Just got the news. Healthy woman, 50's, no chronic conditions and wasn't sick from flu, cold or any other ailments.
Several of my friends are chronically sick now and not recovering. FB posts on my wife's account are of Karen's we know CONSTANTLY sick. Writing about how it's the worse winter ever.
Now this part is interesting-
Infections are hitting record rates and normally I would think nothing of it. But the RATE at which they are growing is unreal and coincides perfectly with booster release. Hospitalisations (which again, normally dismiss) are increasing at a rate unseen during "Alpha". For who? The jabbed. The jabbed are getting smashed right now and there is no reporting on it
The streets are talking and the people are getting very, very nervous.
It's a Jewish custom, goes back a long time. That's all. It's my custom to not write it out. If it's not your custom, go ahead and write it out.
The origin is that there's a prohibition to desecrating the name of G-d. Think of it a little bit as not wanting to dispose of the American flag without proper ritual. If you casually write the name of G-d and throw it in the trash, that's considered a desecration. So by avoiding writing the name out, you can dispose of the document normally.
I thought for a while that Jews don't believe in Hell. It's because I grew up Reform. I found out there are many considerations of the afterlife in the Orthodox circles. Among the possibilities are Heaven, Hell, Reincarnation and... I guess you can call them ghosts.
The ghosts are worse off than Hell. Hell is like a giant washing machine where the pain is used to cleanse the stain of sins off the soul. It might take hundreds of years and much suffering, but there's an end to it. Being a disembodied spirit who has to wander the earth and hide from avenging angels, is worse.
I'm not sure how wide spread it is. Most of what I told you are from lectures I heard from orthodox Rabbis on Torahanytime.com. I got curious and listened by "topic" and there was a whole section on Afterlife. Most of the ghost stories came from one Rabbi in particular. If you listen to his talks, you feel like you're listening to a Jewish version of the Exorcist.
One concept that seems to come up a lot is to imagine your soul is like a garment. If you're perfectly virtuous, then your garment... it's like a perfectly clean and beautiful white robe. But the more sins (Averroes) you do, each one is a "stain" on your garment. A very sinful person's "clothes" so to speak are riddled with filth and each stain would tell the onlooker exactly what sin you did to earn it. Being able to hide our misdeeds is unique to Earth.
Hell is when your garment... or you, the soul... is so filthy that you're entering a super-heated washing machine. Another analogy was to imagine you never, ever got your car washed for twenty years. Finally, you take it to the car wash. They guy takes out the foot mat and strikes it against the wall. It's so filthy that one hit against the wall and a huge cloud of dust and dirt comes out. He strikes it against the wall a second time, and you get a second cloud of dust, though not as big as the first. Hell is where we are the floor mat and getting hit against the wall to get the grit off us.
But the ghosts, who have a period of time wandering earth until their next appointment with the Heavenly Court, are worse off.