World Water Day

Clean water for a healthy world is the theme for World Water Day 2010, celebrated today. Water is a tiny molecule with some highly unusual properties different from other liquids, in fact, by some measures water shouldn't even exist.

Water is found at the very edges of the universe and is ubiquitous throughout the universe, but here on earth water exhibits a strange alteration; all other liquids freeze from within but only water freezes first on the exterior thus saving aquatic life.

In the beginning of the Torah where the creation process is described, God commands the water to seek depth–the opposite nature of water is to cover. It was this change of nature which resulted in the phenomenon of water freezing on the surface.

To God creation is made of water but to man creation is made of fire–what is light to creation is water to the Creator. There is another aspect of water whose metaphor is used in explaining the purity of spiritual knowledge which like the rain comes from a very high place yet remains unchanged once on the earth.

An ancient sign 4000 years ago was water rising to greet those of Abrahamic lineage. The Zohar-Book of Secret says the source of water is from the rock identified as the planet Mars repository of water from within.