G-d is big enough to be a personal G-d to every person, He is not limited through general instructions as a CEO would be
By zevi770 · January 19, 2012
You see, our entire paradigm of life is based on what we perceive.
Obviously, we cannot perceive what we cannot see, understand etc.
The rule is, that this is no different from Mario in Mario Brothers trying to understand reality; for he is but a tiny preprogrammed little character in a computer, when there is an entire reality, that exists outside the computer.
We, like Mario, can only see hints from within our world interpreted outside of our world, to what G-d must be.
This is called anthropomorphization.
The trouble with anthropomorphization is, that we need a paradigm, a reality to compare G-d to which is different from us, for we are no different from Mario, preprogrammed with limited abilities, we can see, think etc. but what we are thinking about is based on what we see.
We cannot get our heads outside of the reality we live in!
To help us out, God has created modern technology.
The universe today is the perfect place to understand God (in fact the Zohar predicted this, stating that in the year 1840 (sixth hundred year of the sixth millennia, which corresponds to 1840) God will open the floodgate of the wisdom of above – Chassidus that explains reality – and the floodgates of the wisdom of below, science that brought about technology and the two will converge in anticipation of the coming of the Messiah.)
The two already have converged for everything that Chassidus – Divine revelation – teaches us about G-d, is in equal measure precisely revealed through modern technology.
For example, Chassidus teaches us that a. G-d is unknowable, b. undefinable; hence the closest we can compare this to is the Cloud; what’s the Cloud you may wonder? The Cloud is the internet, cyberspace – if you were to take all the “matter” that exists on the internet, the googelians amount of pages (just compare Wikipedia, a single website to Encyclopedia Britannica) so we are dealing with such colossal amounts of information that if you were to put it on paper it would literally reach from here to the moon, and yet how much does it all weigh, being in the cloud form – well less than a paperclip!
So here we understand that there is something that we cannot see, nor touch yet is just as real and in fact a million times more accessible, productive, readable etc. then Encyclopedia Britannica.
Another good example is that Chassidus teaches us that everything boils down to good deeds, for G-d is unlimited, hence He need not be reached in the clouds, rather He is primarily accessed through turning something physical say money, into something meaningful i.e. Charity.
Now this is very hard for people to get, for if G-d is beyond reality e.g. Cyberspace, how can he be in reality at the same time, but isn’t that exactly the same as a physical computer made up of materials from the ground, yet it can be totally a medium for allowing information – all that infinite information to be presented in a physical property.
The ultimate quest of course is for God himself and this too Chassidus teaches us that the physical is spiritual, that matter is energy, that in the future as we comprehend this better and better, the soul will draw energy from the body, meaning we will realize that the physical universe is the essence of God concealed today revealed tomorrow.
Again this would be practically impossible to understand if not for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, that shows us that matter is energy and as the physicists probe deeper, they realize that everything is a constant miracle, for matter is literary popping in and out of existence, reacting to you every time you look at it, gets effected by your positive or negative attitude, which basically transforms it out of matter and into God himself, which as the Rebbe / Kabbalah teaches, is so humble that He allows us to dictate his emotions just like a parent allows their child who they adore, to determine their own happiness, based on their child’s happiness.
Now we literally understand a new God – in other words, not a God who needs to be limited like us, rather a God whom like a computer, can be the mainframe for an infinite amount of computers, like google, and react instantaneously (in less then .02 seconds) to all requests – ultimately we come to a realization of what exists outside of our limitations.