From me,
Not really the same colour as you.
There is a potent danger which I mostly leave unstated – due to seeming irrelevance to most – but which I hope I can articulate by imagining you as my audience.
Bullet points thinking:
- Moshe unites oil into menorah that is tended by Aaron’s offspring
- Teruma and ma’aser etc (?) allow am ha’aretz to unite with cohanim etc
- This transaction is determined by aptness (e.g. kedusha vs tuma)
- Which is seen e.g. in netilat yadaim (even today when the bread is no longer expected to be tithed, and thus not really-the-same danger, but d’rabanan jic)
- Or like menstrual checking after the marriage, even though always loves his wife
First, let us start on a false foot:
If I were like you, it would be hard (for many) to hear what I said.
And a less false foot:
I think that you’re doing it right (i.e. and I’m not, except by saying that I’m not), nonetheless
(i.e. not because of being right)
I think I have imaginings that can inspire your kavanot.
Isn’t it amazing that such different worlds and experiences can unite around a single belief in the divine reception of the Torah?
I and you are alike only by filtering the plurality of our daily minutia and panorama into a strawman who speaks Hebrew and announces Shema. I think our similarity should be a spur for admiring what is grander: our differences.
But what if our differences threaten the integrity of our common heritage? – namely the inviolable nature of infinitely traditional truths –
then how will either one of us detect any dangerous poison (when infatuated by each other’s perfume)?
These are discussions which would keep us awake all night, delighting in theoretical machinations and logical derivations and counter-refutations.
However, in a shorter time, allow me
this assumption
(and if you don’t, I acknowledge the [possible] invalidity of consequent proofs):
Israel is one nation, and their unity is defined by having/receiving one Torah.
If so, then
Apriori, any pathway which iterates urgently (aka primary ethos)
towards chasidut and avoda etc (Torah), is a valid pathway
(insofar as being one nation,
but it can be invalid insofar as it pretends to lead to Torah but actually leads to something dis-unified
cf. shabbatai tzvi encouraging Torah learning …)
If so, then
How do you know whether my pathways are honest?
My answer:
(1) If ish ploni doesn’t know the difference between two pathways, and is only using them as ladders to become more competent at ascending the mountain of Torah, then either viable pathway is eligibly good
(2) If ploni is seeking an understanding of their relationship with the Torah, then another’s pathways are not presumed innocent without presuming them to be tzaddik gamur (maspik) (i.e. that is an invalid defence)
[What if one suspects prophetic intervention? If then, one should still think for themselves, like in the Talmud when the bat kol says, “My children have beaten me” (by over-ruling God, according to their own majority opinions in the face of miracles)]
But if so
Does this discussion mean to chase-away those with honed intentions? (You)
No, rather I see it as an acknowledgement that
there is no One True Path to Torah (et al), except each person’s own path
and an acknowledgement that
I seek to inspire you, not inform you.
How could I presume to inspire you, for example?
Blood on sheets:
Since you have wondered whether I am fruitful, therefore you are acknowledging that I proceed through various creative states, and that some of these states are indicative of “resetting/wasting potential” and that this is not a simple thing always, since it can be by fractions.
Therefore
I hope to inspire you to use your own wisdom to test
my own claims at wisdom
viz. a wisdom for seeing your wisdom.
I think the south side is like the conservative side
http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/2603059/jewish/Light-and-Unity.htm
