History as Inner Life
Spengler writes in a blog post : When Christian theology declares that the New Testament fulfills the Old, they mean in effect that the history of Israel is a map to the inner life of every Christian. And this history is not simply a record interred in a book. The history of the Jewish people is manifest in the life of the Jewish people, for we are our history: Every one of us stood with Moses to receive the Torah at Mount Sinai, and all who clung to YHWH are alive today, as we pray before reading the Torah in public. We, the living people of Israel, are a flesh-and-blood map to the salvation of every Christian. Can't the history of Israel be a map to the inner life of a Jew? Take the following passage from an essay by Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Kabbalists go further still in recognizing in the prolonged stay in Egypt a ruse of Providence to incorporate in the Spirit of Israel all the "sparks" lost in the temples of impurity. What better way to interpret a bad relationship ...