Year: 5768 - Mishpatim - audio

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- באדם ! The essence of human significance is discovered only in the context of true ברית for exactly the same reason that the reality of משפט can be discovered only within the context of חוק, something we discover in ברית.
The sense of personal significance is as real as Mishpat itself. For we must recognize that Mishpat, and even the חוקות שמים וארץ associated with it, as they appear in the Vav-Unlinked אלה תולדות שמים וארץ, are nothing but the randomly-patterned developments within an evolving world that end up working. The state of significance that is ישועות itself: looking out for Number One, is an absolutely sine qua non for evolutionary success, and therefore is part of the essence of ישועות-נזיקין with all its stress on the significance of the free individual, even on the גר. The extrapolation of states, the אתם ידעתם את נפש הגר, is not a contradiction to Looking Out for #1, but an amplification, an acceptance that בשבילי נברא עולם. Thus there is no ברית without personal significance, any more than there can be ברית without משפט itself!
The nature of ברית and our perceptions of self-significance: The given perceptions which are purely evolutionary cannot have any significance unless they are לעומת דבר זה just as there can be no meaning to משפט unless it is backed by חוק. All that is left is the tautology of אם לא בריתי to those who evolved because of those very חוקי שמים וארץ! Thus such a person not only lives in randomness and קרי because of buying into that world, but because the very perception of significance and values is built entirely of solipsistic experience whose essence is randomly developed!
Defining the difference between the לוחות and the וכן כתוב בתורתיך as the difference between existential statements whose presence in random-worlds was contested by the מלאכי השרת and the rest of the Torah which is only evolutionary (Rambam) and therefore was not contested, as can be seen from Moshe’s response. Ultimate significance to meat-brains? This is the באדם—this is the בשגם הוא בש"ר!
Interweaving the two levels of ישועות of “protection from law suits” (Rashi) and the צפית לישועה which is ultimates, finding this the linked Vav that restores the connection of random reality to the nature of בראשית-Creation-1 which was missing until now because פסל ראשונות. This is how אם לא בריתי in the Haftara continues into זרע דוד: the two linked ישועות.