Vayikra: the unseen

בְּמִרְיָם בַּת בִּילְגָּה שֶׁהֵמִירָה דָּתָהּ: She embittered her thinking, she changed the way she thought about the world in a bitter way ( appropriate to he name) 

וְנִשֵּׂאת לְסַרְדְּיוֹט אֶחָד מִמַּלְכֵי יְווֹנִים  She married  Greek, a rationalist

לוֹקוּס לוֹקוּס: This is joke.  The Latin word for wolf is Lupus, and the ק looks like a p. Miriam was in transition from the Hebrew to the Roman

וְאִי אַתָּה עוֹמֵד עֲלֵיהֶם בִּשְׁעַת הַדְּחָק The  expectation of salvation from Hashem persists.  It is her disappointment that embitters her.  Which side is she on?

extirpate the leavened in preparation  for Passover\

Is this also a waste of time?

difference in the  perceptions of the dimensionality of the world. 

science is a belief system, too

 philosophy about things that are measured with instruments

science is an esoteric belief system, available only to the initiated

Exile: there is a better place than now: Egypt vs the desert, Eden vs anywhere else

 Gd is offended when we fail to have the courage to keep our promises. 

The asham was offered for: 

When he has heard a public imprecation and—although able to testify as one who has either seen or learned of the matter—he does not give information, so that he is subject to punishment;

Or when a person utters an oath to bad or good purpose—whatever a man may utter in an oath—and, though he has known it, the fact has escaped him, but later he realizes his guilt in any of these matters—

by dealing deceitfully with his fellow in the matter of a deposit or a pledge, or through robbery, or by defrauding his fellow,

or by finding something lost and lying about it; if he swears falsely regarding any one of the various things that one may do and sin thereby—

when one has thus sinned and, realizing his guilt, would restore that which he got through robbery or fraud, or the deposit that was entrusted to him, or the lost thing that he found,

or anything else about which he swore falsely, he shall repay the principal amount and add a fifth part to it. He shall pay it to its owner when he realizes his guilt.

On Vaerah: Discovery

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On Vayeytze deportee

Abraham came to the land as an immigrant, a nomad from Ur.  He could never become a citizen of the new land.  Nor could his descendants attain citizen status.   Thus, leaving the land has a face of deportation.  

The infighting of the subjugated group has often been a source of intense suffering.  Esau's murderous intentions for Jacob is reproduced daily in poor neighborhoods ( populated by migrants and immigrants)  all over the world. 

The Jew, through the ages, has been disenfranchised, a non citizen, The central government  failed to protect them in the Holocaust

Jacob's journey in the parsha is like the  linked Woody Guthrie  song: crossing from danger (Esau)  and poverty to subjugation (Lavan) and back again.. 

The campaign promises of Trump are an important part of the context

How does the Jew, so successful in the US, relate to the deportees of tosy

Deportee
(aka. "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos")
Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Martin Hoffman

The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"

My father's own father, he waded that river,
They took all the money he made in his life;
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
And they rode the truck till they took down and died.

Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.

The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, "They are just deportees"

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except "deportees"?