“We come
to His sanctuaries, we bow at His footstool. Arise,
O Lord, to Your sanctuaries, You and the ark of Your might. Your priests
clothed with righteousness and Your loving ones singing of joy.” (Psalms
132:7-9)
Our Sages refer to the
Temple of Jerusalem as God’s footstool, where the majesty of His goodness rests
and touches the world. In this context, the Temple is where His “sanctuaries”
are, and these are indeed His ways and attributes. Their sacredness is such
that they are actually sanctuaries for us to meditate, contemplate and to dwell
in.
When we
allow God’s ways to inspire us in every mode, we pray to Him to take charge and
turn us into vessels, worthy enough to keep up to His goodness, in order to
make it ours to be, to have and to manifest it. This is the way God “arises” in
us.
We have to
call our Creator to dwell again in the sanctuaries of the Temple He once built
in us, and for us to bond permanently with Him. This bond is the “ark of God’s
might”, understood as the covenant that He sealed forever with His people.
The
priests represent our connecting good traits that establish the bond, and these
are good as long as they remain loyal to their ethical ways, mentioned here as
righteousness, for they must be righteous as part of what goodness is.
God’s
“loving ones” (the term is usually translated from the original Hebrew as
“pious”) are the complementary qualities for being righteous, for they go hand
in hand when true love is given. A loving action is
expressed in the same way a joyful song is chanted, as we will see it in the
next verses.
“For the
Lord, He has chosen Zion for a seat for Him: ‘This one of My eternal rest, here
I shall dwell because I desired it. Her provision I have blessed and shall
bless. Her needy ones I satisfy with bread. And her priests dressed of
redemption, and her loving ones singing of praise. There shall soot the vine
for David, I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one’.” (132:13-17)
These
verses reaffirm what Jerusalem and its Temple are for the Creator in relation
to His eternal bond with Israel. The psalmist remarks the city of God as the
vessel where He bestows His sustenance for the world.
This is the reason for
His continuous blessings to her, and those who keep it sacred for Him. These
are the priests that represent our best traits and qualities in the highest
level of our consciousness, for these are the means through which we find our
redemption.
Here redemption is called the vine of David, which represents the
Messianic consciousness, destined to prevail for eternity. It is also the lamp
that will enlighten all aspects and expressions of life, all dedicate to pursue
the endless knowledge of our Creator.
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