Sinai 6000 – Our 7th Year

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So here we are approaching the Jewish celebration of their new year “Rosh Hashanah” . . . significantly the same season in year 2010 when Sinai 6000 was conceived and birthed in a short span of time, a “reawakening” of sorts. But . . . re-awakened to what . . . or more appropriately, to Whom?

We’ve recorded our progress year after year, check out these links if you haven’t done so:

So now Sinai 6000 reaches its seventh year: Seven—the biblical number of completion/perfection. So are we there . . . complete/perfect? And if so, in what way? And if not, why not?

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Not that we’ve ever considered ourselves “churchy”, measuring success thru increase in membership because as far as numbers, we’ve flunked that test! Like the Jews, we don’t “evangelize”, we have no “missionary zeal”, we simply live the Torah and if anybody bothers to ask us what is our “religion” or what “church” do we attend “Sunday service” at or where do we “fellowship” — all we can say is, we’re not into “religion” and we don’t attend “church”. So ‘what are you’ is the next question and when we say ‘we’re Sinai 6000’, that is followed by ‘what is that?’ And when we attempt to explain, we lose the acquaintance, the friend, the family member and get labeled and shunned like we have spiritual leprosy!

In fact, rather than addition, we’re in subtraction mode, having lost a few ‘pilgrims’ on the way to Spiritual Sinai. We happily think of their demise not so much as failing to finish the journey we started together, but rather, reaching our common destination by getting there way ahead of us. They’re in the ‘finish line’ waiting for the rest of us to catch up.

We started out as a core community of 8,

with about 5 on the periphery (out of towners),
and another 6 committed to weekly Torah study who also consider themselves “Sinaites”.

We lost 3 who entered their final Sabbath Rest;

one could no longer join us because of old age disability-lack of mobility;
and we’re down to 4 in our core community —
and disappointingly, one of our measly 4 remains on square one, still clueless what Sinai 6000 is about but to her credit, she has loved God all her life and and sought Him in religion and attended Bible Studies but clings to her personal configuration of a God that nobody should question, 88 years old but still stuck in a simple childlike faith, nothing wrong with that.

So, ff we’re measuring success through growth in numbers, we’ve obviously flunked that test! Our tribe did not only NOT increase, we even decreased, at least in the core community. Thankfully, one outreach group of 6 are dedicated, faithfully attending our weekly Torah study and even managed to draw 4 recruits who are reawakening as well to the Sinai Revelation even as they remain within their Christian religion/church/fellowship.

Occasionally, Christian pastors would check us out but that’s about the extent of their interest; give us a hearing, then — thanks but no thanks.

What about you, curious one reading this commemorative post —where are you in your faith-journey, if you’re in one at all?

On behalf of the original core community of Sinai 6000,

NSB@S6K

Source: Exodus/Shemoth 24 – "the sight of the Glory of YHVH (was) like a consuming fire" -- We gentiles living in this 21st century are able to experience that climactic moment [God appearing on Sinai] by reading and studying this portion of the TORAH. Indeed, we see YHWH not quite as dramatically as the mixed multitude did, but perhaps even better through these accounts recorded in Exodus. There is a saying that hindsight is 20/20 vision, i.e., we begin to see and understand the question marks in our past only later in our lives, as we mature and hopefully become wiser and more introspective about the meaning or seeming meaninglessness of happenings in history, whether personal, national, or universal. Søren Kierkegaard adds a twist to this: “Only 20:20 vision is hindsight. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” As we endeavor to understand each portion in the TORAH of YHWH, much of it will seem irrelevant to our current situation but if we see beyond the time-bound cultural and religious situations and begin to understand what truly has not change—human nature and the Great Revelator who designed the perfect blueprint for living in peace, happily and contentedly with family, community, country and the nations, the unquestionable conclusion is: TORAH is relevant to ALL humankind, not just to Israel, to this very day.

Sinai 6000 – Our 7th Year

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