What is zeal? How is this condition spawned and what does it do, how does it affect people? King David's Psalms tells us that when a person is attacked by another or challenged, or oppressed, or hurt in some way by an enemy, he becomes "consumed in his own zeal." So what is zeal? How does this feel to be consumed in it. How can this be expressed?
Zeal is the flick of your foot or the tapping of your fingers that are so strongly inspired by G-d, the opening of one's eyes, opened very widely and blinked down hard, as passion or zeal consumes them making all sights visions of an awesome content. Blinking one's eyes to music, feeling all the sounds as they vibrate wildly through your body, shaking your leg in restlessness, and tapping your foot as if it is possessed by a spirit--energy at its highest level--increasing consciousness.
Having zeal. Zeal is the stretching of a muscle, the great feeling of having a body that is like an army tank, or like a knight in shining armor. Having the protection of G-d in your zeal, as He wraps Himself all around you protecting you like as if you are behind a Wailing Wall, a fortress becomes your everywhere, yours as it is all around you in "Hashkivenu" Adonai.
Zeal, it is like a starburst, a gentle breath that starts to blow like a hurricane and can knock you over if you cannot accept it. A tsunami hits you in all your activities, a great sudden toss of G-d's miracles that start to happen everywhere, in all places!
In this zeal, you can see G-d, you can feel G-d, sometimes you can even hear G-d. Can G-d speak to you? Can you hear Him? You can if you are in "zeal."
"Zeal"--a condition to find comfort within, a time to cherish, for it is a miracle.
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