Sunday, September 05, 2004
Seeing the good
Going up the ladder, I'm seeing the good in every thing. The higher I go, the more of the tapestry of the universe is revealed to me. Things that just 9 months ago that I was angry with, feuding with, I'm now embracing. Gauze is lifted from my eyes and I see the beauty of how things fit in the eternal picture.
Last Passover a woman asked me the meaning of the holocaust. It's something I hadn't dwelled on for higher meaning and since I didn't have a divine answer I said I really didn't know. I dislike trite pacifying answers. The only thoughts that I had were thoughts in my mind, thoughts that came from reading, listening, meeting elderly Jews back in LA with tattoos on their arms who were quiet and their children felt the haunting of the Nazis in their parents quiet.
Now the thoughts are pouring in my head, revealing themselves to me.
Look at events from the perspective of what follows them. From a design that is longer than a lifetime and continues after the death of those involved.
Before what I was looking at and what those around me were questioning was 'why did it happen?' 'how did G-d let it happen?' 'were people being punished?'
The gal that asked me at Passover, I think she asked something like, "Why weren't the people saved through the intervention of the prayers of the holy people of their time?" And also, "Why didn't the wise people/sages/those connected with G-d warn the people to leave?"
At the time I was only looking at that generation. The generation that was living a freer life, the ghettos had been open, reform Judaism started which was a way from the Jews to worship more like their Christian neighbors.
Only it's not about just that generation, it's about a thread of souls, and managing the development of the world.
We returned to Israel, we were forced to, there was no where else to go. The gathering began. Jewish identity was getting spread out and weakened. Through the sacrifice of a generation, Jewish identity was again strengthen.
Heaven is here, right now. Watching it being revealed.
Last Passover a woman asked me the meaning of the holocaust. It's something I hadn't dwelled on for higher meaning and since I didn't have a divine answer I said I really didn't know. I dislike trite pacifying answers. The only thoughts that I had were thoughts in my mind, thoughts that came from reading, listening, meeting elderly Jews back in LA with tattoos on their arms who were quiet and their children felt the haunting of the Nazis in their parents quiet.
Now the thoughts are pouring in my head, revealing themselves to me.
Look at events from the perspective of what follows them. From a design that is longer than a lifetime and continues after the death of those involved.
Before what I was looking at and what those around me were questioning was 'why did it happen?' 'how did G-d let it happen?' 'were people being punished?'
The gal that asked me at Passover, I think she asked something like, "Why weren't the people saved through the intervention of the prayers of the holy people of their time?" And also, "Why didn't the wise people/sages/those connected with G-d warn the people to leave?"
At the time I was only looking at that generation. The generation that was living a freer life, the ghettos had been open, reform Judaism started which was a way from the Jews to worship more like their Christian neighbors.
Only it's not about just that generation, it's about a thread of souls, and managing the development of the world.
We returned to Israel, we were forced to, there was no where else to go. The gathering began. Jewish identity was getting spread out and weakened. Through the sacrifice of a generation, Jewish identity was again strengthen.
Heaven is here, right now. Watching it being revealed.
