Our job is to keep Him engaged. When the Creator’s mind is engaged, our world comes alive. It resonates with His presence. Miracles happen. If we lose His interest, He acts as though He is not there, as though He is sleeping. Madness breaks loose.
He needs to see things that interest Him happening down here. Something more than an everyday world going about its everyday stuff. More than the patterns and rhythms of the nature He created. Even angels singing His praises all day can get tedious after a millennium or so.
But an earthly being doing a G‑dly act—now that’s something to wake up about.
Da Atex
new york
Staten Island, NY
All of Torah is for Man, and our perceived needs/desires/mitzvot is for our own sake. The Torah is a mirror from which we gaze upon our highest potential and at the center of it is the perfection of G-d.
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New York
As the Ramban says, The mitzvot are for OUR benefit - only!
Any expression of G-d having needs is a metaphor - "dibra Torah Bilashon Bnai Adam".
NYC, NY
Belleview, Florida
Yes, this is Ha- Erets! The first strong need. Where He desires to fathom the darkness and so generated light in His desire to know "the depths of the waters"--meaning consciousness, His own mind. And so the entire creation was born, so that His own mind will be known to Him. And so when a connection is made, a new creative event or creative thought He takes interest and light pours down. The usual, the mundane is all in G-d's lower realms, the natural world. It takes a bright luminary, a shift in mind, a breakthrough for miracles to happen. Because that is when G-d's spark ignites the mundane. This is how I understand it. Is it my active imagination or did I really get it?
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New York
Shoshana, I hear you, and it is inline with Isaiah. But very precious few people hear His world, and even fewer are receptive to it, even in the times of the Prophets, and at the time of Exodus. What about the rest of us? Are we of no iterest to Him? There seems to be some contradiction here...
NJ/USA