Being Completely There - Parshat Emor

Hey Sweetest Friends,

Can you imagine what the world would be like if we each physically looked like the precise place we were on our Spiritual journey?  Crazy, right??

But imagine a time when the physical and the Spiritual were direct reflections of each other.  A time when saying rotten things about another person caused your own body or house to start rotting away.  A time when a person short on patience was also short on height.  And a person with aggression had unusually long and burly arms.  And a person with arrogance had an upturned nose.

A long time ago, the world was like that.  A long time ago, the Earth was seen for what it was: A physical layer encasing a Spiritual world.

We don’t live in a physical world with a Spiritual dimension to it.  We live in a Spiritual world with a physical layer around it.

We are not physical people with Souls inside.  We are Spiritual beings riding around in our bodies for an up-to-120 year journey.

Yet today, when we try to be there for one another, we cannot readily see how whole we are, or exactly where the other person’s needs are.  And that makes it harder to reach out for help and to help another person.  Because we have a hard time telling if the advice we are getting is coming from a place of helping us, or just the other person living out his or her own story through the personal questions we have shared.

And when we look at another person, it is not so easy to know just the right thing to say to heal their Spirit and bring them to the highest place.

 

Listen to this week’s Shu-Shine to get some insight into what the world used to be like, and how to put one’s self aside in order to be there for another person in need.

Sending everyone blessings to be there for one another in the highest ways, helping each other grow to the highest heights in the most complete and pure ways.

 

 Shabbat Shalom and Tons of Love,

~Shu