I’ve been posting some original material in youtube Shorts lately, including some pretty spectacular under water stuff (all I’ve got to do is climb under a fence, over a fence, down a cliff and…. free fishies!)
Here's a low quality version of the most recent Short I posted. Then again, do shorts actually post in high quality? I hope so because I managed to video this 91 Olam Old Tomb in 4K.*
* The Bible considers an עולם / Olam to have a length of 50 years.
Instead of drawing 7 dimensional venn diagrams of words in English to explain the meaning of “Olam” I’ll simply reveal to you the word’s origin.
עלם - that which is beyond reach.
Listen to it in the first chapter of Isaiah we just learned together 2 days ago.
אעלים = I will Olam [my eye from your outstretched arms]
Everything beyond our reach is in a different Olam.
Be it beyond our geographical reach or beyond the reach of our own lifespan.
Your personal Olam ends when you die.
But for obviously necessary and healthy social reasons, the Jubilee Social Rebirth that is built into the social system designed for us by the Torah (and woe upon us all that neither our ancestors nor we have honored it) is, reasonably enough, set for a precise period of 50 years.
[Our uniquely intelligent supporter “Under Flowerpot” pointed me to this discussion by Ivy Legue Economics professors who understand and appreciate the Jubilee. Video preset to 33:40. https://www.youtube.com/live/FSA6l97_g8k?t=2020s ]
Thus the subterranean tomb of Mersankh III, in the video above was chisled, sculpted and painted, some 91 Olams before the one we all share today.
Shabbat Shalom to all my friends!
May your Sabbath/Shabbat/Shabbos be beautiful and maybee all celebrate a TRUE SABBATH together in kindred friendship everywhere.