The King Remembered

The Elvis Birthday Bash has become a lot like the man born January 8, 1935 who since his death have been sighted in all sorts of disparate locations as the years have rolled by.

The Zohar-Book of Secret predicts that Moshiach will not come to the earth until the world sees rainbows in the sky; Elvis was the beginning of the rainbow which exploded in the skies during the sixties. Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones all bowed to the King of Rock and Roll.

In the Hebrew calendar Elvis was born on the fourth day of Shavat the month in which is celebrated the sap coming up into the tree during the full moon–Jewish New Years for the Trees rooted in the element of water. The Cabala explains how water is the source of pleasure; the Talmud-Book of Law says whoever gives pleasure to the people is a sign that God also has pleasure from that person.

Elvis was the seminal beginning of turning war into peace; in his movies and songs Elvis represented a kind-spirited man who reflected a new type of person–Love me Tender. While all the great leaders and masters of war have passed on to ignominy, Elvis lives on.

The Torah says good people even in their demise are still alive in the hearts of the living.