- The choice at Sinai was to reject the personal עמוד עמדי which meant a new approach to the world, consistent with יעקב. Because of it, subsuming the nature of biology became essential, which means that we must build upon the faulty infrastructure provided by biology, the reason that our very highway infrastructure is patterned on such underlying psychological elements rather than on purely human ones. The desire to follow irrational statistical paterns that are not part of the דרך האמת is precisely that which drives עבודה זרה, superstition, anecdotal-based medicine, and all other magical thinking. The central point is the commitment to Ramba”m’s understanding of תמים תהיה which sees living within the world as a struggle against the darkness of pathless chaos and its cousin, local patterns that can only lead astray.
This is the deepest element of the “borrowed” aspect of שאול: its non- sustainability and inability to destroy Amalek which is where true path meets post-modernism. Thus the need to control the future and his involvement in the subtle distinctions between תמימיות and manipulation: וירב בנחל,דורש אל המתים, נביא,מלך ככל הגוים…
מורי ורבי רבינו משה זצללה"ה ’s pshat on תמים עם ה’ אלוקיכם is astonishing and fresh. He learns that you must have a holistic mind that sees things as part of a דרך האמת without interest in anecdotal and/or statistical posibilities but only things that make sense and are part of a תמים matrix for תמימי הדעת. What makes us different is our חכמה, for we are ישראל חכמים מחוכמים ! But the most astonishing thing is that the end result of tolerating “what works for me” is the loss of the entire path of truth

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