A Moment in Time: How Numerous Are Your Works, Oh God!

Dear all,

We went to the Aquarium of the Pacific over the weekend. Maya and Eli paused to marvel as twin parrots feasted on some juice. I recalled a line from our morning liturgy:

מה רבו מעשיך יי/Mah rabu ma-asecha, Adonai

(How numerous are Your works, oh God!).

Sometimes I need to remember to look at the world through the eyes of a toddler.

What is it like to see an animal having lunch?
What is it like to feel the wind on your face?
What is it like to notice the sun breaking through a cloud?
What is it like to smell bread baking?
What is it like to sing with joy?

We have an opportunity each day to be overjoyed in the simplest touchstones of life. In that moment in time when my twins saw these parrot twins, it was the beauty of creation in full bloom!

(Now – for 1,000,000 rabbi points: how many living beings are a pair of twins?)

With love and shalom,

 

Rabbi Zach Shapiro