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Hey now...I do actually read the parsha (weekly reading from the Tanakh) and the commentary on parsha when I go to services...and it never fails to bring a wealth of insight and spiritual light into my mind and heart...much of it having to do with the ethics of the day and of the ideals of honour, integrity and spiritual purity that they sought to live by. (Yes, I agree much of that insight is lost or unavailable without a proper contextual interpretation)
The tanakh documents some of our earliest struggles to evolve in spirit and consciousness at the individual level, to ground God within humanity and to elevate humanity within God. To know and commune and receive inspiration and guidance from the Divine.
To bring God/Spirit into our lives and to aspire to our higher selves in this world, in what we think and do and say here on earth.
There is a purity reflected in these texts, describing this direct connection between humankind and the Divine.
A connection which we are learning to inhabit and embody ever more.
Peace & blessings,
7L
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Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy.
Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult.
For all living beings in nature must unfold in their particular way
and become themselves despite all opposition.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
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