follow the cloud

So, now we come to the name of this blog . This Torah portion introduces us to the mysterious pillar of cloud which would move through the midbar seemingly at random with a rag-tag crew of ex-slaves chasing it. The reason I chose to name this blog as I did is that the term "follow the cloud" has become a bit of an idiom in our circles. It means "don't build a shrine, keep moving through the wilderness, keep your eyes on the spirit which moves like the wind, remember the merkavah of Yah is on wheels." It happens that there is a revelation, and so we strike camp, and then the cloud moves on without us and we're alone in a dry place. I'm trying to justify breaking with tradition, ie the anti-nomian christian tradition. Torah needs no justification but the common question that comes up is "what about before? is the entire protestant tradition a hell-bound procession of the blind leading the blind?". Not at all, "follow the cloud", we're continuing the protestant tradition but we don't make a shrine out of Protestantism.

Also in this torah portion is bread from heaven and water from the rock, both very messianic and mystical images.
In John 6 Yeshua Says: I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."
And, Paul in 1 Cor 10:4: all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.