Kol Chesed HaTorah

09/27/2026

https://johnludemann.substack.com/p/abrahams-tent-5787?r=58mef&utm_medium=ios

SIMCHAT TORAH: Here we go again.

09/18/2026

As we go into Shabbat and Yom
Kippur this weekend - a thought:

I want to say this to all the folks rooting on the end of the world in the Middle East.

Many of the Christians think this is “God’s plan” for redemption and many of you think you’ll be “raptured” out of here, before we make this planet uninhabitable.

I want to tell you, you’re wrong and you’re the reason as well as the cause for this mess - each and every one of us.

If you believe your Bible is “Wholly True”, then you haven’t read the entire Bible.

You’ve only “proof texted” your way comforting yourself like a sheep about to be sheared, and slaughtered for your shepherd.

Throughout the five Books of Moses (a man, by the way, who is mentioned by God as the greatest of prophets and never was there or will be a man who spoke to God, face to face Deuteronomy 34:10) - struggled trying to make former slaves into men and women of God.

It got so bad that they had to wonder in the desert until that “slave mentally” or as I call it: “Sheeple” would die out.

We’ve all been slaves and sheeple so long, we believe everything that is said and never question anything from the pulpit, or the podium.

This must stop.

My “Testament” is neither “old” nor done away with. The five Books of Moses are an eternal covenant (Exodus 31:16-17, Leviticus 26:44-45, Numbers 18:19, and Deuteronomy 29:14-15, & verse 28).

I’m saying as the Torah says “Today I give you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose Life” (Deuteronomy 30:18-19).

We make this disaster or we can make the world whole again.

The choice is ours to make.

Even G-D knows we are idiots and tells us the right answer:

To Choose Life!

If this world is destroyed, it will not be because it was “God’s Plan”, it will be because we were and are too stupid to understand that we are to choose life. Not just for ourselves, but for all generations.

Because we would rather be slaves in the Egypt of our ignorance,than be a people of G-D.

Tzom Kal (An Easy Fast).

09/15/2026

https://johnludemann.substack.com/p/abrahams-tent-yom-kippur-5787?r=58mef&utm_medium=ios

“How to fix stupid? (Within me)”

09/07/2026

https://johnludemann.substack.com/p/abrahams-tent-rosh-hashannah-5787?r=58mef&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=title

“Why is this New Year different than other new years?”

08/31/2026

https://johnludemann.substack.com/p/abrahams-tent-week-50?r=58mef&utm_medium=ios

Gandhi’s Words ring true

08/17/2026

https://substack.com//note/p-211602712?r=58mef&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Abraham’s children and the love of our neighbor.

08/10/2026

Folks, I believe that by April/springtime 2027, that A.I. will take office work and all manual labor jobs.

look up the “Forth Industrial Revolution”.

We must be an active part in transitioning our children and grandchildren toward a manual, “Analog” future.

Otherwise, there will be riots in the streets and the digital replacements will quash our progeny into extinction.

The very rich don’t care about you and your family.

They have theirs and you have been replaced with a new model that doesn’t need housing, healthcare, payment, rest or vacations.

If we don’t address this, we will be addressed, in a permanent manner:

AI whistleblower Tristan Harris delivers a stark warning about the ...

07/23/2026

Tonight begins the Jewish remembrance of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Both were destroyed on this day, the 9th of the month of Av.

In Hebrew it is called “Tisha B’Av”.

I want to leave you with what the Talmud says about this day which is a Day of mourning.

It is found in the Tractate Yoma.

It’s found on the 9th page of the book, on the “B-Side”. In Hebrew it’s referred to as Yoma 9b (Bais).

The teachers ask the question:

“Why did was first temple destroyed?”

The response is:

It was due to Idolatry, that HaShem (G-D) destroyed the First Temple.

Then the Teachers ask a second question:
“Wait a minute!

We were not idolatrous in 70CE!
We were deeply devoted to G-D!

Why did G-D Destroy the Second Temple??!!”

The response was devastating.

The Teachers responded:

“Oh! The reason why HE (G-D) destroyed the Second Temple, was due to our “BASELESS HATRED”.

This is why the temple hasn’t been rebuilt in over 1,956 years.

We continue to hate one another without reason or cause.

The Messianic Age will not occur until we stop hating one another without basis, and start to love one another as children of Abraham.

In both cases we caused this disaster, and it is our responsibility to fix it.

God waits for our maturation and peace.

We broke it with hate, and we must fix it with our love and compassion.

That means beginning to love all G-D’s children.

Abraham had many Children/ Nations.

This isn’t a “Jewish problem”.

It’s a human problem.

Address the harm and make peace with all, and God will rebuild what we shattered.

Easy Fast to all:

https://www.sefaria.org/Yoma.9b?lang=bi

07/03/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnludemann/p/why-i-am-not-a-tzionist?r=58mef&utm_medium=ios

An Opinion Essay

06/18/2026

https://substack.com//note/c-277911297?r=58mef&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Thought of the Day: As a Jew, and Rabbi I see the world this way: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all children (pointing back), to Abraham. They aren’t our enemies. They are our family. Tikkun Olam is about making peace, not destroying the world to be a “master race”. We need to approach ...