The story is told that the Chossid Zalman Mosheh a great kabbalist / Chassidic genius once asked a fellow Kabbalist / Chassidic genius, Rabbi Kesselman for the definition of God’s infinity called atzmus in Kabbalistic / Chassidic terminology – well to define God’s infinity, you need to be either infinite, as it states, “to know God you must be God,” or you must be a fool, so Rabbi Kesselman was no fool, so though he had studied much in the sacred texts about God’s infinity, he refused to give a definition – but Zalman Mosheh was a great persuader, and twenty minutes later Rabbi Kesselman began to repeat what he had learned, to which Zalman Mosheh stopped him short and said “how can you think of defining God’s infinity!?”

In other words, there are paradigms and levels that we are so far removed from, that it is insane for us to define them; but we do have a simple accurate definition and that is, that it is unlike anything that we know! this is called yedias hashlilah, knowing what something isn’t, as opposed to what it is!

In other words, we can realize, and as the Rebbe said often, a good mind can understand the limitations of its own abilities and trust in something beyond it, which is how all scientists including Abraham, discovered God; not through a lack of knowledge, just through realizing that our knowledge cannot account for the miracles, hence, there must be an infinite God, beyond our knowledge!

But then again, we are meant to try to understand, as much about God, as we can!

As the Baal Shem Tov explains the verse “if only they would abandon me through wisdom” that a king with magical powers once invited people to get to know him – so some thought, oops, this guy is magical, how can we think of knowing what is beyond our realm?! so they abandoned the search, while others said – well if he wants us to get to know him, we will search to the limit of our feeble human abilities, and this is what God wants.

But perhaps far more significantly, God has given us in our generation – yes what we, you and I can discern about God – which would have been impossible even to the greatest mystics, for ultimately, the revelation of the wisdom of below in the year 1840 as predicted in the holy Zohar which is technology which gives us PARADIGMS TO UNDERSTAND GOD gives us certain “technological” examples which never before could man attempt to understand God’s infinity!

And here it is:

Simple but accurate!

I studied a bit of computer programming and of course run my own website, hence know web-design and the reality is, that there isn’t a single thing that you see on your computer screen, no matter how many times it works, which simply wasn’t programmed; not only that, as it was programmed, it can be unprogrammed, as is evidenced from viruses that can corrupt the files!

So if we want a good paradigm to understand God, simply think, that God is a, programmer!!!