Thursday, November 12, 2009

Bashert

I was recently introduced to the Jewish idea of soulmate called bashert, at a theatre production of the rather bizarre "Clean House". After poking around on the web, I found the following description from an article on JewishJournal.com:

"A Jerusalem rabbi once told me that when we're born, God whispers the name of our beshert -- our soulmate or destiny. The cleft above our lips, he said, is where God places a finger, to silence our ability to reveal the secret."

Rather lovely I think.

2 comments:

Ike said...

"God whispers the name of our beshert -- our soulmate or destiny."

When God wrote the names of the elect in the Lambs Book of Life...."we" were not there to cast our vote.

Cynthia said...

Ike...interesting comment

This was a beautiful quote as well