At ShavuotShavuot is the holiday fifty days after Passover and commemorates when the Israelite liberation from Egypt culminates with the giving of the Torah. Traditionally, Jews study in an all-night study session, eat dairy products (one interpretation is that the Torah is like milk to us), and read both the Ten Commandments and the Book of Ruth., the Angels ask
Have you forgotten why you are here?
Have you forgotten the dance?
Are you hiding behind closed doors?
Will you allow the Majestic doors of your heart
to open to the TorahThe Five Books of Moses, and the foundation of all of Jewish life and lore. The Torah is considered the heart and soul of the Jewish people, and study of the Torah is a high mitzvah. The Torah itself a scroll that is hand lettered on parchment, elaborately dressed and decorated, and stored in a decorative ark. It is chanted aloud on Mondays, Thursdays, and Shabbat, according to a yearly cycle. Sometimes "Torah" is used as a colloquial term for Jewish learning and narrative in general. of your life,
to accept the innate goodness within?
Are you willing to live in the Mystery
of Creation, of our Creation?
At Shavuot, The Angels said –
Take the necessary steps to reach up into SinaiAccording to the Torah, God, in the presence of the Jewish people, gave Moses the Torah on Mount Sinai (Har Sinai).,
to the spaces, to those places that are beyond the small self.
In goodness may you travel up your desert mountains and
swim down into the waters of your life, to do the work,
to receive what is offered-
When you open the Majestic doors of your heart
behind those doors you will
travel on your path into the Mystery
where the desert mountains become level
where the seas are calm.
You will find that is where the Promised land resides.
Come to the dance, be the dance.
Have you forgotten why you are here?
Have you forgotten the dance?
Are you hiding behind closed doors?
Will you allow the Majestic doors of your heart
to open to the TorahThe Five Books of Moses, and the foundation of all of Jewish life and lore. The Torah is considered the heart and soul of the Jewish people, and study of the Torah is a high mitzvah. The Torah itself a scroll that is hand lettered on parchment, elaborately dressed and decorated, and stored in a decorative ark. It is chanted aloud on Mondays, Thursdays, and Shabbat, according to a yearly cycle. Sometimes "Torah" is used as a colloquial term for Jewish learning and narrative in general. of your life,
to accept the innate goodness within?
Are you willing to live in the Mystery
of Creation, of our Creation?
At Shavuot, The Angels said –
Take the necessary steps to reach up into SinaiAccording to the Torah, God, in the presence of the Jewish people, gave Moses the Torah on Mount Sinai (Har Sinai).,
to the spaces, to those places that are beyond the small self.
In goodness may you travel up your desert mountains and
swim down into the waters of your life, to do the work,
to receive what is offered-
When you open the Majestic doors of your heart
behind those doors you will
travel on your path into the Mystery
where the desert mountains become level
where the seas are calm.
You will find that is where the Promised land resides.
Come to the dance, be the dance.
