The Call of Awakening
THE BIG IDEA
According to the Torah Omens this week is literally Spiritual Ground Zero.
Abraham and Sarah have their call of awakening,
Abraham is given Spiritually Designated Land (now called Israel) by the Source Energy of the Universe.
Oh yeah… and also… this is the week that Ishmael, Abraham’s first child, is conceived, born and initiated into the covenant.
Additionally, when Abraham, the human embodiment of loving kindness, learns his nephew has been taken hostage, he and his followers enter the region and liberate his family that is being held captive.
In order to gain deeper insight into the ancient spiritual roots of the current Isreal/Enemy war, I urge everyone to spend time sitting with each of these nuggets and wrestle with the historical and global implications of this enduring narrative for yourself.
Abraham’s proof of ownership of the land consists of ritually splitting animals, and deep trance state that assures exile, suffering, and return for his descendants to their promised land. A vision that implicitly eliminates any of Abraham’s children that did not undergo a long period of slavery and miraculous liberation.
Sarah, in an act of compassion, suggests that she and Abraham pass on their spiritual legacy through the womb of her trusted maidservant Hagar, only to see Hagar’s cruelty emerge immediately after she becomes pregnant - making clear to Sarah that Hagar is unfit to carry the heir to their spiritual fortune. And yet here we are today still dealing with Ismael “a wild ass of a person; His hand against everyone,
And everyone’s hand against him”When Abraham and his clan’s wealth grew so great that the hired Sheppards started fighting, Abraham understood separation was necessary for peaceful co-existence. In the eyes of Abraham, left and right are arbitrary, both sides are blessed, the whole of the land is good. Those that carry the consciousness of oneness MUST NOT FIGHT each other.
If you choose right, I’ll go left. If you choose left, I’ll go right.
Whatever it is that you learn or think about this Shabbat, I only ask, or rather beg for this,
PLEASE, please please…. learn some Torah, or meditate on the ideas prayerfully this weekend. Do your best to sense into the light (consciousness) that is created when you engage in this living text that has survived the test of time. And I beg you, in addition to lighting candles for those that cannot this shabbat, please please please take time to learn for them too - and send that light(consciousness) and positive energy from your learning to at least one of the names below, and also to the brave fighters that, please God, are channeling Abraham’s might and precision to get the hostages (and themselves) out of danger immediately.
Ada Sagi
Adi Shoham
Adar bat Daniella
Adi bat Ahuva
Adi bat Jacqueline
Adi bat Shoshan
Adi Margalit bat Ilka Chana
Alayna bat Eugenia
Alma Or Alex ben Oksana
Alicia bat Ludmila
Amir ben Rachel
Amiram Cooper
Amit bat Donna
Amit ben Limor
Amitai ben Hafsi
Amnon San ben Sarah
Aner ben Shira
Arthur Aharon ben Meenah
Avigail bat Smadar
Avinatan ben Ditza Tirza
Aviv bat Doron
Avraham Gilad ben Liat
Avshalom ben Ruti
Bachor Chai ben Hadas
Bar ben Julie
Bar ben Nili
Bar Kuperstein
Ben ben Nirit
Ben ben Zahava
Ben Bentzion ben Mazal
Benyahu ben Etel
Benyamin ben Elizabeth
Boy Bibas, 3 years
Boy Bibas, 9 months
Carmela Dan
Celine Ben David Nagar
Chava bat Sally
Daniel ben Inga Danielle bat Ella
David Karol ben Gratziah
Ditza Heiman
Don Sassi ben Shoshana
Dor ben Batya
Dor ben Galit
Dor ben Iris
Dor ben Sharona
Dor ben Vered
Doreen bat Tali
Doron ben Sarah
Dror ben Ella
Dvir ben Chagit
Eden bat Aliza
Eden bat Orin
Efrat Katz
Eidan ben Dalit
Eidan ben Tamar
Einav ben Penina
Eitan Avraham ben Efrat
Eitan ben Hagit
Elia ben Batsheva
Elia Ben Odeel
Eliakim Shlomo ben Avishag
Eliyahu ben Chana
Eliyahu Yaakov ben Hadassah Adi
Elon ben Idit
Elroy ben Iris
Emma Cunio
Julie Cunio
Evyatar ben Yasmin
Evyatar David
Gili ben Orna
Guy Yaakov ben Levana
Hersh Ben Rachel
Hili bat Margaret
Ido ben Kochava
Inbar bat Yifat
Itay Chen
Itay Regev
Ivan Illarramendi
Judith Raanan
Kareen bat Luba
Kareen bat Osnat Asiah
Karina Ariev
Keshet ben Natalya
Kim bat Miri
Liam ben Sarit
Lidor ben Bat El
Lidor ben Gita
Liel ben Nardit
Lielle ben Yonit
Lilach bat Rina
Lior ben Michal
Liri Elbag
Loren Garcovich
Lotan ben Naomi
Maayan bat Rachelli
Matan ben Miriam
Maya bat Keren
Michael ben Rachel
Mor ben Linda
Moriah Or bat Sandra
Motti ben Mazal
Na’Or ben Livnat
Naavo ben Meirav
Nachman ben D’ganit
Natalie Ra’anan
Naveh ben Adi
Nitzan bat Ronit
Nitzan ben Vered
Nitzan ben Yiskah
Noa bat Leah
Noa bat Liora
Noa bat Molly
Noa bat Nitzchona
Noa Argamani
Noam bat Hadas
Noam bat Sharone
Noam ben Talia
Noam Liel ben Revital
Noam Avigdori
Noam Or
Noiya
Noiya’s father, Eli
Noya Dan
Nurit Cooper
Noy bat Chava
Ofek ben Eti
Ofer Calderon
Ofir ben Rishel
Ofir ben Sharon
Omer ben Orna
Omer ben Osnat
Omer ben Shelly
Omer Shem Tov
Omri ben Chagit
Omri ben Raaya
Or ben Avi
Or ben Sima
Or-el ben Meirav
Ori ben Einav
Oriah bat Chani
Osher ben Rachel
Owat Suriyasri
Rachel bat Paulina
Rahm bat Mar
Rahm ben Tamar
Raz Asher
Raz Katz
Rinat bat Mechula
Roee ben Nitzah
Romy bat Meirav
Romy Ruchama bat Sarah
Ron ben Sigal
Roni bat Lilach Sandra
Roni ben Birtha
Rotam bat Ariella
Rotem Bat Leah
Roz bat Doron
Saan ben Sarah
Sachak ben Meirav
Sahar ben Tamar
Segev ben Galit
Shaked bat Baila
Shani Louk
Sharon bat Metukah
Sharon bat Ruti
Sharon ben Limor
Sharon Alony Cunio
Sharon Avigdori
Sharone Lifschitz’s father
Sharone Lifschitz’s mother
Shinhav bat Rachel
Shiri Silberman-Bibas
Shoham bat Rachel
Shoham ben Pazit
Shoshan ben Rina
Shoshan Haran
Sigal bat Ani
Sigal bat Esther
Stav bat Eti
Steven ben Irina
Strosta Tomer ben Orli
Ta-ir bat Edna
Tal ben Limor
Tal Shoham
Tamar bat Yaira
Tiferet bat Sarah Sarit
Tomer ben Sigal
Uriel ben Naomi
Vivian bat Shoshana
Yaffah
Yahal bat Adi
Yiftach ben Shoshana
Yishai ben Talia
Yitzchak Isaac ben Tzipporah
Yochai ben Ziva
Yonatan ben Miriam
Yonatan Chai ben Linda
Yonat Or
Yoram ben Miriam
Yosef ben Chana
Yuval Kayam bat Miriam
Ziv ben Tamar
Shabbat Shalom and may God have mercy on his people.