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Knowing Hashem

GYE Corp. Monday, 30 January 2012

Someone writes:

I know that I have a partially warped image of G-d, and I am trying to figure out what a non-warped image of G-d would look like....


Dov responds:

My sponsor told me something funny once. He said that if he could change the Steps he'd make them read instead of "We made a decision to place our will and lives under the care of the G-d of our understanding," to "the G-d of our misunderstanding"! I think it's hilarious, and very true.

When Yirmiyah hanavi tells us that the ones who Hashem considers praiseworthy are those who "know Him", and refers to great people as "yod'ei Hashem", it seems to me that such a thing - to come to really know Hashem a bit - is probably nearer to the end of lifetime developing as a yid. It is not necessarily gonna be there at the beginning and is certainly not a prerequisite to true, deep, and joyous avodas Hashem for most yidden!

So we are relatively blind, quite stupid, and bumble through this upward climb called life, even as frum yidden. The road to shleimus is always a long struggle to draw nearer to our upper selves. And we are pretty blind to that, too! Boy, do we need Hashem down here! But that's the name of the game. To me, the only other choice is to be going in the completely wrong direction altogether! As Vince Lombardi would say, "winning isn't everything - it's the only thing." If this one's a slog, then any other path really sucks. So don't ask scotty to 'beam you up', just yet.