Religion and Future

This is an adage found in the oral Torah, Pirkey Avot. “It’s not up to you to complete the task, but you can not discharge yourself from it.” That is to say, we must deeply believe that the ultimate goal, Peace and love between all humans, is an objective that justifies our fight on earth every day. Religion opens this emotion linked to the future, and sanctifies it. It becomes the expression of the ultimate encounter of human history with the Divine, the preparation at the moment when His creatures themselves come to embody His attributes of compassion and forgiveness. Forgiveness between humans must be part of the future. One aspect common to religious aspirations is that they all formulate the vision of a human journey, a destiny or in the end, everything meets, a morality finally achieved. This religious emotion linked to the future, is particularly alive in Abrahamic heritages, which are centralized around the notion of prophecy, vision of the future.
When in the Torah Moses asks how Gd wants to be called, he is told the verb to be in the future. God is already where the man will be. To call God is also to wait, it is also to hope.
Hope who is at the pinnacle of everything else, because this is the realization of the Divine Will. A will expressed by the words of the biblical prophets, who have seen, at the end of time, come the era of unity and fraternity among all the peoples of the earth.
The hope for the realization of this becoming is active, it consists in planting since today the seeds that will germinate in the next generations, by souls bearing the same promise.
The Israelite vision of this hope, found in the Bible, the prayers and the oral teachings, is felt as reconciliation between members of the same family. Equal children of the same Father. Children who have now acquired the compassionate virtues of their Father, one for the other, They will reflect on earth, at their human level, in their diversity, His supreme unity. It is also the vision, and the promise, of Pan-Africanism.
Its great teachers have brought unity to Africans, and through them humanity in its diversity, as a central point of their reflection. This central point has become the model of humanism that has raised the world’s heads and dignified millions of people around the world. Like many other cultural communities on the continent, African Judaism is alive thanks to Pan-Africanism, which Gd put in his way. It owes its survival to those who put forward the cause of unity among all Africans, of all ethnicities, and the victory against the forces of racism. Indeed, it is in the vision of survival and development of all communities, that each can prosper. By planting the seeds of understanding and harmony today, teaching our children the pan-African message in all schools, by perpetuating the hope of a better world through an active mode of actions of compassion, charity, and participation, we are already living within the framework of prophecy. And in this context, Africa is the beating heart of humanity. To live in the future is to be convinced that racism will disappear from the earth, and with it the rest of the ignorance that connects humanity to an image of suffering and servitude. Those who begin their cultural narrative by the story of the redemption of a nation of Egyptian slaves, who named their liberation the encounter with the unique Gd, that of every human without distinction, want us to see that under oppression and racism, we are taking the whole world with us to true freedom. The practice of the commandments is directed towards this Future and offers to have a foretaste of the future realization. With that goal in mind, we can measure the progress we are making together and recognize the efforts to be made. To have the sense that the future already exists can be a definition of having Faith. For there is a moment when everything returns to its Creator. Basing one’s actions on that moment is called wisdom. At that moment, the skin color is an evaporated dream. Whoever has put his trust in this envelope and ignored the soul, will be forced to return to the first box.
The whole construction of his world will not want to say anything anymore, nor will it help him. Moses complained to Gd that being a stutter he could not go to speak to the King. Gd answered him. Who made the blind and crippled?
Why is the weak? Why is the oppressed the ?In this questioning and its response, we meet the Divine. If there were no blind, crippled, weak people in need of help, how would humans have the opportunity to invest the attributes of Compassion and give them a terrestrial residence ? By healing the world of the disease of racism, we come to realize the dream prophesied by the dimension of the human soul. The soul is the immense depth of the capacity to love. This ability animates every human being.
The one who actualizes this potential takes every breath of this depth. They act every day to remove obstacles in the light of this love. They do their best to perceive the capacity of the soul in any other way. It is the future of all souls to face their own ability. That’s why each one was created.