It means "taxi" in the Hebrew language. I picked the name because I feel it is a perfect description of where we are at right now as a world, as a people, both on the macro level and on the tiniest individual sense. The metaphor of a taxi is perfect for the journey many of us are on; but before we go telling people that we are on a journey we must identify what our deffinition of the word "journey" is.
Are we solo or in a group? Did we pick our destination or are we being taken for a ride? Are we driving around, unified in the taxi, but letting others tell us where to go; or are we driving, taking the others to somewhere special and passionate? Do we know where the taxi is going at all; or are we merely lost? And if we are lost, is it in the sense of wanderment, passion, and dreams; or is it in the sense of being alone, and being scared?
The particular word, "sharoute," was also chosen not just because of my recent time in Israel, but because it is from an ancient language that was spoken by our cultural and religious ancestors, spoken by Abraham and his sons. On a personal level this represents much, but also represents my own desire for exploring and traveling, of looking at the unknown and the too-well known and trying to figure out.
Come and get in the taxi with me, and share your thoughts along the way; discuss and argue and wander as well, and let's see where we go and where these thoughts take us. God is guiding much that we can't see; the world is guiding much that we can't see, and many proponents of either side would prefer that the other not exist. But that is not our reality; we will be traversing through reality, and the ideals we try to build those realities around.
Let's see where the sharoute will take us.
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