[Avodah] Rosh Hashanah 32b There's Hope For Everyone

[Micha Berger]

I recently wrote a series of blog entries on this. See
<http://www.aishdas.org/asp/category/geulah>
"Torah is not being described as Truth. Rather, it is the seed and
process from which Truth blossoms."

Pesaq is a system of defining law, not discovering truth. The purpose of
that law is to bring the people to truth; it reflects our route to Truth,
not Truth itself.

>From <http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/04/geulah.shtml>:
>> R. Shimon said: When the Holy One, blessed be He [ -- HQBH], came to
>> create Adam, the ministering angels formed themselves into groups and
>> parties. Some said, "Let him be created," while others urged, "Let him not
>> be created." Thus it is written, " ח??ס?ד?ו?א?מ??ת נ?פ?ג???ש?ו?, צ??ד?ק
>> ו?ש??ל?ו?ם נ?ש???קו?? -- Love and Truth fought together, Righteousness
>> and Peace kissed each other." [Tehillim 85:11] Love said, "Let him be
>> created, because he will dispense acts of love"; Truth said, "Let him not
>> be created, because he is compounded of falsehood"; Righteousness said,
>> "Let him be created, because he will perform righteous deeds"; Peace said,
>> "Let him not be created because he is full of strife." What did Hashem
>> do? He took Truth and cast it to the ground. Said the ministering angels
>> before HQBH, "Sovereign of the Universe! Why do You despise Your seal? Let
>> Truth arise from the earth!" As it is written [in the continuing words],
>> "א??מ?ת מ?א??ר?ץ ת??צ?מ??ח -- Let truth bloom up from the earth." [v. 12]
> -Bereishis Rabba 8:5

> Man was created with Hashem's knowledge that with the existence of
> free-willed beings, Truth would be submerged and have to emerge over
> time through the process we call history.

> The Qetzos haChoshen has a beautiful comment on this medrash. He noted
> that here truth is described as tatzmiach, blooming. When we make
> the berakhah after an aliyah, we say "vechayei olam nata besocheinu --
> eternal life [or perhaps: life of the world{-to-come}] was planted within
> us." The Qetzos explains: Torah is the seed from which our medrash
> tell us Truth blooms.
...
> There is an interesting implication here. (The startling element is not
> in my embellishments, but in the original Qetzos.) Torah is not being
> described as Truth. Rather, it is the seed and process from which Truth
> blossoms.
...
> It is possible to say that history is the process of closing the gap
> between Truth in its full richness, and Torah as our ability to make
> it manifest. Or, as the mequbalim would say, "Lesheim yichud Qudshah
> berikh Hu uShechintei -- For the sake of the unity of the Holy" -- i.e.
> Remote -- "one and His Presence" -- i.e. as we Perceive her amongst us.

And from
<http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/05/geulah-and-halachic-process.shtml>:
> In light of the idea we're currently developing, we can say as follows.
> Rav Eliezer may have even been closer to Emes than the final ruling was.
> But the purpose of halakhah isn't directly to obtain the Truth. It's
> to make the Truth bloom within us and be manifest in the world. Thus,
> the essence is our working the process. And thus, by implementing it,
> "nitzchuni banai!"

That category has 4 posts in all. I'm only giving the most relevent
portions, and much is lost without context.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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