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The London Controversy
One November Shabbat afternoon in 1703, Rabbi Nieto stood on the podium in the grand Bevis Marks Synagogue and addressed the congregation. “There is no such thing as nature,” he lectured them. “The word simply does not exist in the Hebrew language.”
Isifiying them is one thing. Investisizing within them is another. Both—that‘s just divine!
It’s one thing to create creatures out of nothing. It’s another to investisize yourself within them. And doing both at the same time--well, that’s just divine.
G‑d and G‑dliness
There is none else but G‑d, but nevertheless, not all is G‑dly.
How can we as individuals forge a relationship with G-d in His all encompassing reality? An adapted discourse of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
What’s a conscious being like me doing in a cold universe like this?
It is the height of human audacity to assume that we are fantastic instances of consciousness that have somehow emerged out of a dumb universe—much like the teenager who can’t understand how such a bright guy like me came from parents who have no brains.
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