THE CABALA OF NEIL ARMSTRONG

Former astronaut Neil Armstrong, whose 1969 moon landing transformed human exploration spent the following decades shunning the limelight; he died today at 82, rekindling memories of that timeless achievement.

According to the Cabala, Spirituality begins halfway between the Earth and the moon; this is born out by the necessity of space suits – a human being can not touch the moon and live. Thrusting our vehicles into space is a great technological achievement, but there is the downside.

Space exploration is similar to religion thrusting their images and objects into the spiritual realm where they are unwelcome; Neil Armstrong got the closest to the moon but did not actually touch the moon – though they did bring back some artifacts, alien stones from another world.

I remember this incident; I recall thinking, There are some many problems in this world why can we as a nation afford the luxury of human space exploration? I feel the same today. Dovid, the first king of Israel, writes in Tehilum/Psalms, The Heavens to God, the Earth to man.

Yet, the tempered steel of this man to venture into space and stand on the moon is a proud achievement. The audacity the human being wanting more is in our nature. The letters of Adom/Human can be rearranged to read Maod/More.