Friday, January 23, 2009

"The Divine is apprehended as an infinite, not a finite, force"


“Precisely because the Divine is apprehended as an infinite, not a finite, force, everything in the cosmos, whether small or large, is only a small part of the pattern, so that there is no difference in weight or gravity between any one part and another.


The movement of a man’s finger is as important or unimportant as the most terrible catastrophe, for as against the Infinite both are of the same dimension.

Just as the Infinite can be defined as unlimited in the sense of being beyond everything, so He can be defined as being close to and touching everything.”

--Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz


From The Thirteen Petalled Rose, p. 46, by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz