Inspired from many-a-question and many-an-awesome-shiur:
Infinity is complicated. We can describe it, but by doing so, we remove the unending indescribable essence of what we sought to understand. There are different kinds of infinity. A line is infinite in its own kind, but a plane is even more infinite. G-d is all kind of infinity. Unending and indescribable, G-d is infinite hope, love, power, existence, etc. G-d is everything כל. As Spinoza says, G-d is in everything, but G-d also transcends everything. As humans, we are limited in what we can understand. What Heschel calls “radical amazement” is our glimpse into G-d’s infinite nature. We are all Talmidei Chachamim: we are all searching for some kind of meaning or engaging in some element of epistemology. The desire and search for G-d is an infinite and impossible pursuit of peace. Truth and peace, two elements of G-d that we desire are beyond our understanding but are intrinsically part of us. Our partnership with G-d opens up the possibility of the infinite within us. Belief transcends the physical. This is the infinite human trait. G-d and humanity are united through belief and peace. Rav Kook says that the blessing of peace unites all opposites. There is peace in the unification and fusion of the infinite and the finite.
Monday, October 27, 2008
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