Ethereal Insights

Abraham ( אַבְרָהָם ) Sees Sodom in Flames, by James Tissot Divine Law | Monday – September 21, 2026 D ivine Law is a subject that I keep returning to on this page, and thus far I have written a lot about secular law,* but I have not covered adequately divine law, mostly because this is a large subject and also not an easy subject to write about, since there is not one divine law, at least not today. Today, we are left with, for instance, the 613 laws in the Torah ( תּוֹרָה ), or why not the Decalogue ( עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְּרוֹת )? At any rate, there is no reason to think of one divine law, instead we are left with trying to figure out what divine law is and what divine law concerns us. It would be quite accurate to suggest that a Jew has little use in observing the Sharia ( شريعة ), and vice versa. Well no, not vice versa, because a Moslem could very well find use in at least reading the Torah and trying to understand the 613 laws, and this is due to the inherent theology of most major Is...

Creation of Light ( אוֹר ) By Gustave Doré Genesis, Chapter 13 | Sunday – September 20, 2026 D ue to some ongoing issues that have inadvertently affected my mental faculties, I am currently sluggish and generally feble. Because of this, I am likely to underperform while writing this post, which is just as well, as I am going to cover a short chapter in this post. Although, just because a chapter is short, this alone does not mean that the chapter is of less use or importance. This is of course going to be the 13th post in this series and the 13th chapter of Genesis ( בְּרֵאשִׁית ) in the Old Testament, the Tanakh ( תָּנָ״ךְ ), and more specifically the Torah ( תּוֹרָה ). Again, I am somewhat groggy today so bear with me.     As usual, I should make some initial statements about this series and about my rules in this series, but I have decided that if you wish to know more about all that, you may just read any other post in this series. Here I will provide two links to two of...

Yahweh in (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush My Life | Saturday – September 19, 2026 M y life is currently a little bit of a disaster, and this is mostly due to my major and intense issues with my gallbladder , my diseased and degenerated gallbladder, and so because of this, my life is a complete mess, a complete disaster at the moment. Yes, I had a routine, and a somewhat functioning life up until about July, when my latest gallstone attack hit me, and I have yet to be able to recover from that attack, read my " Medical Emergency Updates ". This is not funny, not at all, but since I have to wait for the intervention of modern and profane medicine, I simply have no choice but to suffer through this, and yes it is painful both physically and mentally, and I suppose that the mental pain is always worse than the physical pain, and if not worse, certainly more diffuse and harder to treat and manage. I have also had the misfortune to not be able to develop any kind of disease p...