Transcendent Light in Darkness
Tech Tribe Dispatch #220
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There are inexplicable moments… The High Holidays often feel like a tower, each moment built upon the next. The prayers of Elul, the shofar of Rosh Hashanah, the inner deep dive of Yom Kippur… Until we reach Simchat Torah, the most profound moments of Joy - where we embrace the Torah as it exists not in our mind, but wrapped and hidden in the essence of the Creator.
And with that moment comes profound tragedy. Deep darkness that the mind can not begin to comprehend. Acts of such inconceivable cruelty that the men and women tasked with preparing the dead for burial, for bringing final dignity to victims of terror, are suddenly at loss for words…
At the moment when the entire trajectory of our spiritual year should reach its brightest… darkness.
But there is power in the loss of understanding. Rationalizing evil is to give it permission to exist. Rationalizing loss is to put a limit on the profundity of the moment.
Our connection to our Source, as Jews, is through the prisim of the Torah and mitzvot. They are an expression of G-d’s desire, his existential divine reason. Since G-d and His desires are one, and G-d transcends limitations, so too His desires are infinite. This is why G-d’s desires can not be grasped by limited minds. Only through action can we connect on this essential level - this is the level of transcendent desire. These moments expose a deeper connection within us, allowing us to connect on the level of transcendent desire instead of rational desire.
We cry, we scream, we demand real good… but sometimes, in the darkness, we can hope to reveal greater light.
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