{"id":12190,"date":"2008-11-13T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/life\/other\/parshat_vayeira_appearing_disappearing\/"},"modified":"2016-11-28T04:28:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:28:37","slug":"parshat_vayeira_appearing_disappearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/arts-media\/parshat_vayeira_appearing_disappearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Parshat Vayeira: Appearing &#038; Disappearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently appearances<\/p>\n<p>Aren\u2019t always as they<\/p>\n<p>Appear:<\/p>\n<p>(The white silk above ones chest may make the<\/p>\n<p>Heart beneath it appear to be pure and innocent;<\/p>\n<p>Just as the dark mask over ones face may cause<\/p>\n<p>The mind behind it to appear to be dark and<\/p>\n<p>Dangerous)<\/p>\n<p>But things real and true<\/p>\n<p>Appear how they are,<\/p>\n<p>That is, when<\/p>\n<p>They do<\/p>\n<p>Appear.<\/p>\n<p>By definition, things physical<\/p>\n<p>Have a face, a body, an appearance.<\/p>\n<p>By definition (or the lack thereof)<\/p>\n<p>Things spiritual and mystical do not.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it takes not a Talmudic scholar<\/p>\n<p>With a long beard and a longer dialogue<\/p>\n<p>To deduct that when a soulful something<\/p>\n<p>Makes an appearance it is not an event<\/p>\n<p>To be taken lightly: not lightly at all but<\/p>\n<p>With much light<\/p>\n<p>All<\/p>\n<p>Appear pressure<\/p>\n<p>Aside<\/p>\n<p>When Truth appears on the scene<\/p>\n<p>The scene forever changes, both<\/p>\n<p>In appearance and in essence.<\/p>\n<p><i>G-d appeared to him<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It is a journey on which we are on<\/p>\n<p>And as a journey is how we shall treat<\/p>\n<p>And entreat it<\/p>\n<p>And because it is a holy, divine journey<\/p>\n<p>On which we are on, nothing whatsoever<\/p>\n<p>Is random and even less is out of place.<\/p>\n<p>So when just yesterday we were in one<\/p>\n<p>Place and today we are in another, it is<\/p>\n<p>Because for us to reach where we are<\/p>\n<p>Today we had \u2013 and have \u2013 to go through<\/p>\n<p>The events and experiences of yesterday<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was all about going, going to<\/p>\n<p>And from yourself, going from one place<\/p>\n<p>To another, going higher and higher, but<\/p>\n<p>No matter how far, how deep, or how high<\/p>\n<p>You go it is still you going, for yourself, to<\/p>\n<p>Yourself<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today it is about appearances and, because<\/p>\n<p>We are into definitions, appearances are things<\/p>\n<p>Outside of yourself, things that come not from<\/p>\n<p>Your top-self, but things that begin to show when<\/p>\n<p>Your own selfish self begins to fade away \u2013 for<\/p>\n<p>Truth to appear everything false must first dis-<\/p>\n<p>Appear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until the eternal bond, the pure connection<\/p>\n<p>We are just ourselves being all we can be;<\/p>\n<p>With the bond eternal we are being more than<\/p>\n<p>We can be on our own \u2013 now we are being<\/p>\n<p>A part of G-d, a piece of the Divine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Appearing out of the blue? No, no, no\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Appearing out of \u2013 and without of \u2013 the you:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All the distortions disappearing;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The divine truths appearing \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Such is the life with an<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eternal bond and a<\/p>\n<p>Divine connection<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Mendel Jacobson is a writer, poet and journalist living in Brooklyn. His weekly poetry can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/jakeyology.blogspot.com\">jakeyology.blogspot.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently appearances Aren\u2019t always as they Appear: (The white silk above ones chest may make the Heart beneath it appear to be pure and innocent; Just as the dark mask over ones face may cause The mind behind it to appear to be dark and Dangerous) But things real and true Appear how they are,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":44402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Parshat Vayeira: Appearing &amp; 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