Stop running Way From Yourself !
Iâ€™ve always been puzzled by young, intelligent, movers and shakers in the Jewish community upping and moving to Israel, it seems so dualistic, and short sighted.
The primary motive they cite is that they donâ€™t feel comfortable in the Diaspora and that they feel really Jewish in the Land of Israel even if they donâ€™t keep any of the religious laws etcâ€¦ Whatâ€™s up with that?
Surely if you were more comfortable with your own identity why would you need to move to a country with millions of other people just like you? If your cultural identity is so important, why donâ€™t you do something about it here and now? Why do you think that nationalism or in deed a â€˜Holy landâ€™ â€“ where you can be yourself is really going to solve your deep problems?
The question isnâ€™t just about Jews and Israel, its about all of us, why do we think that over there, in some distant future things are going to be ok, if I only had this or that, that then
Iâ€™d be happy? If I lived in a big house, or a small house, drove this car, or had that job, money, if I only had a boyfriend of girlfriend, a cat or a baby then all my troubles would be over?
In the messianic era the kabbalists teach us that the Holiness of the Holy of Holies will spread to the whole of the temple mount, that the Holiness of the Temple will encompass the Whole of Jerusalem, the Holiness of Jerusalem will spread to the entire biblical land of Israel and the Holiness of the Holy Land will spread throughout the entire world.
The Whole world will become as Holy as the Holy land.
Some great Kabbalists go further â€“ they claim that the holiness of the Holy of Holies will in fact be accessible to each and every individual that the land we are standing on might be â€˜Israelâ€™ but we are in deed the Holy of Holies.
What i’m saying is that, happiness is not found outside of yourself. If you push off, happiness and bliss to some future time, you are destined always to be unhappy and miserable.
Also that the Messianic Era is here and now, it is a state of mind a state of enlightened being, one that is accessible now.
That running towards a better future, doesn’t always work, ‘progress’ is sometimes fuelled by stupidity, greed and emptiness.
Real spiritual, and personal progress comes from a place of contentment, happiness and a desire to spread that around.
Can you see the difference?