When you cleave to ‘what is what’, you come to see and appreciate how ‘what is not what’ kills existence in all its facets.Even in our fear of God — which in Hebrew means not something frightening but does suggest ‘holy terror’, awe, respect, reverence — we should begin to understand that the Daemonic is serious. Shakespeare,   Othello – Act 3, Scene 3.All that is said to shed light on what the Hebrew idea of So we come to Exodus 34:14 where I am comfortable translating  When the command is given that we should worship no other God because our God is a You have successfully subscribed to Chaim Bentorah's Free Daily Word Study!There was an error while trying to send your request. Exodus 34:14: “For thou shalt worship no other God for the Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God.”“O’ beware my lord of jealousy, for it is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon. It is precisely this most irrational and testing reality of existence which hides within the depths of its existential predicament an entire wisdom of God; this is what can become the wisdom of God united with the wisdom of humanity in the travails, the battling and raptures, of the heart. The hidden God, and the hidden wisdom, are only flushed out of their place of hiding, are only dug out, through the cleaving that is passion’s free and loving embrace of existence’s wound.Kierkegaard’s understanding of passion as necessary to existing brings his account close to the Biblical cleaving. Many people misconstrue these events of divine providence. We continue, even though we have lost anything and everything that could comfort us, secularly or religiously. It resists all explanation, theological, psychological, scientific.Cleaving cleaves in order to cleave. Buber would call it I–Thou, or maybe that ‘We’ which emerges from I–Thou as a further stage, its crown.Cleave is always in Hebrew in the masculine, singular, imperfect tense= passion is spiritually masculine, as in St Peter’s hidden man of the heart; it is singular because the impetus for it comes from within the unique person, the distinct personhood, the unrepeatable personalness= I cannot give myself to life for you, nor can you do this for me, it is something we must each do ourselves; and it is in the imperfect tense because it is an action and this action is still incomplete, it is on its way, always travelling, battling, changing, shedding the old for the sake of the new= it has not arrived yet, but it is going, fundamentally on the move.Adhere means to stick to something, and it also means to stick with it, to remain committed, through thick and thin. It is in some ways a shame that the early Christians thought they needed a creed in words= ‘I believe in this, that, the other..’ This is Greek, not Jewish; cleaving is existential, not doctrinal. The person of cleaving has terrible ups and downs, weeps bitter tears, knows the heartbreak of God absent from the human heart, and the human heart absent from itself, in all the world.Believing in the bright Christ of dogma and doctrine is not the same as cleaving to the dark Christ who is in the profound hells where all human beings are lost.The person whose life is cleaving will find the heart of God and by this, find their own heart, and find the heart in all the world.To cleave is passion: it points to a strong love whose commitment is personally trothed, pledged, vowed, promised, and by putting up with all the cuts that come through this immersion and plunge into existence, cuts through.There is a lot of guff, waffle, flim flam, as well as all the poison, to cut through. In the end, we are naked, and want nothing except the unvarnished reality and its truth.This is where cleave acquires its double sense of a love that not only warmly takes hold of reality, but separates reality from illusions, in the ultimate; and not only warmly embraces truth, but separates truth from lies, in the ultimate. There are a number of key metaphors and alternate expressions, such as the leap into the unknown, being staked to the ground, and others…Passion is the key to the Jewish approach to faith in the Old Testament.There is another word in Hebrew for [the Greek] passion’= this word is ‘cleave.’ Cleave is a strange, and powerful, word which turns up in various places and in various ways throughout the Jewish Bible.

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