“For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I have chosen
rather to be at the threshold in the house of my God, than to dwell in tents of
wickedness.”
(Psalms 84:10)
In this verse we learn again that Jerusalem is the
highest state of consciousness where we fully experience goodness as the common
bond with our Creator. It is the time and place where we want to live forever,
for if we are in God’s presence; what can we lack, miss or yearn for?
Even standing in the proximity of goodness is better
than living out in the open of the negative traits and trends of ego’s
fantasies and illusions that make life meaningless.
Wickedness is the outcome of our weaknesses to reject
the unnecessary beliefs and feelings of lack that pretend to undermine goodness
as something incomplete, insufficient, deficient, and lacking that leads to
failure. These are precisely the traits and trends of anything opposed to
goodness, for it encompasses plenitude.
The ethical ways, means and attributes inherent in
goodness are the courtyards of God’s will for His creation, the tents that give
meaning to life in contrast to the tents of lower emotions, feelings, passions
and instincts that trample the dignity of life, which is goodness.
“His [God’s] foundation is in sacred mountains. God loves the gates of
Zion from all the dwellings of Jacob.” (87:1-2)
As we have mentioned, in the Jewish tradition,
“mountains”, “hills” and “high places” represent the highest values, principles
and beliefs, by which we conduct our lives in this world. Hence we understand
that God’s ways and attributes as presented in the Hebrew Bible are symbolized
by sacred mountains.
In this sense, Zion is known as “the mountain of
the mountains” as the Prophets remind us (Isaiah 2:2, Micah 4:1), from where
God directs His creation. Hence we understand His preference of goodness as His
ethical ruling principle that leads the positive aspects, dimensions and
expressions of life as Jacob’s dwellings.
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