I know a guy who’s a dreamer.
He’s always coming up with a new idea that is interesting but crazy at the same time. He’s a nice guy (usually), but (almost always) out of touch with reality.
He’s always coming up with a new idea that is interesting but crazy at the same time. He’s a nice guy (usually), but (almost always) out of touch with reality.
Is the dreamer someone lacking intelligence, allowing his imagination to take over, or is he someone who can go deeper then reason, to try, and sometimes succeed, to make connections that no one has made before, to connect two seemingly opposing ideas, and to innovate beyond any expectation?
We live in a dream.
We live in a reality in which opposing truths can coexist. Where one can love Hashem in one moment and love the world a moment later. Is that a good place to be in? Does that mean that the love of Hashem is just an illusion?
One must understand, answers the alter Rebbe, that looking from our perspective this reality is indeed contradictory. However, in it’s spiritual source, there is no contradiction at all; because, in truth, the world and Holiness are, not opposites but, one and the same, both expressing the greatness of Hashem.
We are frustrated because, in our mind, we are like the dreamer who does not realize that he is simultaneously entertaining two ideas that cannot coexist. Yet, in truth, we are not living a contradiction. In truth, we are the dreamers who can reach deeper then the perceived truths, we are the dreamers who are not afraid of apparent contradiction, and we are the dreamers who look at the world and see it for what it really is: an expression of Hashem.
(Based on Torah Or Parshas Vayeshev, D”H Shir Hmaalos... Hayinu Ki’cholmim).
