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Hide and Seek- Parshat Hazinu
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Sometimes we struggle to see a Judge and Justice in this world. God seems to have hidden from us. There's one day in the year where there is no 'hide and seek.' The day of Yom Kippur.
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[Music]
there once was a rabbi who found a young
boy in the street crying his eyes out
what's the matter little one said the
rabbi between his sobs the little boy
whimpered
we were playing hide and seek and i was
the one who was supposed to go and hide
well i went ahead but nobody came to
look for me
the rabbi smiled at the little boy and
said don't feel so bad
you're in pretty good company god feels
a lot like you
not many people are coming to look for
him
[Music]
this world is like a cosmic game of hide
and seek
we're invited to this world this
invitation is called life
the invitation itself is a challenge who
brought us here who
sustains us here what are we doing here
to make these challenges more meaningful
and rewarding the game of life has
distractions and
false leads that can take us far away
from our true purpose
but our host has not left us without
help in navigating this
ultimate hide-and-seek experience he has
provided a clear map
guaranteed to lead us to him and to the
purpose of our existence here
the map is called the torah when we keep
the torah
we see god more and more clearly in our
lives
if we don't keep it then god becomes
more and more difficult to see
it says in the torah i will surely have
hidden my face
in the hebrew the way you say to surely
do something the emphatic voice
is to double the verb in other words the
literal translation of
i will surely have hidden my face is
hide
i will have hidden my face the word hide
is used twice
there are two kinds of hiding a hiding
way you know that someone's there you
just can't see them and a
double hiding way you don't even know
that they're there at all
in that kind of hiding the hiddenness
itself is hidden
when we're aware that god is hidden from
us he's not really concealed because we
realize that our hiding from him
has been reciprocated by him hiding from
us
and so we return to him and we try and
re-establish
our relationship with him but when the
hiding itself is hidden
when we see a world without god god
forbid then nothing awakens us to return
to him
we think to ourselves there's no judge
and because there's no judge there's no
justice
once a year however far away we are on
the day of yom kippur
god is more revealed than any other day
of the year
if we will only leave our hide
and go seek