I have been asked why I went to India—twice, in fact, in 2001 and 2002. Of course, before I went, I thought I had a pretty good idea of my reasons. I had divorced the year before, but although I was living a happy life in Israel, there were some things I needed to discover about myself and life in general. We lived in a community on the mountains over Jericho, where the Palestinian Authority headquartered and trained their police force. To qualify, it seemed a person had to have proven himself in the dubious art of terrorism. On that mountain overlooking Jericho, I prayed often about why we were all immersed in this state of violence, only be worsening, while being labelled “peace.” What was so broken in them to hate us so much; what was so broken in us to merit that hatred?
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The Four Headwaters of Eden
Before the Ten Sayings of Creation, the Torah begins the story by stating Elokim created the heavens and the earth. The earth was empty, with darkness over the face of the deep, and the Divine Presence hovered over the waters. Wait… He speaks light into being, but He does not speak the waters into being…they’re just there. What is the mystery of water?
Hashem Elokim later planted a garden in Eden in whose midst is the Tree of Life. A river flowed out from Eden, from beneath the Tree of Life, dividing into four headwaters—the four primordial rivers that are the “source” of the waters of the earth: Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel, Euphrates.
The Book of Ezekiel says a stream will issue out from the threshold of the Third Temple, becoming a river that flows eastward. It will go out to all the seas, healing the waters of the earth. Like the rivers from the Tree of Life, this river will water the trees on its shores, which will have new fruit each month and healing properties in their leaves (Ez. 47:12).
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