5.10.26 – Bonding Truths for a Firm Foundation

Happy 36th day of counting the Omer! It is the sixth week and the first day. Only fourteen more to go until we celebrate Pentecost. Where will you be?

What makes the Shavuot/Pentecost weekend so special? Bonding with people who are pursuing the same outcome. Just as super glue holds things together, bonding is the ultimate emotional connection. Every soul-quality we have been working on over the past five weeks has been based on our individual feelings, but bonding is a reciprocating activity—the fusing of two!

It is more than a feeling; it is an attachment of devotion—much more than a token commitment. It develops an everlasting union that lives on forever through the perpetual fruit it bears. Bonding is the foundation of life. It is the emotional spine of the human psyche. Every person needs bonding to flourish and grow: the bonding between mother and child, between husband and wife, between brothers and sisters, between close friends.

It is the strong force that allows people to have that sense of belonging, that they really matter—which is what we will study this week in our Torah portion, Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1–4:23).

Because bonding is mutual, it takes two like-minded people, which models trust in yourself and trust in others. Without it, we are like a ship on the sea with no rudder or compass.

Bonding fuses all five previous weeks of study into a constructive whole, giving it the meaning "foundation (yesod) to build on" (1 Cor. 3:10). While all other human feelings are individual emotions—separate stories of a building, each a necessary component of human experience—bonding all of our learning and integrating them into one bond creates the foundation upon which the structure of human emotions firmly stands. Bonding is giving all of yourself, not just part; it is not one emotion but all of them. Thus, Yesod (foundation) completes the spectrum of the first six emotions that we have devoted ourselves to over the past five weeks.

As you head into this 36th day of counting the Omer, reevaluate your bonds with your spouse, your children, your next of kin, and those within your lives.

Shalom!
Alan

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