Year: 5778 - Shofetim - summary audio

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Consilience for an Irrational Species - “Consilience for an Irrational Species”:
Structures: social structures—מלך, כהן משיח, נביא, שרי צבא, בית דין הגדול, בית דין בכל פלך, שוטרים, משוח מלחמה, לוי כמוסד, כהן מאת העם, ערי מקלט, relationship to ירושת הארץ and to צפית לישועה ומשיח ומל ה' את לבבך. Contrasting total reality with percentage correlation which means no matrix, no true scientific explanation, no duplicable experiment. The 99.999% not being meaningful is the essence of the solution to דיי"ן האמת ונתתי ידידות נפשי בכף אויביה and the אשרי אדם מפחד תמיד ומקשה לבו יפול ברע"ה - the opposite of the תמימי דרך and the discovery of the true place for Adam’s איכה which is not to hide in imagination but to search for consilience. This is the יסוד החסידות ושורש העבודה התמימה and the הרי הוא כבעל מום שאין עבודתו נרצית כלל of the מסילות ישרים.
Anticipation of the predilection for failure is central to all the elements of the parasha, שופטים ושוטרים וערי מקלט along with the profound presentation of the vulnerabilities of a species which can lay no claim to rationality, a surprising clarity in a world that fearlessly proclaims itself to be post-truth and post-facts, knowing itself to be imprisoned within perceptions foisted upon individuals by the survival requisites which can just as easily grow you antlers way too big to carry around! Imagine four different psychological responses in warfare, based on the trumpeting of elephants, the terror of the stampede, or any of the other evolutionary tricks that were used in competition; imagine the relationship of the חכם מכל אדם to the subconscious development of מלכות in a social species that would allow a psychological connection to מצרים as one of the primary evolutionary constructs, along with those shown to Daniel in a primal Monster Show, the Ultimate Here Be Monsters, the primal אימה חשיכה גדולה מופלת which are the terrors of a species gone amok and not just of children frightened of the monsters under the bed, the ששם גבורים סביב לו מפחד בלילות, the שדים who terrified Shelomo-אשמדאי מלכא . The primitiveness of a human who mistakes מלכות for the one who has the women and can make peace by taking daughters, or the one who has lots of money! The incredible vision of the roads of ערי מקלט that are actually a roadmap of the primitive mind. The most powerful is the לא תקח שוחד where a speck of dust can be יעור עיני חכמים ויסלף דברי צדיקים, despite them being the חכם מכל אדם and in the מקום אשר יבחר יראה-יראה continued from the פתוחה חג הסוכות of last week, nonetheless פסילנא לך לדינא. Makes about as much sense as growing big antlers and using horny for lust, for you are a big bull; the היטיבו כל אשר דברו according to the Rambam’s amazing approach of hearing in your words the need for a Navi to help you face the terrors of an unknown future or find your car keys; recognizing the weak correlation of our justice based on שני עדים with any reality just as we rely on the same חזקה to believe the Navi; fears of עגמת נפש or just terror, the need for מקרב אחיך as indicative of the relationship of genetic evolution to the social evolution. The absurd list of אביזריה דעבודת כוכבים which is all primitive minds and projections like those antlers and the teenagers are convinced that it is “Moooooo cooool” !
Forget about understanding statistics or any facts that might force you to be free and carry around responsibility. This parasha connects reality to response-ability in the deepest sense, whether ידינו לא שפכו to אמותיהם של כהנים גדולים to ערי מקלט אם to בית דין מתקן את הדרכים. דם כל ישראל on the shoulders of the one who fears the war, the insanity of fighting the very trees that give you life in the מלחמה for the ישועת העולם, as nonsensical an idea as the sarcasm in לא תטע לך אשירה or even any wood at all אצל מזבח ה' which is the search for ממקום כפרתו וברייתו.
The only solution is the amazing consilience between all the matrices in the parasha which תמים תהיה insists upon, just as the entire התהלך לפני והיה תמים is the מסילות בלבבו של אברהם מסילת ישרים, the תורת השם תמימה והמו"ר תמים פעליו, the understanding of the nature of your own evolution and its relationship to the animals and the evolution of the earth and the מקום אשר יבחר ה', its connection to your vision of the evolution of your society and its intricate connection to those very pathways, from the neural to the road system, to the מסילות בלבבם which is the vision of society as ישועות which is צפית לישועה and the relationship to הורו בית דין and זקן ממרא וקרבן פר העלם דבר ופר כהן משיח ומחלוקת במשוח מלחמה ונשיא