The dwelling of real peace

This weeks torah portion gives many commandments for how to find the balance to make a land holy. It tells us that a holy land is where the presence of HaShem's name is resting complete. In this kind of holy land, Israel is free of all enemies and the orientation towards great blessing is the foundation of the peoples' lives. The ancient Native Americans likened the great peace to a tall pine tree which they called the tree of peace. The Jewish wisdom tradition teaches that peace comes out of a balance of the pillars of the great tree of life. This allows the flow of the divine "dew" to bless our Earth and a place is thereby manifested where the divine presence may dwell. This is peace. There are a few levels to this work. The individual who is shomer torah in the heart, filled with lovingkindness and strong in their life's walk, is the very foundation of the dwelling of the 'complete name" in the land. There are deep Hebrew teachings that transmit the knowledge of how to balance the pillars of the tree of life in a technological way, using the metals and minerals and other substances from the Earth as were held in the Mishkan, the tabernacle and the temple. The elements of this work are taught in the Sepher Yetzira where we are told that HaShem formed and 'hewn" the creation with the three sepherim, three books that are also a code for three sapphirim, three kinds of gems or crystal forms. There are people working at this level of the rectification of the tree, aligning the special substances with the electro-magnetic field of the earth globe. This unifying energy element, the electromagnetic is the energy of the Hebrew letter Sheen, comparable to the ruach hakodesh, the breath of the sacred that manifests in an obvious level in the magnetic field that holds the entire globe. A third level of making the balance in the world is of course the community where people learn how to get along and be tolerant of each other's differences. These three streams of the work of peace; the individual, the community and the temple mysteries are all fundamental to the health of the Etz Chaim, the tree of living peace which is right now growing in the sacred Earth. We must all keep nurturing her holy Life.