The Conning Tower - In this continuing saga of the process of Freedom which needs to be reconstructed with the loss of חירות על הלוחות, a process which began with the restoration of selfhood and boundaries in ויקרא and a ירד דודי לגנו on the first level, we need here to continue the story of the transition from הר סיני which is the transition into a life of oneself after הר סיני. The translation which began with כתינוק בורח represented the decline after the first stage of the expansion of the משכן into the מחנה and the individual נפקדים, and was dealt with last week in קברות התאוה and מתאוננים ומתלוננים and the loss of the אור המנורה and נשמתא into the black hole of need. Here we continue into the deeper hole of אביק ביה כמינות דמי. This is possibmhole only with the deep construction of a narrative which lies behind the נחש and the enterprise of מינות which is ultimately sexual, in both נחש and לא תתורו אחרי לבבכם ואחרי עיניכם, and is here addressed in לתור את הארץ and the מקושש עצים
The Land of Response, the location of deepest integration of consciousness and matrix, is The Land of the Free, the City of Light, קרייה נאמנה, by definition. It, and true freedom itself, are both dependent on the complete faithfulness to developing Creation and the relationship of mind to the developing realities of the world as it presents itself, precisely as it must be to the Torah as she presents herself. The developing nature is both the only base for and the only key to this relationship, and is the foundation of freedom. Withdrawal into the darkness of a separate reality is to be the child of a lesser god, and maintaining separate reality is the battle against freedom and Light. Therefore, on the simplest level, the tool of anti-freedom is לשון הרע and warping ארץ ישראל with it would be “the end of the world” in the literal translation of the Zohar.
לשון הרע is the defining paradigm of the need for גלות, clearly, and the מרגלים are the defining paradigm of לשון הרע. The special case of ריגול is expressed by Yosef in the need to hold on which allows a reconstruction of narrative, where all new facts are instantly aligned with the creation of a new history, the ultimate נכלי דתות which allows stealing, murder—all without the slightest personal hint of loss of integrity.

(MY) Our theme continues with the recognition that חומש במדבר is coming post בהר בחוקותי to deal with the personal intimate questions which come from transition of הר סיני into "normal" human life; having addressed the existential/intellectual challenges of הר סיני we come here to the individual challenges of individuals living in ישראל and the challenges that affect him – after going from the expansion of מחנה in מדבר into individual lives, after coming from last week’s understanding how one person is meant to live along the light of מנורה as dealing with nature not as a black hole in which one must take but as experiencing life as light and his own attraction and relationship to things – we come this week to the central theme of הבדלה בין יוצאי מצרים לנכנסים לארץ! That הבדלה is inextricably linked to the nature of לשון הרע itself – which in turn is inextricably linked to the מרגלים which gives new insights into what לשון הרע can lead to – what we explore here is how is it that לשון הרע is so central to the loss of freedom and יציאת מצרים and changeover into ארץ ישראל : how it is part of the very experience of ישראל and prevents that experience – not a logistical problem but definitive problem – and what the differences is between הבדלה arrived at through the loss of an entire generation and construction of new paradigm despite bitter resistance—and the way in which the תורה and human freedom is meant to function and the recognition that paradigms are the path to freedom and that questions are invariably answers! In attempting to answer questions you end up engaging in essentially לשון הרע – this is one of the most important and central themes of modern life in which are faced all the time with questions that confuse with the assumption that they are questions instead of solutions (*science?)
We therefore go into relationship of various themes: לתור את הארץ ולא תתורו, the connectedness of היש בה עץ and understanding of the damage of קוצץ בנטיעות , why the fruits of ארץ ישראל relate back to גן עדן, how ראשית ישראל is replaced with ראשית עריסותיכם—the other meaning of בשביל ישראל בשביל חלה שנקרא ראשית – the actual engagement in the earth its agriculture achievements and understanding how it is that the specific events in the פרשה and the relationships it has to not only the מרגלים but between the lines to נפילים – this becomes deeper artificial narratives histories and agendas that do not play a role in the תקוה של חוט השני.

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