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Monday, June 29, 2009
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Part 3
-Mitzvat Hovat HaDevekut
By HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok
Copyright © 2009 by Ariel Bar Tzadok. All rights reserved.
Torah is by no means just a book of words. It is not a document written by a human being from this or any other dimensional plane. Torah exists independently of our universe and only exists in this universe in a form that provides for it relative immortality. This is why it materializes as a book, one written with very specific rules in a very specific way. When the rules are followed the book can be infinitely reproduced without any loss to its original form, content and character. A book therefore provides the most stable and immortal form and structure for a thing in this most unstable and mortal dimensional plane of decaying matter.
Now that I have described why Torah takes its present form, let us discuss its true and original form. There is an ancient teaching taught by the founder of the Hasidic movement Rabbi Yisrael, the Ba’al Shem Tov, that in the beginning, even prior to the creation of our multiverse, Torah existed as a conglomeration of independent, vibrant living letters. And only as creation proceeded and events occurred here on Earth did specific groups of letters combined to form words and thus give us the narrative that we have today.
This lovely tale describes to us a very profound reality, yet in order to understand it, we must extract the true essence of this teaching from its religious and mythical story-book style rendering.
As the Torah states in the beginning G-d created the Heavens and the Earth. The verse states that G-d spoke and said, “Let there be” and what He said, there was. We all understand the fairytale element of this; now let us take it understand it properly.
The Noahide Message,
the 4th of July and Universal Freedom
By HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok
Copyright © 2009 by Ariel Bar Tzadok. All rights reserved.
Over the last few decades starting here in the West and spreading out around the world there has grown what some call a new “religious” movement called Noahides. For the record, the term Noahide obviously comes from the name Noah, the man famous for building the Ark. According to the Bible, only Noah and his sons survived the ancient flood, therefore all humanity is called by his name, thus we are all “children of Noah,” Benei Noah in Hebrew or Noahides. Mind you, this term obviously is equally applicable to Jews and non-Jews alike. Essentially Noahide is the traditional Jewish term for all humanity.
The modern Noahide group bases its views on the ideas described in Judaism that while Jews are commanded by G-d to follow Judaism, non-Jews on the other hand are obligated not to follow any one religion but rather a universal code of behavior. This code stipulates belief and honor of the Supreme Being, the standards of moral behavior, not to steal, not to murder, not to act with sexual immorality, not to eat the flesh of a living animal (which some interpret metaphorically to mean to live in harmony and in balance with nature) and last but certainly not least, to establish stable societies and sane governments based upon law and the upholding of these principles and values.
These principles in Judaism, however universal, remained a mostly unknown and uninteresting point of theology until recently, when the revolving door of religion began to swing both ways. In their religious zeal to convert Jews many Christian evangelists began a study of Judaism and theology to better understand their targets and how to better reach them. As many of these missionaries continued their studies into the roots of Christianity and the foundations of Judaism, many of them were persuaded to embrace the Jewish message instead of getting Jews to give it up. Some converted and became Jews however the majority of the others saw that Judaism proclaimed a path for all non-Jews that liberated them from the divisive theological imprisonments of one religion or another.