I'm actually fangirling right now about what I've learned to day. I know, it's weird but I mean seriously. I learned some cool stuff today, I feel like I was doused with knowledge and I'm marinating in a brine of information. Ok...that probably didn't help my excitement seem any more normal...
Today, I was supposed to apply the following quote to my life: "each human being we meet possesses infinite value, and is therefore entitled to infinite respect and concern". In the same section, it is previously phrased like this (I'm putting both here because I'm not sure which one I like better yet): "each person is regarded as a whole world, and each individual possesses infinite value." Beautiful, no?
Later today, I attended a Tu B'Shvat Seder at one of the Jewish student centers on campus. There was a wonderful guest rabbi in attendance who really said some amazing things. It's hard for me to put into sentences what he said, so I'll try instead to list what I took away from his speech:
- Potential is limitless: a tiny little seed contains all the information a tree needs in order to grow and survive
- God's fingerprint can be seen everywhere. We live in a designer world. Our options of belief are multiple universes or one God. Well, I don't see any other universes out there.
Thinking about this step by step, if a human is regarded as a whole world, then God's fingerprint can be seen in us. We, as our own "worlds" are part of God's designer world. God designed us as part of His world, b'tzelem elokim, in the image of God we were formed.
If we are each an image, a snapshot, a strangely angled selfie that God took Himself, a polaroid picture of God, then indeed our potential is limitless and we should be entitled to infinite respect and concern from other "snapshots" just like ourselves.
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