<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Eisen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davide@arnon.co.il">davide@arnon.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font color="#000066">On the one hand we stress that 10 yemei teshuva are days in which HQB"H is especially responsive to our prayers a la Yevamot 105a, yet in our tefillot we stress His transcendence and greater distance from us (e.g., le'eyla u'le'eyla,
HaMelekh HaQadosh, HaMelekh HaMishpat). Based on the above Gemara and the underlying pasuk in Yeshayahu of Hashem's particular closeness (b'hiyoto qarov), I would have expected our tefillot to express a special closeness to the Ribono Shel Olam instead of the
opposite. Any thoughts?</font></div></font></div></blockquote><div><br>By definition, if anyone changes in AYT it is us and not KBH, so if we experience a special closeness at this time it is because we have keveyachol come up towards him rather than he keveyachol coming down towards us. I would suggest that this "coming up", like climbing a mountain, causes a change in our perspective which makes us realize more fully both how high we have climbed and the infiniteness of the distance that continues to separate us.<br>
<br>I can't say that I have resolved the paradox, other than replacing it by a slightly different one, but it makes some sense to me this way at least.<br><br>GHT!<br></div></div><br></div>