God's Last Message To His Creation: "and Oholibamah bore Jeush"

Imagine you are told you are going to get a message from God. This is it. God is finally going to make everything clear. God is finally going to give us a guide to life and explain to us the deep meaning of the universe. All doubts will be allayed all queries answered. This is going to be the biggest moment in human history! Crowds await in anticipation for the moment when God will reveal all.

And then God appears! And what does he do!?

He starts reading genealogical tables and construction plans for hours!

For a book which is purported to hold God's ultimate message to man and is supposed to be a "handbook" to life, the Torah is awfully prosaic.

For a book which is is supposed to "not be history" the Torah is awfully full of genealogy and minute historical details.

For a book which is supposed to be written by God, the Torah is rather underwhelming.

I asked a Rabbi once "Rabbi, for a book written by God the Torah is pretty ordinary. Shouldn't God be able to write books with more flash and flare?"

The Rabbi told me that the boring parts have deep messages and that a large portion of the Zohar is dedicated to expounding the seemingly useless bits such as the genealogy of Esav's descendants.

Yeah, if Moby Dick was considered holy I'm sure someone would be busy expounding that. Anything can be interpreted as an allegory or an esoteric message.

What should God's book look like? Well maybe it would actually tell us what the Hell is going on around here on Earth. And maybe explain to us some of the deepest questions that have been troubling man for ages. That would be pretty nice.

Instead it explains to us how big a certain tent should be.

But hey God has his reasons so maybe he just likes writing like a pedantic historian.

Maybe.

Or maybe the Torah is what it looks like: a history book with some laws thrown in.

Take your pick.