“God is in the midst of her
[Jerusalem], she shall not be moved. God shall help her, at the approach of
morning.”
(Psalms 46:6)
Jerusalem is God’s
chosen place for His dwelling in the world, that He won’t move or change. We
have said that God and His dwelling are inherent in each other, which makes
Jerusalem as unchangeable as Him.
“God is not a man, that he should
lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do
it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?”
(Numbers 23:19)
“And also the preeminence of
Israel does not lie or repent, for He is not a man to repent.”
(I Samuel 15:29)
“I profane not My covenant, and
that which is going forth from My lips I change not.”
(Psalms 89:34)
Thus we understand
God’s oneness as immutable, for that is a quality of what is completed and
completion does need addition, subtraction or change.
The second sentence
of the verse speaks about God’s revelation in His promised final redemption. In
this sense, the latter is related to enlightenment as “the approaching morning”,
a new day as a new beginning for human consciousness.
This is the “help” humankind
has been hoping for since its beginnings, to finally see the advent of a new
life without any trace of evil.
“Great is the Lord and exalted
highly in the city of our God, the mount of His sacredness.”
(48:2)
Our Sages relate God’s
greatness to His infinite loving kindness from which all came to existence, for
all exists by God’s goodness and nothing else. This divine attribute is
manifest in all its dimensions in Jerusalem, which also represents the highest
level of consciousness by which we bond with God.
As we have mentioned
earlier, sacredness as an evil-free consciousness is the precondition to engage
into the next level where our bonding with God’s sacredness takes us to a higher
and more spiritual approach to life in this world.
“Beautiful sight, the joy of the whole earth [is]
mount Zion, the northern sides, the city of the great King.”
(48:3)
This verse speaks
about the unfathomable and indescribable experience of living in, with and by
our sacred bonding with the Creator, represented by mount Zion. Beauty becomes
an expression of goodness, for goodness is beautiful in any form, way or
direction it manifests, for it encompasses all.
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