Kedushah & Karet, The Difference

I dreamt.

There was a history among our group of little girls being targeted for assassination by an underground secret mercenary group. They would be stabbed in the belly as children and murdered when caught alone. I was observing all this as a historic issue, yet I also then zeroed in and identified with one of the targeted little girls.

Her parents were discussing to which school they should send her. She was old enough to go to school now and they had to make a decision. The parents were completely secular, but they were Jewish. They didn't want her to learn all the religious stuff and wanted her to be safe in the world, but they did want her to be able to "remember" who she is as she grew up. If she went to a religious school, the parents feared that the little girl was more apt to be targeted by the "secret assassins".

The parents decided to send her to a Jewish school, but one that was mostly secular, where the only thing she would really be taught about her Jewishness was that she was "set apart" (like the other students at the school). They would teach the least amount needed to maintain a Jewish identity - doing this with the hope of avoiding being noticed by the secret assassins.

The parents told the little girl what school they had decided to send her to. The little girl protectively and instinctively clutched her belly. I had the impression the little girl (either herself or members of her family) had been murdered by one of the secret assassins in a past life.

She was at the school now with other children in a gymnasium. They were learning a Jewish dance. Teenagers (like summer camp counselors) came in to assist the teacher. But, I knew that they were secret assassins. I caused some sort of chaos and the class was cancelled. No assassinations today.

The dream changed. I was a man who was a member of a scuba diving team in a southern beach community. The secret assassins were picking targets off as they swam in the water. One had targeted the scuba man. I, as the man, had poison in a water gun and shot the "shark" (כריש ,who was a secret assassin). The shark (even shot once with poison) followed the man out of the water and to his car where the little girl sat in the front passenger seat. The shark jumped into the car and was on the front passenger floorboard. It was relentless in its attempt to murder. I repeatedly shot it with poison from the water gun until it died. Then we ejected it from the car onto the side of the road on which we were driving.

I woke up.

This dream is exploring and assaying for the presence of transgressions carrying the penalty of karet. In Hebrew the word for shark is כריש. This word is from the shoresh כרש meaning to break up, like in digesting food. In other words, the dream is "digesting" one's life on the way, to determine whether a soul will proceed to karet or to keter.

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