What is the importance of knowing the barrier is invisible to god? There is still an established parochet that creates a material divide, and strata, of holiness among the Israelites. How does the barrier being invisible to god reconcile this situation?
I struggled with this question myself as I was writing the post. While the physical barriers may be invisible to God, the strata of holiness with regard to the Israelites seem very much present. One possible resolution to this is the concept of imitatio Dei, which I was going to bring up in the post but ended up omitting. By recognizing that the barrier is invisible to God, perhaps we can ourselves grow to see those barriers dissipate. This isn't explicitly in the Meshech Chochma's comment, of course, so that resolution is just a guess.
Kept thinking of the passage from the old UPB repeated so often. “The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof, the world and they who dwell therein.”
What is the importance of knowing the barrier is invisible to god? There is still an established parochet that creates a material divide, and strata, of holiness among the Israelites. How does the barrier being invisible to god reconcile this situation?
I struggled with this question myself as I was writing the post. While the physical barriers may be invisible to God, the strata of holiness with regard to the Israelites seem very much present. One possible resolution to this is the concept of imitatio Dei, which I was going to bring up in the post but ended up omitting. By recognizing that the barrier is invisible to God, perhaps we can ourselves grow to see those barriers dissipate. This isn't explicitly in the Meshech Chochma's comment, of course, so that resolution is just a guess.
Kept thinking of the passage from the old UPB repeated so often. “The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof, the world and they who dwell therein.”
That’s Psalm 24! לְדָוִ֗ד מִ֫זְמ֥וֹר לַֽ֭יהוָה הָאָ֣רֶץ וּמְלוֹאָ֑הּ תֵּ֝בֵ֗ל וְיֹ֣שְׁבֵי בָֽהּ׃
Of David. A psalm. The earth is the LORD’s and all that it holds, the world and its inhabitants.
Right. I was just relating how I repeated it from the UPB every week.