“The
blossoms have appeared in the land, the time of singing has come, and
the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land.” (2:12)
God
tells us that once we choose goodness, our harvest is also goodness.
This is a fundamental principle for the final redemption and the
Messianic era, for only positive traits and trends will motivate and
lead our thoughts, emotions, feelings, passions and instincts.
Goodness
is founded not only on common sense and empirical knowledge
(experience), but primordially on principles, values, ways,
attributes, ground rules and guidelines. In such foundations we are
supposed to approach our moment to moment reality. The elements of
this foundations must be learned from an early age, for these are the
core of the goodness we want to have abundantly in life since its
beginnings.
We
learn them from the Torah and God's ways and attributes as our
connection with Him. Thus we realize that goodness must precede
wisdom, as we mentioned above, when we said that true love does not
exist without wisdom and true wisdom does not exist without love.
This is “the voice of the turtle dove” that has been heard, and
still is heard in our land.
This
verse reminds us of king David's words on the same theme.
“The
land
shall
yield her produce;
and God, our
God,
shall bless us. God
shall bless us, and all the ends of the land
shall be in awe of Him!”
(Psalms 67:6-7)
“The
blossoms have appeared in the land” also point out to another
prophetic admonition.
“Redeemers
ascended to mount Zion to judge mount of Esau, and to the Lord has
been the kingdom.” (Obadiah 1:21)
The
redeemers in reference to renewed and empowered positive traits and
trends that will lead all levels and expressions of consciousness, by
correcting, rectifying and redirecting the negative traits and trends
represented by the “mount of Esau”.
Thus
we understand that Zion (Jerusalem and its Temple) is the place of
the permanent awareness of our connection with God's love. In Zion
dwells the highest and loftiest traits and qualities we share with
God's ways and attributes.
The
prophetic message of Obadiah makes us aware that our redemption
depends on letting the “redeemers” as love's ways and attributes
rule and lead eternally every facet and expression of human life. The
outcome of this is jubilation, joy and singing of the highest
happiness we will have ever experienced: “the time of singing has
come!”
Allegorically,
“the voice of the turtle dove” represents the expression of the
new consciousness we will have when evil will be removed from the
face of the earth. Thus we understand the words of Maimonides.
“In
that [Messianic]
era,
there will be neither famine or war, envy or competition for good
will flow in abundance and all the delights will be freely available
as dust. The occupation of the entire world will be solely to know
God. Therefore, the Jews will be great sages and know the hidden
matters, grasping the knowledge of their Creator according to the
full extent of human potential, as Isaiah
11:9 states:
'The
world will be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover
the ocean bed'.”
(Laws of the kings and the wars 12:5)
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