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| Personal Justifications, Guiding Questions, Contextual Apologetics, and the Introduction to a Romantic Quest for a Secret Tradition | |
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| Where is Torah of Weed?: And Why Bother Looking for It? | |
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| Guidance for the Indulgence of Sweetness | |
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| Guidance for Harmonious Use of Medicine | |
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| Drugs? Aren't Those Idolatry?: Possible Romantic Apologetica for the Officially Sanctioned Abandonment of the Herbal Medical Tradition of Ancient Israel | |
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| "Anything That an Israelite Is Charmed By, Must Have At It's Essence Something Really Good" | |
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| The Messiah Gets High! | |
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| Marijuana Is Profoundly Symbolic… Of Us!: Everybody Knows that Marijuana is Mentioned in the Bible. | |
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| "Be Loose Like the Reed": R' Nachman of Breslov Spoke Very Highly of Surrender to Circumstance. On the Other Hand… | |
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| Marijuana Is Learned Out From Shabbos: Only with Great Difficulty Did Our Sages Permit Speaking on Shabbos | |
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| "The Whole World Is Drugs": Says R' Shlomo Carlebach | |
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| Secret Histories, National Aspirations, And the Unspoken Hopes and Failures of The Law | |
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| Enough Theology: The Story of Jerusalem's First Million Marijuana March | |
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| The Law Is a Drug | |
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| And the Other Reason No Psak Can Prohibit Marijuana | |
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| "Torah from Mars": What Makes the Torah Impotent (or Toxic?) | |
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| "Why Do They Call Us "Rabbi'?: Because We're 'Ra' (Evil) But We Get 'By'" | |
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| Candy vs. Family: What Do You Really Need? | |
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| Solstice Torah: Caution Against the Blindness of the Sun-King | |
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| Idols and Ideals: Guide for Harmonious Use: (Hint: Let the Tool Do the Work for You) | |
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| Lineage, Profound Moments and Crucial Heroes of Modern Jewish/Chassidish Drug History | |
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| Pop Music = Pot Music: How a Jew Introduced the Beatles to Reefer, Thus Saving the World | |
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| Dare Not To Not Do Drugs: How Shlomo Blew up his Torah, Thus Saving Judaism | |
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| The Taiva for Drugs is the larva for G-d: What Shlomo Noticed | |
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| Justifying Israel: The Central Problems, and Hopes of a Better Way for Dealing | |
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| Truth vs. Peace: The Ishbitzer Hates Anger, the Kotsker Hates Liars | |
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| The Torah of Psychedelics - What and How (Models and Memoria) | |
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| Medicinal Demonology | |
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| "Once, I Found Some Weird Wild Stuff In My Head": What Do Policemen Protect? | |
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| Levitzchakl Why Do You Need To Smoke a Pipe To Daven: When R' Shneur Zalman Across Town is Already Finished? | |
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| Praying While High: Is Marijuana Good for Praying? Is Praying Good for Anything? | |
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| Halacha L'Maasei - Practical Advice and Specific Justification | |
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| Dina d'Malchuta Dina Does Not Apply: Since Alleviation of Pain and Suffering is a Religious Obligation, According to a Historic Halachic Responsa | |
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| Yom Kippur With Sinners: Modern Sabbatean Revelations | |
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| Dancing Ends the War: The Secret Roman/Judean Peace Conspiracy | |
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| Nixon's Mystery: Mah Im Ha-am Ha-zot?: "Every One of the Bastards that are out for Legalizing Marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the Matter with the Jews, Bob?" | |
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| Nixon's Question Part 2: Osho's Answer: "Beloved Osho, Are All Minds Jewish?" | |
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| Halacha L'Maasei ("Practical Advice"): How To Smoke Weed and How To Trip, According To My Tradition | |
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| Mystical Secrets in Water: Drink Enough, But Not Too Much | |
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| It Only Hurts When You Stop: Tripping Without Drugs | |
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| Conclusion/Resolution: The Perfect Drug: Is Love | |
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| Appendices & Endnotes | |
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| The Mysteries of Hysteries in Histories: Marijuana Repression in Ancient China and Islam | |
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| Scythian-Israel Cannabis Connection: Staying Free | |
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| I Was Dead: By Jelaluddin Rumi | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| This text is composed in the classic Jewish maximum scriptural accessibility-model, with potentially obscure or unfamiliar words defined in footnotes on the bottom of a page, and with references, quotations, and extended tangentials reserved for endnotes at the end of the book. Please be patient with unfamiliar terms or concepts, they're all very simple, ultimately, and offer only to enhance your appreciation of living from now on. | |
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| What you are reading is the story of a particular journey into the exploration of particular questions. Please respect the subjectivity of that experience, the good will and interest of the author in engaging any of the concerns one might have had with the ideas described herein, that they may have come up in his process, and that they may come up in the course of this book. His stated intention is only to clarify What's Right before man and G-d… and maybe get his friends high sometimes. | |