The living revelation of the concealed (exodus: tetzaveh)
This week has been a bit more challenging navigating the ups and downs that come with living in this life of exile… as Mark Ronson says, Nothing Breaks Like A Heart. I woke up today and it hit me that we’re all just scattered pieces of a broken soul trying to come together and make it whole. The Parashah opens with: “And you will command the Children of Israel that they shall take for you clear olive oil, crushed, for illumination, to light a lamp continually.” What strikes me is that the action we are commanded to take is a physical action in a moment— it’s plucking an olive, squeezing, grinding and crushing it for its oil, in order to elevate it. and what’s to follow is illumination and a continual light. It is the same in life— only after …
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