Q: Maybe can open this verse Psalm 103:7 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel: How does the knowing happens? Why happens to some and not to another? The other only sees the deeds or the acts?
A:the verse is: יוֹדִיעַ דְּרָכָיו לְמֹשֶׁה לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל עֲלִילוֹתָיו׃ he will inform his ways to Moses and to sons of Israel his plots. It is happening by or through a conversation, for the language speaks and the language speaks by words. we have no clue of what is happening the happening introduces itself to us and informs us of what is happening.
Language is not a tool (vessel) we use to describe a finished world, like a great cathedral located in the the middle of the city, language like a bird or a dove is the arrival of the happening. And the happening is anterior to our knowledge of it. Before we think, it has already spoken itself.
In Hebrew thought: Moshe represents direct hearing, not sensory information, but קול – the voice before speech, the unveiling of meaning. Israel represents manifestation, miracles, manna, plagues, history, prophecy in form. Moshe sees the pattern (דְּרָכָיו), Israel sees the performance (עֲלִילוֹתָיו). And both are legitimate modes of revelation.
When the Torah says “God said…”, it is not describing audio waves; it is Being speaking its own occurrence. The world happens by saying itself. When we say we have no clue what is happening, it means that the happening is introducing itself to us. The unknowable must make itself known. It does so in Moshe, within interior consciousness. It does so in Israel, within history. Language speaks us. We do not own the words; we are occurrences within their speaking.
We tend to believe that we think before we speak, but it is not true. The happening introduces itself through words, naturally, spontaneously, from the heart—and within a split second the brain claims it as its own. Like Rachel naming her second-born “my own powers,” and then Rachel dies. We, as thinkers, kill the being of the happening by trying to own it, to carve from it an unbroken statue, a permanent structure.
Look at ancient sculptures: they try to catch the happening in a form, to place it in a museum, owned behind glass. Once, a German tourist visited Thailand and said there was no culture there because he did not see any museums there. What people can’t admit or see is that life is instantaneous happening. No one can imprison the spirit, hold it, or control it. That is the greatest illusion of all.
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