In this meditation, we consider the possibility that God is not in the thunder and lightning, but in the “still small voice” as Elijah discovered, or in our narrative, in the arafel, the thick cloud of fog that Moshe entered, and in the silent alef of the divine revelation. We explore the loud voices within and around us, the voices of expectation, obligation, shame, anxiety, self doubt and despair, and work to get some space around those empowered forces, with the understanding that they are likely “not God.” Together we experiment with entering the fog of divine silence and letting those other voices gradually fade out.
Sources:
Exodus 19:18, 20:15,18
I Kings 19:11-12
Rabbi Mendel of Rymanow, as cited in Zera Kodesh on Shavu’ot, as cited in Art Green, Radical Judaism, p. 90
