![]() ![]() As they came upon Monet, he stood up and removed his hat. Whatever it was that Monet was studying, he was very intense in that study. I asked an art historian once if he was unsure what was in the mind of Monet only that whatever it was he was putting his whole heart and soul into that painting. ![]() I am not sure whether it was the color or shapes that he was concentrating on in that scene. Sure enough, they came upon an elderly man sitting on a stool before an easel in the middle of the frozen Rhine River intensely focused on his work. ![]() His father took him for a walk along the Rhine River and he said “I bet you we will meet Monet today. It was like 20 degrees below zero and the Rhine River was frozen over. The curator shared how he met Monet a great impressionist painter when he was just a small child. Have you ever gotten so intense in your meditation that you actually started moaning and groaning? I recall hearing an Art History professor tell how he met an elderly curator at a Paris museum. When you get that intense you let out a groan or moan. They are focusing all their concentration on lifting those weights, every part of their body, and all their thoughts are focused on lifting that weight. Have you ever gone to a gym to work out? You will hear a lot of grunting and groaning because the exercise room is filled with people who are putting their whole heart and soul into their workout. She was just so intense in her prayer that she actually started moaning. I can see imagine and muse as meditation but what is this moaning or roaring business? I remember a prayer meeting that I attended where a woman was really getting into prayer and it sounded as if she were moaning or growling. It is sometimes rendered as to moan, growl, utter, muse devise, plot roar, and imagine. The word in Hebrew for meditate is hagah which has many usages. I really understand why David meditated on the law day and night because there is something so cleansing and joyful in meditation and when it ends in tears you know you have tapped into your heart and God’s heart as well. Other times I am just weeping out of pure joy. I have noticed that myself when I meditate on the Word of God, I often end up weeping, sometimes weeping because I have entered God’s heart and experienced his sadness over a lost world. There is something so cleansing when you have a time of weeping before the Lord. I believe the relationship is that weeping is an expression of the heart. The ancient sages taught that when two words in Hebrew have the same numerical value you are to look for a relationship between these two words. The word for heart is lav which is spelled Lamed which has a value of 20 and Beth with a value of 2, this also equals 32. This word is spelled Beth which has a numerical value of 2, Kap whose value is 20, and Yod with a value of 10. You know the word in Hebrew for I weep is baki. We spent most of our time just sharing our experiences with God. I then thought about a time I met with a group of men from church for a morning prayer time. There are a lot of tears while she is meditating and praying. Years ago I recall talking with a friend who practices something I call meditative prayer. Psalms 1:2: “But his delight in the law of the LORD, and in his law doth he meditates day and night.” Something new this month! Check out Chaim’s new Podcast here:
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