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Our Rabbi's were clear, Judaism maintains 2 traditions, written and oral. For countless years many have held the earlier ideas and thoughts as more authentic to the original. In this blog we will reclaim the authenticity of a Torah for our times. Reading the words of our Written Torah (Bible) with an oral tradition that changes and shifts with the times we live in was our earliest Rabbi's original intention. An Oral Torah that is informed by the values and needs of society. For if we were to remain stuck in the past we risk creating a Judaism that no longer holds God's original intention, a people dedicated to breaking the cycles of injustice and creating a society where we are each seen in, The  Image of the Divine. 


The Oral tradition must be reclaimed, we are gifted with a history rich in Jewish discourse but we must remember that just as Moshe entered the Beit Midrash of Akiva and had no understanding of what Akiva was teaching so too must Akiva enter our Beit Midrashot and be confused by the Torah we are teaching.
For all is Halakah L'Moshe M'Sinai. 
​Talmud Bavli Menakhot 29b

Lech Lecha: God's Perspective

10/19/2018

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Is it possible
Is he the one?
I’ve been waiting so long.
His son died and he realized there must be something more.
He got up.
Picked up his family and left.
Hope rises, they have seen a new world.
Wait! They’ve stopped-
Why are they stopping?
I was so hopeful,
I guess I was wrong.
Who is going to heal the mistakes I made?
I keep trying, and no matter what I have tried I...
Oh wait, look, his son- 
is it possible?
His father prepared him, started the journey, and he’s seen, he’s seen that things can be different.
and he’s begun to wonder what it’s all about. 
He’s prepped and ready. 
Let’s see if he takes the bait,
Can i can peak his curiosity?

“Lech lecha”- go to your self-

Look he stopped, he wondered.
Self what is a self?
Oh wait I think he’s starting to see
there is a world inside,
hidden from others - hidden from himself.
Ah look, a moment of confusion, unsure of what he’s seen.
His curiosity takes him further inside.
I think this might be it...
Lets add a dimension

“lech lecha meartzecha”-go to yourself, from your earth,

​he’s looking around, noticing things never seen before.
Part of something bigger, he looks up at the night sky and sees the earth reflected back to him.
Look at his amazement, his awe
look at his face lit by the moon,
his insides, starting to recognize that they too are part of something bigger.
The land holds him up in this numinous universe.
Is that a question I see?
Ah yes! He realizes that his father knew it too that’s why he made them leave-

But why did we stop? he wonders.

Let me push a little further

“mimoladetcha”from the place of your birth,

ah there it is-
that look, the one that recognizes that something came before, 
and now, there it is, the fall-
the recognition that something will come after,
he remembers his brother, their support taken from them.

​To where? he wonders...
 
​Look, look, can you see it?
His body getting restless just like his father years before.
Lets see, can we push him further,

“mi beit avicha” from your father’s house,

What? Whats that? My father, I need to leave my father?

Oh no, have I gone to far?
Wait, look, there it is -
he sees it- the weight of his past
and how that colors his present, he sees himself in a whole new way.
He begins to strip the layers.
He sees the trauma of his father losing a son.
He sees how that has affected him,
how his father’s ideas have become a weight upon him
that keep him from seeing who he really is,
who he can really be.
This is it
I really found him-
he is the one,
The One I’ve been waiting for-
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