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October 17th, 2006
Santa Cruz, California
Received by FAB.
I am here, Jesus.
You have just reread, in Dr. Samuels' channeling, New Testament Revelation
13, that "conditions affecting husband and wife were even worse in my day than in the time of Moses."
You feel this conflicts with your own channeling, "Jesus and the Talmud - Women."
Let me explain.
In one sense, both are true. Just as in your time, certain
ideals prevail, which are contradicted by earthplane
imperfection, so in Judea of my time, ideals relating to
women both flourished and were abused.
In your country, the United States, freedom has enabled
you to enjoy certain privileges. And yet everyone is aware
of freedom's limitations through human sin and greed.
And so, likewise, we had an ideal of womanhood that I was
able to draw upon, which did actually exist.
Simultaneously, there existed what you call a double
standard, which gave to husbands a certain type of
dominance and authority.
But Jewish tradition had already sanctioned the holiness
of the bond between man and woman, as described in the
beautiful Song of Songs.
So, just as you can confidently and proudly believe in the freedom your country represents, while fully realizing
that it is defective, so I exulted in the Jewish tradition honoring the sanctity of marriage, though I saw very
clearly how this often fell short of the mark.
You experience the reality that the earth life is
imperfect, and yet, because you are an idealist, you
choose to lift up the best aspects of humanity, and you
live by these preferred values.
So I too understood how my fellow Jews often did not honor
their heritage, and yet I was able to see past this, to
the beautiful tradition that did essentially honor women,
even though women often suffered through the inability of
some Jews to live up to an ideal that was sanctioned in
their culture.
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