supermarkets) and dividing it among yourselves. Often, part of any solution starts with (receiving, actualizing, transmitting) relevant personal-involvement Activities: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/bread-Foraging-matzah-Toxicity-Avoidance/.  

Housing Affordability requires Land entitlement, Universal mixed-use zoning (not HOA), Modular-Construction technologies, and ubiquitous orchards & gardens (not lawns).

Educational Improvement begins WITH: never ending discussions at home (about anything & everything); having, sharing, and Reading books; partnering students with Articulate Teachers/Tutors; and (Just as Important) parents & parent-alliances Exchanging Concerns with teachers & school administrators. [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jaccuse-the-fall-and-rise-of-torah-true-Education/]

Health care starts with attention to: proper ‘in season’ Diets; physio-therapeutic valuing Walking, Stairs, and doing Routine chores; adequate Sleep (often impossible with a crying infant or a sick child at home); basic Hygiene (washing hands before leaving the bathroom, before eating, and when entering your home from outside); Consulting with family & friends (regarding: common digestive problems); and Sharing knowledge about basic life stage issues (childcare, marital strife, gender specifics & stages, geriatric decline, etc.); then comes harder issues institutional medical & dental treatments – which is where Financial Wherewithal often demands advanced contingency planning (insurance -or- local-or-online community cooperative allegiances), family support, and never-ending lobbying: local hospital departments, regional ‘public health’ administrators, and (absolutely most frustrating) governmental agencies. 

(4) ‘Public Safety’ – Now, for you, your household, and friends: How prevalent is street crime in public spaces; which you travel through – every day – when commuting to work, going to school, shopping, and visiting local parks? What about shoplifting, street fighting, and rape? Are pornography, prostitution, and drug related activities problematic around where ‘your people’ live/work/study – and places any of you normally visit during the day? Does it feel unsafe going out at night? ⇒ Simply stated, before you focus your concerns on anyone else, doesn’t it make more sense for you to give top priority to issue/categories 1-3 (above) which most affect you personally -AND- to organizing Peace Loving neighborhood activism via A Network of Cameras in ‘public’ hallways, alleys, lanes, and streets -and- via photo-transfer to police -THUS- proximate households & bystanders Actively become instant Heroes: capturing Public Space events on every line-of-sight smartphone → so victims’ dignity can be redeemed, and so perpetrators’ guilt becomes undeniable!

(5) ‘Employment’ is an everpresent personal issue – especially today: (i) particularly since lifetime employer-employee relationships have become abnormally unstable AND household economics typically struggle with two incomes -while- too often ‘breaking up’ or divorcing or living alone; (ii) when economy, job-skills, and technology are in continuous flux; (iii) where social networking, online shopping, and sudden news items instantly shift response patterns for large population segments; (iv) where physical & emotional working conditions lack real-time guarantees; and (vii) where after-tax income somehow keeps falling behind increasing Costs-of-living & Life-expectations. 

Honestly: Employers hire employees To Exploit Them – to benefit the company’s owners & stock-holders; otherwise companies would never be trying to expand unlike skilled craftsmen, who give their ‘heart & soul’ to improving durability & quality of their creations their goal: achieving true mastery. Of course there are various skilled ‘craftsmen’ employed in organizations – large & small – who are always Tirelessly Working to perfect their results; such as surgeons, builders, attorneys, tailors, engineers, potters, teachers, gardeners, therapists, florists, etc. However most of us have to spend as much time off-the-job worrying about employment related issues as we do relating to personal issues (items 1-4 – above). Guilds & Unions were once imagined as solutions to such problems; however, organizational behavior toxicity of GigaCorporations & “Stake Holders” tend to infect Tax Deductible ‘charities & foundations’, Ultra-RICH Asset-Endowed Institutions (Religious, Educational, Scientific, etc.), credit-unions’ APR/MAPR PALs, TRUSTs, NGOs, PACs, and the like as they grow/mature, they become more focused on nepotism & personal ‘favors’ than on their original altruistic sounding purpose. THUS, IF you know anyone who needs a job -or- needs to upgrade to a better job -or- would be a good partner for a venture-in-formation, THEN please take a moment to share your awareness of relevant opportunities with them! 

FIXING THE WORLDs: Any sane person looking: at non-prescription medications being sold at local stores, at ‘recreational’ drug use, at crashing birthrates, and at items 1-5 (above) → must appreciate how critical current lifestyle situations are -AND- contrary to Slogans, Chantings, Marches, Protests, Riots, and Revolutions (advocated by political ideologies & social activism) Top-Down solutions do not work -AND- Elections change little -THUS- the only way to improve the Human Condition is (and has always been) from the Bottom Up – ‘grass roots’ → by every individual striving for betterment – each according to their own ability for themselves and for those they appreciate (both casually -and- with their heart & soul). 

The >abc< ProLIFE Remedy: 

>a< However important they may be – STOP focusing on irrelevant to Your Life (Distant news) items like ‘from the river to the sea’, intafadah, and the plight of Polar Bears → just Turn Down your screen-time, news fixation, errotic & psychotic media fascination, electronic-game addiction, and other dystopian Life-Attention Deprivationexperiences’ -AND- CEASE giving Your Valuable Attention to random babblings of media-propagated & self-appointed ‘influencers’ – who have neither expertise nor sufficient relevant personal experience with​​ opinions they are advocating; just like ‘instant’ Singularly UNimportant opinions of some Guy happenstantially walking on the Street; -likewise- IGNORE other Targeted (dumb-you-down) Contents & (instant ‘clutter-comfort’) Advertisings → specifically configured after monitoring, measuring, and reclassifying your morphing online persona complexity. 

>b< After contemplating items 1-5 (above) ⇒ regularly REVIEW https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-matan-torah-prequel-noahide-MENTAL-HEALTH/.

>c< Without AI or any app – THINK about how all traditional societies have come to survive sustainably → So – start again from (1) to (5) – In That Order – and given how the global-world has basically progressed (even if asymmetrically) from antiquity to today ⇒ Know: ALL your efforts are Significant – for your own Happiness, as an example to those who see how you act & speak, and for larger scales of attitudes & events which ‘eventually’ Fix Personal-WORLDs (beyond items 1-5). 

(6-7) There remains hope that your Neighbors & Community will regain/improve their reset-capacity to celebrate-LIFE joyfully [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/radical-apolitical-gd-neutral-prerosh-hashanah/]; while regarding item (8) ‘Government’ → Actualizing BE​​ST wisdom, good advice, and altruistic bureaucracies are possible [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/democracy-2-0-simple-protocol-israeli-relevancy/]; and item (9) ‘the world during your lifetime’ will begin to upgrade As Quickly as we can Do the Hard healing & progressing Work: harmonizing items (1-8) into OUR Minds, Lives, and Times → as a Blessing!

NOW, regarding AntiSemite/AntiIsrael AntiLIFE 

AntiLIFE FACTS: Many mental illnesses are CONTAGIOUS: media-fixations have become scam Carriers & e-plague Transmitters. TODAY we are looking at Hybridized post-modern Negative fertility ‘life style’ Dogmatic-Doctrines – Converging with a mutated Death-Cult viral epidemic Jihadist-Salafism & Muslim Brotherhood & Shia Islamism & Qatar Funded Kill for Salvation ‘indoctrinations’ – Merging with residual post-Medieval Inquisitory-Pogrom population control diversions (which evolved from ancient Roman & later Colonial gladiator circus ‘entertainment’) – And other perversely funded attention-redirections via ‘e-humanist’ anti-sustainability new-speak → Advocating Limitless-Pluralism. [Simply, in spite of all the damages they are doing To Themselves & To Others, their ‘programs’ are paths to​​ their own individual & collective self-annihilation (often Physically – always Mentally) → as we see from so many Historical Example of intentionally evil individuals who led (or proactively followed) religious, political, nationalist, socialist, environmental, or other ‘abstract model’ movements advocating: Group Persecution, Mob Violence, Torture, Rape, Murder, etc.]

(nevertheless) We Jews are NOT here to be the world’s therapist. → Just as ISRAEL is constantly Socially & Technologically progressing; We Jews are the world’s best exemplary resource. Our Knowledge, Wisdom, and Life-Understanding is ‘OPEN SOURCE’ – and always has been!

>https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/Personalizing-tzimtzum-Tikun-Olam-and-tefillah/<

Properly portraying actual Jews (historical & contemporary): While some imagine that Israel (The ‘Nation of Priests’) are Divinely Required to do ‘outreach’ → We Never Proselytize. OUR Cohanim (priestly caste) were/are Modest EXEMPLARY Peace-Loving Men who often accept to act as Salvation-Agents for those individuals who ask them to -and- for any Nation(s) supporting them. 

Traditionally: Cohanim were/are ultra-sensitive traveling laboratories for home-kept sourdough toxicity assessment; anonymous-source charity-funds distributors; Trustworthy Facilitators receiving & transferring & providing final certifications for Teshuvah, Tefillah, and Avodah; and (upon Beit HaMikdash rotation-service retirement – they become) wise Life-Experienced ProLIFE Educators of our children.

** “While there is much diversity among Indigenous Peoples and Nations, Indigenous ethics resonate with the values of honour, trust, honesty, and humility. They reflect a holistic ethical commitment to the collective and extend ethical considerations beyond human participants to include the land. (https://opentextbc.ca/indigenizationresearchers/chapter/INDIGENOUSethics-and-mindset/) ** This First Nations anthropology protocol (incidentally) portrays Christianity & Islam’s continuing failure to appreciate Indigenous JEWISH ProLIFEism. [Innately, for Jews, Halacha [embodying our Best Life Practices Advice] encompasses ALL 9 categories (above) -plus- a 10th aspect – relating to Respective (universal) ancestral, individual, and collective Portions in Eternity.] 

Finally, KNOW that as-soon-as The World Respects ALL Indigenous Peoples (having, keeping, & transmitting their own unique Primordial-Wisdom) → There will be No more Wars!

About the Author
Applied Mathematics MSc (Weizmann Institute), Israel Licensed Patent Attorney, Israel Licensed Engineer
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