I once had envisioned a path. It's no esoteric direction as you may anticipate it to be. It was 6 years back as I was trying to enlighten the path to a single unified place where I decipher each earthly phenomenon with the lens minus the fog.
I grew in understanding exhausting the fog on mere corners by the narrative of the catholic bible. But the pieces to my unified thought of singularity didn't quite hold up.
I was in the south of India, mirroring my intricate expedition from being far from the truth.
I was stuck with a suitcase of “theological” books written by some cheap-jack doctrine clowns, promoting a rather lawless and cock eyed, blurry vision of some contradictions, hidden in contradictions like a spine-chilling nightmare that got you counting your steps to your bed before you sleep again.
I tried escaping reality because of the distortion of lying teachers in all factions. Perfectly placed like bricks, hindering a brook to potentially widen its flow of wisdom to coalesce into the unified truth of Hashem.
Obfuscate: make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible, bewilder someone. e.g., “the new rule is more likely to obfuscate people than enlighten them."
So, what did I do?
Something counterproductive logically, but spiritually making perfect sense.
I decided to take on the fog! Like taking flight into the obscure path, scissoring through the obscurity with a chilling apprehension of the what ifs?
Pressing on, to land on the highway, miraculously unscathed.
Hashem micromanaged this chaotic path as an instrument of evolution and growth. I landed on the path of least resistance. A lightweight path of carrying the Torah and throwing each and every other book off the cliff, idols and everything! Books and added interpretative scholarly inventions out of any religion including widespread denominational Judaism I didn't acquire.
Found many a fake Rabbi's in town, I did not sit down with, because I was commanded not to sit down with an idolator, especially one with a kippah and a shofar.
I learnt I must keep my ranks intact by ONE unified thought. The Torah. The literal commands of Hashem. The moral compass of life. No time to waste, no human to worship. Just Hashem and do what I'm told. Simple.
I dismantled all golden calves pushed onto me through any religious gold-plated handcuff but held onto instruction.
Father Abraham our Patriarch complied only to HASHEM. Abraham was not pure blood. There were no genealogies and bloodlines at his time.
No pompous obfuscation like today for the complacent spiritual pauper to sleep a billionaire's sleep. It's only Hashem and His word that mattered to me.
I refused to be on every list but signed up for the blacklist of every organization.
That's what Abraham's covenant with Hashem looks like, my friend. It's the idolatrous past burning behind you to birth a monotheistic present and future.
No false rabbi, no priest, no false prophet needed in the mix, lest they leash you and take you to the gallows, promising you victory. I'm working to blast off the toll of deceit where the gatekeepers block the truth seekers.
This rigged game of football where thieves play with their hands is a very frustrating game to play.
So, I leave judgment to the Most High to destroy the blockade on the path of a truth seeker after he finds the highway through many a peril, only to meet a dead end with a humongous signage called RELIGION, MONEY AND POLITICS. BEWARE OF DOGS / False RELIGIOUS LEADERS.
I challenge the toll in the name of Hashem and press forward despite the deception.
Only Obedience.
Copy Abraham.
Before I close, let me add a few final cookie bits for you to think about with intent.
The right answers are directly proportional derivatives of the right questions.
So please, Brazenly ask!
Because you live only Once!
1. Would the Most High, the Great Grand Creator make the path only for the "Rich" and "Elite" or rather the self proclaimed "Blue Bloods"?
Answer. Psalm 49.
2. Would He make it mandatory for His people to go through a multi-layered surgical conversion process to enter in a covenant with Him?
Answer. Isaiah 55.
3. Did Abraham the first generation "Jew" so to speak, pass through a skeptical Jew detecting machinery by a counsel of busy bodies or counterfeit teachers?
Answer. Genesis 12.
4. Should it be so expensive to be a Jew, or to rephrase, an "accepted by the norm" Jew?
Answer. Psalm 14.
And also, a verse from Torah about the "ger", or the "stranger", as it is.
Leviticus 19:33-34 JPS
"When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am HASHEM your God."
Last question:
5. What's better and more pragmatic to run with on a day of war?
Choose 2 correct alternatives:
A. A weighty Library shelf on your back with human perspectives of the Torah, with a teacher or 2 on your shoulders?
OR
B. A simple memory map of the 10 literal commands thoroughly memorized in addition to the other commandments from the 613 Laws in Torah?
OR
C. If luck permits packing one lightweight Torah copy in your backpack to stay in compliance to the Creator?
Answer B and C.
That's all from me, enjoy my poetic spin for some merriment.