Shabbat 'Tazria': "A Secret Prayer"

The world was once so much more obviously magical.  There was a time when, if you spoke bad things about another person, blemishes would appear in your own skin.  And if your home was filled with hatred towards others, the walls of the house would start to develop weird discolorations.

When this would happen, you would need to seek out a Spiritual Master, a Holy Priest.  Through enlightened vision, his eyes would decode the stains on your body or walls, and if they were indeed caused by your secret humiliation of others behind their backs, you would need to undergo your own process of becoming exposed, stripped down to your essential self, and ultimate renewal – all in a very public way.  Because nothing is really hidden in this world.

One can only imagine, how, in such a revealed magical world, people's ethics would quickly evolve up to tremendously high levels of Spiritual accountability and sensitivity to other people around them.

Today, the world is just as magical.  But we have to work harder to tune into the magic.  It is only there if we look for it, if we invite it in, if we seek it in our lives.

And one of the greatest places to discover the keys to that magic, is hidden in the multi-layered meaning of the Jewish Prayer Book, and the songs and meditations we speak out in conversation before God every day.

But one has to look for it.  One has to want it.  One has to believe it.

And then you will see it.  All around you.

Attached please find a Shu-Shine for Shabbat 'Tazria': "A Secret Prayer"

May we all be blessed to connect to the words of prayer in deep and personal ways every day, and to discover through that lens the magic of the life we lead, and the magical world we live in.

With Love and a Smile,

~Shu

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