Epstein Secrets

ral billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson and Mark Rich, authors such as Saul Bellow, David Mamet and Eli

st Stan Goetz, artist Peter Max, cellist Yo Yo Ma, comedian Steven Wright, actor Robert Downey, Jr., several billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson and Mark Rich, authors such as Saul Bellow, David Mamet and Elie Wiesel, and judges, senators, congressmen, governors and other public officials. In addition I ha

s not merely that we be just, or even that we do justice, but rather that we actively pursue justice, as if injustice never rests. The exact words of Deuteronomy—which I recalled because I recited them in my Bar Mitzvah portion—were “Justice, justice, you must actively chase after.” The traditional translation

wer tail regions, with a separation between the 'rich' and 'super-rich', see for example [Borges 2002,

Proudhon, Marx, Gesell and other economists and philosophers. For the same reasons usury was also condemned by the writers of Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Other critics of usury include Allah, Thomas Aquinas, and all the popes from Alexander III (1159 to 1181) to Pope Leo XII (1823 to 1829); not to m

alternatively, basic obedience to spiritual teachings. All major religions recognised the inequities of usury; the bible clearly prohibits usury in Deuteronomy 23:20. For many, particularly the wealthy and those that remain wedded to neo-classical ideas, an appeal to common decency or divine guidance may n

ern lectures or shows of military force, and too rich in resources to squeeze economically in the shor

ed by Christian fundamentalists who were literally relying on the Word of God as their guide. One wildcatter in the 1960s was led by a passage from Deuteronomy to conclude there was oil located somewhere on the ancient lands of the tribe of Asher, on "the foot of Asher" between Haifa and Caesarea. No luck.

ens tend to ignore its Arab citizens, just as the rich elsewhere often do not see the poor in their mid

ity, Israeli Arabs are second-class citizens, even if their living standards remain higher than those of most Arabs in the region. As we know from Deuteronomy, "Man does not live by bread alone." This distrustful ignorance of the other can be found everywhere in Israel. Or almost everywhere, for there is

AN is born free but is everywhere in debt. In the rich world, getting hold of your first credit card is

reward for capital, a concept that goes back to Aristotle and is implicit in the Christian idea of usury. Islam forbids it altogether. The book of Deuteronomy suggested a debt amnesty every seven years, which survived into later Jewish custom. But conventional morality has not always been on the side of th

stical measures, Hr, Hu, AC and srs? The yield is rich and unexpected. We find an enjoining of values of

case, how would one chose which one.” In fact, there remains an on-going debate about the order with which the embedded four passages from Exodus and Deuteronomy should be arranged and inserted in the ftefillin such that some compromising orthodox Jews wear two types of fefi/lin, each representing one of the t