Sarah Nyhan

I’ve been thinking about the Uzzah story. I feel like it is not a story to stand on it’s own. I feel like it’s like the middle point of a chiasm of sorts. Like Uzzah is a picture of something else bigger that is going on. And since Uzzah means strength, I am wondering if the message for us is something about our strength being unnecessary? In what, I’m not sure. I try to research this from the Jewish perspective but I haven’t found much yet. I think I’m just not knowing yet how best to search for it. But I feel like there is some connection to God being enough and our help is unnecessary? Just ideas. But since I’m not having much “luck” yet on the little bit of time I’ve spent on this, I thought I’d just bounce it off of you and see if any of that resonated? And your thoughts? There’s all this talk about the ark carrying itself and the priests when it was on the poles, but I can’t tell yet if that is myth or accepted as literal truth.