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Physicality and spirituality are observer-related.

the sukkah can be seen as removing the physicality from the self, and making oneself entirely spiritual.. or as investing oneself in physical acts in order to reach the spiritual. The reverse of both of these can be said about pesach.

attraction is spiritual -- seeking unity. 
repulsion is physical -- seeking individuality.

potential is spiritual -- unity of all possible worlds.
actuality is physical -- limiting to one specific world.

giving is spiritual -- ahava -- by giving all to all we unite.
taking is physical -- soneh -- by taking from all for me, i cut off.

quantum mechanics expresses the natural way of motion from spiritual to physical and back again. [light and hence waves have many simultaneous outcomes and solutions, whereas matter (hence particles) have a singular solution to a problem.]

action is relative -- it can unite or separate.
observation is relative -- it can unite or separate.

if every aspect of haShem (ie. creation) began to give in every way to every other aspect of HaShem, we would cease to be individual, and would result in the end of creation. This is how action/mitzwoth can actually lead to unity even when the action itself must acknowledge separation.

how could the only way to bring the Moshiach be through something unifying on a seemingly impossible level?[keeping two shabbatoth] Obviously haShem doesn't give us any test we don't have the potential to overcome, so what is the answer? how do we do it? perhaps the moshiach comes (for the worse) when the potential to bring him (for the better) is entirely gone ? 

taharah is potential -- w'tahar -- (she became pure/she concieved) this is the moment when the child may still be almost anything.
tumah is actual -- w'taled -- (she gave birth) taled is dalet backwards, she already passed through the door from potential to actual. and we know that after birth there is the dead afterbirth as well as a period of tumah.

the taivah of noah placed all of the actuality within a womb once more, creating a physical actuality around it, and allowing it to return to a great level of potential (all put in one small place), this raised the spiritual level to such an extent, that the world could be remade; and that is what the flood did.

avraham - avdecha - melech
yitzhak - akedecha - elokim
yaacov - b'chorecha - av

Wed Nov 1, 2000 6:00 am