We are warned not to destroy ourselves by allowing bitterness, anger, or fear to consume our hearts. In the Torah we read: “And you shall not bring an abominable thing (תּוֹעֵבָה) into your house and become devoted to destruction like it” (Deut. 7:26). The sages of the Mishnah said that yielding to rage is equivalent to idol worship and should never be brought into the home. Indeed, rage is linked with avodah zarah – idolatry – because it exalts the ego and claims that God can’t (or won’t) help you in your moment of testing or need. Being quick to anger reveals the presence of foolishness within the heart:
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An implication of genuine faith in the LORD is the realization that your life is a sacred trust and therefore everything matters… Nothing is trivial; nothing is inconsequential. In the world to come you will be shocked to understand that everything you thought, everything you said, and everything you did was given to you from above, and therefore has tremendous significance (Matt. 12:36-37). Indeed, your entire life is on loan from heaven itself. Therefore “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness…” (Matt. 6:33). Faith invests all of the heart to the journey at hand; it seeks God’s presence in all things and trusts God in all its ways (Prov. 3:5-6). “The present form (τὸ σχῆμα) of this world is passing away” (1 Cor. 7:31), and the heart of faith looks for a city whose designer and builder is God Himself (Heb. 11:10). “So we do not lose heart… For the things that are seen are turning to dust, but the things that are unseen endure forever” (2 Cor. 4:16-18).
“Blessed are you, O LORD God of Israel our Father, forever and ever. Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the beauty and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all” (1 Chron. 29:10-11). Amen, amen. In light of this blessed truth, then, what is it but unbelief that incites us to fear, to become anxious, frustrated, angry, and to seek to control outcomes?
God made you entirely unique, and no one else was created for the special role that you have in the overarching plan of Almighty God… Jewish tradition says that God created Adam alone as “olam malei” (עוֹלָם מָלֵא), “an entire world,” to teach that each individual is of great value and significance. “Thus anyone who sustains one individual has sustained the world; and anyone who destroys one individual has destroyed an entire world” (Sanhedrin 37a). In addition, God created man as a solitary creation to remind us that all people descend from a common source: No one has a greater or better lineage or “pedigree” than anyone else. Moreover, each of us is created with a radical sense of “aloneness,” a built in “hunger” for relationship and especially for God’s presence.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was tohu va’vohu – without form and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep…” (Gen. 1:1-2). The sages comment that knowing that God created the heavens and the earth makes us realize that by themselves earthly things are without purpose and substance, since life in the natural world is havel havalim (הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים), “vanity of vanities,” apart from the design (form) and the substance of God. Faith in the upper “world” of God, that is, the heavenly realm, therefore evokes a sense of discontent and longing within the soul, and the temporal world and its pleasures will seem distracting and empty. This lack of form and emptiness was part of the original design of creation, however, since it was after God had created the universe that “he saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good” (Gen. 1:31).
Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does anything exist at all? These are basic questions about the meaning of life. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? “God created the universe,” you say, yes, but exactly why did He do so? What purpose did he have in mind? In particular, why were you created? What is the purpose of your life? What do you hope to achieve with the limited amount of time you have on this earth? Such questions brood within the soul, even if they are hidden from consciousness by various forms of busyness and distraction. At the outset of serious thinking about anything at all we are confronted with such ultimate questions. What is real? Why are we here? Where are we going? What does God want from us?
Here is a Hebrew reading lesson (with drash) on Proverbs 3:12, “For whom the LORD loves he reproves, like a father the son in whom he delights.” Click on the Hebrew verse to enlarge it on your screen while listening. Shalom chaverim.