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Episode Synopsis
- This is the central parasha of Yisrael Identity which is why it serves as the center of the Seder and indeed announces היום הזה נהיית לעם. It has important חידושים about the nature of identity and its relationship to דעת, about the relationship of both to כפית טובה and to the primal identity in גן עדן, and of all those to a place in the universe providing personal and national significance, expressed more than anywhere else in מצוות ביכורים, as בשעתה which is the ultimate truth of every individual and individual instant.
The clear-cut definition separating Western identity from Yisrael identity is הכרת טובה vs כפויי טובה. Assertion of personal significance and place through a search for enforced solipsistic individuality focused not on freedom but on liberty, in what is a denial of the nature of one’s place in the universe by rejecting the burden of forced good, כפיית טובה, is the rejection of paradise itself because of inability to accept האשה אשר נתת עמדי, which leads to rebel without a cause, the pure מינות of אכלתי ואוכל! Whereas the recognition that connection is only possible through דעת which approaches reality only through הכרה of the depth of one’s place is by definition the הכרה of טובה which seeks complete self achievement through the use of those elements particularly and uniquely one’s own to complete Creation in one’s own instant of Space/Time which is the vindication of all ראשית through זכרון. This is the only realistic Space that can incorporate all self and phenomena, which is why the parasha of identity serves as the parasha of identity, personal and national, the parasha of היום הזה נהיית לעם at the same moment that it provides the personal איני כפוי טובה, at the moment that it is the לב לדע"ת and the source of the אבנם that are our names in the cement on a national level: we were indeed here, in the Yarden, in Gilgal, in Creation. At the moment of ראשית במקום ראשית בהקרבת קרבן ראשית we reach the pinnacle of evolution and the heights of significance. This is why all ביכורים is in terms of significance, בואכם לשלום ממקום פלוני and the entire country comes to meet you and all stand in the joy of the moment of Creations vindicationבראשית בשביל ביכורים שנקראו ראשית!
The only word in לשון הקודש for existential malaise is חלישות הדעת in which identity suffers from being unable to find any niche of contact and thus significance. This can be a terminal condition as evident from the story of חוני המעגל and רבי יוחנן, and evident from the long list of famous suicides. Long accustomed to having our love of Creation rejected and our best efforts the object of disgust and hatred, we suffer collectively now from a profound and prolonged national חלישות הדעת which is the result of being unable to directly relate to external reality and being forced to focus, as do all those who suffer from malaise, on our own minds and systems. The growth of religion in Yisrael is directly attributable to such malaise, and has built a Catch-22 that grows more and more self-involved as it becomes more evident that the solution has made contact with outside reality more and more pathetic and painful as שוטים אתם נחשבים becomes more and more evident.
The clear-cut definition separating Western identity from Yisrael identity is הכרת טובה vs כפויי טובה. Assertion of personal significance and place through a search for enforced solipsistic individuality focused not on freedom but on liberty, in what is a denial of the nature of one’s place in the universe by rejecting the burden of forced good, כפיית טובה, is the rejection of paradise itself because of inability to accept האשה אשר נתת עמדי, which leads to rebel without a cause, the pure מינות of אכלתי ואוכל! Whereas the recognition that connection is only possible through דעת which approaches reality only through הכרה of the depth of one’s place is by definition the הכרה of טובה which seeks complete self achievement through the use of those elements particularly and uniquely one’s own to complete Creation in one’s own instant of Space/Time which is the vindication of all ראשית through זכרון. This is the only realistic Space that can incorporate all self and phenomena, which is why the parasha of identity serves as the parasha of identity, personal and national, the parasha of היום הזה נהיית לעם at the same moment that it provides the personal איני כפוי טובה, at the moment that it is the לב לדע"ת and the source of the אבנם that are our names in the cement on a national level: we were indeed here, in the Yarden, in Gilgal, in Creation. At the moment of ראשית במקום ראשית בהקרבת קרבן ראשית we reach the pinnacle of evolution and the heights of significance. This is why all ביכורים is in terms of significance, בואכם לשלום ממקום פלוני and the entire country comes to meet you and all stand in the joy of the moment of Creations vindicationבראשית בשביל ביכורים שנקראו ראשית!
The only word in לשון הקודש for existential malaise is חלישות הדעת in which identity suffers from being unable to find any niche of contact and thus significance. This can be a terminal condition as evident from the story of חוני המעגל and רבי יוחנן, and evident from the long list of famous suicides. Long accustomed to having our love of Creation rejected and our best efforts the object of disgust and hatred, we suffer collectively now from a profound and prolonged national חלישות הדעת which is the result of being unable to directly relate to external reality and being forced to focus, as do all those who suffer from malaise, on our own minds and systems. The growth of religion in Yisrael is directly attributable to such malaise, and has built a Catch-22 that grows more and more self-involved as it becomes more evident that the solution has made contact with outside reality more and more pathetic and painful as שוטים אתם נחשבים becomes more and more evident.
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