{"id":2146,"date":"2024-04-10T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:37:29","slug":"the-eclipse-upon-mount-horeb-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/2024\/04\/10\/the-eclipse-upon-mount-horeb-sinai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eclipse Upon Mount Horeb Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How do the Jewish people, who are Indigenous to the Canaan Judean land of Israel, know that we have seen an eclipse of totality upon Israel? Our Torah says so! For such a celestial event is recorded in our ancestors\u2019 writings, and became the subject of treaty making with the divine! Of course, this happened many many moons back, way back to the 2nd millennium of the BCE (our ANE) period of human history. \u2026 On April 8, 2024, Jews that live in the Mexico, United States, and Canada diasporas got their opportunity to witness firsthand, like our Jewish ancestors, the magnificence of such an extraterrestrial event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is deeply pleasing to hear the RiverWinds, a Ta\u00edno-Cherokee leadership family, refer to the celestial deities in Cherokee culture during their teaching for the 2024 total solar eclipse over \u201cNorth America\u201d. The frog, a symbol of fertility, swallowing the sun. This is a lot more fun than our Jewish story of frogs multiplying so much that the numbers of become an unexpected plague upon the land. Okay, step back, BOTH are fun Native stories!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Jews also have an eclipse story directly within our Torah that is often not completely seen in its totality, for the \u2018human-god contact\u2019 nature of the story eclipses the celestial eclipse that this story is based upon. Are you interested in hearing more? Okay, please think back to the story of Moses ascending Mount Horeb (Mount Sinai) to make a vassal treaty with the storm god of Canaan, Y-HWH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Moses\u2019 second trip back up the mountain to face this assigned celestial ruler of Jewish land \u2013 having thrown down and broken the first vassal treaty stones in anger over the people of Israel erecting a statue of the storm god Ba\u2019al (the \u201cgolden calf\u201d) to represent Y-HWH in physical form \u2013 Moses asks Y-HWH to reveal himself during this second vassal treaty meeting. And, Y-HWH refused to do so. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y-HWH\u2019s answer to Moses\u2019 request to see him face to face, reveals the ecliptic answer. Y-HWH says, \u201cNo human can see my face and live.\u201d But Y-HWH, then, offered the next best thing, celestial eye shades! He puts Moses in a cleft of rock, shields Moses\u2019 eyes with his hand, and tells Moses, \u201cI shall remove my hand and you will see my back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, Y-HWH offered Moses a view of him, through eclipsing Himself. As this year\u2019s totality eclipse shows those who witnessed this celestial eye wonder, an eclipse doesn\u2019t bring about total darkness. Even at totality, there is an atarah (penumbra) around the moon, which is the sun\u2019s \u201ccrown\u201d that is now revealed and seeable. Before and after this brief atarah moment, rays of light explode outward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One could say, these are the \u201crays of hope\u201d that remind us that Y-HWH is always with us, even in the darkness. Thank you, RiverWinds, for this teaching!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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