Book of Exodus, an Idea.

The book of Exodus is fascinating and brilliant - at the same time. An abstract idea related to the story of Moses, Aron, Pharaoh, and the children of Israel, bought together as one idea under G_d, so as to formulate the moral play of unjustified tyranny and the struggle of those who recognize the truth of divine morality confronting a formidable ignorant ego which transgresses all boundaries - even when it seems impossible to do so. It’s an eternally and forever existent metaphor, at any and every moment in time; the perception of believing one is better than others based on the idea of wealth, status, and most importantly to whom (and the place) one is born - the abstraction of racism, its the source from which tyranny emerges - choice. The book of Exodus is the actual realization of the promise by G_d to Abraham. The principle of the covenant was the undeniable truth of One G_d, single and unitary - nothing more, towards a people created with a direct connection to the truth of G_d - actual prayers are heard if spoken correctly and with intention. All who follow Abraham are therefore bound to the covenant in the same way Jews are bound to the divine law imparted to Moses - may eternal blessings be upon his eternally blessed soul. We are one people, truly.

The initial part of the story relates to the Egyptians, strong and mighty, due to the [G_d given] ingenuity and genius of the Hebrews - the children of Israel. From the start G_d is establishing the truth of his eternal covenant and agreements, the Hebrews were blessed in being bound to the law of existence, how they establish and interpret that power is theirs for the choosing, those who strive towards wanting to see the face of the divine, are above those who choose the knot. The book of Exodus articulates the choice of G_d to create a group of people elected to be his representative of the law - the essence of material reality, that is, there are fundamental laws that govern material existence, a physical existence that has a human component, and like all physical matter in the universe the Jew is the one who chooses to be bound to the Law, both in lineage, but most importantly in wanting to realize the sublimity of physical existence, and so via the Holy Tanakh the Jew binds to the moral law and thus existence itself, as a result, the Jew is the one who constantly concentrates their existence in the sustenance of all that is within reality, its a beautiful idea. The Holy Tanakh is a testament to morality, a clear book for those who are able to reflect.

The Egyptian-Jewish partnership was the envy of the known world, however, after some time - as the guiding light of Joseph faded from memory - a King of Egypt came to be, who did not trust the increasing strength of the Jews (like the Muslim Nations during the middle part of the 20th century). It is clear from the start of the book that the Hebrews had succumbed to the illusion of wealth and status, a direction that only leads spiraling downward if not managed and bounded to the limits of that which is natural and clear, as a result, the Egyptian King believed the Jews to be untrustworthy - in the context of treason.

“Get ready, let us deal shrewdly with them [Jews], lest they increase, and a war befall us, and they join our enemies and wage war against us and depart from the land.” [Exodus 1:10]

The verse has always been a warning to the children of Israel and by extension all human beings; To chill and be at ease, no one is out to destroy the Jews last 14 centuries of Muslim legal legislation towards Jewish communities is proof that, historically, there has been no enmity towards the Jews from the majority of the intellectuals within the Islamic civilizations. The contrast is there for the Jews to choose from; be like the misguided priests of Europe and their constant paranoia towards a group of people from whom the Savior emerged, or be like the Muslims of the old who allowed people to strive towards their own interpretation of the undeniable truth. It was misplaced paranoia by the King of Egypt to focus on oppressing the Hebrews, those who reach the limits of their ego (rather than striving higher) look for others to keep down so as to give themselves the illusion of being higher whilst they have already limited themselves in their obsessive indulgences, there is no meaning in such a pursuit just a momentary choice in the direction of insanity and chaos. Exodus was a true trial for the Jews, to determine if the natural laws can be preserved, and in order to preserve laws, they must be stress tested constantly to determine if the conscious agent who is aware of the undeniable truth of laws will choose to maintain them for the balance of the community or distort it to achieve a momentary gain - totally illusory. The Jews persevered because the foundations of existence must persevere, laws cannot suddenly not apply - they are eternal and cannot be veiled. The book of Exodus demonstrates this. The light of Moses could never have stayed comfortable within the fortified protection of pharaonic luxury whilst the suffering of people - who wanted to honor the covenant of Abraham (in prayer) - continued shamelessly out in the open for the world to see.

Moses was aware of the truth of eternity and thus acted, as one should, in the context of mercy, to save and not to unnecessarily hurt and hamper, to push oneself to speak, even when the preference of Moses was to be left alone - the unwilling hero. The children of Israel are constantly confronted with a choice to use their G_d given genius and ingenuity for themselves, or, instead, to be the light of love & mercy unto all nations - Israel. Moses proved that fear has no place for those elected to represent the law. And since the scriptures are for all humans to ponder, the verse reveals the nature of what it is to be human, the choice to be in a state of constant fearful paranoia or choosing to acknowledge and accept that reality is one moment leading to the next - whatever timeframe you want to assign a moment, reality is the constant and unending moral choices available to people, to either deceive in the wrong, or deceive in the good - the goal being harmony for as many as possible - guided by the light of the scriptures, the selfish & greedy always in the background to test the truth of the spirit of the divine Law. The Jews are undeniably blessed, it’s up to them on how they reciprocate that blessing, our choices cannot be taken away from us whilst we still have breath. The ignorant Egyptians chose irrational fear rooted in racism, and so despised the idea and thought of the Jews being chosen by G_d over them - the essence of the idea of Cane and Abel - we are seeing it again today, that choice does not need to be made, there is a better way;

“But as much as they would afflict them [children of Israel], so did they multiply and so did they gain strength, and they were disgusted because of the children of Israel.” [Exodus 1:12]

The more severe a punishment is towards an innocent population, the more scope G_d will provide for ever-increasing the choice of tyranny. This may seem like a contradiction in the book of Exodus - for Pharaoh to worsen his subjugation of the Jews - it is not. In the context of timelessness, there is no tyranny, there is only the extreme example - ratified as a story - of tyranny. The greater the scope of tyranny - which G_d allows - the more context is provided to the near-limitless capacity of created conscious human agents to persevere in the direction of the moment after the moment of life. The finitude of suffering is what the Jews deeply understand, their history over the last 3000 years is clear for all to understand - they are the protectors of the law because they are a clear example of why moral laws are necessary, every Jew not alive today, who bound themselves tightly to the law of Moses, is at this moment bound to him in light - merged as one - at the point above Sinai, the place where all is unbound and the truth is manifest, completely. It was G_d who compelled Pharaoh to continue in tyranny so the limits of tyranny could be set and conversely the idea of an avenging wrath could be demonstrated, it all ends with death instigated and perpetuated by the choice of tyranny, after which is eternity. The gift of understanding is from G_d, acknowledged by those who are truly and absolutely free in life and most importantly their imagination. The more one commits injustice, the more the actors who exist to receive the misery of tyranny are, in essence, of a higher moral character - due to patience. The Jews were the most patient, the most able to withstand. Its thus bizarre what is unfolding today, a 3000-year history and lineage of laws - the foundations of morality - being legislated out of existence with a pharaonic pen, obsessed with the physical and material letter of the law and the material dirt within a specific moment in time, this modern and extreme perspective is antithetical to the truth of the Holy Tanakh, the Jew is one who is bound to the law, it’s via the law that light is able to manifest, not the physical boundaries of Judea and Samaria - circumstantial and irrelevant. The irony is inescapable, the choice to anchor to the circumstantiality of material existence in exchange for companionship with the divine and holy Moses, I could never make such a choice, now that I understand the beauty of the holy book.

“Now it came to pass in those many days that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed from the labor, and they cried out, and their cry ascended to God from the labor” [Exodus 2:23]

The result of racism - one thinking oneself better based on an arbitrary feature - in the book of Exodus is the enslavement of all the tribes of Israel (except Joseph’s). It was complete oppression. Again, the warning to the Jews, today, is to remember who Pharaoh was, and what he stood for; the memory of tyranny is a feeling which cannot be forgotten, especially if its repeated over centuries. Exodus describes in detail the submissive state the Jews were in, until they turned to G_d in prayer and surrender. It was G_d who enabled the shrewd genius of the Jewish women to save the first born Israelite boys; later, it came in the form of G_d’s guiding hand. Today, as the Mosaic law is abandoned, the prophecy and eternal story of Exodus is being reimagined in a way that is disagreeable to the essence of the holy book.

The mercy of G_d came from the water, a Hebrew, adopted son to the daughter of the King of Egypt - the Pharaoh. Moses chose the path of truth, by confronting the unjust reality of his brothers, its why he slew an Egyptian - the only resistance to violent tyranny - and like the majority of believers today, it was the deceitful “brothers and friends” of Moses who informed Pharaoh of the murder, the idea of jealousy is well described in the book of Exodus, even when one is trying to help, the ignorant one chooses the path of temporary gain - tied to a moment that is meaningless in the context of eternity. The injustice of Moses is worsened when he is called upon by G_d to be a warner to Pharaoh - the new King of Egypt - who’s brutality towards the Jews exceeded that of his father. The refusal of Moses to be chosen is evident in the growing anger of G_d, but still Moses refuses - no self-confidence - a feeling of utter helplessness, skeptical, even in the presence of G_d, as to his own perceived ability and understanding, Moses is divine because he constantly believes he is not and so he is blessed with more divine knowledge, the natural state of created consciousness with near infinite imaginative power that knows the source of its existence.

“ Moses said to the Lord, "I beseech You, O Lord. I am not a man of words, neither from yesterday nor from the day before yesterday, nor from the time You have spoken to Your servant, for I am heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue." [Exodus 4:10]

And so Aaron was sent with Moses to confront Pharaoh. Many times, Pharaoh was shown the power and wrath of G_d - the fulfillment of the warning from Moses; many times did Pharaoh break his promise, oath and agreement, continuing to enslave and oppress the Hebrew Israelites; like today the spirit of the law is void, the letter of the law misinterpreted, misrepresented and utterly impotent in the face of unnecessary suffering. It can be changed, at any moment for the feeling of bliss in the next.

Pharaoh had concluded only his existence as manifestly real, all else a potential illusion - a chance occurrence - his anchor was to the thing starting back at him in the mirror including, and most importantly, the background within the reflection - wealth, status and self-prescribed grandeur - limited, finite, and without actual meaning. The Ego (or Self) is not just a face, a person, or character, its a being within reality - the entire scene and associated environment - all of which without the Self - rooted in choice - is meaningless. The infinite set of possible choices, collapsed to what is interacted with, generates feelings and experience in every moment, from experience one arrives at wisdom, but only if one is able to practice the idea of the sabbath - to reflect. All there is, is the choice to acknowledge the source of existence - Abrahams covenant - or not. Pharaoh took his gift and absorbed it into his Ego - without him there is nothing - and since he is Pharaoh - the highest status in the material world - he could do as he pleases, there was no morality, there was no humanity, only the Self of himself, Pharaoh. There was no pause for thought, no pondering, no basic common sense and reason - the danger of unchecked Ego - it ultimately ends in a kind of black hole appearing and consuming everything or a rapid expansion into meaninglessness, balance is the actual choice - the essence of what laws facilitate. The story of Exodus is being played out, today, before our very eyes.

There are serious attempts being made to destroy the light of Judaism, replaced by an ignorant type of racism, it leads directly to irrationality, a destabilizing type of anxiety. People have fallen into a trap, where one feels they must do something more to help - I was drawn into it too - argumentation and a type of anger. It’s only after reading and reflecting on the holy scriptures that I realized I was wrong - I was distracted - its not the way it needs to be, at least for me. I now try and follow the evidence of Muslim-Jewish relations over the last 14 centuries of successive Muslim empires which is, for the most part, harmonious (until c.1884). The Muslim tradition, I feel, was in aspiration of the Jewish people and their genius, for like them the Muslims also deeply honor the Law, without it Love dies, replaced with limited and lowering desire and its associated consequences. Not only did the Muslims honor the spirit of the law - as an idea to derive civilizations - they mastered it, in that there is brotherhood. Using only the ideas contained within the book of Exodus, the core problems plaguing societies can be resolved. Its a beautiful book, for those who genuinely know the source of the laws, I hope - G_d willing - to reflect and continue to learn from its deep wisdom. The Jewish people will always have my respect & love, how they choose to treat the other is between them and the one who selected them above the world’s. I pray they return to the light of truth, eternal and never-ending.