Jerusalem often mirrors the world . What happens there influences nations . The balance between the ordinary and the sacred is a vital part of our daily lives . Sometimes , our everyday experiences are filled with the cats and dark alleyways as seen in Jerusalem , while our minds are occupied with the hustle and bustle of survival . Desires and decisions collide in our subconscious as we strive to align the mundane with our spiritual practices . This is akin to the Tohu-v-Bohu ( The Void from Genesis 1:2 ), the chaos of the unformed . It is this void that God sends His Spirit to hover over , to form order and to write the Law upon our hearts and to make things new . Our lives are thus , akin to " Yerushalay ' im " – the two cities which exist as one .
Up to this point it may seem that I have spent a lot of time sharing about the mundanity of the Holy City , rather than the " Holy " part of it . Yet in this , we are reminded that in this life we tend to focus far too much on how frustrating the mundane is or could be . However , when we seek out the Spirit and are willing to hit the " pause " button of our lives for a moment - we will find in every situation , the presence of God . Just like the Breslov Hassid ’ s , our hearts begin to sing , and our souls cry out " Abba ." God has not pulled us out of the world , but through the mundane , He reveals Himself through even the simplest of tasks . Often the core-idea of Messianic Judaism is that our calling is to sanctify the mundane rather than trying to escape it .
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