To a Jewish Friend…in the Midst of High Holy Days
As you celebrate these days so precious…these days of remembrance… What if the same Word of God that created the world, that wrote the law on Sinai, that spoke through the consciousnesses of the prophets, decided to fuse the Divine with the human in order to make a point? What if the Holy One, through its Word, fused in a holy marriage with matter? with DNA? with molecular structure, atoms, and energy?
What if that point was to tell humankind that it was beloved, that it is the object of the wildest love as the Song of Solomon says? What if that precious book of scripture in the Jewish canon is the overture to a symphony? What if the Divine is using the Jewish Jesus to offer a paradigm of what the Divine wants to accomplish with very person, every people, every nation, every ethnic group?
I too must ponder this. It implies that Jesus is not just for Christianity but for humanity. It implies that this self-giving life is the pattern for mine…for ours…for our nation’s…for our world, and we live this out according to our distinct religious traditions…
just a thought…