The Beginning of Time

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I once heard a Kabbalist say that Gan Edan (the Garden of Eden) began in Africa. The place where the "four rivers meet".

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This kinda corresponds to historians who say that the first people (Adam and Chavah / Eve? ) began in Africa.

In Judaism we believe in the descent of the generation. That means, the first generations were phenomenal and things got progressively worse -that, as opposed to what many others believe in that people started as apes and got progressively better.

As I am a Jew and believe as a Jew does, that causes me to see the world in the former way.

Furthermore, I imagine that as we leave Gan Eden in Africa -as we spread out further and further away from it all- so the kedusha/ holiness becomes lessened as well.


Like this graph:


As you can see the height of holiness is around Africa and things get less and less as we get farther and farther away from the circumference of that land.

Most of the people concentrated in that central area have somewhat dark skin and curly hair.

In the book, Likutey Moharan volume 4, Rebbi Noson in the name of Rebbi Nachman describes how dark curly hair practically pulls down and attracts spirituality from above.

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As we get farther and farther away, so also we are leaving holiness. NOTE: a most dangerous attitude to take from reading this is ARROGANCE! And so I want to warn anybody reading this against this attitude. Life is sensitive, beautiful, and filled with holiness. Holiness is everywhere. If one chooses to learn about it in one area, its foolish to become arrogant simply because we are not aware of how it manefests in another area. Arrogance is just the opposite of what God wants! God did not desire to give curly haired people this gem only to take them away from this world due to arrogance.

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

Its a marvel to have this beautiful inheritance, one ought to thank God everyday! B
but it comes with a price. I believe those embued with so much holiness just can not help themselves in the way that they act. They are just instinctively holy --from the guts. Thus, their every action just exudes holiness in a natural, non-thinking way.

The bad part about that is: once kedusha is taken away from such people, from any people or land....

If one can imagine and take a mirror to reflect the opposite of the above graph, yes, it would appear that those in the farthest realms of this graph will fall to a lesser degree with holiness is stripped away. However, those in the more centralized area will fall the lowest!

This could explain why so many in the world view Africans, African Americans, those whose ancestors stem not so long ago from Africa, as savages! This can explain the behavior of those horrible men in the Republic of Congo and in Darfur and how they are able to treat their women! This can explain why, after so many AA grew up on oversexualized imagery, we are now witnessing gang rape and callousness among that population. And not to mention the atrocities that occur in other "curly haired" peoples when they are without holiness.

But it doesn't have to be. We are NOT savages. Please know this in your heart. As a matter of fact, lets end this on a good note and examine those who never let go of their kedusha and those who reclaimed it:

* There are those among the Igbo clans who are able to go into the woods and fast for three days, the purpose being to purify themselves.

* It is said that music is the language of the Neshama -the third part of the soul of a person (the Neshama is the part that connects man to God and many are not even aware of it). Almost no other place in the world is known for making music as beautiful as those coming from African or recent ancestry.

* Black folks all over the globe appreciate the value of humming a tune. Consciously, they may not know the depth of what it does, but somehow that humming has not been lost. It can be a great distraction when dealing with physical pain, it can take someone away from their emotional or social troubles, it can even be a source of meditation. In Judaism there is just such a meditation in which the meditator eventually just hums the letter "m" -not unlike humming. (source Jewish Meditation pg)

(please note: though, I listed example of black folks, this is absolutely not limited to black folks. The main point is the CURLY HAIR. Color will come to play later.


TO BE CONTINUED...