6/17/23: Ecclesiasties 1-3

Written by Solomon?; kuf-heh-lamed-tav; Spiritual teacher; Consulting God; Making symbolism reality; Revealing God's word; Our divine spark; Subjecting ourselves; Solomon; "Sacrifice of fools"; = "Corban of Pharisees"; Solomon's corvee; Bondage of Egypt (Captivity); Ecc 1:1; Who is "the preacher"?; "Christ" = anointed; Altars of freewill offerings; Vanity = habel - hey-biet-lamad; Vapor or breath (invisible)?; Shedding light on the visible; Patterns of nature; Cause and effect; Historical insight; "Exercised"; God's healing; "Wisdom" and "Knowledge"; Beastly hearts; Repeating vanity; "Sorrow"; Labor/mischief; God the capitalist; Ecc 2:1; Vexation of the Spirit (Grasping for the wind); Ecc 2:12; Madness and folly; excelleth = profiteth = destroy?; Meditation; Corrupting power; Public religion; Rom 2:5; Importance of commandments; Substituting emotion for spirit; Sacrifice of fools; Seeking righteousness; Weakening your children; Legal charity; Knowing the whole truth; Redistributing wealth Christ's way; Honoring parents; Letting everyone do their part; Encouraging effort and diligence; Mental illness; Destroying society; Choosing your source/tree; Reward without labor?; Welfare; Reparations; The right to work; Ecc 3:1; Empty things that don't give life; Ecc 3:9; Ayin-nun-hey (anah) = exercised?; Reason for today's bondage; Caring for those you don't even know; Punishment?; Hearing the anguished cries of your brothers; Seeking the kingdom - network of congregations; Doing good; Ecc 13-15; What Israel learned; How you got into bondage; The Song of Moses; The simple solution; Freeing those you've enslaved; Networking; Controlling your own labor; Be there.