Monday, 26 February 2007
The Chicken Grows as the Egg Decays
Isaiah describes this period “like a pregnant woman close to giving birth, she is in pain, she cries out in her pangs”(26:17). Rabbi Avraham Kook, the first chief Rabbi of Israel explained “When there is a great war in the world, the power of the Mashiach (Messiah) awakens.” The revered Jewish mystic, The Maharal of Prague, explains that in reality these troubles are “the absence before the existence”. While the words of our sages may seem rather esoteric, within them hides the truth and clarity that we all seek to make sense of these trying and turbulent times.