How does the Torah and prophets teach the k’vanna behind this blessing? This question defines Torah scholarship following the sealing of the Sha’s. When Israel does not know how to pray, the land has no king. Moshe failed to sanctify the Name HaShem, he failed to teach Israel how to pray – for water. Torah, the Tree of Life, exudes living water. This living water any physical source can emote from its midst – life. Because the Spirit of HaShem lives within our hearts – that’s the foundation upon which stands Torah and mitzvot.
A korban entails a dedication of soul unto HaShem. This “soul” [the inheritance of ones’ future born seed], the brit faith. A sign of the brit in no manner, shape, or form equals the brit. Confusing the sign of the brit with the brit itself compares to people who worship God and then confuse the stars as also Gods. People who confuse the authority of Reshon scholarship and make the Talmud and T’NaCH secondary to Reshon opinions.
The merit of maintaining the holiness of the sworn oaths our forefathers dedicated their hearts and souls unto HaShem as our God at GilGal and at Sh’Cem – upon this merit Men and Women stand upon the scales of Divine Judgment in each and every generation for all eternity – no exceptions.
The education of children should employ rooms having different shape designs. Wherein the teacher makes competitions: the set of children in one shape/color designed room against the set of children in a different shape/color designed room. An appointed day, once a week, wherein the children design the shape and color of their class rooms, requires lite movable partition walls, permitting simple geometric designs including circles and triangles. Instructors should “grade” tests employing different scents. According to research done by the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, the olfactory response, has a direct link to the emotional center within the brain. Scents have direct associations with previous life experiences. Employing olfactory scent responses not only connects with memory-inducing mental powers, certain aromas like apples impact stress levels, even headaches. But lavender, for example, promotes relaxation. Whereas cinnamon can sharpen your mind.
Some argue that smelling a whiff of cinnamon improves cognitive functions like visual-motor response, working memory and attention span. Whereas the smell of pine can alleviate stress. The scent of vanilla perhaps improves the overall mood a person feels. The smell of fresh-cut grass promotes feelings of joy. Citrus, on the other hand, can promote more energized feelings. Emotional education represents the key to successful development of very young children. Educators should focus to inhibit emotions of aggression or lack of empathy. Antisocial behaviors, like bullying, represent the tuma Yatzir ‘big bad wolf’.
Educators should promote contact sports for aggressive children. The aim of giving aggressive children an emotional outlet, this encourages them to develop their sense of empathy toward others. The nature of empathy maturity involves a aggression/self-regulation ratio. A prime foundation for parenting small children – encouraging the child to recognize and respond to the emotions of others. Educators should encourage children to address and discuss the emotions expressed by their peers. Development of innate self awareness – joined with “others”, represents a Prime achievement. Staging emotion games, coupled with rewards when a child makes emotion discernment.
Young children mirror adult behaviors. Parents need to learn how to pantomime emotional feelings and distresses. For example: comparing upset stomach pains/gases to a balloon, grasping the stomach moaning and squeezing a balloon. A newborn’s brain has a well-developed brainstem and midbrain, which enable it to carry out the bodily functions necessary for life. But the sections of the brain involved in regulating emotions, language, and abstract thought develop after birth. Brain development–the process of creating, strengthening, and discarding connections, or synapses, among brain neurons. During the early years, children experience an incredibly fast synapse development. Approximately 80% of brain development has occurred after three years. But the devil lies in the details. Stimulation functions as the basis for learning. Passion, perhaps condenses learning limited to a single word. During the first 3 or four yours, the learning curve of a child’s brain compares to a sponge.
Obviously during this crucial period, ideally children should nurse from their mothers. But even 3 months of breastfeeding boosts brain growth by 20 to 30 percent. At birth, a baby knows its mother’s voice, even perhaps while still in the womb. The excess of synapses produced by a child’s brain in the first three years makes the brain especially responsive to external input. During this period, the brain can “capture” experience more efficiently than it will be able to later. At about three months, an infant’s power of recognition improves dramatically; this coincides with significant growth in the hippocampus, the limbic system within the brain, involved in forming, organizing, and storing memories. The first year the cerebellum triples in size, the rapid development of motor skills occurs during this period. Ideally parents should speak to the child using 10 or more languages.
Year Two: The most dramatic changes involve the brain’s language areas, which are developing more synapses and becoming more interconnected. Referred to as the “I” and “me.” period of self awareness. These changes correspond to a rapid spike in children’s language abilities – sometimes called the vocabulary explosion – typically occurs during this period. Often a child’s vocabulary will quadruple between his first and second birthday.
Year Three: Improved and consolidated, complex cognitive abilities. At this age children have greater cognitive flexibility and better understand cause and effect. The level of synaptic density has already peaked and begun to decline. Positive early experiences have a huge effect and greatly improve the chances for later achievement, success, and happiness. From here after young children begin the life struggle to integrate within society.
As a young new nation Israel struggles to integrate itself with the community of nations within the Middle East and North Africa. Foreign relations sharply contrast with domestic necessities. Government leadership can not ignore development of strategic and tactical military planning. The US strategic interests: A) Not to lose territory to either Mexico or Canada. B) Maintain and uphold the cultural dominance of its current Anglo-Protestant identity.
The Treaty of Versailles produced a tremendous impact upon the development of Nazi military planning and development. The Nazi Luftwaffe developed no long-range capability doctrine. The cowardice of London and Paris shocked the Nazis, had they realized that Chamberlain had such a pusillanimous backbone, German military planners would have undoubtedly developed an Air Force which had a strategic military capability. As such, the German High Command made a crucial blunder and limited the Luftwaffe to a limited tactical role. German aircraft developed only as support role for the Army. The Battle of Dunkirk, together with the Battle of Britain conclusively proved this critical mistake.
Allied military planners understood that before they could invade from the English Channel, they first had to destroy the weakest link in the Nazi chain mail – the strength of the Luftwaffe. They had to push it as far back from the English Channel and North Sea coasts as possible. Only by forcing, unto the extremity of their ranges, the operation of German tactical and operational air units, coupled with limiting the Luftwaffe to restricted numbers, could the Allies assure success in the coming Battle for France.
Destroying Germany’s ability to carpet bomb, achieving this war objective – American and British generals defined as the key strategy of the Allied war effort. Allied planners viewed as their key obstacle Luftwaffe bombers. The tactic they developed, the Allies decided to focus upon the destruction of fighter planes. They hoped this action would induce German planners to reduce production of tactical bombers and increase production of replacement fighters. Bomber aircraft posed a far greater hazard to an Allied invasion of France than did fighters.
Both Germans and Japanese manufacturing failed to innovate significant mass production improvements upon their equipment during the course of the war. The Americans, by contrast, produced multiple generations of modified military equipment which gave a fighting edge to Allied soldiers in the field. Contrast the modifications the Japanese made to their tanks to that the US made to its submarine torpedo. Development of a technology which can rapidly build highways, requires the industrial capacity to mass produce lite weight flexible plastic utility roads. The first priority in the development of any military doctrine must solve the crucial requirement: how to support and supply Armies on the ground.
During the Battle of the Mediterranean, Italy failed to increase the capacity of Tripoli and the other ports before or during the war. The Regia Marina, like the Luftwaffe, failed to develop a proper strategic air force. The limited capacity of the Libyan ports, best represents the flaws toward supplying troops in the field. Rommel’s troops continually fought their battles facing critical shortages of food, fuel, and equipment.
For nations who lack the US Pacific/Atlantic buffer zone advantages, does the strategic supply and support priority supersede peacetime investments in cutting edge military innovations? For Israel, public control over defense industries compares to a poker player who keeps his cards close to his chest. Contrast Domestic housing, Jerusalem should hold no regulatory powers – across the country – over private property management, development and construction.
Herein concludes the learning on this the 3rd sugia of our Av Mishna of הגיגה.
Conflict Resolution 