It goes back to Cain and Abel. Abel had a relationship with God that Cain did not think he deserved. Israel has a relationship with God that first Christians and now Muslims do not think you deserve. We Christians tried to crush you and now Islam is trying to crush you. If you are right, in our small minds, we have to be wrong. The threat is existential.
Monotheism gave that hatred a power it never had before. It's not the watering hole we're fighting about. Its "ownership" of God. No room in our minds for the idea that you have the One God, and we have the One God, differently and in a way that makes sense to us ex-pagans. The Trinity is impossible to you but inevitable and indispensable to us.
This horrendous human sacrifice we call the cross is necessary to us but you can see it as a the obscenity that it is. Sin is obscene. Hatred is obscene. The kill or be killed world we live in is obscene. In the end Free Will is obscene. Yet here were are, free (to a degree) autonomous conscious beings, aware of the death we suffer and the death we deal out.
We can't understand our selves or our Jesus without you.
This is a vacation to read in an ocean of expressions of hate and blame blown up like wind for disappointments incurred from generations of neglected performance of Torah directives.
Regarding “when my existence enhances yours, and yours enhances mine”——
All of the Commandments of G_D contribute to this result. I think especially of payos—the corners of a farm that G_D said to leave for poor and strangers.
The Mishnah doesn’t say government — memshala. It says malkhut—kingdom, majesty. Not the brute force of authority, but the cohesive order of a shared purpose. Malkhut is more than a mechanism—it is a vision. A sovereign reality where diversity forms harmony and the parts serve the whole. It is where each individual finds their unique place and contribution within the collective. It is also one of the most challenging realities that humanity has ever endeavoured to achieve due to the powerful drives that aim counter to it. We need God’s help to achieve it. We need prayer.
Law doesn’t fix this. Law merely represses it. Law says: don’t bite, or we’ll bite harder. That is memshala. But malkhut—true malkhut—is the shared reverence for a larger, integrated existence. It is when my existence enhances yours, and yours enhances mine. And it begins with shalom. With peace.”——
I read, re-read, and will read again to ingrain this idea in mind. It is very important, and The formula for life.
There is not enough emphasis on “we Need Prayer.”
And the last sentence is the result of “guarding the Shabbat Day, and keeping it holy, separate and happy.”
It goes back to Cain and Abel. Abel had a relationship with God that Cain did not think he deserved. Israel has a relationship with God that first Christians and now Muslims do not think you deserve. We Christians tried to crush you and now Islam is trying to crush you. If you are right, in our small minds, we have to be wrong. The threat is existential.
Monotheism gave that hatred a power it never had before. It's not the watering hole we're fighting about. Its "ownership" of God. No room in our minds for the idea that you have the One God, and we have the One God, differently and in a way that makes sense to us ex-pagans. The Trinity is impossible to you but inevitable and indispensable to us.
This horrendous human sacrifice we call the cross is necessary to us but you can see it as a the obscenity that it is. Sin is obscene. Hatred is obscene. The kill or be killed world we live in is obscene. In the end Free Will is obscene. Yet here were are, free (to a degree) autonomous conscious beings, aware of the death we suffer and the death we deal out.
We can't understand our selves or our Jesus without you.
Your title words attracted my attention. So unusual. Yet I know the source. I have studied it previously.
Then, having read further, your explanation is “just what the doctor ordered” for us! And so needed now!
This is a vacation to read in an ocean of expressions of hate and blame blown up like wind for disappointments incurred from generations of neglected performance of Torah directives.
Your last paragraph is electrically current.
Regarding “when my existence enhances yours, and yours enhances mine”——
All of the Commandments of G_D contribute to this result. I think especially of payos—the corners of a farm that G_D said to leave for poor and strangers.
And Order— Siddur, Seder— ==order.
Oh I forgot to mention “Majesty”! It’s Beautiful!
You paragraph “Malkhut: The Antidote to Anarchy
The Mishnah doesn’t say government — memshala. It says malkhut—kingdom, majesty. Not the brute force of authority, but the cohesive order of a shared purpose. Malkhut is more than a mechanism—it is a vision. A sovereign reality where diversity forms harmony and the parts serve the whole. It is where each individual finds their unique place and contribution within the collective. It is also one of the most challenging realities that humanity has ever endeavoured to achieve due to the powerful drives that aim counter to it. We need God’s help to achieve it. We need prayer.
Law doesn’t fix this. Law merely represses it. Law says: don’t bite, or we’ll bite harder. That is memshala. But malkhut—true malkhut—is the shared reverence for a larger, integrated existence. It is when my existence enhances yours, and yours enhances mine. And it begins with shalom. With peace.”——
I read, re-read, and will read again to ingrain this idea in mind. It is very important, and The formula for life.
There is not enough emphasis on “we Need Prayer.”
And the last sentence is the result of “guarding the Shabbat Day, and keeping it holy, separate and happy.”
You have hit a nerve in the heart of mankind.