August 12, 2008

Temple Mount

From this article:

"According to an Aggada in the Talmud, the world was created beginning with the Foundation Stone on the Temple Mount..."

(Emphasis mine.)

The veil, one can easily see, remains. If only they understood that the world was made by Him who is the Foundation Stone.

(Please observe: I recognize, of course, that Wikipedia is far from an authority regarding much of anything; still less Judaism. That is, like me, they need hardly be considered scholarly. Even still--for I do heart me some Wikipedia--what is written at our online encyclopedia sometimes catches one's eye; as did what I have here cited. And my citation would be irrelevant save for the relevance of theirs. Their citation is the fact that Jewish rabbinic writings believe the world was created, &tc.; my observation--that Christians believe essentially the same thing, saving only that we understand the "who" of this cornerstone--is, I think, equally relevant. Adieu.)

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June 26, 2008

Great is the Lord...

...and greatly to be praised!

In the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth!

Is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north

The city of the Great King.

(One day soon, that Great King will return. It's a song too. And I was singing it just now, so I thought I'd share.)

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