Showing posts with label Tikun Olam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tikun Olam. Show all posts

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Foretold Warming Trend Told and Is Happening to Our Earth and Its Results

 Nadene Goldfoot                                     

                Flooding in Texas, deaths counted                                                
The Earth's climate has naturally cycled through warm and cold periods for millions of years, including ice ages and interglacial periods. We are currently in an interglacial period, experiencing warmer temperatures, which has caused a recession of ice sheets and glaciers. However, the current warming trend, particularly since the mid-20th century, is happening at an accelerated rate and is largely driven by human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, which is unlike any previous natural climate shifts, according to the NRDC and the MIT Climate Portal. 
Natural Climate Cycles:
  • Ice Ages (Glacial Periods): These are periods of colder temperatures with widespread ice coverage. 
Earth has experienced five major ice ages in its history: the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo, and Quaternary. These are periods of long-term cooling when ice sheets and glaciers cover large portions of the planet's surface.                                 
  • Cooling Centers: People taking refuge in designated cooling centers during extreme heat events. 
While the natural cycle of ice ages occurs over tens of thousands of years, with the last one ending about 11,700 years ago, human-caused climate change is currently delaying the onset of the next one, according to scientists. 
  
  The Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB), roughly 12,800 years ago, marks the end of the last cold snap during the transition from the last ice age to the current interglacial period. It's characterized by a relatively short but intense period of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, interrupting a broader warming trend. The YDB is significant because of its potential link to a major extraterrestrial impact and its influence on both climate and prehistoric human societies. Proponents have reported materials including nanodiamonds, metallic microspherules, carbon spherules, magnetic spherules, iridium, platinum, platinum/palladium ratios, charcoal, soot, and fullerenes enriched with helium-3 that they interpret as evidence for an impact event that marks the beginning of the Younger Dryas. One of the most widely publicized discoveries (nanodiamonds in Greenland) has never been verified and is disputed    Graham Hancock argued in his 2015 book Magicians of the Gods that the Younger Dryas comet destroyed the earth in a time cycle and that it was responsible for the Noahide flood myth. He inferred that this myth was widespread elsewhere on earth by comparing it with the flood mythology of other peoples. These claims were criticized as inaccurate by independent reviewers, including Jason Colavito, Michael Shermer, and Marc J. Defant. Hancock expanded on his claims in a subsequent book, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization (2019), in which he claimed that the Younger Dryas catastrophe had wiped out all traces of a sophisticated Ice Age civilization in North America. This is all very  speculative, without any proof at all.  When the Jewish calendar shows the year 6000, the Gregorian calendar will correspond to approximately 2239-2240 CE.                                             

The year 10,000 BCE is a year talking about a great deal, with a movie by the same 
name.  In 10,000 BC, a hunter-gatherer tribe called the Yagahl live in the Ural Mountains. They survived by hunting woolly mammoths, but as the migrations grow more scarce, uncertainty as to their future mounts. This calendar date happened 12,000 some years ago on the Gregorian calendar.  Approximately 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, many iconic megafauna species disappeared, including the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, and the giant ground sloth. Other animals like the saber-toothed cat and the dire wolf also went extinct around this time. However, some animals like the modern bison and the ancestors of the giant panda still roamed the Earth.   

On its own, Earth would likely be heading into a glacial period within the next 10,000 years. However, the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions is significantly altering the climate trajectory, potentially delaying the next ice age by a much longer period, potentially over 100,000 years.  
  • Interglacial Periods: These are warmer periods between ice ages.                                        

  • The last ice age, the Wisconsin glaciation, ended about 11,700 years ago. Since then, Earth has been in an interglacial period, a warmer phase within the larger ice age cycle.  
  • Causes of Natural Cycles: These cycles are primarily driven

  •  by variations in Earth's orbit and the amount of solar energy

  •  received, according to a video from YouTube. 
No, the Earth is not going around the Sun at the exact same speeds as it did in 10,000 BCE. While the Earth's orbit is relatively stable over shorter periods, it does undergo subtle changes over long timescales. 
Here's a summary of the factors influencing Earth's orbital speed and how they have caused it to change:
1. Sun's Mass Loss:
  • The Sun continuously loses mass through nuclear fusion and the solar wind.
  • This gradual loss of mass reduces the Sun's gravitational pull on Earth.
  • As the gravitational force weakens, Earth's orbit slowly expands, and its orbital speed decreases slightly over time.
  • Over the history of the Solar System (4.5 billion years), Earth is estimated to have moved about 50,000 km farther from the Sun and its orbital speed is about 10 meters per second slower than it was in the past. 
The Current Warming Trend:
  • Human Influence:
    The current warming is happening at a much faster rate than natural cycles can account for, primarily due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. 
  • Greenhouse Gases:
    Burning fossil fuels and deforestation release greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, trapping heat and causing global warming, according to the United Nations. 
  • Rate of Change:
    The current warming trend is happening at an unprecedented rate, with global temperatures rising significantly since the mid-20th century. 
  • Impacts:
    This rapid warming is causing observable changes like rising sea levels, melting glaciers and ice sheets, and shifts in weather patterns. 
Earth's population has changed from 2 (Adam and Eve) to 
8.2 billion of 5, 785 years to date on the Jewish Calendar. 
The Gregorian calendar is now 2025.  
What will happen by the year 6,000?  That's only 215 years from now.  

The USA will celebrate their 250th birthday next year.  The
question asked on Smerconish CNN is will it make it to another 
250 years-Climate and Politics deciding?  I ask what the temp.
might be by the year 6,000 if not changing this warming trend?
When the Jewish calendar shows the year 6000, the Gregorian calendar will correspond to approximately 2239-2240 CE. 


While the Old Testament prophets don't directly discuss "climate change" as we understand it today, they do speak of environmental disruptions and natural disasters as signs of God's judgment and as part of the unfolding of his plan. These descriptions often involve extreme weather, famines, and ecological devastation, which are sometimes interpreted in light of modern climate change concerns.  
  • God places humans in the Garden of Eden to serve and protect it, suggesting a role of stewardship over the environment.
"Tikkun olam" is a Hebrew phrase meaning "repairing the world" and is a concept in Judaism that emphasizes taking action to improve the world and make it a better place. It has evolved over time, encompassing various forms of social action and justice, from enacting laws to addressing social ills. In modern usage, it often refers to social activism and efforts to create a more just and equitable world. 
Earth Day was on April 22nd, 2025,  often focuses on how we can literally practice caring for the earth through environmental efforts. But, as one blogger said it best: “When we consider Earth Day through the lens of tikkun olam, we begin to notice that Earth Day is also about how we support and take care of each other.”  However, we can't do much good while
drowning in water or roasting in a desert.  First, take care of the land
and the land will take care of you in return.  
  • Activists and Communities: A wide range of actions were taken, such as distributing climate action fliers, promoting recyclable materials, taking part in cleanups, organizing teach-ins, building community gardens, advocating for local land trusts, and more.
  • Capgemini, Thales, and Sweep collaborated on a strategic partnership to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions across Thales's supply chains.
  • In summary, Earth Day 2025 saw a wide array of efforts from individuals, businesses, organizations, and governments aimed at promoting climate action, although there were also contrasting policy decisions and ongoing debates about the most effective approaches. There was a lot of talk, education, but no
  • action.  
Resource:
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Why Jews Want To Live Amid the Arabs Of The Middle East?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                 


     Jews are an ancient indigenous people of the Middle East with origins from Ur of Mesopotamia and Canaan of the Levant. They have every right to want to live in the land of their origin. They lost their land in 70 CE to the Romans.  The League of Nations made that choice possible for the Jewish people in the 1920s at the end of World War I 1917.      

As of 2020, the world's "core" Jewish population (those identifying as Jews above all else) was estimated at 14.8 million, 0.2% of the 7.95 billion worldwide population. There are about 6 million residing in the USA, 6 million in Israel, and the rest scattered through the world.   That means we're not even 1% of the population, only 1/5th of a %, hardly a crumb, but who's counting? 

Some of us had explored the problem that we were a stateless people, living in others' lands that often turned against us.  We thought of Africa.  No, our hearts belonged to our ancient Israel, called  Palaestina, a Roman name from the year of 135 CE.                                    

Our ancestors had been told by G-d to live in our Promised land, land that reached the Pelusium arm of the Nile Delta, the gulf of Elath and the Euphrates opposite Aleppo in the East including most of Syria and altogether covering 58,000 sq. miles. It had included Transjordan. This entire area was occupied by our ancestors, the Israelites under David and Solomon. (I Kings 5:4).   The Jewish National Home under the British Mandate was land west of the Jordan excluded part of land given to Lebanon, and then 80% of the land promised was first given to Jordan's Prince Abdullah. Our section was 8,000 sq miles of the original, grateful to be back home after 2,000 years of praying for the day to come.                                
            Our extended family of 70 seeking water, food, headed for  Egypt
 
We're different from other religions in that we were a family with a belief that came to be called Judaism, named for the tribe left, Judah with Jerusalem as its center, that carried on that belief.  
                             
Haman of Persia tried to kill all the Jews.  Hitler of Germany tried to kill all the Jews and almost succeeded. Now Iran (ancient Persia) wants to kill all Israelis.  We who continue to stand for our beliefs wonder why everyone wants to kill a people who earnestly believe in the one invisible G-d and have been for the past 4 thousand years?  So, as Hillel said, Don't do to others that which you don't want done to you, and the rest is commentary.  That's our belief in a nutshell.  It's the original Golden Rule.   
Abraham, ready to sacrifice his son, Isaac, but was stopped, and all human sacrifice was to be then to be stopped. Our education had begun.                                 

Judaism, a belief in ONE G-d,  began with Abraham. who was born Ur around 1945 BCE according to our Jewish records, or in the 2nd  millennium BCE to be more general.  

    World of 20th century BCE with Canaan in orange along the Mediterranean Sea and  as a complex farming society and Ur in Blue. This was over 4,000 years ago.                

                     Assyrians leading away the Israelite captives

Assyria had established an aggressive kingdom in the 20th century BCE, and expanded rapidly by the 13th and 10th centuries BCE. Assyria had overrun Syria and the Phoenician cities in 876 BCE, then taking 27,290 Israelites as prisoners in 721 BCE. Civilization had come to the Middle East before it had reached Europe and other sections.  

Babylon, the land of Shinar or of the Kasdim (Chaldees)  was highly developed mentioned in the Bible. It was the Cradle of Humanity.  Nebuchadnezzar II (604-656 BCE had inherited the Assyrian Empire and copied them by also taking the Israelites of Judah  to Babylon in 597 BCE and 586 BCE. Many of this group were able to return in 538 BCE and rebuild their destroyed Temple of Solomon.                          

                 Ur,  not far from Babylon

Abraham (1948 BCE) had had a divine call which told Abraham to leave his native land of Ur in order to become the Father of a Nation, and he was possibly the only man at that time to believe in one G-d, as the world had been polytheistic believers.  

Since then, Judaism has been the faith in the G-d of Abraham, but has undergone many phases, absorbed and resisted many civilization, and still remains strong and vigorous after 4,000 years of history.

The family of Abraham's genealogy is followed in the Torah where our history is recorded, and leads to his son, Isaac and his son,  Jacob.  Jacob's name was changed to Israel divinely.  From then on, his descendants would be called the Israelites. 
                                 
Jacob and his 12 sons
Jacob married 2 sisters, later taking each of their handmaidens, and produced 12 sons, making up the 12 tribes of Israel, which were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin, and Gad, Asher, Dan and Naphtali.  Dinah was his only daughter.   Jacob's family underwent a very bad drought that drove them to Egypt in the South as being on the Nile River, they would have food.  They took their sheep, and the family of 70 arrived and was able to recover and then grow in size, not thinking of returning to Canaan.                                    
            Israelites entering Egypt who soon grew in numbers.  

Egyptians grew uneasy about their numbers, and decided to take them as slaves, which they remained for 400 years from the time of entrance to the time when Moses released them. The Israelites built the storage cities for the Egyptians. 

Moses, the  prince of Egypt, had discovered that his mother was not the daughter of the pharaoh, but that he had an Israelite birth-mother who had hid him in the bull-rushes when the Pharaoh ordered male babies to all be killed.  He had this impulse to protect the lives of the slaves, which caused him in a moment of zeal to kill an overseer who was whipping a slave to death.  He had known the penalty, and fled to the outskirts of civilization to Midian where he had lived and taken a wife.  Now he had returned at age 80, to help the slaves again.                                                                  
Aaron and Moses with Pharaoh
                                                                   Mirium, sister of Moses

                                  

He and his newly found brother, Aaron, belonging to the tribe of Levi, debated with the Pharaoh and got the release of the slaves, leading to a 40 year trek back to Canaan. Moses received Divine information straight from G-d  and taught the Israelites the laws they were to follow from then on.  They went through mind-shaking experiences together, shaping them for the future, a form of conditioning that must have    even entered their DNA, (my personal thought- as they would be referred to as the stiff-necked people).   

Moses died outside Canaan's gates, and Joshua led them in and divvied up the land for the 12 tribes.  Each tribe ruled themselves by the Elders of each tribe.  

         A prophet, leader and a judge, Deborah, 1150 BCE, wife of Lapidoth, roused the Israelite tribes to revolt under Barak, son of Abinoam, against the Canaanite king, Jabin of Hazor and Sisera, his ally and commander (Judg. 4). 

The Israelites ruled themselves by having judges.   Later, judges could be aa soldier-leader, priest (Cohen-direct descendant of Aaron)  or even one of the prophets assumed, in addition to his chief function , that of a Judge as well for each tribe. 

 Finally, in the 11th century BCE,  the Israelites saw that all the other nations were ruled by kings, and they clamored for a single king, too, especially now as they were under a military threat.

  The prophet, Samuel, of the tribe of Levi, whose mother placed him as a small child with the Nazarite sect, was asked to perform a very important act in his old age, of choosing a king.  He chose Saul as their 1st king from the tribe of Benjamin. The Philistines and Ammonites were warlike and ready to attack them all.  Saul acted quickly, organizing and training their  1st army and then they defeated their enemy.              

 Later, Samuel again had to choose another king, so chose David from the tribe of Levi, youngest son of Jesse who was the grandson of Ruth and Boaz. He ruled from 1010 to 970 BCE.   David's son, Solomon inherited his throne and was king from 961 to 920 BCE. It was Solomon who built the Temple in Jerusalem. A Civil War followed with much calamity.   

A history of Assyrians in 721 BCE and the Babylonians in 597BCE with Zedekiah as their last king of this inherited line of Kings    interrupting their lives led to the Romans occupying Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem and their 2nd Temple of Solomon in 70 CE. 

           Shabbos, Yiddish for Shabbat, that 24 hour period devoted to G-d and not work from Friday at sundown to Saturday evening when 3 stars can be counted in the sky.  

Their lives were then in the hands of the Romans who burned down the 2nd rebuilding of Solomon's Temple and Jerusalem itself.  Jews became a scattered people, that wound up replacing the Temple's importance with synagogues as the center of their religion with rabbis functioning from there to replace the Cohens of the Temple.  In fact, many rabbis, who actually started dynasties of rabbis, were Cohens themselves, passing this onto their descendants genetically. 

                  Shaari Torah Synagogue in Portland, Oregon 

Thus, we find Jews all over the world, practicing their religion.  This means that a Jew could walk into any synagogue on a Friday night or Saturday morning and find them reading from the same scheduled section of the Torah (5 Books of Moses)  and Tanakh (Bible).  Judaism was well organized, and had been by the rabbis living in the Rhineland back in the 1000 CE era. 

Because Jews had their own religion, feeling very responsible for it as it was of a calling from G-d, they refused to accept conversions to other religions.  Their oath was to remain as people of the ONE G-d and to follow those precepts.  Anti-Semitism developed and continues to this day, actually gaining in strength again from the horrid years of the 1930s when it led to the Holocaust, slaughtering 6 million Jews.                                

1920 Decision at League of Nations: A Jewish Homeland

As a shock to everyone, world decision through the League of Nations ended up accepting the creation of a 2nd Israel in the world in a sliver of their ancient homeland in Palestine, which was the Israel-Judah homeland.  Jews' ancestors were the natives of the Middle East, descendants of the family of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  

Of course, others, who had been in the group of Egyptian slaves who followed Moses, and other daring people who broke away from their polytheistic faith, converted and became Jews as well, but not many did this.  It was stopped by the governments of other nations.  Therefore, Jews had to end any converting they wanted to do.   We're an ancient people who have survived the ages.  

                               The IDF, guided by our beliefs

We're an important group.  One of our purposes on earth is to improve the  world, not to harm it.  Israel's army is called the Israel Defense Force, (IDF), and they fight defensively to protect their people from harm.  They do not start aggressive moves to take over others' land, like Germany and Russia.  

Maybe you’ve heard of tikkun olam. It’s a phrase thrown around a lot in Jewish circles.  Olam means “world,” and tikkun—well, it means all sorts of things. But in this sense, it means “repair.”So tikkun olam means “repairing the world.” No bandaids, do the fixing.  Which is what we’re here to do. Because, in case you didn’t notice, the world is broken. Even the stuff that looks great isn’t anywhere near what it’s supposed to be. So some people say, “That’s just the way things are. Live with it.”Others say, “Let the One who made it fix it.” And yet others say, “Escape it.”But Jews say, “Fix it. Whatever you can. Because that’s what you’re here for. ”Where did we get such a crazy idea?The first and last step of our tikkun is to awaken to the realization that we are actors in a great drama, players in a master symphony. That we are here with a mission, a responsibility to a Higher Consciousness that brought this place into being.               

Tikkun olam is an important concept in Judaism, which refers to various forms of action intended to repair and improve the world. In classical rabbinic literature, the phrase referred to legal enactments intended to preserve the social order. In the Aleinu prayer, it refers to the eradication of idolatry.  

Mitzvot is another concept to do, meaning to do good deeds, like visiting sick people to cheer them up.   Yes, I guess we are here to be do gooders, spending our time wisely while on earth.   

One group of Jews works on it continuously, the JDC.  The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, also known as the Joint or the JDC, is a Jewish relief organization based in New York City.

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century_BC#/media/File:World_in_2000_BC.svg    map

Tanakh, Stone Edition (Bible)

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3433653/jewish/Who-Came-Up-With-Tikkun-Olam.htm