Aeter with R' Paltiel 8/21/09 Friday 1 Elul 5769 Ayin Tet
In our world we know of things only from the perspective of a specific benefit that it brings – this is world – devoid of intrinsic value.
Elokus/Godliness needs to be understood in a different framework – elokus is what makes everything else meaningful – it is the truth.
People think in terms of me vs you – so they think of G-d as “the boss” - but really we have emunah peshutah (simple faith) which enables us to know G-d is that which makes life worth living – that says “life is for real”.
This sense of reality does not have any parameters. Emunah peshutah says that this is reality, this is what I am about and it doesn't have circumstantial concerns/orientations. Unfortunately in reality, as a result of what we go through in the world, life itself has been attacked with the question, “is it real?”
This truth cannot be defined, one cannot know what he wants in the sense of defining it.
We spoke recently about breathing – the specific function is very narrow – inhale through nostrils and exhale, yet despite its narrow definition it makes fundamental difference to us if we breathe through tubes or through open space – breathing in open space is breathing bepshitus.
The truth of our breathing is not that we breathe in – it is the creation of a vacuum and the life around us flows in.
As said at Seagate this week – Avraham avinu from the age of 3 started looking for something and rejecting all he was shown, he was looking for G-d. How did he know to start and to look?
He recognized/sensed that there must be a truth and “all of this is not truth”. He was looking for G-d. He looked at the sun, and the sun set, then came the moon etc and he knew truth doesn't change and he realized truth is outside the world.
Truth is outside the world and maintains it. He said, “okay, I live in the world, but it is the truth that is really manifest in the world, and I'm going to relate to that and serve G-d, not anything in the world, without that the world is less than worthless.
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In our world we know of things only from the perspective of a specific benefit that it brings – this is world – devoid of intrinsic value.
Elokus/Godliness needs to be understood in a different framework – elokus is what makes everything else meaningful – it is the truth.
People think in terms of me vs you – so they think of G-d as “the boss” - but really we have emunah peshutah (simple faith) which enables us to know G-d is that which makes life worth living – that says “life is for real”.
This sense of reality does not have any parameters. Emunah peshutah says that this is reality, this is what I am about and it doesn't have circumstantial concerns/orientations. Unfortunately in reality, as a result of what we go through in the world, life itself has been attacked with the question, “is it real?”
This truth cannot be defined, one cannot know what he wants in the sense of defining it.
We spoke recently about breathing – the specific function is very narrow – inhale through nostrils and exhale, yet despite its narrow definition it makes fundamental difference to us if we breathe through tubes or through open space – breathing in open space is breathing bepshitus.
The truth of our breathing is not that we breathe in – it is the creation of a vacuum and the life around us flows in.
As said at Seagate this week – Avraham avinu from the age of 3 started looking for something and rejecting all he was shown, he was looking for G-d. How did he know to start and to look?
He recognized/sensed that there must be a truth and “all of this is not truth”. He was looking for G-d. He looked at the sun, and the sun set, then came the moon etc and he knew truth doesn't change and he realized truth is outside the world.
Truth is outside the world and maintains it. He said, “okay, I live in the world, but it is the truth that is really manifest in the world, and I'm going to relate to that and serve G-d, not anything in the world, without that the world is less than worthless.
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