Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Yesh and Ayin Paradox

I had a thought today. This is really deep so try to follow me if you can here:

This world is all Yesh - something. Yesh kesef? (do you have money?) yesh dira? (do you have an apartment?) yesh avoda? (do you have work?) Everywhere - yesh, yesh, yesh. We fill our lives with all this yesh - and yet, really what is it? It is ein - it's nothing. It doesn't last, we can't take it with us, and without an infusion of the spiritual, it really is ein - nothing.

Truly, the only "yesh" that really is "yesh" is Hashem. Hashem is everywhere, speaks every language, is in everything and is the driving force behind everything that ever was, is or will be.

And yet, what is Hashem? Ein. Ein sof. Hashem is in everything but He is in nothing. At the highest, highest level of existence, you get to the Ein Sof - which is the nothing that is everything. Hashem is ein od milvado (from the Torah portion 2 weeks ago) - there is nothing besides Him - but even in that phrase, He is ein.

This world is the yesh that is ein. Hashem is the ein that is yesh.

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