Jordan B. Peterson

Hello everyone.

Welcome to episode 13 of the Exodus Seminars.

Yesterday we covered the delineation of the commandments into the description of the details of sacred space, ritual and worship.

We're going to bring that to a close at the beginning of this

and then move to the story of the golden calf.

And so we'll close with Exodus 29, 43 to 46, the pronouncement of the establishment of God within the tabernacle and the sacred space.

So, and there I will meet with the children of Israel.

And the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.

And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar.

I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office.

And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God."

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them.

I am the Lord their God.

And God there reiterates the idea that he's the spirit that has moved the Israelites forth out of tyranny into the desert and henceforth into the promised land.

And so, any concluding comments on

this section dealing with sacred space, ritual, and worship?

Right, right, right, okay.

One of the things that I suggest to my lecture audiences, I also suggested to my clinical clients, is that when they will be called upon to deal with heavy things in their life,

Everyone understands what that metaphor means, and so that would be catastrophe and suffering, encounter with malevolence, things that hurt and move you deeply, that you need to have deep things on your side.

And part of the promise of the eternal verities, let's say, that a humanities education offered was