When the world surprises us, when we discover what works before understanding how, then our souls are liberated.
Yes, it is nice to know how and why. Then you can immerse your entire mind and heart into the matter.
But when there is surprise and wonder you are lifted out of the smallness of your world. You taste firsthand that there is a reality much bigger than your mind and heart.
This is the path of wonder by which the light of Torah enters our world. It is a path that takes an open mind, one ready for truths beyond itself.
As the people declared at Sinai, “We will do, and then we will understand.”
I don’t know if others will understand yet I’ve always said it’s because we are told we cannot see G-D and later sometimes years later you go oh yea wow that’s right and it’s of the higher thoughts and it has a lot of wonder and mystery you just know at that moment, and just as a afterthought many I have said I don’t this or that or I do this or that and then it changes theirs a definite duality at times and a reversal sometimes too