Nitzavim: The Secret

Nitzavim: The Secret

This parsha, like the one before, has a blessing for the obedient and a curse for the rebellious.  This time, a secret keeps popping up.  

Clandestine idolatry will not be tolerated. The occult  co-belief, along with its private thoughts of benefit from it, is  a crime that brings exile. The corruption of the faith creates divisions among the people.  The internal strife of disunity invites invaders that can pit one faction against another, even before the social media. 

There is power in the secret. Which atomic nucleus will decay, who will get sick, the size of the hidden treasure, how Google places search results... to know these secrets can bestow the informed with wealth and power. These are not t the off-limits secrets. 

We live in a statistical world. The behavior and outcome of large collections, of repeated trials are within our ken.  But the behavior of the individual is too erratic and unpredictable for science.  That personal variation is the realm of the most esoteric art: retail. 

The parsha is talking about the most mysterious enigma: Gd.  Gd is the most powerful secret in the uni-verse - by definition.Gd is to be accepted, not explored.  The fatal failure of faith is an attribution of the power to other esoteric forces, and the diminished attribution to the Divine Unity. 

My mother told me: You don't have to understand your wife, you just have to love her.  Choosing what you do not understand - that is choosing life.