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Episode Synopsis
- Theme Nizavim (Ohr haHaim) 5767
Teshuva as the only resolution—i.e. answer, תשובה—to the universal paradox which is expressed in the missing interface between process and end; experiment and observation; עולם הבא-עולם הזה; breadth and presence in consciousness;דין or detail; ידיעה ובחירה; חוק ומשפט; שתי אותיות השם; two Creation narratives and ultimately the horror of the contradictions in the human condition that drive people into terror, escape, suicide. The two levels of Teshuva expressed in 7th perek themselves address the dual nature of Teshuva as a path-over-life, a sense of identity on the one hand, and an expression of the instant: שמא ימות בשעתו, on the other. This is the deepest insight into הנסתרות לה' אלקינו והנגלות לנו ולבנינו לעשו"ת, and the source of רבינו בחיי’s idea of the שכינה as the operative principle called נסתרת and Love. It is this that makes Teshuva the most innate and natural response in the world, that needs to be actively fought not to happen, the greatest and most absurd עצלות imaginable, the קרוב אליך הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך לעשותו.
(MY) The פרשה comes to define a new level of תשובה which is resolution: resolution of the contradiction of identity that sees itself existing on two different levels one on עולם הבא one on עולם הזה, resolution of the contradiction of human consciousness itself which perceives itself as very deeply present in instant yet coming from some platform which incorporates more than its own lifespan, it is the resolution of the way in which things are hidden in their ultimate impact and immediate in terms of their their חיובים, resolution of תורה that comes with חוקים ונסתרות throughout and צווים בגלוי ובגלוי that I need to be able to achieve at this moment and ultimately the סתירה of ישראל as ראשית and the achievement of ראשית and the way that needs to be dealt with as if reality really is that now instead of merely a subjective feeling
this restatement of תשובה means that all the aspects in the פרשה: the רמז לראש השנה, creation of תשובה, the כתיבת אותיות ספר התורה which are all so fundamentally interrelated, with the הקהל and משה רבינו speaking לכל הדורות באשר ישנו פה ואשר איננו פה — which means that all of these things are just descriptions of a single reality of a ראשית השנה which draws from the opening ראשית and an אחרית שנה which extends all thew way to גאולה עתידה in which all identity is incorporated as the actual vision of the עשיית תשובה itself!
Such that the only solution which is the only interface in the contradictions of a humans’ being riddled with contradictions between these 2 levels of life because of his inability to do wha he is doing in this moment successfully as that him the only interface is תשובה itself and that is the difference between a life of an עגל worshipper who seeks always the cutting edge of a renewal ad infinitum which he hopes to lock into eternal life and gold and one who lives in יום הכפורים and recognition of עולם הבא in ever moment of Life!
Teshuva as the only resolution—i.e. answer, תשובה—to the universal paradox which is expressed in the missing interface between process and end; experiment and observation; עולם הבא-עולם הזה; breadth and presence in consciousness;דין or detail; ידיעה ובחירה; חוק ומשפט; שתי אותיות השם; two Creation narratives and ultimately the horror of the contradictions in the human condition that drive people into terror, escape, suicide. The two levels of Teshuva expressed in 7th perek themselves address the dual nature of Teshuva as a path-over-life, a sense of identity on the one hand, and an expression of the instant: שמא ימות בשעתו, on the other. This is the deepest insight into הנסתרות לה' אלקינו והנגלות לנו ולבנינו לעשו"ת, and the source of רבינו בחיי’s idea of the שכינה as the operative principle called נסתרת and Love. It is this that makes Teshuva the most innate and natural response in the world, that needs to be actively fought not to happen, the greatest and most absurd עצלות imaginable, the קרוב אליך הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך לעשותו.
(MY) The פרשה comes to define a new level of תשובה which is resolution: resolution of the contradiction of identity that sees itself existing on two different levels one on עולם הבא one on עולם הזה, resolution of the contradiction of human consciousness itself which perceives itself as very deeply present in instant yet coming from some platform which incorporates more than its own lifespan, it is the resolution of the way in which things are hidden in their ultimate impact and immediate in terms of their their חיובים, resolution of תורה that comes with חוקים ונסתרות throughout and צווים בגלוי ובגלוי that I need to be able to achieve at this moment and ultimately the סתירה of ישראל as ראשית and the achievement of ראשית and the way that needs to be dealt with as if reality really is that now instead of merely a subjective feeling
this restatement of תשובה means that all the aspects in the פרשה: the רמז לראש השנה, creation of תשובה, the כתיבת אותיות ספר התורה which are all so fundamentally interrelated, with the הקהל and משה רבינו speaking לכל הדורות באשר ישנו פה ואשר איננו פה — which means that all of these things are just descriptions of a single reality of a ראשית השנה which draws from the opening ראשית and an אחרית שנה which extends all thew way to גאולה עתידה in which all identity is incorporated as the actual vision of the עשיית תשובה itself!
Such that the only solution which is the only interface in the contradictions of a humans’ being riddled with contradictions between these 2 levels of life because of his inability to do wha he is doing in this moment successfully as that him the only interface is תשובה itself and that is the difference between a life of an עגל worshipper who seeks always the cutting edge of a renewal ad infinitum which he hopes to lock into eternal life and gold and one who lives in יום הכפורים and recognition of עולם הבא in ever moment of Life!
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