Monday Book Nook: The Torah

This Monday’s Book Nook: The Torah.

Really, this should have been the original Book Nook submission. It gets pulled out pretty much every Shabbat. Think of it however you like, as a written piece this ancient work is remarkable in that it gave rise to modern ethics and Western law, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It also holds foundational stories shared across cultures – the Great Flood, David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale – that remain foundational because of their deep, Universal Truths and their applicability to any human regardless of religious belief or lack thereof. In the Torah one can even find common phrases we use to this day, e.g.“You are the apple of my eye”. My perspective on the Torah is layered, but at the core I understand it to be an accounting of the inner, conscious evolution of the individual as a being on this planet, told in stories that increase in complexity through each next page until the individual process becomes mirrored by the cultural one. And then… I could say so much more…