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 God's love
for Moses, and Moses' love for God, have intrigued seekers for ages.
Drawing from Jewish oral legends (the Midrash) and the Bible, Diane
Wolkstein explores the dance between the Divine and the human, and its
implications for both.
My version of the meeting of God and Moses, from their first to
their last encounter, is based on the Hebrew Bible and Ginsberg’s
legends. Certain elements of this midrashic version may be shocking,
but that is the nature of story—to surprise us. Story accesses the part of us that does not hold on to preconception but dares to meet the unknown. Midrash retells, explains, challenges, explores, and opens the content of the biblical text. It also may speak of God in a way unfamiliar to some readers.
Judaism has various perspectives about God that operate on different levels of reality. The ultimate truth is that the manifold God is one; everything is God, there is nothing but God. God or Oneness does not change or learn. Another reality is that once God creates the world, which has a relative reality, and God is in relationship to humans, God changes and learns….
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