Eureka

 

 

Once in a while we get these aha moments

 

I have oftened wondered about the all-encompassing saying – “The first two thousand years are creation, the second are Torah, the third Moshach” – o.k., creation I understand, for it spans the era of creation, Torah I understand, for it spans the era of the giving and inculcating the Torah; however, how can we say the beginning of the most horrific exile is the beginning of redemption?! – however the Rebbe Rashab says, that that entire purpose of Torah (as our sages teach) is to refine us – But what needs to be refined? – The answer, our ego – So the Torah gives us non-understandable laws, be it kosher etc. – How does this refine us? The answer is, that when the mind does something it understands, it adds to our ego; when we do something out of obligation, it decreases – o.k. so here is the updated explanation:

 

The first two thousand years were necessary, in order to make man believe that he was a real entity – scarcely would a avatar in a computer, conscious that he is an avatar, deny the wishes of the programmer – But as we distanced ourselves from the point of creation, the more we thought, “We are the Creator!” (This of course led to unbridled selfishness, war, hence the world was filled with chaos) In the next two thousand years, mainly beginning with Abraham and of-course with giving of the Torah, God took one nation and said “I will make you a kingdom of Abrahams” – however, easier said than done! – for the Jews in ancient Israel were behaving as bad as the idolaters, filled with selfishness – so God put them under the fire, exiled to Persia – reduced of their glorious kingdom, humiliated, dispersed, he sent Haman to remind them, that they are but nothing; and when they realized they sinned, they then were ready to inculcate (as our sages say, they only accepted what they previously said they would in Persia) – However as mentioned, ironically the Torah is not the end goal – the Torah simply is to refine a person – now refining happens in two directions – the first is not to be evil (the outgrowth of ego, hence “entitled to my desires,” which obviously impedes on another’s) the second is, to take the egoless man, and make him into the messiah – Of-course every generation has a messiah (as we are taught) so Our messiah, the Rebbe, is the example of what the ideal person is, and far from only working on self-refining, he dedicated himself to the refinement of the entire world (not egotistically, but individual by individual.)