With Trepidation And Love בִּדְחִילוּ וּרְחִימוּ
GONZO PSYCHEDELIC ORTHODOXY
Stream of Consciousness, Letters of Thought
Are we the chosen few?
Igrot Moshe, Yoreh De’ah Vol. 3, Siman 35
Behold, with regard to certain yeshiva students who have begun smoking hash (marijuana), It is obviously forbidden to smoke marijuana, as this violates many basic laws of our Torah.
First of all, it physically injures the person. Even if there are people who are not physically affected by this, it mentally affects the person as it destroys his mind, and prevents him from understanding things properly. This is a terrible thing, since not only can the individual not properly study Torah, he also can not pray and properly perform Mitzvot (commandments), since doing them mindlessly is considered as if they were not done at all.
Furthermore, he is creating within himself a very strong desire (addiction), which is much stronger than the desire to eat, etc. which are necessary for a person to live. There are many that can not control and withstand this desire. This is a very grave prohibition, as we find that a Wayward and Rebellious Son [is killed] (See Deuteronomy 21:18) for creating within himself a very strong desire, even though it is to eat kosher food! How much more so it is forbidden for a person to bring upon himself an even greater desire, especially for something that a person does not need at all...
Additionally, the parents of the person smoking certainly pained by his actions, in which case he is violating the Mitzvah of Kibbud Av V’Em (honoring one's father and mother). He is also violating the Mitzvah of “Kedoshim Ti’Hiyu”(You shall be holy), as explained by the Ramban in his commentary on the Chumash (5 Books of Moses). This also leads him to transgress other prohibitions, besides the actual prohibition of taking drugs. The bottom line is that it is clear and obvious that this is one of the grave prohibitions, and everyone must try with all of their strength to remove this impurity (Tuma’ah) from all Children of Israel.”
סימן לה
איסור עישון סמים
בע״ה. ב׳ דר״ה אייר תשל״ג
מע״כ מוה״ר ירוהם פראם שליט״א.
הנה בדבר אשר התחילו איזה בחורים מהישיבה לעשן חשיש (מעראוואנא), פשוט שהוא דבר אסור מכמה עיקרי דינים שבתורה, חדא שהוא מקלקל ומכלה את הגוף, ואף אם נמצאו אנשים בריאים שלא מזיק להם כל כך אבל מקלקל הוא את הדעת ואינם יכולים להבין דבר לאשורו, שזה עוד יותר חמור שלבד שמונע עצמו מלמוד התורה כראוי, הוא מניעה גם מתפלה וממצות התורה, שעשיה בלא דעת הראוי הוא כלא קיימם.
ועוד שהוא גורם תאוה גדולה אשר הוא יותר מתאות אכילה וכדומה הצריכים להאדם לחיותו, ויש שלא יוכלו לצמצם ולהעביר תאותם, והוא איסור החמור שנאמר בבן סורר ומורה על תאוה היותר גדולה שיש לו לאכילה אף שהוא לאכילת כשרות, וכ"ש שאסור להביא עצמו לתאוה גדולה
עוד יותר ולדבר שליכא שום צורך להאדם בזה שהוא אסור, ואף שלמלקות נימא שאין עונשין מן הדין מ"מ לאיסורא ודאי עובר על לאו זה ואיכא גם הטעם דאיכא בבן סורר ומורה שסופו שילסטם את הבריות כדאיתא בסנהדרין בפ' בן סורר (ס"ח ע"ב).
ועוד שהאב והאם של אלו שמעשנין זה מצטערים מאד אשר עוברין על מצות כבוד אב ואם. ועוד איכא איסור העשה דקדושים תהיו כפירוש הרמב"ן בחומש. וגם הם גורמים לאיסורים הרבה אחרים לבד זה, סוף דבר הוא פשוט וברור שהוא מאיסורים חמורים וצריך להשתדל בכל היכולת להעביר טומאה זו מכל בני ישראל ובפרט מאלו שלומדין בישיבות. והנני ידידו מוקירו, משה פיינשטיין.
והנני דידו מוקירו,
משה פיינשטיין
How did we come to this? This is unacceptable but have we all committed diacide in some form?
Is this a declaration of war against the prophets and the Torah of Moshe?
Contemplate the number of dead in Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, the narco prison state of El Salvador, Dutarte’s police hysteria.
The number of people who have been killed in the drug wars must be well over a million. All of this just so people don't smoke pot.
Do the frum have a hand in this madness, are they shills or trumpeters for this madness? They are often the most vitriolic of the opponents of a psychedelics. Why?
Both Shlomo Carlebach and Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi were shlichim for the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who took LSD, and were connected to Timothy Leary. Shlomo became promiscuous. Rabbi Shachter married four times. Both at all times were notable in their devotion to religion.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe was hostile but more circumspect
By the Grace of G‑d,
20th of Marcheshvan, 5725
[Oct. 26, 1964]
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Greeting and Blessings:
I am in receipt of your letter of October 18th, which you write in the name of your friends and in your own behalf, and ask my opinion regarding the new drug called L.S.D., which is said to have the property of mental stimulation, etc.
Biochemistry is not my field, and I cannot express an opinion on the drug you mention, especially as it is still new. However what I can say is that the claim that the said drug can stimulate mystical insight, etc., is not the proper way to attain mystical inspiration, even if it had such a property. The Jewish way is to go from strength to strength, not by means of drugs and other artificial stimulants, which have a place only if they are necessary for the physical health, in accordance with the Mitzva to take care of one’s health. I hope that everyone will agree that before any drugs are taken one should first utilize all one’s natural capacities, and when this is done truly and fully, I do not think there will be a need to look for artificial stimulants.
I trust that you and your group, in view of your Yeshiva background, have regular appointed times for the study of Torah, and the inner aspects of the Torah, namely the teachings of Chassidus, and that such study is in accordance with the principle of our Sages, namely “The essential thing is the deed,” i.e., the actual conduct of the daily life in accordance with the Torah and Mitzvoth, prayer, Teflllin, Kashruth, etc., etc. This is only a matter of will and determination, for nothing stands in the way of the will. I trust that you are also using your good influence throughout your environment.
With blessing,
Somehow I get the impression that he has missed the point.
Promiscuity Nova festival, violent pop festivals
rebellion especially youth rebellion
It's still an embarrassment.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one, and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven.
Stairway to Heaven by the Lead Zeppelin
“LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”
― Timothy Leary
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong”. Terence McKenna
Four entered the Pardes. Ben Azzai gazed and died. Ben Zoma went mad. Acher became an apostate. Rabbi Akiva entered in peace and left in peace. See Gemara Hagigah 14b.
And the LORD said to Samuel, “ . . . for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them”.
1 Samuel 8:7
“For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly never enter the kingdom of heaven”. Matthew 5:20
מ״ח א Bava Basra
״יַקְרִיב אֹתוֹ״ – מְלַמֵּד שֶׁכּוֹפִין אוֹתוֹ. יָכוֹל בְּעַל כׇּרְחוֹ? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: ״לִרְצוֹנוֹ״. הָא כֵּיצַד? כּוֹפִין אוֹתוֹ עַד שֶׁיֹּאמַר: ״רוֹצֶה אֲנִי״.
With regard to one who pledges to bring a burnt-offering, the verse states: “If his offering be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish; he shall bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, according to his will, before the Lord” (Leviticus 1:3). The seemingly superfluous phrase “he shall offer it” teaches that they can coerce him to bring the offering. One might have thought that it can be offered entirely against his will, by taking it from his possession and sacrificing it. Therefore, the verse states: “According to his will” (Leviticus 1:3). How can these texts be reconciled? They coerce him with various punishments until he says: I want to bring the offering. This seems to prove that consent resulting from coercion is considered to be valid consent.
Is this serious? To apply this rationale to the laws concerning divorce is obscene.
Laws of Shabbos, meat and milk, davening, halacha, Talmudic analysis of Scripture
Ridiculous mockery, misunderstood misguided dilution.
If I want to hear the sins of the Jewish people, I can simply read the books of the prophets and listen to Moishe Rabenu screaming his head off.
Albert Hofmann, LSD My Problem Child:
1. "I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality". Final statement of Albert Hofmann in his book "LSD — My Problem Child"
2. The questions raised by hallucinogenic drugs do actually belong in the church — in a prominent place in the church, for they are sacred drugs (peyotl, teonanacatl, ololiuhqui), with which LSD is mostly closely related by chemical structure and activity, (ibid p90).
To say that Rabbi Moishe Feinstein and the Lubavitcher Rebbe were wicked people is not true, on the contrary they were very good people. They were simply very wrong about psychedelics. One can say a similar thing about the Jewish people as a whole. Their rejection of the prophets caused them to reject prophecy as well. To reject the books of the prophets including the five books of Moses, that far they did not go. Their attachment to these works however became blurry, frivolous, and distorted. The Talmud etc. is replete with examples of this.
It could also be that the insanity of the Jewish people towards the prophets caused a revulsion to them and everything prophetic even among the wise and righteous. See Jeremiah 42:1 to 43:8. I’d say this is why we fast on בה”ב and why we don’t observe the winter solstice. See Avodah Zarah Mishna 3:3 concerning Saturnalia. The note in the English edition by Philip Blackman concisely explains it.
Rejection and vilification of Jesus of Nazarath. Calling Jesus the Messiah and the king of the Jews indicates that at some point not only will the Jews accept him but prophecy and psychedelics as well.
Henry Luce, Aldous Huxley, Steve Jobs, Francis Crick
Why weren't they intrigued about it in the 1950s?
Why weren't the Jews intrigued about peyote and psilocybin mushrooms after the discovery of America?
Cannabis sativa is in the Rambam’s pharmacopia.
Why did we lose prophecy altogether?
Enough of this madness?
Still I’d think that these two would have had the depth of perception to see the truth.
More Madness:
Why am I constantly fighting with my rabbis (kind of) and their congregants about this? I’d think that they would simply just throw me out. Actually I am changing their minds.
After I was busted for pot, why did the cops give me more pot to smoke? Analysis not suitable for publication.
בּוֹרֵא עוֹלָם, בְּקִנְיָן; הַשְׁלֵם זֶה, הַבִּנְיָן.
Creator of the universe, in acquiring; Complete this, the building.
Google artificial intelligence search
הביטוי "השלם זה הבניין" הוא קריאה לסיום בנייה או פרויקט, במיוחד בהקשר דתי או רוחני, ומדגיש את החשיבות של השלמת המשימה וחיזוק הקהילה. הוא מרמז על כך שהשלמת הבניין מסמלת את השלמות של הקהילה ואת ההתחייבות ההדדית של חבריה.
במילים אחרות, הביטוי "השלם זה הבניין" מבטא את הרצון לראות את הפרויקט מגיע לסיומו, וכי השלמתו תביא תועלת לכל המעורבים. זהו קריאה לאחדות ולשיתוף פעולה על מנת להגיע למטרה משותפת.
The phrase "Complete this, the building" is a call to completion of a construction or project, especially in a religious or spiritual context, and emphasizes the importance of completing the task and strengthening the community. It suggests that the completion of the building symbolizes the perfection of the community and the mutual commitment of its members.
In other words, the phrase "The whole is the building" expresses the desire to see the project come to an end, and that its completion will benefit all involved. It is a call for unity and cooperation in order to achieve a common goal.
It could be that our day is arriving.
