In this meditation, we explore the positive aspects of ga’avah, pride, looking at the phrase from the Song at the Sea ki ga’o ga’ah, meaning that God has risen up and up or has become more and more proud, from the root ga’ah, to be proud. We explore how it would feel to imitate this divine virtue, to learn to hold ourselves with honor and dignity as befitting the child of a king, noticing how we are indeed like “divine elephants with amnesia trying to live in ant hole” (from the poet Hafiz) and experimenting with listening to the divine call to grow and shine.
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