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Blessed is HY Who gave us His holy Torah and inscribed our names and
sealed them in the Holy Torah where room is given for existence of
diverse mindsets in the absolute Unity of G-d. The Unity is always
there; was, is, and will be, and in the cycle of time this will
become more and more apparent until it becomes blatant, and
eventually a powerful consuming certainty. In today's modern word
even religious people often put more faith in science than they do in
their religion. And as science progresses producing all types of
wonderful technology, more and more people are becoming
disillusioned, the new technology hasn't brought real change to
anything in their life, they waited and longed for the new computer,
phone, robot, and now that they have it they are left with the same
emptiness. And maybe this is a big factor in the appeal of islam,
which advocates throwing away ones mind and just accepting One G-d.
Seeing the uselessness of technology in providing meaning, they
despair completely of their acumen, and just fall into mindless
subservience. Abraham already referred to it as similar to a donkey,
which is not altogether derogatory, for in fact Our Sages praised the
righteous who set themselves like domesticate animals in their
devotion of HY (Chulin daf 5). The true reality however is that the
greatest wisdom and science is the fear of HY, and King Solomon the
wisest of all men, and Our Sages in the Talmud already proclaimed
that fear of G-d is one with wisdom – it is the very same concept,
two sides of one coin, the coin being daas – the holy realization
of knowledge – knowledge not just factual or logical – but
knowledge which is a person's reality – the way he perceives and
relates to everything in his life. Daas is a marriage (which by
definition can only be holy) and union of holy knowledge and fear of
Heaven – one compliments the other and strengthens the other. A
person's knowledge is completely contingent on the paradigm of his
reality, if he is stuck in modern science he will never be able to
find the knowledge of G-d, which is the true life source and
mechanism of everything in the universe, even still the Divine is
always hidden everywhere, and even the scientist will have ample
opportunities to realize from the very pit of science that there must
be a Divine source for everything. The more the person gains
awareness of the magnitude of the reality of the One G-d the more he
will enter a paradigm where the wisdom is real and meaningful – not
just technical relating to molecules and cells, but relating to life,
and real life is Divine. And the more real wisdom one gains, the
greater his awe of G-d will become – together these two factors
create his daas.
The
reason why we don't automatically have amazing daas, is because HY
created the world with a constriction which blocks out daas, and a
person has to break through to merit to the daas. Above the
constriction of this blockage is a true reality of daas, it is a
paradigm where all existence – aspect of Chuchma - is reflected in
the souls of the tzaddikim – the aspect of Bina. Thus the daas we
must gain in the world is by drawing close to the true tzaddikim who
are the providers and the very paradigm of daas. So first we must
dispose of our mindsets which are regulated and enslaved to the
constricted reality which is bereft of daas, and then we must gain
true daas as it is prescribed and emanated from the true tzaddikim.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
