When reading Sparrows posts or better said her nick I always think of "Guf"
That name just has stuck in my mind after seeing a movie a decade ago.
Don't worry..I'm not gonna lay down the whole script here. But there where a lot of sparrows involved.
Sparrows carried souls from heaven to pregnant women. There where no more sparrows seen. Trib started.
So after seeing another Sparrow-post I Googled a bit.
My question is is there any Biblical support for it?
QuoteThe mystic significance of the Guf is that each person is important and has a unique role which only he, with his unique soul, can fulfill. Even a newborn baby brings the Messiah closer simply by being born.
In keeping with other Jewish legends that envision souls as bird-like, the Guf is sometimes described as a columbarium, or birdhouse. Folklore says sparrows can see the soul's descent and this explains their joyous chirping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guf
:cloud9: Never heard of that one........sparrow, have you been holding out on us, girl? :laughing7:
Seriously, though, I can't remember now where, but I found in the Hebrew somewhere years ago, a reference to the soul being like a bird, so I have understood this to be the reason for the reference to the "fowler's net" in relation to the taking of the soul captive. And the references that make God seem like a "big bird", LOL, would have to make you wonder if there is "little bird", ie. under His WINGS, ect. Blessings....
wow. how weird.
I think I like the idea of the sparrows carrying the souls BACK to heaven, though... :laughing7:
Now that would be some happy chirping.
I think you're just trying to sneakily call me a "goof". :sigh:
but you use fancy spelling and a little tale to cover it up.
Sparrow, you GUF!!!
ok maybe it's pronounced Guf, like "buff" or "eNOUGH". :laughing7:
sorry. I totally hijacked the thread, didn't I?
I'm sorry.
That kabbalah thing I read in the link... now THAT freaks me out.
ugh. what an awful thought. That we're just bits and pieces that's going to morph into a super being.
ugh. I've had that same thought a bunch of times throughout my life, and it always ends up making me feel absolute terror. :mshock:
Quoteok maybe it's pronounced Guf, like "buff" or "eNOUGH".
Dunno any Hebrew but in Dutch the "u" indeed sounds like the "u" in buff or Dutch
Quote from: WhiteWings on May 01, 2009, 07:58:37 AM
Quoteok maybe it's pronounced Guf, like "buff" or "eNOUGH".
Dunno any Hebrew but in Dutch the "u" indeed sounds like the "u" in buff or Dutch
ok. so you weren't somehow trying to call me a goof.
:grin:
Anyway, back to the topic....
I sometimes think about this...
Who is going to be the LAST baby born on earth?
That question to me starts to turn into a "falling into the sky" feeling.
You know when you're a little kid just laying in the grass, flat on your back staring up at the clouds, and for a brief moment you lose yourself in the sky and you almost feel like you are falling INTO the sky and you have to reach out and grab hold of the grass????
The "last baby" thought is one of those thoughts that bring about that falling into the sky feeling for me.