311. Understanding Wonder

This explains Deut.29:29 in simple terms, if my memory is correct.

Do you understand? Or do you merely think you understand?

I would not have grasped this at all except for having had the opportunity to hear Rabbi Goldman (Chabad - OKC) teach on the 3 levels of mitzvot at Jewish University.

The first level is commandment which is easily understood.

The second level is not so easily understood, but can be grasped, given enough time and study.

The third level is totally illogical and makes no sense to the human mind at all, with exception of King Solomon, who understood all the mitzvot except one - the Red Heifer.

Rabbi Goldman's lesson rekindled the desire to study whether I grasp everything or not.

Try to calculate pi then when sufficient calculation has occured and you tire and give up look back in awe of what was understood and forward in awe of what is yet to be revealed. Just a thought besides if we didn't understand anything we would be like a tree or a rock I suppose.

A mitzvah of a Jewish person (or any person for that matter, Jewish or not) is, according to Kabbalah, an expression of one universal purpose-to release the sparks trapped in darkness at the moment of creation. Which to me, means (in part, as in maybe a very small part) to know the knowledge that has been shrouded in mystery.

It is very possible that in time, man will have answers to the current quantum puzzles. It is very possible that these answers(as science is proving ever so slowly)ARE in the Torah. The same Torah that gave you the mitzvot.

All 613 Jewish mitzvot is a lot compared to the 7 Laws of Noah.

But:

613 divided by 7 is : 87.571429. when added together equal 43. 4+3= 7. So 613 is really 7.

613 when added together is 10, the number of the Ten Emanations of G-d. The 10 that are really 7.

It's like dissecting the brain, it's got all these parts but essentially it really is one gigantic but very intricate neuron.

Though a neuron cannot hold the memories of the entire brain, it can essentially store a memory.

I understand at least this much from what the Rabbi said: We are made in His image and likeness.

I am at a loss to understand my place in life. But I dont think that it necessary to understand. Just to be grateful!

Were talking about stuff that quantum physicists have not even begun to comprehend...its way past any limits they've scrambled for like that it is impossible for there to be opposites existing in the same time in stable condition!!! But Rabbi Freeman is not speaking about what is possible he is speaking about happens on a daily basis every time a Jewish person does a mitzvah.

what a mensch. what a zeyda ;)

I so agree with what you are saying.
Even in mathematics, the size is irrelevant to dimensions. Sometimes I think our small brain is a microcosm of the infinite Mind of G-d. Just like a neuron is a microcosm of the entire brain.

Hi, Rabbi Freeman,
I so much liked,what you wrote, the words of the Rebbe you choose.
It - on the first glance - seems impossible to grasp what our Creator really is, impossible to understand His wisdom.
I wonder most about the possibility that there can be a loving relationship.
Shabbat Shalom!