The headless head
By zevi770 · November 2, 2014
Long has man grappled with destiny
Tied into our preconceived notions based on our very limited ability to perceive what is limitless, convinced hence, beyond a shadow of a doubt, in the folly of anthropomorphization
The natural tendency to attribute human traits – albeit aggrandized in God –
Rather, we must let go of our ability to perceive, for that which can, does and did, form matter out of thin air; creates time when time never existed; space where no space was; living, breathing, discerning beings where no other actually ever existed; is obviously not limited by even our wildest imagination.
Hence to discern truth we must have it revealed by God-himself whose words spoke through our prophets to our Rebbes and here is the ultimate truth:
As our sages teach, there are three two thousand year time periods in the world, the first two thousand years are creation or alternatively called chaos, the second are Torah or shall we call it morality based on a supreme code and the third is redemption, which truly begins with the light of the Baal Shem Tov.
By discerning that which was revealed from the Baal Shem Tov, previously concealed, we see the light of redemption.
One of the fundamentals of the Baal Shem Tov, was the notion of hashgacha pratis – instead of the folly of anthropomorphization that the creator had primary and secondary concerns, he said, there isn’t even a worm at the bottom of the ocean (amazing he should know there were worms at the bottom of the ocean) whose every move, every breath, every life-cycle isn’t exactly determined by God’s hand.
This notion was revolutionary.
For in the anthropomorphization version of God it would make little sense that God should see to Mosses’s needs as the worms, but in the abstract truth that God is limitless then it would make no sense (nor is it scientifically / Kabbalistickly possible) that he doesn’t; for the nature of something unlimited, has no limits on his ability to supervise infinite beings.
But most importantly, obviously the world wasn’t created for the worm, but for you and me, hence the notion of hashgachah pratis in its purest design, is that all that we encounter, whether in sight or sound, even oftentimes thought (for God is just as readily available to our consciousness, though we are not conscious of it) is in fact the current growth step in our infinite growth steps.