הַרְפּוּ וּדְעוּ כִּי אָנֹכִי אֱלֹהִים
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A chant from Tehillim inspires me, and we often sing/ chant it during our Tiferet Movement classes ,
Harpoo ve dau ki anochi Elokim
As "constructive" people , we are always so busy; car pools, home cooked meals, homework , housework, relationship work, etc, etc. the list is endless , but David Ha Melech states: Be still ( surrender/ release ) and know that I am G-d.
Be still??
Who has time??
But in the stillness, in the space that we make to hear our own breath, in the space that we create when we slow down long enough to still the racing mind, in the space that we make to truly remember who we are, we can " harpoo ve dau", we can let go of the burdens and the demands of our material lives; we can let go of the pressures of the " have to gets " and the " have to haves", and through slowing down and connecting to our breath and to our neshomahs, we can connect to a grander picture.We can connect to something infinite and transcendent. But if we are constantly rushing from here to there, even from one mitzvah to the next mitzvah...we might just miss the opportunity all together!
In Egypt, Pharoah kept us busy all the time, he wanted us to forget who we were, he was so dedicated to us forgetting that he wanted to cast all the boys( zachar) into the River Nile ! Zachor (slightly different vowel) means to remember...when we take time to remember who and what we are, we enter into a liberated and "free" space, when we run around mindlessly "doing and then forgetting" , we put ourselves into Egypt-like places of subservience to our lowest selves, the selves of endlessly "getting and spending".
So take the advice from David Ha Melech: take some time to
Harpoo vedau , ki anochi Elokim
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