For those who are sincere to know Him. For all the seekers. The experience of rapture.
Just as God is One - the Truth is One. It shines through the all revelations, through all the cultures and all languages although it is covered by the diversity of the traditions. All the ancient religions established and accumulated traditions over many centuries. All the living revelations of the world prophets became buried under many traditions of the rituals and commentaries of the “guardians” of their respective religions. The danger of loosing the true meaning, the Divinely inspired message, which was at the core of the given tradition, became apparent to some individual brightest minds.
Here we provide two quotes from two great masters of spirituality. One is Jewish Rabbi Bahya Yoseph Ibn Paguda who lived in 11th century Spain. Another quote from Buddha as referred to by Buddhist Monk Walpola Sri Rahula who lives in our days in Buddhist Monastery in Ceylon.
The following letter to the world was written by a Rabbi in the late 1980s.
Dear World,
It appears that you are hard to please. I understand that you are upset over us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry and outraged. Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset over us. Today, it is the brutal repression of the Palestinians; yesterday, it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily. Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we, the Jewish people upset you. We upset a German people who elected a Hitler and we upset an Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians, Romanians. And we go back a long, long way in the history of world upset.
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You must be Holy since I am God your Lord and I am Holy. (Leviticus, 19:2)
What does it mean? Is it for individual or for the nation as a whole?
There is similar guidance here towards the Divine that can be found in every religious scripture in the world - the intended qualities of men to be able to evolve towards the holiness. But then we encounter the exclusive phenomenon, Divinely decreed, which makes Jewish theology different from other religions.
From generation to generation Jews celebrate the unparalleled event in human history recorded in our Torah as a Divine intervention aimed at giving us freedom from the bondage of slavery. But is it really so? With Divine help I want to bring the reader’s attention to the text of Torah and see for yourself that this idea is too short and truncated compared to the real Divine Lesson. With Divine Help I will try to reveal all the depth of the lesson for Israel, for all peoples, for individuals and for all times. The same story, yet some of you may realize - you never knew it before…
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