Match Maker Match Maker make me a Match: Marc Gafni

A Biblical Myth of Perception Identification

The mystical manuscripts tell us, “Forty days before a soul is born into the world, the name of its soul mate is called out in heaven” The soul is then given a glimpse of its destined one. It see its beloved at his or her most celestial self. The soul then descends into the world, is encased in a body, and begins the wondrous and strange journey of life. The soul grows, experiencing joy upon joy, struggle upon struggle. Perhaps the greatest joy and the greatest struggle, though, is finding one’s true soul mate. “But why should it be a struggle?” we ask, “Didn’t we just learn that forty days before we are born we hear the name and glimpse the face of our beloved? Shouldn’t that grand hint be sufficient?”

But we all know it is not. The task of finding love is Herculean. More than Herculean, say the myth masters, it is miraculous. The definitive biblical statement on match-making states, “Matching a couple is as great as the miracle of splitting the Red Sea.”

The reference is to the biblical myth story when God splits the red sea to facilitate the escape of the Hebrew slaves from the pursuing Egyptian overlords. For God to split the Red Sea, the course of nature had to be over-turned, the laws of physics toppled. This is no minor-league miracle. And the same holds true for finding love.

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