The Journey to Eden

Following our seemingly endless slavery in Egypt, on the way to a homeland I call Eden; we encountered a sea of hope, and faith.  The end was almost in sight, but we were unsure of ourselves.  We said, “What if Hashem abandons us?  What if this is all a fluke?”  We had seen miracles, but we had also experienced great horrors.  Indeed, we were scared.

We didn’t yet know if we could trust in Gd, and to this day some of us still question such things saying, “How can a loving and powerful Gd allow something such as the Holocaust?”

We need to dream or Gd can never part the sea for us.

We need Hashem, because nothing short of a miracle is what we should expect when we have the Author of the cosmos on our side.

Hope and Reality - Live in the real world. Dream in the ideal world.

The cosmos began in darkness.  It is the same way with the Jewish people.  Judaism began in a world full of idolatry with Abraham destroying his father’s idols.  However, in Egypt the former glories of the patriarchs and matriarchs had become but a dim light.  The enslaved Jews in Egypt cried, “There can’t be a Gd; not with all this pain and suffering,” entertaining the idea that the former glories of the patriarchs and matriarchs of Judaism could be chalked up to luck and nothing else.  We objected to the idea of Gd because our cries for hope went unanswered for so long in Egypt.

The Jews in slavery had only heard of Gd, and flirted with atheism, but when we were about to totally give up on Hashem, Moses came and showed us the path to redemption.  He showed us the real Gd does care and that there is no dream too big to dream, reviving the soul of the Jewish people, with the wholesome Light of creation.