Rabbi Menachem Nahum Twersky of Chornobyl said: “All being is itself derived from God and the presence of the Creator is in each created thing.” Rabbi Aaron Ha-Levi Horowitz of Staroselye said: “All created things in the world are hidden within His essence.” He explained that where we humans see people and things, God sees only Godself: the same reality but our perspective differs from God’s. Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (“Ramchal”) and Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, among others, further suggested that the messianic age will come when humanity overcomes the illusion that the transitory individual self is discrete and comes to see, from God’s perspective, that all is God. And Martin Buber said in I and Thou: “To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.” Buber also wrote about how Rabbi Barukh’s grandson Yehiel, playing hide-and-go-seek, hid himself so well that the other children could not find him. After a while he came out from his hiding place and found the the others had gone home. He ran to his grandfather, in tears because his friends had given up the search so quickly. With tears in his own eyes Rabbi Barukh said, “God says the same thing: ‘I hide, but no one wants to seek me.’”
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:42:22 +0000
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