Year: 5772 - Yithro - audio

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Oscillations: Between a Rock and a Hard Place - The issue of Sinai was always עבודה בהר הזה and the שבועה לאברהם and therefore must be all about עבודה מאהבה and the terrors of love and loss, just as נדב ואביהו were a story of אהבה יתירה of הוסיפו אהבה על אהבה. The לא טוב לבדיך of יתרו and the לא טוב לבדו are thus intimately linked, and the solution for humanity is the primal nature of love that is embodied in sexual love, the only hope of the very מלאכי השרת who said מה אנוש = אנחנו מ"ה = תולה ארץ על בלימה who ultimately became the רפידים-נפילים who wanted more than anything the sexual love of בשגם הוא בשר and indeed saw that נשים could be had in any כלי בשר מכל אשר בחרו, which itself implied that they could have no primal connection. The play area between the אבן ספיר and the לוחות אבן on the one hand, and the שובו לכם לאהליכם on the other, is the ultimate answer to the מה אנו"ש כי תז"כרנו and includes all the whimsy of Moshe’s own answer: You are taking yourselves and Torah way too seriously, for to us it and the universe can exist only through play!
Play is the only way that he universe can exist as a quantum bubble, for it is essentialy a שעשוע which is the closest that לשון הקודש can come to “virtual” in that it is שע for שע itself, and this is אין לך דבר (אדם) שאין לו שעה. So too are all the forces that lead to what we experience as the forms taken by Being essentially the play engeged in by זכרות ונקבות (in the Zohar’s sense of יעקב איש וביתו where the same מלאך is a male on one level and the ביתו for the level above. The משחק עם לויתן is whimsical and therefore would be inappropriate if it were female…
Defining the nature of Yisrael identity, above and beyond the human identity defined in Besalach, just as all גירות is a search for new identity. This is the centrality of יתר"ו to סיני as רו"ת was central to Shavuot, both adding 606 to the שבע מצוות. The ongoing theme of כבדות and inertia, here transformed into a wave form, is a reflection of the חשמל and חיות רצוא ושב, for we too wanted דגלים.