On my way to the Holy of Holies (Kadosh Kodashim קדוש קודשים)

by Gil Dekel.

In my dream of the 29 May 2011 a horrible war was raging in one of the shore cities in Israel. I was watching as cannons were firing iron balls of hates. I was not fighting myself, but being a spectator – just watching the battlefield from aside. Then someone from my own camp decided, as a joke, to turn some cannons around, and direct them at us, the watchers. They decided to fire the cannon at our legs. For some strange reason, this was a kind on joke to them, as they wanted to scare us a bit and see how we will behave.

Sure enough we ran for our life, not finding this amusing at all. As I was taking a shelter behind some rocks, I realized that I then could fly. Like a meteor I suddenly shot up high in the sky, but I decided that I want to look down back at Earth. Planet Earth now seemed so small and insignificant. All wars looked now miniature and irrelevant.

I could fly further up but was afraid to do so as it seems scary to continue upwards. I decided to stop right there in mid air, on the way between Earth and what felt like the Holy of Holies (Kadosh Kodashim קדוש קודשים).

‘In between’ (artwork by Natalie and Gil Dekel, 2011. Encaustic Wax and Photoshop.)

There, I suddenly felt an immense sensation of purity and joy. I had no body, but could still sense a self-presence, and in the core, in the middle of that presence a burst of unrealistic angelic joyness flooded the whole living-being with the light of love. It was the joy that makes life be.

I soon woke up from this dream.

Note: the original Hebrew phrase is Kodesh Kodashim קודש קודשים, however in my dream I was told a slight different version: Kadosh Kodashim קדוש קודשים .

3 August 2011. © Gil Dekel.