I have found the one my soul loves |
Posted: March 24, 2019 |
The core of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, referred to by some as the Holy Language. Hebrew is not a language like all other languages. First and foremost, it has a special power because the world was created with it. When God created Adam he spoke to him (Genesis 2:16) indicating that God gave Adam a language and this language came from G-d himself. Hebrew is classified as a Semitic (or Shemitic, from Shem, the son of Noah) language. According to the Bible all people spoke one language (Genesis 11:1) until the construction of the Tower of Babel. During the construction of the Tower, God confused the language of man and scattered the nations (Genesis 11:7,8). We can find a proof from the names of people in the generations preceding the generation of the Tower of Babel: Adam was so named because he was created from the ground, Cain’s name came from the phrase “I acquired a person with G-d”, Noah was so-named because he was destined to “bring us relief” from the decree of mankind having to toil for their living, and so on. All these are Hebrew words. “Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me.” ~ Song of Solomon 3:4. The Song of Solomon, is the strangest book in the Bible, one of the strangest ever to be included in a canon of sacred texts. It is written as a series of songs between two human lovers, candid, passionate, even erotic. It is one of only two books in the bible that does not explicitly contain the name of God and it has no obvious religious content. Love is the energy God has planted in the human heart, redeeming us from narcissism and solipsism, making the human or divine Other no less real to me than I am to myself, thus grounding our being in that-which-is-not-me. One cannot love God without loving all that is good in the human situation. Love creates. Love reveals. Love redeems. Love is the connection between God and us. That is the faith of religion and if we do not understand this, we will not understand it at all. We will, for example, fail to realize that the demands God makes of His people through the prophets are expressions of love, that what Einstein called “almost fanatical love of justice” is about love no less than justice, that the bible is God’s marriage-contract with the people and the commandments are all invitations to love: “I seek You with all my heart; do not let me stray from Your commands” (Psalms 119:10). "I have found the one whom my soul loves" song of solomon 3:4 A beautiful verse to display at your wedding and to be used on your Christian t shirts!
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