I was fortunate. Being a ships Engineer enabled me to travel, interact with various people and learn of laws affecting their freedom.
In the Middle East I visited countries where law created a failure of freedom. The people were controlled, limited by law, in what they could think and become. This control or limit of thinking created failure in learning the freedom of thinking. I also visited the only Middle Eastern country where law created freedom, Israel.
The Israelites began thinking of, and learning the freedom of law during their transition from bondage to freedom that began at Mt Sinai. A thinking of law limiting behavior without limiting freedom. A thinking to develop adhering to the law, into the freedom of becoming their own.
During the past year I decided to write about an experience. I had created a problem, a failure in the learning of self. Resolving this began with writing a thought process, an interaction of thinking, learning, and remembering between the conscious and subconscious. This process, along with an insight from professional help, began to develop the learning needed to resolve the problem I created.
Later, and when talking with my cousin Ruth, she said, " Did you know our Great Grandmother was High Germen and Jewish?" The family had repressed our Jewish heritage because of a fear of antisemitism. I decided to learn. I registered for a course on Jewish Law at a local Synagogue.
This began another thought process that created learning. I chose to live within the limits of law, of not committing murder, adultery, stealing, lying, or coveting. This choosing became a learning of keeping my thoughts and actions within the limits of what is good and true, a learning that began a freedom of becoming my own.
I learned too, a reason for antisemitism was a fear among those in power of the people learning the freedom of Judaism. Their idea to prevent any learning was to control. Yet how does someone in power control another that is free? While the powerful were trying to understand control, the Jewish people gave to the world, the freedom of learning to think. Thinking creates freedom, of becoming one's own, a freedom of self.
I was raised in The Protestant Episcopal Church in The United States of America. This church came into existence with the American revolution. During the revolution we began to separate ourselves from England, politically and religiously. The people then, and with a few changes, created their own church. The American church didn't tell people what to do. They made suggestions. An interest of the people was in becoming their own, the freedom of self. The people had tasted freedom, learned, and wanted to become more.
Ernest G Jackson 2024 All Rights Reserved. 468 Words.
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