[Avodah] mashiach/hesech hadaas

[Lisa Liel]

On 7/21/2011 2:32 PM, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
> <http://geulahperspectives.blogspot.com/2011/07/explanation.html>

>> excerpt--- When we evaluate events and say that they are Moshiach's
>> advent - we are limiting the events and preventing Moshiach from coming!
>> When I look at the calendar dates and I point out all of that which is
>> going on - I am limiting - entering into a world of da'as. Da'as is
>> synonymous with evil and separation - it is the loss of the greater
>> holistic world of Keser where everything - even opposites - lives in
>> harmony. *The Moshiach blogs actually serve to prevent Moshiach from
>> coming.* My discussions of Moshiach prevent him from coming.

> any feeling about this issue? i think i saw recently from maybe the
> chiddushei harim, that if one thinks that only because of his lack of
> hesech hadaas is moshiach not coming, that alone is the hesech hadaas....

I posted a reply there, but all replies are moderated.

I think the dichotomy of keter and daat is analogous in some ways to
the Schroedinger's Cat interpretation of quantum physics, where things
exist in a cloud of probabilities (and possibilities) until observed,
whereupon the waveform collapses and one outcome results.

My problem with Ari's argument is that I don't think any one of us
constitutes an observer in the sense he's talking about. Maybe Klal
Yisrael as a whole, but if any individual could prevent Mashiach by
wondering if X and Y are indications that we are approaching his time...
well, that just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Lisa