Posted on 07/21/2023 1:03:06 AM PDT by Morgana
The problem sounds very "deep"
Nothing that can't be solved when the Messiah is sitting at the Gates of Rome.
You could even locate Cain and Abel if you venture down... far enough
... as seen in...
the Southern Hemisphere, below Orion, around midnight in mid-July.
Some months back I had posted about finding the gold at the end of the rainbow.
What gold, there's never any gold. It's a joke. Bad leper-con.
Yet by following the rainbow [קשת בענן] in search of luck [מזל]...
...המזל שנמצא בקצה הקשת בענן
(1737)
There truly is gold at the end of that "arc in the cloud", the arc of 70 [deg.].
It's like that. Already charted.
The story of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi and Elijah suggests that the world will be a better place only when we make it so. When we wait for the arrival of someone great sent by God, we ignore our potential -- created by God -- for greatness. And while the prophets and the Talmud may be vague about who the Messiah is, and how he will transform the world, perhaps that is because the Messiah is us. As Kurshan writes: "the world will not be redeemed when the Messiah comes; rather the Messiah will come when we redeem the world."
We are expected to carry the burden -- we cannot expect that it will be borne by someone divinely sent. The Messiah, according to this understanding, is not a person but an ideal, a pinnacle that the individual is called upon to strive toward. No one is exempt from the awesome responsibility of acting in the world to improve it. Just as the Messiah cares for the sick, we must do whatever we can to help heal the world.
How he will transform the world: as a person *and* as an ideal -- the national personification so to speak, in order to show everyone how it's done. What are people thinking? He's only one guy.
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day
Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Black Project = 611
מיזם שחור
When the music is playing again soon, everyone will realize that it was already in there, a mile high in the clouds:
Take my hand and say you'll follow me.
>>>
Take my hand and I will follow you.
I'll toss in that it's definitely a case of country charm for the win.
Concerning the birth of the Messiah, no one ought to be surprised that the location is the "house of bread", right? Yet watch people freak when it turns out to be a living, working vision (living parable) of a gingerbread house. Fair warning.
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