[golux]

I remember once asking my father why it was advised that Jews not get involved in kabbalistm and numerology until they were old and wise in Torah and the sages and other things.


Of course, those were the old days, before so many Christians eagerly identified as Jews.


He told me it was easy to use Hebrew and Torah to see whatever you want to see.


Some people see the Lord in a statue, or in a magic trick, or in a human, and can conjure all sorts of evidence to support their beliefs.

[Ezekiel]

Some time ago I ran through an interesting thought experiment, a hypothetical situation:

Before Moses, how many shepherds might have passed by the burning bush before any word of God came out of its midst. Perhaps no one, but just for fun:

Maybe one guy rubbed his eyes and said, "Boy I really need to lay off the sauce."

Or another: "Yeah, I need to get my eyes checked."

Or another: "Well that's impossible so I can't believe my lying eyes."

Or another: "I don't know how this thing works but who cares, I can make big bucks selling tickets."

You get the idea. The bush just kept burning.

Then at some point along comes Moses, who was raised in the palace of Pharaoh, with all the best educational opportunities the world could offer.

And his being a Jew with a mind and heart toward knowledge and wisdom, it's a safe bet he didn't spend his days skateboarding down the halls or playing video games.

Meaning that if anyone truly understood how the universe operated -- math, astronomy, laws of physics and all the rest -- it would have been Moses.

Now here comes Moses and sees something completely out of left field, nothing that his vast knowledge bank could explain. On that foundation, he could have decided immediately that it must have been fake, because if he couldn't make sense of it, well all riiighty, the science is settled -- he already knew everything already.

Yet that's not what happened, whether he had been the only shepherd to come along or the 100th...

2. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed:
3. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt:
4. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses; And he said, Here am I:

There was the man for the job! No matter how much he knew, He knew that he didn't know everything already, and so he went in for a closer look-see.

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It's like that. I've found in life that not only do many people not need to know much of anything [because they already know everything already, and/or are dedicated to whatever program tells them what they are supposed to know], they are unable or unwilling to discern between those who are determined to see what simply is, and those who see what they want to see.

Moses wanted to know what the real deal was. Others might have acted differently, or perhaps a conclusion-jumping consensus would have piled on, mocking him for his interest in weird dumb stuff that made no sense [to anyone else].

Eh, then when it all shows to be simple and obvious and plain as day (like that burning bush), watch everyone freak out. Go figure!

Remember the lead coffin -- an aron coming out of de Nile.

Heavy metal cabinet.

Mashiach is alive
and living in Galut
He loves his Pa and Ma,
Ya'akov and Rut.