Moving from Fear to Love: Marc Gafni

Love, Fear and …

Mystic philosopher Isaac of Homil radically interprets the biblical phrase, “He saw the picture of God” to mean, not that Moses has a mystical vision of divinity and sees a picture of God, but that, far more powerfully, Moses sees the picture that God saw.

WOW WOW WOW WOW…..

Moses sees with God’s eyes.

In fact, the Hebrew phrase for awe or Fear of God is Yiraat Elokim. The word Yirah, fear, derives from the very same root as the word for seeing. The reason simply is that the experience of fear, when not crippling, causes a heightening of perception and expands the field of vision.

Fear of God then really means the perception of God. The word “of” in both phrases, “Picture of God” and “fear of God,” can be read in two ways. The first refers to our seeing of God. The second refers to our seeing the same as God. When we become divine miniatures, seeing with God’s eyes.

Now do you see what just happened? The whole split in our lives between love and fear was just healed. The word “fear” means “seeing” — but only the first level of vision. *(clarify) The higher level of perception is to see someone with God’s eyes. This is on the level of love. Thus, both fear and love are in the same family of divine perception.

This is the great evolution of the word Ra’ah — its highest and most ecstatic point. To see the picture of God.

marc gafni
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