The Day of Atonement
Oct. 2nd, 2006 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaI've been fasting (not eating or drinking), I'm not an observant person.
I don't believe that if GD exists He/She or Them really care what we little humans do in order to make ourselves feel better in His/Hers or Their eyes.
Because if there is GD, GD has much more important things to deal with than watch over creatures who consider themselves better than any other creation on this world.
Well today I had an enlightenment of sorts.
I decided to go to Shul today (where I usually only go for the evening before, the Erev), I don't really know why, probably to see Daddy go up to the Bimah and bless the congregation (my family are Cohens, we were the High Priests of the Temple, and now, since there is no Temple, now bless what ever community we are a part of) and as we were reading the prayers, which are usually made up of verses from the Tanach, one of them struck me all of a sudden -
"מותר האדם מן הבהמה אין כי הכל הבל"
קהלת פרק ג' פסוק י"ט
And the King James translation (which I don't really like, but that's what I have);
"A man hath no preeminence over a beast: for all is vanity"
Ecclesiastics Chapter 3 Verse 19
What struck is me was the humility of it all. How in reality it isn't GD that watches us, but how we, people, watch each other, how we treat each other.
It isn't about glorifying our existence, or even glorifying the fact that GD created us.
It's about the how we are all a part of a much larger cosmos, right here on earth and this is probably only my interpretation, but I suddenly felt an affinity to the Faith I had never felt before.
I think I need to explore it a little more, a long with my other spiritual journeys.
I don't believe that if GD exists He/She or Them really care what we little humans do in order to make ourselves feel better in His/Hers or Their eyes.
Because if there is GD, GD has much more important things to deal with than watch over creatures who consider themselves better than any other creation on this world.
Well today I had an enlightenment of sorts.
I decided to go to Shul today (where I usually only go for the evening before, the Erev), I don't really know why, probably to see Daddy go up to the Bimah and bless the congregation (my family are Cohens, we were the High Priests of the Temple, and now, since there is no Temple, now bless what ever community we are a part of) and as we were reading the prayers, which are usually made up of verses from the Tanach, one of them struck me all of a sudden -
"מותר האדם מן הבהמה אין כי הכל הבל"
קהלת פרק ג' פסוק י"ט
And the King James translation (which I don't really like, but that's what I have);
"A man hath no preeminence over a beast: for all is vanity"
Ecclesiastics Chapter 3 Verse 19
What struck is me was the humility of it all. How in reality it isn't GD that watches us, but how we, people, watch each other, how we treat each other.
It isn't about glorifying our existence, or even glorifying the fact that GD created us.
It's about the how we are all a part of a much larger cosmos, right here on earth and this is probably only my interpretation, but I suddenly felt an affinity to the Faith I had never felt before.
I think I need to explore it a little more, a long with my other spiritual journeys.
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Date: 2006-10-02 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-02 08:19 pm (UTC)In fact, since you say you are not too happy with it, I will gladly trade you another version for it, if that is possible.