{"id":52023,"date":"2019-12-06T00:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T06:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=52023"},"modified":"2019-12-06T00:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T06:27:27","slug":"off-the-pulpit-whats-in-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-whats-in-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: What’s in the forest?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

In this week\u2019s Torah reading, Jacob runs away from home and has a dream of angels ascending and descending a ladder. Upon waking he exclaims: \u201cThere is God in this place and I did not know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When the Chasidic master the Seer of Lublin was a boy he would go into the forest. One day his father, concerned, asked why he went there. The boy answered, \u201cto find God.\u201d His father smiled and said, \u201cBut my child, don\u2019t you know that God is the same everywhere?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d said the boy, \u201cGod is. But I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of us discover different parts of ourselves in different places. There is place inside us where God dwells, waiting to be discovered.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple of Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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