The final frontier, the apex, the point that there is no further point, ultimately, the redemption, the destination, the goal of humanity!

 

For thousands of years humanity struggled in darkness!

 

However, beneath the technicalities of Judaism lies a simple, simple, simple; difficult, difficult, difficult; practice, which is the very raison d’être of humanity! of creation! the purpose for which God made you!!!

 

It goes like this:

 

Humanity has a few contradictory elements which need to be incorporated in order for life to be perfect.

 

These are, amongst others, serenity, as well as constant growth; which seem to be in contradiction to one another; for to be serene, we think of relaxing on a beach, while to be productive we think of a sense of anxiety, stress, of compulsion, eliminating the serenity, tranquility and calmness inherit to peace.

 

So how to achieve both is the ideal for which God has led us, and which is the messianic state!

 

The way is not simple, it is fraught with doubt and confusion, for nothing, nothing, but nothing, does the Yetzer Hara desire more, then we should not discover, be certain, and implement this route!

 

But ultimately, the Yetzer Hara himself is also part of this process, for in his every seed of doubt, becomes a seed of determination; in his every yang we get a ying; eventually culminating in absolute certainty that the way, is the ideal, is the redemption, and a heck of a lot better than the exile!

 

So what is this way?

 

In Judaism, the highest level, the level of our holy forefathers and foremothers, prophets and Rebbes was this way.

 

It is called becoming the merkavah, the instrument of God’s will!

 

Effectively, the problem with simply doing good, which seems to be quite a good thing, is that the ego takes credit; so we on one hand need a new paradigm, in which we can a. be productive / do good, and at the same time; be humble, feel like the good we do, was really God’s doing, not ours!

 

What’s so bad about taking credit you may wonder? Simple; ego = delusion = expectations = disappointment = anger = resentment = destructiveness; and this is how all the evil in the world has been created.

 

O.k. settled that one, so how does one become a merkavah?!

 

Ultimately, it is not up to you!

 

You see, for you to work for the king, the king needs to want you to work for him; as pretty much any job, in any company!

 

Ultimately, though I don’t know this, but I think this is correct – it is only after we have fully disassociated, regurgitated and in fact become repulsed by the meaninglessness, the emptiness and the existential loneliness of our modern secular materialistic culture, does this occur – and when it does, when as Oprah says, “My goal in life is to be true to the voice of God within me, for me” – it is clearer than day, stronger than conviction, more true than truth!

 

And this is how the opposites unite, for when you do good because God tells you to, you cannot take credit! and it is precisely this tranquility, of being subservient, of not being in charge, that both provides peace and egoless productivity!