The Eden Code: A Garden Revisited

Achashverosh, the leader of his time, reflected this duality in his own personality: One side of him gravitated toward Haman and genocide; the other toward benevolence, supporting Mordechai and Esther. This is the essence of the Purim celebration: Purim contains many lessons for us today, not the least of which are related to current events originating in the Middle East— the locale where the original Purim story took place — and spreading to Europe, as evidenced in the latest brutal attack in Brussels, Israel, the USA and around the world.

Cyrus was succeeded by King Achashverosh, who is equated with Nebuchadnezzar Megillah 11a , and he also married Vashti, daughter of Belshazzar and granddaughter of Nebuchadnezzar]. History has sadly taught us that avoiding a problem that threatens all free and innocent people is never a solution. And this is not just about the Middle East and Europe as made abundantly clear. The world looks to the USA for leadership. This country is based on the universal principles of justice and virtue, and when necessary, has stood up to fight for this cause. If I were advising the President and the current Presidential candidates, I would succinctly define two key priorities that we must fight for today:.

All people are created equal,. By no means does this suggest that America and the Western world are the heroes and the Muslims and Arabs are the villains. Both of them have their virtues and vices, and both have the free will to choose their destinies.

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Achashverosh of old, the leader of ancient Persia, illuminates for us the two personalities and the two options that our present day leaders face. A bit of genealogy first: Isaac in turn had two sons, Esau and Jacob.

Abraham learned and then taught his children his hard earned wisdom, that true peace, true inner harmony, true purpose, could only be achieved when we struggle and make our peace with G-d. When we learn how to overcome our natural egocentricity and become beacons of altruism and love; when we transcend our proclivity to self-interest and assume our responsibility to refine and spiritualize our universe.

At Sinai the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob formally received and committed their lives to fulfill the Divine mandate to build a civilized world, while the children of Ishmael and Esau rejected it. Achashverosh had both faces of Esau: But Esau the Western world is only part of the story.

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Esau was not alone in his dual nature. Not to be outdone, his uncle and father-in-law, Ishmael, was no slouch when it came to duality. As a son of Abraham, Ishmael had many great qualities, which were passed on to his grandchildren. Just as Christianity brought a new spirit of G-dliness to the pagan children of Esau, Islam did the same for the pagan children of Ishmael. Then there is another side to Ishmael — sadly coming to the fore in our own times: Like Christianity before it, Islamic countries slowly spreading to Europe have become a breeding ground for forces terrorizing the world.

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Let your Western presence be felt, but not to the point where you get too enmeshed and impede the growth of the Muslim world which must come from within. Let the brothers work it out. Sale is currently the director of the political think tank the Middlebury Institute for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination.

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For him this pattern is significantly reversed. I am not convinced of that, and furthermore I would argue that his desire to write is also in fact motivated by connection. I bet I could write well in Spain if I was a writer. By describing the negotiation of needs and wants in terms of work in this scene, Hemingway demonstrates that relationships themselves take work and draws our attention to the many ways that the work affects relationships.

Like David every morning Ernest got out of bed, sharpened those pencils, took out his copybooks, and wrote and wrote, happy, tired, hungover, ebullient, depressed, whatever his mood it was cast off, discarded, and as the creative juices began to flow, he entered another world and if we were lucky and it was good enough he left it to us to enjoy forever. Both Bourne and Jordan are craftsmen whose work is inspired by and based on past experience.

The Garden of Eden Revisited

You had worked summers on engineering projects and in the forest service building roads and in the park and learned to handle powder, so the demolition was a sound and normal job too. In these passages, Jordan distinguishes between different levels of destruction, between the demolition of bridges—and the killing and destruction that results from it—and the larger and more ominous destruction of the Spanish Republic, the way of life of the people he has adopted as his own. Jordan, like Bourne, demonstrates a type of relational ethics that applies to his art. He destroys physical bridges to preserve others, the social, cultural, and political ties that he deems good and just.

He has no fear of dying and subsumes himself and those around him to the larger good he associates with the Republic: There are necessary orders that are no fault of yours and there is a bridge and that bridge can be the point on which the future of the human race can turn. As it can turn on everything that happens in this war.

Like David is compelled to write, Jordan is compelled to serve by orchestrating the destruction of bridges, but he does so aware that he is sacrificing a great deal. Pilar knows, she has read it in his hand, that Maria does and will move him, and this prediction plays out when the earth moves when they make love.

The Eden Code - a Garden revisited

There was no such thing as Maria in the world. It was certainly a much simpler world. The difficulties and consequences are compounded after he becomes attached to these people, particularly Maria, whom he loves as he has loved nothing before: Nor that this could happen to me. I would like to have it for my whole life. You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. This does not mean that Jordan does not love Maria or that the truth from the night before ceased to be true. Instead, we see that at that moment Robert has to work alone, and Maria, like similarly named Marita in The Garden of Eden , respects the need for space and knows it must be so.

Maria would like to learn more about his work, which he has explained to and diagramed for her before; the night before the bridge blowing, she asks: But Robert needs to escape from the pressures of what he knows will be a doomed mission and instead wants to fantasize about the future.

In this scene and many others, Maria keeps Jordan from worrying about his work. Maria both gives him space when he needs to do his work and provides a haven for him when he worries about the work. But the contrary is also true, that the work makes him better equipped for love, better able to see the connection to the individual person and well as the collective people:. Nor thought of anything except the movement and the winning of this war?

Truly I have been very pure in my ambitions. I love thee as liberty and dignity and the rights of men to work and not be hungry. I love thee as I love Madrid that we have defended and as I love all my comrades that have died. And many have died. Thou canst not think how many. But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.

I love thee very much, rabbit. More than I can tell thee. But experiences in the war, both in killing and in loving, show him that everything is much more connected than he first believed. He knew that truly, as truly as he knew anything. His love with Maria made clear to him just how much he was sacrificing for his work. But in loving Maria he also realized just how important his work was, how much Maria and countless others were suffering, how meaningful was his working for the greater good.