Home Sweet Home

President Obama unveiled a foreclosure-prevention package today pouring more than $75 billion into helping as many as 9 million homeowners obtain more affordable mortgage terms.

The Cabala teaches there are four types of contractions that reveal God’s intentions: light, vessel, clothing, and home. Light and vessel are inseparable. The light cannot reveal without something to hold the light—it is the reason why the sunlight does not illuminate the space between earth and the sun; the atmosphere of the earth is vessel for the sun.

Clothes and home are peripheral; one is close to the body and the other surrounding and expansive. Clothes keep us from being naked—only the human being is shamed by nudity; the house is for protection and security.

The Talmud-Book of Law says having a home is an intrinsic desire of every human being. The Torah begins with the letter Bet/2 which translates as House. The world is home to God as the body is home to the soul.