Fire and Water

As if the raging wildfires near Los Angeles weren't bad enough, there's a new frightening twist: fire tornadoes; hurricane Jimena sent tourists fleeing Tuesday as it bore down on Mexico's Baja California.

The heavens in Hebrew is called Shamiam a collaboration between the words Ash/Fire and Miam/Water. The earth is dependent upon the heavens to produce water to grow the crops, air to circulate the seeds and the warmth of fire to make things grow but if the heavens become angry thrashing the world with winds that whip up the seas and fires with tornadoes then the heavens destroy instead of create. Extreme weather is like a sickness overtaking the body, causing pain and suffering–requiring sometimes months to recover.

Recently the Pope tried to pin global warming and extreme weather on atheists, intimating that the heavens were angry because people did not believe in God. There are few atheists in the world but lots of religious people and if the heavens are angry it is probably at the religious people–no one sees the atheists out there making war.

The Ten Commandments speaks of other gods because there is no word in Hebrew for religion; there are no words for religion in Arabic or Sanskrit either. The Cabala compares Torah/Teaching to water which comes from a high place but does not lose her purity upon the earth and the Law is compared to fire–the proper mix produces peace.