November 19, 2016
THE SHANNAH
While contemplating the events of the past year, I was reading a passage called “The Shannah.” What exactly is a year? In the Holy language of Scripture a year is associated with the word, “shannah” and it is linked to the number “two.” “Shannah can mean the second, the duplicate, or the repeat. In the course of nature the year is the repeating of what has already been . . . the winter, the spring, the summer, and the fall, the blossoming of flowers and their withering away, the rebirth of nature and its dying, the same progression, the same replaying of what already was. A year is a “shannah” a repetition. Continue reading “THE SHANNAH”