TORAH TALMUD NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Alan DiCenzo

Hi FFs,

…I thought this was worth posting on Facebook today:

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TORAH TALMUD NUCLEAR WEAPONS

…Putting these four words together evokes all kinds of direct, indirect, contextual and even artistic and unconscious associations inside our complicated brains. That’s part of my intent. But the most direct motivation I have for this is that I want to make a certain logical comparison, which talks about the survival of humanity on Earth.

…The Torah is supposed to be the original word of God, directly from God’s mouth. I personally do not believe that it is that at all, or that there even IS such a God. But for those who DO believe in that way, the Torah tells you in the most absolute terms possible, about things you must do and things you must NOT do: Period. Metaphorically, the Torah defines the non-negotiable edge of the cliff, a relentless, digital delimiter which will bring you certain disaster if you go off the edge of that cliff. The “edge” defined in the metaphor is the boundary between, e.g., doing things which are OK and doing things which God specifically tells you in absolute terms you must NOT do.

…To help Jews later in their history in NOT falling off this terrible cliff, the rabbis eventually produced a book called the Talmud. I’m told that this, second book, created by mortal men by the way, was written to alert Jews (and anyone else too, I suppose) when they were even getting CLOSE to the cliff so that they would then have nearly ZERO risk of actually falling off the cliff. For example, a “command” or “firm suggestion” in the Talmud might say, metaphorically, “This sign shows you that you are within 100 feet of the cliff. Turn back NOW!” Leaving the metaphor behind, I might say notionally that to prevent you from sleeping with another person’s spouse (A firm, Torah cliff edge), the Talmud might “command” you to never even go out alone with another person’s spouse. (This is notional; I don’t know if the Talmud actually says this, but we can see why it could.)

…And now, the NUCLEAR TORAH. The Nuclear Torah says, “Don’t start or have a nuclear war, PERIOD.” This is, I confess immediately, NOT the word of God, who does not even exist in that way to me. But it is a command which many, perhaps most, human beings will say, is one we MUST follow or we will indeed fall of the edge of a terrible cliff.

…I have increasingly come to a realization over many years, but only today, got the idea to share this realization on Facebook, which says that there is a NUCLEAR TALMUD as well. And I realize that the Nuclear Talmud includes a command which humanity has not been following at all. The fundamental Nuclear Talmud command is “You can no longer have a WAR, period, because ANY war, no matter how “deeply conventional,” brings you very close to the EDGE OF THE NUCLEAR CLIFF.”

…We now need about 8 billion people on Planet Earth to somehow realize that, NOW that we are in the nuclear age, we can NO LONGER fight ANY WAR at any time, anywhere, on Earth. THAT is what nuclear weapons have done to us. But we don’t realize it yet.

…”A time for war; a time for peace.” That time is NOW. Can we wake up in time?

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…Right now the war in Ukraine has Putin talking of nukes.  HELLO???

…Thanks readers, Alan