Day 30: אוֹהֵב אֶת הַמָּקוֹם Loving the Omnipresent
Interestingly, our central Mishnah rarely talks about God explicitly, even as we find God constantly present in our engagement with Torah, with ourselves, and with other people. Today, we finally bring up the Divine, and we do so through the framework of love.
The V'ahavta prayer entreats us to love God, before smoothly flowing into the many ways and places that we bring Torah into the world. Judaism's central prayer places the connection between loving God and a life of Torah at its core.
Yesterday, we established that we all deserve love because we are all made in God's image. Today we thank that Source of love, and infuse the feeling into our learning.
Reflection:
How do you understand God? How do you relate to that understanding of God? Is there room there for love?
Lived practice:
I believe that saying brachot serve many incredible spiritual purposes, one of which being the expression of love to God. Choose a bracha that you don't typically say, and say it over this Shabbat.
