This is apparently not the official video for The Waitress’s Christmas Wrapping. Instead, it’s a video that someone else put together using other clips of the band. I haven’t been able to find an official version so there might not be one. Or, at the very least, if there is one, it does not appear to be on YouTube. (If I’m wrong, let me know.)
Anyway, I like the song and tis the season. Interestingly enough, it’s often missed that the song is more about the chaos of the season than the joy of it.
Enjoy!
Through the Shattered Lens 
The issue of the judicial ruling “null and void”. touching the Rambam, Tur, Shulkan Aruch, and the whole of Orthodox Judaism which bases halacha upon Roman statute law, does the halachic posok of statute law qualify as Oral Torah?
Answer: No it does not. The Karaim because they had no פרדס logic system had to create their own interpretations. For example: having visited a Karaite bet knesset in the Old City of Jerusalem I saw with my own eyes their version of the Torah commandment mezuzah. The Karaite religion makes the Xtian 10 commandments as their mezuzah. No that’s not the mitzva of mezuzah any more that the Rambam, Tur, or Shulkan Aruch codes of halachah compare to the Talmud as the Oral Torah.
A complex issue related to Jewish law (halacha) and its interpretation. Basically what’s at issue, the distinctions and differences between judicial common law which has legislative review veto and overwatch of any and all statute laws passed by any Parliament, Congress, President or king. Specifically, statue laws passed by any government body do not equal nor compare to the authority of judicial common law rulings which have the power to not only annul a statute law, but can re-write the statute law such that the re-written judical legislative review new law meets the Constitutional requirements which the Courts so interpret and determine.
Judicial common law stands upon the foundations of פרדס, a kabbalah as taught by rabbi Akiva who learned this 4 part inductive reasoning logic from the P’rushim. The P’rushim preceded the rabbis of the Talmud. They fought a Civil War, remembered by lighting the eight lights of Hanukkah, and defeated the Tzeddukim assimilated and intermarried priests during the ancient Greek kingdom in Syria.
The Greek empire dates back to the time when Alexander the Greek conquered the Persian empire. Following Alexander’s death, two Greek kingdom’s one based in Alexandria Egypt and the other based in Damascus Syria. Both Greek kingdom’s went into decline as the Roman empire’s star rose. Cleopatria VII ruled as the last Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in the days of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Antiochus IV Epiphanes ruled the Seleucid Syrian Empire during the 2nd century BCE. He is known for his oppressive policies against the Jewish people, which led to the Maccabean Revolt.
This revolt, commemorated by the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Which remembers & celebrates the rededication of Ezra’s Temple in Jerusalem after the successful uprising against Antiochus’s rule. Pardes (פרדס), the kabbalah which the P’rushim taught to rabbis Akiva, Yishmael, Yossi Ha’Galilee – basically all rabbinic opinions expressed throughout the 20 volume Talmud: This refers to a methodology of Jewish interpretation that consists of four levels of understanding: Peshat (simple meaning), Remez (hinted meaning), Drash (interpretative meaning), and Sod (secret or mystical meaning).
Pardes inductive logic – foundational to Talmudic reasoning. Pardes inductive logic stands on the opposite, so to speak, pole of Greek – Plato & Aristotle’s – 3 part syllogism deductive reasoning system. The assimilated Tzeddukim directly compare to the later Karaite Jews, in that both sects rejected the Oral Torah Pardes logic format. Both sought to replace Pardes inductive reasoning with Greek deductive reasoning to authoritatively interpret the intent of Torah commandments.
For example the Roman New Testament relies upon Greek logic to interpret T’NaCH verses that the Oral Torah Pardes logic system would never permit. The contrast between judicial common law and Greek/Roman statute law parallels deeper philosophical discussions about authority and interpretation within Jewish tradition. The historical struggles between different methodologies and influences shaped the legal and religious landscape, influencing how Jewish law understood and practiced through more than two millennia, since Moshe Rabbeinu first instructed Israel in this unique prophetic mussar legal system.
Justice Justice pursue defines the “FAITH” of Torah common law. Greek rhetoric by stark contrast employs theology and cults of personality as the basis of how the ancient Greek City State of Athens ruled the mob “democracy” of that particular ancient Greek polis/City State. The assimilated Tzeddukim Jews abandoned or “forgot” the Oral Torah which sparked the Hanukkah Civil War. Like the Xtians seek to convert Jews to believe in their 3 part Nicene Creed Gods so too the Tzeddukim sought to convert Jerusalem into a Greek polis and accept the Greek syllogism deductive reasoning as “the Way” (like Jesus described himself as such) to understand the T’NaCH.
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