Israel: Jerusalem Standing
posted by Barefoot Jewess at 4:37 pm
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Monday, February 14, 2005
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3 Comments:
thanks for framing that moment for us!
Absolutely beautiful, breathtaking photos! It looks like you had an amazing time. I hope the inspiration lasts until your next trip! Thank you so much for sharing your memories!
Matzanacho (btw, fabulous moniker!)
I think that boredom with prayers is rampant in any movement. Unless one brings meaning to them they are just words. My guess is that a lot of people are passive rather than active participants in prayer- either they don't know how to do it or they think that connecting with G-d is either irrational, impossible or absurd.
It seems as if talk of G-d is embarrassing for most. I think it makes people more vulnerable, to actually admit to a relationship with G-d. To actually admit that, yeah, there may be something light and transcendent and emotional and passionate beyond the strictness and concreteness of that macho, muscular halacha. G-d forbid that any Jew admit to being transported! Or struggle with many emotions and dilemmas- that is for girls, and reading Tehillim should be rightly apportioned to females. Too touchy-feely and smacking of New Age.
And yet, the tradition, waaaay back even past the Ba'al Shem Tov (I'm saying that tongue in cheek) has always supported, took for granted, and even insisted upon a personal relationship with G-d (cf, one of the classics, "Duties of the Heart" by Bachya Ibn Pakuda, or any Aggadah , and even the likes of Samson Raphael Hirsch, who tries to describe and concretise the immanent and transcendent in his tome, Horeb, but in a muscular way, of course :)).
I can so relate to your feeling of aloneness. I don't know what the answer is in terms of drawing people into prayer. Just know that the words, "G-d's throne is guarded by truth and purity", from El Adon on Shabbat, send me into transports. It reminds me of who I am and what I long for. Not a bad thing. Except for the macho types, I guess :).
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