DEATH AS A GIFT.

DEATH AS A GIFT – A FORTIORI ARGUMENT.


(Jibril) further said in the name of Rab: What is the meaning of the verse. He hath made everything beautiful in its time? It teaches that the Holy One, blessed be He, made every man's trade seem fine in his own eyes. PETER MAJOR said it agrees with the popular saying: Hang the heart of a palm tree on a pig, and it will do the usual thing with it.

 The whole world was built to last the threshes of time.
All creatures inherited a set scheme of things, ordained and designed to outlast the limits of time.
Man therefore, created purposely, is heir of all he can see, he is imperishable.

And so to they who shall possess full comprehension of what there is, death shall not overtake them. This is the gift.

What is death? A slippage in time where all folk are weighed down through disappearance of their loved ones in a continuous series called after life.

The epitome of achievement of an apple tree is a dangling apple fruit, how much more that of one worthier than a tree? But now suppose a hoard of elephants shook some down and trampled them underfoot? Is there loss recorded against the tree? NO. The producers are perfect & focused in their production, perpetually.

Even so, man is of the same perpetuity in the chore of things, living through hardships (elephants trampling down apples), renewing his goal with every new sunrise.
In sleep he is at rest, in what they fear most death, they are at rest.

Man is the pinnacle of achievement to the gods. 

With or without their affirmations they fulfill the will of forces that be. Co-creators of the matrix so hard to be pieced.
The belligerent and arrogant child will get punishment as a reward.

The erroneous man will not see death as punishment, this is his reward. Why should he rest? 

Why would he be invited to the lounge of the victors? No, there shall be no rest for the wicked.

Exposed they shall be to the elements under nature’s command; Cold, heat, noise etc.

 Tossed side to side like excess baggage in whichever mode of transportation. 

He is condemned to an eternity living as a fugitive wherever he goes, a vagrant vagabond.

Not only is this culpable through murder but even the slightest fraction of infringement upon another soul.
Justice is an act of addressing the issue to the littlest of matter.

Cain pleads with God for some little rest from the vengeance sought by the blood he had spilled.
He becomes an alien, fraudulent data is his accessory, lest he be an exposed alien and the people bay for his blood. This is in consequence to the cry for vengeance by blood he oppressed.



It is a terrible affair to commit murder, worse it is to spill innocent blood on soil.
It is not a good thing to betray our friends, it becomes worse when we do it for a price.

(I asked them to name my price or forbear: 30 pieces of silver they offered for me)

A tag can be put on a chicken neck, can the same be done for a man? NO.
The men who have taken bribes to lay low lives of fellow men are in for a rude shock.
Soon as old age deceives them to write wills leaving blood money to be inherited by their people, the lightning thunderbolt of God strikes.

The voice of the spirit leaves them, and once robust shouting young men become dumb toothless old weak men. Though they want to opine, the matter only rests within their bossoms.
Hands too weak to write, scribbling knowledge is fled from them.
Once voluptuous lungs taking in gas can only exhale like that of a new born child.
An old v8 engine is reduced to a motor, shell of its former self.


And finally on the day they fall, they are interred inside the best of wood, cedars from Lebanon.
In their protestation, that they be left on their warm beds to rest, only their perished selves know this matter. Before the eyes of the worlds they are termed the dead. Fatal conclusion.
Indeed they are dead, for they will be locked in prisons, crying not to be lowered 6 feet below, but cries on that day shall fall on deaf ears.

I tell you the truth, every good or bad man is alive well and kicking inside that casket.
The good ones are in never ending joy, the checkered flag in sight.

They that persisted in evil will call out from their hospital beds that the cables be left intact, but the nurse on duty shall relay to the doctor, “He ceased breathing at 5 AM” That’s the time recorded in heaven as the day they fell.




There, they are inside their former selves, vigorous as young stallions, but that vision is denied to those that see them. They will now look to themselves as objects of scorn, they worshipped themselves and adored their images more than they did for anyone else. The mirror will be taken away on that day.
 

The requirement still is to love our neighbour as ourselves, these men will lay in hospital beds to be whisked away to the cold frost that man created, the morgue. Every step the doctor pushes the cart to the world of the condemned, the cry of the man on the stretcher grows louder and louder. But to whom will the wicked man cry to? His wickedness will condemn him, his righteousness not sufficient to save him. Whisked away to be placed in ice, later in wood then if lucky in cement.

The man becomes an unseen spirit. He is one with the iblees kind, where they are of divided opinion like the sons of men forever. But this man’s spirit has bred outside righteousness.


Now then, his voice of crying will never cease, he shall never die so that he will never stop to cry. A cry that no ear shall hear except that of their maker. Who has so purposed his creation that everyman may reap that which he sowed.  
For if men were allowed to harvest that of their neighbours, the chaos would be manifold on land.

This is the pit where the dead go. There is no pit.

A land of utter darkness. Where there is only weeping and mourning and gnashing of teeth.
Death is a gift to the righteous sons and daughters of men. An earned rest from all lifetime toil.
Some men are more at rest in death than others just as some are more at ease in life than others.
Life is not predestined, History is.
So then, what’s past, death in this argument, is prologue.

 BUT THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING.

We do know that the dead converse with the living.
The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses: Say to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob:
The oath which I swore to you I have already carried out for your descendants.


A curtain before our time separated the living and the dead.

‘But the dead know nothing’: They observe everything. These are the poor of the world.

These are the wicked who in their lifetime are called dead, as it says. And thou, O wicked one, thou art slain. He is still alive! What it means is, he is already counted as dead.


Has it not been taught: It is related that a certain pious man gave a denar to a poor man on the eve of New Year in a year of drought, and his wife scolded him, and he went and passed the night in the cemetery, and he heard two spirits conversing with one another.

Said one to her companion: My dear, come and let us wander about the world and
             let us hear from behind the curtain what suffering is coming on the world.

Said her companion to her: I am not able, because I am buried in a matting of reeds.
But do you go, and whatever you hear tell me.

So the other went and wandered about and returned.
Said her companion to her: My dear, what have you heard from behind the curtain?

She replied: I heard that whoever sows after the first rainfall will have his crop smitten by hail.

So the man went and did not sow till after the second rainfall, with the result that everyone else's crop was smitten and his was not smitten.

The next year he again went and passed the night in the cemetery, and heard the two spirits conversing with one another.

Said one to her companion: Come and let us wander about the world and hear from behind the curtain what punishment is coming upon the world.

Said the other to her: My dear, did I not tell you that I am not able because I am buried in a matting of reeds? But do you go, and whatever you hear, come and tell me.

So the other one went and wandered about the world and returned.

She said to her: My dear, what have you heard from behind the curtain?
She replied: I heard that whoever sows after the later rain will have his crop smitten with blight.


So the man went and sowed after the first rain with the result that everyone else's crop was blighted and his was not blighted.


Said his wife to him: How is it that last year everyone else's crop was smitten and yours
was not smitten, and this year everyone else's crop is blighted and yours is not blighted?
So he related to her all his experiences.

The story goes that shortly afterwards a quarrel broke out between the wife of that pious man and the mother of a child, and the former said to the latter, Come and I will show you your daughter buried in a matting of reeds.

The next year the man again went and spent the night in the cemetery and heard those conversing together.

One said: My dear, come and let us wander about the world and hear from behind the curtain what suffering is coming upon the world.

Said the other: My dear, leave me alone; our conversation has already been heard among the living.

This would prove that they know? The spirits now know we can tap their knowledge. The curtain was torn into two. No barrier between both worlds. The unrighteous jinn at great peril. There lies a choice now to belong to either worlds. No limitations of time in both heaven & hell. There is eternal living in one; There’s neither dying or living in another.

Recompense.
The father of Samuel had some money belonging to orphans deposited with him. When he died, Samuel was not with him, and they called him, ‘The son who consumes the money of orphans’

So he went after his father to the cemetery, and said to them [the dead]. I am looking for Abba.

They said to him: There are many Abbas here.
He then said to them: I want Abba the father of Samuel; where is he?
They replied: He has gone up to the Academy of the Sky.

Meanwhile he saw Levi sitting outside.

He said to him: Why are you sitting outside? Why have you not gone up [to heaven]?


Before the answer came, his father came. Samuel observed that he was both weeping and laughing.
He said to him: Why are you weeping? He replied: Because you are coming here soon.
And why are you laughing? Because you are highly esteemed in this world.
He thereupon said to him: If I am esteemed, let them take up Levi; and they did take up Levi.

He then said to him: Where is the money of the orphans?

He replied: Go and you will find it in the coffers of Equity bank gaining interest.

He said to him: Why did you do like that?

He replied: So that if thieves came, they should neither take mine nor theirs.

And if the earth should destroy the banking institution, both funds are insured.




It is a man’s duty; To cleanse himself of pollution in order to study the Torah in cleanliness.


They absconded. Their learning grew heavy for them. Being by now strong enough to resist.


Derogatory remarks about the rabbinical dead are highly discouraged.
A man made such remarks against Rabbi Samuel and a log fell from the sky breaking his skull.
Because the Holy One, blessed be He, avenges his insult.

It was taught in the school of Rabbi Ishmael: If you see a scholar who has committed an offence by night, do not cavil at him by day, for perhaps he has done penance.

A Tanna taught: Michael [reaches his goal] in one [flight], Gabriel (Jesus) in two [in tandem with both worlds of the living & the dead, simultaneously], Elijah in four, going to all four quarters of heaven first, and the Angel of Death in eight. In the time of plague, however, [the Angel of Death, too, reaches his goal] in one.

for Ze'iri deposited some money with his landlady, and while he was away visiting Rab she died. So he went after her to the cemetery and said to her, Where is my money? She replied to him: Go and take it from under the ground, in the hole of the doorpost, in such and such a place, and tell my mother to send me my comb and my tube of eye-paint by the hand of So-and-so who is coming here tomorrow.



Alas for the generation of which you are the leader, seeing that you know nothing of the troubles of the scholars, their struggles to support and sustain themselves!

have we done anything except out of regard for your honour? THEY ASK OF GOD.

the former is an obligation that will soon lapse while the other is an obligation that will not lapse. keeping the faith....

  The Decree of Jesus Christ. The Kingdom of the Worlds now belong to Him.

Jesus Of Bethlehem, King Of Kings, Lord of Lords. Born in Judea, Palestine, He is ruler of earth.
In the first year of King Jesus, the King issues a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem.
 

The Prophet, Rabbi Jeremiah 9:23
This is what the Lord says,
“Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, or the strong man of his strength, or the rich man of his riches, but let him boast about this, that he understands and knows me. Who exercises kindness, Justice and righteousness on earth, for in the humble I delight.

For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, take up iron from the dirt, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. They ardone it with silver and gold.

There is a conspiracy among the children of Noah, those who live in Jerusalem, they have returned to the sins of their forefathers, who refused my words and followed other gods to serve them.

Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field; they will turn my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland (Twist the words of the scripture through no fault of their own, but of weakness of their own).”

Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices and let its foundations be laid (Jesus incarnated)
The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury channeled from the governments of the Worlds.
Also all the gold and silver articles that left the house of God and were brought to Babylon are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem, to be deposited in the house of God (Return of the true knowledge and reverence for God).

Whatever is needed; wheat, salt, wine and oil as requested by the teachers in Jerusalem must be given them daily without fail, that they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the God of heaven and pray for the wellbeing of the King and his sons.

Furthermore, I decree that if anyone changes this edict, a beam is to be pulled from his house and he is to be lifted up and impaled on it. And for this crime his house is to be made a pile of rubble.

May God, who has caused his name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem (Corrupt the word of God).

I Jesus have decreed it. Carry it out with diligence.

And you, teachers, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all people of the earth. And you are to teach any who do not know them.
Whoever does not obey the law of your God and that of the King must surely be punished by death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord God of all Worlds is upon me.

 THE NOBLE CHILDREN AFTER ALL SAINTS.

A collection of sonnets & short rhymes.

AUTHOR: O IAN.

VULTURE.

This Vulture which you call unnatural’
Let him to the tip of the sky lie cruising.
Then you’ll see that no more beautiful bird is in heaven’s height,
No wider wings than his, no graceful a flight.
Pardon him you Sparrow who dart in the orchard aisles.
For it is he the angel who devours death,
Mocking the mutability of men’
Redeeming them from their eternal debt.





FISHES OF THE SEA.

When I consider that judgement shall begin at home,
Then I toil all my days for the occasion's prom.
Why do the fish of the Sea swallow?
Both with Leviathan & Sparrow.
Methinks Prometheus had better fate,
He stole heavenly fire for the frost at our gate.
You fishes of the sea have for time been enslaved,
Denied the taste of all that's to be craved.
Sipping perpetual water,
Stateless with no border,
Punished for all season and time.
Banished for unforgivable crime.
To drink thy gin with no lime.
All tread the same youth to prime.
Washing out ill that you've all done,
Deserving pity from majesty you all earn.     




AWAKENING.


The Sun Might Be self serving.
A Woman giveth much looks to win back a glance.
Heat and Light us having,
These two thou lendeth once.
Us Glorying in that we see,
First & only produce from thy black sea.
There is a heart in thee too.
Brain, Teeth or Two.
I've seen your arms search me under the rock.
Bearing with it more than I be with my flock.
Ever with me, yet still get time for thyself,
Retiring West As I wade East Myself.
This is your trick that you're first on the block.
Having learned to navigate & dock.
Beating longtime mates Moon & Rock.
To Serve every Fool and King,
Taking in all, not speaking a thing.




SON OF MARY.


Half breed child of Pisces and Aquarius.
Father of Torah, Flesh of both Eagle and Horse.
Brave like Sunned Set,
The brother to Osiris & all that fish with net.
Protector of boat in sea deep end,
Provider for those that repent.
Accused of younger brother Mohammad of ill intent,
Making straight again which is bent.
Restoring back that which was lent.
Rogue doctor treating with mud.
Same which Father forbade as bad.
Brother again hear my word,
To play as child is okay with dirt,
Once grown don't bother much with that.




THE TERMITE REBELLION.

We've Savagely Put To Conquest All Land.
Laying a pipe line way before the TransAtlantic Morse.
First Musicians, The First Marching band.
Playing a Tune Forgotten Quick After Wall Of China Rose.
On which account We Rebel, Our grievance shall be in prose.
But yet what's true,
All know that we are Black & Red, tainted with random Blue.
You've builded masts that you call network at large.
Neither relying on us for information and espionage.
Preferring the swift Sparrow to our foot soldiers.
That which you called Twitter stretching beyond borders.
Let that same means also transmit this,
Last we shall occupy Netherlands of His.






RETURN TO SHILOH.


Vamoosed From The Temple, I Bided My Time.
Locked out in the wild, neither nickel nor dime.
In wrath I return but shall not meet them as a man,
Nor Behemoth even cannon set lose,
They'll know terror after music & booze.
Pardon whose their lives I'll use,
Who one of two things must choose,
Forbear continuing ill to produce,
Or disappear to appear all over news.



FORMER ACQUAINTANCES.

The Devil who was once Father's Associate,
We now know has stolen from another of our brother;
Lucifer, tutor retired, moved stocks in Berkshire Hatha.
Darkened from perpetual exposure to sun,
Revered conqueror of all African pan. (Corruption)
Had enterprise liquidated when he was acquitted.
Allowed to leave country with papers permitted.
Architect Of the suit that Lost Paradise,
Legal battle which heavily cost Limbs and Eyes.
The Original Israel Gaza, on Steroids in this Sphere,
Nothing of the Philistine or Samson who had no Fear.
Like To The Union Of Bill & Melinda Gates.
Where hastily Melinda Hastes.
Deny Not Thou hast been in Eden
To violate the Garden Of God thou heathen.
But keep Thee all Diamond & Gold.
You'll return the Stone Carbuncle of old.
Moses is ascending Sinai we are told,
To Collect wife's romance through June's cold.


TWELVE – 12

Unlike Earth Government,
There's Democracy in the heavenly firmament,
I AM in charge in resonance with Xi of China.
Duly retained by selfs as doeth Putin in Russia.
Both having copied of the master Himself,
Ruler of whole earth, handpicker of Twelve.







THESE PEOPLE.


They want to know how long it took us to make earth.
We gave 6 for their mirth.
Calling them to Last Supper today,
Our bellies filled yesterday.
To Lift up Crescent that they may gaze on,
As they do to females that strut home.
When Ape could but behold the Nut he despised the fruit.
Much worse he did stomping his foot,
Vulgar Chant and Spit,
Then crack the Kola was split.
Who grew up little as worm,
Staging Affection & Charm,
And so go walking damned,
These Elves have their ears harmed.
Called Transgressors from the Womb,
Marching all Roads to the Tomb.

 

FACE TO FACE.


It Goes Such.
Friday Calls for Gay Females To Church.
In Went Sons Of Belial To Masquerade as Much.
So tasked To Pick Sheep From Wolf,
How they walk is no proof,
Much not what they say But see what they do,
This I know as Man and hold dear True,
Day I toil for her nightly paid my due,
God is woman & more than talk we do.
Who raised the first man earth did kill,
Abel went a bachelor leaving no will.
Sayer of the man is become like one of us,
To choose Good but Evil to Pass.




40 NIGHTS.

The loss of a poem pains deeper than that of a child.
I shall hold your Cup, here fill my Third.
Fools to Poets sire,
Words make the King Transpire.
40 Night pilgrimage with God begins today.
Forsaking the usual mountain flat and way,
Men Long discovered Moses's path and defacated the green plant.
No more processing prayers from the living,
For to sort the backlog with all dead first.
Depriving wine to the already drunk,
Procure more water for those that thirst.
Prevailing women's applications,
North, West, Gaza & Far East Nations,
But Most Profound I behold one child's inscription,
Forbidding Mourning in jest, A Valediction.








TO AUNT JANET.


There's another soul at your station Aunt Janet,
Sat at your post, seeing a sight you saw too well.
The same picture to behold we cannot tell.
Spain & Norway have voiced for Palestine.
And Sudan shall be split thrice again.
Noah's sons are all men.
To Ararat we all docked then.
Whose daughters are thee females?
An one of Noah art thou Dear Aunt, A Flock of Him,
First of them all, in eternity with thy chiefs Ogola & Raisi Ebrahim.

 A MAN MUST ALWAYS CARRY HIMSELF AS THOUGH HE WERE A SCHOLAR.


There is no breach:
[that is], may our company not be like that of David from which issued Ahitophel.
Or like that of Saul from which issued Doeg the Edomite.
Or like that of Elisha, from which issued Gehazi.
In our broad places: may we produce no son or pupil who disgraces himself in public.

Even of Moses & Aaron for disgracing the Lord in public at the waters of Meribah.

To The Guardian Angels of the various nations.
From the context this would seem to refer to the nations of the earth. Rabbi, however, says it to mean the assembly of the wise men.

We now assume control of the assembly of the Jinn.
Ursuping the entirety of the milky way.
The devils are in the details.
They are ever reduced to the articles.
Occupying the same place in the present day liturgy.


Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness.
The proof is that they have never produced a proselyte.
The people of earth are ‘stout-hearted’, for they see the glory of
the Torah twice a year, and never has one of them been converted.

The validity of the act which does depend on the mental concentration and
we are witnesses that they are unable to concentrate.
Here, in Nairobi, however, anyone who sees will say, He has
no work; go and see how many unemployed there are in the market place.



[Our Rabbis taught]: Greater is the promise made by the Holy One, blessed be He, to the women than to the men; for it says, Rise up, ye women that are at ease; ye confident daughters, give ear unto my speech. Whereby do women earn merit? By making their children go to the synagogue to learn Scripture and their husbands to the world to live its interpretation.



They charged him Jesus Christ.

they said to him: May you see your requirements provided in your lifetime, and may your latter end be for the future world and your hope for many generations; may your heart meditate understanding, your mouth speak wisdom and your tongue indite song; may your eyelids look straight before you, may your eyes be enlightened by the light of the Torah and your face shine like the brightness of the firmament; may your lips utter knowledge, your reins rejoice in uprightness and your steps run to hear the words of the Ancient of Days.


A favorite saying of the Rabbis of Jabneh was:
I am God's creature and my fellow is God's creature. My work is in the town and his work is in the country. I rise early for my work and he rises early for his work. Just as he does not presume to do my work, so I do not presume to do his work. Will you say, I do much and he does little? We have learnt: One may do much or one may do little; it is all one, provided he directs his heart to heaven.


Keep me from all evils that threaten to come upon the world. As for all that design evil against me, speedily annul their counsel and frustrate their designs! May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before Thee, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer!

Rabbi Alexandri on concluding his prayer used to add the following: Sovereign of the Universe, it is known full well to Thee that our will is to perform Thy will, and what prevents us? The yeast in the dough and the subjection to the foreign Powers. May it be Thy will to deliver us from their hand, so that we may return to perform the statutes of Thy will to perfection!


Rabbi on concluding his prayer added the following: May it be Thy will, O Lord our God, and
God of our fathers, to deliver us from the impudent and from impudence, from an evil man, from evil hap, from the evil impulse, from an evil companion, from an evil neighbor, and from the destructive Accuser, from a hard lawsuit and from a hard opponent, whether he is a son of the covenant or not a son of the covenant! [Thus, did he pray] although guards were appointed to protect Rabbi.


Rabbi Hiyya on concluding his prayer added the following: May it be Thy will, O Lord our God, that our Torah may be our occupation, and that our heart may not be sick nor our eyes darkened!


What is the meaning of the verse, So will I bless Thee as long as I live; in Thy
name will I lift up my hands? if he does this, Scripture says of him, My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness. Nay more, he inherits two worlds, this world and the next.


Have they not taught you that a row of comforters is not made for male and female slaves, and
that a blessing of mourners is not said for them, nor is condolence offered for them? What then do they say for them? The same as they say to a man for his ox and his donkey: ‘May the Almighty replenish your loss’



Guard what you have, HE REPLIED TO THEM: I WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOU TO
REMOVE FROM MYSELF THE KINGSHIP OF HEAVEN EVEN FOR A MOMENT.


I put it in words to remember to trust the wife among women who leads me down the rabbit hole where i might return with some information.
(The one who repeated the section of the Mishnah/teaching for the teacher to expound.)
– O ian.

A man should not say the grace after meals mentally, but if he does so he has performed his obligation.

Because it is written, ‘Hear’ which implies, let your ear hear what you utter with your mouth.

Look at this student who has come from the West [Palestine] and who says: If one has no water for washing his hands, he can rub his hands with earth or with a pebble or with sawdust. He replied: He is quite correct. Is it written, I will wash in water? It is written: In cleanliness — with anything which cleans. For Rabbi Hisda cursed anyone who went looking for water at the time of prayer.






The Great Attainment.

If one consults nature and washes his hands and puts on faith and recites his prayers and feeds orphans, Scripture accounts it to him as if he had built an altar and offered a sacrifice upon it.
He should consult nature and wash his hands and put on the words of life and recite his prayer and perform charity: this is the complete acknowledgment of the kingdom of heaven.


Truth.

Abaye said: Therefore we [in Babylon] begin [the section], because they begin it in the West but do not go through with it; and since we begin we go through with it, because Rabbi Kahana has said in the name of Rabbi One need not begin, but if he begins he should go through with it.


Rabii Jonah said in the name of Rabbi Zera: If a man does his own business before he says his prayers, it is as if he had built a high place.


Rabbi Ela the son of Rabbi Samuel said in the name of Rabbi:
If one said ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one’, and was then overpowered by sleep, he has performed his obligation.


Our Rabbis taught: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Up to this point
concentration is required. Symmachus says: Whoever prolongs the word [one] has his days and years prolonged. Rabbi Jeremiah was once sitting before Rabbi Hiyya and the latter saw that he was prolonging [the word one] very much. He said to him:
Once you have declared Him king over [all that is] above and below and over the four quarters of the heaven, no more is required.


A certain Rabbi USED TO SAY A PRAYER AS HE ENTERED THE church AND AS HE LEFT IT — Another SHORT PRAYER. THEY SAID TO HIM:
WHAT SORT OF PRAYER IS THIS? HE REPLIED: WHEN I ENTER I PRAY THAT NO
OFFENCE SHOULD OCCUR THROUGH ME, AND WHEN I LEAVE I EXPRESS THANKS
FOR MY LOT.

I give thanks to Thee, O Lord my God, that Thou hast set my portion with those who sit in the synagogue and Thou hast not set my portion with those who sit in [street] corners, for I rise early and they rise early, but I rise early for words of Torah and they rise early for frivolous talk; I labour and they labour, but I labour and receive a reward and they labour and do not receive a reward; I run and they run, but I run to the life of the future world and they run to the pit of destruction.

I have no fear before a human king who is here today and tomorrow in the grave, whose anger if he is angry with me does not last for ever, who if he imprisons me does not imprison me for ever and who if he puts me to death does not put me to everlasting death, and whom I can persuade with words and bribe with money.

Rather I shudder before the supreme King of Kings, the Holy One, blessed be He, who lives and endures for ever and ever, whose anger, if He is angry with me, is an everlasting anger, who if He imprisons me imprisons me for ever, who if He puts me to death puts me to death for ever, and whom I cannot persuade with words or bribe with money.

A man should always take stock of himself: if he can concentrate his attention he should say the prayer, but if not he should not say it.
ONE SHOULD NOT STAND UP TO pray SAVE IN A REVERENT FRAME OF MIND
THE PIOUS MEN OF OLD USED TO WAIT AN HOUR BEFORE PRAYING IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT CONCENTRATE THEIR THOUGHTS UPON THEIR FATHER IN HEAVEN. EVEN IF A KING GREETS HIM [WHILE PRAYING] HE SHOULD NOT ANSWER HIM: EVEN IF A SNAKE IS WOUND ROUND HIS HEEL HE SHOULD NOT BREAK OFF.
R. Shesheth said: This applies only in the case of a serpent, but if it is a scorpion, he breaks off.




R. Hamnuna said: How many most important laws can be learnt from these verses relating to
Hannah! Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart: from this we learn that one who prays must direct
his heart. Only her lips moved: from this we learn that he who prays must frame the words distinctly
with his lips. But her voice could not be heard: from this, it is forbidden to raise one's voice in the
Tefillah. Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken: from this, that a drunken person is forbidden
to say the Tefillah. And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken, etc. R. Eleazar said:
From this we learn that one who sees in his neighbour


something unseemly must reprove him. And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord. ‘Ulla, or as
some say R. Jose b. Hanina, said: She said to him: Thou art no lord in this matter, nor does the holy
spirit rest on thee, that thou suspectest me of this thing. Some say, She said to him: Thou art no lord,
[meaning] the Shechinah and the holy spirit is not with you in that you take the harsher and not the
more lenient view of my conduct. Dost thou not know that I am a woman of sorrowful spirit: I have
drunk neither wine nor strong drink. R. Eleazar said: From this we learn that one who is suspected
wrongfully must clear himself. Count not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial; a man who says
the Tefillah when drunk is like one who serves idols. It is written here, Count not thy handmaid for a
daughter of Belial, and it is written elsewhere, Certain sons of Belial have gone forth from the midst
of thee. Just as there the term is used in connection with idolatry, so here. Then Eli answered and
said, Go in Peace. R. Eleazar said: From this we learn that one who suspects his neighbour of a fault
which he has not committed must beg his pardon; nay more, he must bless him, as it says, And the
God of Israel grant thy petition.




Our Rabbis taught: In a certain place there was once a lizard which used to injure people. They
came and told R. Hanina b. Dosa. He said to them: Show me its hole. They showed him its hole, and
he put his heel over the hole, and the lizard came out and bit him, and it died. He put it on his
shoulder and brought it to the Beth ha-Midrash and said to them: See, my sons, it is not the lizard
that kills, it is sin that kills! On that occasion they said: Woe to the man whom a lizard meets, but
woe to the lizard which R. Hanina b. Dosa meets!
a spring of water had miraculously opened at the feet of R. Hanina, and that sealed the fate of the
lizard, for (it is asserted) when a lizard bites a man, if the man reaches water first, the lizard dies, but if the lizard reaches water first the man dies.

a man before taking leave of his fellow should not finish off with ordinary conversation, or joking, or frivolity, or idle talk, but with some matter of knowledge.

GENGETONE TO THE WORLD.

Song of the Gengetone or Gengetone song  of the genre etc...

Among the hardest gengetones of them all.

Crown goes to

 DUDU OCHUNGULO FAYAMILY!

A group of three BENZEMA, DEMORE and NELLYTHEGOON from the  

hoods of NAIROBI.

GENGETONE, A buzzing genre in KENYA and E.AFRICA, has brought to life;

"imefufua" as they'd say, underprivileged young persons caught up in the hardships

of ghettos. The lingo is not for ma"Babi" the cool kids whose mullah isn't touching 

these artists pockets btw.

ethic.

The genre is BROKE. We've heard them predict its death a while 

now. KELELE? Seems its going great for producers and retired/failed artists of the 

generation past. Collabs with acts such as JUACALI, REDSAN have raised the once 

zombie legends to life. Childish gospel music artist BAHATI has joined the gain train too.

SUPPORT these young people by subscribing to their music and paying for gigs!

GENGETONE is here to stay.

boondocks gang.

 "KAA MBALI NA MIMI BATTY!!!" MAGIX ENGA TO TIMMY.

Brewing ugomvi in the 254 again. MAGIX TIMMY beef is growing pals. Ama ni Timmy comeback? this industry of our anyways checkout jibes from the self proclaimed 254 King.

"when will you post your wife!" MAGIX POSTED  this on his instagram.