- A new vision of מצוות which is central to understanding the nature of אדם in a state of possibilities, which is the direct result of נעשה as a מאמר that at best is only a suggestion and at worse a question. The question remains open in this parasha that leaves fundamental issues of Good and Evil open instead of providing clear guidance. The nature of a universe of Mitzvot which are self-justified in precisely the same way that we need no justification for the world of עבירות is the equivalent of contrasting worlds of yetzer vs. yotzer, which are fundamental existential differences, as deep as the שתי פרצופין that are found in the same double Yudin, and which are themselves part of the yetzer to yotzer relationship, for woman is called both. The double yud in וייצר which actually defines two well defined separate components of Adam, one with an input that stretches back to יצירה instead of בריאה reflective of the added “space” of צמצום granted Adam because of the standing question of נעשה אדם which is his מאמר!
Dovid’s mistake in thinking that the direct result of the taking in war was a בן סורר ומורה whereas actually it was the completely backwards and unforeseen סוף that came of the marvelous Tamar’s care for פרסום. But סוף is not meant to be mechanical, but of a level of complexity that makes it just the way this “end up working out”: סוף.
The expansion of Yisrael has always taken in those things that can work only with חשק but that become indeed alien and מרידה when stripped of passion—what is more, the attempt ends up itself stripping the passion! Just as Rabbi JB absorbed with חשק but created a generation of סוררים in modern orthodoxy who also are afflicted with “endemic lassitude”!

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