Torah Reading Lech Lecha
This week’s torah portion, or reading, is so interesting in the context of mediation that I felt you may be interested. The title, Lech Lecha, can be understood to refer to the spectrum between Ayin and Ein Sof. The spectrum between Absolute Nothing and Absolute All
The Torah gives many insightful double meanings to Hebrew words.
Lech means Go. Go anywhere in the macrocosmos, the Ein Sof. God tells Abram to go from his birthplace to a land that God will show him when he gets there. In other words “go“ and when you get there, it will be revealed.
But Lecha means to go “to yourself “, to the inner dimension of meditation. the micro cosmos or Ayin,
The two words are like two sides of the same coin presenting simultaneously, “when you get there, (the outer physical) , it will be revealed, ( the inner realisation).
Notice that his name here is Abram. Why does God change his name to Abraham by adding the letter Hey, see Lech Lecha 17:3