Blame it on old age, although that is a lame excuse; actually it’s multi-tasking in these times of many distractions and digital gadgets to keep up with, that sometimes we miss attending to what is essential!
Year 2018 passed us by and in September, we forgot to commemorate our 8th anniversary the way we ‘dunnit’ in the past, check out these posts if you haven’t read them:
- S6K – A Collective Voice for Truth-Seeking Gentiles – Year II
- Sinai 6000 – Celebrating YEAR VI
- Sinai 6000 on Year VI – ‘Looking back, still moving forward’
- A Sinaite’s 6th Anniversary Celebration – 4th Sabbath of September
- Private: A Sinaite’s Prayer on Year VI
- Revisit: The Point of No Return
- Revisit: S6K – a Collective Voice for Truth-seeking Gentiles
- Q&A: Why do you call yourselves “Sinaites”?
- Revisit: Is Sinai 6000 just another ‘cult’?
- FAQs about Sinai 6000
- Sinai 6000 – Our Seventh Year
- Starting over . . .
This is a short list of what is posted under the Heading SINAI 6000 at the bottom of our Sinai6000 > Site Map which record our individual and communal faith journey from RELIGION to REVELATION.
If you care to read the articles in that category, you might find yourself relating to the same quest of the original founders of Sinai 6000, whatever stage in your ‘faith-walk’ you’re in.
Not much has changed in our convictions which have gotten even stronger as we’ve aged and matured, and as we have unlearned and relearned and continue to discover so much more along the way of biblical [TORAH] education.
TV talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey thought up the best two words to express what is in the end of the process of discovering: she calls it the “aha moment”, not quite as hair-raising as “Eureka,” because that is what it is— a simple quiet moment when you finally understand and see what has been there right before your eyes all along . . . you just weren’t looking because you weren’t seeking.
And even if you were seeking, you carried with you a baggage full of previous presuppositions picked up from millennia of hand-me-down religious interpretation of the same reference book, the SAME BIBLE! And that baggage got in the way of opening your mind to different perspectives and other possibilities of reading/interpreting biblical text.
Imagine starting out with the formidable task of studying the whole bible: 27 OT books and 39 NT books,
- then (in our case) abandoning the ‘new’ and returning to the ‘old’
- and then, further cutting out what is not ethnically and personally relevant to us since it IS for IS-rael . . .
- but realizing there is the overlooked presence of the ‘Gentile’ among Israelites,
- representing the rest of us who are not of chosen Israel,
- yet chose to believe and follow Israel’s God.
None of our original intent has changed over the last 8 years. What has changed is — The original founders have dwindled in number . . . not because there were ‘deserters’ as in abandoning the cause, but they have become “desert-ers” as in spirit-wanderers in Sinai’s spiritual desert; meaning, — as it is in this world where everything and everyone ages, the physical part of us eventually dies. So in our small core community of seven who began the journey together, we’ve lost three to disease and aging’s inevitable and inescapable end.
That’s Life huh? We live our time on earth and then we leave our time on earth.
Do we share in YHWH’s timeless existence? Understandably the Torah does not dwell on the afterlife:
Q: What is the Sinaite view on what happens to us after we die?
A nursery tune I learned as a toddler teaches how to count with 10 fingers. Starting with “Ten little Indians” — then something happens to each Indian one after another and the last line goes “and then there were 9” until it dwindles down to “and then there was none!”
Hey, our little Sina 6000 core community is getting there! We started this movement of sorts so late in life after moving from one religion to another that by the time we returned to the Sinai revelation of YHWH, we were past half a century old! But by God’s grace, we’ve managed to keep our wits together, enough to start yet another journey to seek the One True God and His Truth! In the process, our original bible kept shrinking,
- from 66 books composing OT/NT,
- to 39 books composing OT only,
- and now to the five books attributed to Moses, the TORAH.
So what IS our message for S6K Year VIII?
Take advantage of this website while it’s still “up there” (as our oldest no-tech member refers to the world wide web). While we have handed the responsibility of keeping it going “up there” even when all of us are gone, the custodians may not be able to continue it forever. There IS, unfortunately, a time limit to everything on this earth, perhaps even our planet itself is on limited time, only the Creator knows.
And so, such a weird way to commemorate a forgotten anniversary, but never too late, OOPS indeed!
The lesson is: “this too shall pass” so dear visitor, take advantage while the website is still “up there”!
Read up, recopy, plagiarize, we have no copyrights, pass on what you learn . . . though it would be Torah-compliant to acknowledge this website as your source; after all, this has been the work of a lifetime . . . no matter that it was started late in the lifetime of the Sinaite core community.
It leads only to one end: Spiritual Sinai, which is spelled: T-O-R-A-H, where the original instructions for all humanity by the God Who spoke from Sinai are recorded.
Take it or leave it, but READ IT!
Then chew and digest, or spit out.
Each of us has a choice, we are made in the IMAGE, remember . . . the IMAGE of God that He shared with humanity is FREE WILL.
Belated HAPPY 8th ANNIVERSARY to all Sinaites all over the world… you know if you are one of us!
In behalf of Sinai 6000 Core Community,
