Any light-shedding understanding casts a shadow. The more that a person researches, studies more and acquires new knowledge, as he progresses farther than his peers in Torah study, belief, recognizing God, and philosophy, his pain grows. As it says in Koheleth, יוסיף דעת יוסיף מכאוב, an increase in understanding creates a commensurate increase in suffering. As the person's mind broadens he discovers more contradictions between his various bits of knowledge.
The question is: How do you cast a light in the shade and chase away the darkness?
We can find the answer in the words of Rav Kook that we heal the suffering by ignoring the reckonings and overcoming them with love, the loftiest type of love, and striving to connect to God, the foundation of all knowledge. Love heals all doubts, knowledge and errors.
Shir HaShirim, which is focused on the love between man and woman, is a parable for this. It alludes to the love between כנסת ישראל, the corporate body of the Jewish people, and God, or between man and the Schechina. Chazal explain that שיר השירים אשר לשלמה, the Song of Songs to Shlomo, refers to מלך שהשלום שלו, the King who peace is his. Gods name is Shalom, peace and connecting to God creates peace between all ideas. When one finds a loving connection all divisions between ways of understanding disappear. The love overcomes and the distinctions are pushed away.
People do the most frightening things in the name of the highest of ideals. They stand firmly with their opinion and lack the ability to see and understand other viewpoints. They think they are serving God or the ideal in which they believe, but in reality they are serving themselves. If we understand that the root of all opinions is in God, then our understanding changes. A believer has a desire to get closer to his God, and, in his great thirst, to draw from Him the wellsprings of salvation. The key, however, is to truly listen to what God is saying.
The key to modern riches is gathering all the wealth to a relatively small area or part of the economy which causes opposition from others and often leads to war. The greater the wealth, the greater the opposition. The same is with knowledge and understanding. It is difficult to acquire them without creation opponents. Only God can make peace between the opposing forces, which is why he is called שר שלום, the Master of Peace. The only option is to connect to the source of peace and thereby to achieve true peace and moved beyond the opposing forces. Harmony between man and God leads to harmony between man and his fellow. If one is in opposition to another, it is a sign that he is not at peace with God.
The question is: How do you cast a light in the shade and chase away the darkness?
We can find the answer in the words of Rav Kook that we heal the suffering by ignoring the reckonings and overcoming them with love, the loftiest type of love, and striving to connect to God, the foundation of all knowledge. Love heals all doubts, knowledge and errors.
Shir HaShirim, which is focused on the love between man and woman, is a parable for this. It alludes to the love between כנסת ישראל, the corporate body of the Jewish people, and God, or between man and the Schechina. Chazal explain that שיר השירים אשר לשלמה, the Song of Songs to Shlomo, refers to מלך שהשלום שלו, the King who peace is his. Gods name is Shalom, peace and connecting to God creates peace between all ideas. When one finds a loving connection all divisions between ways of understanding disappear. The love overcomes and the distinctions are pushed away.
People do the most frightening things in the name of the highest of ideals. They stand firmly with their opinion and lack the ability to see and understand other viewpoints. They think they are serving God or the ideal in which they believe, but in reality they are serving themselves. If we understand that the root of all opinions is in God, then our understanding changes. A believer has a desire to get closer to his God, and, in his great thirst, to draw from Him the wellsprings of salvation. The key, however, is to truly listen to what God is saying.
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