We find Moshe at the end of the Torah and the end of his life standing at Mount Nevo, looking out at the land of Israel with longing and disappointment — the destination point that he was not able to reach. In this meditation, we explore our own tendency to constantly reach and yearn for a future goal, and we look to the first chapter of Genesis, the creation story (which we also read on Simchat Torah), to offer us an alternative way of looking at things — to look at the present, as God did, when God repeatedly, at each step, “saw that it was good.” We feel into that loving divine gaze that sees the good in this moment, in this step, even in its incompleteness, and we consider how that helps our own creative developmental process unfold organically from a place of contentment rather than striving or judgment.
Sources:
Deuteronomy 34:1
Ecclesiastes Rabbah 1:13
Genesis 1:4, 9, and throughout
Exodus 2:2
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