You know, what is his groove, his style!?

The truth is, we all have a style, a mannerism, and so to God!

Obviously, our style may be a mixture of nature and nurture, while God’s is chosen; however, the Kabbalah teaches (coupled with Talmudic wisdom) the following style:

Firstly, we must understand that everything that God does, happens in the Alef Beis Gimmel paradigm i.e. God has an intent – he creates a action, which leads to a result! – on a macro scale, God desires to dwell within man on earth, so he creates man, gives him the Torah and when man finally chooses to accept and do it, God dwells within man on earth!

But as God is infinite, the macro happens on a indefinite micro level, hence, we study, that the righteous people have no rest, neither in this world, nor the next (and certainly we will all be righteous people in the next – messianic age) which means God will continually be giving us new insights, which will create new growths/results, all the time!

However, even in this infinite growth paradigm, there is a mechanism, a style, to how God does things, which is, that God, as our sages teach, and the Rebbe brings down, speaks in generalities and specifics:

So, normally people would assume that God would be perfectly concise, because if you were instructing someone you would do that, but in fact there is a very important reason to be very broad, leading to a specific, and then again, very broad leading to a specific, for if you just teach people concise points, a little how we are taught secular science, in secular schools, you end up with a generation of people who have merely, memorized, not learnt anything!

If, however, you can, and do give people the broadest ideas, then, firstly you have given them a general direction in life, for example, the most important Mitzvah is, to love your fellow man as much as yourself, very broad; however, then it boils down to details: say, visiting the sick, in this sense; you inform a person, not only of a detail he obligingly follows, but you actually help him become Godly, in raising his intellectual understanding to that which is valuable and then leading him to fulfill the particular ramifications, as the saying in the 60s “think global, act local.”

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