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By Dr. Akiva G. Belk This essay study is dedicated
in the loving memory of Mr. Paul Sakash, may he rest in peace. Actually the problem begins with embracing Lies with a deceitful heart. The young man who represents the yetzer tov, the good inclination in all of us lies to himself and deceives his own heart. He says I will not be changed by my fellow's evil intent. I will not allow him to conduct our business using every possible scan and scheme known. I will influence him to change... The young man with the evil intent which represents the yetzer raw, the evil inclination in all of us says to himself, "I will lie to my fellow. I will tell him that I have changed. When I am around him I will act like I have changed. I will make him believe that I am good like him!" Here too the young man with the evil intent lies to himself. How long will he be able to pretend that he is good, that he cares for his fellow man? So the young men enter business together. Good makes an agreement with bad and bad makes a deal with good. Each have their own agenda! In actuality good has agreed to not look quite so sternly at bad if bad will just act a little better while good is around.... In other words I can look the other way a little if you can the other, other way a little. In our agreement we can manage to ignore a lot! We can embrace lies with a deceitful heart... THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME THAT GOOD MAKES AN AGREEMENT WITH BAD! There is a problem here! There is a very serious problem here! Anytime good makes an agreement with bad there is a very very serious problem. It's called the unholy Bible... When good makes an agreement with bad good becomes slightly bad and bad becomes slightly good so to speak. When good moves one inch away from righteousness good is no longer 100% good or 100% righteous! Good is not all bad but good is not all good either even though good is only very very very slightly bad. When good makes any kind of concession to bad good has moved! In other words good cannot blink at bad! For good to remain holy good must remain S E P E R A T E D! Its called righteousness! Its called separation of holy from unholy! Its called being different! G-d created the seventh day to be separated from the other six days. Can the first day or the sixth day infringe on the seventh day by even one second? ABSOLUTELY NOT! G-d gave certain animals, birds, fish the designation KOSHER can anything change that? ABSOLUTELY NOT! G-d selected the Jewish people to honor the seventh day and to observe kashrus and to live holy unto him and to be S E P E R A T E from the other nations of this world... So how can good have any association with bad? So how can good blink? So how can good look the other way? When ever good refuses to separate from bad good is NO LONGER! Good only remains good when good remains S E P E R A T E D from bad! Mix the two and good no longer exists! Separation is for every Jew and especially every rabbi, levi and kohen. No one is excluded from living separated! Certain groups of people are easy targets to hammer on. For example: The Torah clearly states that homosexuality is an abomination to G-d. As a result gay and lesbian's draw heat because the Torah defines it as wrong and they are a small fraction of society. They are easy to pick on... How about liars. The Tenach says that G-d hates liars! Even though the Tenach states that lying is one of the seven sins G-d hates rabbium say lying under certain situations in not wrong. I agree! In addition there are category of lies. some are more serious than others. That is true. Still, why aren't liars hammered on like homosexuals are? Scientist say that homosexual men have a gene that is hereditary unit that occupies a specific location on a chromosome and determines a particular characteristic in an organism. In this case it is homosexuality. DNA is the nucleic acid that carries the genetic information in our cells. DNA can provide can provide all types of medical information including our life expectance and medical conditions that may end our life G-d forbid. So if that is correct then why does the creator who made the gene state homosexuality is an abomination? In other words a person is created with a very serious trial by their own genetic makeup that each hour of everyday they must deny to be Torah observant. I wonder. I seriously wonder about the person who is an in passionate liar, the embezzler, the verbal abuser, the pervert who pinches boys on their butts, the person who speaks loshon harah... What about that person? Does that person have a gene that they struggle with everyday? What about the person who looks the other way? Do they have a genetic crook in their neck? So we come back to the bottom line regardless of our genetic makeup G-d still expects us to live S E P E R A T E D! G-d expects the rabbi who heads a yeshiva to live separate from bad just as the student of the yeshiva or the shoemaker or the secretary. PERIOD! NO ONE! I REPEAT NO ONE IS BEYOND G-D'S LAW to think any different is nothing less than embracing our own lies with our own deceitful heart... If G-d requires the homosexual who scientist have proven is born with a gene that encourages homosexalaty to struggle with their desires, to labor with their medos and to overcome their problem then G-d requires the rosh haYyeshiva, the yeshiva bucher, the shoemaker, the secretary to the last Jew on this earth to do the same, without exception! I pray, "Hashem, deliver my soul from the lip of falsehood, from a deceitful tongue" The story of the two boys
is which I began in this essay is completed in another article,
"Embracing Lies with a Deceitful Heart (Part Three)"
Wishing you the best, Dr. Akiva G. Belk
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