Dream
I intentionally didn’t blog many dreams last year. It did seem to help with keeping my internal state closed off, but also kept me from accomplishing things that I needed to get done. This year I will try to blog a few more dreams, but only as I feel safe doing so.
Dream:
I was swimming in a lake, both deep and wide. The waters were still and dark, but when I swam in them I would at times see a golden light emerging, sometimes below me, sometimes in front of me. I had a body board and was running up and down mountains of wet, glittering sand that surrounded the lake to get momentum. I felt like I was flying across the surface of the lake as I surfed along, then climbed the hill of sand at the center of the lake. Finally I surfed around too quickly and landed on the outside edge. The sand seemed drier and I left my body board behind to explore this new place.
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“In this letter, Maimonides gave an original interpretation of the reason for the destruction of the Second Commonwealth in 70 c.e. What annihilated the kingdom, destroyed the temple, and brought Jews to their condition of exile was that their forefathers imagined books of astrology to be illustrious sciences having great utility, and consequently did not study the art of war or the conquest of lands but imagined that those things would help them. No other Jewish thinker gave such a naturalistic explanation for the destruction of the Second Temple, one that offered also a prognosis for the future: The Jewish commonwealth could not be reestablished unless the people learn the art of war.”
- From the Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
Gilgul
When my heart is aching, I remember that we all will write the Tanakh, The Quran, The Bible, and all the other scriptures at the Beginning and End of All Things, for the purpose of inspiring ourselves now. Why? So that we all will be able to keep hope in this severe and narrow place. So that we will know that at the End of All Things, we are still ourselves and that the pain of dissolution will be worth it all.
Selah
