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Parshat Beshalach: Where is G-d in the World? - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
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I remember as a young boy my mother
taking ages weaving a tapestry of
Gainsborough's boy in blue one day just
before she finished it I remember
picking up and thinking to myself mummy
you're a really wonderful mother but
when it comes to needlework well well
there's a piece of red sticking out here
over there there's a turquoise clump of
threads it seems to go nowhere clumps of
wool all over the place this doesn't
look like any like gains real looks more
like abstract ah and then my fingers
detect it smooth regular stitching on
the other side of the tapestry I turned
the tapestry over and saw a beautiful
and precise copy of Gaines's boy in blue
the stitches were all regular and
well-formed the colors all blended
together a divine tapestry all the
disjointed threads that I saw on the
other side of the tapestry harmonize
into a complete and beautiful whole
sometimes it's very difficult to see
sense in world events it's difficult to
believe the world is being run by a God
that there's a divine coherent plan
they're suffering there's evil in this
world how can this be the handiwork of a
merciful God if you've ever felt that
way don't worry because you're not alone
one of the greatest men who ever lived
felt exactly like you Moshe obey no
Moses our teacher our great teacher also
had his questions about God's running
the world
in last week's Torah portion Moshe Moses
went to Pharaoh to peril to ask him to
let the Jewish people go power if you
remember was not the easiest of
negotiating partners who reply to
motions requests Poirot told the task
masters to stop giving the Jews straw
however the Jews were still required to
produce exactly the same quantity of
bricks as before the Jews complained
bitterly to Moshe so much she went back
to God and said why are you have you
done this evil to this people why have
you sent me from the time I came to
power to speak in your name he did evil
to this people but you did not rescue
your people Moshe was saying that from
the time from the very beginning the
whole plan to take the Jews out of Egypt
was faithfully flawed he was telling God
they didn't see a divine plan he just
saw chaos when you look at life's
tapestry from the wrong side it looks
like a complete mess Moshe was looking
at events from the wrong side but he
fixed that mistake and when he saw the
miraculous deliverance of the Jewish
people at the splitting of the sea he
used the same word that he used to show
his lack of faith that word is oz
meaning then Naz is made up of an Aleph
the numerical equivalent of one and Zion
seven seven represents the natural world
there are seven colors in the rainbow
several notes in the diatonic scale
seven days in the week when Moshe and
the Jewish people emerged unscathed from
the sea and saw the mighty Egyptian army
strewn across the beach like so many
broken toy soldiers it was there that
every Jew and the greatest to the most
humble reached a level of prophetic
insight into the workings of the world
that has never been repeated they
plugged all the seven all the disparate
and sometimes confusing events of this
world back into the one the one who
weaves life's rich tapestry
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