The mitzvah I chose was Leviticus 19:31. This verse is “Do not turn to ghosts and do not inquire of familiar spirits, to be defiled by them: I the Lord am your God”. When I read this verse, it definitely caught my eye more than the others. The way I interpreted this was that it meant your ghosts, as in your secrets or lies, and familiar spirits as habits you would turn to, not actual ghosts of spirits. It intrigued me because I didn’t take it the way that everything else said it meant. To me, it meant almost as if not to let your past or your “ghosts” take over, as the Lord is your God. Taking it the way I found it to be, this mitzvah can be completed by not relying on the past to influence your further decisions, yet by recognizing the future and letting God lead your path. This could be a guideline by saying not to let the past take over, or not to be too focused on your secrets or lies, anything that may haunt you, like a ghost would.
The photo I chose is one that I took up on the Tel. When I see this photo, I remember how happy we all were. We woke up early to take this hike even though we didn’t have to. For me, it accurately represents us putting whatever had happened in the past and all the secrets we had aside and fully living in the moment, not letting anything affect our happiness. In the time, we weren’t turning to any of our ghosts or familiar spirits to help us. We were one with the world and had the Lord as our only God, whether we knew it or not. We let our lives be led by God, not our ghosts.
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