Pensamiento judío sobre Jonás 1:5

And the spirit of the woman is not filled: And this is the secret of, "And when the daughter of a priest will be for a foreign man" (Leviticus 22:12). That is the holy soul, the daughter of the priest, who falls in the portion of a foreign man, this world. And sometimes even when it is connected to the body, the body remains a foreign man for it. And it is like that empty one that goes around and yells for her lost object, goes wandering over the earth, but she does not find rest for the sole of her foot, as it is stated (Genesis 8:9), "The dove found no place to rest its foot, so it returned to him into the ark, for the water was upon the surface of the whole earth." And the dove (yonah) is the spirit, it is the holy soul. It is Yonah the prophet who went down, fell and wandered to the lowest depths, as it is stated (Jonah 1:3), "He went down to Yaffo and found a ship [...] and went aboard to sail with the others to Tarshish, away from being before the Lord." And it is stated (Jonah 1:5), "and Jonah had gone down into the hold of the vessel where he lay down and fell asleep." And the soul falls asleep before the Lord, for there and only there can it find itself rest.

This phenomenon is extremely important for Jews who are afflicted with self-hatred and want ‎to ‎turn away from Judaism and run for their lives. They hide, like Jonah in his day, in the recesses ‎of ‎the ship (Jonah 1:5) and seek to “slumber” (Jonah 1:5). The Captain, however, does not ‎permit ‎them to ignore their fate. The shadow of Israel continuously chases after them. Random ‎thoughts ‎and paradoxical reflections arise from the subconscious of even the most confirmed ‎assimilationist. ‎And when a Jew begins to think, to reflect, when he is unable to sleep, it is ‎impossible to know ‎where his thoughts will take him and how his doubts will be expressed. Listen! ‎My Beloved ‎Knocks!‎