Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part 2 – Prolegomena
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ful substances), is strictly forbidden. 151 Secondly, strict prevention of diseases is a
codified command. 152 Thirdly, it is commanded to observe Torah’s life lessons
from a proper focus and intent, for the benefit of physical and mental wellbeing.
153 The Jewish medical tradition is an authoritative tradition with influences to
this day.
Throughout Europe and the Middle-East, where Jewish culture richly flourished,
leading Jewish doctors were present. Oral Torah contains a wealth of practical
medical advice i.a. in the field of general hygiene and healthy lifestyles, like
washing and bathing at a time when this was not yet customary in European culture,
lots of exercise and a good, balanced diet. The Talmud writes that "more
people are killed by the cooking pot than by lack of food." Besides general guidelines,
specific diseases and their cures are mentioned too, varying from toothache
and stomach-ache to fever and heart problems. Organs and systems of the body
are mentioned. But in oral Torah, a systematic medicine is nowhere to be found,
as we find it with the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Greeks or Romans. 154
Jewish tradition tells us that all healing comes from the One Energy Source. It is
interesting to research several remarkable parallels in traditional Jewish and Eastern
medicine. A common parallel is phlebotomy.
In both traditions, contra-indications are identical and specific locations are used
for phlebotomy, and although, to my knowledge, an energetic network of channels
and meridians is not present in Jewish sources, still the use of specific loca-
151 Allopathic medicines with their harmful side effects are just as forbidden as excessive and unnecessary use of antibiotics
in chicken industry, whereby public health is massively threatened.
152 Systematic population screening has brought profit in terms of prevention. In the Western world, tuberculosis has
disappeared.
153 Globalisation and 24-hour economy, preservation of child labour and absence of effective poverty reduction constitute
an inevitable command within Jewish (social) medicine, according to Torah-instructions. Unfortunately, contact poverty is
an invisible phenomenon, also in current Judaism, that receives attention occasionally when people commit suicide by
burning themselves alive (Tel-Aviv). The Western world is full of this, as will be made clear in the course of this thesis.
154 Interestingly, the Talmud tells us, that about 2500 years ago in Israel a remarkable text existed, called Sefer Harefuos,
the Book of Medicines, that was hidden by the king. It is not known why.