Tower of Babel

The Burj/Tower a half-mile-high skyscraper officially opened yesterday looking like a modern-day Tower of Babel. Dubai has been wracked by a debt crisis, and the building stands mostly empty and unwanted by the international tenants for whom it was supposedly built.

The original Tower of Babel was built on Mars according to the Zohar-Book of Secret; the Midrash–Book of Metaphor explains how 4000 years ago Nimrod made himself king over the world convincing the people to conquer the heavens to prevent another flood. The Talmud-Book of Law says the Tower was so large that one could walk beneath its shadow for three days; the Tower could be seen from all parts of the earth.

In Dubai where the rich and powerful had begun moving their operations is an earthly monument to the affliction of man waring with God–the premise to the Tower of Babel. Interestingly, the tower in Dubai has been renamed to reflect the leader of that country–a clear declaration and split with the west.

In the story of the Tower of Babel the human beings were forced to spread out throughout the earth abandoning a central focus other than the Creator. This modern day repetition of this ancient tale bodes badly for the future of economics and money in particular. Money, power and religion are doomed because the innate spirit of the good human being is on the ascent.