yeridah: falling and gravity

Our Rabbis teach regarding the Merkava experience that it is reffered to as a 'yeridah', a going down. This may teach us that whenever we try and connect with HaShem on the highest levels, we experience a falling and not a rising. This explains why gravity causes a falling sensation: Whenever one moves towards HaShem one must only begin the movement, and then HaShem will bring you closer. The closer you get, the more HaShem will bring you closer. Gravity stems from a desire of matter to unite, to reach a state of closeness with HaShem. Just as HaShem is a singular unity, Gravity is an expression of a desire to reach 'singularity'. The more united, the more singular, an object composed of matter is, the stronger it's gravity becomes. When we approach any massive object, we are drawn towards it, just as HaShem draws us close when we approach him. Just as by the Ma'aseh Ha'Merkavah this is experienced as a fall or a drop, so to by those objects which are meer shadows of HaShem's unity.

just a little morning tidbit.. 
whichi may have touched upon before. 
but I (I hope 'we') will continue to examine simplicities that science takes as given, and understand precisely why they are so, through the teachings of our rabbis.

yitz..

Wed Oct 11, 2000 3:40 am