Perceptual Space - (MY) The פרשה which ostensibly is about ראה and new perspective changes almost immediately into description of place on every level: מקום dozens of times repeated in the פרשה. Which leads us to realize that perceptions are linked to what we generally see as geometric but here is perceptual space. This is precisely what משה רבינו gives us in דברים this is the added value in דברים the added perspective his following as חזקוני points out where we reached until now –which is the rejection and תוכחת מרגלים – we are now able to talk about this space in understanding of מצות.
But remarkably there is no description of space here in grand moral principles defining such a space; instead the פרשה deals with the space in terms of food. This food is essence of ברית from מעשה בראשית to נח which is almost repeat of ראה and where נח apparently had to be aבקי in דינים של ראה. Such that a new world of הרחבה a world that specifically relates to אכילה just as in נח.
We come to realize that this is a new development of what humanity is capable of in identifying three levels of human development which is the topic of this שיעור…
We discuss here the way in which ראה is both the beginning and end of 40 days of אלול of משה going up – and concluding in נצבים post יום כפור which is also part of ראה. This means ראה is central to תשובה and therefore to the nature of human identity! We trace how רמב"ם looks at this ראה seeing it as something that can be expressed only after 40 years – central to the entire meaning of דברים: ספר התוכחה and in the end central to human identity and key to the achievement of identity of each individual!

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