The holy book of Sefer Yetzirah teaches us to “innovate with understanding, and understand with innovation.”

These are two separate pieces of an important combination.

Innovation is like your image of your dream house.

It may take but a second to have this fantasy.

But to turn any fantasy into a reality you need details.

Now it is fun to innovate, for in a sense the brain distinguishes little between fantasy and reality (in terms of the pleasure you receive from the image) but in the end of the day your fantasy will only last as you fantasize, while reality will exist even when you are not fantasizing about it.

Men are given the gift of chochmah innovation, that’s why most inventors are men; women are given the gift of binah that’s why women’s brains connect the left and right regions, namely, the regions of fantasy and reality (which is why they have a much harder time ignoring reality, say switching off from their tasks, and why they appreciate so much help with doing the dishes, for what is perhaps an irritant to a man, is a fully blown obligation to a woman.)

The point here is this, my uncle Rabbi Levy Wineberg taught me that sometimes – often in the gentile world – we get so caught up with the mechanism that we forget about the goal.

Picture New York, a city that has skyscrapers, businesses etc. etc., everything the body needs is there, except for happiness!

For happiness is the end goal, but we are so busy creating the mechanisms for “success,” that our definition of success is actually a failure.