Waters of Noach
The High Holiday season just ended and we are already knee deep in flood waters. These flood waters are called the waters of Noah.
In introducing Noach, the first description the Torah tells us that he was a Tzadik – a righteous man.
How do we reconcile that the righteous man gets the attribution for the flood? Perhaps it should have been called the Water of the Evil Generation?
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The Kaballah tells us that the waters of Noach represent the challenges we face in life. The Kabbalah highlights the challenge of making a living, but it also includes any other material or physical related challenge. That would include our personal story that we live with that creates inner challenge.
When we look at these challenges and recognize that this is G-d’s story, when we surrender to the true reality that things are as G-d set them up, we then discover the inner truth of our purpose and role here.
Put in other words; as long as we are facing our challenges exclusively through the lens of our personal narrative, we are missing out on the deeper reality which is the Divine truth.
Once we surrender to the Divine truth, we can then begin to explore the challenges and our role in them, as G-d would have us do.
However, surrounding to G-d’s reality is difficult. It’s difficult because we have to let go of our story and we have to accept that we are limited in our comprehension to understand why the world can often seem like it’s not right.
That is precisely why the real light is found in that surrender. And that is why the flood waters are called the Waters of Noach. Yes it is a difficult journey, but there is no other way to get to the deepest of lights.
The challenge is not in the way, the challenge is the way.
Please join us for more on this topic in our new Kabbalah and Coffee Course, Sundays at 10:00 AM.
Shabbat Shalom!
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