[Avodah] Time and Emunah

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 9/19/07, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:57:51PM -0400, MPoppers at kayescholer.com wrote:
> :
> Philosphically, it's hard to explain why science works at all. Why the
> universe makes sense in a way our brains analyze things. Kant, Mach,
> and Einstein conclude that this is because we can't know or study the
> world as it really is -- we can only know how it seems to us given the
> structure human perception puts on things. Thus the world makes sense
> because the world we're studying is already through human concepts of
> "sense".
>
> Last, REED writes that the flow time is a perception created by the
> change in psyche caused by the eitz hada'as. And the minhagim about the
> length of aveilus etc... presume some sort of connection beetween the
> deceased and time even though no physics involved.
>
> It would seem that time is something the soul imposes on its perceptions,
> with a guf, and even without (under at least some conditions).
>
> GCT!
> -mi
>
> --
> Micha Berger
>

AIUI Micha is echoing classic thought:
Yeshayahu - Ki Lo machshevosai machshevoseichem
Also Rambam - eino Guf v'lo YSIGUHU MSIGGEI Haguf

It could be etz had'as or just the fact that we are material beings, either
way we cannot even think like HKBH,  Or to use some scientifc license we
cannot computer or calculate like HKBH - [lachasov can me to compute or to
account!]  I.E. WE perceive a flow of time that on an EMES level is not
quite an accurate picture...

Perhaps before eitz hada'as our Neshamos COULD be masig, and that aspet
could communicate to the amterial side
While afterward eitz hada's our material beings are now blocked from
"getting it."
-- 
it is also my firm belief that True Science and True Torah can never be in
conflict, t is our human limitations that perceive contradictions that are
not there and perhaps  during yemos hamashiach when Da'as Hashem kemayim
mechassim we will THEN be able to transcend these human limitations by an
infusion of Divine Enlightenment.  apropos to YK:
" Or Zaraua Latzadik...v'gomer"

Hashiveinu Hashem El;icha hadesh Yameinu K'kedem:
It is my firm understanding that when we yearn for teshuva we are not moving
FORWARD towards a future of Yyemos Hamshiach but back to the restopration of
  pre-eitz had'as innocence of Gan Eiden.  hence hadeish yameinu ke'kdem
refers to the Kedem of Eiden. so the flow of time might be circular in a way
and not a straight line at all. Moving forward towards Moshiach circles us
back to the beginning!



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