Before you read this, think, what is Interconnectedness? What is one example of Interconnectedness? How can the sense of Interconnectedness help our world today? What is one way that Interconnectedness can help others feel like they belong. Like they have a purpose here on Earth.
Adam-Adamah by Isabel Siegel
Interconnectedness is the connection between אדם and אדמה. Interconnectedness is the relation between Jews and time. Interconnectedness is the friendship between tree and mushroom. Interconnectedness is the spirit that helped g-d bring the people safely to the holy land of Israel. Interconnectedness is the bond between every living thing, working together to make a clear path for Jews of all generations in the past, and to come. Then again, you can’t forget that we are living things too. We need to help each other create a future for the next age of Jews. Actually, what I like to think, is that Interconnectedness helps shape a world for not just Jews to love and embrace, but for everyone. Every culture, religion, background, belief, race, and every hope and dream for the world to come.
Of course, this world is far from perfect. But that is not G-d’s fault. It’s the human race to blame. G-d has done everything necessary for us to live in peace and harmony. For Earth is g-d’s creation. This whole universe, expanding way beyond our galaxy, is g-d’s creation. G-d put time and effort, blood, sweat, and tears, to make sure that our world, our אדמה , supplies a ground for us to walk on, a sky for us to gaze up into, trees to provide not just shade, but withholds our very breath, for trees help us breath, help us live. G-d gave us food, water, friends and family, and a lot more. Now we have to work not just to repay the favor, but to add to G-d’s mighty work. For it will not take us 7 days like the LORD our G-d. It will take years and years, decades and decades, centuries and centuries. And much, much more time than that.
When most people think about the story of creation, or בּרישת, they think about how G-d made this planet, this earth, this אדמה, how he made it have everything have needed to survive. And I made that mistake at first as well. For G-d did not create this world for us. G-d made it for every living being, not just humans. I take it as the biggest honor one could ever be offered, that G-d has chosen us, created us, brought us here, not only gave us life and the ability to move around and create beautiful things like G-d did with the Earth, but also gave us a life to live, a mind to think, and an imagination to make a mind to think, and on imagination to make things better. Right now we are taking abuse of those things. For we are not using our hands to craft something beautiful, but rather using them for violence, and to hurt others, and one of the only things that we are using our imaginations for is to think about how we could improve our lives, not others. For we are doing the opposite of what the LORD our G-d did. We are not thinking of others, like G-d did when G-d created us, when G-d brought us to life. G-d created אדמה, and trusted us, gave us the privilege on this holy planet.
Which brings me to my next point. Did you ever realize that the words אדם & אדמה are very similar? The only thing different between them is the letter ה. Funny thing is, when Avram and his wife, Sarai made this promise with g-d, this compromise, that is Avram and Sarai put their trust in g-d, that g-d would make them the ancestors of many, the start of a chain of multiple religions. And Avram and Sarai agreed. Therefore, Avram had his circumcision, and G-d saw that they really did put their trust in them. And G-d essentially granted Avram and Sarai with ה. When I think of the letter ה , I think Holy. So G-d transformed Avram and Sarai into Abraham and Sarah. And that is how they became known as Abraham and Sarah.
So what is the promise between אדם & אדמה. What is the relationship between the two? And most of all, how can we earn a ה? Not earn a ה for everyone who deserves one, they can earn those themselves. Now, how can we earn a ה for ourselves? How can we earn a ה for ourselves, but not by ourselves? How do we come together, join hands, make something beautiful, and earn that ה like Abraham once did?
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