Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Recorded in Your Book

In my study of the Old Testament using the excellent The Jewish Study Bible (I'm using the 1st edition), I'm up to Psalms 139 right now. The note for verse 16 stood out.

The phrase "recorded in Your book"refers, it says, to the book God showed to Adam. This is the book containing the list of all people ever to be born. What is really interesting is what they say about another interpretation of this. According to Ibn Ezra, "it is the blueprint according to which the person is formed."

Also according to this book, a common rabbinic tradition imagines that the Torah served as the divine blueprint during creation.

This means - according to my interpretation - that everyone of us carries this book within us. It's our DNA!!!! Very cool!!

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