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The Roots of Consciousness - The book of תוכחה requires the recognition that נמצא חוטא על עצמו and this is exactly what Rambam says is the meaning of ראה! Thus the לא נתן ה' לכם לב לדעת is a direct function of the עינים לראות.
The roots of consciousness are created by the very perception of the potentialities that create the perceptual space for Choice. This is the ultimate goal of human freed om which is why המוציא אתכם מארץ מצרים is so important here (see Ramban on the closing of the Mo’adim). The nature of תקותך לדור דורים is precisely the קו that becomes one’s own with the connection to ראשית just as Moshe himself achieved his own upper layer identity. The change in the capacity of identity is why Rambam reverses the order of the לפניכם and the לפניך just as they are reversed in the ראה for ארץ ישראל!
The freshness of נשמות חדשות may come into play even ex-post-facto! What was once extrapolation into the future while stuck in the Present has become living in the future where ראה stretching out becomes a presence always, changing experience and thought: the future is now. Assimilation and עקב עשיו is only ex-post facto, but ראה is forward, just as אב המון גויים does not mean ראש גויים but progenitor of all that is to come. Clearly it is not enough just to provide the עמוד החכמות כולם to be called an אב.
עקב אשר שמר is the beginning of Avraham's career and it is from there we learn that he was three years old at the time. But he was then to become Yisrael, which is the path of the future and a new relationship to ארץ ישראל
The self-contained momentousness of the electrical instant is infinitely more than flashbulb memory, it is the veritable creation of a universe of embedded נצח. The relationship of מצוי ראשון to our life/entity, is very similar as our own relationship to our life moments. שדר בחמשה עולמות ואמר שירה is so similar to the essential meaning of ברכי נפש״י, מי שיש בו חמשה דברים הללו. There is astonishing power to this idea, for we usually pretend that identity is emergent from the entirety of זכרון, conscious and subconscious. But in reality this is a mere matrix for identity, for the latter is a construct that profoundly involves choice of moments, even moments that are perceived at the Present as if they come from a different world, a different life. For all moments, ultimately, in the electric presence are by definition a "different life" to one who is aware, and there is no essential difference between the moment fifty years ago and the moment fifty seconds ago. It is the "I" which makes them into one just as the אהבה מסותרת של שכינה makes them one for the מצוי ראשון. This is why choice follows the subliminal, where we destroy the matrix of our potential identity through עקב which must then culminate in the Choice of Life in ראה. This is similar to Rambam’s description of the subliminal נרדמים טועים בהבלי הזמן culminating in the Choice of ראש השנה. In the same way that destruction of the עולם נזה matrix for Life, as Rambam's puts it in Teshuva 9, can so easily destroy and chance of containing עולם הבא.
ראה is the same as Pinhas, who was ראה מעשה ונזכר הלכה, the same ראה נתתי לפניך היום ברכה וקללה, the same as ראה נתתי לפניכם החיים והמות, part of the experience of direct existential choice: this is you, just as your relationship to ארץ ישראל actually is you and you innermost choice. This may be a deeper element of why indeed Pinhas is so central to ירושה for only in the way that ארץ ישראל is a completion of perception of reality itself, of my own personal sense of self, is it possible to be a non-mechanical בר נחלה. This is a different level of understanding the words of Moshe at the gateway to ארץ ישראל, not as discussing what is possible there, or the laws binding there, or the nature of the relationship of מעשים to למען ירבו ימיכם as covenant externally, but as the deepest expression of what it means to be you.
The roots of consciousness are created by the very perception of the potentialities that create the perceptual space for Choice. This is the ultimate goal of human freed om which is why המוציא אתכם מארץ מצרים is so important here (see Ramban on the closing of the Mo’adim). The nature of תקותך לדור דורים is precisely the קו that becomes one’s own with the connection to ראשית just as Moshe himself achieved his own upper layer identity. The change in the capacity of identity is why Rambam reverses the order of the לפניכם and the לפניך just as they are reversed in the ראה for ארץ ישראל!
The freshness of נשמות חדשות may come into play even ex-post-facto! What was once extrapolation into the future while stuck in the Present has become living in the future where ראה stretching out becomes a presence always, changing experience and thought: the future is now. Assimilation and עקב עשיו is only ex-post facto, but ראה is forward, just as אב המון גויים does not mean ראש גויים but progenitor of all that is to come. Clearly it is not enough just to provide the עמוד החכמות כולם to be called an אב.
עקב אשר שמר is the beginning of Avraham's career and it is from there we learn that he was three years old at the time. But he was then to become Yisrael, which is the path of the future and a new relationship to ארץ ישראל
The self-contained momentousness of the electrical instant is infinitely more than flashbulb memory, it is the veritable creation of a universe of embedded נצח. The relationship of מצוי ראשון to our life/entity, is very similar as our own relationship to our life moments. שדר בחמשה עולמות ואמר שירה is so similar to the essential meaning of ברכי נפש״י, מי שיש בו חמשה דברים הללו. There is astonishing power to this idea, for we usually pretend that identity is emergent from the entirety of זכרון, conscious and subconscious. But in reality this is a mere matrix for identity, for the latter is a construct that profoundly involves choice of moments, even moments that are perceived at the Present as if they come from a different world, a different life. For all moments, ultimately, in the electric presence are by definition a "different life" to one who is aware, and there is no essential difference between the moment fifty years ago and the moment fifty seconds ago. It is the "I" which makes them into one just as the אהבה מסותרת של שכינה makes them one for the מצוי ראשון. This is why choice follows the subliminal, where we destroy the matrix of our potential identity through עקב which must then culminate in the Choice of Life in ראה. This is similar to Rambam’s description of the subliminal נרדמים טועים בהבלי הזמן culminating in the Choice of ראש השנה. In the same way that destruction of the עולם נזה matrix for Life, as Rambam's puts it in Teshuva 9, can so easily destroy and chance of containing עולם הבא.
ראה is the same as Pinhas, who was ראה מעשה ונזכר הלכה, the same ראה נתתי לפניך היום ברכה וקללה, the same as ראה נתתי לפניכם החיים והמות, part of the experience of direct existential choice: this is you, just as your relationship to ארץ ישראל actually is you and you innermost choice. This may be a deeper element of why indeed Pinhas is so central to ירושה for only in the way that ארץ ישראל is a completion of perception of reality itself, of my own personal sense of self, is it possible to be a non-mechanical בר נחלה. This is a different level of understanding the words of Moshe at the gateway to ארץ ישראל, not as discussing what is possible there, or the laws binding there, or the nature of the relationship of מעשים to למען ירבו ימיכם as covenant externally, but as the deepest expression of what it means to be you.
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