Shnayim Yomi - Yitro - Sh'vi'i - #7

[Music] the seventh the the experience was so moving for people when we say MOS received the Torah not from hes of course he got it from God but he received it from SII meaning from an experience in which people were seeing the lightning they were moved by the Thunder it was a total sensory experience our experience with learning Torah is supposed to be one that is just that an experience it's supposed to be alive but and also it's got to have that appreciation that it's as if we're standing at M we're speaking with our so it's got to have some seriousness but it also has enthusiasm and love and excitement both of these elements of that sense of Amma of awe and the sense of aava and love enthusiasm are expressed later in this alyah the people stood back and says you've seen that I have appeared to you and be careful I have appeared to you Jewish people so don't try to create this image in a physical form don't try to recreate the M experience of being close with hem in a physical manifestation of eloh and eloh gods of silver and gods of gold well that also can have a homic level of interpretation CF comes from the word love you have desired and gold the has an association of gold with redness actually different shades color of gold but redness or strictness harshness anger even soes says be careful don't make me into some kind of hippie free love God of eloh and also don't make me into some kind of angry vindictive God Don't Make God in your own image says ra we have to be actually thankful for atheists because all the things that atheists don't believe in we don't believe in either sometimes we project in a certain light we wear glasses and whatever those glasses are tinted with that's what we project ones is telling us don't make projections try to understand to the extent that we possibly can what what his light means to the world without imposing our own values sometimes those values might be wonderful values but they give us a misconception of whoes is he says don't make me into this kind of God Don't Make Me into that kind of god let's be open it goes back to the par beginning let's listen to what has to say for us and then we can have a trer appreciation to the extent that any human being can have of's R of his will of his vision for us in our [Music] world