Sunday, January 20, 2019

Weekly MMM - Parsha Yitro - Miraculous Personal Transformations



Here are seven reasons why I think Parsha Yitro provides ideas for miraculous personal transformation, based on Torah sources and other ideas:

1. In Torah, we see that Moses is urged on by his father-in-law, Jethro (Yitro), who is one of the most tantalizing figures in all of Torah. He checked-out every possible religious discipline in the world, and after Amalek attached Israel he heard the message of Israel and embraced the Israelite way.

Among other lessons he taught from his worldly, global explorations of spirituality, he taught one important to his famously illustrious son-in-law, Moses. He taught him that you have to look into the people you are guiding to see their essence. You have to see who they really are and guide them based on that reality.

2. Also in this Parsha we learn that an entire nation of stubborn, stiff-necked people (2 Jews, 3 opinions) came, all of a sudden, to a miraculous transformation together, in unity. When they got to Mount Sinai they became as one person with one heart.  And they understood that also, at that time, all the multiplicity of life heard the entire Torah in one word, simultaneously.

The Israelites accepted, sight unseen, their entire legacy for all eternity. They mean to be this miraculous, personal transformational, chosen people, if at all possible, as the most significant products of the patriarchs and matriarchs up until that time on planet Earth.

3. The Israelites were charged with the responsibility of bringing humanity back to the Garden of Eden, and back to Adam’s pristine place in the Garden where he could see all of reality with the hidden light. The Israelites were the people designed to ultimately live forever, as does Elijah The Prophet.

The Israelites have souls that are part of G-d, as that’s possible to understand, and they are the people who undergo and manifest in others a resurrection of the dead. They were people who could jump into the sea and transform reality. We are a miraculous, personal transformational nation of individuals.

I have shared a lot of individual tools, and here are a few of the best ones to make us, our own lives into miraculous personal transformations:

1. One tool is to know that to the extent we connect with G-d, that’s the extent to which we will personally be transformed. When we let go, we let G-d, and when we are joined together, we fuse our will with G-d’s will. When we ask questions and get G-d’s directed answers to guide our lives, we let go of being the ones who determine where we go, how we go, what we say, how we say it, and instead we allow our helplessness to guide us. With G-d leading the way we can become personally transformed through speaking absolute, vulnerable, full-disclosure prayers is one way to get there as well.

2. The power of the land we live in, the power of our legacy and our Holy sparks, the soul-building aspects of our everyday lives that are guiding us to our transcendence is one way to our personal transformation.

3. To speak not only from our brains but from our thoughts and our souls and our hearts is another way.

4. To be able to see that we’re able to utilize complete receptivity and allow all of life to fill us up until our cup is overflowing, and with that sensitivity and confidence in ourselves we can become benevolent human beings to one and all. The pay-back and reflection will be our personal transformation, without a doubt.

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