...To study Torah is to study the inner workings of Good in the universe...To grow in wisdom is to expand one’s ability to perceive the Divine Presence and compassion that underlies all experience...this is what it means to “sweeten severities.”

...The service of the future is vision–to hold an image (not necessarily visual) of the glorious perfection that is the ultimate and inevitable achievement of life’s unfolding. This joyful consummation is the sure and destined end of every individual soul, and similarly of creation as a whole. Our work towards the future is not only the labor of faith, but of concretizing faith...

...G-d designed the world such that each hour transmits a different type of influence. It is not just the fact of flux and flow that is significant. The energy itself is different from one hour to the next. It revolves in a pattern of sequential permutations of two different names of G-d, one for the day and one for the night...

..How one marks a day has metaphysical implications. Does the day’s unfolding move from dim confusion into clarity, or does it proceed in the other direction? The creation model follows the former, whereby evening precedes its morning. From this perspective the repetition of days marks an ongoing process of clarification, enlightenment, and refinement. Each day adds its bit, and the direction is always and cumulatively towards light...

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