Is the Kippah/Yarmulke an Idol to You?
I was reading Victor Alexander's translation of Exodus from the ancient Aramaic this morning. Verse 34: 17 says, "You shall not make sculptured gods for yourselves." I immediately recalled the testimony of a man who tried to live without his kippah, but found himself entertaining secular thoughts. He said (to my education) that the kippah served to constantly remind him that God is always above him, watching. Like Rav Huna bareh d’Rav Yehoshua said, "The Divine Presence is above my head."
The man returned to wearing a kippah so that he would constantly be reminded that God is always above him, to keep his thoughts and actions kosher, because he couldn't do it otherwise. He needed the kippah.
THAT is idolatry. The yarmulke/kippah is to such a man a sculpture of God. It does for him WHAT GOD CANNOT DO, which is to remind him that God is always above him, watching. This is not having one's head covered out of respect for God; it is usurping God's place and function and denying His power. It is faithlessness. The hat takes the place of God, represents the doing of what God Himself should be trusted to do: "No, God is not powerful enough to remind me. He is not capable or faithful. I need the hat to do that."
It is a sculptured god. Not the sculpture of a man or animal, but a sculpture of God. Isn't that the worst kind?
Besides, God is not above the head, he is INSIDE the head. Don't Jews read Deuteronomy 6: 4? God is one, not two. Our imagination/consciousness is Him in us. That is His Spirit, never so far as to be "near," for "near" would imply separation, that there are two. He IS us.
The Messiah says in the King James Version, "I go unto the Father, for My Father is Greater than I" (John 14: 28). In the Aramaic it's "If you are sympathetic with me, you would be happy that I was going to my Father, that my Father was master from me." Going unto the Father has nothing to do with distance or travel. It is BECOMING. "Going unto" means becoming. The Messiah is the Milta, the Manifestation of God. It is not as great as the Father is, but is becoming unto the full and complete manifestation of God. We are that progress.
Jewish dudes, the Jesus Christ in the so-called New Testament was not a guy. He is the power and wisdom of God that is in you by the spirit that is giving you life right now -- the voice of the inner man. He didn't just live two thousand years ago -- he always lives and always talks to you. You aren't real good at listening. The Father is His Master and thus our Master. We are in the one and are becoming more like the Father -- learning to manifest Him better, to be closer in what we do to what He does. No distance is involved, but similitude. We are becoming more similar.
The man returned to wearing a kippah so that he would constantly be reminded that God is always above him, to keep his thoughts and actions kosher, because he couldn't do it otherwise. He needed the kippah.
THAT is idolatry. The yarmulke/kippah is to such a man a sculpture of God. It does for him WHAT GOD CANNOT DO, which is to remind him that God is always above him, watching. This is not having one's head covered out of respect for God; it is usurping God's place and function and denying His power. It is faithlessness. The hat takes the place of God, represents the doing of what God Himself should be trusted to do: "No, God is not powerful enough to remind me. He is not capable or faithful. I need the hat to do that."
It is a sculptured god. Not the sculpture of a man or animal, but a sculpture of God. Isn't that the worst kind?
Besides, God is not above the head, he is INSIDE the head. Don't Jews read Deuteronomy 6: 4? God is one, not two. Our imagination/consciousness is Him in us. That is His Spirit, never so far as to be "near," for "near" would imply separation, that there are two. He IS us.
The Messiah says in the King James Version, "I go unto the Father, for My Father is Greater than I" (John 14: 28). In the Aramaic it's "If you are sympathetic with me, you would be happy that I was going to my Father, that my Father was master from me." Going unto the Father has nothing to do with distance or travel. It is BECOMING. "Going unto" means becoming. The Messiah is the Milta, the Manifestation of God. It is not as great as the Father is, but is becoming unto the full and complete manifestation of God. We are that progress.
Jewish dudes, the Jesus Christ in the so-called New Testament was not a guy. He is the power and wisdom of God that is in you by the spirit that is giving you life right now -- the voice of the inner man. He didn't just live two thousand years ago -- he always lives and always talks to you. You aren't real good at listening. The Father is His Master and thus our Master. We are in the one and are becoming more like the Father -- learning to manifest Him better, to be closer in what we do to what He does. No distance is involved, but similitude. We are becoming more similar.
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