An infinite story
By zevi770 · July 15, 2012
What’s the story?
“Hey, what’s the story?”
What do we mean by that question?
You see, we want to know the story behind the story.
In other words:
Sure I can see you, but what’s the story man!
How are you?
Or I see an organization – I only see what the eye can tell me, which isn’t much; so we all want to know the story!
What’s the story of life? is a question many people have been asking for millennia.
There are about as many answers as there are nations, cultures, etc.
However here is the story according to Judaism, i.e. Jewish mysticism.
Number 1. we must understand that what we see is not the story! if it is/was, then who made it?
So obviously there is a prime cause!
But where even monotheistic religions fail in their understanding of the prime cause, is they anthropomorphize.
What does that mean?
It is simple – it simply means that as man cannot fathom beyond what man can experience or relate to, so we attribute the greatest human qualities to the non-human, non-corporeal, non-physical prime cause.
So we need to have an interface whereby we can understand God without interfering it with our best qualities.
This is where Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism comes in, for it is part of the wisdom of God enshriened in the Bible but not evident in it, as it is the soid, the secret part to Judaism studied only by the greatest masters and only revealed to the masses in the form of Chassidus in the past 300 years from the times of the Baal Shem Tov.
So the story according to Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, obviously the precursor of Judaism is this:
The singular God has no need, but had a desire to create you, and you unite with him through listening to his commandments, saying or studying the words of Torah, (the Bible and all genuine authoritative commentaries which were in the tradition of the Torah written with Divinely inspired pens) – of course Judaism boils down to “Love your friend as much as yourself “ e.g. do acts of goodness and kindness!
So that the story.