 here and when I try to make sense of the world I turn to the eternal wellsprings of Torah right it's worked for the Jewish people for the past 3,000 years so that's where I turn to try to make sense of this crazy world around us and I now I don't have to tell you but this week's Torah portion wow it's Tazria comes from Leviticus what an exciting book the book of Leviticus chapter 12 verse 1 to chapter 13 verse 59 so it's all about the laws of impurity you can't get more exciting than that and about giving birth and then undergoing purification after you give birth and then a person who's afflicted with some sort of skin disease how they must dwell outside the camp until they are healed and the whole afflicted area in a garment or a home must be removed and then if the the skin disease returns then the entire garment or home must be destroyed so we have to try to keep after trying to keep our sacred spaces mate and so I remember when I broke the Mark Waller story back in 1998 so 24 years ago it was also the Torah portion of Tazria right that was the Torah portion of the week when it was officially revealed that male porn star Mark Wallace attested HIV positive right so it's Sarat the name of the Torah portion it can be translated as impurity or skin disease or leprosy and the Talmud suggests that frequently through this skin disease that's the means by which God sends an individual a message of spiritual rebuke and I love the commentary on the book of Leviticus by Iqra by conservative Rabbi Jacob Milga he notes that the priestly theology that suffuses Leviticus posits the existence of one supreme God who contends neither with a higher realm nor with competing peers the world of demons is completely abolished there is no struggle with autonomous foes because there are none there's only the one true God with the demise of demons only one creature remains with demonic power the human being so endowed with free will his power is greater than any attributed to him by pagan society not only can he defy God but in the priestly imagery he can drive God out of his sanctuary so humans have replaced demons in the Torah world view so humans can drive God out of the sanctuary by polluting it with their moral and ritual sins and all the priests can do is to periodically purge the sanctuary of its impurities and influence the people to attend for their wrong so people are always going to be sin sitting we're always going to be falling short we're always going to be polluting what we need is a mechanism to clean things up it's like getting some aeration about morality you know in a porn scene it's a total downer condoms destroy porn it was thought inevitable that the industry would get infected with AIDS it was just kind of taken for granted in 1995 Barbara Dole a beautiful blonde French porn star tested HIV positive then in February 1997 and then you had Jordan McKnight in summer of 1997 and it was a lot of uproar on concern and then everything was quiet for another six months people really freaked over treasure because they really liked treasure it just spun people's minds like what you know what the hell is going on here in April of 1998 my sources cut coming to me and saying hey it's Mark Wallace he's the one behind it there are girls who won't work with him he's dangerous and he needs to be stopped I posted that on my website April 23rd 1998 and everybody went crazy Mark Wallace called me say you did me wrong and this is not true but it wasn't incandescent rage that I was dealing with it wasn't what you would expect from an innocent man had been totally wrong but it was way too reasonable Mark Wallace did not want to come in for a PCR DNA test he did not he was avoiding it so Sharon Mitchell let Mark slide I'm getting tested for a long time so Sharon Mitchell announced at an industry meeting that Mark Wallace was patient zero and that he was HIV positive Mark Wallace was fucked once Sharon Mitchell said we think he's patient zero but then on he was he was fucked I mean you'd need to have an unbelievable public relations team to try to turn around that narrative he said I think maybe you know maybe the girls gave it to me it's part of what make the industry hate him he had this test from early March that said he was HIV so is Mark like modifying his test results is Mark a monster they look at his test and it says he's a 49 year old female and the address for the testing center is wrong in 1996 he was written up in AVN for changing okay so this is from the 2018 documentary called pandemic about the time I tracked down patient zero the 1997 98 99 97 98 HIV dates on his HIV test for VCA and the Renzi productions this is unheard of this was not something that I know anyone else do can we point now at Mark and say this is a man of such unfathomable evil and that's what the industry did they went from Mark as our friend to he is not one of us and he is the one responsible for wreaking havoc on our beautiful industry if it wasn't for Mark everything would be blowjobs and lollipops okay let me get to the Torah and all this I know you're sick of this like tawdry story so let's get to the Torah and all this so for the people Israel in the Torah worldview impurity is harmless it only retains potency with regard to sacred places and lay people but not priests might contract impurity with impunity but they must not however delay their purification rights lest their impurity affect the sanctuary it's like you may be okay with pause but you don't want them walking into church and delving with you right so the sanctuary church synagogue the mosque represents the presence of God impurity represents sin it represents the wrongdoing of people and if people unremittantly are just spilling their seed anywhere just all over the dusty soil if they're just unremittantly polluting right making the sanctuary filthy they force God out of the sanctuary out of the community and out of their lives so we've got these these texts in this week's Torah portion about scale disease and then we get into the fascinating topic of chronic genital flows have you about a chronic genital flow like one chronic genital flow can just ruin your whole day and it's kind of awkward to explain so these are physical examples of the priestly theology against the idea that physical impurity arises from the activity which must be either exercised or appeased so purification is not about healing all right the afflicted person undergoes purification only after he is cured so even though the scale disease person doesn't bring sacrifices for possible wrongdoing the only determinable wrong is that his impurity has polluted the sanctuary wow we've got Judas fly member for seven months hail Ricardo all right so another example of the way the Torah exercises the demonic from impurity is the case of the person afflicted with chronic genital flux chronic genital flux right it's a discharge however that contaminates it's not the person so you get some chronic genital flux on you don't hate the person hate the flux right so in Israel the afflicted person does not contaminate by touch as long as he washes his hands all right so as long as the chronic genital flux dude washes his hands don't get all upset about it right so to take these Torah thoughts and translate them into points hiv outbreak it's the hiv that contaminates it's not the person who have hiv so go ahead and hug someone with aids you know shake their hand all right and they don't contaminate by touch so long as they take appropriate precautions against you know sharing their virus you know no unprotected anal and don't share intravenous needles all right so Mark Wallace and company may not have you know been visited by demons they were visited by a physical disease all right there's no world of demons sorry Ricardo there is a creature however with demonic power the human being so to use and share hiv needles and to engage in risky you know unprotected anal sex you know with other blokes it places you and those around you in danger right that knowingly have sex with someone when you have a lethal disease when you've got that chronic genital flux all right you know that's demonic all right you're going to go out there start transmitting the chronic genital flux that's very wicked so the human being can act like a demon he can defy God he can drive God the source of healing out of the community and the only way to retain healing in your community effectively is by atoning for your sins and for the filth that we can't help but accumulate so from a Torah perspective there's one law that rules the universe that law is both physical and moral if we grossly violate God's moral law there will be physical repercussions and there will be consequences to driving the source of healing out of the community the dominant view was that he was a sociopath that he knew he was HIV positive and that he was passing it along to girls in the industry he was just infecting girl after girl he's a serial killer just trying to get away with it for as long as he could he was a man on the edge and he understandably had a suicidal impulse you know let me just end my life what about all the other women who work with Mark it appeared to me that he was the most likely source for Barbara Dahl's infection he was infected in 1995 but HIV is very difficult to transmit so it doesn't surprise me that Mark could work with women and they not get HIV the industry had every incentive to say there was one rogue performer and one bad guy and he was responsible for what happened here because they knew that this was the type of thing that could blow up and shut down their honeypot we've got this thing under control we don't need more government intervention we don't need more government regulation we don't need more scrutiny from the mainstream media we don't need any bad news this is just one rotten apple okay that's from the 2018 documentary pandemic which just kind of illustrates my my point about there's the sacred and there is the filth and we can only maintain the sacred and the source of healing by engaging in rituals all right now I think everything's becoming completely clear now right you now recognize my point about how how this Russia invasion of Ukraine has become some you know massive battle of good good versus evil so on the face of it Russia invading Ukraine it's just great power politics all right there's one great power doing what great powers do and just just just wrecking a company that country that that's nearby wow I don't like the the quality of my live stream I've been trying out new settings and I don't like what they look like oh I'll have to have to revisit my my settings okay that really sucks low resolution so if this doesn't clean up soon I'm coming back with with new settings boy that sucks man oh man okay let's see what we can do here all right here's professor Jeffrey Alexander on double whammy trauma construction worker for three decades has come through the pandemic healthy and employed at home in Milwaukee where he lives with his grown son he tries to tune out the hostile politics in the country and wonders if he should bother to vote again for president Trump in November or quote sit back and watch it crumble the american experiment is teetering it's also okay I've got some revision to do on my settings