Love's secret service
By Rabbi David Aaron
"The spiritual life is not a life of bondage to the Divine, it is a life of bonding with the Divine. There is no greater joy"Why do the Jews lament at the Wailing wall if "bonding is no greater joy? Also, why do thy rebel so regarding time in their social life by being on "Jewish Time" - a kind of compulsion from what I read recently in Jewish World Review a couple of days ago.
"...People have it all confused. They think that G-d is some cosmic ego maniac..."
Ego manic? No. Some descriptions presented of G-d are ego manic.
Perhaps this is why G-d says to Moses in this week's portion, "Ata Tezvah — You command". Make the commandment your idea. In other words, G-d is telling Moses to say to the Israelites, "Hey guys I have an idea let's bring the purest oil to the menorah and bring a light to G-d, it will be a surprise."
In other words God ask Moses to lie to the Israelites? Will He then pretend surprise?
The commandments are G-d's gift to us...the opportunity to serve G-d and thereby bond with G-d.
G-d wants to be served?
"However, we should aspire to do them with the same kind of joy we would feel as if it is our idea."
In other words we should kid ourselves with aspirations?
Maybe we are only G-d's experiment to see if we could learn to live together without killing each other off like the rest of the animal kingdom.
Bondage is not joy it is the relinquishing of making choices.
Love's secret service? It is doing a good deed without fan fare or expectation of reward.
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