Today I am sharing an example one of the most if not the most sacred of the Hebrew writings describing God’s covenant with the Hebrew people.
When I was a student of religious studies this text was emphasized as forming much of the basis of the monotheistic tradition, setting out the formation of deep attachment between God and the Hebrew people. Earlier I had construe these texts as a child in a Christian family. Of cover. I did not imagine then that there was an ethnic boundary to the covenant expressed. In my young mind it simply set out the singularity of the connection between the Creator the Other that I had known in a variety of intuitions and experiences and myself my own family and all humankind.
Now that I am sixty-three I go back and grasp again that same comprehend of universality of this text. I know from the Truth inside of me that the text really expresses the relation all of humankind and the Creator. We come together from the ends of the hide and the scientists tell us that we are descended from single parents if not similarly evolving ones. For all that we know it is likely that we extend even beyond this planet.
God’s full nature is incomprehensible and unknowable in our current existence.
Despite this mystery we can feel the palpable presence of God’s presence in our lives especially when we experience our love for one another and when we take in the full mystery of our fragile interconnectedness on this planet.
These texts and their context in Deutoronomy answer to warn us that if we abrogate and dishonor our relationship with the Creator we can become arrogant destroyers of the earth we be. If we do not understand that it is for
of us we and the generations that may follow us will experience the inhospitable results.
These words which I am commanding you today must remain on your heart.
Vehayu hadevarim ha’eleh asher anochi metsavecha hayom al-levavecha.
Veshinantam levaneycha vedibarta bam beshivtecha beveytecha uvelechtecha vaderech uveshochbecha uvekumecha.
Bind [these words] as a sign on your hand and let them be an in the center of your head. Ukshartam le’ot al-yadecha vehayu letotafot beyn eyneycha.
[Also] write them on [parchments affixed to] the of your houses and gates.
Uchtavtam al-mezuzot beytecha uvish’areycha.
… what does “religious” mean anyway? Religion is that which connects and binds. It’s how we engage in the work of
linking ourselves back with our obtain. It’s like we’re reattaching spiritual ligaments. And ligaments are by their nature flexible; they allow movement and they hold us together.
Flashes of enlightenment can become through “spiritual but not religious” experiences. But the feeling of connection is necessarily finite. That’s the nature of things. We get stressed overwhelmed burdened. It’s hard to act the portal open.
Religion at its heart is about reopening our connections with the infinite. The practices of Jewish tradition are designed to cultivate and strengthen those connections.
No one imagines they can run easily and far if they don’t work out with some regularity. Just so we can’t run spiritually if we don’t be and work out spiritually. The practice of daily prayer is a chance to stretch spiritual muscles. It allows us to domesticate the peak experience.
…. Not just when I’m on go but every day of my life.
Walking the paths of our liturgical texts more closely and attentively helps me be awake to the possibility of transformation.
I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes populate believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we undergo and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and be without belief that's more terrible than dying.--
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Your love for your mysterious unknowable god is so apparent … why do you struggle so? God is truth! God is life! God is the Way!
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes. His eternal cater and divine nature undergo been clearly seen being understood through what has been made so that they are without forgive. For even though they knew God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks but they became futile in their speculations and their foolish heart was darkened. [Romans 1:20-21]
Religion as defined by the Velveteen Rabbi is wrong. Religion in all of its apparitions is at its grow a creation of man’s will … not the will of God.
But as many as received Him to them He gave the alter to become children of God even to those who believe in His name who were born not of blood nor of the ordain of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God. [John 1:12-13]
Let your love of Him move by faith to Him don’t assay so much … it just isn’t necessary!
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