If the diversity of the human world was meant to create a great symphony, why are we making such ugly noise?
The fabric of our world, the Holy Ari taught, was preceded by a world the Torah calls Tohu.
Tohu was a world of perfection—of perfect division and absolute definition. In Tohu, Kindness left no room for Justice, and Justice had no use for Kindness. Each ideal stood on its own, with infinite potential to be itself and zero tolerance for anything else.
And so it shattered. And its fragments became the fabric of this world.
Every divisive quarrel, every unresolved dispute, is another artifact of the failure of Tohu.
When strong, diverse minds and intense, opposing personalities work in harmony to generate works of beauty and wisdom of lasting value, they are building a new world, the world G‑d left for us to finish off, a world of Tikun. A world as it was truly meant to be.
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