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Hint: To properly appreciate this essay, explore the links. They add another dimension into the message Shai wanted to convey.
The foundation of all foundations and the pillar of all wisdom is to know that there is a Primary Existence, who brings into being all existence.
(Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Foundation of the Torah, ch. 1:1*)
We see reality through the goggles of our ego. We are the anchor that drags behind our intellect, and that constricts the horizon of our imagination.
And the alternative? To approach reality as raw experience? To choose our restrictions?
What about diminishing ourselves before a sublime perspective, and then submitting our perspective to that impossible Aleph?
*יְסוֹד הַיְסוֹדוֹת וְעַמּוּד הַחָכְמוֹת לֵידַע שֶׁיֵּשׁ שָׁם מָצוּי רִאשׁוֹן. וְהוּא מַמְצִיא כָּל נִמְצָא. וְכָל הַנִּמְצָאִים מִשָּׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ וּמַה שֶּׁבֵּינֵיהֶם לֹא נִמְצְאוּ אֶלָּא מֵאֲמִתַּת הִמָּצְאוֹ:
