Infinite Light

Because light is infinite, the Light of what we do here affects change to the universe in its entirety.




Dark darkens, it is as a body.

Light is infinite, it is as the soul. It knows no physical boundary.

At death, the body and soul separate. In life, the body is as a receptacle for Light.

How can this be that an infinite soul resides in a finite body? It is because Hashemites are as a dot in a palace.

By that I mean the dot is as wisdom, and the palace is as understanding.

It takes wisdom, which is craftiness, a variable dot of kindling to rise above to start building a palace. It takes understanding to know the materials and logistics necessary to construct a house for a king.

Yet, a king is greater than a dot. In fact, any being with a soul is greater than a dot. Doesn’t a king have people? Yes, he must. Doesn’t a king have an area of dominion? Yes, he must. Every human has a portion of dominion over creation (Genesis 1:26). Absolutely, a king is not confined to his palace. That infinite image of Gd is what we have been created in. It is an image that knows no bounds.

In honor of Rabbi Shammai who on Chanukah snuffed candles until the last day of the holiday: If Light traveled a distance; then it would have to travel infinitely just to get half the way. To get halfway, Light must travel a quarter of the way and yet light would have to travel infinitely to get a half of a quarter of the way. In this way, we see that no matter how far light travels, it travels infinitely. Even if Light travels the extra mile, it travels infinitely past the halfway mark, and so on.

So if light travels infinitely, why is there such a thing as the speed of light? It is because purer light travels faster through media of lesser densities. For example, light traveling through the air will travel faster than light travels through water. However, Hashem’s pure Light is infinite. There is no place anywhere that is completely devoid of Hashem. Even minerals have a portion of the light of Hashem, as we know most of what makes up matter is empty space.

DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) and Faith

In study of “Dialectical Behavioral Therapy,” I find that DBT is relevant to faithfulness.  DBT understands that our mind is a product of reason and emotions.  Where reason and emotions overlap, there is wisdom to be found.

Faith that comes from the gut, loving-kindness, causes our hearts to ache for those without faith, as victory comes to those with faith.

Faith may also be rational, connecting to the Mind.  Faith explains why some live blessed and why some don’t.  Undersized, malnourished children, with bellies full of worms, AIDS, and malaria; such persons are charged with having to respect their ancestors, even though their ancestors are to blame.  Torah explains this horror.

Yet, my reality is such that when I experience something good, I give thanks.  I thank Gd for not making me like the other man.  Time, reason, tells me my reality will unfold according to Hashem’s blessings, because as though I am puffed up, the righteous will live by my kind of faith (Habakkuk 2:4), both Jew and gentile.

3rd Criticism of Intelligent Design: It is not obvious that Gd is involved in creating us from nothing.

Yah is a spark of divine wisdom that creates the idea of the universe incomplete as if the universe is an idea in the mind of Gd, as we humans may create ideas without bounded form in our mind. For instance, the mathematical concept of infinity was created by a human. Elokim is as the vessel that is the body for the creativity, housing the divine image, making it conform to the rules of the universe.

An idea is as pure electricity. It is a bolt of lightning within the mind. It's body is exceedingly light in weight despite the power of the bolt. It has virtually no mass, and is almost completely Yah. An example of these bolts of lightning in our mind is that for example, Gd has given each of his holy ones an image of the Temple in Jerusalem.  We see this image in our minds eye because it has been given to us by Hashem.

Conversely, for every heavenly idea, and for every heavenly idea implemented there is a converse sefirot that would be ungodly ideas in the mind of Gd, and unGodly ideas, such as ideas of perhaps new ways to package pornography. These horrible ideas are also in the mind of Gd though these people are sinners. They must atone for their sins. Yet, Gd is tolerant of horrible ideas, ideas which are the converse of love in the heavenly spirit.

So, we see the tolerance of Gd negating Hashem's good and upright ways.  We wish he could speak to us before it is too late, or before we are to old.  Yet, so many of us have bought the ideas of false gods, especially in these times, the Christian gods (God the Son, God The Father, and God the Holy Spirit), as Jesus was certainly not Gd, and was a good teacher at best, but was most likely the anti-christ.

We wonder why can't Gd save all of us, and why can't we all go to heaven?  Wouldn't a loving G-d want that for us?  Yet, there is no escape from Hashem.  We can not escape him even in the grave, and this is because Gd must bring us to our lowest low before we are ready to accept His divine plan, which is the complete opposite as his plan for tolerance of sin.  The aim is that through presenting us with His maze, the universe, that we will all come to worship him and do good for the sake of Hashem, fearing him reverently.

2nd Criticism of Intelligent Design: It is not obvious that Gd is involved in creating us from nothing.

The universe has properties. Some of those properties, the ones that make sense on paper are constrictive. They do not make sense under the most extreme analysis. There are always impurities, and it is impossible to make something completely pure. When we call something pure it is because it has met standards, such that it is pure enough. This is where the Ayn Soph comes in. The Ayn Soph fills the gaps that are generated by Elokim's divine utterances and derivatives of the utterances which make up reality. Elokim is compeletely concealed, which explains why one may see logic or reason is all there is in the universe. We must learn that we do not have all the answers in the most concrete way, that then Elokim, meaning the constrictive aspects of the universe become apparent. Thus, the name Elokim describes that Gd is asociable with logic and reason, while the name Ayn Soph describes the exact opposite aspect of Gd.
What's more we need not believe that we shall run out of ideas due to the name of Gd, which describes Him as infinite creativity.  That name is Yah, and through immitation of His good and upright ways, we may tap into this creativity, in the same way that Aaron drew water from a rock.  Yah means that the Torah and its commentaries will never end, and that our knowledge of the universe will never cease to grow.  So, even though the universe is constricted, as Elokim is a name of Gd, it is also equally expansive as Yah is a name of Gd, and as above it is also equally impossible to purify religion into complete restriction, such as logic and reason, due to the name of Gd that is Ayn Soph.