I wonder how much it could be said that boredom is the supreme ill to be avoided.
God tells us that "In the beginning, God created". Why did he? He tells us that for his pleasure all things are and were created (Re 4). He desired and sought this pleasure, knowing that he would suffer for it, and sorrow for it: he mourned because he had made man, and it grieved him at his heart (Ge 6). He endured the greatest pain felt by any being, for the sake of that pleasure: "who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame" (Heb 12).

In this sense Buddhism is one of the most fundamental disagreements with God. It originated with a sheltered man raised in luxury who then went out and saw suffering. He concluded that it is better to desire nothing, and, ultimately, best of all to not exist. He disagreed with God, saying instead that if desire causes suffering, it is better to not desire. Indeed, it is a philosophy founded on the most all encompassing hopelessness, pessimism, and absolute cynicism: that there is nothing worth enduring anything for: there is no joy set before them.

It is utterly un-human and unnatural and perverse: we are made in the image of God, and are to act in the image of God: we are designed to desire joy, and to endure suffering to gain it.

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"Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her."

Re 18

Original Hebrew Scripture from Judges 5 Original Hebrew Scripture from Judges 5
"So let perish all thine enemies, Yahweh; and let them that love him be as goeth forth the sun in his might"
כֵּן יֹאבְדוּ כָל־אוֹיְבֶיךָ יְהוָה וְאֹהֲבָיו כְּצֵאת הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ בִּגְבֻרָתוֹ

Christi Banks
SHALOM!

Here is your question for Yom Rishon found in today's Torah portion in Shemoth 21:1-19:

What is the judgment for one who strikes mother or father?

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18 Mishpatym – Day 1
Sh’moth 21:1-19
“These are the judgments which you are to set before them: “When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves six years, and in the seventh he goes out free, for naught.
“If he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
“If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children are her master’s, and he goes out by himself.
“And if the servant truly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children, let me not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him before Elohim, and shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall serve him forever.
“And when a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she does not go out as the male servants do.
“If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who has engaged her to himself, then he shall let her be ransomed. He shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of him deceiving her.
“And if he has engaged her to his son, he is to do to her as is the right of daughters.
“If he takes another wife, her food, her covering, and her marriage rights are not to be diminished.
“And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out for naught, without silver.
“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.
“But if he did not lie in wait, but Elohim delivered him into his hand, then I shall appoint for you a place where he is to flee.
“But when a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him even from My altar to die.
“And he who strikes his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.
“And he who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall certainly be put to death.
“And he who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.
“And when men strive together, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed, if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he who struck him shall be innocent. He only pays for lost time and sees to it that he is completely healed.

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Tehillah 24 – Day 1 (Yom Rishon)
The earth belongs to YHWH, And all that fills it – The world and those who dwell in it.
For He has founded it upon the seas, And upon the waters He does establish it.
Who does go up into the mountain of YHWH? And who does stand in His set-apart place?
He who has innocent hands and a clean heart, Who did not bring his life to naught, And did not swear deceivingly.
He receives a blessing from YHWH, And righteousness from the Elohim of his deliverance.
This is the generation of those who seek Him; Ya‛aqoḇ, who seek Your face. Selah.
Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And let Melek Hakavod come in.
Who is this Melek Hakavod? YHWH strong and mighty, YHWH mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O you gates! Even lift up, you everlasting doors! And let Melek Hakavod come in.
Who is this Melek Hakavod? YHWH of hosts, He is Melek Hakavod! Selah.

It is better to take refuge in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 ,
Than to trust in man.
Psalms/Tehillim 118:4-8

'Grow because you're beautiful, not because I need you to. Go til you outstretch every single piece of you. Heaven will see you through, but you gotta believe it's true.' - Brother Ali