Emphasis Preaching Journal

The earliest Jewish belief, shared by the Greeks, was that the firmament was a solid dome. When the door of the dome was opened God's blessing could descend upon the earth, as one could also have a vision of the everlasting. This is serious ideology that far surpasses a concept that we are a part of Truman Burbank's story (played by Jim Carrey) in the 1998 movie The Truman Show, whose tagline was "all the world's a stage." In Judaism the world is a stage but not one of entertainment and spoof for the director is God himself.