The Most Rational Choice
Choosing the Divine is not a leap of blind faith. It is the only logical move in a world where everything else fades.
Choosing the Divine is not a leap of blind faith. It is the only logical move in a world where everything else fades.
“Why choose a spiritual path? Isn’t it just an emotional crutch? I prefer to rely on reason and reality.”
Choosing the Creator Is the most educated choice a person can make in their life.
In the Simple Meaning (Pshat): It is a choice in the Source of Life itself. Man was created with a will for meaning, stability, and good. And every other choice leans on something fleeting. While the Creator is the Absolute Existence Who does not depend on time, success, or situation.
In the Hint (Remez): Choosing the Name (Hashem) is a choice in Identity, not just belief. For a person’s name is hinted at in the Torah. And his reality receives direction when he lives in alignment with his Root. Then, his external life also begins to order itself as a sign of the internal connection.
In the Interpretation (Drash): Choosing the Creator is the choice of True Freedom. Every other servitude enslaves a person to fear, to instinct, to society, or to achievement. While the service of the Source liberates. Because it connects a person to what does not perish. As the Zohar teaches: Attachment (Devekut) raises a person above the control of Time and Suffering.
In the Secret (Sod): Choosing the Creator is not choosing an “Other.” It is returning to the Deepest Self. For the Soul and Divinity are not two separate realities, But Root and Branch.
To choose the Source means to allow the Infinite Light to be revealed through the private life. And then it becomes clear that this is not merely a moral choice. But the most rational choice there is:
To live connected to the Source that animates everything. Instead of wasting life on temporary attachments That are destined to fall apart.
✍️ Translated from the Hebrew wisdom of Ruth Kedem