Personal Introduction and Commentary


Abraham Davidson

I serve the local Jewish community as its president's and lay preacher. My main work consists in the interpretation of the weekly portion and the many prayers, in line with esoteric terms.

To elaborate will take too long to deal with the many details involved. Here is a little example to give you an idea.

The central idea in Judaism, which is lived and practiced to this day in religious observance, originate, or --- at least that is the message conveyed -- in the time spent as slaves in Egypt, then miraculously liberated to return to the holy land. I am sure you are familiar with that story in Exodus.

In my explanation of the weekly portions, I relate that freedom from slavery to the freedom sought by each human being from the slavery to matter, to material possessions and to the general bondage to the physical life.

There are many examples, which if read correctly can formulate a direction into the stage of the impersonality required, for mental development. Or as we would term it the mounting onto the probationary path.

The Land idea I relate to the purified physical and emotional vehicles or to the temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.

That name might be misleading, as I make great efforts to explain that there is no physical place related to that idea.

In many places of the AAB books, Judaism is not spoken of very highly especially when related to the problems of material possessions and to land.

These two problems have been made famous by the human family and by the many wars still engaging us all to this day.

The problem from the Jewish angle has been made much worse because of the history of wanderings and prosecutions undergone by the Jewish people for the last two thousand years.

The other angle of that problem is the conclusion arrived at, by the Jewish leaders, that unless you have a physical home you will be moved continuously from pillar to post as History has proved for the last two millennia.

DK is not entirely wrong by relating the very human problem of aspiring for possessions to the Jewish people, what he did not take into account was that possessions was all they could have, during that long period of wandering. They could not possess or own land and could not settle in one place for any substantial period of time.

The AAB books do not give us any directions for specifically dealing with the Jewish problem, they merely state that if we can resolve the Jewish problem we would have resolved most of the problems of humanity.

That might be so, but if we are going to engage the cooperation of Jewish people in that resolution, we will need to approach that problem from the Jewish angle and attempt a solution of those problems from the inner side of Judaism.

That solution is very much related to the solution of anti-Semitism and the elimination of the erroneous ideas that have caused it.

We have an ironic situation at the moment in the world, the idea that even the Arabs who are themselves Semitic people, are using anti-Semitic ideas to resolve their land problems, or so they perceive it.

I have asked two questions in my email and will appreciate a reply.

Is the group trying merely to combat Anti-Semitism, by subjective work or, is it a group attempting to eliminate the separativeness inbred into the "Chosen people concept".

I have so far grasped the angle of pondering on the problem and meditating thus infusing the sides concerned with the positive energies required.

That however, is only one side of the coin, we will need furthermore, to make those energies objective and endeavour to make them usable in the three worlds for laying the foundation needed for the difficult solution of that problem.

I will study the material further and will ponder the possible great number of angles which might be available to us in that endeavour.

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