During the great spectacle
of the Sinai experience, the Torah says; “And the people saw the thunder and
flames...and Moshe entered the cloud where G-d was.”[1]
The Kotzker Rebbe explains
that there are two very different ways of experiencing Judaism.
One is on a popularist and
social level where one is drawn towards all the trappings and constructs of superficiality.
This is where the ‘people’ miss the essential and see only the ‘thunder and flames’ – the external show of sound and light.
This is where the ‘people’ miss the essential and see only the ‘thunder and flames’ – the external show of sound and light.
The other is on a real and
profoundly deep level, where there is no show, but like Moshe one simply enters
silently and alone into the cloud.[2]
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