August 11, 2013
Father/Mother fill me with your creativity so we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission: from the Aramaic: Neil Douglas-Klotz (NDK)
In the beginning G-D created the heavens,
the void was formless and empty, and
the creator thought, let there be Light.
Time has not diminished the power of the majesty of the biblical account of creation.
What kind of world does the Torah envision G-D creating?
The Torah is a book of morality not cosmology.
Its overriding concern is our relationship to G-D, and how we treat each other.
All Good is how the Creation is described
G-D’s world is in balance
Its also unpredictable world, a world capable of growth, change and surprise, of love and pain of glory and tragedy, because it includes humans who have the freedom to choose how we will act.
And it is unfinished, waiting for humans to complete the work of G-D’s creating.
Yeshua’s tell us to ask G-D: Aramaic (NDK)
Create your reign of unity now
Through our fiery hearts
And willing hands
Let your counsel rule our lives
Clearing our intention for co-creation
Unite our I-can to yours, so that we walk as
Kings and queens with every creature
Come into the bedroom of our hearts
Prepare us for the marriage of power and beauty
From this divine union, let us birth
New images for a new world of peace
Neil Douglas-Klotz wrote:
According to Jewish tradition the prophet Moses received the Genesis creation stories directly for G-d.
In a later tradition of Jewish mysticism, G-d also gave Moses the secrets of the mysteries of creation as a spiritual practice at the same time and Moses encoded them in the Genesis stories. I love codes!! Military experience
Being Homo Sapiens:
Humankind’s development of the skill, equipment and behavior patterns to permit survival in such inhospitable environments during the last Ice Age constitutes a remarkable achievement.
The mastery of fire and the invention of clothing and shelter as well as new social and communication skills all stem from this period.
The human species is the product of the long period of adaption, in other words CREATIVITY.
By 8,000 BC, although humans were more numerous than ever, our lifestyles differed very little from that of our predecessors up to 100,000 years before. But within 2,000 years substantial villages appended in cretin regions and, in another 3,000 years, there were towns and cities.
Many parts of the globe especially those between 10º South and 50º North have contributed to the present day repertory of domesticated plants and animals.
The exact origin of agriculture remains unknown.
Remember what Jesus said:
Let your counsel rule our lives
Clearing our intention for co-creation
Unite our I-can to yours, so that we walk as
Kings and queens with every creature
Continuing creativity: All the great religions originated is Asia, three of them in the same relativity small region.
Around the 6th century BC they were either established or radically reformed at much the same time.
Also in the 6th Century BC in Greece and India, the concept of Atoms was being formulated.
In the 5th century BC Leucippus and his student Democritus proposed that all matter was composed of small indivisible particles called atoms.
Aristotle’s assertion that the elements of fire, air water and earth were not made of atoms can be understood.
There was no way of putting the theories of Democritus into an experiment.
But as we know now Aristotle was wrong
On-Going Creation
Each day I seek G-D and I work to submit to G-D’s will, to Bless and be a Blessing
I will always have hope, because of the mysteries of Creation
I want to share with you from my Jewish learning: Rabbi Jonathan Glass writes,
Read: also from Washington Post
Sources: Prayers of the Cosmos, Random House
Compact Atlas of World History
My Jewish Learning
By: Jonathan Glass
The Torah gives us a day-by-day account, describing how God, in His omnipotence, benevolently brought forth all that we know--light and darkness, dry land and sea, trees and plants, stars and planets, animal and man.
The text reads so simply and orderly that one is tempted to skim through it to get to the "meat" of the parashah--the story of Adam and Eve. The story of Creation remains an introduction, one that poses little difficulty for believers.
But Rashi, the great commentator, does not see it that way. He says that the opening sequence cries out for interpretation. It cannot be that these verses are telling us about the chronology of Creation, he writes, for the Torah’s second verse tells of God’s Presence "hovering on the face of the water," before any account of God’s creating water is given.
Rashi therefore does not subscribe to the popular translation of the opening verse of the Torah, "In the beginning, God created heaven and earth." Instead, he renders the words to leave open the possibility that water was created prior to heaven and earth.
Washington Post October 21, 2011 confirming Rashi?
A European team at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands led by astronomer Michael Hogerijde reported “ it has found a very cold reservoir of water vapor in space that could explain where the water came from.
The region they discover is at the outer reaches pf a dusty disk surrounding a star 175 light years away. The star and disk are in the early stages of forming plantes much as Earth was formed some 4.5 billion years ago.
The scientist conclusion from the new finding life giving H2O was almost certainly delivered to earth via comets and asteroids. (article written by Mark Kaufman read more)
The Need for Wonder
We tend to feel a need to clarify and understand the world around us, to grasp and digest every experience we have.
But we must never lose track of the mystery that pervades all of Creation. A sense of wonder is necessary in this world. We must know that we are part of something much larger than our selves and our personal experiences, something we may never fully be able to understand.
The "works of Creation" refers to science according to some talmudic Sages. Science, too, resides in the tension between the known and the mysterious.
In our century, particularly, with the discovery of subatomic particles, the science of Creation has become more mysterious than ever. Those very mysteries of our origin make us cognizant of the contemporary wonders around us today.
MJL
I will By the grace of G-D continue on my journey of Creation and wonder.