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With an Eye to Heaven and an Ear to the Ground
The double miracle at Mount Sinai tells us when to aim upwards and when to bring it down.
| See Also: | The Great Sinai Debate | |
| Topics: | Shavuot, Giving of the Torah, Yitro | |
Michael Chighel (Kigel) received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto for his dissertation on the Book of Job, after a specialization in 20th-century French and German thought. In Canada he taught in the departments of philosophy and of Jewish studies at the universities of York, Queen’s and Waterloo. He produced Passages and Messages for eleven seasons on Canadian television (CTS). Until this year he held the Rohr Chair of Jewish Studies at the Lauder Business School in Vienna, where he taught Torah, European ethics and political economy. He has translated a number of books and published various articles in Jewish thought. Michael and his family have made aliyah, and now live in Jerusalem.
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Priority of Spiritual Experience Thank you for this inspiration and clarification. I am so bogged down by my circumstances! This gave me language for why I am seeking to ascend above through a spiritual experience that melts this world like ice in warm water. I also seek to do good deeds and am finding little strength for them - but those are fueled by the power of a reorienting spiritual experience as well. To see and hear in a new way is a priority as it heals and equips/strengthens us. Thankfully that spiritual experience is as close as our Scriptures and prayer.