Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Standing Tall

Standing Tall
The Torah relates that on the day of Moshe’s death , the people were gathered once more in order to make their final commitment to G-D before entering the Promised Land.
Moshe says that you are all standing tall today and enumerated the various levels of social strata. He says today you are all Standing Tall before G-D. If that is the case then why must Moshe mention the various groups that are accepting G-D’s oath?
Wouldn’t it have been better to state that all of you are together as one nation and are responsible for each other. Why the divisions amongst the people at a time when they are to feel total unity?
The answer is that each person from his vantage point sees G-D in a different way. We are supposed to accept G-D and G-D’s commandments in the unique way we see G-D and appreciate the Supreme Wisdom .
The Talmud tells us that when a Jew says Kiddush on Friday Night we become a partner with G-D in the process of Creation!?
Now I can understand that by acknowledging the Creator’s works that we have become associates and intertwined spiritually. Where does one leap into becoming G-D’s Partner? Furthermore, how do we share in the process of creation ?
The answer is that in our world the observer solidifies and actualizes reality. There are a multifaceted set of experiments that have verified this incredible secret. Reality is formed by the observer!
There are aspects to reality that don’t become truly “real” until someone has observed them and interpreted them as such.
That is why we become partners in Creation WITH G-D!
That is because , by understanding and observing that the world was and continues to be created by G-D we actualize that reality . For until there is an observer that acknowledges that G-D created this world, the world isn’t really created and can return to its’ original state of spiritual and non-physical reality. By observing that the world is a creation ex-nihilo from nothing to something, the world is worthy of and actually attains reality!
This is why at this juncture when all are together, it is important to identify the various groups. For each individual sees a different world. Hence we are encouraged to view the world with our unique perspective and in this way create our own world that we observe
And create!
The power of each individual isn’t just cumulative. Rather our world is a different world that we create every day through our experience, insight and Good Works!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Rabbi, I just want to thank you for having a blog so that at the very least I can end each of my days with Judaism.