“And strangers have stood and fed your
flock, sons of a foreigner are your farmers and your vine-dressers.” (61:5)
We have referred to “strangers” as
traits and trends “alien” to our
spiritual nature. Consciousness is a multidimensional entity we don't know
regarding its capability in terms of discernment, perception, conception and
thought, or its reach in terms of feelings, emotions and sensations. We have
potentials to assimilate these dimensions according to what we bring to them.
We often say that our mystic Sages
consider all these dimensions “vessels”, meaning they don't act by themselves
but by what we put in them. Hence we insist in keeping them empty of
negativity, and fill them permanently with the positive traits and trends of
Love's ways and attributes. Thus we realize
that Love is its own cause and
effect.
In this context, the highest positive
values, principles, ideas, beliefs are those that are not “strange” or “alien”
to us, for they are inherent to
our spiritual nature. “Strange” or “alien” are
not necessary negative traits,
but certainly something that is not part of our spiritual essence and identity.
These are accessories in our
consciousness to survive in the material world, such as the emotional intensity
with which we experience life, and the instincts that force us to maintain the
physical body working properly.
Hence they should be subservient to
the higher purpose that aims our higher consciousness. In our current stage of
human consciousness, many of us are actually subjugating our higher spiritual
identity to lower passions and instincts, and not the opposite.
The Prophet reminds us that in the
Final Redemption, the Messianic consciousness is elevated to its spiritual
destiny by virtually all aspects and dimensions of our existence. Therefore,
the “strangers” care and feed the life God wants us to live when evil is
completely eliminated.
The “strangers” sustain and feed the
goodness we essentially are, and our destiny to make it prevail forever. Our “flock”
and “vineyards” are all the aspects and dimensions as fields of life where we are destined plant and harvest the seeds of Love's
ways and attributes. The same
approach applies for the “nations” as we see in the next verse.
“And ye are called 'Priests of the
Lord', 'Ministers of our God' is said of you. The strength of nations ye
consume, and in their honor ye do boast yourselves.” (61:6)
The Torah
defines the identity of the children of Israel as their purpose in life. Israel
exists to fulfill its destiny, which is to be Light for the nations. Thus we
are named priests and ministers of the Creator to fulfill His will for the
material world. The allegory in this verse is related to the goodness Israel
does for the nations, which is also the reason Israel honors himself.
In a higher
consciousness approach, goodness represented by Israel takes away (“consume”)
the negative traits and trends represented by the nations. Hence as goodness
becomes the cause, reason and purpose for all levels and dimensions of our
consciousness, it also becomes our honor for which we boast ourselves.
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