Wednesday, April 05, 2006
teruah gedolah , the great and awesome day
the elements of Mother Nature are speaking with a relentless fury and it continues and continues. Why is it so important to recognize the value of the times this evening and this day? The Jewish people have been part of building and maintaining a fantastic cruising seafaring vessel. This work has also belonged to other peoples as well but the ship would never have completed the awesome journey if this fact was not kept as a holy secret. Why is it important to know that Jerusalem is as much the destination in time for a people as a particular place? The horrors of war and injustice are happenning because people do not understand. The hebrew prophet Malachi tells us that one illustrious figure would physically return before the "awesome day". The message here is simple, that this being has arrived and we cannot afford to not be as present NOW as possible. Present to the nature and value of the time, this very month of miracles. The Jewish people have been taught to expect the great redemption, next year, next year, next year in the city of peace............ The ship has arrived and we are asleep again just like that morning at the foot of Har Sinai - yes the mountain is only trembling as loud as we humans -each one of us could stand. This moment is as much an individual test of perception as it is a global passage of initiation.
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OK! OK! We hear you! Help us to hear beyond you - help us to wake up - to be present, as you write. Where are the windows? Where are the openings? Where are the expansion joints? Surely they are within our reach? We haven't gotten this far to sleep through it?
Love,
a jerusalem seeker
your comment tells me that you are awake with Love
this is what makes you awake right this moment
this is the flower
it is flowering
with Ahavah
Thanks, Chasmal, for sharing your "voice" here too.
B"H
Good morning Chasmal!
In thinking about your post yesterday, many questions keep filtering up. The most nagging one relates to your analogy of sleeping prior to Matan Torah. On that occasion, we needed to wake up in order to receive the Torah. Usually, sources related to the Geula indicate simply arriving at a final stage in history in which we all reap the rewards of the human project's (and in these sources, especially the Jewish project's) hard work over millennia. Lovely in a fairy-tale kind of way, but somehow quite passive.
On the other hand, the analogy of sleeping prior to Matan Torah indicates that there is "receiving work" to be done now. So my question (one of thousands!) is – Is this true, and if so, what does this receiving involve – assuming it's more than just "waking up"?
Yom Chamishi Tov!
jerusalem seeker
jerusalem seeker,
the analogy of being asleep at Matan Torah is in relationship to the parallel of these forty years we have entered, the ingathering of exiles- kibbutz golus
from 5750-5790 to
the forty years after the geulah from mitzraim. this is now the global level of the birth.
we were told to turn from Har Sinai and make the world holy
always more to awaken to.
the receiving is important
and with the work in the smaller chevira there is the handoff of the stone that is a flower
the pillow of Yaakov
whose dream is our journey.
the kedoshim of the mishkan
you may already possess
B"H
17 April 2006
19 Nissan 5766
Chasmal, you write: "the handoff of the stone that is a flower
the pillow of Yaakov"
...handoff from whom to whom?
moadim l'simcha (hard to wish with the losses today)
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