I want to share an impactful tweet with my readers, sent from Rabbi Joseph Chaim Levine (@Rabbi224). "Full spiritual maturity is a life-long mission. The Bar-Mitzvah marks the end of training and the beginning of battle."
While I saw wisdom in these words when I first read it yesterday, something also blossomed in my mind while I responded to the tweets this morning.
Yeshua/Jesus is Jewish, and likewise had His Bar-Mitzvah after years-long study. The only point of Christ's early years that we have in the Gospels today is a time shortly after His Bar-Mitzvah, or so one may surmise as He was 12 years of age.
Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. After
the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy
Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.” “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” (Luke 2:41-49)
And our part in it continues all through our life.
~ ESA
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